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• Oxford History of Western Music Added 17 Feb 2021. The Oxford History of Western Music is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the rich and diverse tradition of Western music. Starting with the invention of musical notation more than a thousand years ago, Taruskin sweeps across centuries of musical invention and European intellectual history to provide a nuanced and stimulating historical account. He combines an emphasis on structure and form with a discussion of relevant theoretical concepts in each age, illustrating how the music itself works and how contemporaries heard and understood it. He also describes how the context of each stylistic period – key cultural, historical, social, economic, and scientific events – influenced and directed compositional practices.
• Women Writers Online Added 16 Feb 2021. Women Writers Online is a full-text collection of early women’s writing in English, published by the Women Writers Project at Northeastern University. It includes full transcriptions of texts published between 1526 and 1850, focusing on materials that are rare or inaccessible.
• Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 (Gale) Added 8 Feb 2021. Part of Gale’s Archives Unbound series, this collection contains documents related to the passage of the Clean Air Act Amendments in 1990, and other documents from 1989-1991 on environmental issues such as wetlands and endangered species.
• ProQuest Trends & Policy: U.S. Immigration Added 8 Feb 2021. Provides background information on events, regions, and policies in immigration law, bringing together statistical reports, news, legislation, and executive orders with a timeline of major events.
• Qur'anic Studies Online (Brill) Added 4 Feb 2021. Features the Encyclopaedia of the Qur’ān, an encyclopaedic dictionary of qur’ānic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within qur’ānic studies. Also includes Early Western Korans Online, Qurʾān Concordance, Dictionary of Qurʾānic Usage, Encyclopedia of Canonical Ḥadīth, and Concordance et indices de la Tradition Musulmane.
• SCMP Compass Added 3 Feb 2021.
• SupChina Added 22 Jan 2021. Must register with an @byu.edu email for access. SupChina is a New York-based, China-focused news, information, and business services platform. We inform and connect a global audience regarding the business, technology, politics, culture, and society of China.
• ArkivDigital Added 15 Jan 2021. Only available on-campus. ArkivDigital has color images of Swedish church records as well as historical books, estate inventories, court records, tax and census records, and more. The collection includes more than 87 million images. Access to Arkiv Digital is available in the BYU Family History Library. See the Religion/Family History Help Desk on Level 2 for assistance.
• The Genealogist Added 15 Jan 2021. Only available on-campus. The Genealogist is provides access to census, BMD records, parish records, wills, tithe records, military records, directories, maps, and much more. Collections are primarily for England and Wales, but also includes records for Scotland and Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, South Africa, and India. Access to The Genealogist is available in the BYU Family History Library. See the Religion/Family History Help Desk on Level 2 for assistance.
• RefWorks Alumni Portal Added 5 Jan 2021.
• SCImago Journal & Country Rank (SJR) Added 5 Jan 2021. Journal ranking information developed from information in Scopus. Journals can be grouped by subject area (27 major thematic areas), subject category (313 specific subject categories) or by country. Citation data is drawn from over 21,500 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers and country performance metrics from 239 countries worldwide.
• Online Textbooks Search Added 5 Jan 2021. Search open educational resources and library subscription ebooks at the same time.
• AP Stylebook Added 7 Dec 2020.
• Human Kinetics Journals Added 17 Nov 2020.
• New England Journal of Medicine Added 17 Nov 2020.
• Historic Literary Criticism (ProQuest) Added 16 Nov 2020. Historic Literary Criticism is a collection of over 20,000 historical contemporary reviews, essays and commentary related to more than 500 influential authors from the 17th to the early 20th century. The content comes from a range of sources such as contemporary periodicals as well as published and unpublished letters. The cornerstone of the collection comes from the renowned Critical Heritage series from Routledge.
• Lippincott Procedures Added 9 Nov 2020.
• China Academic Journals (CNKI) Added 6 Nov 2020. BYU has access to journals in literature, history, and philosophy. To see only content to which we subscribe, click the “Subscribed” option at the top left in the upper menu.
• Ovid Journals Added 3 Nov 2020.
• Degruyter Added 2 Nov 2020.
• SAGE Journals Added 2 Nov 2020.
• Cambridge Journals Added 2 Nov 2020.
• Taylor & Francis Added 2 Nov 2020.
• Data Planet (SAGE) Added 30 Oct 2020. Data Planet Statistical Datasets interface allows users to browse available datasets by subject and source and to manipulate variables to create customized views of the data, as well as to search for statistics of interest.
• Brill Databases Added 27 Oct 2020. The green unlocked icons show the Brill databases available to BYU.
• Alexander Street Press All Databases Added 27 Oct 2020.
• Adam Matthew Databases Cross-search Added 27 Oct 2020.
• ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication Added 26 Oct 2020.
• Qwest.tv Added 12 Oct 2020. The first ever video streaming service dedicated to Jazz, Soul, Funk & World Music
• BroadwayHD (ASP) Added 24 Sep 2020.
• SynOne Added 7 Aug 2020.
• Yearbook of International Organizations (Brill) Added 10 Jul 2020. The Yearbook of International Organizations includes detailed information on c. 73,000 international organizations from 300 countries and territories, c. 41,000 of which are active organizations. Coverage includes intergovernmental (IGOs) and international non-governmental organizations (INGOs). Approximately 1,200 new organizations are added each year. The Yearbook is a trusted tool for studies and research in all subjects of civil society activities, including Political Science, Law, International Studies, International Relations, Sociology, Demography and Peace Studies.
• Writing Style and Standards in Undergraduate Engineering Reports Added 6 Jul 2020.
• Elephind Added 19 Jun 2020. Elephind collects the free newspaper archives from around the web.
• National Theatre Collection (Drama Online) Added 3 Jun 2020. Drawing on 10 years of National Theater Live broadcasts as well as recordings never previously seen outside of the National Theatre’s archive, the video content includes 30 video performances. As a supplement to the filmed productions, exclusive digitized archival materials such as prompt scripts, costume designs, and more are available to provide behind-the-scenes background and contextual information.
• Accountants' Liability (Second Edition) Added 29 Apr 2020. Accountants’ Liability is a reliable resource that accountants can turn to for guidance on how to meet professional responsibilities, comply with relevant rules, and avoid legal land mines. The book provides accountants and their attorneys with the legal, strategic, and tactical knowledge they need to prove (or successfully defend against) claims.
• Acland's Anatomy Added 2 Apr 2020.
• RILM Music Encyclopedias Added 27 Mar 2020. RILM Music Encyclopedias is a continually expanding curated full-text collection that currently comprises 57 titles published from 1775 to the present. Its content spans various fields and subject areas of historical musicology, ethnomusicology and theory, with focus on topics ranging from popular music, opera, instruments, blues and gospel, to recorded music and women composers.
• Capital IQ Added 19 Mar 2020. First time: create “New User” at top right and use your byu.edu email. CapitalIQ contains detailed company financials. CapIQ is co-located with the Bloomberg terminal at the Social Sciences desk on level one of the library.
• Trismegistos Added 19 Mar 2020. Trismegistos [TM], called after the famous epithet of Hermes - Thoth, the Egyptian god of wisdom and writing who also played a major role in Greek religion and philosophy, is a platform aiming to surmount barriers of language and discipline in the study of texts from the ancient world, particularly late period Egypt and the Nile valley (roughly BC 800 - 800 AD).