World Bank e-Library The World Bank e-library is an online, fully cross-searchable portal of over 5,000 World Bank documents. The collection consists of over 2,000 World Bank publications and over 3,200 Policy Research Working Papers, plus each new book and paper as they are published. Searchable by region and topic; documents available as downloadable PDFs. […]
New Database: Contemporary world music
Contemporary world music Contemporary world music will contain 50,000 tracks that delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent. The database will contain important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz and other genres such as traditional music – Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, […]
New Database: Global Development Finance
Global Development Finance Global Development Finance Online (GDF) provides access to more than 200 debt and financial flows indicators for the 129 countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank Debtor Reporting System. These data run from 1970 to 2016, where available. Access: IP ERC: Kathleen M. Dreyer […]
A-Z list
CERM is experimenting with the Serials Solutions A-Z list for electronic resources. It’s possible for us to include electronic books as well as e-journals and databases. The links to the material aren’t activated but it seems to be easy to navigate. The Serials Solutions A-Z list also allows us to add notes to individual e-journals […]
New Database: Perdita manuscripts: women writers, 1500-1700
Perdita manuscripts: women writers, 1500-1700 Complete facsimile images of over 230 manuscripts written or compiled by women living in the British Isle during the 16th and 17th centuries. Contents include account books, advice, culinary writing, meditation, travel writing, and verse. Perdita manuscripts can be indexed by name, place, genre, and first lines of both poetry […]
New Database: MATHnetBASE
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New Database: Cambridge Histories Online
Cambridge Histories Online Provides full text online access to the complete 250-plus volumes of Cambridge Histories reference series. Provides political, economic and social history, philosophy and literature of selected countries and subjects. Access: IP ERC: Ria Koopmans-de Bruijn /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:””; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; […]
CERM Activities
The folks in CERM are working on a number of activities that are essential to Libraries operations but invisible to those outside CERM. Continuing Resources is reviewing the renewal lists that come from the various vendors. At the same time, Alan & Chris are canceling subscriptions or switching print to online at the request of […]
New Trial Database:Gender Studies Database
Gender Studies Database Gender Studies Database (GSD) combines the Women’s Studies International and Men’s Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. GSD covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. Several thousand links to freely available and indexed full-text articles and documents on the Internet are available. Source documents include […]
New Trial Database: The Annual Register
Annual Register The Annual Register is a complete and detailed chronicle of events from 1758 to the current day. The online version of the Annual Register is a digitized version of this classic 240+ volume reference work. Every year, a new volume is published describing the past year’s events. It is a primary source text […]