E-Journals Added to Collections

The Libraries have added subscriptions to the following e-journals. You may find them in the UMass Amherst library catalog or the E-Journal List:

  • Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 1997-
  • Environmental Communication, 2007-
  • Gender and Language, 2007-
  • International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 1998-
  • Journal of Cultural Economy, 2008-
  • Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies, 2012-
  • Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 1997-
  • Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 2002-
  • Regulation and Governance, 2007-
  • RNA, 1995-
  • Waves in Random and Complex Media, 2005-

PBS Video Collection on Trial

PBS Video Collection offers hundreds PBS production documentaries and series covering history, science and technology, diversity studies, business, and current events on the Alexander Street Press platform. You can browse by title, people, disciplines, series or search with these limits.

The database trial ends May 17, 2014. Please give us your feedback. (UMass NetID login required for UMass Apps.)

A-R Editions’ Online Music Anthology on Trial

A-R Editions’ Online Music Anthology contains sheet music from antiquity through the romantic era, with extensive contents for the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Baroque. The music is fully indexed and searchable by composer, title, style period, genre, nationality, language, and more.

This database trial ends June 30, 2014. Please give us your feedback. (UMass NetID login required for UMass Apps.) Annual cost is $1,000.

New Trial for Public Documents Masterfile

Public Documents Masterfile brings together 19 sources of U.S. government information and provides indexing for current and historic documents covering public policy, physical sciences, technology, agriculture and the social sciences. You can search by keywords or limit by source, author, SuDoc number and date.

If you’d like assistance using this resource, contact Barbara Morgan, Law Librarian, at 413-545-6850. The trial goes through May 2, 2014. Please give us your feedback. (UMass NetID login required for UMass Apps.) Annual cost is $3,995 or one-time purchase is$32,000.

New Cabell’s Educational Publishing Directories

You can now search Educational Curriculum & Methods and Educational Psychology & Administration Publishing at Cabell’s Directories. These discipline specific directories, through Cabell’s Institutional Publishing Activity Index, provide a tool for comparing institutional publishing while recognizing differences in institutional resources dedicated to supporting publication.

If you’d like assistance using these directories, contact Steve McGinty, Education Liaison Librarian, at 413-545-1871.

All Accessible Archives Collections Now Available

The Libraries have expanded its Accessible Archives subscription to include American County Histories, Civil War documents, newspapers such as Godey’s Lady’s Book, The Lily, The Pennsylvania Gazette, and other texts such as Twelve Years a Slave. You can search across collections or within individual ones and limit by publication type and date. If you’d like assistance with this resource, Ask Us.