New Resources Shed Fresh Light on the “Dark Ages”

The Libraries have added several resources for Medieval Studies in the last year. These include: Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages & Renaissance Based at the University of Toronto, Iter is a not-for-profit partnership dedicated to the advancement of learning in the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Iter is a…Continue Reading New Resources Shed Fresh Light on the “Dark Ages”

Oxford Bibliographies Online: Recommended Reading on Scholarly Topics

The Libraries have recently added four titles from Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO). Combining the best features of an annotated bibliography and a scholarly encyclopedia, Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) are designed to guide researchers to the best available scholarship across a wide variety of subjects. These authoritative research guides provide a starting point for your research…Continue Reading Oxford Bibliographies Online: Recommended Reading on Scholarly Topics

Birds in the Hand, and on the Laptop: Birds of North America Online

Birds of North America (BNA) Online provides scientific information for each of the 716 species of birds nesting in the USA and Canada, with image and video galleries showing behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and nestlings, recordings of bird’s songs and calls selected from the collection in Cornell’s Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds. Species accounts include…Continue Reading Birds in the Hand, and on the Laptop: Birds of North America Online

April is Jazz Month: Celebrate with Naxos Music Library: Jazz

Celebrate America’s gift to the world this month with our new database, Naxos Music Library: Jazz. Many of you may already know Naxos Music Library for its rich collection of thousands of classical recordings. This new Jazz collection is its hep-cat younger sibling. Naxos Music Library: Jazz offers more than 32,000 artists on more than…Continue Reading April is Jazz Month: Celebrate with Naxos Music Library: Jazz

Communication Source with Communication Abstracts

The Libraries have recently expanded our research sources for communication, speech, and rhetoric with the Communication Source database from Ebsco. A comprehensive index for communication topics, this database incorporates the content ofCommunication Abstracts (formerly published by Sage) and Ebsco’s Communication and Mass Media Complete database, along with numerous other journals in communication, rhetoric, linguistics, mass…Continue Reading Communication Source with Communication Abstracts