Selected Databases Unavailable 12/13 – 12/14

The following Proquest databases will be unavailable between Saturday, December 13th at 10:00 p.m. EDT and Sunday, December 14th at 10:00 a.m. EDT:

  • ABI/INFORM Dateline
  • ABI/INFORM Global
  • ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry
  • Alt-PressWatch
  • Digital Sanborn Maps
  • Dissertations and Theses
  • Education Complete
  • Ethnic NewsWatch & ENW: A History
  • GenderWatch
  • Historical Boston Globe
  • Historical Chicago Defender
  • Historical New York Times
  • Hoover’s Company Capsules and Profiles
  • Massachusetts Newsstand
  • PolicyFile
  • Wall Street Journal Archive
  • Wall Street Journal

The Proquest platform is receiving an update at this time.

First Research: New Database for Industry Surveys

First Research provides comprehensive industry profiles, including an overview, challenges, opportunities, executive insights, trends and financial information. You can search the full-text, SIC and NAICS codes, or browse through a list of sectors from construction and real estate, to retail, food and agriculture, healthcare, manufacturing, wholesale and many more. The Industry Prospector tool allows you to identify particular industries by various metrics, and the States and Provinces tool provides overviews of industries for all of the U.S. and Canada.

If you have questions about this resource or would like assistance using it, contact Mike Davis, 413-545-6822.

Now on Trial: ebrary Academic Collection of E-books

The Libraries have a trial for ebrary, a collection of over 37,000 e-books in the disciplines of:

  • Agriculture (491)
  • Auxiliary Sciences of History (132)
  • Bibliography, Library Science, Information Resources (General) (191)
  • Education (1589)
  • Fine Arts (313)
  • General Works (24)
  • Geography, Anthropology, Recreation (964)
  • History (General) and History of Europe (1975)
  • History: America (1420)
  • Language and Literature (4370)
  • Law (1026)
  • Medicine (3036)
  • Military Science (371)
  • Music and Books on Music (526)
  • Naval Science (54)
  • Philosophy, Psychology, Religion (2889)
  • Political Science (1363)
  • Science (4136)
  • Social Sciences (8676)
  • Technology (2817)

You can browse for titles through these subject categories, conduct a simple search, or search the full-text, author, title, subject or publisher.

The trial will be in effect through December, 2008. Please send comments or questions to Beth Lang, 413-545-6890.