The ProQuest platform will be unavailable as maintenance is performed between 10:00 p.m. EST on Saturday, January 29th through 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, January 30th.
Month: January 2011
Trial for GREENR
The Libraries now have GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy and Natural Resources) on trial through February 19th, 2011. You can browse topics such as Organic Agriculture and Organic Foods, Biofuel Energy, Industrial Disasters, and Kyoto Protocol to look through a portal of academic articles, featured videos, case studies, podcasts, conference presentations and reports, and much more. You can also search and limit your scope to peer reviewed articles, document types, publication date, etc.
If you have comments or would like assistance, contact Madeleine Charney, Liaison to the Stockbridge School, at 413.577-0784.
New Business databases on ProQuest
The Libraries has upgraded its subscription to the ProQuest Business Complete package which includes:
- ABI/INFORM Complete (this combines the former three regional, trade and scholarly ABI/INFORM databases into one)
- Accounting & Tax
- Banking Information Source
- ProQuest Asian Business & Reference
- ProQuest Entrepreneurship
- Wall Street Journal (1889-1991)
Contact Mike Davis, Business Liaison Librarian for assistance at 413-545-6822.
Trial for Women and Social Movements International
Women and Social Movements International includes personal letters and diaries of women activists, as well as the proceedings of conferences where important decisions were made. Coverage of primary source materials begins in 1840.
The trial will continue through March 7th, 2011. Contact Beth Lang, Liaison to Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, at 413-545-6890.
European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750
European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750 provides indexing of printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. Ebsco has worked with the John Carter Brown Library to convert its print equivalent, “European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to The Americas, 1493-1750″ to an electronic bibliography.
Contact Jim Kelly, History Library Liaison and Humanities Bibliographer, at 413-545-3981 with questions.
New E-Journals Added to the Collection
To supplement current content, the Libraries have purchased the Archive of Endocrine Society journals which provides additional access to the following titles:
- Endocrine reviews, 1980-1996
- Molecular endocrinology, 1987-
- Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism, 1941
- Endocrinology, 1917-
We’ve also added:
- Quaderni d’italianistica, 1980 –
You may retrieve these journals through the UMass Amherst library catalog or the E-Journal List.
Institute of Physics Site Unavailable, Saturday 1/22/11
The Institute of Physics website, IOPScience, will be unavailable as it undergoes maintenance work on Saturday, January 22nd from 3:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. EST.