The Libraries have recently expanded offerings on the popular Ebsco platform, adding thousands of new e-journals and e-books available to researchers 24/7. This post discusses new article databases; look for information about new e-book and primary source collections in future posts.
Art Source
Art Source, which builds on and incorporates the rigorous indexing and abstracting from H.W. Wilson’s Art Index, covers a broad range of related subjects, from fine, decorative and commercial art, to various areas of architecture and architectural design. Art Source offers full text articles from more than 600 journals, more than 220 full-text books, and a collection of over 63,0000 images.
CINAHL Complete
CINAHL (Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature) is a comprehensive source for nursing and related fields, with indexing for more than 5,000 journals and full text for more than 1,400 titles. CINAHL Complete, which replaced CINAHL with Full Text, provides broad content coverage including over 50 nursing specialties, speech and language pathology, nutrition, general health and medicine and more. CINAHL also indexes books and dissertations.
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text
This new full text database upgrades the index only version and covers film and television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. It provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for over 400 publications and selected coverage of 300, as well as full text for more than 150 journals and 160 books. In addition, Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text includes Variety movie reviews from 1914 to present and over 36,300 images from the MPTV Image Archive.
Hospitality & Tourism Complete
This resource extends the Hospitality and Tourism Index with full text articles. It covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. This comprehensive index combines the records of three renowned collections: Cornell University’s former Hospitality database (previously unavailable for public use), Articles in Hospitality and Tourism [AHT] (formerly co-produced by the University of Surrey and Oxford Brookes), and the Lodging, Restaurant & Tourism Index [LRTI] (formerly produced by Purdue University). Together, this collection contains m.1 million records, with coverage dating back to 1931, with full text for over 525 publications, including periodicals, company & country reports, and books. Publications include Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Education, Hosteur, Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, Current Issues in Tourism, International Journal of Tourism Research, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Leisure Sciences, Nation’s Restaurant News, Restaurant Business, and many more. Major coverage includes demographics and statistics, hotel management, food service and beverage management, travel and tourism, event management, gaming, international cuisine, law, market trends, research and more.
MEDLINE Complete
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine,nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. MEDLINE is a part of the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed information suite.
MEDLINE Complete is a full text companion to the MEDLINE index and provides full text for over 2,500 medical journals. Many are available with no embargo to allow users to access the information as soon as it is published.