Expanding mix of electronic resources

I wanted to bring to your attention some positive developments since the beginning of the academic year in reference to our expanding mix of electronic resources.

Thanks to the Social Science Team's designation of a portion of their new serials fund we now have access to the following EBSCO database:

Communication & Mass Media Complete

Communication & Mass Media Complete like Communication & Mass Media Index, provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline. CMMC offers cover-to-cover (core) indexing and abstracts for over 370 journals, and selected (priority) coverage of over 230 more, for a combined coverage of over 600 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for more than 240 journals. Many major journals have indexing, abstracts, PDFs and searchable cited references from their first issues to the present (dating as far back as 1915). CMMC contains a sophisticated Communication Thesaurus and comprehensive reference browsing (i.e. searchable cited references for peer-reviewed journals covered as core). In addition, CMMC features over 3,000 Author Profiles, providing biographical data and bibliographic information, and covering the most prolific, most cited, and most frequently searched for authors in the database.

In addition, EBSCO has provided us with complementary access, including full-text when available, through June 2007 to:

Film & Television Literature Index

We will subscribe for the period after July 2007.

Finally, regarding EBSCO, they have agreed to convert our subscription to GLBT Life [a resource for the world's literature regarding gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and transsexual issues] to full-text at no additional cost to USC.

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, 20th Century [ProQuest] has been added to our holdings for the 19th century. At the moment access is available through 1945. We will be receiving two further installments which will complete the 20th century, starting with coverage to the mid 1970s in November, followed by a final release in Spring 2007.

Journals from Sage Publications

USC is switching to online only for all journals from Sage Publications as of January 2007. However, as part of our participation in a SCELC consortial arrangement we NOW have online, full-text access to 408 peer reviewed journals from Sage, contrasted with the 207 titles we have directly subscribed to (192 main campus and 15 HSC libraries). Thus, we have access to an additional 201 titles not otherwise subscribed to. You can browse all Sage journals by title at http://online.sagepub.com/ [no need to log in to browse titles]. All titles are being added to the e-journals listing in the Electronic Resources pages.

Journals from Taylor & Francis

USC (main campus) is switching to online only for all journals from Taylor & Francis as of January 2007. At this time we are not participating in any package deal for access to non-subscribed titles.

FORTHCOMING SOON:

We are in the process of acquiring online access to, pending license language approval from the Legal Counsel's Office:

INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL STATISTICS (International Monetary Fund)

INFORMED LIBRARIAN ONLINE [This "is a monthly compilation of the most recent tables of contents from over 305 titles - valuable domestic and foreign library and information-related journals, e-journals, magazines, e-magazines, newsletters and e-newsletters. It includes links to all the current journal contents that came out during that month, many of them full-text."] I've had a personal subscription to this for awhile and find it very useful. A site license was very inexpensive.

Lynn Sipe