Databases

formerly OneSource The new Avention platform has all the same data and information as OneSource’s company and industry information, plus enhancements (e.g. Company IT analysis, executive contact information and market research). OneSource is consistently one of our top used databases due to tools such as the Build A… Read More

The Library’s Who Speaks For The Negro? digital archive of Robert Penn Warren materials is mentioned in the August 27 edition of VUToday, linking to an Atlantic article, Martin Luther King Jr.’s Amazing 1964 Interview With Robert Penn Warren. Read More

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OAK (Online Access to Knowledge), Vanderbilt’s course management system, is expanding current functionality to provide additional services and customizations.  Efficiencies in course delivery and management will also be attained.   Several years ago, a proposal was prepared to enhance OAK that included a consolidated list of requests from the schools… Read More

The interface and searching features of 36 ProQuest, CSA and Chadwyck Healey databases have changed. For a list of databases now searchable on a uniform and new ProQuest platform, see http://bit.ly/9m8cen. Questions about your old My Research, My Archives, or RSS feeds? Ask Us… Read More

World Scholar: Latin America-this database now includes an additional segment on trial of statistical and journal literature relating to Latin America and is available until January 31, 2012. http://worldscholar.galegroup.com/region/latin-america?u=nash87800… Read More

Latino Literature is available on trial until February 2, 2012 (from campus only) and includes Latino folk tales, poetry, fiction, and drama-some of which have never been published before and some in audio format. http://lali.alexanderstreet.com… Read More

The Vanderbilt University Library is pleased to announce the adoption of the fifth installment of JSTOR’s Arts & Sciences Collection. This represents an important advance in support of research and teaching across humanities and social sciences disciplines. This collection adds an additional 3 million pages of content to the… Read More

E-books formerly part of the netLibrary collection are now fully integrated into the EBSCOhost platform as part of the “ebooks on EBSCOhost” collection.  “ebooks on EBSCOhost” can be found in the library’s database A-Z list.  Records for individual titles appear in Acorn with links to the e-books. As with netLibrary,… Read More

Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) is an entirely new research tool for the social sciences and humanities. A scholar-curated library of discipline-based subject modules, OBO is designed to help busy researchers find reliable sources of information in half the time by directing them to exactly the right chapter, book, website, archive,… Read More