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Appendix 6: New library resources

Major electronic backfiles purchased included:

  • Six journal titles from Cell Press
  • Wiley journal packages - Cell and Developmental Biology; Chemistry; Analytical Sciences, Genetics & Evolution, Journal of Pathology, Numerical Methods Engineering
  • JSTOR Arts & Sciences II, III, IV, and the Ecology and Botany collections
  • Coverage of Web of Science was extended to include Arts & Humanities Citation Index 1975-present, Science Citation Index Expanded 1945-present, Social Sciences Citation Index 1956-present
  • Century of science – Science citation index 1900-1944
  • Springer historical journal archive: in a consortium with other Group of Eight libraries Monash purchased archival retrospective access to over 800 journals published by Springer. 

Major research resources on microfilm included:

  • India during the Raj: eyewitness accounts Parts 1 & 2: 1750 to 1860
  • Japan through Western eyes: Manuscript records of traders, travellers, missionaries and diplomats, 1853-1941 Part 6.
  • Asian economic history
  • Women’s journals 1919-1968

New e-book collections included:

  • PsycBOOKS from the American Psychological Association
  • A range of Australian print directories and reference works online
  • Online reference works from Elsevier, Gale, Knovel, Vector collection of online books from the Institute of Physics Publishing

Newspaper backsets on microfilm purchased:

  • Straits times 1913 -1969 
  • Port Phillip herald 1840 -1848
  • Melbourne morning herald 1849 – 1856
  • The Herald 1904–1949, 1971 - 1990
  • Herald Sun 1990 – 1995

Print publications included

  • Enciclopedia italiana di scienze, lettere ed arti. Instituto della Enciclopedia italiana, Roma, 1949-.  (35 vols)
  • Enciclopedia del novecento. Instituto della Enciclopedia italiana, Roma, 1975-1998.  (11 vols)
  • Foreign field sports, fisheries, sporting anecdotes, &c. &c : from drawings by Messrs Howitt, Atkinson, Clark, Manskirch, &c. : with a supplement of New South Wales, Edward Orme, London 1819
  • Gillray, James, 1756-1815.  The works of James Gillray, from the original plates, with the addition of many subjects not before collected.  Publisher: London : Printed for HH G Bohn, by C Whiting, 1851; with
  • Wright, Thomas, 1810-1877. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures of James Gillray: comprising a political and humorous history of the latter part of the reign of George the Third, by Thomas Wright and R H Evans.  Henry G Bohn, London, 1851

Substantial new electronic resources made accessible in 2005 included:

  • Alexander Street Press databases on American history
  • PCI full text : periodicals contents index full text – historical  index to scholarly journal articles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences
  • MD Consult : clinical information for physicians
  • Embase.com
  • CUDOS : Commonwealth universities database online service  
  • Biomed Protocols
  • Faculty of 1000 papers published in the biological sciences
  • AMICO Library digital images of works of art
  • Firstpoint and Taxpoint Australian case law and taxation databases
  • Making of Modern Law: Part B UK law
  • Digital Engineering Library
  • Optical Society of America journals online
  • SPIE (The International Society for Optical Engineering) journals online
  • Chronicle of Higher Education
  • Brill journals
  • Science of Synthesis  - the online version of Methods of Organic Chemistry

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