New Resources

• Physics Today Archive
  Date: 3/6/2008
  Physics Today is the most influential and closely followed physics magazine in the world. This online archive provides full text access from 1985 to all but the most recent 12 months of the magazine, links to related articles and news stories from around the web, and an online research center, an indispensable tool that brings together the latest articles from a growing number of online publishing platforms including Scitation and arXiv.

• University of Chicago Press Online Journals
  Date: 3/6/2008
  Chicago Journals Online is a fully searchable online portal including nearly fifty scholarly journals and annuals - from the latest research in a wide range of subjects to historical content dating from the founding of the University of Chicago Press in 1892 when it began publishing the Journal of Political Economy. The website has features such as free e-TOC alerts by e-mail or RSS and publish-when-ready articles before print publication.

• SEAAdoc: Documenting the Southeast Asian American Experience
  Date: 12/1/2007
  SEAAdoc is an educational resource of the Southeast Asian Archive at the UC Irvine Libraries focusing on post-1975 refugees and immigrants from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam and the communities they have developed in the United States. It contains 1,500 visual images and 4,000 pages of searchable text selected from the Archive to represent a cross section of our holdings.

• The Quest for Peace Interviews, 1983-1989
  Date: 9/21/2007
  A comprehensive collection of interviews conducted between 1983 and 1989 with some of the most informed, influential, and thoughtful people from the United States, the then Soviet Union, and other countries around the world. The interviews were created and conducted by Professor John M. Whiteley, Professor of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine in collaboration with the University of California Irvine's Libraries, the Teaching, Learning and Technology Center and Network and Academic Computing Services.

• Alternative Press Index and Archive
  Date: 08/10/2007
  Index of over 700 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines from1969-1990 covering cultural, economic, political & social change. The coverage is international and interdisciplinary in scope. The database provides alternative viewpoints on internationally significant subjects.

• Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Backfile
  Date: 08/10/2007
  The Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences is one of the oldest scientific journals in the United States and among the most cited of multidisciplinary scientific serials. Each year the Annals publishes 28 conference proceedings in established and emerging scientific fields sponsored by the NYAS as well as those of other scientific organizations.

• ARTstor
  Date: 08/10/2007
  Brief Description: ARTstor is an ever-growing digital library of over 500,000 images of art, architecture and archeology from a wide range of cultures and time periods to support teaching and learning in the humanities and social sciences.

• Inorganic Crystal Structure Database: ICSD
  Date: 08/10/2007
  The ICSD is a searchable database of more than 93,000 inorganic structures, including pure elements, minerals, metals, and intermetallic compounds. Users can search on fields like element(s), citation information (author/journal/title/years), chemical/mineral name, crystal system, space group, minimum distance, cell size/mass, and Pearson Symbol.

• JSTOR Arts & Sciences V
  Date: 08/10/2007
  The Arts & Sciences Collections represent the building blocks of JSTOR’s interdisciplinary archive. The Arts & Sciences V Collection will comprise a minimum of 120 titles when it is completed in 2009. Building on disciplines introduced in previous collections, Arts & Sciences V will include a number of important literary reviews and state historical journals. It will also widen the scope of core disciplines in the arts and humanities, such as philosophy, history, classics, religion, art and art history, and language and literature.

• JSTOR Business II
  Date: 08/10/2007
  The Business II Collection will feature at least fifty title, twenty-five of which will be drawn from Arts & Sciences IV and the Arts & Sciences Complement. We are especially pleased to broaden the number of core international business titles in this collection. Business II also includes a number of journals that explore the intersections between economics and law, policy, and psychology. Please note that Business II overlaps with Arts & Sciences IV and Complement.

• Oxford African American Studies Center
  Date: 08/10/2007
  The Oxford African American Studies Center is an authoritative and comprehensive source on the African American experience, focusing on the lives and events which have shaped African American history and culture. The AASC features the new, three-volume Encyclopedia of African American History 1619-1895 (published by Oxford in 2006); the three-volume Black Women in America, Second Edition (published in March 2005) and the highly acclaimed Africana, a five-volume history of the African and African American experience. There are more than 7,500 articles by top scholars in the field.

• ArchiveGrid
  Date: 07/20/2007
  ArchiveGridSM is an important destination for searching for historical documents, personal papers and family histories held in archives throughout the world. Developed by RLG, ArchiveGrid is an online service that provides access to detailed archival collection descriptions. It includes nearly a million descriptions of archival collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide.

• UDNDATA
  Date: 07/20/2007
  UDNData is a newspaper database of the United Daily News Group, the largest news group in Taiwan. It provides current and searchable full-text articles, as well as searchable images for seven Chinese newspapers in Taiwan, Europe and North America.

• American Film Institute Catalog
  Date: 6/6/2007
  Produced in collaboration with the American Film Institute, the American Film Institute Catalog is the most comprehensive and detailed national filmography in the world. The Catalog includes the entire print version, which currently comprises five volumes documenting all films produced in the United States from 1892 to 1971, as well as new content and important updates for all previous records. Also included are records for the Institute's Top Ten Films for the years 2000 to 2004. The Catalog offers authoritative plot summaries and insider production notes, as well as subject and song indexing for each film record.
• Black Studies Center
  Date: 6/6/2007
  Black Studies Center is a fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and more. It combines several resources for research and teaching in Black Studies: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), The Chicago Defender, and the Black Literature Index.
• China Academic Journals
  Date: 6/6/2007
  The Century Journals Project is the single largest retrospective digital collection of 20th Century Chinese Journals. It contains more than 3,500 full-text Chinese Journals. Content begins as early as 1906 and continues to the mid-twentieth century through 1993. Contains deep backfiles of full text journals, purchased separately by CDL in 2006.
• Encyclopedia of Taiwan (Taiwan Wenxian Congkan)
  Date: 6/6/2007
  The Encyclopedia of Taiwan includes abstracts and indexing from thousands of books and is the largest single database on Taiwanese history in the Chinese language. Based on the Taiwan Literature Series edited by former Dean of the National Taiwan University Law School Chou Hsien-Wen, it is the most heavily referenced database of its kind. The database contains 595 books divided into 309 categories. The Encyclopedia of Taiwan incorporates local histories, official documents of the Ming, Qin and Nan-Ming Dynasties, poetry, and private collections. Much of the content is comprised of sole copies and rare out-of-print books. The Encyclopedia of Taiwan spans the Tang Dynasty period to the period of Japanese occupation. The content has been assembled from Taiwanese libraries, as well as various libraries in Japan, Hong Kong, the USA, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Covering multiple dimensions of study, including geography, local customs, politics, economics, sociology, laws and culture, it is the most comprehensive historical resource for understanding Taiwan.
• Gujin Tushu Jicheng (Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China)
  Date: 6/6/2007
  The Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China was edited by Chen Meng-lei, a renowned scholar of the Qing Dynasty. The first edition, comprised of 64 texts, was accessible exclusively to the royal court and was not available to scholars or commoners. The present digital edition of The Complete Classics includes the most seminal classics of Chinese literature and culture, from ancient China through the Qing Dynasty. The collection includes works on astronomy, geography, history, philosophy, literature, politics, economics, art, education, agriculture, medicine, and more. The Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China is the most comprehensive compendium of its type in the world. Works can be searched in full text with advanced Boolean search features, or browsed by chapter and section corresponding to the structure of the original texts. Additionally, images of each page of the original works can be viewed in side-by-side comparison with the full text.
• L'Année philologique
  Date: 6/6/2007
  This is a database published by the Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique containing 600,000 bibliographic records for the years 1949 to 2004, with 12,500 new records added each year. 1,500 periodicals are analyzed each year as well as 500 articles in collections and conference papers. Publication information for articles is accompanied by a brief abstract.
• Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Culture
  Date: 5/21/2007
  The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (EWIC) is an interdisciplinary, trans-historical, and global project. It brings together upwards of 1,000 scholars to write critical essays on women, Muslim and non-Muslim and Islamic cultures in every region where there have been significant Muslim populations. It aims to cover every topic for which there is significant research, examining these regions from the period just before the rise of Islam to the present. EWIC hopes both to offer the state of the art in the broad sweep of topics to inform the general audience and to take on cutting-edge issues to stimulate new research in new terrains.
• Play Index
  Date: 5/21/2007
  Citations to 31,000 plays from 1949 – present. Includes monologues, plot summaries, cast sizes, male and female roles, etc. Search for plays by title; author; subject (culture conflict, marriage); style (symbolism, experimental theater); genre (comedy, melodrama, musical); cast type; and more.