Twayne’s Author Series 
Effective January 5, 2001, the Library has added the Twayne's Author Series database to its electronic information holdings.  The database contains nearly 600 books that up to this time could only be found in three print series-United States Authors, English Authors, and World Authors. 
The series provides a good introduction for student papers.  It includes critical interpretation, explication, a brief biography of the author as well as the history and influence of relevant literary movements and genres.  In addition, it contains complete notes and annotated bibliographies. 

You can access Twayne’s Author Series from the Databases link on the Library Web page or go directly to: 
 

Grove Art Online 

You now have access to "Grove Art Online," which was hailed by the Library Journal as one of the best reference sources of the millennium. 

All 45,000 articles may be found using keyword searching.  The online 
dictionary includes over 22,000 web links to public collections of museums, 
galleries, and art collections throughout the world as well as over 100,000 
images from the database of the "Bridgeman Art Library of London."  Updates 
and new image links will be added as an ongoing feature of this dynamic 
resource.  You can access Grove Art Online from the Databases link on the Library Web page or go directly to:  
 

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 

Beginning this February, you have online access to the full text of “The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians” which not only incorporates the content of the 29 volume print edition but also includes quarterly updates.  This second edition, revised throughout, includes major new biographies and new topics reflecting contemporary topics, composers, and performers.  The expanded coverage includes world music, jazz, rock, and popular music, and instruments.  It continues to provide definitive musical scholarship relating to classical music and musicians. 

The benefits of the World Wide Web format include full text searching, hypertext links, links to images, notated musical examples, digital sound, and links to related Web sites.  You can access “The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians” from the Databases link on the Library Web page or go directly to 
 

CIS (Congressional Information Service) Statistical Universe 

CIS Statistical Universe provides comprehensive access to statistical information from ongressional Information Service, Inc.  The service allows users to search summaries of statistical publications and link to the full-text of selected publications.  

The “Power Tables” component provides an excellent place to begin research or obtain quick statistics on a particular topic. The “Power Tables” feature allows you to retrieve statistical tables quickly and link to abstracts of the publications from which the tables are derived. You may search the tables by keyword, coverage date, region and grouping.  

You will find statistics on such diverse topics affecting the United States including cost of living, government spending on specific programs and agencies, educational attainment, poverty level, crime statistics, census data, demographic data for geographic areas, gross national product (GNP) and gross domestic product (GDP), unemployment rate, foreign exchange rates, interest and prime loan rates, to name only a few.  

You may prefer to start at “Abstracts” to search summaries of statistical publications for comprehensive overviews of documents. Or start at the “Links” to locate a selective list of Web sites with useful information.  You can access CIS Statistical Universe from the Databases link on the Library Web page or go directly to:  
 

SocioAbs 

Our new interface to Sociological Abstracts is through Cambridge Scientific. You can access SocioAbs from the Databases link on the Library’s Web page or go directly to: 
 

Project Muse 

Project Muse covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others. Project Muse is setting the standard for scholarly electronic journals in the humanities and social sciences.  Sixty-seven full text titles were added in 2,000 and an additional fifty four will be added throughout the current year.  You can access Project Muse from the Databases or E-Journals links on the Library Web page or go directly to: 
 

Please send your comments, articles, and suggestions to: 

Jared Seay:  seayj@cofc.edu (3-1428)  
Sheila Seaman:  seamans@cofc.edu (3-5530).