New Jacoby and Brill's dictionary of religion.

Jacoby Online presents a completely new edition of "Jacoby". Updated twice yearly, at the rate of about 60 historians per update (approximate equivalent of 1,000 printed pages), each of Jacoby's 856 entries, comprising a total of more than 12,000, fragments will be supplemented with: . new authors not in the original FGrHist; . new readings of many of Jacoby's Greek texts; . new commentaries in English by contemporary scholars; . for the first time commentary on the texts that Jacoby did not complete before his death; . facing English translations of the Greek fragments and testimonia; . an encyclopedia-style biography of the ancient author; and . a regularly updated bibliography /Jacoby Online/ also includes the online edition of the original three parts of Felix Jacoby's monumental /*Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker*/, giving instant and fully searchable access to the equivalent of more than 8,000 pages of print.

Brill Dictionary of Religion, the new /Dictionary/ addresses religion as an element of daily life and public discourse. With more than 500 entries and many illustrations and charts, the dictionary is a multi-media reference source on the many and various forms of religious commitment. It is unusual in that it not only addresses the different theologies and doctrinal declarations of the official institutionalized religions but it also gives equal weight and consideration to a multiplicity of other religious phenomena. People perceive and express religious experiences in many different ways: through dance, sensuality, in relations between sexes and in compassion at death. Religions help determine how people form and perceive their identity as part of a social group. The diverse effects of religions can also be perceived in the environment, society and the public sphere. /Dictionary /helps map out and define the networks and connections created by various religions in contemporary societies, and provides models for understanding these complex phenomena.

Credo Reference Latest Additions

• The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press, in Philosophy & Psychology

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

• Collins Dictionary of Medicine , in Medicine
• Dictionary of Business, A&C Black in Business
• Marquis Who's Who in America, in Biography
• Marquis Who's Who in the World, in Biography
• Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary, in Geography
• The New Penguin Dictionary of Science, in Science
• The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Design Since 1900, in Art
• The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Fashion and Fashion Designers, in Art
• The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers, in Art
• Who Was Who 1897-2007, A&C Black in Biography
• Who's Who 2008, A&C Black in Biography
• Who's Who in Ancient Egypt, Routledge in History
• Who's Who in Christianity, Routledge in Religion
• Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History - From Antiquity to World War II, Routledge in History

Forthcoming Titles

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

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Featured Title of the Month

The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy from Edinburgh University Press

This reference guide covers the most important authors and movements in Continental Philosophy. Each section focuses on a school of thought, bringing together articles by leading scholars which explore the key thinkers and texts. The encyclopedia starts with an introduction that defines the term Continental philosophy and then is arranged in chronological order, beginning with the founding texts of Classical Idealism and concluding with Post-structuralism. Each section includes an introduction written by the section editor, and six or seven essays on important topics and figures.

Read a few of the essays:

• Kant's transcendental idealism
• Kierkegaard's existential philosophy and praxis as the revolt against systems
• Phenomenology and the question of being: Heidegger
• Marx and the end of philosophy
• French feminism
• Power, knowledge and ethics: Foucault

Each essay includes a bibliography of primary and secondary sources.

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Specialist Reference

Credo's Specialist Reference service delivers in-depth subject-specific expertise that enables libraries to develop reference collections for advanced programs. Specialist Reference can be ordered individually or added to your General Reference service. Below are some key titles from our Specialist Reference collection:

• 12 Blackwell Psychology Handbooks, including Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development and Blackwell Handbook of Research Methods in Clinical Psychology
• Bridgeman History of Science
• The MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders
• Who's Who 2008

See a complete list at http://corp.credoreference.com/specialist

If you would like to add a Specialist Reference title to your subscription, please contact usasales@credoreference.com (North America) or uksales@credoreference.com (UK and Rest of World).

Enhanced ISI Web of Knowledge Usability

The next time you and your users access ISI Web of Knowledge, you’ll find many changes that address your concerns about functionality and ease of use. New features bring you:

• A new Web of Science tab that takes users directly to this premier resource
• A handy information box on the All Databases search page that directs users to essential Web of Science features such as cited reference searching and Citation Reports
• A direct URL to Journal Citation Reports: http://isiknowledge.com/jcr

Important information regarding your IEEE online subscription

An IEEE /Xplore/  environment upgrade is scheduled for Saturday, 15 March, 2008. During this upgrade, the system will be unavailable for up to four (4) hours beginning at approximately 10:00 am EDT (UTC/GMT - 4 hours).

Alexander Street Press-System Downtime Alert

Please be aware that some Alexander Street databases will be unavailable on the morning of Monday, March 10th. This downtime is scheduled for 9:00 am EST and should not last more than 30 minutes. During the downtime new content will be added to several collections. 

Portico Agreement with MIT Press

Portico is pleased to announce the signing of an agreement with the MIT Press to preserve its entire online journals collection of 33 titles. The MIT Press is one of the largest American university presses in terms of number of books and journals published and overall sales. The MIT Press Journals Division publishes in many subject areas, including the arts and humanities, social sciences, and certain areas of science and technology.

Through this agreement with Portico, the MIT Press ensures that its online journal collection will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers and students. MIT Press has also agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico and has designated the Archive as an official delivery platform for post-cancellation access claims.

With the inclusion of the MIT Press 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.

Synergy system maintenance March 7

To further improve the quality of the service the planned system maintenance will be
performed on the 7th of March 2008 at 11:00pm GMT (6:00pm EDT, 3:00pm PST) for up to 2 hours. Blackwell Synergy will be unavailable during this time. 

Portico Agreement with Edinburgh University Press

Portico is pleased to announce the signing of an agreement with Edinburgh University Press to preserve its online collection of 30 journals. Edinburgh University Press, founded over 50 years ago, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the University of Edinburgh, and has a reputation for publishing high-quality books and journals in the humanities and social sciences.

Through this agreement with Portico, Edinburgh University Press furthers its preservation strategy. Since 2003, the Press has worked with JSTOR to provide a trusted archive the back issues of Africa and Dance Research: The Journal of the Society for Dance Research and through Portico, it provides for the ongoing preservation of its electronic current issues. Working in collaboration, JSTOR, Portico and Edinburgh University Press also intend to include the born-digital versions of the Press' titles in JSTOR in accordance with the moving wall.

As part of the agreement, Edinburgh University Press will make an annual financial contribution to Portico and has named Portico as a mechanism to fill post-cancellation access claims on behalf of the journals it owns.

With the inclusion of the EUP publications, over 7,400 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.

Help Test JSTOR Peformance on 3/4/08

Dear JSTOR Participant:

In preparation for launching the new JSTOR platform, we invite you to help us try to reach maximum capacity on the servers that deliver the preview of the new JSTOR. We want to ensure that the new platform will perform under extreme usage conditions.

What to do: Sometime between 3:00 and 4:00 EST (20:00-21:00 GMT) on Tuesday, March 4, 2008, please access the JSTOR Preview site (http://preview.jstor.org) and search and browse as you normally would in JSTOR. We would appreciate even a few minutes of your time during this hour.

JSTOR Developers will be monitoring the performance of the preview site, so you may simply enter and exit at your convenience.

As always, we value your use of JSTOR. This test will help to ensure that the new platform when launched will deliver the performance you expect.

Best regards,

Sherry Aschenbrenner
Director, JSTOR User Services

ebrary Monthly Maintenance

Dear ebrary Customer:

We are sending you a friendly reminder regarding our monthly maintenance window.

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.

We appreciate your business and support.

Sincerely,

ebrary Customer Support

JSTOR New Platform Preview Available

We are happy to let you know that work on a new JSTOR platform is nearing completion. The interface has been updated with a new look, and more tools and capabilities for users have been integrated into the system. The new platform will also provide a more flexible foundation for future development, allowing us to add features and a greater array of scholarly content. Several projects are already underway that will introduce monographs, manuscripts, and pamphlets into the archive.

The new platform will replace the current JSTOR site. We currently anticipate a launch in mid-March. In preparation, we invite you to explore a preview of the new site. Through this preview you can become acquainted with the new JSTOR interface, sample the functionality, and let us know what you think.

The preview can be accessed by going to the JSTOR sandbox at http://sandbox.jstor.org.

In the sandbox you will also find:

• information about new features
• tips for sending us your comments
• information on support and plans for training, including webinars, tutorials, handouts, and prepared screen shots

A primary goal of the new platform is to enhance the user experience and to better address and support the research objectives of JSTOR users. Development has been informed by user feedback, interviews, focus groups, usability studies, and beta testing with students, researchers, librarians, and publishers. As we prepare for the launch, we will continue to monitor closely the messages and feedback we receive from you.

Thank you, as always, for your ongoing support. If you have any questions at all, please contact support@jstor.org.

Sincerely,

Sherry Aschenbrenner
Director, JSTOR User Services

Portico Agreement with National Library of the Netherlands

Dear Colleagues,

Portico announces agreement with the National Library of the Netherlands

Portico and the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands (the KB), are pleased to announce they have reached an agreement for an off-line copy of the Portico archive, which exceeds 6 million articles and 60 million files, to be held for safekeeping by the KB. Through its e-Depot program the KB has demonstrated its role in the vanguard of digital preservation. Placing a Portico-owned copy of the archive, in a secure access- and climate-controlled facility operated by the KB is one component of the replication strategy Portico is implementing to ensure the safety and security of the archive upon which a growing, international community relies. This arrangement also illustrates one way in which organizations internationally recognized for their digital preservation obligations and expertise can cooperate to form a strong, supportive network to safely preserve digital materials.

"I am very pleased that Portico will work with the KB, an internationally recognized leader in digital preservation, to strengthen the network of archives meeting the digital preservation challenge" said Eileen Fenton, Executive Director of Portico. Noting the KB has worked vigorously to advance the digital preservation agenda, Dr. W. van Drimmelen, Director General of the KB, said, "Preserving electronic scholarly publications is a key priority for the KB, and formalizing this arrangement with Portico is a natural extension of the KB's active archival role."

Additional information about Portico is available at www.portico.org.

Additional information about the KB's digital preservation program, including the e-Depot, is available at http://www.kb.nl/dnp/e-depot/e-depot-en.html.


Best regards,

Ken

Kenneth DiFiore, MLS
Associate Director of Library Relations, Portico