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Database News and Trials
 

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New Resources >>
  • British Periodicals
  • JSTOR - new collections added
  • ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
Database News >>
  • RefWorks Write-N-Cite 3.0 for Mac
  • WilsonWeb databases move to EBSCOhost
Current Trials >>
  • Chinese Language Databases
    • The China National Knowledge Infrastructure Databases (CNKI)
    • Airitri Books
    • Airitri Library (journals, etc)
    • Airitri World Art
  • JSTOR Plant Science
 

 

For More Information Contact

Lynn Mayo
Coordinator of Electronic Resources
315-859-4746

 - or -

Your Department's Liaison Librarian

New Resources

  • British Periodicals
    Nearly 500 British periodicals published from the 17th through the early 20th centuries. Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, music, art, drama, archaeology, architecture, and the social sciences. Coverage: 1681-1920.
     
  • JSTOR - new collections added
    Over 560 journals have been added to Hamilton's JSTOR collection. Includes journals in art & art history, classics, economics, education, history, language & literature, linguistics, music, philosophy, political science and area studies, and religion. Of particular note are important literary reviews and state historical titles, and rare 19th and early 20th century American Art periodicals from the Frick, the Met, and the Brooklyn Museum.

Posted 08-23-2011

Trials

The following databases are available for evaluation for a limited time. Please explore these resources and send us your comments using the links below.

Chinese Language Databases:

Hamilton is one of 14 college libraries participating in a free trial of several Chinese language databases for the spring semester. This trial was negotiated and arranged by NITLETrial ends May 31, 2012.

  • The China National Knowledge Infrastructure Databases (CNKI)
    Includes:
    China Academic Journals, 1915-present. Covers 7,672 titles, covering 99.6% of all academic journals in China. Subjects include: philosophy, humanities and social sciences, science and technology, agriculture, medicine and health care.
    China Doctoral Dissertations, 1984-present
    China Masters' Theses, 1984-present
  • Airiti Books
    Chinese ebooks. Subject areas include humanities, science, social sciences.
     
  • Airiti Library (Journals/Dissertation/Proceedings)
    A Chinese database combining journal articles, dissertations, and conference proceedings. Subject areas include humanities, science, social sciences, technology, medicine and life sciences.
  • Airiti World Art
    An image collection of paintings from Taiwan, China, Western countries and children’s paintings from the world.
    Note: contact Lynn Mayo for login and password.
More Trials
 
  • JSTOR Plant Science
    A comprehensive plant science research tool. Contains 600,000 plant specimens, research articles, reference works and books, letters and manuscripts, paintings, photographs, drawings and other images. When complete there will be 2.2 million plant specimens. JSTOR Plant Science showcases the work of the Global Plants Initiative (GPI) with funding and guidance from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
    Trial ends December 2012.
    Please send your feedback and recommendation to the library.

 

To request trials and discuss the library resources available for your courses and research, contact your department liaison librarian.

News

 

Write-N-Cite 3.0 for Mac

 

The new Write-N-Cite for Mac now available for download.  You can find it under the Tools menu in RefWorks. A new Windows version is expected in early 2012.

  • Mac OS X 10.5-10.7 compatible
  • Support for Word 2008 and 2011
  • Instant citation formatting
  • Seamless online/offline access

Updated 1-06-2012

 

WilsonWeb databases move to EBSCO

As a result of a corporate merger the WilsonWeb databases have moved to the EBSCOhost search platform.

Updated 12-09-2011

 

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