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Reading this, you may be in the Library, your residence hall, or connecting remotely from home or from one of our study abroad programs. Wherever and whenever, many of the Library's resources are available to you online 24/7 - the catalog, databases, electronic references books, full text journals. Collection requests, appointments for class instruction sessions, heavy-duty reference questions can come to us virtually or in-person, but they are best handled during the hours that staff is available.

What's New at the Library?

July 6, 2008

     New online resources:

  • JSTOR Arts and Sciences III and IV !!

    Focused on the arts and humanities, the Arts & Sciences III Collection will contain a minimum of 120 titles at completion. In early 2003, the collection made available over 70 journals covering language and literature, music and the history and study of art and architecture. The completed collection will include additional titles in these fields as well as cultural studies, film, folklore, performing arts, and religion. The collection will be complete by the end of 2005

    The Arts & Sciences IV Collection will include a minimum of 100 titles and will be released beginning in early 2004 and concluding in 2006. Law, psychology, and public policy and administration are the new areas introduced with this collection. The collection will also include business and education titles
     

  • Wilson Humanities and Social Sciences Index  Retrospective, 1907-1984

    Provides online, indexed access to article citations for approximately 1,200 English-language journals published in North America and Europe during the first two-thirds of the 20th century. Included are some of the best-known scholarly journals published during the period as well as lesser-known but important specialized magazines. The database is an enhanced, electronic version of the original print Social Sciences & Humanities Index prepared and published by the H.W. Wilson Company.,

     

September 11, 2003

       Two new online journal resources:

  • JSTOR Arts and Sciences II Collection

    Expanding upon the multi-disciplinary journals found in our popular JSTOR Arts and Sciences I, the new JSTOR II collection provides full-text access to an additional 122 titles. The journals, which are covered from their conception until the late 1990s, are from the areas of African-American studies, African studies, anthropology, Asian studies, archeology, classical studies, economics, education, geography, history, history of science, language and literature, Latin American Studies, mathematics, Middle East Studies, philosophy, political science, population studies, Slavic studies, sociology, and statistics.  These new titles have been integrated into the Arts and Sciences I collection.
     

  • APA Journals Go Online with PsycARTICLES

    PsycARTICLES provide online full-text access to all of the journals published by the American Psychological Association as well as to a selection of journals from the Canadian Psychological Association and Hugrefe and Huber Publishers from 1988 to the present. Over 50 peer-reviewed journals are included in this database for a total of nearly 31,500 articles.

August 4, 2003

  • New online database: the Biological Sciences Database from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts.  This interdisciplinary database offers abstracts and citations to a wide range of research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science. Supporting over two dozen areas of expertise, this CSA database provides access to literature from over 6000 serials, as well as conference proceedings, technical reports, monographs and selected books and patents.

    Note: subscribers to this database also have complimentary access to Biology Digest, rolling 10-year file of MEDLINE, Plant Science, rolling 5-year file of TOXLINE, Recent References, and the Web Resources Database.
     

February 15, 2003

January 31, 2003

October 18, 2002

  • The library now offers access to the full text of Clark Ph.D. dissertations from 1997 to the present.  Brought to you by UMI, Current Research@Clark provides the ability to search all Clark University dissertations published in the Dissertation Abstracts database.  For those published since 1997 you can just click on the Free! link and follow the instructions to download a PDF version of the dissertation.  In addition, researchers can search for and preview the first 24 pages of the dissertations of many other institutions from 1996 to the present.

September 30, 2002

September 26, 2002

September 1, 2002

  • The Libraries are happy to announce the development of a new service: Clink. It's designed to help researchers move quickly from a citation in an online database to the full-text version of the article (in electronic or print format). Look for the red Clink icon on the results page of many of Clark's citation databases, e.g. PsycINFO, Geobase,  EconLit, etc. This button opens a page with links to resources that contain the article, e.g. JSTOR, Project Muse, InfoTrac, etc , or further information about where to obtain the article or book. The technology used in Clink's implementation is new and is based on still developing formal standards, but we are sure that you fill find it a useful and productive research tool.

    Please send any questions or comments to Ed McDermott
    (emcdermott@clarku.edu), Systems Librarian.

     

May 9, 2002

  • TRIAL DATABASE.  Oxford Reference Online: The Core Collection brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works - containing well over 60,000 pages - into a single cross-searchable resource. Trial lasts until June 30, 2002.

April 9, 2002

  • NEW DATABASE !! The library now subscribes to the Readers' Guide Retrospective

    Produced by The H. W. Wilson Company, the Readers' Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.
    The complete database covers the years1890 through 1982. The current coverage includes the years 1963 through 1982.

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