The University Libraries are pleased to announce the acquisition of the Readers’ Guide Retrospective database. This purchase was made with funds from the Libraries’ 2007-2008 Selective Investment Award. This retrospective database includes the entire content of the Reader’s Guide to...
The University Libraries are pleased to announce the acquisition of the digital archives of The New York Times through ProQuest Historical Newspapers. This valuable research tool, which covers 150 years of American history, was purchased with funds from the Libraries’...
In an effort to improve service to our users, the University Libraries have made a change in the OpenURL link resolver used for searching for full-text items in databases and journals. When you perform a search in one of the...
The M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives' has added new online finding aids to its Web site. Additional information about each collection is available through the appropriate links. Please consult the Department’s blog periodically for updates regarding new...
Access to Safari Tech Books Online http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/ is now available for the University at Albany community. Safari Tech Books Online is a joint venture of O'Reilly Media and The Person Technology Group. Our collection contains about 150 online books on...
The University Libraries is hosting a trial for Safari Tech Books. Safari Tech Books is joint venture of O'Reilly Media and the Pearson Technology Group. These two publishers account for over half of all IT books published. The collection contains...
Visit the University Libraries’ page on Hispanic Heritage Month, a brief collection of information and resources about Hispanic heritage and culture....
IUE-CWA Local 301's publications for 1939-1962 are now available in PDF format through the finding aid for the collection available at http://library.albany.edu/speccoll/findaids/apap023.htm. Local 301 has been representing workers at General Electric’s Schenectady facility since 1936. The newspaper is the only...
Visit the University Libraries’ new page on leisure reading, including information about the Leisure Reading Collection at the University Library and the Popular Science Browsing Collection at the Science Library, as well as links to bestseller lists, book reviews, and...
The World e-Book Fair (worldebookfair.com), sponsored by Project Gutenberg and World eBook Library, will be offering up to 300,000 books online from July 4 to August 4, 2006. Fiction, nonfiction and reference books plus classical music scores and recordings will...
New finding aids published for archival and manuscript collections in the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives are available at the New in the Department (http://library.albany.edu/speccoll/new.htm) page. Some of the most recent finding aids are for the collections...
Visit the University Libraries’ new page on sustainability issues, including information about things you can do to support a sustainable environment, such as recycling, getting involved, and being a responsible consumer. Connect to the Sustainability page....
Find out more about the man who introduced 3000 new words to the English language at "Happy 442nd Birthday Will!" and take the "How well do you know Will?" quiz....
Visit the University Libraries’ page on Earth Day, a brief collection of resources on Earth Day celebrations, the environment, and ecology....
The EBSCO-hosted database American Humanities Index has been replaced by Humanities International Index. This database provides citation information for articles, essays and reviews in literary, scholarly and creative journals published in the United States and Canada. View the new database...
In January 2006, Information Science and Technology Abstracts Plus database will no longer be available. However, the new Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISTA) database, from EBSCO, covers much of the same content as well as providing more coverage of...
PAIS, the Public Affairs Information Service, is now available through Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA). Previously, this database was available through SilverPlatter. PAIS International provides references to books, journal articles, government documents, and privately published research reports on almost any topic...