New Databases - 2002
October 18, 2002
CQ's Electronic Encyclopedia of American Government
- Dates: 2000
- Access: CQ's Electronic Encyclopedia of American Government. Remote access restricted to Boston College community.
- Description: This online encyclopedia includes four sections: Presidency, Congress, Supreme Court, and Elections. More than twelve hundred articles, web links, and six hundred illustrations cover the history, structure, dynamics, operation, and personalities of the three branches of the Federal government and elections. Entries range from paragraph to essay length, depending on the topic. Each subject area can be browsed independently and is also possible to search any combination of subject areas.
CQ Researcher
- Dates: October 25, 1991 -
- Access: CQ Researcher. Remote access restricted to Boston College community.
- Description: The CQ Researcher is published 44 times a year and each issue is a 12,000 word overview of a single "hot" issue. Each issue includes charts, graphs and sidebar articles, a pro-con feature, a chronology, lengthy bibliographies and a list of contacts. An excellent place to get overview or current economic, political, and social issues.
October 1, 2002
Oxford Reference Online
- Dates: current edition.
- Access: Oxford Reference Online. Remote access restricted to Boston College community.
- Description: A collection of more than 100 reference titles covering more than twenty broad subject areas. Search all 1.5 million dictionary definition, facts, figures, people, places, dates, and quotations simultaneously or select a subject or title to search.
September 25, 2002
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
- Dates: 1500-1900
- Access: British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries. Remote access restricted to Boston College community.
- Description: This initial release includes the diaries and letters of 91 women. Access to approximately 24,000 pages of writings can be retrieved by full text searching (simple or advanced) or by exploring the tables of contents.
Global Development Finance
- Dates: 1970 - present, with predictions to 2008
- Access: Global Development Finance. Restricted to Boston College community.
- Description: World data on balance of payments, national income, financial flows and international reserves.
LexisNexis Environmental
- Dates: 1975 - present
- Access: LexisNexis Environmental. Remote access restricted to Boston College community.
- Description: Includes access to Environmental Abstracts, which allows electronic searching of thousands of environmental journals, conference papers and federal government reports, with some links to recent full text (1995-), a section dealing with environmental news with links to full text articles from major daily newspapers and consumer magazines, plus access to trade magazines, newsletters and law reviews, a section on waste and materials which includes federal and state waste site data and hazardous materials information, including superfund records, a section of federal and state codes and regulations, and a section of federal and state case law and agency actions.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Times
- Dates: 1857-1999 (with future extensions back to 1851 and forward)
- Access: ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Times, Restricted to Boston College community.
- Description: Full text access to backfile content of the New York Times, including advertisements. Searching can be done for words in the entire text or in the citation and abstract (first paragraph). search options include simple keyword searching, natural language searching, or advanced searching (which includes searching by article type, for example death notices or editorials). Display is a pdf image of the citation article, including its extension to other pages.
August 30, 2002
Investext Plus
- Dates: 1998 - present, delayed 1-2 weeks.
- Access: Investext Plus (4 simultaneous users) Restricted to Boston College community.
- Description: Investext Plus contains the full text of research/analyst reports on companies and industries as well as the annual statistical reports of many industry trade associations. It delivers full-text reports in their original published formats, complete with charts, photographs and graphics. The reports are from 700 of the world's top investment banks, brokerage firms and trade associations.
NewsBank
- Dates: 1966 - present, varies.
- Access: NewsBank, Restricted to Boston College community.
- Description:Includes several full text databases: Access UN (UN documents and publications 1966-, plus links to news and related sites); Boston Globe (international, national, regional and local news 1980-); Boston Herald (regional and local news 1997-); Union News Springfield, MA (regional and local news 1988-); Worcester Telegram and Gazette (regional and local news 1989-).
August 20, 2002
Chemical Properties Handbook
- Dates: 1999
- Access: Chemical Properties Handbook
- Description:The Chemical Properties Handbook provides accurate information on how chemicals behave at different temperatures and under different conditions and includes coverage of organic and inorganic compounds.
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
- Dates: 2000
- Access: CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
- Description:The CRC Handbook is the most used handbook for chemistry. New material and tables are added to editions as necessary. There are extensive tables for organic and inorganic compounds, conversion tables, tables of physical and chemical properties as well as thermodynamic, spectral and electrochemical data.
Lange's Handbook of Chemistry
- Dates: 1999
- Access: Lange's Handbook of Chemistry
- Description: Lange's is designed for use by the chemistry student and professional chemist. The following types of information are included: organic compounds, conversion tables, mathematics, inorganic chemistry, properties of atoms, radicals and bonds, physical properties, thermodynamic properties, spectroscopy, and electrochemistry.
Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook
- Dates: 1997
- Access: Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook
- Description: Perry's is the major handbook in this field and includes facts, figures, methods and data needed on a routine basis by chemical engineers.
August 9, 2002
ARL Latin Americanist Research Resources Project
- Dates: 1995 - present
- Access: Internet access ARL Latin Americanist Research Resources Project.
- Description: The project includes Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents, a table of contents and index to 400 academic periodicals in the humanities and social sciences published in Latin America and Caribbean as well as digitized Presidential Messages from Argentina and Mexico. It complements Hispanic American Periodicals Index in depth and breadth.
August 2, 2002
Canadian Poetry
- Dates: (1667-1937)
- Access: Internet access Canadian Poetry. Restricted to Boston College community.
- Instructions: Online help.
- Description: Created in partnership with the Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick Libraries, this unique collection currently contains the full text of more than 12,000 poems by 142 poets including Bliss Carman, Isabella Valancy Crawford and Archibald Lampman, and will soon offer a comprehensive survey of Canadian poetry from the seventeenth century to the early twentieth.
English Poetry, 2nd Edition
- Dates: 8th to the early 20th century
- Internet access- English Poetry, 2nd Ed. Restricted to Boston College community.
- Instructions: Online help.
- Description: English Poetry, Second Edition redefines the English poetic canon for the 21st century, building on the achievement of its ground-breaking predecessor with enhanced functionality and the addition of more than 20,000 poems from several new categories. Containing more than 183,000 poems by over 2,700 poets, the most comprehensive archive of English verse from the 8th century to the early 20th now offers incomparable representation both of the literary heritages of Commonwealth and ex-colonial countries and of the poetic legacies of English writers who have only been brought back to scholarly attention during the last thirty years.
July 19, 2002
British Humanities Index
- Dates: 1962-present
- Access: British Humanities Index. Restricted to Boston College community.
- Description: An international abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities, BHI indexes over 320 important international humanities journals and weekly magazines, as well as quality newspapers published in the UK and the United States. List of current serials indexed.
June 24, 2002
Forrester Research
- Dates: current 3 years
- Access: Forrester Research. Restricted to Boston College community for academic research. Alumni, walk-in visitors may not use.
- Online Help
- Description: Forrester provides in-depth full text market research reports which focus on emerging technologies and their impact on business. Our academic subscription to Forrester's WholeView provides research in 3 areas: customer trends with technographics research, business strategy with Techstrategy research and technology investment with TechRankings Research. Primary geographic coverage is North America and Europe.
Horn Book Guide Online
- Dates: 1989 -
- Access: Horn Book Guide Online. Restricted to Boston College community.
- Description: Published each spring and fall by the Horn Book, Inc., the authoritative Horn Book Guide publishes short, critical reviews of virtually every hardcover trade book published in the United States for young people. Gathered here are more than 40,000 reviews.
May 6, 2002
Readers' Guide Retrospective
- Dates: 1969-1982
- Access: Internet access - Readers' Guide Retrospective. Restricted to Boston College community.
- Description: Readers’ Guide Retrospective provides comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. When complete in Fall 2002, the database should cover 1890-1982.
April 16, 2002
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
- Dates: current 3 years
- Access: Internet access - Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage. Restricted to Boston College community.
- Description: There are 3 components to the database: Industry Surveys (PDF and HTML format), Monthly Investment Reviews and Stock Reports. Coverage includes in-depth economic and business information on 52 major U.S. industries. The Monthly Investment Review provides investment advice on 115 key industries. Stock Reports provide detailed information and analysis on approximately 5,500 publicly-traded companies.
March 12, 2002
Early Encounters in North America
- Dates: 1534 -1860
- Access: Internet access - Early Encounters in North America. Restricted to Boston College community.
- Instructions: Online help.
- Description: Early Encounters in North America, subtitled "Peoples, Cultures and the Environment," will include, when completed, more than 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters. It includes descriptions of North America, either in its natural features or interactions among various cultural groups in the years between 1534 and 1860. Special indexing leads to the who, what, when and where of the encounters.
February 22, 2002
InfoTrac OneFile
- Dates: 1980-present
- Access: Internet access - InfoTrac OneFile. Restricted to Boston College community.
- Instructions: Online help.
- Description: A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.
February 1, 2002
AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive
- Access: Internet access- AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive. Restricted to Boston College community.
- Description: The AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive is an electronic library containing more than 700,000 photographs from the Associated Press' current year's photo reports and a selection of photos from their 50 million image print and negative library. An average of 500 photos a day are added. Searchable by date, location, and subject. Also includes AP newswires and excellent graphics.
National Journal Group's Policy Central
- Dates: current
- Access: Internet access- National Journal Group's Policy Central. Restricted to Boston College community.
- Description: A series of full text databases and sources dealing with American politics, campaigns and policy. Includes the weekly publication National Journal online from 1977 and the reference works Capital Source (Washington directory) and Almanac of American Politics online. Databases include the Hotline, which gathers extensive media coverage of American politics and campaigns, Congress Daily, Technology Daily, American Health Line, Poll Track, Markup Reports, Ad Spotlight, Earlybird (for quick read summaries of morning news and editorials) and Daybreak (for daily information on 24 issue areas), plus others. Searching is across any combination or all of the databases and some include free e-mail alerts.
Women's Indicators and Statistics Database (WISTAT)
- Dates: 1970 - mid 1999
- Access: There are two ways to access WISTAT:
1. Internet : WISTAT Remote access restricted to Boston College community.
2. CD-ROM :O'Neill Library Media Center HQ1154.W57. 1999- Instructions: Internet Access Help. Files included in WISTAT (spreadsheets and online categories). CD ROM User Guide (O'Neill Media Center Stacks HQ1154.W57. 1999).
- Description: This numerical database, published by the United Nations, provides statistics and indicators on gender, population and social development for 206 countries or areas of the world.