OAIster is a broad, generic, information retrieval resource for information about publicly available digital library resources provided by the research library community. The two primary criteria for inclusion in the University of Michigan service are that the information resources the metadata describe are: publicly accessible and have no access restrictions, and have a corresponding web-based digital representation (e.g., this would not include the metadata records for slides when the slides cannot be accessed through the web).

Comprehensive in coverage of living and non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics. Major areas of coverage include:

• Biological Oceanography
• Ecology
• Physical and chemical oceanography
• Marine geology
• Geophysics
• Geochemistry
• Marine pollution
• Nonliving marine resources
• Navigation and communications
• Maritime law
• Desalination
• Ships
• Shipping
• Marine biology

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Tablular data include national accounts, population and labor force, prices and domestic finance, as well as international trade with OECD and groups of non-member countries.

The Statistical Database Sets available from SourceOECD include:

• Agriculture & Food
  
• Bank Profitability
  
• Economic Outlook
  
• Education at a Glance
  
• Employment
  
• Globalization
  
• Health
  
• Indicators for Industry and Services
  
• Industrial Structure
  
• Institutional Investors
  
• Insurance
  
• International Development
  
• International Migration
  
• International Trade and Competitiveness
  
• International Direct Investment
  
• ITCS International Trade by Commodities
  
• Main Economic Indicators
  
• Monthly International Trade
  
• National Accounts
  
• Revenue
  
• Science and Technology
  
• Services
  
• Social Expenditure
  
• STAN Industry Structural Analysis
  
• Taxing Wages
  
• Telecommunications

Covers

• Periodicals -- General interest magazines; scholarly academic journals; business publications; technology periodicals; plus specialty titles in law, health care and computers
• Newswires -- 89 wire services covering agriculture, general news, broadcast news, government, business press releases, industry topics, sports and current events from all over the world
• Newspapers -- Indexes The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Christian Science Monitor

This database was formerly a part of Infotrac Onefile.

Journals include:

• Applied Optics
• JOSA A
• JOSA B
• Optics Letters
• Optics Express
• Journal of Lightwave Technology
• Journal of Optical Networking
• Journal of Optical Technology
• Optics and Photonics News
• JOSA
• Conference proceedings
• Trends in Optics & Photonics Series (TOPS)

Also includes recent proceedings from OSA conferences.

Publications may relate to physical activity, physical fitness, activities of daily living, work, sport and athletics, recreation, dance, and play. Older years are in microfiche, level 3 of the Babbidge Library.

Journals Included:

• AACN Clinical Issues: Advanced Practice in Acute & Critical Care
• AJN: American Journal of Nursing
• Cancer Nursing
• CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing
• Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS)
• Gastroenterology Nursing
• JONA: Journal of Nursing Administration
• Journal for Nurses in Staff Development(JNSD)
• Journal of Infusion Nursing
• Lippincott's Case Management
• MCN, The American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing
• Nurse Educator
• Nursing Research
• Quality Management in Health Care
  

The core content includes the highly acclaimed Africana, which presents a powerful account of the African and African American experience in five volumes. The new Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895 documents the full range of the African American experience from the arrival of the black explorer, Esteban, who arrived with the Spanish in 1527, to the death of Frederick Douglass. The Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the present offers the most extensive treatment of African American history into the twenty-first century and will be available in late 2006. Bringing the contribution of African American women to the fore is the fascinating three-volume Black Women in America, Second Edition, edited by Darlene Clark Hine. And finally, the much-anticipated African American National Biography presents African American history through the lives of its people, ultimately offering over 6,000 biographies.

Contains the full text of the largest and most comprehensive music encyclopedias in the English language, including the twenty-nine-volume New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd edition), the four-volume New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and the three-volume New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2nd edition).

• Grove Music Online has full-text search capabilities and subject classifications for browsing.
• Articles are written by scholars with subject expertise and include bibliographies pointing to important works of scholarship on the topic.
• Topics include musical genres and forms, musical instruments; places; organizations and institutions; musicology, theory, and criticism; and people (e.g., composers, performers, scholars, librettists, patrons, publishers, instrument makers, and others who influenced or contributed to the world of music).
• Many of the composer biographies include detailed lists of works.
• Many articles include visual examples, Sibelius-enabled musical examples (score and audio clips), and links to Web sites and audio archives.
• Annual updates include new articles and corrections to older articles.

Note: Some of the print equivalents are available in the Music & Dramatic Arts Library (e.g., Music Ref. ML 100 .N48 2001 for the twenty-nine volume New Grove). Consult HOMER, the UConn Libraries' catalog for further details.

We subscribe to three collections at Oxford, all via the Boston Library Consortium. They are:

• Core Collection, United States
• Premium Western Civilization
• Premium Collection

Includes the Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera, Oxford Companion to American Theatre, Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, Oxford Dictionary of Dance, and Who's Who in Opera.