• Early English Books Online reproduces the works listed in:

  Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue of printed materials published in the English language from 1475 to 1640 Wing's Short-Title Catalogue of works dating from 1641 to 1700 Thomason Tracts, a compendium of broadsides on the English Civil War printed between 1640 and 1661

  Included are works by Malory, Spenser, Bacon, More, Erasmus, Boyle, Newton, Galileo; musical exercises by Henry Purcell and novels by Aphra Behn; prayer books, pamphlets, and proclamations; almanacs, calendars, and other primary resources, all in full facsimile. Early English Books Online currently includes more than 125,000 early printed works. This incomparable collection meets the needs of the most exhaustive research requirements of scholars in English literature, history, linguistics, the fine arts, and the history of printing.
  
  
• Proquest 5000 is a large collection of databases containing indexed and fulltext journals (6,900 FT). Databases include:

  ABI/Inform, Education Complete, Applied Science & Tech Plus Banking Information Source, CJPI - Criminal Justice Periodical Index, Career and Technical Education Core and All Modules - Health Module, General Science Plus, Pharmaceutical News Index, ProQuest Asian Business, ProQuest Computing, ProQuest Education Complete, ProQuest European Business, ProQuest Law, ProQuest Medical Library, ProQuest Telecommunications, Religious Periodicals, Social Science Plus.

• PsycLIT has been replaced by PsycINFO PsycINFO is the major database of the APA, of which PsycLIT was a subset. PsycINFO provides access to over 1 million references from the international literature of psychology and the behavioural sciences. Relevant material from the related disciplines of anthropology, linguistics, law, physiology, education, medicine, business, sociology, and psychiatry is also included. PsycINFO indexes and abstracts over 1500 journals from over 50 countries, as well as English-language books and book chapters, technical reports and dissertations published worldwide.
• Library maps and floor plans have been updated to include all libraries. The Library Maps page is available from Libraries & Collections.
• A General Science Collection has been added to JSTOR (Journal Storage Project). The Collection includes... Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences 1990-1996, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 1960-1990 Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 1996, Philosophical Transactions: Physical Sciences and Engineering 1990-1995, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences 1960-1990, Proceedings: Biological Sciences 1990-1996.
• Project Muse - Project Muse is database of current international full-text serials covering the humanities and social sciences. Basic and advanced search options allow users to find known articles by author, title or date, retrieve all articles in a specific volume or issue, or on a particular topic. Project Muse was launched by the Johns Hopkins University Press, and now includes serial publications from many other academic publishers. Project Muse currently covers 113 titles over a range of subjects. Holdings of individual titles varies. To be notified when new issues are added to Project Muse, sign on here.
• Women's Resources International Women's Resources International includes over 232,000 records drawn from a variety of essential women's studies databases. The main subject areas are women's studies, gender studies, feminist theory and criticism. Coverage is international in scope, with emphasis on American Canadian and British publications.

• The Dictionary of Art covers painting, sculpture, architecture, photography and decorative arts, plus contemporary forms such as performance art and multimedia installations. Biographies of artists; histories of towns, cities, countries and ancient sites; articles on "Abstraction, Aesthetics,...Authenticity, Colour, Connoisseurship, ...Display of art,...Mass production,...Semiotics. There are 45,000 entries by 6,700 scholars from 120 countires.

• ARTbibliographies Modern provides international coverage of modern and contemporary fine and applied arts. It regularly indexes and abstracts 500 art, photography, and design journals and museum bulletins and selectively indexes over 2000 historical and cultural journals published throughout the world. In addition to periodical literature, ARTbibliographies Modern includes citations to dissertations, exhibition catalogs, and books (biographies, collected essays, criticism, Festschriften, and artists' books).

• ProQuest Education Complete is now available from LEARN. It contains more than 550 titles on education--including primary, secondary, and university-level topics--with nearly 300 in full text. Most articles are in PDF format.

  ProQuest Education Complete includes the indexing and abstracts from H.W. Wilson's Education Abstracts, plus many additional titles.

  Education Complete coverage is from 1986 to the present.

• Complete 2000 reload of Georef (the electronic equivalent of the print publication Bibliography and Index of Geology), and Geobase (an international bibliographic database for physical and human geography, geology, mineralogy, ecology and development studies), with updated and expanded index fields, improving search retrieval.

• The Manuscripts and Archives Catalogue is now available. It lists manuscripts and archives held in the New Zealand and Pacific Collection and Te Huka-ā-tai (Maori Studies Library), including both original and copied material such as microfilm.
• IEEE Xplore is a full text database which provides nearly one third of the world's current literature in electrical engineering, electronics and computer science.
• Stuff, available through the Internet Gateway / Electronic News is a new site from NZ's Independent Newspapers Ltd. 

• There are new web interfaces for two of our in-house databases. They are the Audio Visual Department Collection, and the English Department Phonograph Collection. The first is an index to the material held in the Audio Visual Library, a collection of material belonging to different departments mostly from the Arts Faculty. It consists of 3400 videocassettes, 730 audiocassettes and 3000 art slides. The material is intended for use with specific courses, but includes items of wide interest.The second is an index to a collection held in the Audio Visual Library of 300 sound recordings belonging to the English Department. It consists largely of English and American poetry, but also includes recordings of plays and other prose. Many of the recordings feature poets reading their own work, the oldest of these being Alfred Lord Tennyson reading "The Charge of the Light Brigade". 

• The library is trialling an online version of the Oxford English Dictionary until the end of April. Please have a look and send all comments and feedback to either Brian Flaherty or Linda George. The OED website includes a chronology of events relevant to the history of the OED, dictionary facts and a 'Word of the Day'. The OED online supports searching by definition, etymology, quotation and fulltext entries.
• We are having a three-month trial of the FolioWeb version of Status Acts and Regs plus their Assents and Compendium. This is available from LEARN under the Status Legislation on the Web link in the Databases A-Z list. Please have a look and send all comments and feedback to Mary-Rose Russell.

• Trial of the new interface of the full-text IEEE database (IEEEXplore) for 2 weeks from 17/03/00 - 31/03/00. IEEEXplore contains the full-text of all IEEE and IEE publications including journal articles, conference papers,and technical standards from 1988 to the present. Feedback to Engineering Library please.
• The directory of Library staff page on LEARN is now running dynamically from a database. There are 3 ways to search: by an a-z list of all staff, by department, and by name.

• Electronic Journals is a searchable database of the Library's electronic journals. Over the next few months extra subject headings will be added for these journals, to enable searching by broad subject categories. Presently you can search for a keyword in a title or browse all titles.
• Introducing a new pulldown menu on the front page of LEARN. "I would like to" links to frequently asked for services and forms including interlibrary loans, book recommendations and information on using LEARN from home.
• JSTOR, an archive of over 80 fulltext journals is now available on LEARN. The journals are on average 2-5 years behind the latest issue, so its value is as an ever-increasing archive of journal back issues. Most journals are available back to Issue 1 (some start in the 19th century!). Subject areas include Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology and Statistics.

• Voyager upgrade with the following new features: 

Relevance Keyword has been modified so that it is even faster.
New links to the online Voyager Tutorial and also links to Other Libraries and New Books. 
Patrons can now cancel recalls they no longer require on the Patron screen under Request Information.
Improvements to terminology include:
 
• "Available" instead of  "Not Charged" 
• "On loan" instead of "Charged" 
• "Returned" instead of "Discharged on"

• A new  Springer-Verlag mathematics database on LEARN - Zentralblatt reviews and indexes articles from about 2,000 serials, as well as books, conference proceedings and research papers.
• SciFinder Scholar 3.0 is now available for searching from library PCs.  This database provides online access to CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) databases, covering biotechnology , agricultural chemistry, toxicology, environmental science, medicine and food science. The software is also on LEARN for download and installation in offices across campus.
• Web of Science is a collection of multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information, comprising Science Citation Index (1990-) Social Sciences Citation Index (1995-) and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1995-) 

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