Library News for the Faculty

Recent Acquisitions Round-Up

Libraries across campus have added noteworthy resources to their collections in preparation for the new academic year.

The first is a multidisciplinary resource. UC and UCLA purchases have expanded the scope of the Web of Science, a database of journal material in many fields. The sciences now cover material from 1900 to the present, the social sciences cover 1956 to the present, ISI Citation Databases provide data back to 1900, Science Citation Index Expanded covers from 1990 to the present, and Social Sciences Citation Index covers from 1956 to the present.

Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library
The Biomedical Library has licensed three major electronic resources. Global Health, a public health database of journal articles and books, conference proceedings, bulletins, reports, and theses emphasizing international health issues, consists of a current file (1973 to present) and an archive (1908-73) that include records from the British Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases up to 1983.

Birds of North America, a project of the Cornell University Lab of Ornithology, provides comprehensive scientific information for more than seven hundred species of birds nesting in the U.S. and Canada, including image and video galleries showing behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs, and nestlings as well as recordings of bird songs and calls.

In addition, the Library's History and Special Collections has acquired Description des écoles de chirurgie. dédiée à monsieur de la Martiniére by Jacques Gondoin, printed in Paris in 1780. Only one hundred copies were produced of this extravagant record of architect Gondoin's neo-classical masterpiece, the Ecole de Médecine in Paris. The book's spectacular drawings include the interior of the amphitheater with an anatomy lecture in progress.

Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library
Zhong gong zhong yao li shi wen xian zi liao hui bian [Corpus of important historic documents on Chinese Communist movement] is a unique collection of primary sources on the history and activities of Chinese Communism since 1949, especially materials internally published during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76). The 1,187-volume set was published from 1995 through 2004 in twenty-five series, each covering political figures or subjects.

Seisen kindai zasshishu features reproductions on 1,613 microfiche of fifteen Japanese literary journals originally published in the early twentieth century. And Zininzin Ilche Sidae Munhwa Yujok Chosa Charyo is a full-text database of excavation reports published during the Japanese Occupation.

Eugene and Maxine Rosenfeld Management Library
Several new business databases are accessible to the entire UCLA community. Business Monitor Online, with coverage of some 175 global markets, provides economic and political news, country economic and political risk ratings and analysis, market research and forecasts covering fourteen key industry sectors, and a database of more than fifty thousand multinational company subsidiaries.

The Conference Board's Research Online Collection, a repository of this renowned business research organization's full-text reports and annual surveys from 1996 to the present, covers the latest issues in business management and U.S. and global economics.

Global Financial Data is a vast collection of financial and economic time series data, some extending back to the sixteenth century, which provides more than six thousand current and historical data sets covering more than one hundred and fifty countries.

RIA Checkpoint, a full-text tax research tool for accounting and tax scholars and professionals, provides a broad range of primary and secondary tax reports, treatises, journals, and other tax news sources.

Science and Engineering Library Computing Reviews improves access to current research, theory, and applications in all subdisciplines of computing via expert, unbiased critical reviews of current publications of note.

The Water Encyclopedia offers a comprehensive look at the scientific and technological aspects of the world's most important natural resource and its role in science, engineering, and society.

DMJ 100, the online digital archive of the Duke Mathematical Journal, offers electronic access to nearly five thousand articles published between 1935 and 1999 and citations that link directly to MathSciNet and Zentralblatt Math.

Charles E. Young Research Library
New print additions to the reference collection include Enciclopedia temática del Perú; Women and Education in Iran and Afghanistan: An Annotated Bibliography of Sources in English, 1975-2003; and Polskie archiwum biograficzne, Seria nowa on microfiche.

Large, recently published sets include Islam: Political Impact, 1908-72: British Documentary Sources; Minorities in the Middle East: Jewish Communities in Arab Countries, 1841-1974; Minorities in the Middle East: Religious Communities in Jerusalem 1843-1974 and Minorities in Israel; and Zionist Movement and the Foundation of Israel 1839-1972. Supporting American Indian studies is the microfilm set Indian Rights Association Papers.

Completing the package of World Bank online statistical and research publications is Global Development Finance Online with more than two hundred debt and financial flows indicators for countries that report public and publicly guaranteed debt to the World Bank Debtor Reporting System; and World Bank eLibrary a portal for more than three thousand World Bank documents.

Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections
The archive of Giorgio Sant'Angelo, an important fashion designer from the 1960s through the ‘80s, complements the department's other fashion collections, including those of Bonnie Cashin and Rudi Gernreich. It was a gift of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is deaccessioning archival collections it is not set up to handle.

The Jack and Aiko Herzig Papers document this couple's efforts, which were critical to the success of the Japanese American redress movement. The collection enhances the department's holdings related to Japanese American experiences in Southern California, particularly the internment during World War II.

The Frederic Prokosch Collection, containing virtually every edition of his works as well as some manuscripts and autograph letters, complements the department's holdings of twentieth-century writers and of gay literature. It is also of interest for the "butterfly books," a series of miniature poetry books he designed and published during the 1930s. As these began to fetch good prices, he "created" many more, antedated them, and fed them into the market as modern rarities; Nicolas Barker exposed this scandal in a 1987 book. The collection contains almost all of the butterfly books, including early ones, forgeries, and later ones Prokosch made after Barker's book came out.

The Richard Sisson Research Collection on South Asia contains unique information on more than six thousand political leaders and activists at local, state, and national levels in South Asia, including in-depth interviews of major political figures involved in the Bangladesh War. A member of UCLA's political science faculty for twenty-five years, Sisson explored comparative regionalism and comparative politics in South Asia, particularly in India and Pakistan, where he collected extensive data during research trips between 1960 and 1990.