From: Joan Roca <roca@mnsu.edu>
Newsgroups: msu.announce.faculty-staff
Subject: New Databases Trial: MLA & Mental Measurements Yearbook
Date: 19 Feb 1999 15:58:02 -0600
To: msu.announce.faculty-staff@mnsu.edu

We have a 30-day trial to the Mental Measurements Yearbook and to the MLA
International Bibliography databases (until March 20).  They may be
accessed by clicking on "What's New" from the MSU Library home page:
<http://www.lib.mnsu.edu>.

Mental Measurement Yearbook, from the Buros Institute, contains descriptive
information and critical reviews of more than 2,000 commercially-availbable
standardized English-language educational, personality, aptitute,
neuropsychological, acheivement and intelligence tests.

   Frequency: Semi-annual update
   Coverage: 1989 to present
   Print Equivalent: The Mental Measurements Yearbook
   Subjects: Analysis: Counseling: Education: Social Sciences


MLA International Bibliography, from the Modern Language Association of
America, is the fundamental research tool for the humanities.  The database
indexes international scholarly materials on modern language, literature,
linguistics and folklore.  MLA includes over 1.3 million citations from
over 3,000 journals and series, monographs, working papers and conferences.

   Frequency: Quarterly
   Coverage: 1963 to present
   Print Equivalent: MLA International Bibliography
   Subjects: Drama, Folklore, Humanities, Literature, and Language

For questions on using these, please call the Reference Desk at 5958 or
send a message to AskRef <askref@mnsu.edu).

Thanks!


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