ProQuest Maintenance Window - December 15, 2007

The next ProQuest® platform enhancement release will be on December 15, 2007. A twelve (12) hour maintenance window will take place to install these exciting new enhancements. The window will begin Saturday, December 15, 2007, at 22:00 EDT to Sunday, December 16, 2007 at 10:00 EDT.
Enhancements include:

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Multimedia Support release-ProQuest has seen an increase in dissertations and theses that include supplementary digital materials - audio, video, spreadsheets, etc. To properly support scholarly access to these materials, ProQuest is now making them available online in the Full Text version of the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) database.
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source Study Paths-Study Paths allows a user to quickly view full text articles recommended by a board of experienced nurse educators on topics relevant to their curriculum. This exciting new enhancement makes it easier for users to complete their assignments, research a topic, or prepare for examinations. A new splash page will appear when users log into the product. The Study Paths feature is for the ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source database only and does not impact other ProQuest products.
The following products will be unavailable during this window:

ProQuest interface products, ProQuest Historical Newspapers (traditional and graphical K12 interface), American Periodicals Series.
Third-party databases such as ERIC® PlusText
ProQuest Archiver
eLibrary®, SIRS®, and CultureGrams
Chadwyck-Healey products housed in the US (all products with domain names ending with chadwyck.com)
"Digital Vault" products, including ProQuest Dissertations & Theses and Digital Sanborn Maps

ROTUNDA Newsletter

DOLLEY MADISON V 2.0
The second installment of The Dolley Madison Digital Edition adds nearly two hundred documents written after James Madison's death on June 28, 1836, and extending the chronology of the DMDE through early April 1837. New features include an expanded biographical introduction; detailed editorial notes on topics of relevance to multiple letters; improved searching; and an entirely new Place Browser. A new printable-version link has been added to the documents. See the DMDE news page for full details on each of these features.

NEW, IMPROVED WASHINGTON
The Papers of George Washington Digital Edition has been upgraded in several areas. Names of authors and recipients on the search page have been regularized, and repository symbols in the edition have been updated to conform to the current MARC standards. With the addition of a French-language module to our server software, the PGWDE now supports stemmed searching on French words. Print-ready versions of all contents are now available.

Accessible Archives Releases Parts I and II of the South Carolina Gazette

Malvern, PA (December 5, 2007) - Accessible Archives, Inc., a publisher of electronic full-text searchable historical databases, has announced the online availability of the South Carolina Gazette, 1732-1775.  This new release features full XML and image availability.

Charles Town (renamed Charleston in 1783) was the social, political and economic center of South Carolina throughout the colonial and antebellum periods, and served as the state capital until 1790.  The South Carolina Gazette, South Carolinas first successful newspaper, was begun in 1732 under Thomas Whitemarsh in Charles Town, and soon became an important source of local, regional, national and international news.  Whitemarsh died in the fall of 1733 and publication was suspended for several months.  The paper was reestablished in 1734 and saw a number of publishers until the release of its final issue in December, 1775.

The collection contains a wealth of information on Colonial/Early American history and genealogy, and provides an accurate depiction of life in South Carolina and America during the years prior to independence.  Part I (1732-1741) currently is available; Part II (1742-1751) is expected to be mounted by year-end. Multiple sections will be released each year until completion.

Introducing the collection Rob Nagy, Accessible Archives Sr. VP of Sales and Marketing, said, We anticipated the release of the initial portions of the South Carolina Gazette for some time, but wanted to wait until the enhancements to our revamped website were in place.  These have allowed us to initiate XML tagging for the entire
collection, along with a full complement of images.  Were very excited at the direction in which these system improvements are taking us.

Film & TV Literature Index w/Full Text Enhanced

Our subscription to the Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text has been enhanced to include two excellent new features: an Image Collection authority file, and an authority file that will allow users to search within the collection of full text Variety Movie Reviews.

The Image Collection contains over 24,000 classic color and black & white images of celebrity and entertainment photography, provided by the Motion Picture & Television Archives.

The new Variety Movie Reviews authority file consists of over 32,500 full text reviews, dating back to 1914. This collection provides a unique overview of the development of cinema, from the early part of the 20th century to the present.

Content for both features is also accessible via Source Type Searching limiters at the top of the Result List. These limiters allow users to sort Result List items by publication type.

Visit EBSCO's Support Site (http://support.ebsco.com) to learn about new features, search among thousands of FAQs, download Flash tutorials, Help Sheets or User Guides.

Reference Universe

Reference Universe is now available on the USC E-Resources page, both in Quick links and on the A-Z database list. More information about this resource are below and at http://paratext.com/ru_intro.htm.


**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.

Portico Supports First Trigger Event

/Graft: Organ and Cell Transplantation/, published by SAGE Publications from January 2001 to March 2003, will be removed from SAGE's online offering at the end of this year creating the first ever trigger event for the Portico archive and Portico's participating publishers and
libraries.

Because SAGE Publications, a leading international publisher of electronic media, journals and books, has ensured that /Graft/ is preserved in the Portico archive and because /Graft/ will not be offered by any other commercial online source, Portico will "light up" this portion of the Portico archive and provide access to literature that otherwise would be lost to the scholarly community. Through this first trigger event Portico demonstrates how publishers, archives, and libraries can cooperatively provide a permanent archive of scholarly literature published in electronic form and avoid a permanent gap in the scholarly record.

On December 3, 2007, Portico will make /Graft/ available to its library participants via the Portico website and access via SAGE will end December 31, 2007. In the coming days, Portico will forward to its library participants instructions for accessing /Graft/.

Credo Reference Content Update - New Titles

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.

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Latest Additions

• Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Routledge in Literature
• Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century, Gale in History

We're updating many of our titles to the latest available editions. The following updated titles were recently released. Expect more soon!

• Collins Irish Dictionary, in Bilinguals
• The New Penguin Business Dictionary, in Business
• The New Penguin Dictionary of Music, in Music
• The Penguin Dictionary of Sociology, in Social Sciences
• The Penguin Dictionary of Economics, in Business
• The Penguin International Dictionary of Finance, in Business

Forthcoming Titles

More titles are coming soon to Credo Reference. See the complete list.

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Featured Title of the Month

Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century from Routledge

This book contains over 400 entries, covering all aspects of American poetry in the twentieth century. Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries (Conrad Aiken to Louis Zukofsky); entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most
resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer analyses of a given period of literary production, school, thematically constructed category, or other verse tradition that historically has been in dialogue with the poetry of the United States.

View some of the in-depth entries about poets:

• Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79) and One Art, one of her well-known poems
• T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) and his poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
• Allen Ginsberg (1926-97), one of the beat poets
• Marianne Moore (1887-1972) and her poem about poetry -- Poetry
• Charles Simic (1938- ), current Poet Laureate of the United States

In addition to entries on American poets, the book features topical essays on key developments in poetry:

• Hispanic American Poetry
• The relationship with Canadian poetry
• How poetry addresses political and cultural issues, such as War
• Little magazines and small presses, one of the current outlets for poetry

Use the encyclopedia's list of entries to find even more essays.

IEEE Xplore Dec. 13 Upgrade

On Thursday, 13 December, IEEE will perform planned maintenance to the IEEE Xploredigital library. During the maintenance, users may experience up to two hours of downtime beginning at approximately 4:00PM (EST). A message will be posted to the IEEE Xplorehome page to alert your users to the planned downtime. Please encourage your users to take this into account when they plan their research.

Welcome to the release of our new History Resource Center interface!

As a current subscriber to either the U.S. or World version, you are already a recipient of the great new features that are included in this release of History Resource Center.The History Resource Center enhancements are designed to:* Make the database easier to use by streamlining navigational elements* Include more topics, persons, events and regions covered in each database with new reference sets* Provide more images, maps and multimedia, which support both new and existing content sets* Update the look and feel, making the database more intuitive and adding new functionalityLook for these new features in your History Resource Center:* Search a Reference Work: Now a user can select an individual reference work within the collection, so search term results can be retrieved in both the general context of world history, or within a specific context (e.g., a search on 'Oil' only within Islam and the Muslim World)* New Tabs: In addition to Reference; Periodical; Primary Sources and Maps & Multimedia, we have added tabs for Bios and News, so users can further refine their results according to the type of content they are seeking* New Sort Options: Now a user can sort their results using a variety of delimiters, including: Relevance, Publication, Document Type, Image Type, Date of Publication and many others, specific to each tab* New Print and E-mail options: These simplify the process of printing documents (such as complete primary source works) and sharing information.Subscribers to the Digital Archive module of the History Resource Center, please note that you also will be taking advantage of the new interface, and will have access to the new content sets as well.These exciting enhancements will be live for all History Resource Center subscribers on the first week of January, 2008. For more information, please contact your Gale Sales Representative or join me for one of these upcoming History Resource Center Webinars:Dec. 19, 2007 2:00 p.m. EThttp://www.uptilt.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=4rs,w60a,29ea,faoq,bic4,b0yx,24yrJan. 8, 2008 2:00 p.m. EThttp://www.uptilt.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=4rs,w60a,29ea,2jzf,aszm,b0yx,24yrJan. 9, 2008 1:00 p.m. EThttp://www.uptilt.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=4rs,w60a,29ea,l7n4,1cec,b0yx,24yrSincerely,Ray AbruzziHistory Resource Center Product ManagerGale Cengage Learning

Coming in January: New enhancements to ISI Web of Knowledge. Dual access to be discontinued.

Dear Valued Customer,
We hope you’ve had a chance to use the new version of ISI Web of Knowledge, and that you are helping users at your institution take full advantage of the new interface and its capabilities.
You’ll find that although it may look different, ISI Web of Knowledge still delivers the thorough content and powerful tools you’ve come to rely on, such as Advanced Search and the Marked List in all databases, and Cited Reference Search in Web of Science.

What’s new is a simplified interface and streamlined approach that makes accessing and using this content easier than ever. ISI Web of Knowledge offers search, analysis and sharing options that serve the needs of all levels of users – from the novice to the experienced professional.
Another important feature that ISI Web of Knowledge still offers is regular, quarterly enhancements. The next enhancement is scheduled for January 27, 2008, and it will bring some significant changes and additions to the platform:
Dual Access will be discontinued
Currently, you have dual access to the new and previous versions of ISI Web of Knowledge. This dual access has been provided so you and your users could become familiar with the new features and functionality while still accessing the older version, and to provide you with time to prepare training and other materials for your users.
With the scheduled January 27 release, dual access to ISI Web of Knowledge will be discontinued, and all users and institutions will access the new version. The older version will no longer be available.
The URL will continue to be http://click.thomsonscientific-reply.com/?ju=fe6215797461047a7512&ls=fdf415717661047c7d13797d&m=fefd1171706601&l=fec3157873650c79&s=fe3915727164007d711370&jb=ffcf14&t=
All databases available in new interface
All the products on the platform will be configured and available in the new interface. These include:
Derwent Innovations IndexSM
MEDLINE®
Web Citation Index™
Journal Citation Reports®
Essential Science IndicatorsSM
Highly Cited ResearchersSM
New Administrative Tools portal
Account administrators will be able to access a new Administrative Tools portal. This is a single location where they can manage all of their user entitlements, access usage reports and administrative tools. Journal Use Reports®customers will also access this product through the portal. If they haven’t already done so, account administrators should register soon in ISI Web of Knowledge with username and password so that we can automatically enable them to access the Administrative Tools portal. We will communicate the URL and other details in January as we get closer to the January 2008 upgrade.
You’ll continue to hear from us
We’ll be sure to keep you fully informed as the January 27 date approaches. In the meantime, please use the links above to access material and training sessions that will help you bring your users up to speed on the new version.
We’re confident that you’ll find the new ISI Web of Knowledge to be a versatile solution that helps all levels of users achieve their goals. As always, if you have any questions about the new interface, please don’t hesitate to contact the Thomson Scientific Technical Support team at http://click.thomsonscientific-reply.com/?ju=fe6115797461047a7513&ls=fdf415717661047c7d13797d&m=fefd1171706601&l=fec3157873650c79&s=fe3915727164007d711370&jb=ffcf14&t= or your Thomson Scientific account representative.
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