CPERS (Cooperative Purchasing & Electronic Resources Services)

from AP Images:

As part of our effort to improve your experience while maintaining a safe searching environment, we will be launching an upgrade this weekend. The upgrade features a streamlined navigation toolbar that enables our ability to add more categories like the “World Elections” and “Beijing Olympics” spotlights. Also, changes to photo navigation make it easier to access features like the slide-show and make it easier to identify your search terms.

The first phase of the upgrade will be conducted during the early morning hours of May 30, 2009. During this time, AP Images will be fully functional and available for your use, though clients that authenticate with a username and password will see a slightly different screen. Clients may see a screen that will ask for your email address, please disregard this. Please enter the username that you have used in the past in this area. Most users, however, will not be affected. Phase two of the upgrade is tentatively planned for June 2, 2009. This phase applies a service pack to address items identified in the latest round of testing and to update the login screen.

Should you have any questions about this upgrade, please feel free to contact us at education@accuweather.com. Issues of a technical nature can be directed to apsupport@accuweather.com, or 800-249-5389.

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from Oxford University Press:

Oxford is delighted to announce the addition of an extraordinary resource to the Oxford Digital Reference Shelf:

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POPULAR MUSIC, 4TH EDITION
Edited by Colin Larkin
www.encpopmusic4.com
This encyclopedia’s 30,000 entries cover all genres and periods of popular music from 1900 to the present day, including jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music. The expanded Fourth Edition includes thousands of new entries on trends, styles, record labels, venues, and music festivals. Key dates, biographies, and further reading are provided for artists covered, along with complete discographies that include record labels, release dates, and a 5-star album rating system. Included in this Oxford Digital Reference Shelf edition are online-exclusive entries that originally appeared on Oxford Music Online, now offered in a perpetual access format for the first time.

Special note for Oxford Reference Online Premium subscribers: all Oxford Digital Reference Shelf titles, in addition to being accessible at their individual URLs, seamlessly integrate and are cross-searchable within Oxford Reference Online Premium.

Contact CPERS for pricing or a FREE 30-day trial!

COMING SOON!

• Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present


• Encyclopedia of Human Rights

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from the American Mathematical Society:

In response to the economic recession and its impact on the academic community, the American Mathematical Society (AMS) is freezing the prices of its subscription-based products--journals, MathSciNet and the Mathematical Reviews (MR) Database fee--at 2009 levels. This price freeze applies to all 2010 subscriptions, in both print and electronic formats, including MathSciNet consortia subscriptions.

The publishers of journals distributed by the AMS, also concerned about the impact of the global recession on the academic community, have joined the AMS in freezing their journal prices for 2010 as well. The complete list of AMS journals and AMS-distributed journals is at www.ams.org/journals.

In addition, the AMS will not increase the 2009 dues rate for AMS Institutional Members in 2010.

Contact for questions::
AMS Customer Services Department 201 Charles Street Providence, RI 02904 USA cust-serv@ams.org 800-321-4267 (US and Canada).

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Note: for those Minitex particpants who already subscribe to MathSciNet, Minitex will send renewal pricing in late summer.

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from EBSCO:

Dear EBSCO Customer,

We are very pleased to extend the opportunity to try a brand new database: Research Starters - Sociology, designed to assist students researching top areas of academic study.

Because you already subscribe to a qualifying EBSCO product (please refer to the FAQ below for the exact list), Research Starters - Sociology will be available to you for the 2009/2010 school year (through June 30, 2010) at no charge, on an opt-in basis.

Key Features of Research Starters - Sociology:

• Convenient 3,000-word topic overviews with concise, yet comprehensive content
• Overview information on 500 topics parallel to course offerings of major schools, colleges and universities in the United States and Canada (offering a sociology concentration), with links to key articles in associated EBSCO databases
• Content designed to be appropriate for advanced high school and two/four-year college students, public libraries and selected schools
• Quality study guides written by subject matter experts holding advanced degrees in sociology, consulted to ensure that the articles encompass current trends and hot topics

Please see the following FAQs for more information, as well as the list of databases that qualify subscribers for this extended free trial offer:

• Which databases qualify my institution for an extended trial to Research Starters - Sociology?
• What is Research Starters - Sociology?
• How were the Research Starters-Sociology topics chosen?
• What categories and topics are covered by Research Starters articles?
• What are the credentials of Research Starters - Sociology writers and subject experts?
• Which EBSCO databases were used to create the Research Starters articles?
• I'm researching a particular topic, but can't find any Research Starters article that covers it.

To request your free trial of Research Starters - Sociology, please let us know at information@ebscohost.com. Note: To allow 3-4 weeks for processing, please don't delay!

Posted by hatin004 at 9:57 AM | Permalink

from EBSCO:

RIPM Online Archive of Music Periodicals (FullTEXT) is now available from EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO). The RIPM Online Archive is a unique collection of primary source material for the study of music and musical life from approximately 1800 to 1950. It is also the only extensive collection available online of music periodicals dating from the Early Romantic to the Modern period, from Beethoven to Bartók and from Schubert to Stravinsky.

RIPM Online Archive is a full-text version of journals indexed in RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals. The RIPM Online Archive’s first installment contains 50 rarely available music periodicals selected by specialists, with new titles every six months. It can be access directly or through RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals.

Made available with the cooperation of libraries worldwide, the RIPM Online Archive offers an almost daily chronicle of musical activities, with immense possibilities for original research. It provides high-quality gray scale images using the latest technology to create digitized versions of these difficult to obtain early 19th-to mid-20th-century documents. The RIPM Online Archive allows researchers to explore its content while viewing images that often convey the historical nature of the documents.

The innovative interface designed for RIPM Online Archive offers numerous features: easy and intuitive page manipulation including a zoom feature, the highlighting of the section of the journal page corresponding to the selected record, and the use of two browser windows to view search results or an annotated Calendar and the corresponding journal page simultaneously.

A detailed Table of Contents (Calendar) introduces each journal issue, and each page view includes a complete bibliographical reference. Containing complete runs of journals at times pieced together from different collections, the RIPM Online Archive’s current content and a selection of forthcoming titles are available at http://www.ripm.org.

RIPM Online Archive of Music Periodicals (FullTEXT) joins a large collection of databases for music research all available from EBSCO. The EBSCO music collection includes RISM Series A/II: Music Manuscripts after 1600, Index to Printed Music, The Music Index Online, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature and RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals. RIPM and RILM combine to treat music periodicals from 1800-present.

Posted by hatin004 at 7:58 AM | Permalink

from EBSCO:

EBSCO Publishing has released a new resource for corporate sustainability professionals. Sustainability Reference Center™ is a comprehensive full-text database covering all aspects of sustainability—forming the largest dedicated resource available covering this emerging topic. Sustainability Reference Center is an expert collection providing unmatched full-text coverage of information relevant to many areas integral to sustainability including:

• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Environmental Stewardship
• Federal, State & Local Regulations
• "Green" Issues & Initiatives
• ISO 14000
• LEED
• Recycling
• Renewable Energy
• Resource Conservation
• Sustainable Business Practices
• Waste Reduction

Sustainability Reference Center includes complete coverage of more than 800 publications—journals, monographs, magazines, and trade publications—all dealing with sustainability-related issues. The database offers tens of thousands of additional sustainability-focused articles, benchmarks, and best practices, selected from thousands of trade and industry publications. Sustainability Reference Center also provides examples of sustainability practices from corporations throughout the world. Much of the content is available in a searchable PDF format making it simple for corporate users to take advantage of this rich resource.

Designed for corporate sustainability experts and information professionals, Sustainability Reference Center contains the greatest concentration of sustainability-related content available today. The database is designed to provide users with quick and easy access to vital information including complete full text with images, tables, charts, and other graphical content from hundreds of key titles. Sustainability Reference Center and other EBSCOhost databases are easy to integrate into corporate intranets and portals.

Posted by hatin004 at 7:52 AM | Permalink

from Alexander Street Press

You're invited to the Alexander Street Online Jazz Music Festival! Come as you are—without leaving your desk!

http://alexanderstreet.com/JAZZfest.htm

From Tuesday, May 12 through Thursday, May 14, you can listen to more than 18,000 jazz recordings online in streaming audio.

AND there are free music downloads, jazz videos, teaching tools, quizzes that test your jazz knowledge, contests, and prizes you can win!

It's all part of the celebration marking the launch of our new online collection, Jazz Music Library. Access it for free for the duration of the festival.

Posted by balad001 at 8:49 AM | Permalink

from OCLC:

OCLC recently announced WorldCat Local “quick start,” a service that delivers the resources of your library and libraries around the world in a single search. This first step toward Web-scale, cooperative library management services connects your users’ search experience with library systems—today, that means WorldCat, your catalog, local availability and resource sharing. Soon, OCLC will take the next steps and pilot Web-scale delivery and circulation, license management, print and electronic acquisitions, and more. WorldCat Local “quick start” is now included in subscriptions to the WorldCat database on the FirstSearch service at no additional charge.

Learn more about WorldCat Local “quick start” at weekly Web information sessions. Registration is open, and additional sessions will be added regularly.

Built on the popular WorldCat.org interface, WorldCat Local “quick start” includes:

• Your library’s brand in the URL, search box and user interface


• Your library’s resources displayed first in search results


• Interoperability with a single integrated library system


• Smart integration with your library’s existing delivery services


• Access to the same social networking tools available on WorldCat.org


• Article-level records from well-known databases with links to full text where available

Visit our website to learn more about WorldCat Local “quick start,” and how your library can take advantage of this new service. In addition to introductory webinars, you may also register for webinars that provide an introduction to the service, instruction on configuration options and guidance on use of OCLC’s batch processing services to update your library’s holdings in WorldCat.

Posted by balad001 at 1:45 PM | Permalink

from Gale:

A new electronic resource offering authoritative reference content in the area of the environment, energy and natural resources, GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources), is an important part of a new generation of products from Gale, part of Cengage Learning. A reflection of Gale’s “power to the user” philosophy, this product was designed with the end-user in mind.

“From global warming, to food safety, to access to health care, to the impact of economic development on international relations, today’s important environmental issues are shaping the future and reach far beyond the United States,” said Jay Flynn, Gale’s vice president and publisher for social science and K-12. “Additionally, as ‘green-collar’ jobs are poised for growth, municipalities strive to be environmentally friendly, and corporations develop green working environments, this resource becomes invaluable.”

Launching in June 2009, GREENR focuses on the academic study of sustainability and the environment. Both interactive and current, GREENR allows users to navigate
issue, organization and country portals. A one-stop site, this resource provides news, background information, video, unique commentaries, primary source documents and statistics in highly accessible, visually appealing research areas, covering relevant categories including energy systems, healthcare, food, climate change, population and economic development.

“One of the things that makes GREENR so user-friendly, is it does not look like a database product,” said Flynn. “Researchers view content in a way that resembles the popular Web sites, allowing them to browse to find answers as well as entering search terms.”

This e-source also offers:

* Interactive maps, allowing users to browse by country or topic
* Opportunities for forums, networking and facilitating open discussion, allowing students and teachers to participate in general forums or those designed for specific classes
* Contextual multimedia, customizable journals and news, refereed case studies
* Localization to highlight community resources, allowing libraries to advertise their assets as well as upcoming local events
* Web 2.0 tools to facilitate content portability and community building

GREENR is designed to support research in academic institutions, and supports study in school, public and special libraries. The resource addresses the growing needs of undergraduate students doing research in the area of the environment, energy and natural resources. Offering in-depth analysis, GREENR arms information seekers with the knowledge and skills needed to understand and succeed in an ever-changing world.

Posted by hatin004 at 9:21 AM | Permalink

from EBSCO:

Last week, EBSCO released several enhancements to the A-to-Z® interface:

* A Training link has been added to the upper-right corner of the A-to-Z Administrator Site. This link enables customers to instantly request additional training from EBSCO’s Training Resources team.

* A-to-Z can now sort titles containing Greek, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian characters. In addition, the alphabetic submenus for these languages are now available for display on the A-to-Z Reader Site.

* The label Your Access, which precedes custom coverage information on the A-to-Z Reader Site, will now be hidden for titles with custom coverage if the option Hide Managed Coverage when Custom Coverage is Available is selected on the Display Options page of the A-to-Z Administrator Site.

Updated help is available on the A-to-Z Administrator Site to assist you. If you have any questions about these enhancements, please contact Customer Care.

Questions? Contact Customer Care at 1-877-327-2622 (U.S.A. and Canada) or +1-205-981-4000 (Worldwide), Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. – 5 p.m. CT (12:00 – 22:00 GMT). E-mail: customercare@ebsco.com. Context-sensitive help pages are also available to assist you. For more in-depth training, classes are available via http://training.ebsco.com.

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