While we were all enjoying spring break, the state library announced some welcome news.  The Wyoming Newspaper Project is now live and searchable.  Researchers can search the full text of newspapers printed in Wyoming between 1849 and 1922, including articles, briefs and obituaries.  As of February 2009, over 407,000, or approximately half, of the full page newspaper images are available.  Look for the rest of the content to be added in the coming months.

The latest additions are listed below, and can all be accessed from the UW Libraries’ Articles & Databases page:

1. Sage Premiere Full-Text journal collection: includes over 515 titles from 1999 to the present.
2. Lexis Nexis Statistical Datasets: allows quick and easy access to a variety of data and statistics and allows for easy manipulation and export of data into Excel.
3. Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management Index
4. Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
5. Early English Books Online
6. Wellesley Index
7. Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (purchased in cooperation with the Wyoming State Library)
8. Grove Art and Music: increased number of concurrent users to 3 and 5, respectively, as a result of high user demand.
9. IEEE’s full IEEE Electronic Library: UW now has access to all of IEEE’s publications on the Xplore platform.
10. Petroleum Abstracts: UW previously had a truncated version of this database.

We are actively adding titles to our wish list and purchasing new material for the collection. If you would like us to add something, just let us know!