Databases

On May 7, 1763, an attack on Fort Detroit by the Ottawa Chief Pontiac was thwarted by British Major Henry Gladwin. Pontiac and his men entered the fort with weapons under trading blankets. Their goal was to attack the unwitting soldiers. However, the plot had been previously uncovered and the men of the fort were prepared. Without the element of surprise, Pontiac exited the fort, but then laid siege for several months. The attempt to take Fort Detroit was part of what is known as Pontiac's Rebellion. In the following weeks, allies of Pontiac took 10 of the 13 British forts in the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley region. Fort Detroit was one that did not fall during the rebellion.

To find out more about the events that lead up to the rebellion and about its aftermath, check out some of the library's resources. We have several books about Pontiac's Rebellion. We also have newspaper accounts of Pontiac from the 1700s in 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers and Accessible Archives. (Note: Pontiac is usually spelled "Pondiac" in these newspaper accounts.)

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Several noteworthy events occurred on April 10.

In 1963, the USS Thresher, a nuclear-powered attack submarine, sank off the coast of Cape Cod during deep water dive testing. See newspaper accounts of the Thresher, its christening, loss, and aftermath in the NewspaperARCHIVE.

In 1938, Germany annexed Austria. Newspaper accounts of this event can be found in ProQuest historical newspapers. Historical newspapers that can be found in ProQuest include: Chicago Daily Tribune, Detroit Free Press, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and many more.

   

Several new journals have been launched recently in the ScienceDirect database:

• European Journal of Control
• Food Bioscience
• International Journal of Chemical and Analytical Science
• JCC Open
• Journal of CO₂ Utilization
• Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering
• Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance
• Journal of Magnesium and Alloys
• Journal of Orthopaedics
• Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports
• Revista da Associação Médica Brasileira
• Water Resources and Economics

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Professor Wendi Heinzelman will be the speaker at the March 22 CIS-ECE-IMSE Distinguished Lecture Series. Professor Heinzelman, from the University of Rochester, will talk about "Sleeping Techniques for Lifetime Extension in WSNs."

Can't make it to the presentation Friday? Want to view Professor Heinzelman's work beforehand?

Dr. Heinzelman has been a prolific author with more than 85 articles listed in IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The library also has an e-book co-authored by Professor Heinzelman in our collection: Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Energy-Efficient Real-Time Data Communications. Take a look!

   

Karger publishes medical journals and books. Our access is to books published from 1997 to 2012 and to nearly 100 journals published since 1998.

Did you miss the presentation “Why Should You Know Six Sigma” presentation on Friday? The presentation, co-sponsored by the ECE and IMSE departments and hosted by The Association of Muslim Scientists and Engineers, featured Dr. Basem El-Haik as speaker. Dr.El-Haik is an expert in the field of Six Sigma and has written several books regarding the application of Six Sigma. Several of these books are in the library’s collection. Check them out!

       

ProQuest databases will be undergoing maintenance and are expected to be unavailable:

Saturday, March 9 at 10:00 p.m. until
Sunday, March 10 at 4:00 a.m.

This Friday (March 8), Dr. Louis Lefebvre from McGill University will speak at the Animval Behavior speaker series. Dr. Lefebvre’s presentation will be “Feeding innovations in birds and their implications for ecology, evolution and neuroscience.”

Dr. Lefebvre has worked with many species of birds and much of his work can be found in the ScienceDirect database.

The University of Michigan - Dearborn will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the song "Precious Lord" on Wednesday, March 6. There will be a keynote presentation facilitated by Dr. Tammy Kernodle, Associate Professor of Musicology at Miami University, along with other special invited guests.

• See the Student Engagement website for more details.
• Listen to Precious Lord and other songs by Thomas A. Dorsey through the Naxos database
• See some of the research by Dr. Kernodle in the Summon research tool
• Check out the e-book Encyclopedia of African American Music, edited by Dr. Kernodle.

SpringerMaterials comprises 400 Landolt-Börnstein volumes, 44,000 chemical safety documents, a subset of the Dortmund Data Bank Software & Separation Technology comprising 300,000 data points, and the Linus Pauling files on inorganic solid phases. SpringerMaterials is expanded and updated quarterly.

The ECS Digital Library provides searchable online access to the various journals published by The Electrochemical Society. The goals of the ECS journals are:

• to advance the theory and practice of electrochemistry, solid-state science, and allied subjects; and
• to encourage research and dissemination of knowledge in these fields

We recently added the following Japanese language resources:

CiNii (Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator) Articles allows the search of information about academic articles published in academic society journals, university research bulletins, and articles included in the National Diet Library's Japanese Periodicals Index.

Bungei Kurabu is a citation/abstract database for the literary magazine Bungei Kurabu (1895 - 1912). The magazine includes works by major authors.

Koyukai zasshi is a citation/abstract database for the Japanese language magazine Koyukai zasshi (1890 - 1944) published by Dai 1 Koto gakko whose members were cultural elites and creators of literary works.

Taiyo was a major Japanese language magazine (1895 - 1928) covering politics, military, economics, social issues, art, literary criticism, etc. about Japan during this era.

Naxos Video Library is a performing arts video library with over 1,300 operas, ballets, documentaries, live concerts, films, and musical tours of historic places. It includes the Naxos DVD label, Opus Arte, Arthaus, Dacapo, EuroArts, and other labels and is continuously updated to offer the best selection of performing arts videos.

Oxford Reports on International Law includes most relevant case law from over 65 jurisdictions as determined by leading experts in the field, covering issues in areas such as general international law, human rights law, and international criminal law. Oxford Reports on International Law includes traditional headnotes supplemented by analytical commentary on each case, full texts of all decisions in the original language, translations of all non-English language decisions, archive going back to the start of 2000, and new cases and updates added frequently.

This online Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law is a full revision of the print edition, with more than 1,700 articles and 700 new topics not covered in the print edition. The articles are written by experts, peer reviewed, and edited by the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law & International Law. The additional content covers important developments in areas such as international criminal law, international dispute settlement, trade law and environmental law.