New Music and Performing Arts Literature Portal

Music and Performing Arts Online provides searching and access to content from both the International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA) and the International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text (IIMP). The portal to the two combined databases offers both searching and browsing of journals and reference sources (e.g. glossary, pronunciation guide, opera synopses). You can sort search results by journal, language, date, organization, etc. IIMP also includes the full content of many sources.

About the Book and its Author: see Literary Reference Center

Literary Reference Center is a new addition to our online collections that delivers from book chapters and journal articles of literary criticism, as well as a literary glossary, a literary-historical timeline, and a literary encyclopedia. You can search for specific titles and authors, or browse lists of works and authors.

A search for “Jane Austen” and Emma produces 97 records; you can browse the complete list or by type, such as biographies, plot summaries, literary criticism, reviews and periodicals. Other features of Literary Reference Center include spotlights on specific authors and works, a person of current interest (e.g. Charles Simic, the new Poet Laureate),  and lists most studied authors and works.

Additional reference sources about literature in our online collections include Literature Resource Center and Literature Online.

E-journals recently added to collection

The following electronic journals are now available to the University of Massachusetts community. You can connect to them through the UMass Amherst library catalog or the E-Journal List:

  • Business ethics quarterly; v.1(1991)-v.11(2001)
  • Communication theory; v.1(1991)-
  • FASEB journal; v.1(1987)-
  • Frontiers in ecology & the environment; 2003
  • Goodwin series; v.1(1972)-v.8(2000)
  • Human communication research; v.1(1974)-
  • Journal of computer-mediated communication; v.1(1995)-
  • Risk management; v.1(1999)-v.5(2003)

Stat!Ref: New nursing e-books

The Library now subscribes to a collection of 34 e-books on various topics relevant to nurse practitioners. The Stat!Ref gateway provides a place to search across contents of all the titles, or you can select the “Table of Contents” tab and see a list of individual titles to which you can connect directly.

For more information about this new resource, contact the Nursing Library Liaison, Jim Craig.