New online references sources added to the collections include:
If you’d like to consult with a librarian about these or other sources, contact us!
The U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection Part D (2004-2010) and Part E (2011) have been added to ProQuest Congressional. Choose “Advanced Search” to isolate your search in a discrete collection.
If you have questions about using this resource, contact the Libraries’ reference staff.
The PEN America association of writers produces a directory of approximately 1,500 domestic and foreign literary grants, awards, fellowships and residencies. You can search the Grants & Awards database by keyword, genre (e.g. children’s literature, poetry, journalism, etc.), type of listing or deadline. This database is accessible by username and password. If you have questions about using it, please contact reference staff.
The Libraries have purchased backfiles and current access to the following new databases available on the Web of Knowledge platform from Thomson:
Subject coverage of these databases covers the humanities, sciences and social sciences, and they complement our existing Web of Science core resources.
Please contact a reference librarian if you have questions about any of these new sources.
Ad$pender is a database of advertising spending data across over 3 million brands covered by 18 media. You can create custom reports across brands or products, geographic markets, media, time span and generate the reports in different formats and outputs.
If you have questions or would like assistance using this new resource, contact Mike Davis, Business Liaison Librarian, at 413-545-6822.
Contemporary Black Biography provides biographical profiles of people with African American and/or black heritage across nationalities and professional fields. You can browse entries in 104 volumes or the index, or search across the series.
If you have questions or would like assistance, contact a librarian.
The new database Import Genius collects logs of shipping containers moving around the world. You can search by product, importer, shipper, vessel, container number, port, date, etc. and see all the parties involved in trade. You can create maps of the movements of products by consignee and shipper and export or email results of your searches.
To use Import Genius you must create an account with a UMass email account. For assistance using this resource, contact Mike Davis, Business Reference Librarian at 413-545-6822.
Global Plants is a growing database of images, naming structures, locality and country, collector and collection of plants from over 300 herbaria around the world. Related materials, such as correspondence, diaries and paintings from plant collectors, reference sources, articles, maps and more are presented with each entry. You can browse by taxonomy, resource type, geography, herbarium or collection, and you can search by keyword, title, biological classification and more.
Global Plants is produced by the Global Plants Initiative and hosted by JSTOR. If you have questions about this resource or would like assistance using it, contact Madeleine Charney, Sustainability Studies Liaison Librarian, at 413-545-0784.
Digital National Security Archive includes 40 collections of declassified government documents covering Afghanistan, Chile, Cuba, Iraq, Japan, and many other countries, as well as policy makers such as Henry Kissinger and U.S. Presidents Truman, Carter, Bush and Obama, and topics like nuclear non-proliferation and terrorism. You can browse through the collections, or search documents, chronologies, glossary or bibliographies.
For assistance using this new resource, contact a librarian.
The Libraries has upgraded its subscriptions to include full-text with the following indexes:
If you have questions or comments about any of these resources, contact a librarian.