The UConn Libraries has 5 new databases available from our homepage, www.lib.uconn.edu. Click on the Most Databases link on the left. They are:
JCR, or “Journal Citation Reports.”
Provides quantitative measures for ranking, evaluating, categorizing, and comparing journals- including the impact factor, a bibliometric measurement of a journal’s importance to a field.
ArtSTOR
The ARTstor Charter Collection currently contains approximately 300,000 images; by 2006 it is expected to contain 500,000. The Charter Collection documents artistic traditions across many times and cultures and embraces architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture.
EUROMONITOR World Marketing Data and Statistics
World Marketing Data & Statistics includes country-level data on demographic, economic, and other marketing indicators. Easy and fun to use!! Key macro data for 205 countries, over one million data types are covered ranging from GDP trends to media expenditure across 25 years. over 1,000 data types: Advertising and Media, Agricultural Resources, Automotives, Banking and Finance, Communications, Consumer Expenditure, Consumer Market Sizes, Consumer Prices and Costs, Cultural Indicators, Economic Indicators, Energy Resources and Output, Environmental Data, External Trade, Health and Living Standards, Household Characteristics, Income and Earnings, Industrial Resources and Output, Labour Force Indicators, Literacy and Education, Population, Retail Distribution, Transport, Travel and Tourisms. Easy cross-country comparisons Full range of manipulation tools available * Latest statistics instantly available.
American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900
Contains digitized images of the pages of American magazines
and journals that originated between 1741, when Andrew Bradford’s American Magazine and Benjamin Franklin’s General Magazine were launched, and 1900. Deriving from the American Periodicals Series microform collection, APS Online features over 1,100 periodicals spanning nearly 200 years-from colonial times to the advent of American involvement in World War II. Titles range from America’s first scientific journal, Medical Repository, to popular magazines like
Vanity Fair and Ladies’ Home Journal.
Child Development & Adolescent Studies
Source for references to the current and historical literature related to the growth and development of children through the age of 21. Included are book reviews and abstracts from hundreds of journals, and a bibliography of thousands of technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations that cover the biomedical and social sciences worldwide. Over 10,000 new records added each year.