New Databases

By Annie Smith, Reference/Instruction Librarian

In the past year, the Library has added several new databases in education, the sciences, and the social sciences.

TeachingBooks is a specialized resource for future teachers and education professionals. It offers a wealth of materials and activities designed to promote literacy in K-12 students. This database makes matching up resources to specific books a snap.

The Library has had access to Chemical Abstracts for a number of years but we recently renegotiated our access with the vendor to offer direct access. We recently added a link to our list of databases to instantly search for chemistry research, conference proceedings, patents, dissertations, and much more.

ArXiv is a free online collection of prepublication articles from a wide variety of physical and life sciences as well as mathematics. The articles available in this database are not quite in their final form,
but they are freely available. ArXiv is maintained by Cornell University’s library. They welcome submissions from scholars around the world. For more information about ArXiv, visit http://arxiv.org/.

The Library also purchased access to The Mental Measurements Yearbook online through EBSCO. The
MMY can be found on our list of databases. This resource has been published by the Buros Center for
Testing for decades and offers information that’s not available anywhere else. Testing is a key source of information in the social sciences. While it doesn’t offer access to the tests themselves, the MMY specializes in descriptions and evaluations of hundreds of different tests. Our subscription includes every issue of The Mental Measurements Yearbook from volume one, published in 1938, to the present.