December 2004 postings
Dallas Morning Historical Archive: 1920-1977
Access: Internet (SMU campus and valid students, faculty, and staff)
Tip: View content as a digital image or as an individual article.
Description: Students of U. S. and Texas history, history, politics, and culture will welcome having access to this nearly complete archive of the Dallas Morning News. Now for the first time, it is possible to find online stories about the Kennedy assassination, the 1936 Texas Centennial, or regional reactions to the attack on Pearl Harbor and D-Day. But researchers do not need confine their searches to events. The letters of the editors, the recipes, obituaries, political cartoons and advertisements of all types are all available with a keystroke. All text is searchable. Browse by date or topic. The current database covers 1920-1977. Files beginning with 1885 (the first year the DMN published) should be available by the end of 2004. Online access to the Dallas Morning News, 1984 to present, is available at http://proxy.libraries.smu.edu/login?url=http://infoweb.newsbank.com/?db=DMNB.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Access: Internet (SMU campus and valid students, faculty, and staff)
Tip: Use to locate brief biographies of prominent Americans who lived from the "period of settlement until independence."
Description: Search one of these 50,000 biographies describing individuals who had an impact on British society, and who died prior to the year 2000. Research royals ranging from King Arthur to Diana Princess of Wales, actors such as Alec Guinness or Michael Redgrave, or the writers Nancy and Jessica Mitford. Search by name or by keyword. Browse by letter of the alphabet. Browse by pre-set categories including saints, women members of Parliament, musical chart toppers, and Oscar winners. All entries were written for this edition, and many provide frank assessments of an individual's character, life, and work. Entries are accompanied by reading lists and the value of the person's estate is provided when available. Portraits accompany approximately 10,000 entries.
JSTOR
Access: Internet (SMU campus and valid students, faculty, and staff)
Tip: Core English languages journals covering language and literature, art, and music are now available in JSTOR.
Description: Coverage has been expanded in JSTOR with the addition of Arts & Sciences Section III. Find the e back files of journals such as PMLA, (1889-2001), Rhetoric Review, (1982-2001), College English (1939-2000), American Music (1983-2001), Art Bulletin (1919-2000), Burlington Magazin,e (1903-2000), Film Quarterly and its predecessors (1941-2001) As with most JSTOR journals, there is five-year moving wall so publishers are assured o continued print subscriptions. For list of titles included in the package see Current Journals -Arts & Science III collection http://www.jstor.org/about/asiii_content.html.
Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982
Access: Internet (SMU campus and valid SMU students/faculty/staff)
Tip: Need references to articles published since 1982? Search Academic Search Premier or InfoTrac OneFile.
Description:Provides electronic indexing for the majority of magazines held in the Fondren basement and other library periodicals location. Indexes 375 magazines or 44 print volumes of the Readers Guide to Periodical Literature. Search an historical topic across a number of years rather than leafing through volume after volume of the Readers Guide. Entries link to page images from the original print volumes making all see and see also references available. Index terms have been updated to reflect contemporary usage, although original terms have been retained for those interested in how issues were framed in an earlier day.
Red Books Online
Access: Internet (SMU campus and valid SMU students/faculty/staff)
Tip: Use advanced search to build precise search queries or when you need to sort your search results.
Description: The online version of the Standard Directory of Advertisers and the Standard Directory of Advertising. (the Red Books). Profiles over 1300 U.S and international advertising agencies. Information provided includes : "accounts represented by each agency, fields of specialization, breakdown of gross billings by media, contact information on agency personnel and much more." Special features include a brand name database, and easy accessible lists of leading advertisers, and links to internet sites related to advertising such as newspapers and professional associations.
LexisNexis Statistical
Access: Internet (SMU campus and valid SMU students/faculty/staff)
Tip: Using basic Boolean operators such as "and" significantly improves search results.
Description: Consists of more than 30,000 statistical tables. All tables are individually indexed. Most of the information comes from federal agencies, state governments, and intergovernmental organizations. Materials come from such published sources as the Bureau of the Census, Center for Disease Control, Department of Education, the Federal Reserve, etc. Beginning searchers should read the information found under the heading "How do I?" Here you will find information on how the statistics are gathered and organized by reporting agencies. LN Statistical Tables are presented in a number for formats. See the online HELP for information on downloading a table.
ScienceDirect
Access: Internet (SMU campus and valid SMU students/faculty/staff)
Tip: This database contains significant materials in the social sciences as well as science and engineering resources.
Description: Indexes over 1000 Elsevier titles, along with an additional 200 titles from such publishers as North Holland, Pergamon, and JAI. Emphasis is on science and engineering with significant subsets of publications covering economics, business, politics and psychology. Users have unlimited searching to the entire database, and may view abstracts of all materials retrieved. Users may print or download articles from any journal in the database to which SMU Libraries subscribe.
