Oxford Eng­lish dic­tio­nary is chang­ing its access url, inter­face and con­tents.
The old url will con­tinue to work until March 30, 2011 and users will be directed to the new site.

OED has also added con­tent, includ­ing the His­tor­i­cal The­saurus of the OED.

Please update your records and links:

OLD: http://dictionary.oed.com/entrance.dtl
NEW: http://www.oed.com

http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile;=ehost&defaultdb;=hev

This bib­li­o­graphic data­base is a valu­able index for libraries, schol­ars and indi­vid­u­als inter­ested in Euro­pean works that relate to the Amer­i­cas. EBSCO Pub­lish­ing, in coop­er­a­tion with the John Carter Brown Library, has cre­ated this resource from Euro­pean Amer­i­cana: A Chrono­log­i­cal Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relat­ing to The Amer­i­cas, 1493–1750, the author­i­ta­tive bib­li­og­ra­phy that is well-known and respected by schol­ars world­wide. The 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. The orig­i­nal bib­li­og­ra­phy was co-developed by John Alden and Den­nis Lan­dis, Cura­tor of Euro­pean Books at The John Carter Brown Library. The John Carter Brown Library, founded in 1846 is a fore­most repos­i­tory of rare books and mate­ri­als and is a cen­ter for advanced research in his­tory and the humanities.

http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=uwash&access;=uwash347&db;=daai-set-c

Design and applied arts index (DAAI) is the lead­ing source of abstracts and bib­li­o­graphic records for arti­cles, news items, and reviews pub­lished in design and applied arts peri­od­i­cals from 1973 onwards. An indis­pens­able tool for stu­dents, researchers, and prac­ti­tion­ers world­wide, DAAI cov­ers both new design­ers and the devel­op­ment of design and the applied arts since the mid-19th cen­tury, sur­vey­ing dis­ci­plines includ­ing ceram­ics, glass, jew­elry, wood, met­al­smithing, graphic design, fash­ion and cloth­ing, tex­tiles, fur­ni­ture, inte­rior design, archi­tec­ture, com­puter aided design, Web design, computer-generated graph­ics, ani­ma­tion, prod­uct design, indus­trial design, gar­den design, and land­scape architecture.

We have been sub­scrib­ing to RISM Online : Series A/II : music man­u­scripts after 1600 via Ebsco. That access will end 12/31/10 and be replaced by an open access version.

The new ver­sion is avail­able now and in the cat­a­log, etc. For the rest of the year, both inter­faces will be available.

Try out the new ver­sion:
http://opac.rism.info/index.php?id=2&L;=1

What is RISM? The RISM is an inter­na­tional col­lec­tive under­tak­ing with the aim of com­pre­hen­sively doc­u­ment­ing sur­viv­ing music sources any­where in the world.

The RISM keeps track of what is in exis­tence and where it is kept.

In many coun­tries, inde­pen­dent national work­ing groups in libraries and archives cat­a­logue his­tor­i­cal music sources: music prints, music man­u­scripts and libretti as well as writ­ings about music (of a the­o­ret­i­cal nature). The results are coor­di­nated, sum­marised and pub­lished by the RISM.

The online-catalogue offered here con­tains around 700,000 ref­er­ences almost exclu­sively to music man­u­scripts. These records pass on to pos­ter­ity the works of some 25,000 com­posers. The sources are pre­served in the libraries and archives of 32 countriues.

This online-catalogue con­tains data on Series A/II: Music man­u­scripts after 1600.

Send ques­tions or com­ments to Judy Tsou