Summer 2003
Digital Classic Protestant Texts
North American Immigrant Letters
Patrologiae Graecae
Times Digital Archive
May 29, 2003
BASILE (Base Internationale de Lettres Électronique du Moyen Age au XXe siècle Litterature narrative)
- Dates: 1120-1989
- Access: BASILE (BC Community Only)
- Description: BASILE consists of approximately 1,000 French narrative works, including novels, tales and short stories.
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database
- Dates: 1993-present
- Access: Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (BC Community Only)
- Description: The CLCD database provides bibliographic data, reviews, awards, and lists for children's books, audio books, and videos. The database contains over 900,000 catalog records, and 130,000 full text reviews from 24 review sources. Approximately 1500 new reviews are added each month. There are retrospective reviews going back 10 years. Additionally, there are links to author sites, publishers, parent resources, curriculum resources and information on reading measurement programs.
Evans Digital Edition
- Dates: 1639-1800
- Access: Evans Digital Edition (BC Community Only)
- Description: Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800) has been hailed as one of the most important collections ever produced on microform. Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans and enhanced by Roger Bristol's Supplement to Evans' American Bibliography, the collection has for years served as a foundation for research involving early American history, literature, philosophy, religion, and more. The entire Evans collection is now being digitized. Evans Digital Edition will include every item previously produced on microform plus more than 1,200 additional works located, catalogued and digitized since completion of the earlier effort. When finished, Evans Digital will consist of more than 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images.
The Gerritsen Collection - Women's History Online
- Dates: 1543-1945
- Access: The Gerritsen Collection - Women's History Online (BC Community Only)
- Description: This database covers the study of international women's history, feminism and the feminist movement. It consists of periodicals, books, and pamphlets in 15 languages.
May 22, 2003
Anthropology Plus
- Dates: 1970-present
- Access: Anthropology Plus - limited number of simultaneous users. (BC Community Only)
- Description: Index for articles and essays in anthropology, archaeology, and related fields.
Index Islamicus
- Dates: 1906 - present
- Access: Index Islamicus (BC Community Only)
- Description: Index Islamicus is a multidisciplinary index of the literature of Islam and the Muslim world. It includes over approximately 250,000 records of journal articles, books, chapters of books, conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews covering the Accounting, Archaeology, Arts, Bibliography & Scholarship, Economics, Education, Geography, History, Islam, Law, Literature, Natural & Applied Sciences, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Social Sciences, Theology, Travel and Zoology of the Islamic world and particularly the Muslim areas of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. It is produced by the Islamic Bibliography Unit of the Library of Cambridge University and currently covers over 2000 journal titles. Updated annually.
May 5, 2003
Archival Resources
- Internet access: Archival Resources (BC Community Only)
- Description: Provides detailed finding aids for archival collections. Supports full-text searching and display, and some finding aids serve as links to digital images of actual archival material.
April 2, 2003
World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
- Dates: 1969-present
- Internet access: The World Shakespeare Bibliography Online (BC Community Only)
- Description: The database The World Shakespeare Bibliography Online provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1969 and mid-2002. The scope is international. Updated at regular intervals, it is planned to move coverage backwards as well as forwards.
April 1, 2003
Digital National Security Archive
- Dates: 1945-
- Internet access: Digital National Security Archive (BC Community Only)
- Description: Online full-text subject collections of United States foreign policy documents declassified under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and located at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. An ongoing project that can be searched full-text by subject collection or across collections.
February 20, 2003
Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP)
- Dates: 1475-1700
- Internet access: EEBO Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) . Remote access restricted to Boston College community.
- Description: The EEBO Text Creation Partnership, is converting 25,000 works found in EEBO into searchable text. The Partnership (Boston College Libraries are one of the partners) is creating SGML text files and linking them to EEBO page images, thereby allowing users to perform keyword searches as well as see features of the original work in facsimile. The EEBO-TCP web site is presently available for full text searching. Please remember that only a small proportion of the conversion project, about 2500 texts, has been completed.
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
- Dates: 2002
- Access: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences Restricted to Boston College community.
- Description: This comprehensive online reference work covers the current state of the social and behavioral sciences with an international scope. It consists of 3,842 signed scholarly articles, most with abstracts, references, and cross references. The articles listed under broad Subject Classifications reflect current thinking and research in the disciplines. This work replaces Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (Seligman and Johnson, 1930–1935) and International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (Sills, 1968). The rich indexing and search capabilities provide easy access to this encyclopedia. Full text articles can be emailed or saved as a PDF file. The IESBS online contains the complete text of the 26 volume set located in O'Neill Reference H41 .I58 2001.
February 10, 2003
Gartner Research
- Dates: 2001 - present
- Access: Gartner Research. Restricted to Boston College community.
- Description: Gartner is a leading research and analysis advisor company that provides reports on the Information Technology industry and IT products, as well as forecasting trends in various Information Technology areas. The database currently contains over 10,000 documents and is updated weekly.
January 14, 2003
Faulkner's Advisory for IT Studies (FAITS)
- Dates: Current
- Access: Internet access:FAITS. Restricted to Boston College community.
- Description: The database contains hundreds of current reports covering such key technology areas as IT infrastructure, telecom, data networking, wireless communications, security, enterprise systems, the Internet, as well as technology vendors. The FAITS database offers several different report types including marketplace overviews, product and service selection guides, product and company profiles, best practices, and directories.
January 13, 2003
CCH Business & Finance Research NetWork
- Dates: Vary by title.
- Access: Internet Access - CCH Business & Finance Research NetWork. Remote access restricted to BC community.
- Instructions: Online
- Description: CCH Business & Finance Research Network provides a wide variety of full text coverage with an emphasis on the legal aspects of: securities, banking, trade regulation, government contracts, telecom, information technology, federal energy guidelines, transportation law, products liability and safety. The database contains the CCH Capital Changes Reporter which covers over 58,000 companies, listing stock dividends, splits, reorganizations and other capital structure changes. It also has Global Capital Changes and many FASB documents.
January 1, 2003
Factiva
- Dates: Coverage varies by title. Full text of the Wall Street Journal back to 1979.
- Access: Internet access - Factiva. 5 simultaneous users. Restricted to Boston College community
- Instructions: Online Customer Support: 1-800-369-7466 or solutions@factiva.com.
Online User Documentation: Factiva Learning Programs
- Description: Current news and financial information for companies, industries and general business and economic news. Over 20,000 company reports and 8,000 publications including major newspapers and newswires. Full text of Wall Street Journal back to 1979. For a list of titles: Factiva Source Search