Database Trials

The LIS Collection Services Dept. welcomes feedback on the need and use of databases by its students, faculty, and staff.  Please send your comments to Laura Crain, Associate Director for Collection Services.

M = Databases marked with M are limited to St. Michael's (MIKENET) users only

• Black Thought and Culture:  African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present M
  Full text.  From Alexander Street Press, non-fiction works by African-American leaders and others who have dealt substantially with issues of race in America. Includes books, essays, articles, speeches, letters, interviews, and other materials, some of which have not previously been published.  About Black Thought and Culture.
   
• Book Index with Reviews
  Provides information on over 4 million book titles in a range of formats, including large print, books on tape, etc. Fiction and non-fiction titles for juvenile and adult audiences are included in the database, in all genres. The product contains over 800,000 full-text searchable reviews from sources which include: Library Journal, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, CHOICE, and others.
  Trial expires:  6/30/2007
   
• EconLit Full Text
  Indexing plus full text for more than 400 journals, including the American Economic Association journals with no embargo (American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, and Journal of Economic Perspectives). This database also contains many non-English full-text serials in economics & finance.
  
  Indexing and full text for articles in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and much more.  This comprehensive file covers six types of records: journal articles, books, collective volume articles, dissertations, working papers, and book reviews. 
  Trial expires:  May 2, 2007
   
• Film Full Text -- International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) International Index to Film Periodicals Plus
  Indexes more than 300,000 articles from 300 of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals, dating from 1972 onward. The database also incorporates the International Index to TV Periodicals; Treasures from the Film Archives, which identifies silent film holdings in archives around the world, and the International Directory of Film/TV Documentation Collections.Searchable full text from many of the most important FIAF journals, including full-text coverage of FIAF index records from key titles such as Sight and Sound and Positif.
   

Maintained by Laura Crain,  last update - Thursday April 19, 2007