Pollak Library continues to add new electronic resources to meet the needs of our community. Since September, the Library has acquired several new electronic databases. Peruse the database titles and content descriptions below. You can access interesting ones from the Databases A-Z list on the Library home page.
Art Full Text provides indexing and abstracting for over 480 international art publications and contains full text for 160 selected art publications in English and as well as several other European languages. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Subject coverage includes Advertising Art, Antiques, Archaeology, Architecture & Architectural History, Art History, Contemporary Art, Costume, Crafts, Decorative Arts, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures, Museology, Non-Western Art, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, Textiles, and Video.
Biography Index cites biographical articles appearing in more than 3,000 periodicals as well as some 2,000 current books of individual and collective biography. Also included are citations to interviews, obituaries, collections of letters, diaries, memoirs, juvenile literature, book reviews, bibliographies and exhibition reviews. People covered range from antiquity to the present and represent all fields and nationalities.
With select full-text coverage back to 1983, Book Review Digest Plus indexes reviews of current fiction and non-fiction, providing full-text reviews, review excerpts, or citations for 1,300,000 reviews covering over 660,000 books across all disciplines. A book may receive as little as one review citation, or more, including descriptive summary, multiple review excerpts, and full-text, depending upon the review literature. The database includes children's books as well as books for adults and young adults.
This database is a growing collection of digitized scores. The collection will eventually contain over 400,000 pages of classical scores from both in-copyright and public domain editions. The current size of the collection is listed on the opening screen. Coverage of score types is comprehensive, including full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and piano reductions. The database has been indexed to enable users to search on musically relevant fields, such as composer, work/opus number, key, genre, instrument, time period as well as score-specific fields, such as score type, duration, editor, arranger, publisher.
This database has 900,000 full-text dissertations in Education, Art, Communications, Humanities, Literature, Linguistics, and Social Sciences. It includes the theses of Fullerton graduate students who have published through UMI Dissertation Publishing; currently, more than 3,800 CSUF theses are available in this database.
This database contains Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Drama Criticism, and Children's Literature Review. It also offers scholarly and popular commentary from encyclopedias, books, periodicals, pamphlets, and broadsheets in an online format that matches the look and feel of the print originals.
Library Literature & Information Science Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes articles and book reviews in more than 234 key library and information science periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. It includes full-text coverage with PDF images for over one hundred selected periodicals. Books, chapters in collected works such as conference proceedings, theses, and pamphlets are also indexed. Full-text coverage begins in 1994.
Compiled by Will Breitbach
Reference & Instruction Librarian