Oxford University Press has announced the following update to its African American Studies Center:

600 NEW BIOGRAPHIES
We are excited to present an additional 600 biographies from the African American National Biography, produced in conjunction with the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University, and edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. October’s biographies include the celebrated singers Roberta Flack and Gloria Gaynor, actor Morgan Freeman, professional football coach Tony Dungy, and more. Also featured in this update are the lives of many lesser-known persons, such as Lester Blackwell Granger, social worker and former leader of the National Urban League, famed Haitian dancer and choreographer Jean-Léon Destiné, and Anna Madgigine Jai, a West African slave who later became a plantation owner in the early 1800s.    

EBSCO Publishing recently released Research Starters - Education and is allowing institutions free access for an extended period of time. Each Research Starter averages about 3,000 words, providing concise yet more in-depth content than most textbook or encyclopedia entries. Each article includes:

• Abstract
• Keyword List
• Overview 
• Further Insights/Applications
• Viewpoints/Issues Discourse
• Glossary of Terms & Concepts
• Bibliography
• Suggested Reading list

The Research Starters - Education articles are sorted among twenty-four categories, each of which contains between ten and thirty-five article topics:

• Early Childhood Education
• Public School Education
• Adult Education
• Special Education
• Physical Education
• Extended Learning
• Service Learning
• Education & the Law
• School Administration & Policy
• School Safety
• Curriculum Organization
• Politics, Government & Education
• History of Education
• Educational Theory
• Teaching Methods
• Technology in Education
• Testing & Evaluation
• Educational Psychology
• Multicultural Education
• English as a Second Language
• Alternative Education
• Teacher Education
• Guidance & Counseling
• Research in Education
• Higher Education
• International Perspectives

Nash Library has a 30 day trial to EBSCO's EconLit™ with Full Text which contains all of the indexing available in EconLit, plus full text for more than 480 journals, including the American Economic Association journals with no embargo (American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, and Journal of Economic Perspectives). This database also contains many non-English full-text journals in economics & finance.

Volume and issue browsing is available for all full-text journals. EconLit, the American Economic Association's electronic database, is the world's foremost source of references to economic literature. EconLit, adheres to the high quality standards long recognized by subscribers to the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) and is a reliable source of citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to 1969.

It provides links to full text articles in all fields of economics, including but not limited to:

• capital markets
• country studies
• econometrics
• economic forecasting
• environmental economics
• government regulations
• labor economics
• monetary theory
• urban economics

EconLit, uses the JEL classification system and controlled vocabulary of keywords to index six types of records: journal articles, books, collective volume articles, dissertations, working papers, and full text book reviews from the Journal of Economic Literature.

Nash Library has a 30 day trial to EBSCO's Business Book Summaries® (BBS) which provides comprehensive, yet concise summaries for the best business books available. Using stringent criteria, only the top 1% of the more than 5,000 business books published each year in the United States is selected for inclusion in the database. Summaries are provided for more than 700 of the top business books from the last 20 years.

BBS's concise summaries present the key concepts and relevant business thoughts to people with no time to read the entire book. All books covered by BBS are summarized by professionals. The most salient points are extracted and conceptualized into brief, but comprehensive, summaries. The summaries are available in 300, 600 and 4,500 word versions. BBS includes the following subject areas:

• Business Biographies
• Business Strategy
• Customer Satisfaction
• Diversity
• Economics
• Entrepreneurship
• Finance
• Global Business
• Human Resources
• Innovation
• IT/Internet
• Leadership
• Major Works
• Management
• Marketing
• Personal Growth
• Productivity
• Social Responsibility