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(Fri Jul 4 17:46:56 2008)

Listen to Music by Francis Johnson  (Posted on: 26-JUN-08)
Listen to pianist Tim Ribchester perform music by Francis Johnson
Music Library launches new home page  (Posted on: 24-JUN-08)
A new home page for the Otto E. Albrecht Music Library.


Other Library News & Events
Scopus  (Posted on: 03-JUL-08)
Comprehensive abstracting and indexing database covering scientific, technical, medical and social science research literature back to the mid-1800s, including 15,000 peer-reviewed journals from more than 4,000 publishers, over 1200 Open Access journals, 500 conference proceedings, over 600 trade publications, 200 book series, and 22 million patent records from 5 patent offices.
Encyclopedia of Social Work now online  (Posted on: 02-JUL-08)
The new edition of this fundamental reference work from the National Association of Social Workers is now available online through Oxford University Press.
World Bank Africa Development Indicators  (Posted on: 02-JUL-08)
More than 1,000 indicators on 53 African countries in time series, 1965 to present: basic indicators, national accounts, development outcomes, and Millenium Development Goals.
Five Minutes of Fame for the Weigle Information Commons  (Posted on: 30-JUN-08)
Anu Vedantham, Director of the Weigle Information Commons, and David Toccafondi, Coordinator of the Vitale Digital Media Lab, represented Penn Libraries at the 2008 New Media Consortium Summer Conference, hosted at Princeton University June 11 through 14.
New Elsevier journal backfiles: Oncology, Immunology & Microbiology  (Posted on: 24-JUN-08)
Historical archive of pre-1995 fulltext content for approximately 100 Elsevier medicine journals, back to Volume 1, Issue 1. Access via ScienceDirect.
New Wiley Cell & Developmental Biology Backfile 1887-1999  (Posted on: 24-JUN-08)
Historical archive of pre-2000 fulltext content for 12 Wiley Cell & Developmental Biology journals, back to Volume 1, Issue 1 via Wiley Interscience.
Penn Acquires Royal Society of Chemistry Journals Archive 1841-2004  (Posted on: 24-JUN-08)
Fulltext online access to all articles published by the RSC (and its forerunner societies) from 1841 (the first issue of Memoirs and Proceedings of the Chemical Society) to 2004. The backfile contains approximately 238,000 articles in 1,400,000 pages.
Merck Index 14th Edition Available Online!  (Posted on: 19-JUN-08)
14th Edition of classic reference work, providing precise, comprehensive information on chemicals, drugs, and biologicals, including more than 10,000 monographs, 32 supplemental tables, 450 Organic Name Reactions.
LexisNexis Congressional Hearings Retrospective 1824-1979  (Posted on: 18-JUN-08)
More than 73,000 U.S. House and Senate hearings, more than 12.8 million pages, published and unpublished, in searchable page images.
FBIS goes to China  (Posted on: 16-JUN-08)
China joins Africa, the Middle East, and the Near East in the latest update to our Foreign Broadcast Information Service 1974-1996 translated news fulltext collection.
Expanded JSTOR Resources  (Posted on: 14-MAY-08)
The Libraries have enhanced access to important literary reviews and state historical journals by licensing a new JSTOR resource.
New Books at the Dental Library  (Posted on: 14-MAY-08)
Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics  (Posted on: 13-MAY-08)
Second edition of the reference standard, ELL2 covers linguistics and languages in the very broadest sense, with 67 articles by Penn faculty, former faculty, and alumni!
Applied Science & Business Periodicals Retrospective (1913-1983)  (Posted on: 28-APR-08)
Combined access to Business Periodicals Index Retrospective and Applied Science & Technology Index Retrospective. Cover-to-cover indexing for more than 2,000 periodicals including the complete file of Industrial Arts Index, 1913-1957.
DSM-IV-TR and Psychiatry e-journal backfiles  (Posted on: 28-APR-08)
PsychiatryOnline brings desktop access to the DSM-IV-TR, and other American Psychiatric Publishing Inc. textbooks and journals.
Education Index Retrospective (1929-1983)  (Posted on: 28-APR-08)
International coverage of over 500 English-language periodicals in education and education-related fields from 1929-1983.
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