The New York Times (Historical) database is now available via ProQuest.
While the most recent few years are not available online yet, you can
search the full text of pages and articles, from September 18, 1851 to
December 31, 2002. The collection includes digital reproductions
providing access to every page from every available issue.
You can get to this database through our list of Indexes and Databases.
Or logon directly: New
York Times (Historical)
To all:
Business students who are looking for industry statistics (or similar
phraseology) with which to compare to a particular business (or
businesses) should see:
Industry Norms & Key Business Ratios: REF DESK HF 5681 .R25 I53 03-04
Despite what students may have heard (or misinterpreted) we do not have industry norms/ratios in electronic format.
However, you can compare company to company norms & ratios in
Research Insight, and to a lesser extent in Market Insight (peer group,
etc.). See Business Databases.
Brad
Want to listen to music online? For free? We have added a database to our collection of academic databases that allows that very thing!
The Naxos Music Library is an online collection of music that includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo, and Dacapo catalogues of over 85,000 tracks. Genres covered include Classical, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music.
The database also provides access to notes on the works being played
as well as biographical information on composers or artists. All these
are accessible from computers on and off campus by signing on with your Butler user name and password.
The subscription currently limits us to 3 simultaneous users, so if
you cannot get in, please try again in a few minutes. Also, when you’re
done listening, please click “Log Off” before you close the window, so
another user can get in more quickly.
If you have any questions about Naxos, please contact our Reference Desk or Sheri Stormes, our Music & Fine Arts Librarian.
The ERIC database overhaul is still an
incomplete project as the fall semester begins. In recent weeks,
they have begun to add newer material (2004) to the ERIC site, but
until Ebsco signs an agreement with ERIC, no articles or documents
newer than 2003 will show up in Ebsco ERIC. A quick check of the
journals currently indexed by ERIC shows that only a small percentage
of the publishers of titles previously indexed by ERIC have reached an
agreement with ERIC to allow indexing of their recent issues. For
now, advise everyone to make sure that they search Professional
Development Collection as well as ERIC to maximize the number of
current journal articles found on education topics. The good news
is that eventually, there should be much more full text available
in ERIC. When the contractor finally finishes adding the
backfile, content should be within a month of current. I have no idea
how long it will take to reach that goal.
-Renee
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