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After careful review of usage statistics and research needs reported to Langsdale by the UB community, new electronic resources have been purchased in
Business:
Mintel Market Reports
Mintel provides access to hundreds of reports on a variety of European, UK-specific and US consumer markets. Each report that Mintel publishes provides a unique overview of a market including its dynamics and prospects. Visitors to the website can search by keyword or browse for relevant publications by 'category'.
Note that academic users of this site must first agree to the academic conditions of use. Then you must create and sign in using a profile consisting of an email address and a password before you can see the reports that are available.
Humanities:
America: History and Life
Coverage: 1964 - present. America: History and Life is a complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. The database comprises almost 400,000 bibliographic entries from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.Communication & Mass Media Complete
Coverage: various dates. Provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. This database originated with the acquisition and subsequent merging of two popular databases in the fields of communication and mass media studies -- CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association (NCA)), and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University). Communication & Mass Media Complete provides an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and educators interested in any and all aspects of communication and mass media. offers full text for over 200 titles and contains citation coverage for additional sources. In total, several hundred valuable sources are covered.Historical Abstracts
1954 to the present: Information on articles, books, and dissertations about non-U.S. and non-Canadian history from 1450 to the present. Covers more than 2000 journals in 50 languages. Includes links to full text of selected journal articles.Literature Resource Center
Coverage: varies. Includes the series Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC), and Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB) and full-text articles from 34 literary journals.
Social Sciences:
Criminal Justice Periodicals
1981 to the present: Full-text coverage for 45 of the titles most frequently accessed by criminal justice researchers, and complete indexing and abstracts for another 140 relevant U.S. and international journals. N.B. Criminal Justice Abstracts offers the most comprehensive indexing to criminal justice research.PsycARTICLES
This database provides full text articles on current issues in psychology from respected sources, spanning from 1987 to the present. PsycARTICLES includes more than 35,000 full-text articles from 49 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. All journals included in this database are indexed in PsycINFO.
General:
Biography Resource Center
The Biography Resource Center (BioRC) is a comprehensive database of biographical information on over 320,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines more than 400,000 biographies from over 800 volumes.XRefer Plus
Content available through xreferplus includes a wide range of general reference titles together with a large collection of subject-specific books spanning 20 topics, covering everything from the arts to astronomy, law to literature and science to Shakespeare. Read more about it in XRefer.
In addition to these new subscriptions, Langsdale has enhanced coverage in Business Source Premier: The company profiles segment contains many SWOT analysues. Digital Dissertations which now contains the full text of many dissertations. Mergent which now includes industry reports.
For more information, see Langsdale's home page at http://langsdale.ubalt.edu, call 410-837-4274 or email langref@ubalt.edu