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The breadth of Chinese history and culture is illustrated here with examples of architecture, landscape design, sculpture, ceramics, painting, furniture, manuscripts and urbanism. These images compare the proud Terracotta Qin Warriors with urban scenes of modern Chinese life, and contrast the monumental Great Wall and elegant temples with panoramas of the contemporary high rises of today’s Shanghai. Also included are images from Japan, India, and Tibet. Latest news

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Some of the more interesting maps made available this month include:
• Map showing the distribution of Indian tribes in the Southeastern U.S., circa 1715.

• Military geologic maps showing which soil conditions in France favored the building of trenches and dugouts.

• Maps illustrating the extent of territorial, population and natural resource losses by Hungary following World War I.

• Series of over 70 agricultural maps depicting total acreage of key crops planted, 1919.

• Map depicting city walls built around the ancient Israeli seaport of Ashqelon, from pre-Roman times through the Crusades.

• Map showing routes taken by the Wood-Forbes Mission to the Philippine Islands, 1921.

Of the new documents added to the collection, here are some that stand out. Some have a familiar ring despite their publication over 40 years ago.
• Volume 12439 87th-2nd H.rp.#1419 Ocean freight industry

• 12443 87th-2nd H.rp.#2274 Study of mutual funds

• 12452 87th-2nd S.doc.#159 Report of National Fuels and Energy Study Group on assessment of available information on energy in United States

• 12474 87th-2nd H.doc.#523 Ceremonies and re-enactment of 100th anniversary of 1st inauguration of Abraham Lincoln

• 12640 88th-2nd H.doc.#362 Compilation of works of art in U.S. Capitol

• 12641 88th-2nd H.doc.#185 Statistical abstract of United States, 1964

• 12658 88th-2nd H.doc.#278 Economic report of the President, Jan. 1964

The following journals have been added to the JSTOR archive. More detailed information about all JSTOR titles and collections, along with delimited lists, can be accessed from JSTOR’s Available Collections page.

American Indian Law Review (Arts & Sciences VI)
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Winter, 1973) – Vol. 32, No. 1 (2007/2008)
Moving Wall: 1 year

Annales d’Économie et de Statistique [1986- ](Arts & Sciences Complement; Business II; Mathematics & Statistics)
Previous Title: Annales de l’inséé [1969-1985] (0019-0209)
Previous Title: Cahiers du Séminaire d’Économétrie [1951-1985] (0071-8343)
Nos. 1 – 27 (1951 – 1985);
Nos. 3 – 59/60 (1970 – 1985);
Nos. 1 – 86 (1986 – 2007)
Moving Wall: 1 years
Note: Annales de l’inséé merged with Cahiers du Séminaire d’Économétrie to form Annales d’Économie et de Statistique.

Anthropological Linguistics (Arts & Sciences VI)
Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 1959) – Vol. 46, No. 4 (Winter, 2004)
Moving Wall: 2 years
Note: The content for 2005-2006 will be released as soon as the issues become available to JSTOR.

Behaviour. Supplement (Biological Sciences; Life Sciences)
Nos. 1 – 20 (1950 – 1977)
Publication of this title ceased in 1977.

Brookings Papers on Education Policy (Arts & Sciences VI)
Nos. 1 – 8 (1998 – 2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years

Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. Supplementary Studies (Arts & Sciences Complement)
Nos. 1 – 27 (1945 – 1991)
Publication of this title ceased in 1991.

Early American Literature [1968- ] (Arts & Sciences V)
Previous Title: Early American Literature Newsletter [1966-1968] (0739-8301)
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Winter, 1966) – Vol. 40, No. 3 (2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years

Economía (Arts & Sciences VI; Business II)
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Fall, 2000) – Vol. 6, No. 1 (2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years

Economic Theory (Arts & Sciences VI; Business II)
Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 1991) – Vol. 26, No. 4 (November, 2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years

Innovation Policy and the Economy (Arts & Sciences VI; Business II)
Vols. 1 – 3 (2000 – 2003)
Moving Wall: 5 years

Interfaces (Arts & Sciences VI; Business II)
Vol. 1, No. 4 (June, 1971) – Vol. 32, No. 5 (September/October, 2002)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Note: The content for 2003 will be released as soon as the issues become available to JSTOR.

Journal of International Marketing (Arts & Sciences VI; Business II)
Vol. 1, No. 1 (1993) – Vol. 11, No. 4 (2003)
Moving Wall: 5 years

Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt (Arts & Sciences V)
Vols. 1 – 40 (1962 - 2003)
Moving Wall: 5 years

Journal of Transport Economics and Policy (Arts & Sciences VI; Business II)
Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 1967) – Vol. 39, No. 3 (September, 2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years

Linguistics and Philosophy [1977- ] (Arts & Sciences V)
Previous Title: Foundations of Language [1965-1975] (0015-900X)
Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 1965) – Vol. 13, No. 4 (November, 1975);
Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 1977) – Vol. 28, No. 6 (December, 2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years

Policy Sciences (Arts & Sciences VI)
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring, 1970) – Vol. 38, No. 4 (December, 2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years

Public Choice [1968- ] (Arts & Sciences VI; Business II)
Previous Title: Papers on Non-Market Decision Making [1966-1967] (1941-9716)
Vols. 2 – 3 (1967);
Vol. 4 (1968) – Vol. 125, No. 3/4 (December, 2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years

Religious Studies (Arts & Sciences V)
Vol. 1, No. 1 (October, 1965) – Vol. 39, No. 4 (December, 2003)
Moving Wall: 5 years

The Social Service Review (Arts & Sciences VI)
Vol. 1, No. 1 (March, 1927) – Vol. 77, No. 4 (December, 2003)
Moving Wall: 5 years

Systematic Botany Monographs (Biological Sciences; Life Sciences)
Vol. 1 (October, 1980) – Vol. 66 (September 29, 2003)
Moving Wall: 5 years

I Tatti Studies: Essays in the Renaissance (Arts & Sciences V)
Vols. 1 - 11 (1985 – 2007)
Moving Wall: 1 year

Victorian Poetry (Arts & Sciences V)
Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 1963) – Vol. 41, No. 4 (Winter, 2003)
Moving Wall: 5 years

Water Environment Research [1992- ] (Biological Sciences; Life Sciences)

Previous Title: Research Journal of the Water Pollution Control Federation [1989-1991] (1047-7624)

Previous Title: Journal (Water Pollution Control Federation) [1960-1989] (0043-1303)

Previous Title: Sewage and Industrial Wastes [1950-1959] (0096-364X)

Previous Title: Sewage Works Journal [1928-1949] (0096-9362)
Vol. 1, No. 1 (October, 1928) – Vol. 73, No. 6 (November/December, 2001)
Moving Wall: 7 years

The Wisconsin Magazine of History (Arts & Sciences V)
Vol. 1, No. 1 (September, 1917) – Vol. 89, No. 2 (Winter, 2005/2006)
Moving Wall: 3 years

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released the following reports and correspondence:

Reports

1. Medicare: Callers Can Access 1-800-MEDICARE Services, but Responsibility within CMS for Limited English Proficiency Plan Unclear. GAO-09-104, December 29.  Highlights

2. Electronic Health Records: DOD’s and VA’s Sharing of Information Could Benefit from Improved Management. GAO-09-268, January 28.  Highlights

3. Homeland Defense: Actions Needed to Improve Management of Air Sovereignty Alert Operations to Protect U.S. Airspace. GAO-09-184, January 27.  Highlights

Correspondence

1. Military Training: Navy and Air Force Need to More Fully Apply Best Practices to Enhance Development and Management of Combat Skills Training. GAO-09-220R, January 28.

U.S. GAO

The following journal, previously announced as joining Project MUSE, is now online:

** From the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies:

Southeast Asian Affairs

Southeast Asian Affairs, which has been produced since 1974, is an annual review of significant trends and developments in the region. The emphasis is on ASEAN countries but important developments in the broader Asia-Pacific region are not ignored. The publication seeks to provide readable and easily understood analyses of major political, strategic, economic and social developments within the region.

Project MUSE invites users to view their latest research tool: a vodcast. The vodcast, “Research MUSEings Vodcasts: Discovering Linked Subject Headings,” is a quick tutorial about the benefits of using MUSE’s linked subject headings in your research.

The MUSE vodcast runs just over three minutes in length. Users can learn what subject headings are, where to find them in MUSE, and how they help locate articles specific to a research topic.

On the MUSE website, find the link for the vodcast in the Training Materials section under the Tools & Resources >>Training and Usage Guides

The following is Barack Obama’s inaugural address, as prepared for delivery from the NPR website. Also listen and watch audio/video files.

My fellow citizens:

I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition. Full Transcript

This latest release sees the addition of five new titles to Literature Online’s library of full-text journals, including; The Comparatist, New Coin, Shakespeare in Southern Africa, Theory & Event and William Carlos Williams Review.
The addition of these journals brings the total number of titles up to 236.
This release also contains new full-text journal articles and new bibliographic records from ABELL, plus, if subscribed, the MLA International Bibliography (MLAIB).

New Biographies
The latest release of Literature Online sees the addition of 15 new or revised biographies, including biographies for Kingsley Amis, Ted Kooser, Louis MacNeice, Alberto Rios, Theodore Roethke, Anne Stevenson, James Tate and Dean Young.
Literature Online now contains over 4,100 biographies. Author biographies are specially commissioned for Literature Online, and give an authoritative and accessible overview of the author’s life, work and critical reception.

These biographies can be found by

• following links from Author Pages,
• using Search: Criticism & Reference
• entering an author’s name in Quick Search.

Literature Online now contains over 17,500 author records. Each of the author records contains at least one of the following:

• an authoritative and accessible biography,
• full-text of the author’s works,
• a comprehensive bibliography of primary works
• a list of full-text critical and reference materials relating to the author.

Author records can be accessed by searching in the:

• Search: Authors
• Search: Texts pages
• Quick Search feature from any page.

The Ireland Collection, developed in cooperation with Queen’s University Belfast, is an interdisciplinary collection of journals and other materials. At its expected completion in 2009, it will contain a minimum of 75 currently publishing journals, with moving walls between 1 and 5 years, and 200 monographs. It will also include ceased journals and 2,500 manuscript pages. Complementing JSTOR’s existing collections, the Ireland Collection adds titles and resources across the arts, humanities, and sciences in disciplines such as music, art, history, literature, archaeology, mathematics, and biology. Materials span from the 1780s to the present. The content is international in scope, while also providing a rich focus on Ireland. The Ireland Collection was created with funding from the JISC Digitisation Programme.

Highlights include:

• The Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, which date back to 1787, and the Academy’s other valuable publications Ériu, Irish Journal of Earth Sciences, and Irish Studies International Affairs
• Significant portions of Queen’s rare Bunting Collection, composed of melodies and Irish music collected by Edward Bunting in the early 19th century
• Irish Historical Studies, Ireland’s prominent history journal
• History Ireland and Archaeology Ireland
• Irish Arts Review and Circa, both long-standing art publications
• The ISI-ranked Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research
• Fortnight and Magill, political and cultural monthly magazines (in Northern Ireland and Ireland respectively)
• Linen Hall Review, the publication of Northern Ireland’s prominent Linen Hall Library

See Current and Upcoming Title List for Ireland Collection.

Arts & Sciences VI (completed by end of 2010) View Title List

With a minimum of one hundred twenty (120) titles, the Arts & Sciences VI Collection will extend JSTOR’s coverage in disciplines across the social sciences, with clusters focused in economics, education, linguistics, political science, and area studies.