The library continues to acquire important new online collections of interest to historians. Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI) is a multidisciplinary, full-text database that brings together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, "gray" literature, and the alternative press -- with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women's lives in more than 190 countries. It includes English-language titles from East and West Africa, Asia, and South and Central America, the Caribbean, North America and Europe, and is updated weekly. It is available from the Database A-Z list and from the WGST subject page. If you have access to the library collection, click here to check it out.

International Security and Counter Terrorism Reference Center (smoothly accronymed as "ISCTRC") is a full text resource on security and counter-terrorism issues, combining news sources and scholarly writings with expert commentary from across the international political, military, economic, social and technical spectrum. Content includes full text journals and periodicals, news feeds, reports, summaries, books, blogs, FAQs, and proprietary Background Information Summaries that pertain to terrorism and security. ISCTRC is updated weekly. It is available from the Database A-Z list and from the History subject page. If you have access to the library, click here to check it out.

The GLBT site, thanks to generous private donations, now offers a full text facility through 2006. The Index covers literature covering gay, lesbian, bisexual & transgender (GLBT) issues, including the full text of 50 of the most important and historically significant GLBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as dozens of full text monographs. It is available from the Database A-Z list and from the WGSt subject page. If you have access to the library, click here to check it out.

Info-LatinoAmerica now integrates with the U of S Library collection, and offers direct links to full-text offerings available in the library, whether electronic, paper, or microform. Check it out here.

The library now offers the Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals: 1800-1900 on a permanent basis, thanks in part to a generous donation from our own Chris Kent. The directory includes 50,000 English language newspapers and periodical publications published in England between 1800-1900. This is Series 2 of a 5-series set. Series 2 includes the contents of the previously published Series 1. Series 3-5 are forthcoming. By the completion of the five-series set, some 125,000 titles are expected to be identified, located and described. All subject areas are covered, although each one of the series attempts to provide a comprehensive listing of from seven to ten additional subjects, while including many thousands of titles not on those specialty lists. The subjects dealt with most completely so far are: Art & Architecture, Children, Feminism, Music, Theatre, Wit & Humour, and Women. The library will also be adding the 20-volume printed edition to its reference section. Find the electronic edition on the History subject page, or click here.