What’s New at Schaffer Library

Database of the Week: CREDO reference

This growing online library of reference material, currently with nearly 500 print publications on a variety of topics and from a range of 67 publishers, including ABC- CLIO, Cambridge, Greenwood, Macmillan, Routledge, Springer, and SAGE. Seamlessly search in all subjects, including Art, Business, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, History, Literature, Music, Religion, Science, Technology, and Related Resources, including Schaffer Catalog and other subscribed databases, such as JSTOR, and Project Muse.
Article bibliographies link to Schaffer Library catalog

Latest additions include:

• Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World
• Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World
• Encyclopedia of World Trade From Ancient Times to the Present
• First Ladies of the United States
• Great Irish Lives: An Era in Obituaries
• Great Lives: A Century in Obituaries
• Great Military Lives: Leadership and Courage - From Waterloo to the Falklands in Obituaries
• Great Victorian Lives: An Era in Obituaries
• Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language
• Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language
• Philosophy of Science A-Z
• The Underground Railroad: An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Operations

Featured Title of the Month

Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World
from M.E. Sharpe

This unique A-Z encyclopedia examines every effort to end slavery in the United States and the transatlantic world. It focuses on massive, broad-based movements, as well as specific incidents, events, and developments, and pulls together in one place information previously available only in a wide variety of sources. While it centers on the United States, the set also includes authoritative accounts of emancipation and abolition in Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America.

The Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition features primary source documents, a map of the transatlantic slave trade, illustrations, cross-references, a comprehensive chronology and bibliography, and covers a wide range of individuals and the major themes and ideas that motivated them to confront and abolish slavery.

Read a few of the interesting entries:
• Palmerston Act (1839): measure enacted by the British Parliament to suppress the international slave trade
• “Forty Acres and a Mule”
• Sojourner Truth (ca. 1797-1883): former slave and inspirational leader of the abolitionist movement
• Abolition in the British West Indies
• Quakers (Society of Friends)

• Dictionary of Policing, Willan Publishing in Social Sciences
• Dictionary of Prisons and Punishment, Willan Publishing in Social Sciences
• Dictionary of Probation and Offender Management, Willan Publishing in Social Sciences
• Dictionary of Youth Justice, Willan Publishing in Social Sciences
• Encyclopedia of Intelligence & Counterintelligence, M.E. Sharpe in Social Sciences
• A Glossary of Political Theory, Edinburgh University Press in Social Sciences
• A Glossary of UK Government and Politics, Edinburgh University Press in Social Sciences
• Key Concepts in Journalism Studies, Sage in Social Sciences
• Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Political Thought in Social Sciences
• Political Philosophy A-Z, Edinburgh University Press in Philosophy
• World Politics Since 1945, Pearson in History

This growing online library, currently with 400+ print publications on a variety of topics and from a range of publishers, including ABC-CLIO, Cambridge, Greenwood, Macmillan, Routledge, and SAGE.

Seamlessly search in all subjects, including Art, Business, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, History, Literature, Technology, and Related Resources: Schaffer Library Catalog, EBSCOhost, JSTOR, Oxford Reference, PsycARTICLES, Business Source Premier and more.

A sampling of titles includes The Bridgeman Art Library Archive, Computer Graphics Companion, Great American Court Cases, and The Encyclopedia of the History of American Management.

Credo Reference Home

Credo Reference: This growing online library, currently with 400 print publications on a variety of topics and from a range of publishers, including ABC-CLIO, Cambridge, Greenwood, Macmillan, Routledge, and SAGE.  Seamlessly search in all subjects, including Art, Business, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, History, Literature, Technology, and Related Resources: Schaffer Library Catalog, EBSCOhost, JSTOR, Oxford Reference, PsycARTICLES, Business Source Premier and more.

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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!

This huge update to Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection contains five new long-entry and in-depth titles and five new editions, over 3,650 updated entries (many online-only), over 5,470 brand new entries, and many new illustrations and photos.

The update includes the latest edition of the celebrated Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland, hailed by The Times as ‘the finest reference book of its kind’. The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History is also included, provising readers with all the tools and advice they need to research into their English, Irish, Scottish, or Welsh origins. A new addition to the Natural History subject area is The New Encyclopedia of Insects and their Allies, the authoritative overview of anthropods, including hundreds of color illustrations and photographs. The Oxford Companion to Global Change is also among the new titles added, and is a fully up-to-date reference work covering a wide range of pertinent issues surrounding both man-made and natural changes in the Earth’s environment.

The new editions are:

• The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs
• A Dictionary of Zoology (with entry-level weblinks)
• A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition (with entry-level weblinks)
• A Dictionary of Economics (with entry-level weblinks)
• A Dictionary of Sociology (with entry-level weblinks)

See
January 2009 Update for full title details.

An evaluation of nearly 180 subscription-based electronic resources in 14 subject categories

Check out the latest e-reviews with Library Journal as eight librarians attempt to organize some of the best-known respected (along with some well kept secret) e-resources available into 14 key subject categories and assess them according to the criteria they use most when considering what to buy.

See full review online.