The AIAA electronic library contains more than four decades of technical information and documents online.

Safari Books Online 6.0, just released on Tuesday, 27 October 2009, provides some new enhancements to the service.

Enhanced Usability / Optimized Search
The search functionality has been optimized to ensure that users can find what they need quickly and efficiently. Safari 6.0 also allows you to read the content you search while also continuing to see the list of search results.

Value-Based Ratings / Customer Ratings
Safari 6.0 provides both an Amazon rating (where available) and a Safari Books online rating on all titles within the digital library. Now users can get the technology rating of peers as well as a broader rating.

A Wealth of Knowledge Tailored to Your Needs / Categorization
Safari has added the ability for users to categorize the material in its digital library according to their own preferences. Whether they want “marketing, technology, and business” or “Linux, Java, and OpenSource,” users can now create and fill their own categories. Allowing users to find and store what they need faster than before makes Safari 6.0 easier to use than ever before.

Improved Readability of the Content You Want
With Safari 6.0, users have the ability to make inline notes in the actual text they are reading. They can now dog-ear or bookmark specific pages. They can make notes while reading on a given page. AND they can share these notes and bookmarks with others – making Safari Books Online a more powerful learning and teaching tool.

About GFS Online

The Statistics Department of the International Monetary Fund has  made available to subscribers the Government Finance Statistics (GFS) database through an online service. GFS Online contains annual statistical data on revenue, expense, transactions in assets and liabilities, and stocks of assets and liabilities of general government and its subsectors as reported by member countries. Subannual GFS are available through the online application relating to International Financial Statistics (IFS).

System Overview

The GFS Online system is based on the GFS CD-ROM Browser product, which contains time series data from 1990, and many of the functions are quite similar. GFS Online provides the same data coverage as the GFS Browser product. The data are presented in the world and country tables for all reporting countries in the framework of the Government Finance Statistics Manual 2001 (GFSM 2001).

The Country Table and Economic Concept Views provide access to similar concepts across countries while the Matrix View is available for enhanced data analysis.

Capabilities of GFS Online

The Web interface allows subscribers to browse the database, select series of interest, display the selected series in a spreadsheet format, and save the selected series for transfer to other software systems such as Microsoft Excel^®.

GFS Online includes the following capabilities:

• browsing the directory tree,
• drilling down through the structure of the database,
• selecting either individual time series or groupings of time series within a table presentation,
• saving selected data and metadata in a variety of formats, including a spreadsheet, and
• saving and loading a query of selected time series.

The Statistics Department envisages that this product will be further developed and enhanced over time, and will be updated on a more frequent basis.

HeinOnline’s digital Session Laws collection contains the session laws of all 50 U.S. States (as well as the Acts of the Parliament of Canada) from approximately 1995 to present. Future releases in HeinOnline will include new session laws as published as well as expanded coverage of historical session laws prior to 1995.

Proquest webinars are designed to help you get the most out of their various resources. Sessions are offered every month. Click here to see a list of sessions offered during the month of October. Please note that York does not subscribe to all of the Proquest databases on which these sessions are held.

Take a look at the various training materials for JSTOR. These will be of use to both new and experienced users of this online journal database.

 The Training & Materials page has downloadable resources for training and education including webinars on using JSTOR (online live and recorded)

The Help documentation includes detailed search help, which spells out how to refine a search.

The Tutorials page has many short videos on using JSTOR. New: Finding or Avoiding Reviews; Advanced Search; Primary vs. Secondary Sources; and more.

Rock’s Backpages is an online database of rock music writing in the world. Sourced from the pages of the music and mainstream press, it is a library of articles (reviews, interviews, features and more) from the early 1960s right up to the present day. In addition to the archive of text articles, it also provides exclusive mp3 audio files of original source interviews.

Co-published by the National Association of Social Workers and Oxford University Press, the 20th edition of the Encyclopedia of Social Work includes coverage of areas that have come to the fore since the 1995 publication of the 19th edition, including demographic changes from immigration, technology, the implications of managed care, faith-based assistance, evidence-based practice, gerontology, and trauma and disaster.

The Encyclopedia contains four hundred subject entries and two hundred brief biographies of key figures in the history of social work. Arranged in A-Z format, each article is cross-referenced and includes a select bibliography to guide interested readers to primary sources and scholarly works on a given subject. The work also includes an index and topical outline. The Encyclopedia is for use by social work practitioners, scholars, and students alike.

Published by the Griffith Institute, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford,  the Online Egyptological Bibliography (OEB) includes the volumes of the previous Annual Egyptological Bibliography (AEB) combined with the Bibliographie Altägypten (BA), providing coverage of Egyptological literature from 1822 to 2002 (roughly 70,000 items).

Primal Pictures  provides complete and medically accurate 3D models of the human anatomy. The anatomy visuals are accompanied by 3D animations that demonstrate function, biomechanics and surgical procedures. To supplement the core 3D anatomy data are clinical videos and text written by some of the world’s leading medical specialists.