The library is releasing the Discover MultiSearch database searcher as a public beta-test for the Emerson Community - find the link on the homepage in the right column. It allows you to type search terms, and search a handful of separate databases at once. When you've tried it out, we're eager to know what you think - please click the Emerson Library logo in the upper right, and fill out a brief survey. If you'd like a quick intro to how it works, please feel free to stop by the reference desk. All responses to our survey will be read and discussed as this tool is refined and redeveloped. Please be aware - it is a beta-test, and several things are likely not to work quite right as of yet!
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Through the Films on Demand database, the Emerson community has access to more than 3500 films, television documentaries and historical dramatizations published by Films for the Humanities and Sciences. These include works by noted documentarians and journalists such as Bill Moyers, the BBC, and ABC News, on a vast range of subjects - art, history, politics, science, and more. Videos may be viewed in Flash, Windows Media or Quicktime formats. Films can be streamed from any internet-accessible PC. Click Here to access Films on Demand, and let us know what you discover.
The Library now provides access to ProQuest Central, a research starting-point with particular strength in journalism, business and economics, health and medicine, technology, social sciences and humanities. A key resource for researchers of all levels, ProQuest Central includes the full text of over 8,800 publications across hundreds of subjects, including 400 newspapers, hundreds of scholarly journals and trade publications, 30,000 dissertations and 9,000 market reports.
Among the new features available in ProQuest Central is a collection of business databases - ABI/Inform, Hoover's, and Snapshot Series; a wide range of health & medicine databases; a full-text newspaper collection featuring both local and national papers; and a daily analysis service which summarizes and predicts the effects of the today's news on the world. With each search, you'll find suggestions and ways to refine your results.
Looking for market research? The Snapshot Series includes over 8,890 market reports across 43 industries in 40 countries, spanning the UK, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Asia Pacific, North America, and Latin America. It's a unique source for market research data, offering worldwide market data for a broad range of industries and regions.
Reports include market size, market segmentation, market share, market forecast, socioeconomic data, and company websites for main players. Here are a few examples:
Snapshots Italy Luggage & Leather Goods 2007
Snapshots China Mobile Phone Services 2008
Snapshots US Facial Moisturisers 2008
Browse reports by location, industry or document title or search across all reports.
And yes, The Snapshot Series is different from the similarly-named Snapshots, a library-use-only database which provides market profiles and demographics for Nielsen Designated Market Areas (DMAs), Arbitron Metro Survey Areas (MSAs), and US states.
The St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture , available both in print and online, is the perfect beginning source for any related research interest. Covering the areas of social life, music, print, film, television, radio, sports, art and performance, this five-volume encyclopedia features entries on people, groups, bands, organizations, corporations, brands and products, films, genres, TV and radio shows, fashion trends, historical events, technologies, sports teams, social and political movements, social issues, and much more. With illustrations and bibliographies for most entries, the St. James serves as a general and interdisciplinary entry point into the secondary literature on 20th century American popular culture.
Now available on the Library's Database trials page: Trial access to Plunkett's Research Online (Business & Marketing), New York Tribune Historical Archive (Journalism & Media), Critical Mention iTV (Broadcast Journalism/TV), and Reference Universe (all subjects). Coming soon: Humanities & Social Sciences Citation Indexes. Click here for access instructions.
These trials are provided by the database publishers for the review of Emerson's students, faculty & librarians. Your feedback detailing your thoughts and experiences with these trials will assist the library in providing useful resources in all formats. Most of these trials are only accessible from on-campus locations.
Please see this entry of the Resource Shelf newsletter for trial access to Alexander St. Press's database of primary sources regarding the 1960s, The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960 - 1974.
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/03/12/free-database-trial-for-resourceshelf-readers-the-sixties-primary-documents-and-personal-narratives-1960-to-1974/
If possible, please post any thoughts regarding The Sixties (the database) to our feedback form -
http://www.emerson.edu/library/databases/trials-feedback.cfm
The entry will provide a login and password. Click the link, conduct a search, and enter the login/password when requested.
Well, my library colleagues have requested that I do a post about websites that I think are pretty freakin' sweet. Why you ask? Well, I'm not sure if you know this about the library staff, but we're all a bunch of nerds. Here's a short list of websites that I think are neato:
Sorted Books: Artist Nina Katchadourian's Sorted Books project involves arranging books on shelves to create sentences, poems, or just funny phrases.
Big Picture: Boston.com's Big Picture is just that, a bunch of high-resolution, beautiful photographs, emphasizing photojournalism. As the site says: "News stories in photographs." Updated daily.
Shorpy: The 100 year-old photo blog. Every picture reveals a little something about life in American in them olden' days. Oh yeah, and every single picture is amazing.
Vintagraph: I think this site is brought to you by the same people as Shorpy, but this time the focus is on historic American posters.
ArtStor: Available through Emerson's library databases. You can check out and search all sorts of pictures.
Now why would you need any of this? Like I said before, it's fun! Who doesn't like pretty pictures? But also, things like posters from WWI or advertisements from the 50s can say a lot about the visual communication and values from those times.
JSTOR recently updated its look and features. In order to save and email citations, you will need to create a MyJSTOR account within the database. You can still download the PDFs of articles without creating an account.
You’ll also notice that it’s easier than ever to search within results. Search results pages are separated into three tabs — Articles, Images from Articles, and ARTstor Images.
For a full list of new features, go to Information about the New JSTOR Platform.
JSTOR Did you Know?
* JSTOR includes 1,856,206 full-length articles across 47 disciplines.
* There are 1,387,437 book reviews in JSTOR.
* JSTOR is active in Facebook.
Looking for research about the environment? Check out GreenFILE, a free database from EBSCOhost that covers environmental issues. GreenFILE contains abstracts from journals such as Bioscience, The Journal of Ecology and The Journal of Environmental Planning & Management, as well as government documents and general interest magazines.
ARTstor contains over 500,000 images of art, architecture and archeology. Database features include support for viewing and analyzing images through zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.
Collections within the database include the Schlesinger History of Women in America Collection, Native American Art and Culture, The Museum of Modern Art Architecture and Design Collection, The Mellon International Dunhuang Archive, The Huntington Archive of Asian Art, The Carnegie Arts of the United States Collection, The Illustrated Bartsch and The Art History Survey Collection.
Access this database from the Library website by choosing "Articles and More," then "Databases A-Z."
Visual and Media Arts Chair Michael Selig, Cher Knight, Assistant Professor of Visual and Media Arts, and Stephen Shipps, Associate Professor of Visual and Media Arts, worked closely with Coordinator of Web Development and Reference Librarian James Capobianco to make access to ARTstor possible.
MarketResearch.com Academic provides thousands of full-text market research reports, many with global coverage. Topics include consumer goods, food and beverages, demographics, market forecasts, competition profiles and trends across 200 countries for more than 2,000 industry and product categories.