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APS Online contains digitized images of over 1,500 titles and 7 million pages of American magazines and journals, from the first American magazines, published in 1741, to the advent of American involvement in World War II - 200 years of American history as recorded in magazines, journals, and newspapers.

The journals in this collection cover three broad periods:

• Eighty-nine journals published between 1740 and 1800 offer insights into America's transition from a British colony to an independent nation. Titles include Massachusetts Magazine, which published America's first short stories, and Thomas Paine's Pennsylvania Magazine, which reported on inventions. One of the first mass printings of the Declaration of Independence, a letter by George Washington on the crucial Battle of Trenton, and the thoughts of Benjamin Franklin are among the highlights of content from this period.
• More than 900 titles from the first 60 years of the nineteenth century showcase "the golden age of American periodicals." General interest magazines, children's publications, and more than 20 journals for women are among the historically-significant content that also includes the serialization of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin in National Era. Also available are hard-to-find materials, such as Edgar Allan Poe's contributions to the Southern Literary Messenger, as well as the first appearances of Nathaniel Hawthorne's stories in New England Magazine, and Margaret Fuller's contributions to the Dial.
• One hundred eighteen periodicals published during the Civil War (1861-1865) and Reconstruction (1865-1877) eras reflect the nation in turmoil and growth, and titles from the 1880s through 1900 capture the settling of the West and the emergence of modern America. Early professional journals, including Publications of the American Economic Association, popular titles such as Scribner's Monthly issued by publishing houses, celebrations of Americana in Ladies' Home Journal, thoroughly-researched investigative journalism in McClure's, and the incisive political and social commentary of Puck illustrate the variety of the American experience.

For more information on resources in American history or literature, contact Adam Rosenkranz, history librarian, or Gale Burrow, librarian for British & American literature.

— Gale | February 11, 2008 | Category: Databases | Permalink | Comments (0)

Watching DVDs and videos is a fun way to spend an evening. But besides DVDs like Moulin Rouge, Independence Day, or The Lord of the Rings, the Libraries also have a large collection of video items that you might use for research on many different subjects, or to use as part of your class presentation.

All Honnold/Mudd and Denison videos are in Blais, the library catalog. If you want something fun to watch, try searching a title or an actor. If you want to see if there is a film on your topic, use keyword searching and add a limit to Type of Materials: Videos. Here are some examples.

Simple keywords: Women Afghanistan, limit to videos = Behind the veil, Afghan women under fundamentalism.
Simple keywords: Teenage Advertising, limit to videos = Merchants of cool.
Simple keywords: Social class, limit to videos = People like us: social class in America, or Class dismissed: how TV frames the working class.
Simple keywords: China, children, limit to videos = Joy Luck Club or China's lost girls.
Simple keywords: Racism, limit to videos = Skin deep; The Color of Fear; Crash; The Rise and fall of Jim Crow; Monster's Ball, and more.

Don't miss adding a visual element to your presentation. Take your call number to the Services Desk and check the film out for three days. There is a video viewing room in Honnold/Mudd if you need a place to watch. And Honnold/Mudd has video notebooks near the Services Desk if you just want to browse titles.

— Gale | April 03, 2007 | Category: General Collections | Permalink

ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) holds the world's largest collection of computer-readable social science data. These data can be used for both research and instructional activities, and are now just a click away. ICPSR Direct provides direct access to ICPSR data holdings for Claremont Colleges students, faculty, and staff. First time users will be asked to create an ICPSR MyData account; thereafter, you will need your email address and password to download data. Search the archive to find data of interest to you.

Assistance in locating, accessing, and analyzing data is available. Please contact Ruth Schooley or Sheree Fu if you need help in any of these areas.

— Gale | March 08, 2007 | Category: Databases | Web Resources | Permalink

Oxford E-books in Economics and Finance
The Libraries have recently subscribed to a collection of electronic books in the fields of economics and finance, a subset of "Oxford Scholarship Online" which is produced by Oxford University Press. Topics covered in this collection include development, growth, econometrics, economic history, economic systems, financial economics, history of economic thought, macro- and monetary economics, microeconomics, public and welfare economics, South and East Asia, international topics, crisis studies, sustainability, global and national macroeconometric modeling, globalization, labor conditions, and more.

Go directly to Oxford Scholarship Online: Economics and Finance to see titles, authors, and sub-discipline lists of the items included in this collection. Individual titles are represented in the Blais online catalog, as well, and may be searched by author, title, or keyword. Also in Blais, you may key in the title Oxford Scholarship Online, and you will see the list of titles displayed; at that point, you may click on individual titles to bring up the book's record. Within each book record, there is a link to connect to the full text of that book.

International Financial Statistics
International Financial Statistics (IFS) is a standard source of international statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance. It reports, for most countries of the world, current data needed in the analysis of problems of international payments and of inflation and deflation, i.e., data on exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, and national accounts.

Capabilities of IFS Online:

• browsing the directory tree
• drilling down through the structure of the database
• selecting either individual time series or groupings of time series within a table presentation
• saving selected data and metadata in a variety of formats, including a spreadsheet
• saving and loading a query of selected time series

For more information on resources in economics, contact Linda Gunter. For more information on sources for statistics and data, contact Sheree Fu.

— Gale | February 13, 2007 | Category: Databases | Web Resources | Permalink

The International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (IESBS) is a comprehensive resource providing an excellent place to begin your research in sociology, psychology, economics, social work, political science, history, religion, ethnic studies, education and other related disciplines.

This online resource contains over 4,000 articles and includes over 90,000 bibliographical references. The dynamic reference linking within this encyclopedia will take you directly from a cited reference within an article to the source abstract. There is also internal cross referencing between articles in the encyclopedia, as well as linking to journal articles when available.

Within the IESBS you can browse a subject area or search for a specific word or phrase within the entire encyclopedia. There is also an extensive subject index.

Using the IESBS, a search on the topic of Adoption will lead you to further articles on "Children and the Law," "Family as Institution," and "Repartnering and Stepchildren" among many others. The references within the article on Adoption would lead you to "The President's Initiative on Adoption and Foster Care," and testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee on child welfare, as well as citations to books and journal articles.

As stated in the introduction to the IESBS, "In today's language -- and using the perspective offered in the master of all modern encyclopedic work -- encyclopedias are 'self-contained reference works' with two aims: to include up-to-date knowledge about a particular discipline or group of disciplines and to make this knowledge conveniently accessible." This encyclopedia strives to fulfill this goal with articles that contain clear definitions of the concepts, changes in the focus or emphasis of the concept over time, emphases in current theory and research, methodological issues or problems evident in the concept, and probable future directions of theory and research.

With this information in mind, next time you are researching a topic, think of the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences as a place to begin your search.

For more information on the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, please contact Cindy Snyder.

— Gale | December 07, 2006 | Category: Databases | Permalink

The Water Resources Collection in Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library, is focused on water, its distribution, augmentation, and use in Southern California from 1900-1950. Reports of engineers, annual reports and minute books of boards of directors of water companies, federal and state government publications, promotional pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and a host of other materials, including papers of water engineers, comprise the Collection.

Specific water projects that are documented in the Water Resources Collection include the Los Angeles Aqueduct, Boulder Dam, Colorado River Aqueduct, and Pomona Valley and Claremont irrigation projects. One highlight of the Collection is Fred Eaton's photo album about his trip to the Owens Valley in November 1907, during which he arranged for water and land options and purchased parcels of land to be used for the Los Angeles Aqueduct, built in 1913.

Steven's Ditch near Independence, CA. From Fred Eaton's photo album of his trip through Owen's Valley, November 7-18, 1905, found in the Water Resources Collection, Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library.

Researchers must visit Special Collections in person to use the Water Resources Collection. Hours are Mondays, 1-9 p.m. and Tuesdays - Saturdays 1-5 p.m. during the academic year. For more information about this collection, contact Carrie Marsh in Special Collections.

— Gale | November 13, 2006 | Category: Special Collections | Permalink

The Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) is from the National Security Archive, a non-profit research institute and library located at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The NSA has used the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to obtain almost half a million pages, 61 thousand documents, on national security issues. These documents, primary research material on public policy, are digitally scanned and searchable. Some of the scanned documents are complete with the "Classified" stamp overstamped with "Declassified;" some have sensitive information blacked out. DNSA also provides good background material, explaining the context of the documents.

Documents are organized in collections, ranging from "Afghanistan: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1973-1990" to "The Kissinger Transcripts: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969-1977." Also notable are collections on "The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962," "Terrorism and U.S. Policy, 1968-2002," and "Presidential Directives on National Security from Harry Truman to George W. Bush."

For an interesting search, type in "September 11 attacks (2001)" and browse the results. Fascinating!

For more information on this and other resources in political science and public policy, contact Ruth Schooley.

— Gale | November 09, 2006 | Category: Databases | Permalink

Web of Science is a citation index for approximately 8700 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals across the sciences and social sciences. Web of Science's specialty is linking scholarly, peer reviewed literature together via citations, enabling users to browse ideas forward and backwards through time. Web of Science is searchable by keywords, and also has special input fields specific to searching citations. Citation searching allows users to see article bibliographies easily as well as to quickly identify additional articles that cite the article in question. Because of the citation interlinking, the Web of Science "find related articles" search option from the abstract page results in articles relevant not by classified subject headings, but by citations the articles have in common. This type of search in conjunction with a subject specific database "related articles" search, which is based on common subject headings, results in two different pathways into related literature browsing.

In addition to citation searching, Web of Science offers many other features. The analyze tool ranks results by author, publication date, institution name, and subject categories, providing context to the search results. Web of Science also has a citation alert feature that will email users any time a selected article is cited. Web of Science uses current open URL technology, allowing direct linking to full text, online articles the Libraries' subscribe to and the records are easily imported into RefWorks.

Web of Science is available to students, faculty, and staff of The Claremont Colleges and indexes literature across multiple subjects back as far as 1955. Visit Web of Science and explore it for yourself!

For more information about Web of Science, please contact Jezmynne Westcott.

— Gale | October 13, 2006 | Category: Databases | Permalink

Two thousand letters and other handwritten documents of 18th and 19th century British actors and theater folk can be read in the Philbrick Collection in Special Collections, Honnold Library. David Garrick, Edmund Kean, and the several members of the Kemble family and the Siddons family and their contemporaries, who had exciting personal lives as well as theatrical successes, are represented in this large cache of manuscripts.

An exceptionally interesting section of the Philbrick Collection is devoted to the English Victorian actors Henry Irving and Ellen Terry and to Terry's son, Edward Gordon Craig, one of the pioneers of modern theatrical design. The Terry-Irving-Craig Collection is rich in manuscripts, letters, drawings, photographs, scrapbooks, and annotated books.

For more information about this collection, contact Carrie Marsh in Special Collections.

— Gale | October 02, 2006 | Category: Special Collections | Permalink

Several large organizations, both national and international publish "Working Papers." These documents describe research in progress and are published to elicit comments and to encourage debate and suggestions before final publication; in general, these papers eventually are published as articles in journals or chapters in books. The early publication of the papers allows those interested to see the work-in-progress quickly and enhances awareness of research that is taking place. The Libraries of The Claremont Colleges receive many of these papers, in paper and in many cases online, and make them accessible through Blais (search by keyword, title, author, or organization name), or through the organization's web site. Two prominent and heavily-used examples of this type of publication are the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), www.nber.org and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), www.imf.org . Both the NBER and the IMF publications are indexed in the EconLit database.

The NBER, founded in 1920, is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization whose purpose is to promote a greater understanding of how the economy works; the NBER undertakes and disseminates economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community. A wide variety of research studies have been done at the NBER, resulting in 16 of the 31 American Nobel Prize winners in Economics. More than 600 professors of economics and business presently teaching at universities around the country are NBER researchers and the leading scholars in their fields. The NBER associates focus on four types of empirical research: developing new statistical measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behavior, assessing the effects of public policies on the U.S. economy, and projecting the effects of alternative policy proposal.

The International Monetary Fund is an organization of 184 member countries, established to promote international monetary cooperation and exchange stability, to foster economic growth and high levels of employment, and to provide temporary and financial assistance to countries needing to ease balance of payments adjustment. Working Papers cover a wide range of topics, such as trade, globalization, fiscal policy, econometric models, consumption, exchange rate volatility, etc. In addition to its Working Papers series, the IMF also publishes the journal, IMF Staff Papers. The objective of IMF Staff Papers is to publish high quality research by IMF staff and invited guests on a variety of topics of interest to a broad audience including academics and policymakers in the IMF member countries. The papers selected for publication in the journal are subject to an extensive review process using both internal and external referees.

For more information, please contact Linda Gunter.

— Gale | September 26, 2006 | Category: Web Resources | Permalink