The Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988), New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993) and Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001) are on trial through March 20th, 2012. These historically black newspapers are a rich source of cultural materials.

Contact Isabel Espinal, Humanities Reference Librarian, at 413-545-6817 with questions or comments.

Public Documents Masterfile offers single point search for indexing and some full-text of U.S. government information published since 1774. You can browse by topic or search by keyword, title, author/agency or SU document number.

This trial goes through February 13th, 2012. Please send comments or questions to Barbara Morgan, Law Reference Librarian, at 413-545-6850.

The Libraries has a trial for  Safari e-books which includes over 17,000 business and technology titles from a range of publishers. The trial goes through June 15th, 2012. Please send comments or questions to Paulina Borrego, Science and Engineering Reference Librarian, at 413-545-7891.

You can now search Ullmann’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry online. This is a comprehensive reference source for chemical and chemical life science engineering. You can browse by article title or topic, or search its contents.

For assistance using Ullmann’s, contact Paulina Borrego, Chemistry liaison librarian,at 413-545-7891.

The Libraries have purchased access to a database, Black Abolitionist Papers 1830-1865 from ProQuest. This collection of primary source materials includes correspondence of major African American leaders; speeches, sermons, and lectures; articles, essays, editorials, and other major writings from more than 200 African American, abolitionist, and reform newspapers; and receipts, poems, and other miscellaneous documents. Geographic coverage is Canada, the United States and the British Isles. To access the papers, you can browse or search by document type, title, source, location and date.

If you’d like assistance using this resources, contact Isabel Espinal, Afro-American library liaison at 413-545-6817.

The BioOne platform for e-journals will be unavailable for maintenance on Friday, 1/13/12 between 6:00 – 10:00 p.m. EST.

The Taylor & Francis platform for e-journals will be unavailable on Friday, 1/3/12 for about 1 hour starting at 6:00 p.m. EST.

The Wiley Online Library platform may experience a service interruption for up to 2 hours starting at 5:00 a.m. on Saturday, 1/14/12.

RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals, Plus Full-Text Online Archive and LibraryMusicSource have been added to the collections. RIPM+Online Archive provides indexing and content analysis of writings about music and culture between 1800-1950 in periodicals from 20 countries. The added online archive component includes primary source materials. LibraryMusicSource has partial and complete scores from over 35,000 classical works. You can browse by instrument or composer, or conduct a keyword search. Scores can be downloaded or printed.

Contact Pam Juengling, Music Liaison Librarian, at 413-454-1858 with questions or comments about these databases.

The Libraries now have a subscription for Social Explorer, a database with historical census data and demographic information from the 1790-2000 U.S. Censuses, American Community Survey, the Religious Congregations and Membership Study, and the 2002 Carbon Emissions Data from the Vulcan Project. You can select data and generate maps to display it, or read the information in report form.

For assistance using this resource, contact a librarian.

Women and Social Movements International provides primary sources from women activists produced between 1840-present. You can browse or search by theme, subject, type of source, people, places, organizations and more. The database complements Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000.

For assistance using this resource, contact a librarian.

The Libraries now subscribe to the AP Images database of photographs back to 1926, plus news stories, graphics and audio 1997 – present. You can browse through images or search by people, event, photographer, place, time and more.

Contact a librarian if you’d like assistance using AP Images.