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posted by R. Wayne Shoaf @ 10/16/2008 10:43:00 AM
ebrary will be performing monthly system maintenance on the first Tuesday of each month, from 8:00PM to 10:00PM US Pacific Time. During this period, the ebrary service may be unavailable. We are scheduling this on a standing monthly basis to provide earlier notification to end-users and streamline the maintenance process. Please contact support@ebrary.com or your account representative with any questions or concerns.
posted by R. Wayne Shoaf @ 10/07/2008 01:54:00 PM
New Content
Eight journals have been added to the JSTOR archive. The full details for the journals are:Acta Sociologica (Arts & Sciences Complement)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=actasoci
Release Content:
Vols. 1 – 47; 1955 - 2004
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Sage Publications, Ltd.
ISSN: 0001-6993
The British Museum Quarterly (Arts & Sciences Complement)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=britmusequar
Release Content:
Vols. 1 – 37; 1926 - 1973
Publication of this title ceased in 1973.
Publisher: British Museum
ISSN: 0007-151X
Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum [1931-1950] (Arts & Sciences V)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=bullfoggartmuse
Previous Title = Notes (Fogg Art Museum)[1921-1931] (1939053X)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=notesfogg Release Content:
Vols. 1 – 2; 1921 - 1931
Vols. 1 – 11; 1931 - 1950
Publication of this title ceased in 1950.
Publisher: President and Fellows of Harvard College on behalf of Harvard Art Museum
ISSN: 1939-0394
Cahiers d'Études Africaines (Arts & Sciences Complement)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=cahietudafri
Release Content:
Vols. 1 – 42; 1960 - 2002
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: EHESS
ISSN: 0008-0055
The Cambridge Law Journal (Arts & Sciences VI)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=camblawj
Release Content:
Vols. 1 – 61; 1921 - 2002
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Editorial Committee of the Cambridge Law Journal
ISSN: 0008-1973
Coleopterists Society Monographs. Patricia Vaurie Series (Biological Sciences; Life Sciences)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=colesocimonopatr
Release Content:
No . 1; 2002
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: The Coleopterists Society
ISSN: 1934-0451
Corinth: Results of Excavations Conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (Arts & Sciences Complement)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=coriresuexca
Release Content:
Vols. 1 – 20; 1929 - 2004
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: American School of Classical Studies at Athens
ISSN: 1558-7185
Please note: The first volume of Corinth appeared in 1929, and further parts appear irregularly as scholars finish their assigned topics.
Dead Sea Discoveries (Arts & Sciences Complement)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=deadseadisc
Release Content:
Vols. 1 – 9; 1994 - 2002
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Brill
ISSN: 0929-0761
Although JSTOR seeks to provide every issue from a journal's run, on occasion there are issues that we are unable to find. To see which issues are missing, or for information about how to help JSTOR complete the archive, please visit JSTOR's Missing Issues page.
More detailed information about all JSTOR titles and collections, along with delimited lists, can be accessed from JSTOR’s Available Collections page.
Participation information for JSTOR collections may be found on the Participate page.
posted by R. Wayne Shoaf @ 10/02/2008 10:14:00 AM
The USC Libraries currently has a trial for the retrospective content of Wilson's Essay and General Literature Index, covering 1900-1984 (we already have coverage for 1985+ ). It can be found with the other WilsonWeb databases.
Essay and General Literature Index Retrospective is a bibliographic database that cites essays, articles and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. It covers 8 centuries of essays, annuals and serial publications from the 20th Century. It also provides full bibliographic information on collective titles indexed.
Essay and General Literature Index Retrospective focuses on the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from Archaeology through Women's Studies. Over 108 years of unparalleled coverage are combined when searching Essay and General Literature Index Retrospective along with Essay and General Literature Index.
Please send comments to aciccone@usc.edu.
posted by R. Wayne Shoaf @ 10/02/2008 10:01:00 AM
Gale is pleased to announce a new release of Literature Criticism Online, which brings a variety of new features to this digitized collection of Gale's major criticism. The ten individual, award-winning Gale series that comprise Literature Criticism Online present a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. Imagine centuries of analysis - the scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals - delivered in an easy format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals.
In response to customer feedback, the following new features are now live to current users of the database:
* Browse Topics - access 600+ topical entries easily through our new alpha-browse feature, with new entries added regularly.
* Updated indexing in "Browse Works" and "Browse Authors" - deep cross-referencing found in Gale's Literary Index is now integrated within Literature Criticism Online.
* Titles Discussed - works entries include links to all relevant pages that discuss a related title within any given essay - extreme cross-referencing at work.
* Updated language - intuitive "Inside this Entry" and "Inside this Volume" links provide easily understood directions for exploring volumes and entries.
* Updated design to Print/View PDFs - page limits reduce the amount of loading time (and printer paper) for patrons who want more than just a two-page spread.
* Hit-Term Highlighting and Relevant Pages now available for Keyword searches - originally active in full-text searches, this has now been applied to keyword searches, too.
* New design for navigating to Relevant Pages - find your search terms easily by navigating directly to relevant pages with the click of a mouse.
* Cleaner InfoMarks for document Source Citations - links are more readily recognized in bibliographies, coursepacks, social bookmarking sites and more.
Some additional basic changes in Literature Criticism Online will have a MAJOR effect on how relevancy and currency are perceived within the database. By changing the Basic Search default index from "Full-text" to "Keyword" and changing the default sort from "Publication Date Ascending" to "Publication Date Descending", users will find the most up-to-date entries and relevant keyword search results at their fingertips, without changing anything other than their search terms!
To sign up for a free Webinar, visit: http://www.uptilt.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=4rs,1260j,2j24,do6i,24uh,i49c,ggd0
Coming this Fall, Literature Criticism Online will become cross-searchable with two other major digitization efforts -- Something About the Author and the Dictionary of Literary Biography. These major sets are considered the premier publications in literary reference, bringing unsurpassed volumes of biographical content, images and commentary on all the major authors covered in Literature Criticism Online and beyond.
posted by Lana Litvan @ 9/26/2008 11:21:00 AM
New Content
The following journal was added to the JSTOR archive this week. The full details for the journal are:
The American Biology Teacher (Biological Sciences; Life Sciences)
URL: http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=amerbiolteac
Release Content:
Vols. 1 – 66; 1938 – 2004
Publisher: National Association of Biology Teachers
Moving Wall: 3 years
ISSN: 0002-7685
Although JSTOR seeks to provide every issue from a journal's run, on occasion there are issues that we are unable to find. To see which issues are missing, or for information about how to help JSTOR complete the archive, please visit JSTOR's Missing Issues page.
More detailed information about all JSTOR titles and collections, along with delimited lists, can be accessed from JSTOR’s Available Collections page. Participation information for JSTOR collections may be found on the Participate page.
Usage Statistics Updated
The JSTOR usage statistics server (stats.jstor.org) has been updated with data for May 2008 through July 2008. Data from the new JSTOR platform (launched April 4, 2008) is available along with data from the previous JSTOR platform. Please see stats.jstor.org for important information about the usage statistics data.
Expanding JSTOR Shibboleth Support
We are happy to let you know that JSTOR is now offering institutional access via Shibboleth to members of the UK Federation. We invite all JSTOR-participating institutions in the UK Federation to contact techsupport@jstor.org to begin the setup process.
Included below are more details about Shibboleth access, as well as information about other remote access options for JSTOR. Of course, if you have any questions, or need any further information from us, please don't hesitate to contact JSTOR Tech Support (techsupport@jstor.org).
In addition to the UK Federation, JSTOR is also a member of the InCommon Federation. We look forward to supporting Shibboleth access for other federations, as well. If you are a member of a regional federation, please contact techsupport@jstor.org for more information.
OpenAthens
OpenAthens institutions who are using Eduserv as their identity provider will be able to access JSTOR in exactly the same way as before. No further action should be necessary.
PDF Incompatibility with Mac Preview
We have recently become aware that certain versions of Mac Preview are incompatible with the newest generation of JSTOR PDFs. For some users, this means that only the cover page is displaying. Other users have reported that the downloaded article appears to be missing the first portion of the article—it begins somewhere after the first 10 pages of the article. The article is in fact intact and complete, but some pages are not displayed properly. We are working to fix this and plan to continue to support the use of Preview with JSTOR PDFs. We apologize for the problems that this is causing for Mac users.
For now, the quickest workaround is to download the latest free copy of Adobe Reader, available on the Adobe web site:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2_allversions.html
Once Adobe Reader is downloaded, please check to make sure that the default PDF viewer is set to Adobe Reader rather than the original PDF viewer installed on your Mac.
The default viewer for PDF documents in Mac OS X is Preview. To change the file association for PDF files:
You will also want to make sure that the popup blocker is turned off for the JSTOR site. The new PDF files are set to open in a new window and popup blockers may affect this.
posted by R. Wayne Shoaf @ 9/24/2008 10:58:00 AM
New Content
Two journals were added to the JSTOR archive today. The full details for the journals are:
Economic Botany (Biological Sciences Collection; Life Sciences Collection)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=econbota
Release Content:
Vols. 1 – 56; 1947-2002
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Springer on behalf of New York Botanical Garden Press
ISSN: 0013-0001
Economic and Political Weekly (Arts & Sciences VI Collection; Business II Collection)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=econpoliweek
Release Content:
Vols. 1 – 37; 1966-2002
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Economic and Political Weekly
ISSN: 0012-9976
More detailed information about all JSTOR titles and collections, along with delimited lists, can be accessed from JSTOR’s Available Collections page.
Participation information for JSTOR collections may be found on the Participate page.
posted by R. Wayne Shoaf @ 9/24/2008 09:56:00 AM
Customers may experience intermittent access to informaworld on Saturday 27th September 2008 to allow the company to complete some essential maintenance.
posted by Lana Litvan @ 9/23/2008 01:26:00 PM
Welcome to Content Update -- your monthly email about new and updated Credo Reference titles. A number of titles have been added to Credo Reference in the past month. Below are the latest additions. To see a complete list of available titles, visit http://corp.credoreference.com/titles.
Latest Additions
posted by R. Wayne Shoaf @ 9/22/2008 02:21:00 PM
