Social Sciences Titles on CD-ROM

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Anthropology Bibliography
Clinton: Portrait of Victory (Macintosh)
Darwin Multimedia CDROM
Gallup Poll Public Opinions 1935-1997
Investigating Olduvai
Latin American Studies
Motif Index of Folk Literature

Clinton: Portrait of Victory - (Mac)
Warner New Media

Darwin Multimedia CD-ROM
Lightbinders, Inc.

Darwin Multimedia contains the following information:

• Charles Darwin's complete texts with original illustrations of the final editions of:
  The Voyage of the Beagle,
  The Origin of Species, and
  The Descent of Man.
• 1859 manuscript outlining the theory of evolution, by Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace
• Triumph of the Darwinian Method, a guide to the study of Darwin, by Michael T. Ghiselin
• The Darwin Timeline detailing significant events in his life
• A Darwin bibliography of over 1,000 primary and secondary references
• Original maps from the voyages of HMS Beagle and HMS Adventure
• More than 650 color and black & white images
• Natural sound recordings from Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology
• Illustrations from Zoology of the Voyage of the HMS Beagle
• Plus never-before published material from other distinguished naturalists

Darwin Multimedia has three search modes:

• Search - you may search by word, author, subject, or title. Each type of search displays a fill-in-the-blank form for your search.
• Browse - you may search within four indexes: words, authors, subjects, and titles.
• Contents - lists the 10 books and articles available on the disc. If you select a book, the table of contents of the book will be displayed from which you may select an individual chapter. If you select an article the full article will be shown.

Function keys are defined at the bottom of the screen. For further explanation of search modes and function keys, press F1 for on-line help.

Latin American Studies - Volume 1, Volume 2
National Information Services Corporation (NISC)

Volume I
(Benson Collection, HAPI, & HLAS)
1970 to Present

This disc contains material about Latin America including books, serials, journals, monographs, theses, dissertations, grey literature, government sources, technical reports, conference papers, pamphlets and bulletins, studies, reports, and manuscripts.

Latin American Studies covers the entire Latin American region: Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South America, and the Hispanic culture in the United States.

This disc contains three databases on Latin America:

• The Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas, Austin
• The Hispanic American Periodicals Index, University of California, Los Angeles (HAPI)
  (Hapi Thesaurus 1970-1993 with documentation)
• The Handbook of Latin American Studies - Volume 50 onward (HLAS) edited at the Library of Congress

Searches can be performed on all databases at once, or selectively.

Subject areas include:

• Anthropology & Ethnography
• Art & Archaeology
• Business & Marketing
• Ecology & Agriculture
• Economics
• Education
• Geography & Demography
• History & Ethnohistory
• International Relations
• Indigenous Affairs
• Literature & Language
• Music, Culture, & Folklore
• Philosophy & Religion
• Politics & Government
• Public Administration
• Refugees & Human Rights
• Sociology
• Women's Rights

Volume II
(INFO-SOUTH, LADB, & Hispanic Law Index)
1986 - Present

Volume II of Latin American Studies provides information about the business, legal, political, and economic affairs of Latin America.

This disc contains bibliographic records, abstracts, and detailed summaries from three major sources:

• The INFO-SOUTH Latin American Information System of the North-South Center, University of Miami
• The Latin American Data Base (LADB) of the Latin American Institute (LAI) at the University of New Mexico
• The World Law Index, Part I - Hispanic Nations of the Hispanic Law Division, Library of Congress

Subject areas include:

• Agriculture
• Banking & Finance
• Commerce & Foreign Trade
• Defense & Intelligence
• Demography & Sociology
• Economics
• Education
• Foreign Relations
• Geography & Ethnography
• Government & Politics
• History & Religion
• Indigenous Affairs
• Industry & Marketing
• Legislation
• Public Administration
• Refugees
• Science & Technology
• Terrorism & Drug Traffic

As with Volume I, all types of printed material are included, and searches can be performed on all databases simultaneously, or selectively.

Motif-Index of Folk Literature
New Enlarged and Revised Edition
Indiana University PressInteLex Corporation

The Motif-Index is an attempt to reduce the traditional narrative material of the world by means of a decimal classification of single motifs. Motifs are those details out of which full-fledged narratives are formed.

The scope of the work includes motifs found in both oral and literary traditions. In general, any narrative is included, whether popular or literary, so long as a strong enough tradition exists to cause its frequent repetition. These include the folktale, myth, ballad, fable, medieval romance, etc. Excluded are superstitions, customs, religious beliefs, riddles, or proverbs, except as they happen to form an organic part of the narrative.

References are usually provided to one or more works where material about a motif may be found, but the work is primarily an index and is only incidentally a bibliography.

To aid in searching, the entries are indexed by groups (fields). These include main entry, cross references, index, and bibliography.

Specific to the CD-ROM edition is the presence of over 150,000 hypertext links linking the following:

• Main entry numbers to all other occurrences of the number in the text
• Cross references and index entry numbers to the main entry
• Entry number ranges in the synopses to the entry number range
• Entry numbers to the synopsis for the section

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