Gale announces updates to Literature Criticism Online!

Gale is pleased to announce a new release of Literature Criticism Online, which brings a variety of new features to this digitized collection of Gale's major criticism. The ten individual, award-winning Gale series that comprise Literature Criticism Online present a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. Imagine centuries of analysis - the scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals - delivered in an easy format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals.

In response to customer feedback, the following new features are now live to current users of the database:
*  Browse Topics - access 600+ topical entries easily through our new alpha-browse feature, with new entries added regularly.
*  Updated indexing in "Browse Works" and "Browse Authors" - deep cross-referencing found in Gale's Literary Index is now integrated within Literature Criticism Online.
*  Titles Discussed - works entries include links to all relevant pages that discuss a related title within any given essay - extreme cross-referencing at work.
*  Updated language - intuitive "Inside this Entry" and "Inside this Volume" links provide easily understood directions for exploring volumes and entries.
*  Updated design to Print/View PDFs - page limits reduce the amount of loading time (and printer paper) for patrons who want more than just a two-page spread.
*  Hit-Term Highlighting and Relevant Pages now available for Keyword searches - originally active in full-text searches, this has now been applied to keyword searches, too.
*  New design for navigating to Relevant Pages - find your search terms easily by navigating directly to relevant pages with the click of a mouse.
*  Cleaner InfoMarks for document Source Citations - links are more readily recognized in bibliographies, coursepacks, social bookmarking sites and more.

Some additional basic changes in Literature Criticism Online will have a MAJOR effect on how relevancy and currency are perceived within the database. By changing the Basic Search default index from "Full-text" to "Keyword" and changing the default sort from "Publication Date Ascending" to "Publication Date Descending", users will find the most up-to-date entries and relevant keyword search results at their fingertips, without changing anything other than their search terms!

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Coming this Fall, Literature Criticism Online will become cross-searchable with two other major digitization efforts -- Something About the Author and the Dictionary of Literary Biography. These major sets are considered the premier publications in literary reference, bringing unsurpassed volumes of biographical content, images and commentary on all the major authors covered in Literature Criticism Online and beyond.

JSTOR Update, August 29, 2008

JSTOR Update | August 29, 2008

New Content

The following journal was added to the JSTOR archive this week. The full details for the journal are:

The American Biology Teacher (Biological Sciences; Life Sciences)
URL: http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=amerbiolteac
Release Content:
Vols. 1 – 66; 1938 – 2004
Publisher: National Association of Biology Teachers
Moving Wall: 3 years
ISSN: 0002-7685

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 Missing Issues page.

More detailed information about all JSTOR titles and collections, along with delimited lists, can be accessed from JSTOR’s Available Collections page. Participation information for JSTOR collections may be found on the Participate page.

Usage Statistics Updated

The JSTOR usage statistics server (stats.jstor.org) has been updated with data for May 2008 through July 2008. Data from the new JSTOR platform (launched April 4, 2008) is available along with data from the previous JSTOR platform. Please see stats.jstor.org for important information about the usage statistics data.

Expanding JSTOR Shibboleth Support

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OpenAthens

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PDF Incompatibility with Mac Preview

We have recently become aware that certain versions of Mac Preview are incompatible with the newest generation of JSTOR PDFs. For some users, this means that only the cover page is displaying. Other users have reported that the downloaded article appears to be missing the first portion of the article—it begins somewhere after the first 10 pages of the article. The article is in fact intact and complete, but some pages are not displayed properly. We are working to fix this and plan to continue to support the use of Preview with JSTOR PDFs. We apologize for the problems that this is causing for Mac users.

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JSTOR Update, September 19, 2008

JSTOR Update | September 19, 2008

New Content

Two journals were added to the JSTOR archive today. The full details for the journals are:

Economic Botany (Biological Sciences Collection; Life Sciences Collection)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=econbota
Release Content:
Vols. 1 – 56; 1947-2002
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Springer on behalf of New York Botanical Garden Press
ISSN: 0013-0001

Economic and Political Weekly (Arts & Sciences VI Collection; Business II Collection)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=econpoliweek
Release Content:
Vols. 1 – 37; 1966-2002
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Economic and Political Weekly
ISSN: 0012-9976

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 Missing Issues page.

More detailed information about all JSTOR titles and collections, along with delimited lists, can be accessed from JSTOR’s Available Collections page.

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Informaworld network maintenance - Saturday 27th September

Customers may experience intermittent access to informaworld on Saturday 27th September 2008 to allow the company to complete some essential maintenance.

Credo Reference Content Update - New Titles

Welcome to Content Update -- your monthly email about new and updated 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.



In this issue:

Latest additions

Featured title of the month

Add new titles to your collection

Download MARC records

Specialist Reference

Latest Additions

• African-American Writers: A Dictionary, ABC-CLIO in Literature


• The American Economy: A Historical Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO in Business


• Biographical Dictionary of Psychology, Routledge in Psychology


• Biographical Dictionary of 20th
  Century Philosophers, Routledge in Philosophy


• Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO in History


• Dictionary of World Philosophy, Routledge in Philosophy


• Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology, Elsevier in Psychology


• Encyclopedia of Archaeology: History and Discoveries, ABC-CLIO in Social Sciences


• Encyclopedia of Latin American and
  Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003, Routledge in Literature


• Encyclopedia of Postmodernism,
  Routledge in Philosophy


• Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Routledge in Social Sciences


• Encyclopedia of 20th Century Technology,
  Routledge in Technology


• Encyclopedia of Urban America: The Cities and Suburbs, ABC-CLIO in Social Sciences


• Immigration and Asylum from 1900 to Present, ABC-CLIO in History


• International Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics, Routledge in Social Sciences


• Iran's Diverse Peoples: A Reference Sourcebook, ABC-CLIO in Social Sciences
  
  

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

• Chambers Biographical Dictionary in Biographies

Featured Title of the Month



Encyclopedia of 20th Century Technology from Routledge



Comprised of essays arranged alphabetically from Absorbent Materials to X-Rays in Diagnostic Medicine, most on individual objects, artifacts, techniques, and products, this is an up-to-date reference work for all those involved in teaching or researching the history of twentieth-century technology, as well as the serious general reader. The core of each of the main entries is a technical description, within a historical narrative, of about 1,000 words plus illustrations and further reading. There are also about 30 longer survey entries that address broad questions of technological systems, such as the context in which the various technologies were developed, discussions of any controversies and schools of thought, comparisons between different political and economics systems, and the various ways in which different nations have attempted to make and apply science and technology policies.



Read a few of the interesting entries:

• Buildings, Designs for Energy Conservation


• Superconductivity, Applications


• Solar Power Generation


• Technology, Society, and the Environment


• Cancer, Chemotherapy


• Sports Science and Technology


• Radioactive Dating


• Television, Digital and High-Definition Systems
  
  

See a thematic list of entries in the book.

Wiley InterScience Maintenance Notice - Sept 22

Due to essential site maintenance, access will be temporarily unavailable on the indicated dates and times.

DATE:
Monday  -  September 22, 2008

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JSTOR Update, September 15, 2008

System Update: Mac Preview problem now fixed

We are glad to report that we have located and fixed a problem that caused an incompatibility between JSTOR PDF files and older versions of Mac Preview. This problem caused only part of the article to be viewable in Preview. The fix released today means that JSTOR PDF files should now be viewable in their entirety in Preview 3.0.9 (the current version integrated with Mac OS 10.4) as well as newer versions integrated with Mac OS 10.5.

Users of Preview 3.0.9 should note, however, that the page images of articles are usually highly compressed to save file size, and may be slow to open on this version of Preview. It is believed that this is a limitation of Preview that Apple corrected in the version of Preview shipped with Mac OS 10.5.

Please contact support@jstor.org with any questions or if you experience further problems with JSTOR PDF files and Mac Preview.

New Content

Six journals have been added to the JSTOR archive. The full details for the journals are:

Ambio (Biological Sciences Collection; Life Sciences Collection)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=ambio
Release Content:
Vol. 1 – Vol. 33; 1972-2004
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Allen Press Publishing
ISSN: 0044-7447

The Dublin Penny Journal (Ireland Collection)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=dublpennj
Release Content:
Vol. 1 – Vol. 4; 1832-1836
Publication of this title ceased in 1836.
Publisher: Dublin Penny Journal
ISSN: 2009-1338

Flora Neotropica (Biological Sciences Collection; Life Sciences Collection)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=florneot
Release Content:
Vol. 1 – Vol. 84; 1967-2002
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: New York Botanical Garden Press
ISSN: 0071-5794

Folia Geobotanica [1998- ] (Biological Sciences Collection; Life Sciences Collection)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=foligeob
Previous Title: Folia Geobotanica & Phytotaxonomica [1966-1997] (0015-5551)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=foligeobphyt
Release Content:
Vol. 1 – Vol. 36; 1966-2001
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Opulus Press AB
ISSN: 1211-9520
The content for 2000-2002 will be released as soon as the issues become available to JSTOR.

Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin [1992-2000] (Arts & Sciences V Collection)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=harvunivartmuse
Previous Title: Director's Report (Harvard University Art Museums) [1987-1991] (1046-1477)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=direrepo
Previous Title: Annual Report (Fogg Art Museum) [1896-1980] (0362-7861)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=annurepofogg
Release Content:
No. 1896/1897 – No. 1978/1980; 1896-1980
No. 1987/1988 – No. 1990/1991; 1987-1991
Vol. 1, No. 1 – Vol. 7, No. 2; Autumn, 1992 – Spring, 2000
Publication of this title ceased in 2000.
Publisher: President and Fellows of Harvard College on behalf of Harvard Art Museum
ISSN: 1065-6448

The Irish Penny Journal (Ireland Collection)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=irispennjour
Release Content:
Vol. 1 – Vol. 52; 1840-1841
Publisher: Irish Penny Journal
ISSN: 2009-0935
Publication of this title ceased in 1841.

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 Missing Issues page.

More detailed information about all JSTOR titles and collections, along with
delimited lists, can be accessed from JSTOR’s Available Collections page.

Participation information for JSTOR collections may be found on the Participate page.

New Electronic Resources

Calendars of State Papers
Included within the larger electronic resource British History Online is the Calendar of State Papers, a fundamental finding aid for the study of British history. The Calendar is essentially on index to the content of the collected State Papers (which the Libraries are in the process of acquiring in digital form upon its release). British History Online is a digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust, its aim is to support academic and personal users around the world in their learning, teaching and research. Approximately 80% of the documents included in British History Online are available at not cost. Access under British History Online and then select State Papers from the top menu bar.

Colonial State Papers
Colonial State Papers provides access to thousands of papers concerning English activities in the American, Canadian, and West Indian colonies between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries as found in the British National Archives. Also included is a digitized version of The Calendar of State Papers, Colonial: North America and the West Indies 1574-1739, which contains bibliographic records and extracts for thousands of additional documents. Issued by ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey.

Electronic Enlightenment
Unrivaled online access to 18th-century primary sources is provided with Electronic Enlightenment. It is updated twice yearly with new materials. It currently includes cross-searchable letters from nearly 6,000 correspondents as published in the best critical editions. Over 53,000 letters and documents are included. Includes letters in French, German and Italian as well as English. Over 230,000 scholarly annotations are also cross-searchable. An expanding network of external links to other online resources, from Chambers’ Cyclopaedia to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, are provided.

Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980
USC’s holdings of the American ethnic press are significantly enhanced with the addition of this collection from Readex/Newsbank covering Hispanic American newspapers from 22 U.S. states published in the period 1808-1980. Searchable by dates and “eras”, article types, languages, place of publication, and newspaper title.

JSTOR Arts & Sciences VI Collection
This newest JSTOR collection with a minimum of one hundred twenty (120) titles, will extend JSTOR's coverage in disciplines across the social sciences, with clusters focused in economics, education, linguistics, political science, and area studies. The collection will be completed by the end of 2010.

The San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922)
Historical full-text backfiles of the San Francisco Chronicle from ProQuest supplement USC’s already rich holdings of historical newspapers. Not earthquakes, not fires, not even the murder of one of its owners by a minister could stop the independent and often irreverent presses of the San Francisco Chronicle. Founded by two teenage brothers in 1865 when the West was still wild, this newspaper lets researchers travel back in time to experience the completion of the transcontinental railroad, the Klondike gold rush, the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906, America’s entry into World War I, and many other events that shaped both the City by the Bay and the United States. As part of the ProQuest Historical Newspapers™ program, the San Francisco Chronicle (1865–1922) has been digitized from cover to cover. It can be cross-searched with the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and other important historical newspaper titles, letting researchers track the news as it travelled across the country and around the globe.