All database/journal/package/eBook collection additions and deletions/cancelations should be added to the spreadsheet at:
Y:\Electronic Resources\Budgets and End of Year Reports\FY2011 and following.xlsx
LICENSE IN NEGOTIATIONS: RMA
Jan 2015 - EDS: turned on Kanopy & HathiTrust KLM
Jan 2015 - Cancelling Credo ebook subscription. (MH to email Credo + start CORAL workflow).
downloaded Credo, GVRL, & Oxford Reference usage stats [Usage Stats] KLM + JA
Jan 2015 - JSTOR ebook/Gobi License KLM
Dec 2015 - downloaded top 25 (by price) database usage stats [Usage Stats] KLM + JA
Dec 2015 - JSTOR ebook/Gobi License KLM
Oct 2015 - License renewed. KLM
Sept 2015 - EDS: turned on CLCD KLM
Sept 2015 - WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services) License KLM
Sept 2015 - CompuStat License KLM
30 Aug 2015 - New acquisition! S&P CompuStat (WRDS platform subscription necessary to access S&P CompuStat data)
CANCELLING S&P Research Insight (financial data available via CD-ROM downloadable on-campus only ) Ends Sept 2015 per AH, LS & COBA. Cancelling due to upgrading to S&P CompuStat. KLM
30 Aug 2015 - New acquisition! Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) platform interface subscription (necessary to access S&P CompuStat data). Negotiated license in conjunction with TSUS Legal Counsel Rhonda Bessie. Paid for entirely by COBA.
21 July 2015 - CANCELLING Mango Languages (subscription via Amigos) (ends June 2015) per AH email 2015 April 13. Cancelling due... Emailed Mango July ??. . KLM
31 July 2015 - CANCELLING Rosetta Stone (subscription via EBSCO) (ends June 2015) per AH email 2015 April 13. Cancelling due... Emailed EBSCO July ??. KLM
21 June 2015 - CANCELLING Docutek E-Reserves (subscription via Amigos) (ends June 2015) per AH email 2015 April 13. Cancelling due "an issue with what server the software runs on. It runs on a 2003 server which our IT and Microsoft no longer support --- thus there are security risks. And it is not compatible with 2008 server. (This is only an issue if you’re running a Window box, which we are)" (per Linda Meyer) Emailed Amigos June 2nd . KLM
30 May 2015 - Upgrade! Cabell's Online Directories now includes publications in the areas of Mathematics and Science.
01 May 2015 - License renewed. MarketLine KLM
May 2015 - Flash Flood Alley Streaming Media License KLM
30 April 2015 - Upgrade! WestLaw Campus NEXT. Upgrade from WestLaw Classic. 3 year License renewed. KLM
(access to WestLaw Classic retained till Thomson Reuters no longer supports that product)
also ceasing Print SO "Company Affiliations" (LexisNexis) and adding Business Investigator (WestLaw) ?
21 April 2015 - CANCELLING LexisNexis Academic Universe (renews July 2015) due to unfriendly interface and overlap with WestLaw and other resources. Emailed Amigos 4/21 . KLM
18 March 2015 - New acquisition! Advertising RedBooks. $3,995 (migrating from print SO) KLM
Ceasing corresponding print Standing Orders for "RedBooks": SO-12505 ($1819), SO-12504 ($1589) and SO-10533A (supplements) = $3408 print SO Total.
17 March 2015 - New acquisition! Statista. KLM
05 March 2015 - ContentDM institutional repository questionnaire filled out with EBSCO. expected time to harvest metadata 8-10 weeks. KLM, MT & JW
05 Feb 2015 - New acquisition! HeinOnline: Government, Politics and Law for Academics. T.O.
01 January 2015 - New acquisitions! We have started a new subscription to the remaining content available on Accessible Archives (only purchased content thus far is Civil Wars Pts 1-6). T.O.
16 October 2014 - We have started a new subscription to Cochrane Library. You can find more info about the Cochrane Library at http://www.thecochranelibrary.com/view/0/AboutTheCochraneLibrary.html.
15 October 2014 - We have purchased the Dolley Madison Digital Papers. SAV
Dolley Payne Madison was the most important First Lady of the nineteenth century. The Dolley Madison Digital Edition will be the first-ever complete edition of all of her known correspondence. It is currently complete through April 1837, with a total of 964 documents.
1 October 2014 - We have started a new subscription to the Met Opera on Demand. Our subscription is for 10 concurrent users. SAV.
9 September 2014 - We have added a subscription to Mango Languages from funds donated from the Department of Foreign Languages. This subscription includes only 12 languages, so overall, it is abridged version of what languages Mango generally offers. Languages included in our subscription are Arabic (Modern Standard), Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish (Latin American), Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Thai, and Vietnamese.
12 August 2014 - We have made a one-time purchase of ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Austin American Statesman (1921-1975). This archive includes a continuation fee so we will be adding more years.
Be aware that I have a request for Ebsco to add this to the A-Z Knowledgebase. Until they do so this title will not show up in JournalFinder.
We have made a one-time purchase of ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Wall Street Journal (1889-1996). This archive includes a continuation fee so we will be adding more years. http://search.proquest.com/hnpwallstreetjournal?accountid=7065
We have made a one-time purchase of ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post (1877-1997). This archive includes a continuation fee so we will be adding more years. http://search.proquest.com/hnpwashingtonpost?accountid=7065
12 August 2014 - We made a one-time purchase of the ProQuest History Vault: NAACP Papers Series 6. We already own Series 2 and 3.
For more info on the NAACP Papers, http://cisupa.proquest.com/ksc_assets/history_vault/naacppapers.pdf
8 August 2014 - We purchased the backfile for Biological Abstracts. The backfile included indexing for 1926 through 1968. We now have indexing from 1926 to present.
This is found of the Web of Science platform and can be located under Biological Abstracts or Web of Science on the Database A-Z page. http://thomsonreuters.com/biological-abstracts/
5 August 2014 - We have a new subscription to Ebsco’s Rosetta Stone Library Solution. https://shsulibraryguides.org/alldatabases/p
Content & Features
5 August 2014 - Upgrade to full video collection from Ambrose Videos.
30 July 2014 - Leiden (NL) / Boston (MA) - 29 July 2014 Brill, the international scholarly publisher, announces a new suite of open access journals covering four major disciplines.
In the Brill Open program, Brill is now announcing the launch of four new full Open Access journals in the following disciplines:
Humanities, Social Sciences, Law, and Biology. These journals will offer a pure open access environment. Each journal will be divided in sections that align with the major subject areas in the discipline. Each of the four new Brill Open journals will have a dedicated editorial board and undergo the same rigorous peer review and uphold the same high-quality publication standards that Brill is known for. In addition, once accepted, papers will be published online in just one month.
The Brill Open program makes research freely accessible online in exchange for an Article Publication Charge (APC). This can be by choice, or to comply with funding mandates or university requirements. As a rule, APCs are not charged until a paper is accepted for publication. In 2014 and 2015 the four new Open Access journals will offer reduced APCs and waive all submission fees. View the APC details here.
The journals are published on Brill’s existing books and journals platform and are online only. The content and metadata will be distributed as usual for indexing and discovery purposes. Anyone who wants to get involved in one of the four new Open Access journals as an author or reviewer, or as a section editor, is requested to contact us at brillopen@brill.com. The new Brill Open journals will open for submissions this August!
For more information on this media alert, please contact Sam Bruinsma, Vice President Business Development (bruinsma@brill.com), or send your inquiry to brillopen@brill.com.
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in Leiden and Boston, Brill today publishes over 200 journals and around 700 new books and reference works each year, available in both print and electronic form. Brill also markets a large number of primary source research collections and databases. The company’s key customers are academic and research institutions, libraries, and scholars. Brill is a publicly traded company and is listed on Euronext Amsterdam NV. For further information please visit www.brill.com.
View this media alert online: http://www.brill.com/news/brill-announces-new-suite-open-access-journals
25 July 2014 -
There has been an ongoing discussion regarding indexing for JSTOR within EDS over the past week. Some of the discussions have been why does Google Scholar have fulltext indexing of JSTOR whereas EDS doesn’t. Ebsco invited JSTOR to respond to this. I thought some of you may find the following comments interesting (perhaps even valuable to know).
Thank you for your comments and questions regarding the EDS-JSTOR data sharing relationship. We want to address the topic to not only clear up some of the confusion and speculation, but also to give you a sense of where we are headed with our partnership. Our working relationship with JSTOR is strong, with regular dialog between our organizations. So, in the spirit of partnership, we asked Bruce Heterick, VP for JSTOR/Portico for his comments. Bruce offered the following:
JSTOR has a myriad of indexing relationships with a myriad of partners, including EDS. We have special arrangements with Google, Google Scholar, and Bing to index the full-text of the content on the JSTOR platform. A few of the publishers participating in JSTOR have opted out of these arrangements.
Specifically for EDS, JSTOR provides full-text for indexing the Books at JSTOR content, and metadata for indexing the CSP (current journals) and Archive Collections content. We are currently evaluating the relevancy value of providing full-text for indexing the CSP and Archive Collections. We also understand that EDS considers subject indexing highly in order to provide the greatest level of precision in its relevancy ranking. As such, in addition to discussions around the provision full text for searching, we are looking closely at how we can improve the subject indexing data that we provide to EBSCO for JSTOR records. We are actively engaged in that work now.
JSTOR is also finalizing a set of Quick Reference Guides (working in collaboration with EBSCO) to provide libraries with specific information on how to configure EDS (and your link resolver) more effectively if you wish to maximize the discoverability of the content you have licensed from JSTOR. Those guides should be available before the end of August.
Thank you,
Bruce
In addition, if your institution subscribes to various resources such as Wilson retrospective indexes, PsycINFO on EBSCOhost or other EBSCO indexes covering subject areas prevalent in JSTOR, these indexes become an important gateway to JSTOR full text content.
If you have any additional questions or comments, please let us know.
Regards,
Leslie Sierra, M.S.L.I.S
Senior Manager, Product Engagement
EBSCO Information Services
24 July 2014 - I have setup Artstor to be discoverable via EDS. However, I want to bring it to your attention that because ARTstor uses a pop-up window to bring up a high-res image that by default most browsers (definitely the campus officially ordained IE 9 and Firefox 17.05) will need to whitelist the domain *.artstor.org for pop-ups. Or, the user can opt for the option to allow the pop-up for a single instance.
To see how this might work, you can search for an artist, say Van Gogh, in Engine Orange. Following this you can choose to refine your search by going to Collection on the left side. Once a collection is selected you will see the images available. You can click on the link “View image and record in ARTstor” to view the image. This is where the pop-up blocker message will occur. Override the pop-up blocker and the image should display in a separate window from ARTstor.
18 July 2014 - We have purchased East View’s World News Connection Archive, 1995-2013.
https://shsulibraryguides.org/alldatabases/u
The information is obtained from newspaper articles, television and radio broadcasts, online sources, conference proceedings, periodicals, and non-classified reports. This information is collected and translated by and for the U.S. Government.
17 July 2014 - We have started a subscription to Marquis Biographies Online (MBO). This includes titles such as Who’s Who in American and many more. Be aware that we licensed this database as single user. See below for description.
Marquis Biographies Online, a 'high-speed', searchable online database, features comprehensive profiles on over 1.5 million of the most accomplished individuals from all fields of endeavor including: government, business, science and technology, the arts, entertainment, and sports. Recognized globally since 1899 as the premier biographical data provider, Marquis Who's Who now gives you the ability to conduct powerful searches of its entire database of achievers from around the globe. Search by name, gender, occupation, geography, hobbies and interests, religion and much more.
No longer do subscribers need to wait until a new book is published to get updated profiles – the site is updated daily! Web subscribers will now have the most up-to-date biographical information available. Of course, Marquis Who’s Who print volumes will still be available for subscribers who want to keep their library collection up-to-date.
With a subscription to Marquis Biographies Online, you get access to current biographies of all individuals who appeared in any one of the following Marquis print titles since 1985:
· Who’s Who in America
· Who’s Who in the East
· Who’s Who in the World
· Who’s Who in the Midwest
· Who's Who in Asia
· Who’s Who in the South and Southwest
· Who’s Who of American Women
· Who’s Who in the West
· Who’s Who in Science and Engineering
· Who’s Who in Media and Communications
· Who’s Who in American Law
· Who’s Who in Entertainment
· Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare
· Who’s Who in American Education
· Who’s Who in Finance and Business ((Formerly Who's Who in Finance & Industry)
· Who’s Who in American Nursing
· Who’s Who in Religion
· Who’s Who in 20th Century America
· Who’s Who Among Human Services Professionals
· Who’s Who of Emerging Leaders in America
· Who’s Who in American Art
· Who’s Who in American History
· Who’s Who in Corporate America
· Who’s Who in American Politics
We’ve digitized biographies from our archive of Who Was Who in America volumes (1607-1985), forming an online segment called Who’s Who in American History representing 400 years of biographical history. A subscription to Marquis Biographies Online now includes 110,000 “life stories” from 1607 to the present. Learn about inventors, explorers, colonists, abolitions, important figures in business, government, the military, education, literature and other remarkable people who helped shape American history.
14 July 2014 - We have purchased the following new database Papers of Amiri Baraka, Poet Laureate of the Black Power Movement which is part of the Gale Archives Unbound Series. https://shsulibraryguides.org/alldatabases/p
Papers of Amiri Baraka, Poet Laureate of the Black Power Movement
Date Range: 1960-1988
Content: 10,000 pages
Source Library: Auburn Avenue Research Library, Atlanta-Fulton Library System
Description: Amiri Baraka is the author of over 40 books of essays, poems, drama, and music history and criticism, a poet icon and revolutionary political activist. As a young man in the 1960s, Baraka (then known as LeRoi Jones) galvanized a second Black Renaissance, the Black Arts movement. The ideological and political transformations of Amiri Baraka from a Beat poet in Greenwich Village into a militant political activist in Harlem and Newark was paradigmatic for the Black Revolt of the 1960s.
14 July 2014 - We have purchased the Observer: News for the American Soldier in Vietnam, 1962-1973. This is part of the Gale Archives Unbound Series. https://shsulibraryguides.org/alldatabases/n
The Observer was a weekly newspaper published by the Command Information Division of the U.S. Military Assistance Command's Office of Information. It was the official organ of the Military Assistance Command, and it carried official news about and for American troops in Vietnam. As such, it goes without saying that it was carefully edited to make certain it did not print news articles favorable to the communist enemy. The Military Assistance Command spread more than 80,000 weekly Observers among all points in Vietnam in which American troops were domiciled.
This product is part of: Archives Unbound Series
Introducing ARCHIVES UNBOUND -- a vast new resource that combines the best of legacy microfilms from Gale and Primary Source Media and new, never-before-filmed collections. Specifically developed to address the needs of individual scholars, universities and organizations, ARCHIVES UNBOUND is unique not only for its expansive, multi-disciplinary content but also for the distinct new intuitive search platform by which you access it.
1 July 2014 - Firstsearch World Alamanac has been dropped by OCLC.
26 June 2014 - We purchased the following new database: Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE).
What Is DARE?
The Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) is a multi-volume reference work that documents words, phrases, and pronunciations that vary from one place to another place across the United States. Challenging the popular notion that our language has been "homogenized" by the media and our mobile population, DARE demonstrates that there are many thousands of differences that characterize the dialect regions of the U.S.
DARE is based on face-to-face interviews carried out in all 50 states between 1965 and 1970 and on a comprehensive collection of written materials (diaries, letters, novels, histories, biographies, newspapers, government documents, etc.) that cover our history from the colonial period to the present. The entries in DARE include regional pronunciations, variant forms, some etymologies, and regional and social distributions of the words and phrases. A striking feature of DARE is its inclusion in the text of the Dictionary of selected maps that show where words were found in the 1,002 communities investigated during the fieldwork.
VISION—Because a full understanding of the richness and diversity of American culture is dependent upon a comprehensive record of the language of our people, we envision an ongoing reference work that reflects the varied roots, regions, and customs of Americans throughout our history and traces the continuing changes in our language. The six print volumes (Harvard University Press, 1985–2013) having already become the recognized authority on American English, we anticipate that the forthcoming digital edition will be even more widely used and regarded as a national treasure.
MISSION—DARE, a long-term project that documents the words, phrases, and pronunciations that vary from region to region in the United States, will launch an electronic version that will be updated regularly, to encourage the use of this unique reference work by scholars, researchers, and others who love language. In order to track the changes in American English over the last half century, DARE staff plan to initiate a new round of nationwide fieldwork. Rather than conduct traditional face-to-face interviews, the project will utilize the expertise and experience of the UW Survey Center to plan and administer an online Questionnaire.
26 June 2014 - We purchased the following database which is available on the Ebscohost platform.
The Latino-Hispanic American Experience: Leaders, Writers, and Thinkers presents thematic content focusing on the evolution of Hispanic civil rights, religious thought, and the growing presence of women writers from the late 19th and 20th centuries. Rare and relevant books and newspapers –including rare anarchist newspapers – are presented in their original form. Extensive manuscript collections of both organizations and individuals are included for viewing, indexed for ease of search and maximum discovery. This collection offers a unique approach, focusing exclusively on the Latino-Hispanic history in the United States.
The Latino-Hispanic American Experience collection draws its content from the “Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project,” the largest national project ever to locate, preserve, and disseminate Latino-Hispanic culture of the United States in its written form, from colonial times to 1960. The project functions under the direction of Dr. Nicolás Kanellos, founder and director of Arte Público Press, the oldest and largest publisher of U.S. Latino-Hispanic literature, and includes publications from all regions of the nation.
This collection includes:
16 June 2014 - We made a one-time purchase of the Mergent D & B Country Insight Reports and D & B Country Risk Indicator Summary Reports. The database contains hundreds of thousands of reports covering over 100 countries and industries. SAV
4 April 2014 - We have started a subscription to PrivCo. PrivCo is the premier source for business and financial data on major, non-publicly traded corporations, including family owned, private equity owned, venture backed, and international unlisted companies.
3 April 2014 - We have started a subscription to the American Library Directory.
This acclaimed reference guide has provided librarians and library users with the most complete, current, and easily accessible information on libraries across North America for over half a century. In this new Web version, subscribers can find and view detailed profiles for more than 35,000 public, academic, special and government libraries, and library-related organizations in the United States, and Canada — including addresses, phone and fax numbers, and e-mail addresses, network participation, expenditures, holdings and special collections, key personnel, special services, and more — over 40 categories of library information in all.
27 March 2014 - We have started a new subscription to Jove Science. Jove Science entails different subject modules and describes itself as a video journal. New issues are released as videos. Our subscription includes the following three modules: Science Education: 1. General Laboratory Techniques, 2. Organisms, and 3. Basic Methods in Cellular and Molecular Biology. Be aware there are other modules we do not have active subscriptions.
JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments, is the world's first peer reviewed scientific video journal. Established in 2006, JoVE is devoted to publishing scientific research in a visual format to help researchers overcome two of the biggest challenges facing the scientific research community today; poor reproducibility and the time and labor intensive nature of learning new experimental techniques.
· All JoVE articles are indexed in subject-relevant indexing sites, including PubMed/MEDLINE, SciFinder and Scopus
· Publishing in JoVE allows authors to dynamically present their methods, data analyses and results clearly, accurately, and professionally with the guidance of JoVE's professional videographers and editors
25 March 2014 - We have started a new subscription to the Alexander Street’s Nursing Assessment in Video.
High-quality patient care begins with good assessment, but acquiring the necessary skills and experience to make accurate patient assessments can be complicated. No textbook can convey the healthy body sounds heard during auscultation, nor show a live example of a patient demonstrating abnormalities during a visual field test. Fortunately, video resources address these challenges and more, giving nursing students a reliable way to observe nuanced procedures and patient interactions before practicing in a clinical setting.
Nursing Assessment in Video is an online database that provides anywhere, anytime access to the best-selling assessment series of training videos from Medcom Inc., acclaimed provider of nursing education programs worldwide. Each title features leading industry experts providing hands-on demonstrations and step-by-step instructions in key assessment areas. And because all content was produced since 2012, users can depend on the collection to deliver the most accurate, up-to-date information available.
Functionality for Teaching and Learning
Whether your nursing program is on campus or online, the delivery format of Nursing Assessment in Video makes it simple for users to access the content they want when and where it’s most convenient. Even if your program already uses films in class, switching from DVDs to online streaming video has countless advantages:
Topical Coverage: Titles in Nursing Assessment in Video include:
· The Respiratory System
· The Key to Quality Patient Care
· The Musculoskeletal System
· The Digestive System
· The Integumentary System
· Head and Neck, Mouth and Throat
· Eyes, Ears, and Nose
· The Male Genitourinary System
· Head-to-Toe Assessment
· The Female Genitourinary System
· The Cardiovascular System, Part 1: Anatomy and Subjective Data
· The Cardiovascular System, Part 2: Objective Data
· The Nervous System, Part 1: Anatomy and Subjective Data
· The Nervous System, Part 2: Objective Data
25 March 2014 - Our VAST Premium Subscription is now available. Erin is adding the subject collections to the appropriate pages. There are a lot so this is taking some time. If you have any custom requests for the different subject collections and your pages, please let Erin know.
Academic Video Online: Premium
Launched in 2013, Academic Video Online Premium grants full access to VAST plus 28 of Alexander Street Press’s humanities and social science video collections. It includes more than 23,000 videos and 7,000+ titles will be added to Premium in 2014 as they are released. Collections that are available in their entirety as part of Academic Video Online: Premium are:
• American History in Video
• Art and Architecture in Video
• Asian Film Online
• Black Studies in Video
• Classical Music in Video
• Counseling and Therapy in Video: volumes I–III
• Criminal Justice and Public Safety in Video
• Current Affairs in Video
• Dance in Video (this includes vol. 2 too)
• Education in Video
• Environmental Studies in Video
• Ethnographic Video Online: volumes I and II
• Filmakers Library Online: volumes I and II
• Global Business and Economics in Video
• Health and Society in Video
• LGBT Studies in Video
• The March of Time®
• New World Cinema: Independent Features and Shorts,
1990–Present*
• Opera in Video
• Silent Film Online
• Theatre in Video
• VAST: Academic Video Online
• The Video Journal of Counseling and Therapy
• World History in Video
• World Newsreels Online, 1929–1966
All titles in Academic Video Online are carefully selected to meet departmental needs and include documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, and raw footage. You’ll find thousands of awardwinning films, including Academy® and Emmy® winners, the most frequently used films for classroom instruction, newly released films, and archival material previously unavailable.
25 February 2014 - Campus IT updated some certificates on the ezproxy server this afternoon. We don’t expect any problems but if you should encounter something have remote users clear out there browser’s history, etc,, close the browser, and log back in. If they continue to have a problem, recommend they use remote desktop and let me know. SAV
21 February 2014 - Some of you may have noticed that when trying to access an ebrary e-book via the catalog you might get the message “Document Unavailable” along with a longer description from the ebrary platform. Unfortunately, this is a consequence of e-books coming and going from our Short-Term Loan and PDA profile. The ebooks are pulled from the profile for a variety of reasons without any warning to us that the title will become unavailable. After the e-book has been removed we will eventually get delete MARC records which Zach will use to remove the e-books and update our catalog. It is this interim period from the time the e-book is removed till Zach is given a delete record that you will get the message “Document Unavailable.” To make matters more complicated patrons can add e-books to their personal shelves under their ebrary account from the Short-Term Loan and PDA profile. These e-books can also be removed if they haven’t been purchased. SAV
In the event that you receive this message and/or you are assisting a patron who has received this message, go ahead and forward the e-book title to Zach and Kat . Zach will check on removing the title and let Kat know if anything else is amiss that would require me to contact the vendor for correction.
Meanwhile, I encourage you to go ahead and assume the e-book is not available (which is almost always the case). This means if we have a print book, please go ahead and assist the patron in finding it. Or, as will be true in many cases, give the patron direction on how they can use Interlibrary Loan to request a copy of the book. In some cases it may be appropriate to recommend purchasing the e-book. In this case forward your purchase request to Kat.
7 February 2014 - We have two new databases. If you recall we purchased the American West from Adam Matthew last year. Following this, American West became part of the TexShare agreement. Adam Matthew offered us a credit and we have swapped out our purchase of the American West for two other titles.
The first…
China: Culture and Society http://www.chinacultureandsociety.amdigital.co.uk/
Spanning three centuries (c1750-1929), this resource makes available for the first time extremely rare pamphlets from Cornell University Library’s Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia. The resource is full-text searchable, allowing for the collection to be comprehensively explored and studied.
In addition, China: Culture and Society features a host of secondary resources, including scholarly essays, an interactive chronology, mini guides, and editors’ choices from the collection.
And last…
Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape http://www.romanticism.amdigital.co.uk/Default.aspx
Discover the working methods of Romantic poets and trace the evolution of celebrated verse in this powerful digital resource. Presenting the manuscript collections of the Wordsworth Trust, this digital collection offers students and researchers of the Romantic period unique access to the working notebooks, verse manuscripts and correspondence of William Wordsworth and his fellow writers, including Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey and Robert Southey.
Take a moment to browse the rich collection of fine art pieces which include works by such eminent artists as J.M.W. Turner, John Constable and Benjamin Robert Haydon. This evocative collection vividly brings to life the landscape that inspired literary creativity and poetic genius.
All of the documents are digitised in colour and include: verse manuscripts, printed manuscripts, prose manuscripts, printed verse, correspondence, diaries, travel journals, autograph albums, guide books, fine art and maps.
6 February 2014 - We upgraded our Project Muse Basic Subscription to Project Muse Premium. The following link provides an overview of the additional titles in this collection. http://muse.jhu.edu/about/order/journal_collections.html SAV.
3 February 2014 - We have started a subscription to the Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower. SAV.
Features Included:
29 January 2014 - EIU Reports – Removal from Business Source Databases
EBSCO has made the decision to no longer provide content from Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) by not renewing our contract with them when it expires in December 2013. EBSCO had licensed content from EIU for our Business Source Complete (BSC) and Business Source Premier (BSP) databases. The continued expense of the EIU reports (many of which are embargoed) cannot be justified given the low worldwide usage for EIU content and the fact that and many of our customers already buy the non-embargoed version directly from EIU.
Additionally, EBSCO licenses a large number of industry and country reports/profiles from other providers with NO embargo. The expense of the EIU content is great enough that if we had continued to license it, we would have likely been forced to remove some key journals and magazines from these databases – something that we don’t want to do. We know that having a large price increase for our customers is also not an acceptable solution.
Even with the removal of EIU content, BSC and BSP still provide the most comprehensive collections of full-text country and industry reports available in the market today. These include: Barnes Reports, Business Monitor International, CountryWatch, MarketLine, IHS Global Insights and others. SAV.
9 January 2014 - Setup Archivaria (0318-6954) from Association of Canadian Archivists in JournalFinder. This is an open access title. SAV.
6 January 2014 - IT is hoping to have the NBC Learn Video Player and Adobe Air available sometime during the spring semester, unfortunately not at the beginning of the spring semester. Again, I will let everyone know when this happens. Also, due to licensing issues the applications will only be available as optional so the user will need to manually installed them. SAV
19 December 2013 - We have added the ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States to our subscriptions. SAV.
16 December 2013 - New Database: We have a new subscription to the Birds of North America Online from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. SAV
10 December 2013 - This is just a heads up. I am working with IT to upgrade Ezproxy over the interim. We have already implemented the upgrade on a development server although it is really impossible to test the implementation this way. We are discussing the possibility of upgrading the production server as early as late next week. I will send another update if we move forward with this decision. Either way I want to get the upgrade done sometime during the interim before the spring semester starts back up. SAV
3 December 2013 - Oxford University Press will longer be hosted on the IngentaConnect Platform in 2014. SAV.
3 December 2013 - Setup new subscription for Classical Singer in AtoZ. SAV
21 November 2013 - I have submitted a request to have the Adobe Air & NBC Learn Offline Player installed on campus PCs. I don’t have a clear answer from Campus IT but it appears they are going to try to get this done for the spring semester. I wouldn’t expect it any earlier. SAV
21 November 2013 -- The two new core databases from TexShare The American West (which we already owned) and the American Indian Histories and Cultures are setup and ready to be used.
Spanning four centuries and covering North and Central America, American Indian Histories and Cultures presents unique materials from one of the finest archival collections on American Indian history and culture available.
From early contacts between European settlers and American Indians and the subsequent political, social and cultural effects of those encounters on American Indian life, these materials tell both the historical and the personal stories of the colonization of the Americas. Continuing through to the modern era, and told against the backdrop of the 19th century expansion into the ‘Western Frontier’ right through to the civil rights movement of the mid-twentieth century, American Indian Histories and Cultures highlights both the myths and realities of the ‘Wild West’ and American Indian cultural identity.
The material includes:
This rich and diverse material allows for an exploration of the following themes:
American Indian Histories and Cultureswill complement and build upon the success of The American West. Both resources are cross-searchable.
The story of the American West has exerted a powerful influence over the psyche of the modern world, helping to fashion senses of national identity as well as permeating literary and cinematic culture.
Tales of frontier life, of Native Americans and of vigilantes and outlaws are of constant interest, and are matched by more recent interest in the growth of urban centres, the environmental impact of westward expansion and of life in the borderlands.
The Graff Collection is a unique resource which will allow scholars to explore all of these areas and more. Through a mixture of original manuscripts, maps, ephemeral material and rare printed sources, this collection will act as a dynamic teaching and research resource.
This collection complements American Indian Histories and Culture and will be welcomed by scholars working in Western American history, Southern History, the History of the Pacific Northwest, Western Literature, Film and Cultural Studies. Both The American West and American Indian Histories and Cultures are cross-searchable for a more in-depth user experience.
15 November 2013 -- I wanted to provide an update on NBC Learn Higher Ed. I found that the download feature in NBC Learn requires the installation of two separate apps both of which require admin rights. The first is Adobe Air and the second is a proprietary NBC App titled NBC Learn Offline Player. These apps are required in order to use the download video feature. They are not required to play videos online. SAV
I have sent a request to Campus IT to have both of these apps installed campus wide. I requested they provide a timeline and will share this once I have it. I wouldn’t expect it to happen very quickly and I hope IT doesn’t run into problems trying to push out the proprietary app. Meanwhile, faculty & students will be able to make use of this feature off campus.
4 November 2013 -- We have started a subscription to the Encyclopedia of Social Work. Be aware that we went with a one user license. http://socialwork.oxfordre.com/page/about;jsessionid=51706F5D48D1CE15FEB9160452603DFC SAV.
31 October 2013 -- We purchased the ProQuest’s Women’s Wear Daily Archive at the end of the last fiscal year. The archive has just become available. Currently, the new content is a year back. In other words, the most recent content is from Dec. 2012. The expectation is that there will be a six month lag for new content in the archive.
The Women's Wear Daily Archive provides online access to the definitive fashion and retail publication for librarians, researchers, and students. The entire archive of this unique resource, previously unavailable in digital form, opens up new opportunities for researchers across Humanities, Business, and Social Sciences studies. As an authoritative record of how the fashion industry and trends developed over the twentieth century, it provides valuable primary source research material not only for fashion and design students, but also for students of business, retail, marketing, merchandising, cultural and gender studies, and social history.
The Women's Wear Daily Archive allows users to explore trends and influences on the fashion and beauty industry through the years. It contains the full run of past print issues and supplements and will be updated biannually with more recent issues. You get the complete picture, with every page of every issue since 1910, scanned from cover to cover, including all advertisements and images, in high resolution and full color, presented in page-image format with searchable text. Take research deeper by cross-searching The Women's Wear Daily Archive with The Vogue Archive, arts indexes, historical periodicals, primary sources and historical and current newspapers.
9 October 2013 -- The loading/display problems for ebrary ebooks in Internet Explorer has been resolved. SAV
8 October 2013 -- We are currently having a problem with getting Ebrary ebooks to display when using Internet Explorer. I have reported this to Ebrary. Meanwhile, everything appears to be working correctly in Firefox and Google Chrome. You can direct users on campus to use Firefox until the Internet Explorer problem has been resolved. SAV
30 September 2013 -- Ebsco has been starting to work with Gale in getting Gale content discoverable in EDS. I haven’t seen too much yet but you should see the GVRL titles and some of the Gale standing order titles.
13 September 2013 -- This past summer our free subscription to JSTOR Plant Science ended. JSTOR upgraded this database with more content and it became a for-pay subscription. Based upon the affordability of the database and the usage it was getting we went ahead and added the subscription. It is now called JSTOR Global Plants. http://about.jstor.org/global-plants SAV.
11 September 2013 -- SpringerLink journal access problem with IE, Firefox, and Safari was corrected. SAV.
10 September 2013 -- We have added Science Online. It is available both on the A-Z database pages and JournalFinder. We have fulltext from 1997 to present. SAV
The subscription also includes the following:
* ScienceNOW
All Free Science Online Content:
* Table of contents for all Science, Science Classic, Science Signaling, Science
Translational Medicine, SAGE KE issues
* Abstracts for all Science, Science Classic, Science Signaling, Science Translational
Medicine, SAGE KE issues
* Science Online supporting material, including pod casts, videos, and interactive content
* Science Technical Comments
* ScienceCareers.org
* Science News, including Science NOW articles and Science Insider policy articles/commentary
Be aware that some of this is TOCs for AAAS journals not included in the subscription. Technically, we are running a trial until the end of the year and our subscription begins January 1.
9 September 2013 -- Problem with SpringerLink journal access. Articles are locked on campus when viewed in IE, Firefox or Safari. Google Chrome doesn't appear to have any problem accessing the articles. A trouble ticket has been submitted to Springer. SAV
9 September 2013 -- Portico package turned on in A-Z Knowledgebase. SAV
5 September 2013 -- Turned on subject disciplines for EDS. SAV
4 September 2013 -- Migrated World News Connection to ProQuest Platform. SAV
20 August 2013 -- Our subscription to Gale's Health and Wellness Resource Center was cancelled.
19 August 2013 -- A couple updates. First, the drama with ProQuest over JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) continues. Essentially I have been told that ProQuest doesn’t plan to change their classification of JAMA as fulltext. I have received some more confusion about this from users this summer and expect we will all be hearing more in the near future. For now I have added a note in the Journal Finder. Hopefully this will help remind you about the issue with JAMA in ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source or help our users understand that we only have fulltext to select articles.
Second update. I have a package titled AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture ) with over 3500 titles including journals and ebooks just show up in the Journal Finder A-Z. In July AGORA consisted of about six titles mostly from our subscription with Plant Management Network. This is a lot of titles to start showing up without any explanation and ILL has already discovered some titles that either have broken links or require a password to access the fulltext. However, there is fulltext for many others. I’m asking Ebsco about whether they turned this package (or titles) on and why. Meanwhile, I wanted you to all be aware of it and any possible problems.
12 August 2013 -- We purchased the American West collection from Adam Matthew Digital. Be aware that this collection has many Texas-related materials too. Check out the new collection here https://shsulibraryguides.org/alldatabases. For a description of the collection see http://www.amdigital.co.uk/m-collections/collection/american-west/. SAV
12 August 2013 -- EBSCO is pleased to announce that mutual customers can now search GVK - Gemeinsamer Verbundkatalog on the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) platform. GVK - Gemeinsamer Verbundkatalog is the union catalogue of Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, Thüringen and the Foundation of Prussian Cultural Heritage, which comprise the Common Library Network (GBV). SAV
This multidisciplinary, bibliographic database covers the holdings of 37 million records of more than 450 GBV member and associated libraries with over 89.2 million separate catalogue entries of books, conference proceedings, periodicals, dissertations, microfilms and electronic resources. The periodicals of all subito supplying libraries and other university libraries from Germany are also integrated.
6 August 2013 -- New acquisitions! We have added some modules to our Mergent Online Collection. We purchased Mergent’s Municipal & Government Manuals Archive. We also received the Mergent Equity Research Reports and the Inactive U.S./International
Companies reports from 1990-present.
Mergent’s/Moody's® Corporate Manuals
Dating back to 1918, Mergent Municipal & Government Manuals include approximately 16,500 issuers of municipal securities. Special features section in each volume of Mergent's Municipal & Government Manuals includes:
Ford Equity Research Reports
Review up to 3 years of equity research reports, updated weekly, providing expert analysis and buy, sell, hold recommendations from our subsidiary Ford Equity Research, a top performing independent research provider. Clear and factual in its design, the Equity Research Reports provide ratings, recommendations, sector analysis and company financial information.
16 July 2013 - New acquisitions! We have added from ProQuest by one-time purchase the following two collections: NAACP Major Campaigns Part 1 and NAACP Major Campaigns Part 2. These are available in the ProQuest History Vault along with the Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century Collections. For more info see http://cisupa.proquest.com/ksc_assets/history_vault/naacppapers.pdf.
15 July 2013 - New platform and content for RAND TX
Improved User Interface (UI)
The UI on the new URL is vastly improved. It is crisper, cleaner, and more functional. As one example, each database is displayed in the same way, listing the title, a summary of the data, a detailed description, series start and end dates, geographic coverage, a hyperlinked original source, periodicity, and update details. Additional UI improvements include:
Double the Data
We have added 72 new databases in the last two months and expect to add more than 100 in the next two months. That means that the fully built-out TX site will contain about 310 databases. In short, you will now have access to more than double the number of databases compared to the "classic" RAND TX site. RAND TX also now has 14 database sections, including Social Insurance & Human Services, Higher Education, and Environment, Resources & Weather. Examples of new databases include:
15 July 2013 - Choice Online Reviews moved to a new platform. We have migrated links and setup the proxy server according to the new url. SAV
13 June 2013 - Announcement between Ebsco and Gale for Gale to share metadata with EDS. http://www.prweb.com/releases/EDS/Gale/prweb10770385.htm SAV
13 June 2013 - EDS is having trouble updating removed records during currently scheduled routine updates. Circulation and Tech Services are working towards setting up a schedule with Ebsco for doing full uploads to replace the current catalog upload in EDS in an effort to keep EDS more up-to-date. Be aware of some incongruity for items between EDS and our catalog. The "#csnot defined" error is a good indication that EDS is trying to link to a catalog record that is missing. Items to be aware of would include withdrawn books, books moved out of reserves, and ebooks removed from our PDA. SAV
7 June 2013 - Datamonitor (Marketline Advantage) is back up! SAV
5 June 2013 -- Datamonitor is down right now. I have called the U.S. Office and they believe the U.K. office is having technical difficulties. They weren’t really sure what was wrong yet, but they were receiving an increase volume of calls with access issues. For now the U.S. Office just asked us to check access again in about an hour or so.
3 June 2013 -- Update on JAMA in ProQuest Nursing. You can at least now see the links in ProQuest Nursing when fulltext is available. If it says Find Full Text, then we don’t have it. If it says Link to Full Text, then you’re good. However, the linkresolver still thinks we have fulltext for the years listed minus the embargo. I can’t change this and Ebsco won’t change it as long as ProQuest keeps on calling it fulltext. What’s happening is that JAMA provides some free articles in some issues. ProQuest is taking this content and saying we have fulltext for those years. I have told ProQuest this is crazy since almost all publishers now provide some free or open access fulltext articles, but I’m not getting anywhere. Anyway, I am taking my frustration back to Ebsco to see if we can do something better with the A-Z and linkresolver. In the end I might have to put some kind of note field on a title level for this package trying to explain to users why we might not have fulltext when the system thinks we do. SAV
29 May 2013 -- EBSCO Publishing is pleased to announce that customers can now search SciELO on the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) platform. SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) is an open access, multidisciplinary repository consisting of 230,000 full text articles from over 900 academic journals. Content is typically in Spanish, Portuguese or English. SciELO is considered a model for cooperative electronic publishing of scientific journals on the Internet. Especially conceived to meet the scientific communication needs of developing countries, particularly Latin American and Caribbean countries, it provides an efficient way to assure universal visibility and accessibility to their scientific literature. The SciELO model comprises integrated procedures for the measurement of usage and impact of scientific journals. SAV
24 May 2013 -- We started a 15 day, password only trial to the Infobase eBooks Platform. SAV
21 May 2013 -- New acquisitions and upgrades from Ebsco. SAV
New: Applied Science & Technology Source http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/applied-science-technology-source
Content Includes:
New: Graphic Novels Core Collection (H.W. Wilson)
http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/graphic-novels-core-collection
This collection highlights more than librarian-recommended titles for all age levels with descriptive and evaluative annotations, cover art, review excerpts and awards the title has won.
New: Poetry & Short Story Reference Center http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/poetry-short-story-reference-center
Content Includes:
New: Humanities Source http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/humanities-source
Content Includes:
Note: This includes the Humanities Index Retrospective. We own the Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective, which includes the Humanities Index Retrospective.
Upgrade: Art Source http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/art-source
Content Includes:
Note: This is an upgrade from Art Full Text and includes Art Index Retrospective. We own the Art Index Retrospective.
Upgrade: Education Source http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/education-source
Content Includes:
Note: This is an upgrade from Education Research Complete and Education Full Text (H. W. Wilson). It includes Education Index Retrospective. We own the Education Index Retrospective.
Upgrade: Legal Source http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/legal-source
Content Includes:
Note: This is an upgrade from Index to Legal Periodicals & Books Fulltext.
Upgrade: Library & Information Science Source http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/library-information-science-source
Content Includes:
Note: This is an upgrade from Library Literature & Information Science Full Text and includes Library Literature & Information Science Index Retrospective. We own the Library Literature & Information Science Index Retrospective.
Upgrade: CINAHL Complete http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/cinahl-complete
Content Includes:
Note: This is an upgrade from CINAHL Plus with Full Text.
**PLEASE NOTE ALL INDEX RETROSPECTIVES PREVIOUSLY PURCHASED WILL STILL BE AVAILABLE AS SEPARATE COLLECTIONS.**
20 May 2013 -- New FTE numbers. 15022 for Fall 2012. SAV
20 May 2013 -- EBSCO Publishing is pleased to announce that customers can now search RECERCAT on the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) platform. RECERCAT (Dipòsit de la Recerca de Catalunya) is a cooperative archive of 50,000 digital documents that includes the research literature of the universities and research institutions of Catalonia, such as heretofore unpublished articles (preprints), conference papers, research reports, working papers, final theses and technical reports. SAV
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