November and December 2014 E-Resources Summary

This post is the latest in a series designed to keep the Graduate Center community updated about our collections; focused primarily on electronic resources available through the Graduate Center Library.

New Databases

(These and all other databases can be found on our A-Z list)

EAIElectronic Arts Intermix Streaming Videos a selection of streaming videos from Electronic Arts Intermix, a nonprofit arts organization that is a leading international resource for video and media art.

Loeb Classical Library Harvard University Press presents an interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing, virtual library of all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. Includes more than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts.

Rosetta Stone Language learning program for 30 languages. For initial setup, click “First Time Users.” To launch the program thereafter, click “Launch Rosetta Stone Language Lessons Version 3” after logging in.

Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels (Volumes I and II) a scholarly, primary-source database focused on adult comic books and graphic novels. The current release contains 500 comic series, or 2,271 comic books.

New Journal

Texte Zur Kunst (on our shelves as part of our print collections)

New Trial Databases

  • DBpia The Graduate Center has access to this trial through January 2015. Dbpia is the largest academic database in Korea, and provides academic articles written in Korean language.
  • Education Week The Graduate Center has access to this resource through December 17, 2014. A national newspaper focusing on K-12 education policy and practice. A forum for news, information, advice and opinion for teachers, as well as discourse on critical issues in American education.
  • Human Rights Studies Online The Graduate Center has access to this trial through January 17, 2015. Human Rights Studies Online is a research and learning database sharing documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide. The collection is growing to include 75,000 pages of text and 150 hours of video that give voice to the countless victims of human rights crimes in the 20th and early 21st centuries.

About the Author

Alycia Sellie is the Associate Librarian for Collections at the Graduate Center Library.