USC Shoah Foundation Institute E-Newsletter, December 2006

On December 4, the Freie Universität Berlin became the first institution outside of the United States to gain access to the USC Shoah Foundation Institute's entire Visual History Archive.

"A primary goal of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute is to provide access to the archive to the broadest audience possible," said Institute Executive Director Douglas Greenberg. "We are thrilled that Freie Universität Berlin will be one of the institutions to provide this resource to its students, educators, and scholars."

Greenberg and Karen Jungblut, Director of Archival Access and Special Projects, attended the launch event in Berlin, which attracted press interest by media throughout Germany, including national daily newspaper Die Welt, and Germany's two largest public television stations, ARD and ZDF

Dieter Lenzen, President of the Freie Universität Berlin, expressed his enthusiasm to be able to provide the testimonies in the archive as a resource for students and faculty. "This unique archive broadens the opportunities for research on National Socialism, particularly on the Holocaust and on racial persecution. It opens completely new and additional resources for the numerous research and teaching projects in the respective academic fields at our university." Information about the Visual History Archive at the Freie Universität is available here.

Friends of Freie Universität Berlin, a not-for-profit charitable organization located in New York City, was instrumental in creating the collaborative partnership between the USC Shoah Foundation Institute and the Freie Universität Berlin that resulted in the University's access to the Visual History Archive.

Today, the Visual History Archive is available at six universities--the University of Southern California, Rice University, Yale University, the University of Michigan, and most recently, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Freie Universität Berlin. In 2007, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute will work with additional institutions to continue making the archive more widely available.

For additional information about the Visual History Archive, or to inquire about supporting an institution in accessing the archive, visit www.usc.edu/vhi or contact Steve Klappholz at 213.740-6051.

Merger of Wiley and Blackwell

Following the Friday, November 17th, announcement (see press release) of the planned acquisition of Blackwell by Wiley and the merger of Blackwell with Wiley's STM division, Blackwell and Wiley wish to assure their journal customers that this will have no effect on the 2007 orders. 2007 subscription prices will remain as announced and published in their respective price lists. Pricing for licensing online access to journals for 2007 is also unaffected. Wiley licenses will not include Blackwell journals and vice versa.

Informaworld(TM) platform for Taylor & Francis e-journals

Taylor & Francis has announced that its online journals will no longer be available via MetaPress as of January 2007. MetaPress users will automatically be redirected to the new Taylor & Francis platform, informaworld(TM). Taylor & Francis will continue to offer online access via Ingenta Connect in the short term. Further instructions concerning online access via Ingenta Connect will be available at the beginning of 2007.

2007 Current Contents(R) Connect

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Eureka to FirstSearch Transition

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JSTOR additions

Dear JSTOR Participant,

We are pleased to announce that ten new journals have been added to the JSTOR archive. Institutions that participate in collections with new journals will be able to access the new content immediately.

• African Economic History (Arts & Sciences Complement)
  Previous Title: African Economic History Review (0360-6333)
  Release Content: Vols. 1 – 30, 1974-2002
  Moving Wall: 3 years
  Publisher: African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  ISSN: 0145-2258
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  Anatolian Studies (Arts & Sciences Complement)
  Release Content: Vols. 1 – 52, 1951-2002
  Moving Wall: 3 years
  Publisher: British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara
  ISSN: 0066-1546
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  The Athenian Agora (Arts & Sciences Complement)
  Release Content: Vols. 1 – 31, 1953-1998
  Moving Wall: 3 years
  Publisher: American School of Classical Studies at Athens
  ISSN: 1558-8610
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  Journal of Anthropological Research (Arts & Sciences Complement)
  Previous Title: Southwestern Journal of Anthropology (0038-4801)
  Release Content: Vols. 1 – 58, 1945-2002
  Moving Wall: 3 years
  Publisher: University of New Mexico
  ISSN: 0091-7710
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  Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (Arts & Sciences Complement and Business II Collections)
  Release Content: Vols. 1 – 43, 1957-2000
  Moving Wall: 5 years
  Publisher: BRILL
  ISSN: 0022-4995
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  The Mathematical Gazette (Arts & Sciences Complement and Mathematics & Statistics Collections)
  Release Content: No. 1 – Vol. 84, 1894-2000
  Moving Wall: 5 years
  Publisher: Mathematical Association
  ISSN: 0025-5572
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  Oceanic Linguistics (Arts & Sciences Complement)
  Release Content: Vols. 1 – 41, 1962-2002
  Moving Wall: 3 years
  Publisher: University of Hawai’i Press
  ISSN: 0029-8115
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  Pacific Historical Review (Arts & Sciences Complement)
  Release Content: Vols. 1 – 71, 1932-2002
  Moving Wall: 3 years
  Publisher: University of California Press
  ISSN: 0030-8684
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  Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research (Arts & Sciences Complement)
  Release Content: Vols. 1 – 63, 1928/1930-1997/2001
  Moving Wall: n/a (ceased publication in 2001)
  Publisher: American Academy for Jewish Research
  ISSN: 0065-6798
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  Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science (1903-) (Biological Sciences Collection)
  Previous Title: Transactions of the Annual Meetings of the Kansas Academy of Science (1933-0545)
  Previous Title: Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science (1872-1880)(1933-0537)
  Release Content: Vols. 1 – 105, 1872-2002
  Moving Wall: 3 years
  Publisher: Kansas Academy of Science
  ISSN: 0022-8443

The following one journal is a new Current Issues Linking partner:

• William and Mary Quarterly (Arts & Sciences I Collection)
  Release Content: 3rd Series: Vols. 58 – 63 (Issue 1), January, 2001 - January, 2006
  Moving Wall: 5 years
  Publisher: The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
  E-ISSN: 1933-7698

Three titles with a moving wall of zero have had the most recent digitized issues added:

• The American Journal of International Law (Arts & Sciences I Collection)
  Release Content: Vol. 100, no. 2, April, 2006
  Publisher: American Society of International Law
  ISSN: 0002-9300
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  Environmental Health Perspectives (Health & General Sciences Collection)
  Release Content: Vol. 114, nos. 4-8, April – August, 2006
  Publisher: The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
  ISSN: 0091-6765
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  Journal of Research in Music Education (Arts & Sciences IV Collection)
  Release Content: Vol. 53, no. 3 – Vol. 54, no. 1, Autumn, 2005 – Spring, 2006
  Publisher: MENC: The National Association for Music Education
  ISSN: 0022-4294

By publisher request, JSTOR is reducing the moving wall for three journals:

• Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society (Arts & Sciences Complement)
  Release Content: Vols. 47 – 48, 2001-2002
  Moving Wall: 3 years (previously 5 years)
  Publisher: The Royal Society
  ISSN: 0080-4606
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  German Studies Review (Arts & Sciences Complement)
  Release Content: Vols. 24 – 25, 2001-2002
  Moving Wall: 3 years (previously 5 years)
  Publisher: German Studies Association
  ISSN: 0149-7952
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  Journal of the History of Ideas (Arts & Sciences I Collection)
  Release Content: Vols. 57 – 63, 1996-2002
  Moving Wall: 3 years (previously fixed at 1996)
  Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
  ISSN: 0022-5037

JSTOR is releasing additional content for two journals:

• Population Index (Arts & Sciences I Collection)
  Release Content: Vols. 52 – 65, 1986-1999
  Moving Wall: n/a (ceased publication in 2000)
  Publisher: Office of Population Research
  ISSN: 0032-4701
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  Woman’s Art Journal (Arts & Sciences III Collection)
  Release Content: Vols. 24 – 26, 2003-2005/ 2006
  Moving Wall: 3 years (per publisher’s request JSTOR is releasing content beyond the moving wall)
  Publisher: Woman’s Art, Inc.
  ISSN: 0270-7993

Four previously released titles have been reworked to improve quality. The rework process resulted in improved image quality, caption searching, and enhanced display of non-English languages for the following titles:

• Journal of Organizational Behavior (Arts & Sciences IV and Business Collections)
  Previous Title: Journal of Occupational Behavior (0142-2774)
  JSTOR Coverage: Vols. 1 – 21, 1980-2000
  Moving Wall: 5 years
  Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
  ISSN: 0894-3796
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  The Review of Economic Studies (Arts & Sciences I and Business Collections)
  JSTOR Coverage: Vols. 1 - 69, 1933-2002
  Moving Wall: 3 years
  Publisher: The Review of Economic Studies Ltd.
  ISSN: 0034-6527
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  The Review of Financial Studies (Arts & Sciences I and Business Collections)
  JSTOR Coverage: Vols. 1 - 64, 1939-2002
  Moving Wall: 3 years
  Publisher: Cambridge University Press and University of Notre Dame du lac on behalf of Review of Politics
  ISSN: 0034-6705
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  Strategic Management Journal (Arts & Sciences IV and Business Collections)
  JSTOR Coverage: Vols. 1 - 21, 1980-2000
  Moving Wall: 5 years
  Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
  ISSN: 0143-2095

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 Back Issues Needed page http://www.jstor.org/about/issues/index.html.

More detailed information about all JSTOR titles and collections can be accessed at http://www.jstor.org/about/collection.list.html.

Delimited lists of all available JSTOR titles can be accessed at http://www.jstor.org/about/delimited.lists.html.

Participation information for JSTOR collections may be found at http://www.jstor.org/about/participation.html.

Should you have any questions about any of the JSTOR collections, please do not hesitate to contact us at support@jstor.org.

Best regards,

Heather Maun
User Services Assistant
JSTOR - www.jstor.org
(888) 388-3574 or (734) 998-9101

Free trial of Theatre in Video until 12/31/06

USC Libraries is pleased to announce a free trial of Theatre in Video from now until December 31, 2006.

Theatre in Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all. This first release contains over 50 titles, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors. Included are landmark performances such as The Iceman Cometh, Hamlet, Othello, Awake and Sing, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Playboy of the Western World, and others. Notable actors include Gene Wilder, Laurence Olivier, Richard Dreyfuss, Walter Matthau, Meryl Streep, and more. For the first time, students, instructors and researchers can bookmark specific scenes, monologues and staging, and these landmark performances can become a permanent part of the curriculum.


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