Back in April we hinted at it, and now the time has come.

You can say goodbye to that crusty old database list, and say hello to our shiny new thing.

Even though it's still in beta, we believe that you will find this to be a superior tool for several reasons:

• We cut out the e-journals
  •  This page has the stuff people use the most: databases and reference e-books
  •  If you want to sort through individual journals, check out the A-to-Z journal listing
• We made it easier to sort through
  • You can now limit items alphabetically or by subject
  • You only see five items per page
• We added descriptions
  • We should have been doing this already!

This is a beta, right?

• The alphabetical links give you the option to select letters that don't give any results, this will change
• There are most certainly things we haven't thought of, so if you have ideas for ways to improve this thing, drop us a line

You should check it out, and let us know what you think.

Nash Library now subscribes to Cambridge Collections Online (CCO) which includes access to Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics and Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture.

Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics collection offers over 1500 comprehensive and accessible essays on major authors, periods and genres, written by experts and designed for student readers. For the author Companions, each writer is placed in literary and historical context; their major works are analyzed, either in separate chapters or grouped according to theme, and their influence on later writers assessed. The genre and topical Companions cover periods of English literature such as Old English or the Victorian Novel, and literary genres such as Modernism or Greek Tragedy, providing vital contextual information about political, social, religious and artistic relationships. The Companions to Classical Civilisation examine key periods and aspects of the civilisations of ancient Greece and Rome.

The Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture offers specially-commissioned collections of essays which are intended to serve as reference works addressing topics and figures ranging from Plato through Kant to Habermas, and philosophical movements such as the Scottish Enlightenment and German Idealism. This online collection contains over 1000 essays taken from the Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture (more than 100 volumes).

Nash Library recently upgraded its Business Source Elite subscription to a Business Source Complete subscription. This upgrade allows access to the following content:

635 full-text books

277 full-text case studies

17,651 full-text company profiles

1,451 full-text country economic reports

17,558 full-text industry reports

18,000 full-text interviews (executive & analyst)

2,297 full-text market research reports

1,558 full-text peer reviewed journals

2,842 full-text SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analyses

1,525 full-text trade journals and general business magazines

14 full-text working papers collections

25,000 author profiles

Title lists for the above content are available at http://www.ebscohost.com/thisTopic.php?marketID=1&topicID=399.

This upgrade also includes access to Regional Business News which provides full text for more than 50 regional business publications, including the Journal Record and the Journal Record Legislative Report. Titles lists for Regional Business News are available at http://www.ebscohost.com/thisTopic.php?marketID=1&topicID=130.

This database is accessible from any computer as long as you have a USAO faculty, staff, or student e-mail account.