OCLC
CAMIO provides high-quality fine and decorative art images for education, research and enjoyment. Coverage ranges from 3000 BC to the present. Content includes around 95,000 works of art-photographs, paintings, sculpture, decorative and utilitarian objects, prints, drawings and watercolors, jewelry and costumes, textiles and architecture-plus audio, video and mixed media. CAMIO is available at a 20% discount to new subscribers ordering by June 20, 2008. For more information on CAMIO see: http://www.oclc.org/us/en/camio/about/default.htm
eBook Subject Sets for 2008
NetLibrary Subject Sets are an easy and economical way to start or grow your library's eBook collection with authoritative frontlist titles. With 35 eBook Subject Sets to choose from, there are collections for every library types and cover areas relevant to your library users' interests and requirements, including the new Tax Subject Set.
Overviews of the following databases are available here: http://www.oclc.org/us/en/firstsearch/content/databases/default.htm
The following databases are available at a 10% discount to new subscribers ordering by June 20, 2008.
Anthropology Plus
Anthropology Plus is the world's most comprehensive, focused index of bibliographic materials from the late 19th century to today, covering the fields of anthropology, archaeology and interdisciplinary studies. Available only from OCLC, Anthropology Plus unites two premier indexes: Harvard University's Anthropological Literature database and the United Kingdom's Anthropological Index (Royal Anthropological Institute). These sources provide a uniquely broad and rich resource for education and research in anthropology and related fields and offer a premier resource for anthropology, archaeology and related studies.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals has been lauded as the single most important bibliographical research tool available worldwide for research in architecture, urban design, historic preservation, and urban planning history. The only comprehensive American guide to the current literature of architecture and design, the Avery Index now surveys more than 2,500 US and foreign journals. Three-fourths of these are not indexed in any other source.
Bibliography of the History of Art
The Bibliography of the History of Art database is the world's most comprehensive art bibliography, covering European and American visual arts from late antiquity to the present. It encompasses the fine arts as well as decorative and applied arts, and indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings, dissertations, exhibition and dealers' catalogs, and articles from more than 4,300 periodicals-offering more than 650,000 records.
CHICANO
The Chicano Database, produced by the University of California, Berkeley, Ethnic Studies Library, identifies in one place all types of material about Chicanos and provides uniform subject access to this constantly growing body of literature. Interdisciplinary in nature, this acclaimed database of nearly 60,000 records furthers research, teaching and scholarship for Chicano studies programs and broader ethnic studies curricula. This database is available only from OCLC.
FRANCIS Database
The FRANCIS database is recognized for its international scholarly coverage of wide-ranging topics in the humanities and social sciences. Its millions of authoritative bibliographic citations are a boon to modern interdisciplinary research, teaching and scholarship. Produced by the highly regarded Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, FRANCIS indexes multilingual information published in over 4,300 journals and provides abstracts for 80 percent of its 2+ million records.
Contact Information
- Doug Potts
- pottsd@oclc.org
- 800-848-5878 x5224