What’s New at Schaffer Library

From EBSCO publishing:

With the recent outbreak of Swine Flu, we hope the following information is of value to you. Please feel free to pass along this information to healthcare professionals at your institution as well as faculty, staff and students.

Due to the recent global outbreak of Swine Influenza, EBSCO Publishing and the DynaMed Editors have made DynaMed’s information about Swine Influenza free to health care providers and institutions throughout the world. The DynaMed topic on Swine Influenza consolidates information from multiple sources for health care providers to stay current with recommendations for monitoring, diagnosing, and treating patients with flu-like illnesses during this outbreak. DynaMed Editors will continue to monitor information and update this topic as needed throughout this global crisis. Please click on the following link for information regarding Swine Influenza:

http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed/swineflu/.

DynaMed is a point-of-care reference resource designed to provide clinicians with the best available evidence to support clinical decision-making. DynaMed is part of the suite of medical products owned and provided by EBSCO Publishing and is updated daily by monitoring medical literature sources.

Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies

In 2009 the innovative Journal of Literary Disability is moving to Liverpool University Press under the new title Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies. It will continue to focus on the literary representation of disability , but cultural studies will now be added to the multidisciplinary mix. With an editorial board of 50 internationally renowned scholars, the journal is central to the literary disability movement that is changing the face of literary studies on a global scale.

For more information on the journal:

http://muse.jhu.edu/content/alerts/journals/journal_of_literary_and_cultural_disability_studies

** From the Association Le Mouvement Social:

Le mouvement social

Le Mouvement Social addresses recent developments in social history. The journal’s initial focus on the history of collective movements and professional organizations has since been broadened to include other subfields within social history and beyond: the history of labor and the economy; the social history of politics, public policies and the state; cultural history and the history of representations; the history of gender relations, immigration and social mobility. The journal covers the contemporary period broadly defined, from the first years of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first. The journal’s objective is to promote a pluralist social history, located at the intersection with sociology, economics, ethnography, anthropology, demography, political science and legal studies. Fostering interdisciplinary dialogue is one of its core missions. We welcome article submissions dealing with all geographical and cultural fields. Keeping with recent historiographical developments, Le Mouvement Social encourages comparative studies as well as studies varying the scale of observation between the local and the global. Finally, through its “Controversies” section Le Mouvement Social remains a space for contest and debate on a large range of social-scientific approaches and historiographical renewals.

For more information on the journal:

http://muse.jhu.edu/content/alerts/journals/le_mouvement_social

** From the Société Guilhem IX:

Tenso

TENSO: Bulletin of the Société Guilhem IX publishes articles on any aspect of Occitan studies, including literature, language, linguistics, and music, and prints scholarly essays, critical editions, translations, original verse in Occitan, book reviews, announcements, and bibliographical information. While English is the primary language, it also accepts items in French, Occitan, Catalan, Spanish, Italian, and German.

For more information on the journal:

http://muse.jhu.edu/content/alerts/journals/tenso

International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics

International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (IJFAB) is committed to sustaining and expanding the network of scholars in feminist bioethics. The journal is:

• Multidisciplinary and reflects the diversity of methods and approaches within feminist bioethics;
• International and represents the global constituency of FAB and feminist scholarship in bioethics;
• Committed to exploring the implications of scholarship for public policy;
• Committed to exploring how gender intersects with other social determinants of privilege and discrimination, including race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, and physical and mental ability;
• Committed to exploring the relation of feminist theory to feminist pedagogy and feminist practice across a wide variety of domains related to health.

For more information on the journal

Oxford University Press is pleased to announce the most recent update to Oxford Reference Online Premium is now available at www.oxfordreference.com. Over 5,500 entries have been updated, and there are over 13,700 brand new entries and many new illustrations.

CRITCALLY-ACCLAIMED NEW TITLES AND EDITIONS
New titles include A Dictionary of Hinduism, a comprehensive guide to all the major Hindu practices, festivals, beliefs, gods, sacred sites, languages, and religious texts, The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History, and The New Oxford Dictionary for Scientific Writers and Editors, a comprehensive and authoritative style guide for students, professionals, and publishers working with writing in the fields of physics, chemistry, botany, zoology, biochemistry, genetics, immunology, microbiology, astronomy, mathematics, and computer science.

Among the new editions are A Dictionary of Physics, The Concise Dictionary of Politics, The Kings and Queens of Britain, A Dictionary of Business and Management, The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists, A Dictionary of Psychology, and The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions.

NEW BIOGRAPHICAL LINKING
New with this release are hundreds of new biographical links, including links from entries in Oxford Reference Online to entries in Who’s Who and Who Was Who, plus new links to entries in Grove Art Online and Grove Music Online*, in addition to many more links between entries in Oxford Reference Online Premium!

Voices from the Days of Slavery: Stories, Songs and Memories includes oral histories and interviews with African Americans who endured the hardships of slavery. These recordings document the first-person accounts of several individuals whose life experiences spanned the period during and after slavery. The podcasts are drawn from several collections in the American Folklife Center Archives, one of the preeminent audio-visual repositories of national and international folklife, history and cultural expressions.

Check out the extensive audio and video podcasts available at Apple’s iTunes Store News & Politics page, which offers free any-time access to podcasts from TV news shows including: Circuits with David Pogue, Face the Nation, Meet the Press, Democracy Now, Countdown with Keith Olberman, The Rachel Maddow Show, Anderson Cooper 360, and many more.

Download iTunes here if you don’t have it already.

Exciting news for music lovers at Union. Music Online cross-search is live. As subscribers to Alexander Street’s music collections, we will soon be able to cross-search all your music listening, scores, and reference content through a single search. This change makes Music Online “the broadest and most comprehensive resource available for the study of classical, jazz, world, and American music.
It’s the only music service that delivers audio recordings, video content, full-text reference materials, musical scores, liner notes, biographies, and images through a unified interface. ”

The hundreds of thousands of cross-searchable items in Music Online include more than 88,000 tracks; 285 hours of dance and opera video; more than 13,000 scores; and more than 45,000 pages of reference content from over 150 different record and video labels, print and score publishers, including EMI, Boosey & Hawkes, Garland, Rounder Records, Rebel, Arhoolie Records, Verve, Arabesque Recordings, Smithsonian Folkways, Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, and Opus Arte.

The continuously growing collection also makes cross-searchable thousands of liner notes, biographies, and images. In May, Music Online will expand to include 20,000 jazz recordings.
Schaffer Library will be activating this feature in the next few days.
The tracks in African American Music and Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries will be added to the cross search interface around August.

A unique and central feature of the Music Online suite is its robust playlist functionality, which allows users to build playlists, incorporating content from anywhere in Music Online—or from anywhere on the Web—and then annotate them, keep them at a permanent URL for private use, or share them, either within the institution or with all subscribers. Users can, for example, build a playlist that includes multiple recordings of a single work, its score, a dance video that incorporates the work, an essay about it published elsewhere on the Web, and a biography and photograph of the composer. The collection also includes featured playlists designed to be used in conjunction with leading music textbooks and in university-level survey courses.

See Databases & Indexes–Music for the current listings available.  Stay tuned for the new search interface.