Brill Online update - access interrupted

Please be advised that on Monday 1 July 2007 Brill Online will be updating the server. In the course of that day http://www.brillonline.nl/ will be temporarily unavailable. During this update, which will take no longer than 5 to 10 minutes, Brill Online cannot be accessed. Access should resume afterwards automatically.

IEEE unavailable

The IEEE Xplore Digital Library will be unavailable from 3:00pm-4:00pm EDT on 27 June due to scheduled maintenance.

English Short Title Catalogue Moves

As has been previously announced as part of the RLG combination with OCLC (http://www.oclc.org/community/rlg/default.htm), access to the English Short Title Catalogue will be discontinued on June 30, 2007.

For over 20 years, RLG has offered this file as a complement to its online resources available through RLIN and Eureka. We have valued your use of our services and hope that by this advance notification we can minimize your inconvenience. ESTC is now available at the British Library at http://estc.bl.uk

Informaworld Maintainance Advance Notice

Please be advised that a period of scheduled maintenance is planned for 00.00 to 02.00 BST on Tuesday 26th June. This may cause intermittent downtime.

Readex Enhances Access to 50,000 Historical Maps within the U.S. Congressional Serial Set

Readex Enhances Access to 50,000 Historical Maps within the U.S. Congressional Serial Set Detailed cartographic records will help users explore the remarkable maps in this online resource NAPLES, Fla./Thursday, June 14, 2007­Readex , a leading publisher of online historical collections, announced today that it will provide customers with superior access to the more than 50,000 maps within its definitive digital edition of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980. Readex is adding authoritative cartographic records monthly and will continue until every Serial Set map carries a comprehensive record. “Using the same acclaimed thesaurus employed for indexing Serial Set publications, these completely new map records will provide students and scholars alike with fresh opportunities to make original discoveries on diverse aspects of U.S. and world history,” says August A. Imholtz, Jr., Readex Vice President for Government Documents. “We are pleased that Donna P. Koepp, recently retired from the Harvard College Library, has joined our indexing division, bringing unparalleled cartographic knowledge and experience to this important initiative.” Featuring thousands of maps enabling users to visualize the history and territorial growth of the United States, the wealth of cartographic information in the U.S. Congressional Serial Set will now be easy to search and browse. Renowned works include the American Civil War Atlas, maps delineating the boundary between the United States and Mexico and John C. Fremont’s map, which was carried westward by scores of early settlers. Also included are many little-known maps addressing subjects as diverse as the spread of cholera throughout Persia, the theatre of war in the Crimea and the river system and dams of the Indian Subcontinent. In addition to adding map records to the Serial Set, Readex has incorporated a new image viewer­the same version found in America’s Historical Newspapers­that allows users to zoom in and easily print all or part of the high-resolution maps and color illustrations. “In recognizing the growing importance of historical maps to research and teaching, we strived to simplify navigation for both novice and advanced scholars,” said Michelle Harper, Readex Director of Product Management. “Patrons are able to navigate quickly from the map image or record to the Serial Set publication for additional context.” About Readex For more than 50 years, the Readex name has been synonymous with research in historical printed materials and government documents. Recognized by librarians, students and scholars for its efforts to transform academic research, Readex offers a wealth of Web-based, primary source materials in the humanities and social sciences. Today, Readex, a division of NewsBank, inc., has established a leadership position among publishers by creating the digital Archive of Americana, a family of online collections that provides unprecedented access to the history, culture and daily life of the United States over more than three centuries.

Ulrich’s Service Interruption on June 21

As a result of ProQuest's product expansion, service for the following products will be temporarily interrupted, starting at 9:00 AM Eastern Time, Thursday, June 21:
-- Ulrichsweb.com
-- Ulrich's Serials Analysis System
This maintenance will provide ProQuest with the appropriate infrastructure to continue servicing your needs now and in the future. No other products or services will be affected by this upgrade.
Full service should be restored by 6:00 PM Eastern Time, Thursday, June 21.

310,000 Newspaper Pages Available via Chronicling America

Chronicling America Site Now Offers 310,000 Newspaper Pages
Program to Put Digitized Newspapers Online Makes Eight Awards

Approximately 310,000 digitized newspaper pages, dating from 1900 to 1910, are now accessible through the Chronicling America Web site at www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/. The site is a project of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a partnership between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

NEH has just announced that eight awards to institutions, totaling $2,577,666, have been made to continue and expand the program. The program is also expanding the time period of newspapers that may be digitized to 1880-1910.

NDNP is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with select digitization of historic pages, as well as information about newspapers from 1690 to the present. Supported by NEH's "We the People" program and Digital Humanities Initiative, this rich digital resource will continue to be developed and permanently maintained at the Library of Congress.

Ultimately, over about 20 years, NDNP will create a national digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between 1836 and 1922 from all the states and U.S. territories. Also on the Web site, an accompanying national newspaper directory of bibliographic and holdings information directs users to newspaper titles in all types of formats. The information in the directory was created through an earlier NEH initiative: the United States Newspaper Program. The Library of Congress is also digitizing and contributing to the NDNP database a significant number of newspaper pages drawn from its own collections during the course of this partnership.

New features in Chronicling America include:

* 80,000 pages have been added (including 11 new titles).
* The page display has been revised. Adobe Flash Player is no longer needed for viewing.
* Persistent links are now displayed for every title record and page view. The persistent link enables a user to always return to the same place on the site, and it can be used for citations and hyperlinking to specific newspaper pages or newspaper title information.
* Searches can be saved.

Five current NDNP awardees received new awards to continue their work, and three institutions received new awards to begin participation in the program.

The five current award winners are:

* University of California, Riverside - $400,000
* University of Kentucky - $399,866
* University of Utah - $247,478
* Library of Virginia - $349,471
* New York Public Library - $313,085

The three new winners are:

* Minnesota Historical Society - $199,108
* University of Nebraska - $271,106
* University of North Texas - $397,552

The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world. Its more than 132 analog million items -- books, newspapers, periodicals, manuscripts, maps, photographs, films, sound recordings and digital materials - are accessible through its 22 reading rooms on Capitol Hill. The Library's newspaper collections have grown to comprise more than 1 million current issues, more than 30,000 bound historical volumes and more than 600,000 microfilm reels. The Library also makes more than 22 million digital items available on its various Web sites at www.loc.gov.

Created in 1965 as an independent federal agency, the National Endowment for the Humanities supports learning in history, literature, philosophy and other areas of the humanities. NEH grants enrich classroom learning, create and preserve knowledge and bring ideas to life through public television, radio, new technologies, museum exhibitions and programs in libraries and other community places. Information about applying for NDNP awards is available at www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/ndnp.html.

For further information, please contact the project team at: http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/contact/.

JSTOR Adds 11 New Journals

JSTOR Holdings Update

We are pleased to announce that eleven 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.

Agricultural History (Arts & Sciences Complement)
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 77, 1927-2003
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Agricultural History Society
ISSN: 0002-1482

Business Ethics Quarterly (Business II Collection)
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 11, 1991-2001
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Philosophy Documentation Center
ISSN: 1052-150x

Epidemiology and Infection (Health & General Sciences Collection)
Previous Title: The Journal of Hygiene (0022-1724)
Release Content: Vols. 3 – 127, 1903-2001
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISSN: 0950-2688
NOTE: Volumes 1-2 (1901-1902) of The Journal of Hygiene are not available for release at this time. The content will be publicly released at a later date.

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (Biological Sciences Collection)
Release Content: Vol. 1, Issues 1-10, 2003
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Ecological Society of America
ISSN: 1540-9295

Goodwin Series (Arts & Sciences Complement)
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 8, 1972-2000
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: South African Archaeological Society
ISSN: 0304-3460
NOTE: No issues published 2001-2004. Vol. 9 published in 2005.

IMF Staff Papers (Business II Collection)
Previous Title: Staff Papers – International Monetary Fund (0020-8027)
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 49, 1950-2002
Moving Wall: 4 years
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Journals on behalf of the International Monetary Fund
ISSN: 1020-7635

Northeastern Naturalist (Biological Sciences Collection)
Previous Title: Maine Naturalist (1063-3626)
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 10, 1993-2003
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Humboldt Field Research Institute
ISSN: 1092-6194

The Plant Cell (Biological Sciences Collection)
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 16, 1989-2004
Moving Wall: 2 years
Publisher: American Society of Plant Biologists
ISSN: 1040-4651

Risk Management (Business II Collection)
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 5, 1999-2003
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Journals
ISSN: 1460-3799

Southeastern Naturalist (Biological Sciences Collection)
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 2, 2002-2003
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Humboldt Field Research Institute
ISSN: 1528-7092

Ursus (Biological Sciences Collection)
Previous Title: Bears: Their Biology and Management (1936-0614)
Previous Title: Proceedings of the Bear Workshop (International Conference on Bear Research and Management) (1936-0606)
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 14, 1968-2003
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: International Association of Bear Research and Management
ISSN: 1537-6176

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.

Project MUSE Expands OpenURL Linking

Project MUSE now supports OpenURL 1.0 which provides linking for search results to journals for which no subscription exists. The expanded implementation of OpenURL is part of an ongoing effort by MUSE to provide more options for subscribers and their users. Now, when a user tries to retrieve a MUSE journal not subscribed to by their institution, the institution-supplied link on the turnaway page will point the user to alternative resources for the articles.