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This is a list of new electronic resources that have been recently added to the library collection. Access to these resources is restricted to computers on campus or to those connecting via UWM computer accounts (more information).

For a list of all newly cataloged titles, see the New Materials section of the Library Catalog. For more updates, see What's New @ UWM Libraries.

September 2008

Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Gender, Sex, and the Family
Dates vary; Searchable handbooks, manuals, textbooks, etiquette guides, self-help books, instructional pamphlets, and how-to books that illustrate both how Americans actually behaved and how they felt they ought to behave. The collection provides a window into American social history by bringing together the instructional, prescriptive, behavioral, and etiquette literature that defined standards of personal conduct for millions of Americans and reflected the prevailing social mores across the twentieth century.

May 2008

GreenFILE
1948-present; information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment; connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.
MATERIALSnetBASE
Dates vary; Full text of over 200 books in materials science.
Public Administration Abstracts
1950s-present; bibliographic records covering essential areas related to public administration, including public administration research, public administration theory, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
Safari Books Online
Dates vary; Full text of books from technology publishers.
Teacher Reference Center
1984-present; Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.

March 2008

ARTstor
Dates vary; a digital library of approximately 550,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.

February 2008

JSTOR
Back to 1800; does not include recent years; full text, searchable backfiles of over 600 core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences.
Urban Studies Abstracts
1980-present; Bibliographic records covering essential areas related to urban studies, including urban affairs, community development, and urban history.

January 2008

American Periodicals Series
1740-1900; Searchable full text of over 1,500 magazines, journals, and newspapers.
Criminal Justice Abstracts
1968-present; abstracts and citations of international journals, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines. Guide
Tests in Print
A bibliography to commercially available tests that are currently in print in English.

December 2007

African American Music Reference
Dates vary; text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music.

October 2007

Magnatune FREE ACCESS
Listen online to over 500 hand-picked complete albums. Covers music from all genres including, but not limited to, classical, jazz, and world music.

September 2007

American Mosaic
Dates vary; full text of reference sources and primary documents focusing on the history and culture of African and Latino Americans.
ATLA with ATLASerials
1949-present; citations and some full text to international periodicals, books, and book chapters on religion and theological studies. Areas covered include Biblical studies, world religions, Church history, and religious perspectives on social issues. 600 journals currently being indexed, with others not current totaling 1,500 journals.
Catholic Periodical Literature Index
1981-present; includes over 380,000 index citations of articles and reviews published in Roman Catholic periodicals, Papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith that are authored by Catholics and/or produced by Catholic publishers. Currently indexes over 300 journals.
Index to Jewish Periodicals
1988-present; provides a comprehensive guide to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 160 journals devoted to Jewish thought, contemporary Jewish Middle Eastern affairs.
New Testament Abstracts
1985-present; covers research on the New Testament and its historical milieu. The database contains article abstracts, review abstracts, book abstracts, and software abstracts. Currently indexes over 500 periodicals.
Old Testament Abstracts
1978-present; database features indexing and abstracts for journal articles (450 journals), monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies. Topics covered include antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology, philology and much more.

July 2007

ClinicalTrials.gov FREE ACCESS
Originated in 2000; provides patients, family members, health care professionals, and members of the public easy access to regularly updated information on thousands of federally and privately supported clinical trials for a wide range of diseases and conditions. The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), through its National Library of Medicine (NLM), has developed this site in collaboration with all NIH Institutes and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
DIRLINE - Directory of [Health] Information Resources Online FREE ACCESS
Dates vary; National Library of Medicine's online database containing location and descriptive information on over 8,000 information resources including organizations, research resources, projects, and databases concerned with health and biomedicine.
Latin America Data Base News Bulletins
Current; three weekly news digests covering Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America.
MedlinePlus FREE ACCESS
Originated in 1998; National Library of Medicine's selective list of authoritative health information sources from the National Institutes of Health and other government and professional organizations in the U.S. Updated nightly, it has over 4,000 articles on various diseases, symptoms, drugs and procedures, as well as interactive health tutorials, research news, local resources, directories of hospitals and physicians, clinical trials and links to MEDLINE for journal citations.
Paper of Record FREE ACCESS
Dates vary; full text of historical newspapers from the early 1800s to the mid 1900s. Free registration required.
RefWorks
RefWorks is a web-based tool that helps you manage citations, create bibliographies, and import references from databases. It can convert stored citations into formatted bibliographies. Formatting styles include APA, Chicago, and MLA. Quick Start Guide

June 2007

Dissertations & Theses [formerly Dissertation Abstracts]
1861-present; citations and abstracts for every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations. A preview of the first 24 pages of most dissertations is available. A customized interface to search only UWM dissertations is also available (including the full-text of UWM dissertations from 1997 to present), as are complete lists of all UWM theses and dissertations. Guide
Primary Sources in U.S. History
Dates vary; contains full text primary documents as well as guides to microfilm collections in African American Studies, Presidential Studies, and Women's Studies.

May 2007

Black Studies Center
Dates vary; a fully searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, and historical newspaper articles.
Oxford African American Studies Center
Dates vary; Full-text articles from Africana, The Encyclopedia of African American History, Black Women in America, African American National Biography, and several other African American reference works.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers - The Chicago Defender
1905 - 1975; Searchable full text.

March 2007

PILOTS
1871-present, Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events.