We now have access to MEDLINE through ISI Web of Knowledge, in addition to our access via OVID and Pubmed.  This access is a free add-on to our existing Web of Knowledge subscription.  Check it out, and compare the interface and searching to Ovid and Pubmed!

MEDLINE via ISI Web of Knowledge
1950 – Present
MEDLINE is the premier database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. It contains over 12 million records of journal articles in all areas of the life sciences, with particular emphasis on biomedicine.

Health Sciences now subscribes to the database Epocrates.

Epocrates is designed to provide clinical information at the point of care.  The database contains practical, peer-reviewed content with a unique patient-centered approach for access to continually updated integrated drug and disease information  Premium features include pill identifier, alternative medicines, and a robust suite of calculators.

Drexel’s access to Epocrates replaces some content accessible in our previous subscription to Elsevier’s FirstConsult service, to which we no longer subscribe.

We now have a subscription to the American History in Video database from Alexander Street Press. It is a very cool resource, full of primary source video and terrific documentaries documenting American History.  Please do check it out!  More descriptive information found here: http://alexanderstreet.com/products/ahiv.htm

American History In Video
1890 to Present

American History in Video includes approximately 1,000 hours of newsreels from the late 1890s to the 1980s. Beginning with the Spanish American War, the early films provide documentary footage of actual people, places, and events together with interviews and other broadcast content from the period.

In addition to the officially received perspectives offered by newsreels, this collection includes some 200 hours of rare, hard-to-find, and diverse perspectives as captured in a wide range of short films. Alongside the contemporaneous materials are some 750 high-quality documentaries from video content producers such as The History Channel that Covering the full gamut of American history from the pre-Colonial period through the twentieth century.

Subjects: History; Culture and Communication; Anthropology and Sociology

Our Books24x7 ebook collection just got twice as nice!  At no extra cost to Drexel Libraries, Books24x7 has offered us full access to their Finance Pro collection!  These Financial ebooks come in addition to our existing subscription to Books24x7′s popular IT Pro collection.

Check out our full offerings from Books24x7 here.

oh good, that rhymes.

We have reinstated our subscription to Marquis Who’s Who Online.  Marquis Who’s Who includes biographies from 24 different Who’s Who books all together in one searchable database.  Our reinstated Who’s Who subscription should help clear up confusion over which Who’s Who books we can access online.  Please enjoy this database and share this information, but remember that Marquis Who’s Who only allows for 1 concurrent user.

Drexel now has a subscription to CQ Global Researcher.  A companion to our existing CQ Researcher subscription, CQ Global Researcher offers background and context on world news from an authoritative global perspective with in-depth coverage of newsworthy global affairs from a multitude of international viewpoints.

Enjoy!

Become the Contemporary Literary Expert you’ve always hoped you’d be!  We have just purchased from Gale the online version of Contemporary Literary Criticism.

Contemporary Literary Criticism Online presents significant published criticism on the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, and other creative writers now living or who died after December 31, 1959. Each entry contains a biographical essay that discusses the author’s life, works, and critical importance; critical essays or excerpts taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers, and scholarly journals; and, where available, interviews with featured authors. Entries also provide suggestions for further reading.

CLC is part of Gale’s Literature Criticism Online offerings, and is fully indexed by author, title, and year of critique.  We have online access to these volumes from 1973 – present.  Hagerty’s Print Holdings for this resource will likely be going to offsite storage in the near future.

Drexel now subscribes to the SAGE Premier Collection — a database containing fulltext access to nearly 500 SAGE journals spanning 1999 to present.

See a full list of the accessible titles here in the catalog or here (Excel spreadsheet).

This SAGE Premier collection replaces Drexel’s access to SAGE Full Text collections for Communications, Urban Studies, and Health Sciences, as well as any individual SAGE online journals to which we previously subscribed.

So, from what I’ve read so far, this Google Books settlement looks like a really good opportunity for libraries, but there’s lots of fine print to look at, so feel free to share your thoughts in the comments.   Here’s how it will work for libraries:

Library and university access

We’ll also be offering libraries, universities and other organizations the ability to purchase institutional subscriptions, which will give users access to the complete text of millions of titles while compensating authors and publishers for the service. Students and researchers will have access to an electronic library that combines the collections from many of the top universities across the country. Public and university libraries in the U.S. will also be able to offer terminals where readers can access the full text of millions of out-of-print books for free.

Jessamyn West has already culled the most crucial information more succinctly and usefully than I ever could, so see her blog post on librarian.net for all kinds of great background and commentary on Google Books.

We now have access to the International Monetary Fund’s Direction of Trade Statistics database.  Learn all the torrid details of who’s trading with whom, and how much everone is spending.  I just learned that Luxembourg sent $336 Million in exports to Denmark last year, and $0 in exports to Lesotho.  I suppose that makes sense.

IMF has not graced us with the most user-friendly product, so here‘s a tutorial.