New e-Resources July - December 2024
New e-resources in the Libraries' collection from Fall 2024.
Following are new e-resources added to the Libraries' collections from July through December 2024.
*Top Pick* At long last, we have Legislative Insight! It’s an amazing tool that organizes and guides you through US Federal Government information on many topics, including artificial intelligence, debt limit, opioid crisis, voting rights and more. Each topic has its own page, including a timeline of relevant bills, legislative histories of each bill and links to all relevant documents within ProQuest Congressional. Once you are on the Legislative Insight landing page, be sure to click on “Browse all Topic Pages” to get started.
- Asian Life in America - Newspaper articles about Asian American life, culture and politics from the 1800s to the present.
- Billboard Pro - Access to Billboard’s weekly charts, digital-first platform with interactive content, news, and expert commentary on the music business. [Note: This resource requires creating an individual account using your @syr.edu address and creation of password. DO NOT use your NetID.]
- Bloomsbury databases updated with new books, images and videos
- Bloomsbury Cultural History: Update 2023 and Update 2024
- Human Kinetics Library: Core Update 2024; Dance Techniques Update 2023 and 2024
- Screen Studies: BFI Film Classics 2023 and 2024; BFI Film Studies 2023 and 2024
- Drama Online: Critical Studies and Performance Practice 2023; Core Collection 2023; Nick Hern Books 2023; Oberon Books Collection 2; National Theatre Collection 3
- Gale Health and Wellness - Consumer health information browsable by topic pages, referencing journals, reference works and multimedia. Provided by NOVELNY.
- Hispanic Life in America – Newspaper articles about Hispanic and Latino/a life, culture and politics in America from the 1500s to the present.
- Institution of Civil Engineers 2024 e-books plus 8 new research journals, including Advances in Cement Research, Dams and Reservoirs, Environmental Geotechnics, Infrastructure Asset Management and Journal of Environmental Engineering and Science.
- Legislative Insight, 1789-2024 - Indexes and organizes United States Federal Government information into topical legislative histories and timelines. Each history includes the full text of the public law itself, all versions of related bills, Congressional Record excerpts, committee hearings, reports, presidential signing statements, CRS reports and related miscellaneous congressional publications providing background to the making of that law.
- ProQuest Executive Branch Documents Parts 2-6, 1933-1952, in ProQuest Congressional
- ProQuest Congressional Record, Permanent Digital Collection Parts C-D, 2002-2009, in ProQuest Congressional
- 1980s Culture and Society – Newsletters, newspapers, policy papers, zines, photographs, video footage, advertisements and other documents that highlight the political, social and welfare issues of the 1980s such as the rise of conservatism, nuclear threat, civil rights issues, anti-drug campaigns and the AIDS crisis.