New resource: TRACFED

http://tracfed.syr.edu

Your source for com­pre­hen­sive, inde­pen­dent, and non­par­ti­san infor­ma­tion about fed­eral enforce­ment, staffing and spending.”

Presents the Trans­ac­tional Records Access Clear­ing­house (TRAC), an orga­ni­za­tion asso­ci­ated with Syra­cuse Uni­ver­sity that gath­ers, per­forms research, and dis­trib­utes data about the activ­i­ties of the fed­eral enforce­ment and reg­u­la­tory agen­cies. Describes the infor­ma­tion that is avail­able. Links to TRAC Web sites related to the U.S. Cus­toms Ser­vice, Fed­eral Bureau of Inves­ti­ga­tion (FBI), Dept. of Home­land Secu­rity (DHS), Inter­nal Rev­enue Ser­vice (IRS), Drug Enforce­ment Agency (DEA), the Bureau of Alco­hol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), and the Immi­gra­tion and Nation­al­iza­tion Ser­vice (INS). Explains how to order data from TRAC.

For more infor­ma­tion, con­tact Glenda Pear­son

New resource: Scopus

Elsevier’s Sco­pus data­base is now avail­able on the Sci­ence Direct plat­form. The UW Office of Research coor­di­nated this sub­scrip­tion and it is sched­uled to be avail­able through the end of 2012. Con­tin­u­ing access will depend on eval­u­a­tion and funding.

The access url is http://www.scopus.com

You can also access it as a tab on the Sci­Verse plat­form which includes Sci­ence Direct. Sco­pus is an abstract and cita­tion data­base and a com­peti­tor to ISI’s Web of Science.

For sup­port­ing doc­u­men­ta­tion, take a look at http://www.info.sciverse.com/resource-library/subject/sciverse-scopus

Alexander Street Press: Scheduled Downtime 1/8/12

Alexan­der Street Press resources will be unavail­able due to sched­uled maintenance:

Sun­day, Jan­u­ary 8, 2012
7:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. PST

The fol­low­ing data­bases are affected:

Amer­i­can film scripts online
Black drama : 1850 to present
Dance in video
Ethno­graphic videos online
Gar­land ency­clo­pe­dia of world music online
Latin Amer­i­can women writ­ers
Music Online Lis­ten­ing pack­age
North Amer­i­can Indian drama
North Amer­i­can women’s let­ters and diaries
Opera in video
The­atre in video
Women and social movements