from H.W. Wilson:
As always, Oscar winners and nominees are well represented in Cinema Image Gallery, with more than 300 images in total from the ten movies nominated in the Best Picture Category--including 30 images from big winner The King's Speech alone--and detailed indexing of 9 awards categories. This update is part of our most recent expansion, which adds a total of 6,598 images to this comprehensive and wide-ranging database.
from H.W. Wilson:
Since March 1, Omnifile has been expanded to include full-text coverage of an additional 156 journals. Of these, 92 are completely new to WilsonWeb and Omnifile; the rest are already indexed, but are now available with full text. In all, this addition brings more than 100,000 articles to Omnifile across the various disciplines the database encompasses.
from Oxford University Press:
OED REMINDER: www.dictionary.oed.com comes down on March 31, 2011
As a reminder, the OED Online site at www.dictionary.oed.com will be taken down permanently as of March 31, 2011.
Beginning on April 1, 2011, anyone accessing the OED Online through the url www.dictionary.oed.com will automatically be redirected to the new site at www.oed.com. For any questions regarding this email, please click here.
The sooner your users begin to connect via the new OED Online site at www.oed.com , the sooner you can receive accurate, COUNTER-compliant usage statistics. To find out more about COUNTER-compliant statistics, please refer to the email here.
Please feel free to contact us at oxfordonline@oup.com if you have any questions.
Best wishes,
Oxford University Press
from H.W. Wilson:
The MLA International Bibliography, a premier scholarly tool for the study and teaching of language and literature, will soon be available on WilsonWeb, H.W. Wilson's acclaimed reference database platform. WilsonWeb access to the MLA International Bibliography builds on the value of the database, adding precise and versatile WilsonWeb searching, links to an abundance of full text, seamless simultaneous searching with other outstanding WilsonWeb resources, plus popular WilsonWeb research tools, such as the "My WilsonWeb" individual user accounts. The database will debut on WilsonWeb in Summer 2011.
With more than 2.3 million records, The MLA International Bibliography is today's most comprehensive subject index of publications on modern languages, literatures, folklore, film, and linguistics. Compiled by MLA's Bibliographic Information Services staff with the cooperation of more than 100 contributing scholar-bibliographers in the U.S. and abroad, the MLA International Bibliography indexes over 70,000 books and e-books, book chapters, dissertation abstracts, Web sites and print and e-journal articles annually. Retrospective indexing reaches back as far as 1926.
Links to full-text articles available through several publishers including JSTOR, Project Muse and ACLS Humanities E-Book, add convenience for subscribers. Since 2004, the MLA International Bibliography has also provided DOIs (digital object identifiers) to publications registered with Cross-Ref. DOIs help users and libraries with subscriptions to access full text from a large number of publishers. On WilsonWeb, the MLA International Bibliography will also include links to full-text content available on WilsonWeb full text databases, for dual subscribers.
from Project MUSE:
Project MUSE recently announced an exciting new partnership with the University Press e-Book Consortium (UPeC), to launch UPCC e-Book Collections, powered by Project MUSE. UPCC, the University Press Content Consortium, is expected to offer thousands of digital books from a significant number of major university presses and related scholarly publishers. This new initiative will supplant MUSE's previously-announced Project MUSE Editions e-book program, resulting in some changes to MUSE's e-book offering. Project MUSE is thrilled to be expanding its program through this partnership, and is confident the UPCC Collections will offer libraries, researchers, and students a wealth of high quality book-length scholarship, on a platform that enhances discovery and provides easy use.
What's new about the UPCC e-Book Collections on MUSE:
What's not changing about MUSE's e-book offering:
The complete announcement of MUSE's new partnership with the UPeC group may be found at http://muse.jhu.edu/about/new/ebook_collections.html.
For more details about how books will be integrated into the MUSE platform, please see the FAQ about MUSE/UPCC books, http://muse.jhu.edu/about/muse/faq_books.html.
from EBSCO:
We have exciting news: you now have access to a preview of the integration of eBooks on EBSCOhost, providing eBooks and EBSCO databases from a single source - EBSCOhost, the most-used interface in libraries worldwide.
As a subscriber of EBSCOhost and the newly-named eBooks on EBSCOhost (formerly NetLibrary), you can link to the preview of eBooks on EBSCOhost in either of the following ways:
These key features of eBooks on EBSCOhost will enable you to:
We hope that you enjoy this opportunity to become familiar with eBooks on EBSCOhost. You will be notified once the final integration has been completed and in the meantime, we encourage you to provide your feedback on eBooks on EBSCOhost by taking our survey http://support.epnet.com/contact/surveys/index.php?sid=55897&lang=en .
Some notes about the use of this preview:
Please visit EBSCO's Support Site (http://support.epnet.com) to sign up for free, online training on how to get the most from your eBooks on EBSCOhost preview, and to learn about all of EBSCO's products. Don't miss the special eBooks Preview section of the NetLibrary Support Center, available here: http://support.ebsco.com/netlibrary/eBook_preview.php. You may also communicate with Technical Support at any time, using the EBSCO Online Support Form.
from SAGE
In the recent past, you have participated in online feedback forums with me or other members of the SAGE Online Product Development team. As we ramp up our user-centered design of innovative online products, we are grateful for our partnership with you that enables quality online research services to global academic communities.
I would like to invite you to a new installment of our feedback interview series. All participants will be entered into a drawing to win a $50 Amazon gift card!
A diverse group of librarians, authors, editors, and researchers worldwide will collaborate in shaping a series of enhancements that will provide new options for users to cross-search and navigate between SAGE's journals and books platforms. We would specifically like to review online products currently in our marketplace, either offering single-platform solutions or stand-alone sites, and solicit your input on the quality of their service to your institution.
If this topic does not apply to your area of interest or expertise, please share this invitation with colleagues.
If you would like to join an upcoming session, please review the schedule below and reply to Lettie Conrad with your availability:
I'm also open to a new time of your suggestion. I look forward to hearing from you!
Thank you,
Lettie Y Conrad
Online Product Manager
SAGE Publications Inc
Lettie.Conrad@sagepub.com
from Taylor & Francis
We are very proud to introduce six brand new, cutting-edge eFocus collections, taking the grand total up to 17.
All of the collections include a cross-section of materials including reference works, overviews, and original research to provide a wealth of material for a wide range of users.
eFocus now covers the following diverse subject areas:
Ethics - includes book length studies of ethical issues in diverse areas and extends beyond contemporary and western contexts, with titles on Ancient, Asian, and Islamic ethics
The Internet, Culture and Society - the internet has proved a technology with almost unprecedented impact on culture and society. This collection assesses this impact from the perspective of eighteen different academic disciplines
Postcolonialism - this invaluable resource offers a range of perspectives on postcolonialism from across the humanities and social sciences
Race and Ethnicity - this exciting resource offers access to important and wide ranging contributions to the study of race taking in cultural, social, political, legal and economic aspects of the subject.
Sexuality Studies - this collection both charts the growth of this area and provides material relevant to a wide cross section of courses
Urban Studies - a wide range of issues are addressed including cities and culture; sustainability and climate change; race, class and gender in the city; gentrification and urban change.
These six new collections add to the following existing collections:
Development Studies, China, The Environment, Gender , Globalization, Human Rights, Islam, Korea, Medieval Studies, Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science, Social and Cultural Theory
sent from ProQuest (3/18):
Dear ProQuest Customer,
ProQuest® will be performing infrastructure maintenance on March 19, 2011. A twelve (12) hour maintenance window will be required for this maintenance. The window will take place from Saturday, March 19, 2011, at 22:00 EST to Sunday, March 20, 2011 at 10:00 EST. See below for a more complete list of times and time zones.
The following products will be unavailable during these windows:
Set-up a MyLibrary account with Minitex, and you can renew your electronic resources online. Through your MyLibrary account you will be able to review upcoming renewals, choose payment options, and view your online renewal history.
To set-up a MyLibrary account, visit https://www.minitex.umn.edu/myLibrary/
We've just begun rolling out this functionality; therefore, you may not see all of your e-resources right now. When CPERS staff enters renewal pricing into your account, you will receive an email instructing you to check your MyLibrary account.
If you have questions about MyLibrary, please feel free to contact us at any time.
from EBSCO:
Last week we released an update to the new NoveList. We are really excited about the additions that have been made and hope you will be as well.
If you'd like more information about the features of this release, click here.
NoveList has also just revamped the NoveList Support Center to now include support, training and promotional materials for all of the NoveList products. You can always find the most up-to-date support information on all the parts of the NoveList Complete solution by visiting http://support.ebscohost.com/novelist/.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at novelist@ebscohost.com.
from Project MUSE:
Two major university press e-book initiatives -- Project MUSE Editions (PME) and the University Press e-book Consortium (UPeC) -- have joined forces. The result of this merger --the University Press Content Consortium (UPCC) -- will launch January 1, 2012.
"This is a great moment," said Kathleen Keane, director of the Johns Hopkins University Press, home of Project MUSE. "By bringing these two initiatives together, we have taken a major step forward to ensure the ongoing viability of university presses."
The partnership allows e-books from an anticipated 60-70 university presses and non-profit scholarly presses -- representing as many as 30,000 frontlist and backlist titles -- to be discovered and searched in an integrated environment with content from nearly 500 journals currently on MUSE.
Minitex is now offering Oxford Journals, specifically, a package that includes the 2011 Humanities and Mathematics/Physical Sciences subject collections.
Trials to the Humanities and Mathematics/Physical Sciences journals can be accessed with a username/password of minitex01/minitex100.
Access is via a yearly subscription and content coverage is 1996 through 2011. Perpetual access for all the content published in the year of the subscription is included in the offer.
Please contact CPERS for pricing or the Oxford Journals rep Belinda Hayes for questions about content.
Minitex offers subscriptions to Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) World Cultures/Archaeology; the subscription runs from July through the end of June. The rep is offering semester-long trials:
Dear Member Institutions of the MINITEX consortium:
Human Relations Area Files (HRAF), a non-profit research organization at Yale University, would like to invite your institution to a free semester-long trial for its eHRAF World Cultures/Archaeology databases. The eHRAF databases are ideal for research and teaching, especially for those researching either individual societies or conducting cross-cultural studies on particular subjects. Please call Christiane Cunnar (HRAF Member Services) at 203-764-9401 or email to indicate whether you would like a password trial or an IP authenticated trial.
In the past eHRAF World Cultures in microfiche format was considered a primarily "anthropological" resource. However, the electronic format has made eHRAF a truly multi-disciplinary resource. In recent years, an increasing number of faculty and students have used eHRAF for cross-cultural studies in medicine, psychology, sociology, and other disciplines that require an understanding of the world's cultures.
from Elsevier:
Dear Customer,
Please note that we have a scheduled outage this weekend that will affect the following SciVerse products:
The products and services mentioned above are expected to be offline and unavailable for approximately 2 hours on Sunday, March 13th due to scheduled maintenance.
Down time by region is expected to be as follows:
We apologize for the inconvenience while we improve your Elsevier products.
Kind regards,
The Elsevier Team
Set-up a MyLibrary account with Minitex, and you can renew your electronic resources online. Through your MyLibrary account you will be able to review upcoming renewals, choose payment options, and view your online renewal history.
To set-up a MyLibrary account, visit https://www.minitex.umn.edu/myLibrary/
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from OUP:
Oxford is delighted to announce the arrival of two recent resources to the Oxford Digital Reference Shelf:
Continuum Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers
Edited by Heiner F. Klemme and Manfred Kuehn
www.continuum-german18cphilosophers.com
The Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers is a massive reference work featuring those eighteenth-century German philosophers, scholars, jurists, literary critics, historians and others whose work has lasting philosophical significance. The century covered in the Dictionary was one of profoundly innovative philosophical investigation, during which enlightenment thinking arrived in Germany and many established conceits were challenged. This activity is covered here in more than 650 alphabetical entries. Each discusses a particular philosophers life, contributions to the world of thought, and later influences. Entries also include bibliographical references to encourage further reading.
The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art
Edited by Joan Marter
www.oxford-americanart.com
The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art (GEAA) deals with all aspects of American art and architecture from Native American art to Colonial art to contemporary American art. Drawing upon the expansive scholarship in The Dictionary of Art (DOA) and adding hundreds of new entries not previously covered in the DOA, GEAA is a comprehensive and current reference resource for information on this important area for students, researchers, and the general public. There are articles on all subject areas in American fine art including: biographies of major artists, architects and patrons, architecture, painting, new media, photography, sculpture, installation art, performance art, new media art, art education, and more.
COMING SOON!
For pricing or a trial, please contact CPERS.
from ProQuest
Dear Colleague,
I recently contacted you with some important news regarding our new platform. Keeping all our customers directly informed as they plan or conduct their platform migration is a priority for me, so I will send updates regularly. Today I'm reporting progress on some of the items that I wrote to you about previously as well as on additional content and functionality.
Now available on the new platform:
Enhanced functionality:
Our goal is to provide the best search and discovery experience - with features that make it quick and easy to find, use, and share relevant content. Feedback from the preview stage and early users is helping us prioritize the enhancements we had planned. Now built into the new platform:
The following refinements are currently underway. If any of these are critical to your library's service, I recommend scheduling your migration after you get further word from me on these matters:
Please remember that during your preview, you and your users have access to both the legacy platform and the new platform--until you click on the "I'm ready to switch" button in the ProQuest Administrator Module.
Set-up a MyLibrary account with Minitex, and you can renew your electronic resources online. Through your MyLibrary account you will be able to review upcoming renewals, choose payment options, and view your online renewal history.
To set-up a MyLibrary account, visit https://www.minitex.umn.edu/myLibrary/
We've just begun rolling out this functionality; therefore, you may not see all of your e-resources right now. When CPERS staff enters renewal pricing into your account, you will receive an email instructing you to check your MyLibrary account.
If you have questions about MyLibrary, please feel free to contact us at any time.
from APA:
Librarians:
These sessions below are intended primarily for students. If you know of
students who might find them useful or faculty who could use them with their
classes, please send the message on or post it where it can reach that
audience. And thanks for your help!
Dear Colleagues:
The American Psychological Association is pleased to invite you to attend a
free webinar designed specifically to introduce you to the APA Research
Databases on various vendor platforms. Led by PsycINFO Customer Relations
trainers, these 50-minute sessions are intended for students, faculty, or
library staff unfamiliar with APA databases or who are accessing APA
databases on a platform that is new to them.
Learning Objectives
Audience
This session is designed primarily for students but is also suitable for
faculty or library staff unfamiliar with APA databases or who are accessing
APA databases on a platform that is new to them.
Schedule and Registration
Webinars are hosted on Adobe Connect and all times listed are Eastern Time.
To register, visit our Webinars registration page for Students and Faculty
at http://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/training/webinars-students.aspx and
click on the link for the session you'd like to attend.
