We have replaced Academic Search Premier with a larger and more scholarly product, Academic Search Complete. Academic Search Complete was designed specifically for academic institutions. It is a scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with over 10,900 publications including journals, monographs, reports, conference proceedings, and more. This scholarly collection offers more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, of which 4,400 are peer-reviewed journals. It maintains extensive full-text coverage of many areas of academic study including archaeology, area studies, biology, chemistry, engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, geology, law, mathematics, physics, psychology, religion, women's studies, and other fields. For some titles, the database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full-text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 journals. 

Earlier this year, CUL, Bridwell Library, and the Department of English collaborated to provide access to Eighteenth Century Collections Online from Gale Cengage Learning.  Material found in this revolutionary resource is based on the English Short Title Catalogue bibliography and is derived from some of the world’s largest and most prestigious university, private, public and research libraries.  The digitized format features 150,000 printed volumes — comprising more than 26 million pages — in essence, every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. With full-text search capabilities across all 26 million pages, this collection provides multidisciplinary research opportunities not possible until now.  The value of this collection is that it makes hard-to-find material in every academic discipline available online including: history and geography, social science and fine arts, medicine, science and technology, literature and language, religion and philosophy, law and reference works.

With generous support from the Department of English, CUL now provides online access to Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 from Readex. In addition, Friends of the SMU Libraries provided funding to The Text Creation Partnership, the non-profit initiative that works with libraries and commercial vendors to ensure that online texts such as those represented in Series I are faithfully encoded and translated. This digital collection contains virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America over a 160-year period. Digitized from one of the most important collections ever produced on microform, Early American Imprints, Series I is based on Charles Evans’ renowned “American Bibliography” and Roger Bristol’s supplement. Including more than 36,000 printed works and 2.3 million pages, Series I also offers new imprints not available in microform editions. The imprints in Series I are expertly indexed and may be browsed by genre, subjects, author, history of printing, place of publication and language. Topics covered include agriculture, astronomy, auctions, capital punishment, child rearing, commerce, constitution, diseases, education, foreign affairs, French & Indian wars, geography, Indians, Latin, lotteries, masonry, medicine, military operations, missionaries, operas, religious thought, revolutionary war, slavery, suffrage, temperance, trials, witchcraft, women, work, yellow fever and thousands more.

The libraries now have access to the American National Biography Online, which offers biographies of more than 18,300 men and women whose lives have shaped the nation. More than a decade in preparation, the American National Biography is the first biographical resource of this scope to be published in more than sixty years.

The publication of the online edition makes the ANB even more useful as a dynamic source of information -- updated semi-annually, with hundreds of new entries each year and revisions of previously published entries to enhance their accuracy and currency. The ANB Online features thousands of illustrations, more than 80,000 hyperlinked cross-references, links to select web sites, and powerful search capabilities. The web interface also includes a link to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography for a different perspective on the individual’s life.

Appended to each article is a descriptive bibliography, which may include mention of primary sources, the most useful published biographies, articles or monographs about specific aspects of the person's career, and obituaries.

The American National Biography is published by Oxford University Press under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies.

Our libraries now have access to AnthroSource, an online resource developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and serving the research, teaching, and professional needs of anthropologists.

AnthroSource contains the AAA's peer-reviewed journals, newsletters and bulletins, more than 40,000 articles. This content includes current coverage of 15 of the AAA's most critically important peer-reviewed journals, such as American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly. For many titles, users can also link directly to archival content housed at JSTOR when back issues are not available directly from inside AnthroSource. Users can optimize their AnthroSource experience by registering to take advantage of personalization options, such as organizing content, saved searches and email alerts.

AnthroSource could also prove a useful research tool and full-text resource in social sciences beyond anthropology.

ARTstor is a digital image library available for faculty and students to use for teaching and research. Currently, it has approximately 550,000 images in its collections and will continue to add to them. In addition to images of art and architecture, ARTstor has many images relevant to teaching subjects in the humanities, such as: history, music, anthropology, literary studies, foreign languages, and religion. View the full list of image collections.

ARTstor also has tools to enable users to use these images in several ways. In addition to basic searching, there are tools to create shared folders with selected images for course projects or slide shows for lecture presentations. Users may also upload their own images and combine them into an ARTstor slide show with the Offline Image Viewer. By the end of fall 2007, 80% of the images will be sized as 1024 on the long side to allow users more flexibility for creating slide shows. Students may also use these images in their papers with a citation for ARTstor. ARTstor now has a new service, Images for Academic Publishing (IAP), to allow the use of images in scholarly publications. Currently, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the sole participant in IAP, but more large institutional collections are planned.

View a list of all interdisciplinary subjects in ARTstor. In addition, ARTstor has online guides for using its resources under the tab “Using ARTstor” located on the resource welcome page. If you have any questions about ARTstor or would like to receive news about its updates by e-mail, contact Beverly Mitchell, Fine Arts and Dance Librarian, at bmitchel@smu.edu or 214-768-2796.