New Reference E-Books and Databases

Gale / Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
A collection of about 175 primary source documents which focus on the environment, including speeches, legislation, articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, etc., with accompanying information on context.

Sage / Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
Two-volume set (2006) provides an overview of modern sociology, including assessment of about 100 specialty fields, four distinct phases of development in the history of sociological inquiry, various traditional sub-fields (such as political sociology), and evolving new sub-fields.

Scribner's / Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
Multi-volume set containing scholarly, signed biographical essays on notable Americans who have died since 1980.

Palgrave Macmillan / NetLibrary.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
Comprehensive collection (2007) of terms, facts, examples, quotes, illustrations -- "all to help communicate the practice of branding" in the business world.

Greenwood,
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
First volume of a two-volume set (2007) is subtitled Linguistic, Ethnic, and Economic Revival. The second volume, subtitled Legal, Cultural, and Environmental Revival is available here. Edited by Bruce Johansen, this set is a guide to "Native American revival in our time," including detailed descriptions of efforts throughout North America regarding recovery of languages, trust funds, economic base, legal infrastructure, and more.

Oxford University Press / Oxford Reference Online.
Available online.   (W&L subscription).
About 8,500 entries on scientific and social aspects of ecology and the environment, with coverage of such areas as: sustainable development; biodiversity; conservation; environmental ethics, philosophy, and history; resource management; sociology; and policy.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

Oxford University Press / Oxford Reference Online.
Available online.   (W&L subscription).
One volume (2007) contains over 900 alphabetically-arranged entries on artists, sculptors, photographers, institutions, schools, events, techniques, styles, and movements important to American art from colonial times to contemporary postmodernism.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

Oxford University Press / Oxford Reference Online.
Available online.   (W&L subscription).
2007 volume edited by David Dabydeen contains over 400 entries from 100 contributors on the history of black people in the British Isles to the present day.
Links will be maintained in several locations in our Web, including here.

Oxford University Press / Oxford Reference Online.
Available online.   (W&L subscription).
Entries from more than 70 contributors on 20 centuries of Scottish history, covering areas such as archaeology, climate, culture, languages, immigration, migration, and emigration.
A link will be maintained on this library Web here.

Oxford University Press / Oxford Reference Online.
Available online.   (W&L subscription).
This is the second edition (2002) of editor S.J. Connolly's work, which contains about 1,800 signed entries from 91 experts in Irish studies.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

Routledge / NetLibrary.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
This 2007 volume contains over 350 signed entries on "men's personal and social lives as shaped by gender."

Blackwell / NetLibrary.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
This 2006 volume is a collection of 29 original essays, surveying satire from its emergence in Western literature to the present.

Oxford University Press.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
Multifaceted, ever-growing database contains "over 3,000 A-Z reference entries, chapters from scholarly and introductory works, Qur'anic materials, primary sources, images, and timelines." Includes Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, the Oxford History of Islam, and other significant works.

Gale / Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
The fifth edition (2005) contains about 350 signed entries in "management theories and applications, written by academics and business professionals."

Blackwell / NetLibrary.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
Comprehensive survey (2006) of the study of religion, edited by Robert Segal. An interdisciplinary guide consisting of 24 authoritative essays, examining the main approaches to the study of religion.

Sharpe / Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
Chronologically-arranged essays and maps, plus thematic coverage of the modern era.

Congressional Quarterly.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
The library's Supreme Court Yearbook account has been updated to cover the 2005-2006 term of the Court. There is a separate overview of the term and the appropriate updates have been incorporated into all the subject sections ("Environmental Law," etc.).