New JSTOR Collections

Exciting news!! We've added two JSTOR collections, Arts & Sciences III and Biological Sciences.

"Arts & Sciences III includes journals in languages and literature, as well as essential titles in the fields of music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the history and study of art and architecture. Additional interdisciplinary titles broaden the scope of coverage to include folklore, feminist & women's studies."

"The Biological Sciences Collection brings together the 29 journals available in our existing Ecology & Botany Collection with more than 130 titles that span the sciences. The collection is particularly strong in ecology and evolutionary biology, plant and animal sciences, paleontology, and conservation."

New Free EBSCO Database

EBSCO Publishing and the John Carter Brown Library Join Forces to Offer Free Historical Database

EBSCO and the John Carter Brown Library have collaborated to bring a new bibliographic database to libraries, scholars and individuals interested in European works that relate to the Americas. European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750 is a database based on the authoritative bibliography “European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed in Europe Relating to the Americas, 1493-1750.” European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750 is freely available online at: www.europeanamericana.com.

This new database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of native American peoples. A wide range of subject areas are covered, from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery.

While the database is freely available online at www.europeanamericana.com, libraries may add European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750 to their EBSCOhost® profiles by contacting technical support at support@ebsco.com. European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750 will be the fourth database EBSCO has made available for free, joining Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA), Teacher Reference Center™ and GreenFILE™.

From: http://www2.ebsco.com/en-us/NewsCenter/publications/ays/Pages/pdfs/ays-issue84.pdf

Mental Measurements Yearbook WITH Tests in Print

"To alleviate these conditions, EBSCO Publishing, in collaboration with the Buros Institute, has agreed to re-engineer these products into a single database. Furthermore, we will combine the Tests in Print citations with the Mental Measurements Yearbook full-text reviews, into a single, more comprehensive record. There are several advantages to this approach, including:

• Full access to all search options will be provided for these products
• All information for a given test will be available in one concise record
• Direct access to MMY full text will be available through a single TIP/MMY citation
• Users will no longer see two results for the same test

In addition to these search and display improvements, EBSCO will also release new backfile volumes of Mental Measurements Yearbook. Mental Measurements Yearbook currently includes Yearbooks 9 through the current Yearbook. The Buros Institute has recently digitized yearbooks 1-8. This important content will be added to EBSCOhost with this release."

Database Cancellations

Subscriptions to Bridgeman Art Library and Mergent Online were not renewed, access to both will end on July 31, 2010.

 liquidlibrary.com subscription

Alexander Street Downtime

Please be advised that we will be performing scheduled maintenance on all Alexander Street Press collections on Saturday, March 27, 2010 between 8 AM and 4 PM EDT / UTC-4. Several collections, including our streaming audio and streaming video products, may experience an extended period of downtime of between 1 and 2 hours. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause, but much of the work being done will help improve the overall user experience. As always, we'll try to keep any periods of downtime to a minimum.

If you have any questions prior to the scheduled maintenance, or if you experience problems after the times listed above, please contact Customer Support at support@alexanderstreet.com or 703.212.8520.

Thank you for your patience and understanding. We hope to minimize the impact this downtime has on your access to your collections.

Alexander Street Press

AARP Ageline Cancellation

Press Release September 2009: AgeLine has been acquired by EBSCO Publishing. The free web version is no longer available on AARP.org.

http://www.aarp.org/research/surveys/stats/demo/agingtrends/articles/ageline_database.html

New Gale Databases

The following Gale databases will be available via MOREnet.

Business & Company Resource Center
Small Business Resource Center
Academic OneFile
General OneFile
InfoTrac Collections
Health & Wellness Resource Center with Alternative Health
Health Reference Center Academic
Student Edition (InfoTrac)
Junior Edition (InfoTrac)
Kids InfoBits
Custom Newspapers (InfoTrac)
Informe (Spanish periodical database)

Termination of EBSCO databases

The following EBSCO databases will no longer be available as of of access July 1, 2009, due to the change in the MOREnet database contract to Gale.

Academic Search Elite
Alt-Health Watch
EBSCO Animals
Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
MAS Ultra - School Edition
MasterFILE Premier
Military & Government Collection
Newspaper Source
Primary Search
Regional Business News

Library Technology Reports Online

Library Technology Reports Online is now accessible by IP authentication.
http://alatechsource.metapress.com/content/W41833/

Sage Journals Online

Access to SAGE Premier: http://online.sagepub.com

"We are delighted to inform you that as a member of GWLA, you now have access to 514 SAGE journals through SAGE Premier, which includes electronic access to content back to 1999 available on SAGE Journals Online, SAGE’s award-winning online journal delivery platform, powered by HighWire Press."

Something About the Author Online

We now have access to Something About the Author Online at http://ezproxy.nwmissouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://find.galegroup.com/menu/start?prod=SATA&userGroupName=nwmosu_owens.