Library Science

Pew Internet conducts original research that explores the growth of the internet and its impact on children, families, communities, the workplace, schools, health care and civic/political life. Major reports have examined teens and technology, health online and libraries in a digital age.

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Online searchable indexes to and directories of authors, editors, publishers, and titles in poetry and small press publishing. Includes four unique databases which must be searched independently:

• International Directory of Little Magazines & Small Presses
• Directory of Poetry Publishers
• Directory of Small Press/Magazine Editors & Publishers
• Small Press Record of Books in Print

Searchable full text of 16,000+ technical books from O'Reilly & Associates and The Pearson Technology Group (including Addison-Wesley, Alpha, Financial Times Prentice Hall, Cisco Press, New Riders, Peachpit Press, Prentice Hall PTR, Que and Sams) and other publishers.

ACCESS NOTE: Limited to seven U-M users at a time--if you are prompted for a Safari password, all seven slots may be in use; try again 10 or more minutes later. After logging out of Safari, your web browser must be completely shut down and restarted to be able to access Safari again.

FOR SEARCH HELP:  See "ProQuest LibGuide: Safari Books Online" link below (under "More Information").

A multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes 1,700 journals spanning 50 disciplines.

On ENGINEERING VILLAGE platform, covers the world-wide literature (mainly journal articles and conference proceedings papers) in astronomy, physics, electronics and electrical engineering, computers and control, and information technology.

Provides indexing and abstracts of books and articles from over 4,200 European-language journals in the humanities and social sciences--especially in religion, history of art, literature, philosophy, and economics.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts,(LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is a consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves newspapers, journals, dissertations, government documents, archives, microfilm, and other traditional and digital resources for research and teaching and makes them available to member institutions through interlibrary loan and electronic delivery (MLibrary is a member of CRL). Most of CRL's new acquisitions are from outside the United States, and many are from five "emerging" regions of the world: Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Latin America. 

Although interlibrary loan access is limited to U-M affiliated persons, the CRL Online Catalog, however, is open to all users.

The CRL Online Catalog is a partial list of their library and digital holdings. The catalog allows searching within specific collections, including:

• the entire catalog
• serials (periodicals, excluding newspapers)
• newspapers (includes browsing by US State or foreign country, and by North American ethnic group)
• dissertations (includes browsing by country and by foreign institution within each country)
• digital collections

Additional information about CRL and its collection can be found at this link: http://www.crl.edu/about/