New Electronic Resources for 2008

This article was featured in Library Notes, #46 (Winter 2008).

The Galter Library is constantly striving to update our electronic resources and bring the most current tools to our patrons' desktops. With the new year, the library is continuing to increase its electronic collection. It is anticipated that most of the resources listed will become accessible in early 2008.

EcoSal

Northwestern University libraries have collaboratively licensed this American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Web information resource. Continually updated, it is based on the classic ASM Press publication, Escherichia coli and Salmonella: Cellular and Molecular Biology. It is an archive of the entire corpus of knowledge on the enteric bacterial cell, comprised of several hundred modules of information and interpretation, including the genome database. 

Sage

Northwestern University libraries have cooperatively licensed dual campus current access to Sage journals (back year files were cooperatively purchased in mid-2007). New biomedical titles not previously licensed that have now become available include: 

• American journal of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias
• American journal of medical quality
• Child maltreatment
• Journal of intensive care medicine
• Neurorehabilitation and neural repair
• Neuroscientist (The)
• Traumatology

Blackwell 

New titles added to the existing Northwestern University libraries’ cooperatively licensed suite include: 

• Journal of cellular and molecular medicine
• Journal of thrombosis and haemostasis

ScienceDirect 

New titles added to the existing Northwestern University libraries’ cooperatively licensed suite include: 

• Advances in pediatrics
• Cell host and microbe
• Cell stem cell
• Clinical neurology and neurosurgery
• European journal of pain
• International journal of obstetric anesthesia
• Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia
• Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews
• Seminars in vascular surgery
• Vaccine

Also worth noting: Northwestern University Library and Elsevier Publishers have entered an agreement to provide Northwestern University libraries' affiliated users with access to the full journal content in the Elsevier Freedom Collection for 2008-2009.   Journal coverage begins with 1995 - present.  This agreement provides access to over 1000 new e-journal titles during the two years covered by the agreement. Individual journal title records, with links, are being added to the online catalog, NUcat as well as the NU libraries' website e-journal lists. 

Wiley

New titles added to the existing Northwestern University libraries’ cooperatively licensed suite include:

• Journal of hospital medicine
• Contrast media and molecular imaging

Available through miscellaneous publishers and platforms
(Check E-Resources and the online catalog, NUcat. Records will indicate access and date coverage)

• Current opinion in drug discovery and development
• Endocrine practice
• Genes and immunity
• Journal of molecular diagnostics
• Journal of pediatric rehabilitation medicine
• Nature clinical practice: cardiovascular medicine
• Nature clinical practice: endocrinology and metabolism
• Nature clinical practice: gastroenterology and hepatology
• Nature clinical practice: nephrology
• Nature clinical practice: neurology
• Nature clinical practice: oncology
• Nature clinical practice: rheumatology
• Nature clinical practice: urology
• Nature protocols
• Psychology, health, and medicine
• RNA