Planned Outage of AIAA Website

The AIAA website will be shutdown Tuesday, December 4, 6am to 9am EST, US. 

Portico to Archive Palgrave Macmillan Titles

Portico is pleased to announce that 44 Palgrave Macmillan journals from its online collection will be preserved in the archive to remain available for future scholars, researchers, and students. Palgrave Macmillan (a sister company to Nature Publishing Group) is a global academic publisher, serving learning and scholarship in higher education and the professional world. Palgrave Macmillan publishes textbooks, journals, monographs, and professional and reference works both in print and online with a focus on the humanities, social sciences and business.

With the inclusion of Palgrave Macmillan's publications, over 7,300 titles have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The complete list of titles is available at http://www.portico.org/about/committed_titles_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.

Please visit the Portico website to view a current list of participating libraries http://www.portico.org/about/participating_libraries.html.

Chemistry & Chemical Engineering Subset of Knovel Now Live

The USC Libraries new subscription to the Chemistry and Chemical Engineering subset of the Knovel electronic handbooks collection is now live!

• The collection includes fulltext searchable ebooks in these disciplines.
• Chapters are available in PDF.
  
• The company recommends Internet Explorer as the browser, but it is working well for some with Firefox.

The subscription includes the AICHe (Amer. Inst. Chem. Engineers) and CCPS (Chemical Process Safety) collection, as well as a number of handbooks the complete list of these texts, along with a *description* of each, can be found in the Excel file posted here:
http://www.usc.edu/libraries/subjects/chemistry/documents/KnovelChemChemEList2007.xls


The direct connection to the Knovel subscription is in the Libraries databases page, or, follow this link:
http://www.knovel.com/knovel2/library/Show_Books.jsp?SubjectAreaID=-6&SortBy=0

You will want to select the "My Subscription" option when in Knovel, and remember, you must be at a USC computer or authenticated by the proxy server to access remotely.

[information provided by Sara Tompson]

Alexander Street Press service interruption this weekend

Alexander Street Press databases will be down for routine maintenance and upgrades on Saturday, Nov 10 from approximately 7:00pm-11pm EST.

Accessible Archives Expands Coverage

CCESSIBLE ARCHIVES EXPANDS COVERAGE OF THE LIBERATOR AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS


Malvern, PA (November 2, 2007)  Accessible Archives, Inc., a leading publisher of electronic full-text searchable historical databases, has announced the imminent availability of Part III of The Liberator and Part XII of African-American Newspapers: The 19th Century, two of its premier collections.


William Lloyd Garrison published the first issue of The Liberator on January 1, 1831 with the motto: Our country is the world  our countrymen are mankind.  A journalistic crusader advocating the immediate emancipation of all slaves, Garrison gained a national reputation for being one of the most radical of American abolitionists.  The most influential newspaper in the antebellum antislavery crusade, The Liberator was published through December, 1865.


The Accessible Archives full text online version of The Liberator is being made available  in seven parts.  Parts I and II are available now, and Part III will be mounted prior to the end of 2007.  The remaining four sections are expected to be issued on an annual basis:


PART I            January, 1831  December, 1835
PART II           January, 1836  December, 1840
PART III          January, 1841  December, 1845
PART IV           January, 1846  December, 1850
PART V            January, 1851  December, 1855
PART VI           January, 1856  December, 1860
PART VII          January, 1861  December, 1865

With the addition of Part XII of African-American Newspapers: The 19th Century, the 12 parts of this collection will provide more than 120,000 articles.  Newspapers included in this database are being made available in chronological order, with the addition of some 10,000 articles each year.  Currently in post-production, Part XII is expected to be available by years end.  Parts I through XII contain the following titles:

1. Freedoms Journal, 1827  1830. New York, NY
2. The Colored American, 1837  1841. New York, NY
3. The North Star, 1847  1851. Rochester, NY
4. Frederick Douglass Paper, 1851  1859. Rochester, NY (completed through 1855)
5. The National Era, 1847  1860. Washington, DC
6. Provincial Freeman, 1854  1857. Toronto, Canada
7. The Christian Recorder, 1861  1902. Philadelphia, PA (through 1902; 1892 is unavailable)

About Accessible Archives, Inc.

Founded in 1990, Accessible Archives utilizes computer technology to provide vast quantities of archived historical information previously available only in microformat.  Diverse primary source materials reflecting broad views across American history and culture have been assembled into comprehensive databases.  Developed by dedicated instructors and students of Americana, these databases allow access to the rich store of materials from leading books and periodicals then current.  Accessible Archives will continue to add titles covering important topics and time periods to assist scholars and students at all academic levels.

New Interface to Web of Knowledge

The Web of Knowledge new interface is live today!
It is substantially different from the previous version.

• If you click on the Web of Knowledge link from the Databases pulldown menu (in the databases and eresources web pages), you now get RIGHT to Web of Science, NOT the frontend for all Web of K.
• If you want to search JUST ONE of the three indexes (Science, Soc Sci, A&H, see below), you must select the CHANGE LIMITS option, and click the indexes on or off.

Web of Knowledge includes:

1) Under the Databases Tab

• Web of Science -- Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Index (regular citation index, PLUS tracks citations to and from, thus impact; all back to 1965)
• Zoological Record (back to 1978)
• Current Contents Connect (back to 1998, and for the three discipline groups in Web of S)

2) Now under the Additional Resources Tab

• Essential Science Indicators (tracks impact by institutions and depts. thereof)
• Journal Citation Index (tracks impact by journal titles)
• Various other special reports

Their online help is pretty good, and the contents are the same, just the organization is different.

[information provided by Sara Tompson]

New Database: Reference Universe

Reference Universe Content

There are currently analytics (back of the book indexes, article titles for print; article links for e-books) to over 11,000 works now in your Reference Universe service. It will be updated quarterly, with the addition of approximately 300+ new titles each quarter. This includes both current publications from major and minor publishers, but also the completion of back-file titles from 1985-forward.

Maximizing Access and Linking

Many Reference Universe libraries find that the core value of reference universe, beyond peering deeply into their print reference works in a way your library catalog cannot, is the ability to link seamlessly from article and even index level citations in Reference Universe directly to the article in online e-book repositories like Gale's Virtual Reference Library, Oxford Reference Online, ABC-CLIO, Sage, Annual Reviews, Routledge and many others.

Based on our working extensively with Gale, this addition into our system will permit your library to link seamlessly from Reference Universe citations (anywhere you see an "E" in a blue circle) to the Gale article, bypassing their front end. This is a major enhancement that truly unifies your awareness and use of both e and print titles.

Accessing online content in Oxford Reference Online, ABC-CLIO, and other e-titles from Reference Universe does not require any additional information from you. Our system matches ISBNs from our records to your catalog to indicate which titles you own, and links to those repositories are embedded in Reference Universe citations.

IEEE Xplore Upgrade 10 November

On Saturday, 10 November, IEEE will implement an upgrade to the IEEE Xplore digital library.

As a result, users will experience approximately 2-4 hours of downtime on
that date, between 9:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. EST.
This update includes the following features:

Tabbed search results, including a beta test of Application Notes,practical content for working engineers 

Citation (Known Item) search, RefWorks/BibTeX citation download, and improved author search 

Subscriptions to IEEE Expert Now educational courses available through the IEEE Xplore platform

Chadwyck-Healey maintenance window this Saturday

Please note that some Chadwyck-Healey products will be taking an upgrade
maintenance window on *Saturday, November 3, from 2:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. EDT*.
Database usage (including the availability of PDFs) may be affected during this
time. The databases undergoing maintenance are:

  * Black Studies Center
  * British Periodicals
  * Colonial State Papers
  * History Study Center
  * House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
  * Periodicals Archive Online
  * ProQuest Learning Literature

Informaworld Maintainance Advance Notice

Please be advised that there will be a period of scheduled maintenance on the informaworld website on Saturday 3rd November. Between 12:30 and 14:30 GMT the site will be unavailable.