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.

 

 

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.

NEW content: JSTOR Arts & Sciences X and XI

The Libraries now has access to both the JSTOR Arts & Sci­ences X and XI col­lec­tions. Arts and Sci­ences X is being pur­chased in coop­er­a­tion with the Fac­ulty Coun­cil on Uni­ver­sity Libraries, which in March 2011 gained the Fac­ulty Senate’s unan­i­mous approval of a res­o­lu­tion to estab­lish the Fac­ulty Fund for Library Excel­lence, described as “ a Uni­ver­sity gift fund avail­able for cur­rent and emer­i­tus fac­ulty donors to sup­port the Uni­ver­sity Libraries’ col­lec­tions.” JSTOR Arts & Sci­ences X is an espe­cially appro­pri­ate use of funds donated so far because of its broad cov­er­age in Busi­ness and the Social Sci­ences, the His­tory of Sci­ence, Tech­nol­ogy & Medicine.

Arts & Sci­ences XI is being acquired with Libraries’ funds, and “ will expand JSTOR’s cov­er­age in the human­i­ties, with schol­ar­ship in core fields of Lan­guage & Lit­er­a­ture, His­tory, and Art & Art His­tory. Com­pris­ing a min­i­mum of 125 titles, the col­lec­tion will  include impor­tant jour­nals in Clas­si­cal Stud­ies, Archi­tec­ture & Archi­tec­tural His­tory, and Music. Other dis­ci­pline clus­ters will include Bib­li­og­ra­phy, Library Sci­ence, Reli­gion, Phi­los­o­phy, Archae­ol­ogy, Per­form­ing Arts, Film Stud­ies, and Linguistics.

Access is avail­able now.  Records for indi­vid­ual titles are in process and will be avail­able in a few weeks.

New Resource: Classical scores library volume 2

This resource was funded by a recent Allen grant.

http://shmu.alexanderstreet.com

Con­tains clas­si­cal scores from both in-copyright and pub­lic domain edi­tions. The major com­posers out­put is rep­re­sented, as well as many lesser known com­posers and works.  Con­tent in the data­base includes in-copyright mate­r­ial from Boosey and Hawkes and selected mate­r­ial from the Uni­ver­sity Music Edi­tions micro­film series.  The col­lec­tion includes works span­ning time peri­ods from the Renais­sance to the 21st cen­tury. Cov­er­age of score types is com­pre­hen­sive, with full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and piano reductions.

New Resource: Black studies in video

This resource was funded by a recent Allen grant

http://blst.alexanderstreet.com

In part­ner­ship with Cal­i­for­nia News­reel, the old­est non-profit social issue doc­u­men­tary film cen­ter in the coun­try, this col­lec­tion includes cutting-edge racial jus­tice and diver­sity films that inspire, edu­cate and engage audi­ences. Addi­tion­ally, Black Stud­ies in Video fea­tures access to the SNCC Legacy Video Col­lec­tion, a series of for­mal addresses, panel dis­cus­sions and pro­grams that took place at a con­fer­ence and reunion unfold­ing over four days at Shaw Uni­ver­sity in Raleigh, North Car­olina, com­mem­o­rat­ing the 50th Anniver­sary of the found­ing of the Stu­dent Non-Violent Coor­di­nat­ing Committee.

New Resource: Underground and independent comics, comix, and graphic novels

This resource was funded by a recent Allen grant.

http://comx.alexanderstreet.com/

Pri­mary source data­base focus­ing on North Amer­i­can and Euro­pean adult comic books and graphic nov­els. The col­lec­tion includes orig­i­nal mate­r­ial from the 1960s to today along with inter­views, com­men­tary, the­ory, and crit­i­cism from jour­nals, books, and mag­a­zines. At com­ple­tion, this col­lec­tion will include more than 100,000 pages of mate­ri­als, includ­ing 75,000 pages of pri­mary mate­ri­als, and more than 25,000 pages of mate­ri­als about comics–interviews, com­men­tary, the­ory, and criticism–from The Comics Jour­nal and other sec­ondary sources.