If you or your students would like an introduction to any of these new resources, please let us know; a librarian will be happy to help. We are also happy to answer any of your questions in person, via e-mail, or by telephone (704.894.CHAL or 704.894.2425).
December 2006
New Resources
- Cambridge Companions Online
- Contains the fully-searchable text of over 220 titles in the Cambridge Companions Literature and Classics series and Philosophy, Religion, and Culture series.
Note: the Library Catalogue will soon contain records for all of the titles included in this online collection.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
- New title added:
Enhancements to Existing Resources
- JSTOR
- 7 new titles added!
November 2006
New Resources
- Chicago Manual of Style Online
- Contains the fully-searchable text of the 15th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style as well as several other tools, including the Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide and regularly-updated questions and answers about the guide.
October 2006
New Resources
- Kafkas Werke
- Contains the full text of the critical edition of Kafka's complete works, Kritische Ausgabe, Schriften und Tagebücher.
Enhancements to Existing Resources
- America's Historical Newspapers including Early American Newspapers
- New content and publications added!
- Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC): 13 March 1892 - 30 September 1913
- Columbus Daily Enquirer (Columbus, GA): 3 March 1860 - 30 June 1891
- Daily Journal and Journal and Tribune (Knoxville, TN): 1 April 1888 - 31 December 1896
- Georgia Weekly Telegraph (Macon, GA): 30 January 1880 - 30 December 1881
- Grand Forks Herald (Grand Forks, ND): 26 June 1879 - 7 November 1907
- Macon Weekly Telegraph (Macon, GA): 1 November 1826 - 20 February 1889
- Morning Herald (New Bern, NC): 17 September 1807 - 30 December 1808
- Omaha World Herald (Omaha, NE): 1 January 1887 - 30 April 1907
- Philadelphia Inquirer (7 November 1860 - 1 January 1918
- San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA): 2 January 1886 - 30 June 1914
- State (Columbia, SC): 18 February 1891 - 30 December 1916
- Project Muse
- New title!
- PsycARTICLES
- Two new titles!
- Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
- Training and Education in Professional Psychology
September 2006
- JSTOR
- 17 new titles added!
August 2006
- Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans (1639-1800) and Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)
- Update:
We have updated the Library Catalogue records for all Evans and Shaw-Shoemaker titles; these records now contain hotlinks to the electronic versions of all titles that have been digitized to date.
Note: The digital version of Evans is complete. Shaw-Shoemaker titles are still being digitized; the database will be complete in July 2007. We will update the Library Catalogue and add hotlinks as new digital versions of Shaw-Shoemaker titles become available.
For more information about these collections, see below.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
- New titles added:
- Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Ed. H. James Birx. 5 vols. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2006.
- Encyclopedia of Human Development. Ed. Neil Salkind. 3 vols. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2006.
- Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West. Ed. Gordon Bakken and Alexandra Kindell. 2 vols. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2006.
- Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America. Ed. John Herrick and Paul Stuart. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2005.
- Encyclopedia of the American Revolution: Library of Military History. Ed. Harold Selesky. 2 vols. Detroit, MI: Scribner's, 2006.
- Encyclopedia of the New American Nation. Ed. Paul Finkelman. 3 vols. Detroit, MI: Scribner's, 2006.
- History of World Trade since 1450. Ed. John McCusker. 2 vols. Detroit, MI: Macmillan, 2006.
- McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. 5th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005.
- Political Parties of the World. Ed. Bogdan Szajkowski. 6th ed. London: John Harper, 2005.
- Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature. Ed. Thomas Riggs. Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 2002.
- Revolutionary and Dissident Movements of the World. Ed. Bogdan Szajkowski. 4th ed. London: John Harper, 2004.
- JSTOR
- New titles added:
- Desarrollo Económico
- Higher Education
- International Review of Education
- The Scandinavian Journal of Economics
July 2006
New Resources
- American Broadsides & Ephemera
- (c. 1760-1900) Contains more than 30,000 digital facsimiles of broadsides and ephemera, including advertisements, handbills, trade cards, theatre and music programs, stock certificates, menus, and many other works.
This collection is part of the Archive of Americana, which includes America's Historical Newspapers, Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans (1639-1800), and Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819).
Note: The Davidson College Library has the first series in this collection; other series have not yet been published.
- America's Historical Newspapers
- (1690-1922) Contains digital facsimiles of over 800 early American newspapers; the full text of these newspapers, including all articles, advertisements, and other contents, is keyword-searchable.
This collection is part of the Archive of Americana, which includes American Broadsides & Ephemera, Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans (1639-1800), and Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819).
Note: The Davidson College Library has all three series in this collection, which is also known as Early American Newspapers.
- Book Review Digest Retrospective
- (1905 to present) Indexes and excerpts reviews of over 850,000 English-language books; covers both fiction and non-fiction.
- Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans (1639-1800)
- Contains digital images of over 37,000 books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in the British American colonies, and later the United States, from 1639 through 1800. Based on Charles Evans's American Bibliography and Roger Bristol's Supplement to Charles Evans' American Bibliography.
This collection is part of the Archive of Americana, which includes American Broadsides & Ephemera, America's Historical Newspapers, and Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819).
Note: the Library also has Evans on microfiche; the online version contains more titles, however.
- Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)
- Contains digital images of over 36,000 American books, pamphlets, and broadsides published from 1801 through 1819. Based on Ralph Shaw and Richard Shoemaker's American Bibliography and supplemented by thousands of additional titles.
This collection is part of the Archive of Americana, which includes American Broadsides & Ephemera, America's Historical Newspapers, and Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans (1639-1800).
Note: the Library also has Shaw-Shoemaker on microfiche.
- PsycARTICLES
- (1985 to present) Contains the full text of over 55 American Psychological Association (APA), Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group journals.
- Westlaw Campus Research
- Contains full text news and legal materials. The "News & Information" section contains articles from magazines, national and international newspapers, and business, professional, and trade journals as well as newswires, newsletters, and transcripts of television broadcasts. The "Law" section contains important primary law sources as well as analytical sources, including state statutes, federal statutes published in the U.S. Code Annotated, federal and state cases, including Supreme Court cases, federal regulations published in the Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations, European Union law, American Law Reports, American Jurisprudence, 2nd, an important encyclopedia covering state and federal law, and over 800 law reviews and journals.
Enhancements to Existing Resources
- African-American Newspapers: The 19th Century
- New content!
The Library purchased part X of this collection, which includes the Christian Recorder from January 1888 through December 1893 (excluding 1892).
- America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts
- New interface with new search options!
You can now search across both databases simultaneously. (If you wish, you can continue to search each database separately too.) In addition, it is now much easier to search by historical time period; you need simply enter the starting and ending dates for the period you want.
- Business Source Premier
- New interface!
The new interface allows you to browse and search for country economic data, company profiles, industry information and market research more easily.
- JSTOR
- New collection!
The Davidson College Library has acquired the JSTOR Business II collection, which, when complete in 2008, will contain at least 50 titles. The following titles, drawn from other JSTOR collections, are available now:
- American Journal of Agricultural Economics
- The Business History Review
- Economic Development and Cultural Change
- Economic Policy
- Journal of Law and Economics
- Journal of Law, Economics & Organization
- Journal of Marketing
- Journal of Marketing Research
- Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
- Land Economics
- Public Administration Review
- Review of Agricultural Economics
- Southern Economic Journal
- Supreme Court Economic Review
JSTOR plans to add the following journals to the Business II collection in the near future:
- American Journal of Economics and Sociology
- Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques
- Econometric Theory
- European Journal of Health Economics
- International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics
- Journal of Economic and Social History of the Orient
- Journal of Health Care Finance
- NBER Macroeconomics Annual
- Public Performance and Management Review
- Revue économique
- Risk Management
- Scandinavian Journal of Economics
- Financial Management
New titles added to existing JSTOR collections!
- Canadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l'education
- Cell Stress & Chaperones
- The Classical Journal
- The Future of Children
- The Journal of Cell Biology
- Waterbirds: The International Journal of Waterbird Biology
The Davidson College Library provides you with access to all of the JSTOR titles currently available.
- MLA International Bibliography
- Expanded coverage and new interface!
The electronic version of the MLA International Bibliography now includes citations from 1926 to the present; all of the content in the old print volumes is now online. In addition, this new interface provides more search, browse, and sort options as well as easier exporting of records to RefWorks.
- Project Muse
- New titles!
- Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory
- Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
- L'Esprit Créateur
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