Author Archives: Arabella Holzapfel

ProQuest Academic Complete eBook collection – new to the library

Writing in the Devil’s Tongue : a History of English Composition in China. By Xiaoye You

Current faculty, students, and staff of Middlebury College now have access to well over 150,000 e-books on ProQuest’s E-Book Central platform.

Food for thought: philosophy and food. By Elizabeth Telfer

Multidisciplinary, with both scholarly and non-academic titles, chapter downloads from this collection are DRM-free* and the books are available to read online by an unlimited number of simultaneous users.

Milk Money: Cash, Cows, and the Death of the American Dairy Farm. By Kirk Kardashian and Bernie Sanders

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Let us know what you think – email eaccess-admin@middlebury.edu or contact your liaison.

Filmakers Library (2nd edition) – new to the library

Staff, faculty, and students at Middlebury now have access to award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum—race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more.

 

 

 

Filmakers Library provides numerous ways to browse, as well as selecting by topic. Enjoy this fascinating resource!

 

New e-book collections

The Middlebury community now has unlimited access to several new collections of e-books:

Springer Nature – we have added e-books published in 2018 in the following collections of e-Books on the SpringerLink platform: Behavioral Science and Psychology; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Business and Management; Chemistry and Materials Science; Computer Science; Earth and Environmental Science; Economics and Finance; Education; Energy; Engineering; Mathematics and Statistics; Medicine; Physics and Astronomy; Professional and Applied Computing.

 

 

 

JSTOR – we now have access to e-books published between 2013 and 2017 in these collections: Archaeology; Business and Economics; Education; Film Studies; History; Language and Literature; Law; Music; Philosophy; Political Science; Religion; Science and Technology; Sociology.

 

 

All of these e-books (over 11,000 of them) can be found in Midcat or in a Summon search.

AAS Historical Periodicals – new to the library

Students, faculty and staff of Middlebury now have access to all five collections of a comprehensive set of periodicals published between 1684 and 1912, and curated by the American Antiquarian Society.

From the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction, this set comprises nearly 6,000 periodical titles – with full text and images. Find them by title, subject or keyword in Midcat, or by title in our Journals A-Z list.

Oxford Bibliographies – new to the library

The Middlebury library has purchased access to three sets of Oxford’s online bibliographies. Oxford Bibliographies offers exclusive, authoritative research guides; these bibliographies combine the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. The subjects we now have access to are:

 

Cambridge Companions – new to the library

The Middlebury libraries have acquired access to all 660 volumes of Cambridge Companions. Covering diverse topics – from Claude Levi-Strauss to American Islam, Tacitus to Modern Japanese Culture – the Cambridge Companions are a series of authoritative guides, written by leading experts, offering lively, accessible introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics, and periods.

You can browse from the Cambridge Companions homepage, or find these by title or subject in Midcat or content in the Cambridge Companions will be found in a Summon search.

 

 

Royal Society of Chemistry – journal archive

The library has recently purchased access to all issues of journals published by the Royal Society of Chemistry from 1841 through 2007. Journal titles include:

You can browse by journal title or article content from the RSC’s homepage. The journal titles can also be found in Midcat and in our A-Z list of journals, and articles with content matching your Summon search will turn up in Summon results. All this now accessible from on- or off-campus!