Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery

Starting July 1, 2008, UMBC library users can now have access to Oxford Reference Online (ORO)

It includes full text of over 100 dictionaries, general reference, language reference, and subject reference works. You can access it either from the Database Search option on the library home page or via the Research Port. Also about 20 Oxford Online Encyclopedias library previously purchased are cross-searchable in ORO.

Please check it out and let us know what you think.

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We just recently added the HFES Digital Library to our collection. It includes the following five titles:

Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting Proceedings
Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making
Ergonomics in Design: The Quarterly of Human Factors Applications
Reviews of Human Factors and Ergonomics

Coverage may go back to as early as 1980s. You can access it either via Journal Finder or Research Port. For remote access, please check information on this page.

UMBC now has a one year subscription to the Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000 database, thanks to the combined contributions from the departments of Africana Studies, American Studies, Gender and Women's Studies, History, and Social Work and the Dean of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

The database is accessible through the library catalog, Research Port, and the database search box on the library homepage. Please take a look and also let your colleagues and students know
about this important research website!

UMBC students, faculty and staff now have access to the long-awaited Web of Science. As coverage only goes back to 1998, please continue to make use of the many other very high quality databases to which the Library subscribes. Access is available to all three online citation indexes which comprise Web of Science: Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Additional searchable resources are available from the Web of Knowledge homepage (choose from WoS drop-down menu). The Library is developing training workshops for UMBC students and faculty.

Send any immediate questions about Web of Science to Uta Hussong at: uhussong@umbc.edu

The library now has access to DiscoveryGate (http://www.discoverygate.com/) for searching CrossFire Beilstein, CrossFire Gmelin, and the MDL Compound Index.

CrossFire Beilstein for organic chemistry includes information on over 9 million compounds, over 10 million reactions, and 2 million citations, along with hundreds of thousands of abstracts and bioactive compounds. Find physical and chemical data, spectral information, and more.

CrossFire Gmelin collection of inorganic and organometallic substances includes chemical and physical properties, preparation and reaction details, condensed phase data, spectral information, and more.

MDL Compound Index provides links to other databases, including PubChem and the OHS Pure Substance MSDS database.

Windows users must download and install a Java applet from the DiscoveryGate site before using DiscoveryGate. No installation is required for Mac users.

Send any questions on using DiscoveryGate to: Janet Hack jhack@umbc.edu

The library recently purchased the following e-reference books from Oxford University Press. See titles below. Check it out and let us know what you think.
Note: They will be added to the library catalog soon!

In case you didn't know, we also have e-reference titles from Credo Reference as well as Gale Virtual Reference Library.

Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
Encyclopedia of Global Change
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
Encyclopedia of Evolution
Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America
International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2nd Edition
Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures
Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts
Oxford Companion to World Exploration
Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art & Architecture

A new database to check out: Gale Science Resource Center.
It is provided by Maryland Digital Library and is a one-stop resource for all science-related research needs. It reflects curriculum trends and focuses on key concepts taught in school classrooms including biology, chemistry, physics, etc
Take a look and let us know what you think.

The library now subscribes to AnthroSource. AnthroSource provides online access to the current issues of 15 of AAA's (American Anthropological Association) peer-reviewed publications. It also serves as an electronic archive, with more than 100 years of anthropological material online, for all of AAA's 33 journals, newsletters and bulletins.
Check it out and let us know what you think.

Starting July 2007, the library re-subscribed to IIPA database. It indexes more than 200 scholarly and popular performing arts periodicals, and other materials such as conference papers, obituaries, biographical profiles, reviews, interviews and discographies. The coverage is from 1864 to present.
Check it out and let us know what you think.

Library recently subscribed to Anthropology Plus, which is an index of bibliographic materials in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology; ethnology, archaeology, folklore, and material culture; and interdisciplinary studies. It covers all core periodicals in the field and dates back to the late 19th century.

Please let us know what you think.