Access change: L’annee philologique

We cur­rently have access to 2 inter­faces for L’annee philologique.  We will be phas­ing away from the publisher’s inter­face and mov­ing to the Ebsco one.

Record chang­ing is in process.  Access to both inter­faces will be avail­able through the end of 2013.

OLDhttp://www.annee-philologique.com/aph/
NEW: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehostdefaultdb=lnp

New resource: World newsreels online: 1929–1966

http://wnrv.alexanderstreet.com/

The col­lec­tion of stream­ing videos that fea­tures full runs of many of the key inter­na­tional news­reels pro­duced dur­ing the first half of the twen­ti­eth cen­tury. The col­lec­tion is seman­ti­cally indexed, allow­ing users to search by sub­ject, year, his­tor­i­cal era, his­tor­i­cal event, peo­ple, and places.

Euromonitor passport upgrade

Euromon­i­tor Pass­port Mar­kets & Sec­tors has been upgraded to the full Pass­port ser­vice.  In addi­tion to mar­ket and sec­tor infor­ma­tion for over 80 coun­tries, users now also have access to addi­tional coun­try, indus­try, and con­sumer information.

Access remains lim­ited to UW fac­ulty, staff, stu­dents only.
http://offcampus.lib.washington.edu/login?url=http://portal.euromonitor.com/portal/default.aspx

 

 

 

Project MUSE ebooks now available

We have pur­chased the com­plete Project MUSE/UPCC ebook col­lec­tion which gives DRM-free, unlim­ited access to more than 20,000 ebooks from over 80 uni­ver­sity presses and schol­arly pub­lish­ers, includ­ing the UW Press.  Pub­li­ca­tion dates are from 2000 and will con­tinue through the end of 2013.  The titles appear in the local cat­a­log and UW World­cat, and are hosted on the Project MUSE plat­form.  For more infor­ma­tion, visit the Project MUSE ebook site at http://muse.jhu.edu/about/UPCC.html.

 

 

Trial: Asian studies in video

Avail­able in trial until 5/26/13

http://uwash.asiapacificfilms.com

pass­code “uwasha­siv

 

AsiaPacificFilms.com streams cul­tur­ally and his­tor­i­cally sig­nif­i­cant films from Asia and the Pacific that enter­tain, edu­cate and inspire view­ers to think beyond bound­aries. With the lat­est stream­ing tech­nol­ogy, sub­scribers have unlim­ited access to our films in DVD quality.

 

In 2012, Alexan­der Street Press announced its new part­ner­ship with Asia Pacific Films, a com­pany ded­i­cated to pro­vid­ing stream­ing access to cul­tur­ally and his­tor­i­cally sig­nif­i­cant films from Asia and the Pacific. This part­ner­ship led to the devel­op­ment of Asian Stud­ies in Video, pre­dom­i­nantly com­prised of films never before seen out­side their coun­try of origin.

Send com­ments to Judith Henchy

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Trial: Asian American drama

From Alexan­der Street Press, this resource is on trial now through 5/26/13.

http://aadr.alexanderstreet.com

This edi­tion of Asian Amer­i­can Drama con­tains 252 plays by 42 play­wrights, together with detailed, fielded infor­ma­tion on related pro­duc­tions, the­aters, pro­duc­tion com­pa­nies, and more.

Some 50% of these plays have never been pub­lished before. The data­base also includes selected play­bills, pro­duc­tion pho­tographs and other ephemera related to the plays.

Send feed­back to Angela Weaver

 

ArtStor to drop Java

We are pleased to announce an update that will elim­i­nate the need for Java in the ART­stor Dig­i­tal Library. In the near future, sin­gle image down­loads will be deliv­ered in zip files.

ART­stor has been using Java for down­loads of indi­vid­ual images, but recently the U.S. Depart­ment of Home­land Secu­rity began rec­om­mend­ing that Java be dis­abled due to secu­rity con­cerns. After our update, users who down­load sin­gle image files will receive a zip file that con­tains a JPEG image and an HTML file with the asso­ci­ated meta­data. In addi­tion to remov­ing the need for Java, using zip will allow ART­stor to pur­sue other fea­ture enhance­ments, such as addi­tional options for image group downloads.

For some users, mainly those on PCs, it will be nec­es­sary to install soft­ware such as 7Zip to unzip their down­loads. Please do take this time to make users at you insti­tu­tion aware of this impend­ing change. We will of course be pro­vid­ing updated help documentation.If you have any ques­tions, please do not hes­i­tate to con­tact User Ser­vices at userservices@artstor.org.

 

New Resource: Entertainment Industry magazine archive

Funded by a recent “large Allen” grant; pro­posal sub­mit­ted by Glenda Pear­son and Jes­sica Albano:

http://search.proquest.com/eima?accountid=14784

An archival research resource con­tain­ing the essen­tial pri­mary sources for study­ing the his­tory of the film and enter­tain­ment indus­tries, from the era of vaude­ville and silent movies through to 2000. The core US and UK trade mag­a­zines cov­er­ing film, music, broad­cast­ing and the­ater are all included, together with film fan mag­a­zines and music press titles. Mag­a­zines have been scanned cover-to-cover in high-resolution color, with gran­u­lar index­ing of all arti­cles, cov­ers, ads and reviews.

New Resource: Vogue Archive: 1892-present

Now avail­able:

http://search.proquest.com/publication/256207

The Vogue Archive con­tains the entire run of Amer­i­can Vogue mag­a­zine from 1892 to the present day – more than 400,000 pages in total repro­duced in high-resolution color page images. This fully search­able data­base con­sti­tutes a trea­sure trove of the work of the great­est design­ers, pho­tog­ra­phers, styl­ists and illus­tra­tors of the 20th and 21st cen­turies. The Vogue Archive is both an essen­tial pri­mary source for the study of fash­ion and a unique record of Amer­i­can and inter­na­tional pop­u­lar culture.