USC Collection Development FY06 4th quarter acquisitions

University of Southern California. USC Libraries. Collection Development. Significant 4th Quarter FY06 Acquisitions

Journal Backfiles

American Geophysical Union -- All currently subscribed (8 titles) journals, 1994-2001

American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics -- All
journals (6 titles), 1997-2005

Elsevier Journals -- Approximately 100 titles in:

• Material Science


• Physical and Analytical Chemistry

Springer/Kluwer Journals -- All titles in subject areas below from v.1 regardless of start date, through 1996. Approximately 400 titles.

• Chemistry and Material Science


• Computer Science


• Engineering


• Mathematics


• Physics

Social Science Journals -- Print backfiles for 5 titles from v.1 to start of subscription

• Anales del instituto de investigaciones esteticas


• al-Andalus Magreb


• American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry


• Personality and Social Psychology Review


• Memory

Databases/Full-Text Resources

American History and Culture Online: Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 -- Consists of works about the Americas published not only in the United States but from across the globe and contains information about North, Central and South America, the Arctic and Antarctica, and the West Indies. This is the first, although also the most comprehensive, of multiple releases of digitized content of Sabin. Additional content will be released in stages over the next few years until the product is complete. We have placed a standing order for the entire content of the online product. -- http://www.galegroup.com/servlet/ItemDetailServlet?region=9&imprint=000&titleCode=DASCF4&cf=n&type=4&id=225175

American Periodicals Series -- Digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Titles range from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository; popular magazines such as Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal; regional and niche publications; and groundbreaking journals like The Dial, Puck, and McClure's. -- http://www.proquest.com/products_pq/descriptions/aps.shtml

ARTSTOR -- The ARTstor Charter Collection currently contains nearly 500,000 images. The Charter Collection documents artistic traditions across many times and cultures and embraces architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture. -- http://www.artstor.org

Corpus de la Literature Francophone d'Afrique noire des Origines aux Independances -- This collection contains the complete text of written and oral literary works from the origins to the independence of French-speaking Black Africa (Late 18th century - 1960). -- http://www.internationalbookseller.com/Offerte/HonoreChampion/corpus_litt_francophone_afrique.pdf

Defining Gender -- With each image chosen for its clarity, relevance and quality, this new online project brings together approximately 60,000 images of original manuscript and printed material, including a strong core of documents from the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Ephemeral material such as ballads, cartoons and pamphlets is featured alongside diaries, advice literature, medical journals, conduct books and periodicals. Structured into five sections, Defining Gender, 1450-1910, Online addresses Conduct and Politeness (Section I), Domesticity and the Family (Section II), Consumption and Leisure (Section III), Education and Sensibility (Section IV) and The Body (Section V). -- http://www.ampltd.co.uk/online/index.aspx

Digital Dissertations and Theses -- From the entire collection of over 2,000,000 theses and dissertations dating from 1860, over 600,000 are full-text.

Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics -- Entirely new 2nd edition of the standard 1993 edition, with updates as subjects are developed. It claims to be "the first encyclopedia to really exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics." -- http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/709649/description#description

Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences -- A new edition designed to bring it in line with the latest topics and advances made in statistical science over the past decade--in areas such as computer-intensive statistical methodology, economics, sociology, psychology, genetics, medicine,the environment, engineering, probability theory, and computer science. -- http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471150444.html

Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker -- Based on the noted American Bibliography, 1801-1819 by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker, Series II provides a comprehensive set of American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the early part of the 19th century. Contains over 4,000,000 pages from over 36,000 items—including 1,000 catalogued new items unavailable in previous microform editions. Complements Series I: Evans, 1639-1800, the definitive resource for researching 17th- and 18th-century America which was acquired earlier. -- http://www.readex.com/readex/product.cfm?product=5

Ethnic NewsWatch: a History -- Full-text database provides the historical foreground to the ethnic, minority, and native press content in Ethnic NewsWatch, with materials dating from 1960–1989. -- http://www.proquest.com/products_pq/descriptions/ethnicnewswatch_hist.shtml

Everyday Life & Women in America -- Documents the social and cultural forces that shaped the everyday lives of women and men in America from 1800 to 1920. The project comprises c.100,000 images sourced from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, Duke Universit, and the New York Public Library. It provides fully-searchable access to over 650 monographs, hard-to-find periodicals, pamphlets and broadsides, addressing 19th and early 20th century political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home life, health, and popular pastimes. -- http://www.ampltd.co.uk/online/index.aspx

FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals-- Created by the International Federation of Film Archives, this database indexes more than 300,000 articles from 300 of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals, dating from 1972 onward. It also incorporates the International Index to TV Periodicals (1979 - 1998); Treasures from the Film Archives, which identifies silent film holdings in archives around the world; and the International Directory of Film/TV Documentation Collections. -- http://www.proquest.com/products_pq/descriptions/fiaf.shtml

Historical Annual Reports -- Beginning in the late 19th century, this collection of corporate annual reports provides invaluable information on companies, including financial performance, key officers, competitors, and market trends. -- http://www.proquest.com/products_pq/descriptions/pq_hist_annual_repts.shtml

Historical Statistics of the United States -- Presenting the numerical history of the United States, this definitive reference work contains more than 37,000 annual time series of quantitative historical information covering virtually every quantifiable dimension of American history: population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, governance, and international relations, all from the earliest times to the present. Each series is fully documented and placed in historical context by a recognized expert. -- http://www.cambridge.org/us/americanhistory/hsus/overview.htm

International Medieval Bibliography Online, 400-1500 -- With coverage beginning in 1967, this database is comprised of 300,000 citations from 4,500 periodicals and 5,000 misc. volumes (conference proceedings, festschriften, etc.) in over 30 languages. -- http://www.brepolis.net/imb_en.html

Medieval Sources Online (Manchester University Press) -- Contains hundreds of original medieval history documents, focused on undergraduates. Based on books in the MUP series, Medieval Sources. -- http://www.medievalsources.co.uk/welcome.htm

Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900 -- Directory to the largest single body of historical documents arising out of nineteenth century England at the height of the British Empire. It is subject-comprehensive, intending to include every periodical and newspaper published on a regular basis, from daily to annually, in every language, within England. -- http://www.nwap.on.ca/dep-cd1.html

Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600-2000 -- Books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women’s activism in public life. -- http://www.alexanderstreetpress.com/products/wasm.htm

Gale Virtual Reference Library (additional titles) -- Over 50 new titles and new editions. The GVRL may be searched together with the journal databases Expanded Academic and General Business by clicking on the "change databases" link in the upper right. The patron may view an entire book, perform a search in a particular book, within a subject, or across the entire collection. Another helpful feature is language translation. By clicking on the "preferences" link in the upper right, users may choose French, Spanish, or Portuguese for their search interface.

Wall Street Journal 1889-1989 -- Complete paper–cover-to-cover–with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF. -- http://www.proquest.com/products_pq/descriptions/pq-hist-news.shtml

Washington Post 1877-1990 -- Complete paper–cover-to-cover–with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF. -- http://www.proquest.com/products_pq/descriptions/pq-hist-news.shtml

Print/Microfilm

Islamic books from Sulaimen Booksellers in Beirut -- A selection of basic Islamic studies texts as requested by History Prof. Ramzi Rouighi in support of the university’s new Islamic studies initiative.

Institut für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften -- All print publications available from the important Islamic studies institute in Frankfurt, Germany, in support of the university’s new Islamic studies initiative.

Tübingen Atlas of the Near and Middle East -- Approximately 400 geographic, geologic, demographic, and historical maps. To be housed in Special Collections.

Radical and Reactionary Politics in America: The American Radicalism Collection (film) -- Michigan State University Library began collection materials on radical and reactionary politics in the 1960s. Consisting of pamphlets, broadsides, newsletters, program notices, clippings, and unpublished writings, The American Radicalism Collection is one of the largest collections of ephemera of radical and reactionary social movements, comprising approximately 1,500 folders of material (about 17,000 items) on over 2,300 subjects.

In addition to the above, the Marshall School of Business has acquired the following electronic resources which are also available to the general USC community. All are available through the Crocker Library page. -- http://marshall.usc.edu/library

Wharton Data Research Services -- http://wrds.wharton.upenn.edu/home/index.shtml

• Audit Analytics -- Detailed audit information on over 1,200 accounting firms and 15,000 publicly registered companies. Create reports by auditor, fees, location, industry,
  etc.


• First Call -- Contains earnings information dating as far back as 1990, on over 9,700
  U.S. and Canadian securities

Global Financial Database -- Contains historical stock market, financial, and economic data, such as interest rates, population data, currency rates, and commodity prices, including historic prices for over 11,000 U.S. companies. Over 20,000 current and historical data series covering over 200 countries have been collected from original sources, some extending back more than two centuries. Data sets are available in ASCII or Excel formats. -- http://www.globalfinancialdata.com/index.php3?action=user_homepage -- Access also through the electronic USC Libraries electronic resources page -- http://was.usc.edu/eresources/isd/lists/db_G.php

GMID/Global Market Information Database -- Provides business intelligence on countries, industries, and consumers. Covers 205 countries, 52 in depth. -- http://www2.gmid.euromonitor.com/PDFs/AboutGMID.pdf -- Available at http://www.gmid.euromonitor.com/Default.aspx

MedTRACK -- A comprehensive database of private and public biomedical companies worldwide. Information can be filtered by disease, clinical trials, competitive products, finances, etc. N.B. Available ONLY in the Crocker Business Library. -- http://www.medtrack.com

SSRN/Social Sciences Research Network -- A collection of working papers in the social sciences, currently numbering over 100,000 full-text documents. N.B. Available ONLY in the Crocker Business Library. -- http://www.ssrn.com

Academic Market Research -- Full-text market research reports, many with global coverage, from five publishers. Includes consumer research, business intelligence, market forecasts, etc. -- http://academic.marketresearch.com -- N.B. Not yet available. For more information, contact Ed Tinoco or John Juricek in Crocker Business Library.

anc:Aug.2006