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Streaming Media
The ZSR Library has added access to hundreds of documentary films, counseling instructional videos, and opera productions, for streaming over the Internet to your computer. These video collections also allow you to create playlists and short clips to share with other users or for classroom use.
Another streaming video collection, the PBS Video Collection, recently added more than 100 new videos, including the award-winning Civil Rights documentary Eyes on the Prize.
Try out these streaming video collections:
American Song joins Classical Music Library as a second streaming music collection. American Song features a variety of popular American music, including songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more. Users can also create playlists in both music collections (as listening lists for class, for example).
Primary Source Documents
The ZSR Library recently purchased eight online collections of primary source documents. They are part of a new product platform called “Archives Unbound.” These searchable databases provide scanned images and transcripts of archival documents on focused topics. Explore these exciting new resources:
- Black Economic Empowerment: The National Negro Business League
- Black Nationalism and the Revolutionary Action Movement: The Papers of Muhammad Ahmad (Max Stanford)
- “We Were Prepared for the Possibility of Death”: Freedom Riders in the South, 1961
- Correspondence from German Concentration Camps and Prisons
- Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees: The West’s Response to Jewish Emigration
- U.S. Relations with the Vatican and the Holocaust, 1940-1950
- Mountain People: Life and Culture in Appalachia
- “Through the Camera Lens”: The Moving Picture World and the Silent Cinema Era, 1907-1927
Read more about Archives Unbound.
Other New Databases
ZSR also provides the following new databases:
- America’s Historical Newspapers, which includes searchable page images of hundreds of historical newspapers from 1690 to 1876.
- Medieval Family Life, with full-color images of medieval manuscripts, searchable transcripts and supplementary material.
- International Bibliography of Art, an index of journal articles from 2008 to present, a successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA).
- The library purchased additional content in the Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO) database, increasing coverage over 30% to more than 180,000 titles.
The Professional Center Library now subscribes to ProQuest Legislative Insight. It contains legislative histories from 1929 to the present, with public law texts and related documents, including Congressional Record excerpts, committee hearings, etc.
Databases on the Move
SciFinder Scholar, the Chemical Abstracts Service’s database of scientific literature, is no longer accessible as a standalone program stored on individual hard drives; the SciFinder client software installed on ThinkPads no longer works. Instead, SciFinder is now accessible via the Web. Each user must register for access. For more information, please see the ZSR SciFinder page.
The following database names have changed:
- Wilson Art Index became Art Full Text and, as its name now implies, includes the full text of over 250 art journals; watch for its move later this year to the popular EBSCOhost platform.
- GPO Access became FDsys.
- LexisNexis Statistical Universe became Statistical Insight.
- LexisNexis Congressional became ProQuest Congressional.
Canceled Databases
- Advertising Redbooks
- Business Insights
- Forrester Research