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New E-Resources - UW-Madison Libraries
New Databases, Subject Guides and Other Resources. These are recent additions to the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries' Web site. You'll find new databases and other resources, and upgrades to software such as search interfaces.
- American Film Scripts
May 23, 2013 9:00 AM
American Film Scripts Online contains 1,009 scripts by 1,062 writers together with detailed, fielded information which provides the ability to search by character, scene, race, nationality, age, subject, year of writing, and other elements. This collection was developed through arrangements with Warner Bros., Sony, RKO, MGM, and other major film studios; rights holders such as Faber & Faber, Newmarket Press, Penguin Putnam, and Vintage Anchor; and the writers themselves, including Paul Schrader, Lawrence Kasdan, Gus Van Sant, Neil LaBute, Oliver Stone, and many others. In addition, the database includes facsimile images for more than 500 of these screenplays. Most of the scripts have never been published before, and nowhere else are they available online.
- Sustainable Organization Library
May 23, 2013 9:00 AM
Sustainable Organization Library (SOL) is a focused library of key texts (almost 400 volumes) in governance, sustainability and environmental management. SOL gives instant access to the world's best writers in the area; case studies on best practice from international organizations; evidence-based research and in-depth analysis from thinkers around the globe. Partner publishers included in SOL include Greenleaf Publishing, Practical Action Publishing, and the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME).
- Chinese Periodical Full-text Database (1911-1949)
May 23, 2013 9:00 AM
The Journal Database for the Republican Period (1911-1949) covers over 20,000 journal titles. The journal database contains a mass of information on all aspects of life, including political, economic, military, social, and livelihood. It provides first-hand information to study the history of the Republic China.
- Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
April 25, 2013 9:00 AM
The DPLA brings together books, images, historic records, and audiovisual materials from contributing universities, public libraries, museums and other public-spirited organizations in the United States that have digitized materials, in a single platform and portal, with the aim of providing open and coherent access to our society's digitized cultural heritage.
- Hein Online State Statutes Historical Archive
April 17, 2013 9:00 AM
The collection includes more than 1,600 volumes and nearly 2,000,000 pages of historical superseded state statutes (but not current state statutes) and offers a valuable source of information for legal researchers and scholars to understand the thinking and conditions of the creation of the historical statutes. Access superseded State Statutes for all fifty states; each state is verified against Pimsleur's Checklist of Basic American Legal Publications. Coverage goes as far back as 1717.
- Digital Commons Law Network
April 10, 2013 9:00 AM
Open Source Collection on institutional repositories from across the United States, including faculty scholarship, law review articles and conference proceedings. The network may be searched in specific areas of law, such as administrative law or constitutional law.
- Historic Mexican & Mexican American Press
April 09, 2013 9:00 AM
The Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press collection documents and showcases historic Mexican and Mexican American publications published in Tucson, El Paso, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sonora, Mexico from the mid-1800s to the 1970s.
- Berman Jewish Policy Archive
April 09, 2013 9:00 AM
Open access to a growing library of thousands of policy-relevant documents about Jewish communal concerns, from significant authors, journals, and organizations. Includes over 40 years of SH'MA: A JOURNAL OF JEWISH RESPONSIBILITY, over 100 years of JOURNAL OF JEWISH COMMUNAL SERVICE, and the Leonard Fein collection. Browsable by topic, publisher, date, publication name, etc.; searchable by keyword and more. Registered users (free registration) can create their own saved bookshelf.
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Wall Street Journal (1889-1995)
March 21, 2013 9:00 AM
Full text, fully searchable, of all issues of the Wall Street Journal for this time period.
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Tribune / Herald Tribune (1841-1966)
March 20, 2013 9:00 AM
Full-text, fully-searchable, coverage of the New York Tribune, and its merged successor newspaper the New York Herald Tribune. NOTE: As of March 2013, only 1841-1962 is available. 1963-66 is coming after rights are secured.
- Encyclopedia of Materials - Science and Technology
March 20, 2013 9:00 AM
The Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology presents around 1,800 articles written by experts in their fields, resulting in a comprehensive coverage of this broad and wide-ranging subject. It is the only encyclopedia available that covers all of materials science and technology, focusing on the following areas: Functional Phenomena, Structural Phenomena, Fundamental Core Theory, Structural Materials, Polymers and Materials Chemistry, and Functional Materials.
- Canoonet: German Dictionaries and Grammar
March 20, 2013 9:00 AM
"Canoonet: German dictionaries and grammar" is an English-language site offering practical helps with German. Accessible via the sitemap (see link at the top of the splash page) are links to a number of online German dictionaries (not only German - German but also some relatively basic bilingual dictionaries -- e.g. German-English, German-French, German-Spanish, German-Chinese), a topically arranged basic grammar of modern German, and a set of German-language resources for correct spelling. Accessible from the splash page and -- with more options -- from the sitemap are search boxes enabling queries about individual German words. Accessible from the lower portion of the splash page is a link to a blog (Ask Dr. Bopp!) discussing problems of German grammar and usage. The site's German-language original is reached by clicking on the German flag visible in the upper portion of both the splash page and the sitemap.
- PAWAG: Poorly Attested Words in Ancient Greek
March 19, 2013 9:00 AM
PAWAG: Poorly Attested Words in Ancient Greek is an ongoing database of words in ancient Greek that are either only scantily attested (i.e. with one or few occurrences), inadequately attested (i.e.characterized by some sort of uncertainty), or in any case problematically attested, both from a formal and a semantic point of view. These are presented in the form of a dictionary with entries contributed by scholars at different universities. The entries consist of a headword (the word's form of reference), an English-language translation, a set of locations of the word's occurrence, a brief discussion, and brief, pertinent bibliography. As of late January 2013 there were 1604 separate entries. To search, click on "Database" in the menu at left. Headwords may be searched only in Greek. For this two options are available: either in the Greek alphabet (requires downloading of the SPIonic font; see "Fonts" in the menu at left) or in the form of Latin-alphabet transcription known as Beta code (on which see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_code), using diacritics. An alphabetical index in Beta code at the bottom of the search form enables one to search for entries according to the initial letter of their headword.
- Election Ephemera Collections (Russia/Belarus)
March 19, 2013 9:00 AM
Collections of election related ephemera gathered during the 2010 Presidential Election in Belarus, the 2011 Russian Federation Duma election and the 2012 Russian Federation Presidential election.
- Germanistik Online Datenbank
March 19, 2013 9:00 AM
Germanistik is the central international journal on the study of German Language and Literature, including peripheral fields. Now fifty years of German philology - the history of the discipline both systematized and critically reviewed in more than 60,000 abstracts - are available online and fully searchable. The online edition provides extensive indexing and factual coverage for every entry to quickly supply users with information on the content of the respective book or article. The database provides a category-specific and detailed search providing differentiated and convenient access to authors, editors, article and review writers, titles, reviews and publication years. From its 20th year (1979) onward, Germanistik also provides keywords. All relevant data is cross-linked.
- Oxford Handbooks Online
March 19, 2013 9:00 AM
Oxford Handbooks Online provides access to the full text of more than 160 titles published as part of the prestigious Oxford Handbooks series, plus specially commissioned keywords and abstracts. They are cataloged by title in our library catalog and also can be searched here as one database. Seven individual subject modules are available - Business & Management, Economics & Finance, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, and Religion. NOT ALL HANDBOOKS ARE LICENSED.
- American History in Video
March 06, 2013 8:00 AM
At completion, American History in Video will include 2,000 total hours of streaming video content. More than half will be contemporaneous video from the 1890s to the 1980s. The early newsreels, including the complete series of United Newsreel and Universal Newsreel, available online in their entirety only in this collection, capture history as it was made and reported to viewers of the time.
- Black Studies in Video
March 06, 2013 8:00 AM
Black Studies in Video, the latest addition to Alexander Street Press's award-winning black studies portfolio, brings together seminal documentaries, powerful interviews, and previously unavailable archival footage surveying the black experience. At completion, the collection will contain 500 hours of film covering African American history, politics, art and culture, family structure, gender relationships, and social and economic issues. In partnership with California Newsreel, the database provides unique access to their African American Classics collection, and includes films covering history, politics, art and culture, family structure, social and economic pressures, and gender relations. Additionally, and exclusively from Alexander Street, Black Studies in Video will feature the SNCC Legacy Video Collection, a series of over fifty hours of formal addresses, panel discussions, and programs that took place at the fiftieth anniversary conference and reunion commemorating the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The collection includes documentaries on leading artists, writers, musicians, playwrights, and performers, such as Toni Morrison, Langston Hughes, Huey P. Newton, Frantz Fanon, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Eldridge Cleaver, August Wilson, Bobby Seale, Ethel Waters, Amiri Baraka, and Robert F. Williams. The database will also draw from the Hatch-Billops Collection, a critically acclaimed archive of primary and secondary resource materials focused on black American art, drama, and literature. Additional content planned for inclusion are the SNCC archives, the NAACP archives, and archives from select Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
- Ethnographic Video Online, Volume 1
March 06, 2013 8:00 AM
A comprehensive online resource for the visual study of human culture and behavior and the largest, most affordable streaming video collection of its kind, Ethnographic Video Online contains more than 500 hours of classic and contemporary documentaries produced by leading video producers in the discipline; previously unpublished footage from working anthropologists and ethnographers in the field; and select feature films.
- Filmakers Library Online
March 06, 2013 8:00 AM
Interdisciplinary resource of over 1,000 issue-based documentaries and independent films from the U.S. and other countries. Topics include: race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science, and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. Clips, playlists, etc., can be integrated into web pages and learning management systems either as links or embeds.
