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Temple University Libraries are rapidly expanding the online resources available to faculty and staff with the purchase of new electronic resources that add literally hundreds of thousands of maps, periodicals, articles, publications, and other reference material that is now just a keyboard click away.

Digital Sanborn Maps

Digital Sanborn Maps — 1867-1970 provides academic and public libraries digital access to more than 660,000 large-scale maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities. In electronic form, Sanborn Maps take on much improved value over the microfilm versions of the same maps, allowing for greater flexibility of use and improved viewing possibilities. Users have the ability to easily manipulate the maps, magnify and zoom in on specific sections, and layer maps from different years.

Sanborn fire insurance maps are the most frequently consulted maps in both public and academic libraries. Sanborn maps are valuable historical tools for urban specialists, social historians, architects, geographers, genealogists, local historians, planners, environmentalists and anyone who wants to learn about the history, growth, and development of American cities, towns, and neighborhoods. They are large-scale plans containing data that can be used to estimate the potential risk for urban structures. This includes information such as the outline of each building, the size, shape and construction materials, heights, and function of structures, location of windows and doors. The maps also give street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers.

Founded in 1867 by D. A. Sanborn, the Sanborn Map Company was the primary American publisher of fire insurance maps for nearly 100 years.

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SAGE Publications Full-Text Collections: Urban Studies and Planning Criminology

Temple University Libraries is pleased to announce an new database: Urban Studies & Planning: A SAGE Full-Text Collection.

Urban Studies and Planning

The Urban Studies & Planning: SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full text of 12 journals published by SAGE and participating societies — some journals going back 37 years — and includes more than 2,500 articles. It covers such subjects as anthropology, economic development, economics, education, environmental science, planning pedagogy, planning practice, planning theory, policy analysis, political science, public administration, regional geography, regional science, residential and community development, social, spatial, and cultural dynamics, sociology, urban and regional planning, urban culture, urban geography, urban policy, urban politics, and welfare economics.

This collection includes 12 titles, which translates into 2,500 articles, 150 volumes, 750 issues, and 93,750 total pages.

The searchable database consists of bibliographic records (indexed summaries or abstracts) as well as the complete text of each journal article. Every bibliographic record in the collection links to the appropriate full-text in PDF format.

This database will be updated weekly. Please note: Not every journal will have new data each week.

The Criminology database includes the full text of 23 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, encompassing over 5,600 articles and up to 29 years of backfiles.

Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection covers a variety of subjects such as criminal justice, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, corrections, penology, policing, forensic psychology, and family and domestic violence.

SAGE Publications is an international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for scholarly, educational, and professional markets.

AGRICOLOA Plus

The largest online source of key agricultural journals, AGRICOLA Plus (AGRICultural OnLine Access) is an extensive bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the U.S. National Agricultural Library. It is the definitive agricultural database, providing abstracts and indexing, and full text for hundreds of resources dating back to 1970. The citations describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines.

ProQuest Agriculture Journals covers a wide range of agriculture-related topics, such as: Animal and veterinary sciences, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, food and human nutrition.

Elsevier, Blackwell, and Cambridge Journals

Temple University Libraries is pleased to announce online access to virtually the entire journal collections of three major publishers: Elsevier, Blackwell Publishing, and Cambridge University Press.

In collaboration with the Health Sciences Libraries, the Temple Libraries have licensed access to more than 1500 new titles. These new collections are especially strong in the sciences, technology, and medicine; offer substantive collections in the social sciences; and include a number of important titles in the humanities. A total of 750 Blackwell Publishing journals are now available via the Blackwell-Synergy platform, and 200 Cambridge University Press titles are available via Cambridge Journals Online. Temple has also entered into and agreement to provide 1500 Elsevier online journals, almost the entire Elsevier ScienceDirect collection, on a trial basis until the end of 2007.

Many new electronic resources will be purchased throughout the year. Keep current by consulting the Library Blog on the Libraries' Webpage.