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The article focuses on the fundamental transformation of research libraries. Topics discussed here include easy availability of complex data management software solutions; and the number of institutional, collaborative, and research repositories for data, dissertations, preprints, and research reports.

The article presents an update of issues related to the social sciences and humanities online information services in the U.S. as of May 2004. The American Psychological Association will license from EBSCO the content contained in the former e-psyche database. Approximately 15,000 records from newsletters and other similar materials will enter PsycEXTRA, the association's new gray literature database. Other PsycEXTRA documents include research reports not submitted to scholarly journals, convention papers and abstracts, policy papers, newsletters, magazines, popular books, consumer brochures, curricula, and fact sheets. ProQuest Information and Learning announced the third release of the online collection American Drama, covering more than 1,100 dramatic works from the Colonial period to the beginning of the 20th century. David Belasco, Joaquin Miller, Clyde Fitch, and James Herne are among the leading post-Civil War playwrights added to American Drama 1714-1915. ProQuest also announced the first release of Twentieth Century Drama. When complete, the new database will contain 2,500 plays in English, the history of modern drama from the 1890s to the present day, all in searchable full text. H.W. Wilson released its updated Humanities& Social Sciences Index Retrospective 1907-1984, which features cover to cover indexing of some 1,200 scholarly journals with 1,300,000 articles.

The article presents a comparison of databases for sociology studies, including SocINDEX from EBSCO and Sociological Abstracts from CSA.

The article offers news briefs related to digital information services as of April 1, 2017 on topics including 20th anniversary celebration of Tech Logic in 2017; acquisition of research metrics provider Plum Analytics by Elsevier; and launch of the redesigned online community MethodSpace by SAGE.

The article reports that publishing company Elsevier BV has acquired a website Social Science Research Network (SSRN). Topics discussed include Open Access (OA) has made strides in the intervening with the development of number of different OA models, models has not replaced traditional publishing of scholarly journals in print and online formats, Elsevier's goal is to enhance the capabilities of both platforms and Elsevier is adapting to shifting tides of academic and scholarly publishing.

The article offers brief information on various software including the SydneyEnterprise library automation system from Lucidea, the dinStorage S3 cloud storage application from dinCloud and the Hadoop RDBMS or relational database management system from Splice Machine Inc.

The article offers news briefs on social sciences and humanities. H.W. Wilson announced the addition of more than 62,000 images to its Art Museum Image Gallery database. ProQuest Information and Learning's digital House of Commons Parliamentary Papers 1801-1900 is made available to all 2-year colleges and 4-year universities in Great Britain through funding from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and ProQuest.

The article features SAGE Publications and its distribution strategy as of November 2011. It notes that SAGE pulled hundreds of its journal titles from EBSCOhost and ProQuest in favor of a direct distribution platform with Cambridge Scientific Abstracts in 2002. It describes its new strategy involving Web 2.0 technologies that embrace social media and the open web with a Sage Insight blog, open access publication SAGE Open, and online communities such as social science space among others.

This article reports that STN International has added files on Thermodynamic Properties, Analytical Chemistry and Social Sciences to its online network. The Joint Army-Navy-Air Force file contains critically-evaluated data on the chemical thermodynamic properties of inorganic substances and organic substances containing one or two carbon atomics. CJAOAC contains full-text records of more than 300 research papers in analytical chemistry. FORIS is a German-language database on current, planned and completed research projects in the social sciences in the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria and Switzerland from 1978 to date. Social Sciences Literature Information System is a bibliographic database with abstracts on the German-language social sciences literature published since 1945.

The article evaluates Institute for Scientific Information's (ISI) two new CD-ROM products--The Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings and the Index to Social Sciences & Humanities Proceedings. These multidisciplinary products provide electronic access to complete bibliographic data from important science, social science, and arts and humanities conference literature. This literature is valuable to the researcher as it often provides the first published data on a newly developed concept or research project. These products have been available in print for many years, said Bonnie Lawlor, executive vice president, Database Publishing. The ISI has greatly enhanced the usability of the indexes by offering electronic access to multiple years of data through unique search fields. For instance, a user can search--in one search statement--by conference locations, dates, and titles, easily and quickly retrieving the exact information needed in the most efficient manner possible.

The article reviews the web site SAGE Publishing, located at sagepub.com, from the SAGE Publications Inc.

The article announces the winners of the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) CODiE Awards in 2016 including Best Financial Management Solution to investment data management platform Addepar, Best Business and Intelligence Tools & Platforms to Applause's Mobile Beta Management, and Best Sales & Marketing Intelligence Solution to Beckon.

The article offers world news briefs in 2018. SAGE Publishing has launched SAGE Ocean to aid researchers in developing computational social science skills. Elsevier works with Beijing University of Chinese Medicine to make a taxonomy for traditional Chinese medicine in Embase. Access Innovations Inc. revealed that the Library of Congress has assigned GEOTHES, a Classification Scheme Source Code to Access Innovations.

The article reports that conducting literature reviews for scholarly articles is common in the social sciences and almost universal in the sciences. Topics discussed include steps required for literature review which involves determining narrow field of research and need for new approach; challenges in comprehensiveness; and use of scholarly databases for conducting literature reviews.

The article focuses on open access (OA). It discusses two main routes of infrastructure for OA, who pays for OA publishing and the use of OA in higher education. It mentions the relationship between OA and journal impact factor and how librarians can show their support for OA. It highlights that role of OA in social sciences and humanities.

This article reports that as a result of an in-depth content study conducted by the Committee on Wilson Indexes of the Reference and Adult Services Division of the American Library Association, Art Index and Social Sciences Index have expanded their list of periodicals. Art Index has broadened its scope and expanded its coverage of information crucial to academics, general readers, and professionals in the world of art. With the inclusion of 71 additional periodicals, Art Index now indexes 268 periodicals from cover to cover. Social Sciences Index, a reference source for more than 80 years, has expanded its list of periodicals to 415. The indexing of 94 additional periodicals is effective with the June 1994 issue of Social Sciences Index and will commence with the January 1994 issue of each periodical. Social Sciences Index helps users keep up with the latest concepts, theories, and methodologies, and covers the topics that form the focus of college and professional papers.

This section offers news briefs in the social sciences and humanities-related information industry including Alexander Street Press' release of Classical Scores Library: Volume II and Anthropology Online collections, and move of ProQuest to release the digitized archives of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

This section offers news briefs related to social sciences and humanities. Online Computer Library Catalog (OCLC) integrated 12 databases, formerly part of the RLG Eureka service, into the OCLC FirstSearch service. ProQuest announced the availability of the Digital National Security Archive (DNSA), offering access to formerly secret documents underlying of U.S. military and foreign policy. AccessibleArchives, Inc. made significant updates to "The Liberator" and "African-American Newspapers: the 19th Century."

The article offers online research-related news briefs as of July 2016. Preprint registration will be allowed by Crossref by August 2016. The Glass Tree print-on-demand online publishing site that provides free tools to academic and scholarly authors for book publication has been launched by Lulu. The new eLife publishing platform Continuum replaces the original Highwire Press platform and supports continuous publication.

Focuses on the use of full-text online resources in the Humanities and Social Sciences for libraries. Views on the commercialization of full-text databases; Advantages and disadvantages of databases; Features and capabilities of full-text databases.

Focuses on the collections of scholarly Internet resources available on the Web. Aims in providing social science Web resources; Site features; Different ways in searching for Website informations; Usefulness of the Web for scholarly research in the social sciences.

The article presents 2013 news on the library and information technology sector. Nature Publishing Group stated that it will release Scientific Data, an online-only, open access platform. The firm Techstreet has launched a redesigned version of its Techstreet.com web site. A collaborative initiative from the companies Baker & Taylor and Polaris Library Systems will integrate Baker & Taylor's digital media circulation platform into the Polaris integrated library system (ILS).

The article provides information on several information products and services, including the Wiley Open Access publishing program by John Wiley & Sons Inc., the EasyBib Library Edition service by EasyBib.com and the digital archive British Literary Manuscripts Online, Medieval and Renaissance, by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning.

Presents information on various social science online services- related newsbriefs. Reference to the USA Today Online service and other launch article archives; Details on the Statistical Universe Web site; Indication that the reports of the Educational Resources Information Centre went online.

The article focuses on the adoption of an open access (OA) model by U.S.-based SAGE Publications with the release of the SAGE Open publishing format. The move is said to be related to the plan of the publisher to create a megajournal featuring peer-reviewed, original research and review articles in an interactive, open access format. The format will involve accepting articles based only on the quality of the research and evaluating the scientific and research methods of each article for validity.

This article reports on the plan of University Microfilms International (UMI) and the H. W. Wilson Co. to develop Social Science Index/Full Text, a social science image database. The Social Sciences Index of H. W. Wilson will serve as the bibliographic component for the new product, and UMI will lend its experience in the are of full text and image to provide users with one-stop access. The database will be updated monthly and will contain full articles from the more than 350 indexed journals in the Wilson file. The database will cover such subject areas as anthropology, community health and medical care, economics, ethnic studies, psychology, psychiatry, social work, sociology, and urban studies, to name a few.