More than a dozen recent and forthcoming reference databases and online products, organized by category.

AtoZ. AtoZ Databases. www.atozdatabases.com

The database used to find a business, find a person, and find a job has completed a major update to its Find a Job section. With resume templates and examples, cover letter templates and examples, and how-to-interview videos, the resource is now better able to support those coming to libraries for job hunting help. All features and resources in AtoZdatabases are available free to patrons of subscribing libraries.

CAB Direct. CABI. www.cabi.org/cab-direct

A reference source in the applied life sciences, CAB Direct gives access to over 11 million abstracts and full-text articles and incorporates bibliographic databases CAB Abstracts and Global Health. The updated platform is designed with new features to help users get the most out of available literature. The new “My Projects” feature enables users to create an unlimited number of projects to help them organize searches and records. The visualization tools help researchers spot trends and identify key topics.

Colonial America Module II: Towards Revolution. Adam Matthew. www.amdigital.co.uk/m-products/product/colonial-america

The second installment of a five-module resource. Colonial America provides online access to the original correspondence between the governments of the American colonies and the British government, making it a resource for historians of the period 1606 to 1822. Module II focuses on the 1760s and 1770s and provides unique material for the study of the social and political protests that led to the Declaration of Independence and the aftermath of the Boston Tea Party. This database features a data association tool that allows users to discover trends between people, places and keywords across the entire resource. Module II also includes a variety of materials specifically relating to military affairs and Native Americans, such as: intercepted French military correspondence with translations (1756–61), a deed addressed to King George III from the Six Nations Indians (1768), and maps and building plans, including forts and army encampments along the St Lawrence River (1760), a plan of the town and harbor of Nassau in the Bahamas (1770), and a map of Georgia, drawn up as part of material relating to the cession of Indian lands (1774).

Credo’s Online Reference Service. Credo. corp.credoreference.com/about-credo/press-releases/496-summer-credo-release-2016.html

New features include a redesigned user interface created to help students orient to their topic faster, discover background information more efficiently, and explore related concepts and keywords without becoming overwhelmed. Added features include a “Quick View” feature giving users a more in-depth preview of each article; an “Exclude Definitions” toggle for filtering these short entries out of search results; and a Subject filter that supports multiple subject selections.

DemographicsNOW. Gale. Gale.com/demographicsnow

Available Spring 2017. Gale’s online business, residential, and demographics reference tool will relaunch with a new user interface, and will be hosted on an internal platform.

Drama Online. Bloomsbury. www.dramaonlinelibrary.com

This resource expands its current video offering with the addition of The Hollow Crown series and BBC Drama Films. The Hollow Crown stars Ben Whishaw, Jeremy Irons, and Tom Hiddleston and brings together four filmed adaptations of Shakespeare’s history plays: Richard II, Henry IV parts 1 and 2, and Henry V. Starting in the year 1399, the story follows events during 16 years of dynastic and political power play. Kings, with their families and followers, are threatened by rebellion and conflict, from the Royal Court at Westminster to battlefields in England and France.

BBC Drama Films features adaptations of classic and contemporary plays by Sophocles and Shakespeare, to Oscar Wilde, Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, and Bernard Shaw and contemporary writers Michael Frayn and Joe Penhall. Content highlights include William Shakespeare’s King Lear, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, and Frayn’s Copenhagen, the award-winning play that was made into a stylish screen adaptation starring Stephen Rea, Daniel Craig, and Francesca Annis.

GOLD. Grey House. gold.greyhouse.com

Now available on the GOLD platform: Profiles of Florida, 2017; Encyclopedia of Human Rights in The United States; This is Who We Were: In the 1900s; Profiles of Texas, 2017; America’s Top-Rated Cities, 2017; Encyclopedia of Religion & the Law in America, Profiles of New York, 2017/18; The Comparative Guide to American Suburbs, 2017/18; Profiles of Illinois, 2017; Profiles of Virginia, 2017; Working Americans, Industry Through the Ages; Nations of the World, 2018.

Historical Dictionaries. Rowman & Littlefield. Free trials are available to qualifying institutions.

Continuing updates to this platform for undergraduate students working on reports in the humanities. Contains content from more than 1,700 titles from the Historical Dictionaries series, totaling more than 1.3 million entries across more than 30 subjects.

MLA Humanities Commons. Modern Language Association. hcommons.mla.org/insider-update

A space for collaborating with colleagues across disciplines, sharing teaching tools, and building a professional profile. Users will be able to sign up for a free account to create a website, engage in community discussions, and more. Will include a library-quality, open-access repository for interdisciplinary scholarship called CORE. The first of its kind, CORE will allow users to preserve their research and increase its audience by sharing across disciplinary, institutional, and geographic boundaries.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature. EBSCO. www.rilm.org/fulltext

Enhances the bibliography of writings on music provided by RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with the addition of approximately one million pages of full-text content from more than 200 key periodicals published from the early 20th century to the present—90 of which are unavailable elsewhere online.

The full-text content in RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text spans 50 countries in 40 languages, providing coverage of subject areas including musicology, ethnomusicology, theory, performance, and pedagogy.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text currently includes 62,000 records. By the end of 2016, the collection will contain over 175,000 records and will continue to be updated with the full-text content of recent issues.

Rock’s Backpages. Rock’s Pages. teachrock.org

The database now adds a new collaboration with Teachrock.org, who produce Rock and Roll: An American Story, an online educational resource presented by Steven Van Zandt’s Rock and Roll Forever Foundation and is offered free-of-charge to educators, students, and individuals everywhere. An additional partnership brings aboard PBS and animation company Blank on Blank. Rock’s Backpages is the world’s biggest archive of music journalism and pop writing of the last 60 years and comprises over 30,000 articles. The library also includes 500 exclusive audio interviews with music legends from Jimi Hendrix to Kate Bush, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, Michael Jackson, and Kurt Cobain.

Salem Press Online. online.salempress.com

Now available via the Salem Press Online database: Principles of Physical Science; Critical Insights: Modern Japanese Literature; Critical Insights: Isaac Asimov; Critical Insights: Civil Rights Literature, Past & Present; Principles of Business: Finance; Principles of Biology; Defining Documents in American History: Immigration & Immigrant Communities (1790–2016); Critical Approaches to Literature: Psychological; Critical Insights: Neil Gaiman; Critical Insights: Diary of a Young Girl; Principles of Business: Management; Careers in Theatre & Performing Arts; The Criminal Justice System, 2d ed.; Defining Documents in American History: Dissent & Protest (1637–2016); Critical Survey of Science Fiction & Fantasy Literature; Critical Insights: Romeo and Juliet; Critical Insights: Flash Fiction; Critical Insights: Geoffrey Chaucer; Careers in Sports; Salem Health: Community & Family Health Issues; Racial & Ethnic Relations in America; Defining Documents in World History: Renaissance & Early Modern Era, (1308–1600); Defining Documents in World History: Nationalism & Populism (320 B.C.E.–2016 C.E.); Magill’s Literary Annual, 2017; Critical Approaches to Literature: Moral; Critical Insights: Of Mice and Men; Earth’s Notable Natural Disasters: Events Affecting Mankind Through History; Great Events from History: The 21st Century, 2000–2016; Defining Documents in World History: The 17th Century; and Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction.

World Religions Online. Infobase. online.infobaselearning.com/Login.aspx?app=WE30&returnUrl=%2Fworld-religions-online.aspx

World Religions Online will undergo a major redesign in winter 2016, with new Topic Centers, expanded coverage, and new features, including new video clips, new images and slide shows, an ebook shelf with 100 complete sacred texts, sacred music clips, and more.

Jason L. Steagall is Library Instruction and Reference Specialist, Gateway Technical College Library, Elkhorn, WI