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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

For more information, please contact Adam Rosenkranz.

Collection coverage:

The Gerritsen Collection online delivers two million page images exactly as they appeared in the original printed works. Users can trace the evolution of feminism within a single country, as well as the impact of one country's movement on those of the others. In many cases, it also provides easy access to primary sources otherwise available only in a few rare book rooms.

Since Dr. Jacobs was an active suffragist, the collection is particularly rich in materials dealing with women's rights. In addition, topics included are the nature and role of women, the historical and legal status of women, prostitution, the education of girls and women, biography and autobiography, and secondary materials on women writers, marriage and the family, employment of women, women and religion, and women's voluntary associations. To a lesser extent topics such as divorce, women in politics, women's reformatories, and women as composers, musicians, and artists are represented. Titles are in English, German, French, Dutch, Italian, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Latin, Greek, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Hungarian, Russian, Czechoslovakian, and Arabic. Titles from the 19th and 20th centuries are well represented with a lesser representation of titles from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.