Monday, February 04, 2008

Electronic Reference Library Update

CREDOREFERENCE NOW HAS 300 BOOKS FROM 58 PUBLISHERS. The collection continues to expand and now includes over 3 million entries. 80 titles - 41 new and 39 updates - were added in the past year. You have easy access to all of this from the library page http://www.goodwincollege.org/library/index.htm.

This database recently added more in-depth, encyclopedic books, including 11 RUSA award-winners from Routledge (a $2700+ print value!). A few of the new titles include: Encyclopedia of African History • Encyclopedia of American Folk Art • Reader's Guide to the History of Science • Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy • Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development • Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia including Atlas (with animations, sound clips, video and more) • Cambridge World History of Food • Contemporary Youth Culture: An International Encyclopedia. See a complete list of titles added in the past year.

AND COMING SOON - 7 key titles from Harvard University Presswill be added, including Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World • New Harvard Guide to Women's Health • The New Americans: A Guide to Immigration since 1965 • Keywords and Concepts In Evolutionary Developmental Biology. PLUS all 5 volumes of the Notable American Women series -- biographies of exceptional women from 1607 to the end of the 20th century. Exciting new titles are constantly being added to your subscription. See a complete list at corp.credoreference.com/forthcoming.

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