Three of the Library's electronic resources have benefited from the installation of EBSCOHost. CINAHL, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, PychINFO, the online version of Psychological Abstracts and ERIC, the Department of Education's Educational Resource Information Center, are abstracting services. They have all been inportant to their respective fields for their complete literature coverage, but until

Now have not offered any full text for journal articles.

EBSCO has contracted to offer these databases through its own interface and researchers who are familiar with the EBSCOHost format will find these enhanced versions easy to navigate. As a bonus for bing part of the family, these databases can now offer links to full-text articles that appear in other EBSCOHost products. While this arrangement can offer only limited full-text capability, it certainly represents an improvement over the way

the databases displayed information previously.

In the future, we look forward to EBSCO publishing a list of journals now available full-text through these new and improved services. When we receive this information, we will forward to faculty in a Groupwise e-mail announcement. If you have any questions or coments concerning these products, please call Jane Devine (ext. 5415).

For those struggling to survive (and teach!) English 101, the Library proudly announces the introduction of GALE Literature Resource Center, a multifaceted database for approacing literary criticism. An elaboration of the Library's original GALE Literary Index, the Resource Center promotes additional enhancements including biographical essays, full text critical articles from prominent publications, as well as "work overviews" - critical disscussions of an author's life and works.

Featuring a redesigned interface that is both visually appealing and user-friendly, the Literature Resource Center emphasized searching by author, though it contains several optional capacities such

as title, keyword, genre or theme (for example, one could locate African-American women writers' works on religion or spirituality, etc.). In addition, author entries may include bibliographies of related workds, selected web-sites, and a literary-historical timeline, ideal for contextualizing a writer within major historial events or literary movements. An added new feature for this database is the inclusion of the MLA [Modern Language Association] International Bibliography, with comprehensive entries back to 1963. And if you get lost in a sea of alliteration and tropes, you can always consult the handy appended Encyclopedia of Literature, where definitions are just a few keystrokes away.

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