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Walter Matthau in

Walter Matthau in “Awake and Sing!” courtesy of Theatre in Video

Featured Changes

C19: The Nineteenth Century Index searches the following sources simultaneously: Poole’s Index to Periodical Literature, Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, American Periodicals Series, Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, ArchivesUSA, and Palmer’s Index to the Times.

Digital National Security Archive contains significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. Contains declassified documents that have been gathered through extensive use of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Gift of the Presidential Trust for Faculty Excellence.

Early American Imprints, Series II. Shaw/Shoemaker is an electronic version of the Early American Imprints set. Includes the full text of 36,000 books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in the United States between 1801 and 1819. Periodical and newspaper articles are not included. Gift of the Presidential Trust for Faculty Excellence.

Historical Statistics of the United States contains over 30,000 data series covering all aspects of American life. You can view tables in HTML or PDF and you can create your own custom charts.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers contains three newspapers back to their first issues: New York Times (1851-three years ago), Chicago Tribune (1849-1985), and Wall Street Journal (1889-1989). More recent issues are available through other databases, such as ProQuest. Includes advertisements, illustrations, etc. as they were laid out on the original page. Gift of the Presidential Trust for Faculty Excellence.

Streaming Video! We have just added another exciting new database from Alexander Street Press to our collection at ZSR.The Theatre in Video database offers over 500 hours of streaming video for more than 250 plays and documentaries in their entirety, including the BBC Shakespeare Collection.Users can search by actor, production, company, theatre, or date, and can also create playlists of entire plays or just clips.One great aspect of this database is that it is easy to clip specific portions of a play and then use just that clip in class, or post it in Blackboard. Gift of the Presidential Trust for Faculty Excellence.

Other New Databases

All of these databases are available from our Find a Database page.

and courtesy of the Carpenter Medical Library…

New Electronic Journal Packages

Individual titles in these packages are linked from our e-journal page.

  • Annual Reviews Back Volumes
    Coverage back to volume 1 of 36 titles in the sciences and social sciences.
  • Project Muse
    Upgrade to Premium Collection, adding 37 new titles in the humanities and social sciences.

New Online Reference Books

All of these titles are available from our Find a Database page.

Databases on the Move

These databases have changed URLs and/or vendors lately.

As always, up-to-date URLs are available on our Database page.

Cancelled and Ceased Titles

ZSR has dropped MarketResearch.com in order to fund some of our new business databases. These additional databases have ceased publication: Consumer’s Index, FactSearch, and Media Review Digest.