Link to New Resources
NEW TITLES IN IUB LIBRARIES:
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/newtitles
MAJOR NEW ACQUISITIONS:
Afro-Americana Imprints, 1535-1922
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=30477233
Created from the Library Company of Philadelphia's acclaimed Afro-Americana Collection, this unique online resource provides researchers with more than 12,000 printed works. These essential books, pamphlets and broadsides, including many lesser-known imprints, hold an unparalleled record of African American history, literature and culture. This collection spans nearly 400 years, from the early 16th to the early 20th century. Critically important subjects covered include the West's discovery and exploitation of Africa; the rise of slavery in the New World along with the growth and success of abolitionist movements; the development of racial thought, including political protest and resistance to racism; descriptions of African American life -- slave and free -- throughout the Americas; and slavery and race in fiction and drama. Also featured are printed works of African American individuals and organizations.
AMA Manual of Style
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=32560468
The AMA Manual of Style is a must-have guide for anyone involved in medical and scientific publishing. The site has relaunched with a brand new look and feel with enhanced functionality. Our aim is to ensure the site continues to deliver the highest quality content, in an easy-to-use way, helping you find the information you need to produce well-organized and authoritative articles and research papers.
Brevier Legislative Reports
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=31984691
The Reports, published biennially from 1858 to 1887, are verbatim reports of the legislative proceedings and history of the Indiana General Assembly during those years.
Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=30291673
Provides scholars with unprecedented electronic access to the United Kingdom’s Colonial, Dominion and Foreign Offices’ confidential correspondence relating to Africa between 1834 and 1966. This resource provides a searchable collection of scores of official documents covering almost the entire period of European conquest and colonisation of Africa. The early stages of imperial expansion and indigenous resistance in the interior of western and southern Africa, the European scramble for the continent in the late nineteenth century, and the expansion of settler colonialism in southern and eastern Africa are all covered, as are the rising challenges to imperialism in the twentieth century that culminated in the rapid European withdrawal from the continent in the 1950s and 1960s.
Digital Scriptorium
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=30851123
The Digital Scriptorium is a growing image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research. It bridges the gap between a diverse user community and the limited resources of libraries by means of sample imaging and extensive rather than intensive cataloguing.
The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection for Diplomatic Studies and Training
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=31413417
The Library of Congress has made available interview transcripts from the oral history archives of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (ADST). These transcripts present a window into the lives of U.S. diplomats and the major diplomatic crisis and issues that the United States faced during the second half of the 20th century and the early part of the 21st. These interviews offer more than individual personal perspectives on the formulation and implementation of American foreign policy. They also represent a slice of American life and social history. 1940s to the present.
Globe Smart
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=30664170
A web tool on how to do business effectively in countries around the world.
Historic Map Works
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=30664168
Home to a high quality, full color digital collection of historic maps. The core of the collection consists of 1,593,454 cadastral and land ownership maps detailing the geographic and development history of the United States over several hundred years. There is extensive coverage of rural and suburban areas, as well as cities and towns across America. Also contains a print collection of contemporaneous pages of illustrations and over 1,000 city directories related to the cadastral maps, allowing additional research capabilities. Nearly 100,000 antiquarian maps covering the world from the 15th to 19th centuries have also been added.
Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=32176440
The IJPC includes print journals (from large urban newspapers to small country weeklies, from magazines to the internet, including editors, reporters, photojournalists, correspondents, columnists, publishers, newsboys), broadcast journalists (from networks to local stations, including reporters, anchors, correspondents, producers, writers, technical personnel, news directors, station owners, network executives and management), public relations practitioners (from press agents to publicists), and the news media (anonymous reporters who show up in countless films and television movies ranging from press conferences to packs of reporters shouting questions or chasing after the main character to individual reporters asking questions).
Index to Nineteenth Century American Art Periodicals
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=30105942
Indexes 42 art journals published in the U.S. during the 19th century (1840-1907), providing nearly complete coverage of journals from this period. The index describes the entire journal contents: articles, art notes, illustrations, stories, poems, and advertisements; and offers information on popular culture and industry, artists and illustrators, painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, architecture and design, exhibitions and sales, decorations, and collecting. The file includes 27,000 records.
Mesoamerican Archive
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=31793171
The CLAMA and CAMVA projects encorporate digital acrhives of video, research notes, audio interviews, photographs, and other digital sources stored at physical archives in Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras with the explicit goal of preserving and disseminating sources related to minority languages and cultures.
Oxford Bibliographies Online: Music
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=31225231
Provides brief introductions and extensive annotated bibliographies of topics in music research with an emphasis on composers and their works as well as periods in music history.
Oxford Handbooks Online: Music
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=31225230Provides online access to articles that have been published (or planned for future publication) in Oxford's Handbooks series on music.
Passport Career
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=31793170
Passport Career is the first-ever, comprehensive, online global job search support system for globally-minded organizations and institutions that support people moving to or living in unique and challenging destinations around the world. Whether they are moving to the U.S., Europe, Asia, Africa, or Latin America, Passport Career provides detailed, expert insight and knowledge on the business customs, strategies, and resources related to the job/intern/volunteer search for each country and destination.
ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the US
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=30664169
ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States 2013 online edition is updated monthly, and provides line-item access to tables, table-specific capabilities for narrowing results by source, data date, subject, and type of data breakdown. The Statistical Abstract is a great place to begin a search for statistical information since the footnotes lead you to the original source, which most frequently is more comprehensive, and is also available with Statistical Insight and ProQuest Datasets.
Vetus Latina
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=31038077
Vetus Latina or "Old Latin Bible" is the collective name for the large and diverse group of Latin biblical texts. The database contains Latin quotes, which are ordered according to the biblical book, chapter and verse. They may be used individually on the basis of this arrangement as a whole or questioned. With this program you are able to see the pictures of the books, which users are able to upload as an individual verse or as a complete view. Please note here that due to the amount of images in several verses, the charging time of the entire view can take some time.
World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=32368138
World Scholar: Latin America & the Caribbean serves the needs of students and researchers by bringing together in a single place a rich collection of primary source documents about Latin America and the Caribbean; academic journals and news feeds covering the region; reference articles and commentary; maps and statistics; audio and video; and more.
Revised 5/13/2013
