New Resources in East Asian Studies, Medicine, Humanities and Social Sciences
The UCLA Library has added a number of major resources recently. Following are descriptions of several that support research and instruction in East Asian studies, medicine, and the humanities and social sciences.
A grant from the Freeman Foundation funded the purchase of more than one hundred titles of reference and primary-source material in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean to support undergraduate initiatives. Subject areas include art, popular culture, film studies, history, and literature. The titles encompass collected works of modern Chinese authors, indexes to Japanese pre-war journals, and subscriptions to two online Korean full-text journals.
UpToDate, an online database of more than six thousand peer-reviewed topics designed for use by health care professionals, answers clinical questions by summarizing published evidence and making specific recommendations for patient care. Gideon -- Global Infectious Disease and Epidemiology Network -- offers diagnosis and reference information in tropical and infectious diseases, epidemiology, microbiology, and antimicrobial chemotherapy.
Empire Online contains images of original manuscripts and printed material from 1492 to 1962, taken from libraries and archives around the world. The database focuses on colonial history, politics, culture, and society in Africa, the Americas, Australasia, Oceania, and South Asia. Contents also include essays by leading scholars in five thematic areas; further essays will be added through 2007.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 is an online collection of books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies documenting the multiplicity of women's reform activities.
For an update on new resources in your subject area, contact your library liaison; you can view a list online. You can also submit a purchase recommendation online.
