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October 26, 2009

New E-resource: Royal Society of New Zealand e-journals

Royal Society of New Zealand e-journals (selected titles)
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/rsnz

Current issues of selected titles available. Back issues of all journals from 2003 are freely available in PDF format. Remaining issues to Volume 1 of each journal are being scanned and converted to PDF files progressively.



New E-resource: Congressional Research Digital Collection - Prospective Service

Congressional Research Digital Collection - Prospective Service
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/16133

The LexisNexis Congressional Research Digital Collection (CRDC) provides full-text access to more than 5,000 Congressional committee prints published from 2004 to present and more than 23,000 Congressional Research Service reports published from 2004-present. The bibliographic records provide controlled-vocabulary indexing, including citations for bills, public laws, and Statutes at Large, and analytical abstracts of the documents. Also includes links to political parties and organizations, news sources, etc. See Overview/Help for useful information on the legislative process.



June 22, 2009

New E-resource: JSTOR Arts & Sciences VI Collection

JSTOR Arts & Sciences VI Collection
http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/archives/collections.jsp

JSTOR offers multi-disciplinary and discipline-specific collections that include complete runs of journals as well as select monographs, transactions, and conference proceedings. JSTOR also offers a small set of additional collections providing access to primary and secondary research materials including: pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, oral histories, government documents, images, 3-D models, and more.



March 10, 2008

New E-resources at the U of M Libraries

These e-resources are now available to all U of M students, faculty, and staff through the University Libraries!

CIS Congressional Hearings Digital Collection Retrospective A (added to LexisNexis Congressional)

Gale - newspaper archives

Waterloo Directory of of English Newspapers and Periodicals



January 22, 2007

What's that you say?

Author Deborah Tannen wrote that "Communication is a continual balancing act." She's probably right. Fortunately, now you can access Communication and Mass Media Complete, a comprehensive resource for communication-related articles of all types. The database provides full text for more than 285 journals covering mass media, film, television, marketing, business communication, health communication, and more.



November 17, 2006

Tired of Boring Biology Papers?

Faculty of 1000 Biology can deliver you from the doldrums. Based on recommendations from more than a thousand leading biologists, this revolutionary new online research service highlights and reviews the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences.

Faculty of 1000 Biology highlights papers on the basis of their scientific merit rather than the journal in which they appear, offering a consensus of recommendations from top researchers. The site systematically organizes and evaluates scientific literature with an immediate rating of individual papers by the authors' peers.



April 19, 2006

New Resource: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas

Expanding on the original Dictionary of the History of Ideas (1974), edited by Philip Wiener, the New Dictionary has a broader scope introducing global- and gender-neutral perspectives not present in the earlier print edition. In 700 accessible articles, alphabetically arranged, a distinguished team of international scholars explore new thinking in areas previously covered (communism, linguistics, physics) and present cross-cultural perspectives on more recent topics such as postmodernism, deconstruction and post-colonialism.

URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/ndhi.cgi



March 8, 2006

New Resources: International Philosophical Bibliography

This online bibliography lists books and articles about philosophy and history of philosophy including: Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance to Enlightenment, 19th and 20th Centuries, and Non-Western Traditions. Language scope: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish and Catalan.

The International Philosophical Bibliography covers all issues 1997 to present. The Retrospective file covers selected pre-1996 listings. The starting point of the bibliography changes daily.

Check MNCAT for corresponding print version.

URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/ipb.cgi



March 6, 2006

New Resource: International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance with Full Text

Contains all of the content available in International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance as well as full text for 100 titles, including Canadian Theatre Review, Dance Chronicle, Dance Teacher, Modern Drama, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Research in Dance Education, Research in Drama Education, Studies in Theatre and Performance, TDR: The Drama Review, Theater, and many more. Additional full text available includes more than 50 books & monographs such as Art and the Performance of Memory, Avant Garde Theatre, British Realist Theatre, Community Theatre, History of European Drama and Theatre, Learning Through Theatre, Opera, Performance Theory, Popular Theatres of Nineteenth Century France, Shakespeare, Theory and Performance, Sourcebook on Feminist Theatre and Performance, Theatre and the World, Twentieth-Century Actor Training, Who's Who in Contemporary World Theatre, World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre and many more.

Coverage: 1984 - present

URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/ibtd.cgi



February 13, 2006

New Resource: Columbia Granger's World of Poetry Online

An index to poems in anthologies. It includes 250,000 poetry citations indexed by title, first line, last line, author, subject, and searchable by keyword and by author categories. Also provides biographical entries, bibliographies, anthology descriptors and fulltext versions of poems in the public domain.

URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wpo.cgi



New Resource: Science of Synthesis

Science of Synthesis is an electronic version of the reference work by the same name; it also provides access to Houben-Weyl (Methods of Organic Chemistry) which includes references back to 1835. Science of Synthesis covers both organic and organometallic synthetic methods. The methods are evaluated and include full experimental details. The content is full-text, structure, and reaction searchable. It works best with Internet Explorer 5.0 and higher, and pop-up blockers should be disabled.

URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/sos.cgi



New Resource: EBSCO MegaFILE

This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education

Save time and search all four EBSCO databases at once. The EBSCO MegaFILE is comprised of the complete content and functionality of Academic Search Premier, MasterFILE Premier, Business Source Premier, and Regional Business News.

URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/emf.cgi



February 12, 2006

New Resource: Television News Archive

Produced by Vanderbilt University, this database is "the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news." The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from ABC, CBS, and NBC (August 1968 - present), and CNN daily news (1995 - present). Also, there are more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since September 1988. These special reports and periodic news broadcasts cover presidential press conferences and political campaign coverage, and national and international events such as the Watergate hearings, the Gulf War, and 9/11. University faculty, staff, and students can view online video from the Archive's collection of CNN material; copies or compilations of other site material can be ordered for a cost-recovery fee paid to Vanderbilt. Note: 60 Minutes, 20/20, and other news magazine programs are not included here.

To view the CNN content, you will need the free RealOne media player from RealNetworks.

URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/tna.cgi



February 1, 2006

New Resource: InfoPOEMS

InfoPOEMs consists of two products -- InfoRetriever and the Daily InfoPOEMs. InfoRetriever provides filtered, graded, summarized evidence and clinical tools for use in the office or at the bedside. Daily InfoPOEMs provides a complete clinical awareness system for knowledge management.

URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/inpo.cgi



January 25, 2006

New Resource: Factiva

Factiva provides access to global news and business information, including local newspapers, same-day newswires, company reports, and media programs. Provides company information including market data and competitors. Includes full-text of the Wall Street Journal.

URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/factiva.cgi



January 4, 2006

New Resource: Fact Book: The Source For Minnesota Business Information

Title:Fact Book: The Source For Minnesota Business Information
Other Names:Minnesota Fact Book , Corporate Report Fact Book
Description:Profiles of 2,700 Minnesota companies with more than 50 employees. Covers both private and public companies along with indexes to identify companies by industry. Entries include contact information and financial officers. Fact Book will include links to news articles about executives and allow searching for names.
URL:http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/fbo.cgi


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New Resource: International Index of Black Periodicals

Title:International Index of Black Periodicals
Coverage:dates vary
Sources Indexed:http://iibp.chadwyck.com/morehome/htxview?template=basic.htx&content=titlfram.htx
Description:Includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from scholarly journals and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean--and full-text coverage of core Black Studies periodicals. Coverage is international in scope and multidisciplinary--spanning cultural, economic, historical, religious, social, and political issues of vital importance to the Black Studies discipline.
URL:http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/iibp.cgi


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December 7, 2005

New Resource: Nursing and Allied Health Collection: Comprehensive

Title:Nursing and Allied Health Collection: Comprehensive
Coverage:1975 - present
Description:Designed for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers, this database provides full text for nearly 400 journals covering the areas of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied health disciplines. Nearly all full text titles included in Nursing & Allied Health: Comprehensive Edition are indexed in CINAHL.
URL:http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/nah.cgi


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Current Contents Database to be Replaced

Effective January 1, 2006, the University Libraries will be canceling its subscription to the Current Contents database.

Why the change?
All of the data in Current Contents is available in another database from the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), Web of Science, to which the Libraries already subscribe. Web of Science includes Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index. The cost for what is essentially a duplicate subscription can no longer be justified; the Libraries will be applying the annual subscription cost of $19,952 toward other databases, such as the Chronicle of Higher Education and ISI’s Essential Science Indicators (an analytical tool that offers data for ranking scientists, institutions, countries, and journals).

What will happen to the regular email alert I get with new Current Contents citations?
The Web of Science database offers a similar alerting service. If you have an existing alert profile, you can set up your own new alert in Web of Science, or a librarian can help you set up a new profile. Library patrons with Current Content AutoAlerts or saved searches will want to move them to the ISI Web of Science system before January 1. ISI calls their weekly updates ALERTS. Current Contents alert recipients will be contacted directly with more detailed information on this conversion process.

Please note that email alerts set up on other BioMedSearch databases, such as Biosis, Cinahl, and Medline, will continue without interruption.

Where can I go for more help?



December 1, 2005

New Investment in the University Libraries

As part of the biennial budget appropriation, the University administration has approved a major new investment in the University Libraries and its collections. $2 million of new, recurring funds have been allocated to the Libraries’ base budget!

This commitment will enable the Libraries to significantly build on the goal of targeting specific teaching and research needs of individual departments and classes as well as overall campus information needs. In addition to maintaining and adding to journal subscriptions and purchasing more books across many subject areas, the following new electronic resources are now available; more resources will be coming later in the Fall as publisher licenses are negotiated.

For a list of new books and indexes purchased through this appropriation please see New Investment in the University Libraries.