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The following databases are currently under evaluation by the library. Please let us know your opinions on these databases. Also, if there is a database you would like to have considered, contact your librarian liaison.

Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, 1895-1976
Comprehensive index to historical information published by the United States federal government. The Monthly Catalog is currently complete from 1955-1975. Entries for the remaining earlier years will be added by the end of 2008.

New in 2007/2008

Oxford African American Studies Center
Includes: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition; Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass (and forthcoming companion volume, 1896-present; Black Women in America, Second Edition; African American National Biography; other Oxford reference sources, images, maps, charts, and tables.
CQ Almanac
Coverage of the people, elections, legislation, and controversies in the U.S. Congress from 1945- . Original narrative accounts of every major piece of legislation that lawmakers considered during a congressional session. Includes all of the content from the print version of the Almanac. Updated annually. For more recent coverage, see CQ Weekly.
Art Index Retrospective
Indexing of hundreds of publications. Includes citations to peer-reviewed articles, interviews and books reviews. Covers fine, decorative, and commercial art. International in scope. Coverage is 1929-1984.
Gallup Brain
Searchable database of the thousands of Gallup Polls conducted from 1935 to today. Users can search questions, results, specific surveys, and associated articles. Also houses Gallup Poll and Gallup Management Journal articles that feature in-depth public opinion and management data analyses.
British Periodicals
British Periodicals provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth century.
Oxford Scholarship Online
The complete text of over 1,800 Oxford books in core areas of Biology, Business and Management, Classical Studies, History, Mathematics, Linguistics, Literature, Physics and Psychology - in addition to Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science and Religion.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Notes English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800. A variety of materials is included—from books and broadsides, Bibles, tract books and sermons to printed ephemera. Spans many disciplines. Based on The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), as well as those from more than 1,500 university, private, and public libraries worldwide.
FBIS Full Text - Africa, Middle East, & S. Asia, 1974 - 1996
Full text of Daily Reports from the CIA’s Foreign Broadcast Information Service, from 1974-1996. Individual reports include speeches, broadcasts, news articles from countries in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. Texts are translated into English by the CIA.
Handbook of Child Psychology
Vol. 1: Theoretical Models of Human Development. Vol. 2: Cognition, Perception, and Language. Vol. 3: Social, Emotional, and Personality Development. Vol. 4: Child Psychology in Practice. This sixth edition contains new chapters on such topics as spirituality, social understanding, and non-verbal communication. You can browse or search the contents of this e-book.
PrimateLit
The PrimateLit database provides bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities. Coverage of the database spans 1940 to present and includes all publication categories (articles, books, abstracts, technical reports, dissertations, book chapters, etc.)
Forest Science
Forest Science Database indexes and abstracts international and domestic forest, wood science, and agroforestry research articles, books, and conferences, with content from 1939 to present. It is an ideal source for foresters, scientists, environmental consultants, policy makers and others actively involved in research or decision-making in agroforestry, forestry, wood science, and the forest and timber industries.
Mergent Online
Domestic and international company information. Includes company financials, equity prices, SEC filings, subsidiaries, and more.
AgEcon Search: Research in Agricultural and Applied Economics
Collects, indexes, and electronically distributes full text copies of scholarly research in the broadly defined field of agricultural economics.
Women and Social Movements in the United States
Revolves around projects that interpret and present documents on the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000. Each document project poses an interpretive question and provides a collection of documents that address the question. Projects provide the full text of documents, images, and links to websites. Includes a dictionary of social movements and organizations, a chronology of U.S. Women's History, teaching tools with lesson ideas, and quarterly news from the archives about U.S. Women's History.
Chicago Manual of Style
Browse or search the "bible of the publishing and research community."
Play Index
Find citations to plays written from Antiquity to the present and published from 1949 to the present.
Periodical Archives Online
Backfiles of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences available electronically, access to the full text of periodicals that have been indexed in its sister database, Periodicals Index Online.
Boston Globe Archive (1872-1923)
Full-text and full-image articles. Complete cover-to-cover with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF.

New in 2006/2007!

Index to Printed Music
"Combines the IPM Index Database, the IPM Bibliography Database and the IPM Names Database into the only electronic title for finding individual pieces of music printed in standard scholarly editions. Because it indexes each individual piece in a collection, it provides superior access for scholars, performers, teachers, and other researchers."
Times (London) Archive
The complete digital edition of The Times of London. Offers full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.
Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2nd ed., Macmillan)
Update to the 1967 8-volume set
ScienceDirect
Full text access to hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals.
Europa World Plus
Economic, political and geographic background information along with statistical data, by country. Corresponds to the print version Europa World Year Book and nine-volume Regional Surveys. Contains primarily current information.
Facts on File World News Digest
Covering 1940 to the present, World News Digest contains essential facts of the news as reported in the major newspapers and news magazines around the world. Emphasis throughout is on the factual content rather than opinion or analysis. Also, hourly headline news, maps, and more.
SourceOECD International Trade by Commodity
NOTE: REQUIRES IE 5.01 OR HIGHER. Yearly statistical data on imports and exports in OECD countries, selected non-OECD countries, as well as in the OECD main country groupings. It provides detailed data in value (thousands USD) and quantity by commodities and by partner countries.
SourceOECD Monthly Statistics of International Trade
NOTE: REQUIRES IE 5.01 OR HIGHER. Statistics on international trade of OECD countries. Data are broken down by economic groupings, by country and by region, and include seasonally adjusted series as well as calculated indicators.
SourceOECD Services Statistics
NOTE: REQUIRES IE 5.01 OR HIGHER. National accounts statistics on output and employment in service activities and trade in services statistics.
Senate & House Journals, Series I, 1789-1817
Journals of the House of Representatives and Senate 1789 to 1817, covering the first 14 Congresses of the United States.
Senate Executive Journals, Series I, 1789-1866
Executive Journals of the United States Senate 1789 to 1866, covering the first Congress through the first session of the 39th Congress.
ebrary
ebrary is a company that provides electronic books to libraries. Bowdoin has licensed ebrary’s Academic Complete collection, which contains the full-text of nearly 30,000 titles. ebrary e-books are included in the Bowdoin Library Catalog and will appear in your search results with the phrase [electronic resource] after the title.
Classical Music Library
Recordings of music written from the earliest times (e.g., Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera.
African American Song
Documents the history of African American music in an online music listening service. The collection contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others.
American Broadsides and Ephemera
This is a fabulous collection of American broadsides printed between 1820-1900, and ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900. One of the many treasures you’ll find are graphic images of advertisements and circulars ranging from "alcoholic beverages" to "zoological specimens" ("Advertising specimens under the headings of mineralogy, rocks, fossils, casts of celebrated fossils, skins of animals and stuffed specimens, skeletons, and invertebrates.")
Early American Newspapers, Series II & III.
Added extensive coverage of early American newspapers in fully searchable, graphic form, now covering 1690-1922
Physics Review Online Archive
The American Physical Society’s Physical Review Online Archive. It includes all APS journal content back to 1893. It provides full image of the complete content of each issue of each journal covered. There is a rolling 4 year embargo (e.g., content from 2002 will be included during 2006)
Film and Television Literature Index
"Scholarly and critical analysis of cinema and television, and articles of popular interest about film and television." Currently covers 1988 - present; will eventually absorb Film Literature Index, which covers 1976-2001.
Collected Works of John Dewey
"This database is based on the 37-volume printed edition The Collected Works of John Dewey, 1882-1953, published by Southern Illinois University Press, 1967-1990 (edited by Jo Ann Boydston)."

New in 2005/2006

International Financial Statistics
International Financial Statistics is a standard source of international statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance. It reports, for most countries of the world, current data needed in the analysis of problems of international payments and of inflation and deflation, i.e., data on exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, and national accounts.
American State Papers
"The American State Papers constitute rich primary source material on many aspects of early American history from 1789 to 1838. A retrospective republication of approximately 6280 numbered publications, largely Congressional but also containing Executive Department materials...Now available: 1st Congress, 1st Session through 25th Congress, 2nd Session, 1789-1838, American State Papers Vols. 01-038."
Historical Statistics of the United States Online
"The standard source for the quantitative facts of American history. Completely expanded and revised. Advanced searching of the tables, their documentation, and essays. Advanced searching of the tables, their documentation, and essays."
Digital Sanborn Maps: Maine, 1867-1970
"Large-scale maps of Maine cities and towns. Sanborn maps are valuable historical tools for urban specialists, social historians, architects, geographers, genealogists, local historians, planners, environmentalists and anyone who wants to learn about the history, growth, and development of American cities, towns, and neighborhoods."
Birds of North America Online
"...comprehensive reference covering the life histories of North American birds."
Naxos Music Library
"...the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues of over 130,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. Whilst listening, you can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos’s extensive database."
Naxos Music Library Jazz
"...offers close to 20,000 tracks of jazz from over 1,850 albums. Over 500 jazz artists are represented. Naxos Music Library Jazz comprises Naxos Jazz and the 22 labels of Fantasy Jazz. Naxos Jazz, along with Prophone and Proprius, brings you the world of international Jazz, covering Sweden and Scandinavian jazz artist. US-based Fantasy has the world’s deepest jazz catalogue and offers the very best in blues and R&B."
Film Index International
"Film Index International is a filmography that gives fully international coverage of around 118,000 films and 685,000 film personalities from over 170 countries. Its rich content also includes coverage of international film awards and prizes as well as searchable plot summaries and full cast and crew lists."
Early American Imprints. Series 1, Evans (1639-1800)
"Based on Charles Evans’ historic "American Bibliography" and containing all titles from the Evans microform editions, the collection has long served as a foundation set for the teaching and learning of early American history, literature, philosophy, religion, and more. Over 2.3 million page images from almost 37,000 imprints are available online in Evans Digital, including material from almost 1000 'newly discovered' items that were recently added."
Early American Newspapers, Series 1 (1690-1876)
"Efforts to assemble this renowned collection began with Clarence Brigham’s authoritative "History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820." The colonial and early national newspapers collected by American Antiquarian Society founder Isaiah Thomas form the core of this collection, which has been supplemented by newspapers later collected by the Society. Additional issues from numerous esteemed institutions and historical societies round out the digital edition of EAN. (The latest release now makes more than 265,949 issues representing some 1,173,235 page images available online. Upon completion of/ Series I/ by January, more than 1,000 newspapers will be represented. Subsequent series will contain all of the American Antiquarian Society’s 19th-century newspapers, as well as newspapers from other institutions."
American Periodicals Series Online
"...Digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Titles range from Benjamin Franklin’s General Magazine and America’s first scientific journal, Medical Repository; popular magazines such as Vanity Fair and Ladies’ Home Journal; regional and niche publications; and groundbreaking journals like The Dial, Puck, and McClure’s."
The Database of Recorded American Music
Contains over 1,200 CDs (7,500 compositions) of American music recordings by New World Records. "From folk to opera, Native American to jazz, 19th century classical to early rock, musical theater, contemporary, electronic and beyond, New World has served composers, artists, students and the general public since its inception in 1975 with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. A further DRAM initiative is the expansion of content to include American music from other sources. Other labels currently represented on the Database include CRI, Albany, innova, Cedille, XI, Pogus, Deep Listening and Mutable. Alliances with other major and independent labels and archival sources are crucial to DRAM’s goal of collecting the widest spectrum of American music possible for educational use and scholarly research."
Access World News
"Provides full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international sources, each with its own distinctive focus offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues. Excludes paid advertisements." "Provides full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international sources, each with its own distinctive focus offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues. Excludes paid advertisements."
Smithsonian Global Sound
"Smithsonian Global Sound, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world’s musical and aural traditions. ... It includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. It also includes music recorded around the African continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University as well as material collected by recordists on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), sponsored by the American Institute for Indian Studies."
GeoScienceWorld
A comprehensive resource for research and communications in the geosciences, consisting of full text peer-reviewed journals indexed, linked, and inter-operable with GeoRef.

New in 2004/2005!

U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980
Contains legislative reports, documents and journals from the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, along with significant Executive agency publications. Reports of exploration, technology, finance, immigration, scientific discovery, culture, commerce and war comprise this set of primary documents. Maps and statistics are included. The last portion digitized will be the American State Papers, reports from 1789-1838, compiled and organized in subject volumes.
ARTstor
ARTstor is a growing repository of 300,000+ digital images and related data supporting interdisciplinary studies with special emphasis on collections of art, architecture and archeology. For more information on using ARTstor see About ARTstor at Bowdoin College.
PsycCRITIQUES
PsycCRITIQUES is a database of full-text reviews of current books, some popular films, and comparative reviews of books. It replaces the print journal Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books.
WestLaw Campus
Contains laws and statutes of the federal government and all 50 states as published in United States Code Annotated. Also includes: federal and state court cases; federal regulations published in the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations; American Law Reports, a research tool that collects and analyzes every court case decided on a particular point of law; an encylopedia of state and federal law; articles from law reviews and journals; and European Union law sources.
AnthroSource
"AnthroSource, produced by the American Anthropological Association in partnership with University of California Press, contains the full text of more than 30 journals, including: A complete electronic archive of all AAA journals through 2003, Seamless access to archival content housed at JSTOR for key AAA publications including American Anthropologist, and current issues for 11 of the AAA’s most critical peer-reviewed publications."
International Who’s Who
Brief biographies for heads of state, politicians, religious leaders and ambassadors, the eminent and successful in business, finance, technology, film, music, fashion, sport, literature and the performing arts.
Environmental Issues and Policy Index
Policy issues are covered in this bibliographic database for a broad range of environmental topics. U.S. and international journals are indexed; subjects include agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, environmental law, marine and freshwater resources, and urban planning. Coverage extends back to 1973.
Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective
This bibliographic database covers some of the best known scholarly journals and numerous lesser known specialized magazines in a broad array of humanities and social sciences topics. Coverage runs from 1907-1984.
State and International Modules Added to Lexis/Nexis Statistical
International and state modules have been added to the Lexis/Nexis Statistical database. Previously, the Library’s subscription included only federal statistical publications. Now, state, business, private, international, and intergovernmental sources can be searched. The federal module (ASI) covers 1973-; the state module (SRI) covers 1980-; the international module (IIS) covers 1983- .

New in 2003/2004!

Book Review Digest Plus
Book review citations from thousands of periodicals. Broad coverage of fiction, nonfiction, books for children, and reference works in the humanities, social sciences, and general sciences. Some full text is included.
Oxford Reference Online
Oxford Reference Online contains the full-text of over 100 selected language and subject Oxford University Press reference books. Combined into a single, cross-searchable database, these sources provide definitions, facts, figures, quotations, dates, and other brief information from subjects in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. The database is updated several times a year with new titles and new editions.
Xreferplus
Xreferplus is a full-text database that draws reference books from many well-known publishers and combines them into one, cross-referenced resource. It encompasses a wide variety of subjects such as art, health, literature, and politics. In addition to articles, xreferplus contains high-quality, searchable photographs, fine art, scientific diagrams, and other types of images. Over 76,000 audio pronunciation files also are included. New titles are added to xreferplus each year.
World Development Indicators
A statistical database that supports research needs in economics, government, sociology, and history, as well as other disciplines. It presents, in an easy-to-use format, data for over 200 countries and 18 country groups from 1960 to the present. Social, economic, financial, and environmental indicators are included; results can be exported in standard formats such as Microsoft Excel.
Social Services Abstracts
A bibliographic database covering social work, human services, social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,500 serial publications, dissertations, and citations to book reviews. Coverage starts in 1980; new records are added each month.
New Maine State Databases
ValueLine Research Center includes online access to ValueLine’s leading publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks.
ProQuest Newspapers supplies full text of more than 500 U.S. and international news sources including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and Times of London. Maine papers covered: Bangor Daily News (1992+); Portland Press Herald (1995+); selected business coverage from Maine Times (1994-2002); and Central Maine Morning Sentinel (1993-1997).
Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide provides citations to the literature on mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians found in journals, conference proceedings, monographs, theses and dissertations, and government reports. The database includes Wildlife Review Abstracts, which was published through 1995 by the National Biological Service.
Nature, a leading international science journal, also is provided full text by the State of Maine.

New in 2002/2003!

Wall Street Journal, 1986 - Present
Full-text coverage of the Wall Street Journal via ProQuest Newspapers. Includes full text up to yesterday.
Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management
This multidisciplinary database focuses on the environmental sciences. Indexes over 5980 serials including scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications from 1981 to the present. Topics covered include: Agricultural biotechnology, Energy resources, Pollution: land, air, water, noise, solid waste, radioactive, Risk assessment and Safety Science.

New in 2001/2002!

Snow Index to Brunswick Newspapers
Index to Brunswick, Maine newspapers from 1853-1960.
Readers’ Guide Retrospective
Indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. The complete database covers the years 1890 through 1982.
New York Times Archive
Contains full text of the New York Times from 1851 to date.
Web of Science
Contains Social Sciences Citation Index and Science Citation Index from 1997 to date.
RISM : International Inventory of Musical Sources after 1600
The most comprehensive annotated index and guide to music manuscripts produced after 1600.
RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (1800-1950)
The only annotated index and guide to music periodicals of the 19th century, offering a firsthand perspective of 19th-century music and musical life. Includes contemporary writings about composers, performers, compositions and "just about any imaginable topic".
SciFinder Scholar
SciFinder Scholar is a desktop research tool for students and faculty that provides easy access to the rich and diverse scientific information offered by the CAS databases, dating back to 1967.
Contact Sue O’Dell in the Hatch Science Library for software installation instructions.
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
Online version of the print resource, regularly updated. Contains over 3,000 signed and peer-reviewed articles, focusing on biological topics.
Polling the Nations
PsycArticles
Full-text access to journals from the APA and selected EPF (Educational Publishing Foundation) journals, most from 1988 to the present.
Early English Books Online
"From the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War, Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave’s Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing’s Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661)."

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