Database Changes

New databases | Updates and changes | Cancellations

New databases

• Iter Coverage varies.     Save to del.icio.us   New 
  Some full text; varies by resource.
  Bibliographies, journals and other resources in the area of Medieval and Renaissance studies. These include:

  • Iter Bibliography
  • Milton: A Bibliography for the Years 1624-1700: Revised and for the Years 1701-1799
  • Early Theatre (electronic journal)
  • Records of Early English Drama Newsletter (REED Newsletter)
  • Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (electronic journal)
  • Iter Italicum
  • International Directory of Scholars
• ACS Legacy Archives (American Chemical Society) 1879 - 1995.  New 
  Provides full-text content of all American Chemical Society journals published through 1995. When combined with UMKC's subscription to ACS Publications, users now have access to the full text of all journals published by the American Chemical Society. Use the ACS Publications search screen to search for articles in this database.
• Historical Statistics of the United States (Cambridge University Press) Millenium Edition Online.      Save to del.icio.us   New 
  Data sets range from 1790 through late 20th century.
  Online counterpart to Historical Statistics of the United States, 4th edition. Contains more than 37,000 data series and essays. Quantitative data on numerous topics in American history.
• Film and Television Literature with Full Text (EBSCOhost) 1915 - present.     Save to del.icio.us    New 
  Selected full text 1915 - present.
  Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text covers all aspects related to the study of film and television, including such topics as theory, preservation, restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. The database fully indexes and abstracts more than 270 publications and provides selected coverage of more than 300 periodicals. The full text of articles is included for 70 journals and nearly 50 books. The periodicals covered range from the scholarly to the popular. Also included are images from the Motion Picture & Television Photo Archive.
• APA Style Guide to Electronic Resources (American Psychological Association) 2007 edition.     Save to del.icio.us   New 
  If you're using the APA Citation Style (American Psychological Association)
  here's their online guide of how to cite a wide variety of electronic resources in your research paper. 
• International Financial Statistics Online 1948 - present.      Save to del.icio.us
  Full text 1948 - present.
  International Financial Statistics (IFS) offers “approximately 32,000 time series covering more than 200 countries starting in 1948. Includes exchange rates, Fund accounts and the main global and country economic indicators.” [Source:P IMF webpage, accessed March 24, 2008]
• Scopus (Elsevier) 1960 - present; coverage varies by title; some earlier content included.      Save to del.icio.us
  Indexes and abstracts more than 15,000 research journals and over 350 million web pages. The primary focus is on the sciences.
• American Accounting Association journals (Atypon) 1999 - present; coverage varies by title.      Save to del.icio.us
  Full text 1999 - present; coverage varies by title.
  A collection of tax and accounting journals from the American Accounting Association. Journals include:
  
  Accounting and the Public Interest
  Accounting Horizons
  The Accounting Review
  Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory
  Behavioral Research in Accounting
  Current Issues in Auditing
  Issues in Accounting Education
  Issues in Accounting Education - Teaching Notes
  Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting
  Journal of Information Systems
  Journal of Information Systems - Teaching Notes
  Journal of International Accounting Research
  Journal of Legal Tax Research
  Journal of Management Accounting Research
  Journal of the American Taxation Association
• WorldCat.org (OCLC) Current edition.     Save to del.icio.us
  Access for UMKC students, faculty and staff. All others should use this link.
  A quick, easy way to search over 60,000 libraries worldwide, including the Library of Congress. Search on campus or via the link above to get complete information about which libraries have the materials you find.  Use the subscription version – WorldCat (FirstSearch) – for more comprehensive searching and to find obscure materials.
• Biography Reference Bank (Wilson Web) 1949 - present.    Save to del.icio.us
  Full text 1949 - present.
  The Biography Reference Bank includes biographies of over 500,000 people.  Along with full text biographic profiles there are links to over 380,000 related full text articles, interviews, essays, book reviews, performance reviews, speeches, or obituaries.
• Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (Wilson) 1890 - 1982.     Save to del.icio.us
  Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 provides a quick way to search 375 of the most popular general-interest magazines in the United States for a nearly 100-year period.  These magazines chronicle the most important events in U.S. culture and history during the 20th century.
• HLAS Online (Library of Congress) 1935 - present.      Save to del.icio.us
  HLAS Online is a web-based version of the print bibliography the Handbook of Latin American Studies. "The Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. Continuously published since 1936, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources.... Updated weekly, HLAS Online provides rapid, comprehensive access to future, current, and retrospective volumes of the Handbook." [Source: HLAS Online Home Page; accessed January 2, 2008.]
  

Changes to databases, new features, etc.

• Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities available again

  The newly reconstructed database is now available. If you've bookmarked this database, please note that they have also reconstructed their URLs.

• New way to search International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text and International Index to the Performing Arts Full Text

  Now you can search both databases together at Music and Performing Arts Online. To limit your search to just one of the databases, click in the appropriate box in the search form.

• Sage Public Administration Abstracts and Sage Urban Studies Abstracts expanded and renamed

  These two databases have been acquired by Ebsco. Now known as Public Administration Abstracts and Urban Studies Abstracts, they are now available through EBSCOhost. Ebsco has expanded coverage back to 1974.

• SciFinder Scholar 2004 retired

  The 2004 version of SciFinder Scholar client software has been retired. Visit http://merlin.missouri.edu/merlin/pages/scholar.htm to download the newest version of the software.

• Nature Clinical Practice Journals now available through Ovid

  Beginning December 18th, the Nature Clinical Practices journals will be available through Journals@Ovid. To access the journals, go to Journals@Ovid. You can either search for an article, or browse the list of available journals. You can also access a specific journal through Serials Solutions.

Cancellations

The online information resources listed below are no longer available, either because they have been cancelled or are no longer being produced.

The MERLIN consortium libraries include: University of Missouri-Columbia, University of Missouri-Kansas City, University of Missouri-Rolla, and University of Missouri-St. Louis.

We regret any inconvenience to the students, faculty, and staff of the University. Please contact Brenda Dingley, Interim Coordinator for Collection Development (telephone: (816) 235-2226)

ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature)

MERLIN license cancelled after 8/1/2003.

Access UN

MERLIN license cancelled after 9/1/2003.

Ageline

MERLIN license cancelled after 9/1/2003.

At UMKC, replaced with AARP Ageline, a free database that is now available.

American Humanities Index

Free trial period ended December 2004.

American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)

MERLIN license cancelled after 8/25/2003.

AP Photo (Associated Press)

MERLIN license cancelled after 9/21/2003.

Applied Science and Technology Full-Text (AST-FT)

MERLIN license cancelled after 9/1/2003.

BioMedNetReviews

Merged with ScienceDirect as of 6/30/2004.

BioethicsLine

Discontinued by producer after 8/2007.

Business and Company Resource Center (Gale)

MOREnet; statewide license cancelled after 6/30/2005

CancerLit

MERLIN; cancelled by publisher; the information will now be part of MEDLINE.

Clinical Pharmacology (EBSCOhost)

MOREnet; statewide license cancelled after 6/30/2007

DISCovering Collection

MoreNet; statewide license cancelled after 9/30/2003.

DISCovering Authors

DISCovering Biography

DISCovering Multicultural America

DISCovering Science

DISCovering U.S. History

DISCovering World History

Dissertation Abstracts (Ovid)

Producer no longer makes available through Ovid.

eLibrary

UMKC subscription cancelled after 4/30/2007

 

Ethnic NewsWatch

MERLIN license cancelled after 9/1/2003.

Expanded Academic ASAP

MERLIN license cancelled after July 31, 2004. Replaced by Academic Search Premier.

Film & Television Literature Index

Complementary access expired May 31, 2007

GenderWatch

UMKC; access cancelled by OCLC distributor after 7/1/2003.

GrayLIT Network

No longer produced by publisher as of October 31, 2007.

Jake

Link removed 7/28/2005. Database is no longer being updated.

MasterFILE Elite

MOREnet statewide license cancelled after June 30, 2005.
Replaced by MasterFILE Premier.

NewsBank

MOREnet access to the following newspapers cancelled beginning 7/1/2004:

Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Des Moines Register, Los Angeles Times, Louisville Courier-Journal, Memphis Commercial Appeal, Springfield (MO) News-Leader, Tulsa World, USA Today, Washington Post, Wichita Eagle

News Missouri

MOREnet license cancelled after 6/30/2004

OCLC Union List of Periodicals

Discontinued by publisher after 6/9/2005

Ovid Dentistry, Oral Surgery and Medicine Collection

Discontinued by publisher after 9/5/2005

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Complementary access expired 9/30/06

PA Research II Periodicals and Newspapers (Periodical Abstracts)

MERLIN license cancelled after 9/30/2003.

Periodical Contents Index

MERLIN license cancelled after 8/1/2003.

ProQuest Newspapers

Database no longer available at UMKC from the MERLIN consortium.

PsycARTICLES

MERLIN license cancelled after 12/31/06. Access maintained through PsycINFO and Journals@Ovid for spring 2007.

RLG Union Catalog

No longer available after 9/30/07. Merged with OCLC WorldCat upon the merger of RLG and OCLC.

Scopus

Free trial ended December 15,2006

SocioFile

MERLIN license cancelled after 8/31/2004. Replaced by Sociological Abstracts.

Stat-USA

MERLIN license cancelled after 2/1/2004.

UMKC will have in-building only access in Miller Nichols Library.