New Databases - 1999

December 21, 1999

Ulrichsweb.com

• Dates: (current)
• Access: Web access - Ulrichsweb.com. Restricted to Boston College community.
• Instructions: Online help available.  
• Description: Information about nearly a quarter of a million consumer and trade magazines, academic and scholarly publications, monographic series, newsletters, newspapers, electronic publications, 'zines, and many other types of serial publications and services published throughout the world on all subjects. Many profiles with URL and e-mail links.

October 29, 1999

Women Writers Online

• Dates: (1400-1850)
• Access: Internet: Women Writers Online.  Remote access is restricted to Boston College community.
• Instructions: Online help.
• Description: Full-text collection of works by women writers covering a period from 1400 to 1850. All of these texts can be browsed, searched, and analyzed using tools which provide access to the full SGML encoding.

August 30, 1999

Grove Dictionary of Art

• Dates: (Current)
• Access: Internet: Grove Dictionary of Art.  Remote access is restricted to Boston College community.
• Instructions: Online help.
• Description: A database of over 41,000 articles on all aspects of the visual arts from Prehistory to the 1990's. Articles from the print version of the Dictionary of Art (Bapst Library Ref. N31.D5) This database includes bibliography and links to over 40,000 color images and is continually updated to reflect new scholarship.

June 23, 1999

TableBase-fulltext

• Dates: (varies by table)
• Access: Internet access- http://www.tablebase.com/cgi-bin/login.exe?login=&password=&product=8.  Restricted to Boston College community
• Instructions: Online
• Description: Full statistical data from statistical annuals, industry reports, trade associations, government agencies, international organizations, newsletters and journals. Table titles include relevant descriptive concepts such as forecasts, sales, market share, etc.

May 25, 1999

African-American Newspapers: The 19th Century

• Dates: (1827-1862)
• Access: Individual workstation, request disk at Reference Desk
  Location of Workstation
• Instructions: Manual at O'Neill Reference Desk
• Description: This database provides the complete word-for-word texts of major 19th century African-American newspapers. Newspapers in this database are made available in chronological orders, with the addition of a minimum of ten million new words each year. Currently the file contains Parts 1, 2, and 3 and covers the following newspapers: Freedom’s Journal 1827-1830 (New York, NY); Colored American 1837-1841 (New York, NY); The North Star 1847-1851 (Rochester, NY); Frederick Douglass Paper 1851-1859, completed through December 1852 (Rochester, NY); National Era 1847-1860, completed through December 1853 (Washington, D.C.); Provincial Freeman 1854-1857 (Toronto, Canada); The Christian Recorder 1861-1902, completed through April 1862 (Philadelphia, PA).

May 12, 1999

Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900

• Dates: (1824-1900)
• Access: Individual workstation, request disk at Reference Desk
  Location of Workstation
• Instructions: Manual at O'Neill Reference Desk
• Description: Indexes 43 major Victorian periodicals covering all subject areas (over 12,000 contributors). The database includes the over 2,000 corrections made to the print version during the course of its publication and as a result of recent research.

April 12, 1999

Predicasts PROMT (Predicasts Overview of Markets and Technology)

• Dates: 1996-current
• Access: Internet access- Predicasts PROMT. Remote access restricted to Boston College community
• Instructions: Online help and manual at O'Neill Reference Desk
• Description: This database is useful for researching companies, the products and technologies they produce, and the markets in which they compete. It includes both abstracts and selected full text of more than 1000 business, financial and trade magazines, newspapers, newsletters, reports, news releases, market research reports and investment and brokerage firm reports. In PowerTrac, advanced search mode, you can search by event codes (like market share), as well as geographic area, product codes, and company name.

Apr. 1, 1999

Emerald Library

• Dates: (1994-present, selected titles begin earlier)
• Access: Internet access- http://www.emerald-library.com/
  Restricted to Boston College community
• Instructions: Online help.
• Description: A collection of over 100 electronic journals spanning subjects such as: marketing, general management, human resources, quality, property, operations, production & economics, library & information services, information management, training & education and engineering.

Mar. 25, 1999

Boston Globe

• Dates: (1980-)
• Access: Boston Globe-Internet access Restricted to Boston College community
• Instructions: Online help.
• Description: Full text of the Boston Globe newspaper, from 1980 to yesterday's edition.

Mar. 15, 1999

Anthropological Index Online

• Dates: (1970-present)
• Access: Web access - Anthropological Index Online.
• Instructions: Online help.
• Description: Covers the periodical collection of the British Museum Department of Ethnography (Museum of Mankind). Entries compiled from more than 750 journals received in the Department of Ethnography Library.

Feb. 15, 1999

Beilstein Crossfire Database

• Dates: (1779-to date)
• Access: Locations of Workstations in EIC: W39 and W34(IBM); MW25 and MW32 (Mac).
• Instructions: Online and at Beilstein web site.
• Description:This database corresponds to Beilstein's Handbuch der Organischen Chemie and has information on over 8,000,000 organic substances with literature references dating from 1779 to date. Chemical, physical, pharmaceutical and physiological properties are stored as numerical values, keywords and text. Beilstein can be used to find the optimal synthesis for known compounds and, through analogy, to devise syntheses for new compounds. Beilstein is updated quarterly; over 500,000 records are added per year.

Feb. 12, 1999

Index to Theses

• Dates: (1970-present)
• Access: Internet access - Index to Theses. Restricted to Boston College community.
• Instructions: Online help.
• Description: An index with abstracts for theses accepted for higher degrees by the universities in Great Britain and Ireland.

Feb. 9, 1999

Alt-HealthWatch

• Dates: (1990-present)
• Access: Internet access - http://www.softlineweb.com. Restricted to Boston College community.
• Instructions: Online
• Description: Alt-HealthWatch is a full text database focused on complementary, alternative and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. The database covers over 120 international periodicals, peer-reviewed journals, academic and professional publications, magazines, consumer newsletters and newspapers, research reports, and association newsletters. Alt-HealthWatch provides information on both the professional and consumer level on more than two hundred therapies, modalities and perspectives addressed by integrated medicine. The database has material dating back to 1990 and is updated quarterly. Click on the Publication Name on the search page to browse a list of sources covered by the database.

Datapro-full text

• Dates: (current)
• Access: BC Community only-click here for BC name and password information.
  10 individual user accounts will be changed every semester.
  Internet access: www.datapro.com. Select Login and enter Name and Password from url above.
• Instructions: Available on web site.
• Description: Technology and product evaluations in the areas of application software, client systems, global communication and networking, and information management.

Ethnic NewsWatch

• Dates: (1990-present)
• Access: Internet access - http://www.softlineweb.com. Restricted to Boston College community.
• Instructions: Online
• Description: Ethnic NewsWatch is a full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, African-American, Hispanic and Native American press. Over 200 publications are currently included in the database. The articles, editorials, columns and reviews provide a broad diversity of perspectives. Ethnic NewsWatch currently contains over 400,000 records. The years of coverage vary depending upon when a particular publication was added to the database. Click on Publication Name on the search page to browse a list of sources. The database can be searched in English or Spanish; online help is available only in English.

GenderWatch

• Dates: (mid 1970's-present)
• Access: Internet access - http://www.softlineweb.com. Restricted to Boston College community.
• Instructions: Online
• Description: The GenderWatch database covers the areas of Women’s Studies and Gender Studies. The database currently contains over 40,000 full text articles from more than 125 international journals, books, magazines and newsletters, plus unpublished papers and conference proceedings as well as nearly 1,000 special reports devoted to gender and women’s issues. GenderWatch also contains archival materials dating back as far as 1978 in some cases. Click on the publication Name on the search screen page to browse a list of the sources covered by the database. GenderWatch is updated quarterly.

Feb. 2, 1999

AccessUN-select full text

• Dates: 1966-date
• Access: Internet access - http://infoweb5.newsbank.com/. Restricted to Boston College community.
• Instructions: Online
• Description: AccessUN provides indexing to current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications. This includes; articles in United Nations periodicals; bilateral and multilateral treaties in the United Nations Treaty Series; General Assembly resolutions, 1981-date; Security Council resolutions, 1974-date; and Economic and Social Council resolutions, 1982-date. Law and O’Neill Libraries own selected documents full text on microfiche. Note Document Number and inquire at Reference Desks.

ACS Directory of Graduate Research

• Dates: (1997)
• Access: Internet access- ACS Directory of Graduate Research.  Restricted to Boston College community.
• Instructions: Online
• Description: The ACS Directory of Graduate Research (1997 edition) contains information on chemistry and chemically related research and researchers at universities in the United States and Canada. Information is provided on graduate programs in chemistry, chemical engineering, biochemistry, medicinal/pharmaceutical chemistry, clinical chemistry, polymer chemistry, food science, toxicology, marine science, forensic science, materials science and environmental sciences. For faculty members, citations are listed for all papers published during 1995-96. The Directory has listings for 692 academic programs, 12,030 faculty members, and 91,515 publication citations. The 1999 edition of the Directory will be published in 2000.

ComAbstracts - CIOS/Comserve

• Dates: (varies)
• Access: Web access: CIOS/Comserve
• Instructions: Online help.
• Description: ComAbstracts contains abstracts of articles published in the professional literature of the communications field. The database is updated continuously. The years of coverage vary depending upon the ournal title. The Communication Institute for Online Scholarship site also contains scanned tables of content for current journals; ComWebMegaSearch (a full-text index to more than 12,000 related web resources; the Idea Monkey ( a tool for generating creative research questions); ComForums (for discussion of hot topics via the Web); an Events Calendar; job postings; and the Online Journal of Electronic Communication as well as other informational features.

Datapro-full text

• Dates: current
• Access: BC Community only-click here for BC name and password information.
  Internet access: www.datapro.com. Select Login and enter Name and Password from url above.
• Instructions: Available on web site.
• Description: Technology and product evaluations in the areas of application software, client systems, global communication and networking, and information management

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