Wilson Reference

Ebrary - coming soon

Recent reference question asked: Is UM a subscriber to ebrary?

We have just 16 titles from ebrary, but Gordon says we are setting up a subscription. - SG

electronic books menu using the direct link of
Ebrary is one of the provider we use, and we've purchased a relatively small number of titles (just 16 of their 900 titles) from that particular provider.

However, we get many titles using other providers and projects, including close to 11,000 titles from NetLibrary and History E-Book Project.

Minnesota Digital Newspaper Project at MHS

Minnesota Historical Society will be digitizing certain MN newspapers in the next few years. Visit Minnesota Digital Newspaper Project or see below for excerpt.

see also http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/ for already available newspapers from several other states.

Digitized articles from papers for the time span from 1900 to 1910 from the following states: California, District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, and Virginia.

Minnesota Digital Newspaper Project
Introduction

The Minnesota Historical Society received a two-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to particiapte in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). This program is a partnership between the NEH and the Library of Congress to build a national digital resource of newspapers published between 1836 and 1922. The material will be full-text searchable and accessible through a database on the Library of Congress website.

The program will be implemeted in several phases. During the next two years (2007-2009), the Society will follow the principal criteria set by the NDNP to select 100,000 pages from microfilm published between 1880 and 1910. The selected material will be digitized and OCR text files will be created according to scanning specifications and added to the Library of Congress website.
http://www.mnhs.org/collections/projects/ndnp.htm
Project Documents

Chicago Manual of Style is online

Chicago Manual of Style Online

Read more about it.

One handy section is 16.7x Bibliographies including 16.77 Annotated Bibliographies

print call numbers:
Bio-Medical Library Reference Z253 U58c 2003 ;
Walter Sci/Eng Library Reference (Rm 206) Z253 .U69 2003
Wilson Reference (Desk) Z253 .U69 2003

Minnesota Daily Archive

Go to www.mndaily.com
be sure it hasn't redirected to a more specific url, which it may do ***
If it redirects you will have to click on Go back to regular mndaily.com:

On the regular mndaily home page, select the search box in the upper right corner and click on Advanced

*** Note the ACTUAL URL of the regular home page may be longer, i.e., http://www.mndaily.com/index2.php (which you can detect when you mouse over the link). This is true today, but it may not be permanent. Good luck.
SG

Refworks for non-affiliated users

Non-affiliated users may set up RefWorks account on an open access workstation. They will not have offsite access to RefWorks.

from the FAQ / Denny

Q.
Can library visitors who are not University of Minnesota students, staff or faculty use set up and use a RefWorks account?
A.
Non-U library users can set up a RefWorks account (choosing Researcher, Alumni, or Other, as appropriate) in the "Type of User" box during the process. Such users will be able to access and work with their accounts when they are physically present in one of the U libraries, but they will not be able to access them remotely.

Sign up page for new RefWorks accounts is at:

https://www.refworks.com/Refworks/newuser.asp

Description of RefWorks (a citation manager system) is at:

http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/refworks.phtml

Database of "Out of Business" Publishers

forwarded by Denny from ResearchBuzz

New Copyright-Related Database: Firms Out of Business (FOB)

The University of Texas at Austin's Harry Ransom Humanities Research
Center and the Reading University Library have created Firms Out of
Business (FOB), an online database containing the names and addresses of
copyright holders or contact persons for out-of-business printing and
publishing firms, magazines, literary agencies and similar organizations
that have archives housed in libraries and archives in North America and
the United Kingdom.

FOB is a companion project to the Writers, Artists and Their Copyright
Holders (WATCH), an online database containing the names and addresses
of copyright holders or contact persons for authors and artists. The
WATCH file is accessible at http://www.watch-file.com

The objective of both projects is to provide information to scholars and
researchers about whom to contact for permission to publish text and
images that have copyright protection.

FOB entries are researched from standard reference books, university
library and archival catalogs and discussions with library colleagues
and other experts in the field. The entries are designed as factual
summaries, not as short company histories.

Two categories are represented in FOB. The first category includes firms
that went out of existence long ago and no longer hold publishing
rights. The other category comprises firms that have gone out of
business more recently, and directs inquirers who may have an interest
in rights that could belong to that firm or its successor.

Learn more about both databases here: http://tinyurl.com/3c6utz

+ Direct to Firms Out of Business Database:
http://tyler.hrc.utexas.edu/fob.cfm

Torture Archives

The Torture Archives database is appearing in the U media.
Read on:
Press Release (pdf)
U of M News article
Related event “Torture, War, and Medical Ethics� at HHH on May 9
Minnesota Daily Article
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Book in Wilson and Law by the professor who collected materials for the archives and donated them to the Human Rights Library:
Miles, Steven H.
Oath betrayed : torture, medical complicity, and the war on terror / Steven H. Miles.
Published New York : Random House, c2006.
TC Wilson Library R725.5 .M55 2006 Regular Loan
TC Law Library R725.5 .M55 2006 Regular Loan

DAILY ARTICLE - comments and info by SG:

RE: May 2, 2007 Daily article Torture archives come to University library
It holds 60,000 documents detailing prison abuse and torture.
By Kathryn Nelson

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Comments from Susan G.:

The Daily article implies that the archives are in the Human Rights Library (without giving a location).

First of all the database is online so there's no need to visit the Human Rights Library.
The database is at: Torture Archives

Secondly I think some folks will read this article and mistakenly think that the Human Rights Library is a part of the University Libraries and may come to Wilson to ask about it at the Reference desk.

If they are interested in the physical location of the Human Rights Library:

If you visit the Web site you learn that there are three related entities:
The Human Rights Center
The Human Rights Resource Center
The Human Rights Library

Location and contact info:
Human Rights Center
University of Minnesota
Mondale Hall, N-120
229-19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Email: humanrts@umn.edu
Phone: 612-626-0041
1-888-HREDUC8
Fax: 612-625-2011

Thirdly, The second half of the article has the subheading "Center for torture victims" and describes the Center for Victims of Torture, which is listed along with a vague reference to their location on East Bank (which to me implied that that's where the archives went - but that's not the case!!). The Center's Web site contact information page lists several Healing Centers, including the one on 717 East River Road:

Toll-free 1-877-265-8775

Minneapolis Healing Center
717 East River Road
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Tel. 612.436.4800
Fax 612.436.2600

I called the Human Rights Center to ask if they are affiliated directly with the Center for Victims of Torture. The woman I spoke to said they are not affiliated. She said they work together on some things.

http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/

EXCERPT:
In 2006, Miles wrote, "Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror" about the involvement of medical professionals in the use of torture.

Professor and co-director of the Human Rights Center and Library David Weissbrodt said Miles approached him about adding the material he used to research his book to the library system.

(link added by SG)

Remembering the Holocaust

see below for memo about the VHA Visual History Archive of the Shoah Foundation Institute.

Remembering the Holocaust
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities students, faculty, and staff­ as well as the general public­will have access to the world’s largest archive of visual histories of the Holocaust starting today, when the University Libraries launch a two-terabyte digital media cache of testimonies from the Shoah Foundation Institute’s Visual History Archive. The University of Minnesota is among 11 universities worldwide that the Foundation has invited to license the Archive’s content.

The archive includes nearly 52,000 video testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses. These histories, in 32 languages and from 56 countries, were collected by the Shoah Foundation Institute at the University of Southern California. The vast majority of the interviews­about 90 percent­are with Jewish survivors of Nazi persecution; however, political prisoners, Roma and Sinti (Gypsy) survivors, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and liberators, witnesses, rescuers, and aid providers are also represented in the Archive.
Users can access the local VHA site at http://www.lib.umn.edu/vha for additional information about the archive.
-- Collection Development Office

ATLA Maintenance reminder

reminder: ATLA does maintenance on first Mondays:

September 28, 2006
ATLA maintenance notice
ATLA (American Theological Library Association) plans to perform routine maintenance on ATLA systems (article database) on the first Monday of each month beginning at 5:30 p.m. starting in October 2006. Although we do not expect this regular maintenance work to interrupt access, it is possible you may encounter a brief interruption of service between 5:30 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. (CST) this coming Monday, October 2nd. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience.

Communications and Mass Media Complete db

At last! A good communications article database!!!

Communication and Mass Media Complete
Description: A comprehensive resource for articles relating to various forms of communication, Communication and Mass Media Complete provides journal articles on topics such as mass media, film, television, marketing, business communication, health communication, and more. The database provides full text for more than 285 journals, and indexing or abstracts to nearly 600 journals.

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

Article in Library News:
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/lib-web/news/2007/01/whats_that_you_say.html

Encyclopaedia Judaica is online!

Encyclopaedia Judaica is online!

http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/judaica

The print edition has arrived and is being processed for Wilson Reference.
Wilson Library Reference Quarto DS102.8 .E496 2007 Non-Circulating Note that the new edition is a quarto, and the old one is folio.

Here are a few issues you might want to know about the new resource:

If your first search doesn't get good results, be sure to use REVISE THIS SEARCH and NOT the QuickSearch option, which takes you out to search ALL the Gale Virtual Ref sources!

Also, there is something about sending a citation to RefWorks that isn't working well. It seems to be safer to use the ctiation provided within EJ rather than letting Refworks create the bibliography. I've sent a note to John Butler asking him about this. RefWorks seems to be dropping the source title altogether and citing the entry title as the main and only title.

Cambridge and Proquest

CAMBRIDGE INFORMATION GROUP ANNOUNCES AGREEMENT TO ACQUIRE PROQUEST INFORMATION AND LEARNING

New Company's Leadership to Include Marty Kahn as CEO, Matt Dunie as President

Contact:
Jani Spede
CSA Public Relations
jspede@csa.com
(866) 669-2889

BETHESDA, Maryland - December 15, 2006 - Cambridge Information Group (CIG) announced today it has entered into an agreement to acquire ProQuest Information and Learning, a segment of ProQuest Company (NYSE: PQE), for approximately $222 million.

Under the agreement, CIG will combine its Bethesda, Maryland-based CSA subsidiary with Ann Arbor, Mich.-based ProQuest Information and Learning to create a new, privately held independent company. The new company plans to continue operations in both locations.

Both CSA and ProQuest offer libraries and their users access to high-quality electronic resources. CSA and ProQuest will serve a combined customer base of more than 25,000 library customers.

CSA's products include CSA Illumina, the platform from which more than 100 scholarly databases in the natural sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities and technology fields are made accessible; Ulrich's Serials Analysis System, a powerful tool for library professionals who need to identify, analyze, evaluate and create reports about the library's print and electronic serials holdings; and the recently launched CSA Illustrata, which permits searching and retrieval of charts, graphs, illustrations and their captions within articles and documents.

ProQuest provides global access to one of the largest online content repositories in the world. It is best known for its extensive collection of business, economics, general reference, genealogy, humanities, social sciences, scientific, technical and medical content. ProQuest's product lines include Chadwyck-Healey(r), a collection of more than 40 extensive reference resources of the world's literature; UMI(r) microform vault, the largest commercially available microform collection in the world; ProQuest Digital Dissertations; Serials Solutions; and ProQuest Historical Newspapers(tm), an archive of 14 million pages dating as far back as 1764 which includes The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Atlanta Constitution, The Boston Globe and The Hartford Courant.

Andrew M. Snyder, president of CIG, said, "Combining ProQuest's unparalleled collections with CSA's own rich content will enable us to further build upon our mission of delivering an exceptional research service. The new company will leverage deep content sets with a history of innovative product development to bring the community of libraries, researchers, faculty and students one of the most extensive electronic resources available."

After the transaction closes, Martin Kahn will serve as CEO of the new company. He will relocate to Ann Arbor, Mich. A seasoned information industry executive, Kahn is the former chairman of business and financial information aggregator OneSource Information Services, Inc. He also served as chairman of Ovid Technologies, Inc., an aggregator of medical and scientific databases and full-text journal articles and as president of BRS Information Technologies, Inc. Kahn earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Yale.

Kahn said, "I am thrilled to have the opportunity to lead this exciting new company. Both companies have for many years dedicated themselves to serving the needs of librarians, scholars and students. We are committed to building on those traditions to create a great company for many years to come."

Matt Dunie, currently president of CSA, will serve as president of the new company. Dunie commented, "The ProQuest Information and Learning and CSA products are complementary. We believe that both companies share many values - especially future."

David "Skip" Prichard, currently president of ProQuest Information and Learning, will be an active contributor to the transition process. After the transition is successfully under way, he plans to pursue new career opportunities consistent with his interests and leadership experience.

Prichard said, "I believe the combination of CSA and ProQuest Information and Learning will be a successful venture and an important contributor to the library community. Both companies have a strong heritage, a deep sense of responsibility to the materials we present and an obligation of excellent

About Cambridge Information Group

Cambridge Information Group (CIG) is a privately owned group of information services companies and educational institutions located around the world. CIG's operating companies include: CSA, R.R. Bowker, RefWorks and the Sotheby's Institute of Art. CIG is also the largest shareholder of Navtech, Inc. ("NASDAQ:NAVH.OB").

About CSA

CSA has been an innovator and leader in publishing and distributing quality abstracts and indexes for more than 30 years. A worldwide information company, CSA's products serve as a guide to researchers, faculty, librarians and students enabling discovery and aiding the identification, management and organization of quality information. CSA specializes in publishing and distributing, in print and electronically, more than 100 bibliographic and full-text databases and journals in four primary editorial areas: natural sciences, social sciences, arts & humanities and technology. CSA is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland and has offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Latin America, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Europe and the United Kingdom. Researchers in more than 4,000 institutions worldwide use CSA information resources and CSA's print journals are used in more than 80 countries. For more information about CSA, visit www.csa.com.

About ProQuest Information and Learning

ProQuest Information and Learning is a world leader in collecting, organizing, and publishing information for researchers, faculty and students in libraries and schools. It is widely known for its strength in business and economics, general reference, genealogy, humanities, social sciences and STM content. The company develops premium databases comprising periodicals, newspapers, dissertations, out-of-print books, and other scholarly information from more than 9,000 publishers worldwide. Users access the information through the ProQuest(r) Web-based online information system, Chadwyck-Healey(r) electronic and microform resources, UMI(r) microform and print reference products, eLibrary(r) and SIRS(r) educational resources, and Serials Solutions e-resource access and management solutions. ProQuest(r) Smart Search was named "Best Specialist Search Product" by the International Information Industry Awards in late 2005. For more information about ProQuest Information and Learning, visit www.il.proquest.com.

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FIXIT info - comments from staff

Fixit works for any problem in MNCAT (a.k.a. Aleph). We can also fix our records in RLG's Eureka and OCLC's WorldCat. If the problem is in a different database than those three, or if it is with the U Libraries interface, it should go to someone else. If you're not sure who to send something to, we'll be happy to help you get it directed to the right place.

Stephen

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Yes, fixit is still in operation, and it should be used for reporting errors in data in MNCAT.
These shouldn't come to autosys. On the other hand, if MNCAT is down or there are problems with
searching, etc., those should come to autosys and should be assigned to LEO.

Chris M

Bookmarks updated (Primo, etc.)

The Ref bookmarks page now includes a link to ExLibris Primo at NCSU and the Primo charter, which states as the Project Outcome that Primo will go into use on campus no later than next summer (2007). This will give us a hint of how the future MNCAT may look.

The Libraries will be helping ExLibris to develop this product. You can get an idea of what features that could be included from NCSU's new catalog, which they developed together with a company different from Exlibris ( http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/catalog/).
--Johan

FirstGov & Google USGov

Staff comments re FirstGov and Google US Gov.
Read on below.

Google's government search is only partially new. Google's had a government-domain search for several years; this is just a new iteration of it in which they're joining together the personalized homepage and news service with the specialized search (presumably improved as a result of the Google Sitemaps initiative).

When I saw it announced earlier today I wondered who the intended audience was - certainly the news sources, the Washington weather, etc. all seem to be aimed pretty squarely at agency personnel more than the general public.

Yet, Google is advertising the site as a direct (if not explicitly stated) competitor to FirstGov, the government's main web portal. FirstGov is run on a contract with MSN and Vivissimo at the moment. Presumably the new Government Search iteration is a pilot to show that Google would be a much better choice for all that nice federal money.

Google's claims notwithstanding, the FirstGov search engine has some pretty nifty features that Google does not and I recommend checking it out - http://www.firstgov.gov/ In particular, Firstgov does a decent job of recognizing the consumer relationship of citizens to the government and responding to those needs. FirstGov also does a reasonably decent job of letting users sort their results, an option simply not available from Google.

my two cents
Amy

On 6/15/06, Lara > wrote:
Here's another useful tool from Google you may want to check out. Pretty cool.

/ Lara

Official Google Blog
Googler insights into product and technology news and our culture.

Finding government info
By A Googler

Posted by Kevin Gough, Product Manager

Want to find those IRS forms to get in your taxes on time? Need to figure out where to send your DMV fees, or find the phone number for your local parks and rec department? Google U.S. Government Search launches today -- it's a site on which you can 1) search across a huge index of U.S. Federal, state and local government websites via a single search box, and 2) stay up to date through personalized content feeds from government agencies and press outlets. Off you go.

For easy bookmarking, go to http://usgov.google.com.

Lara D. Friedman-ShedlovKautz Family YMCA Archives

MLA access via ProQuest

MLA is now comingn to us via ProQuest. IT looks more like it's coming from Chadwyck Healey, but if you poke around you'll see it is in fact via ProQuest.

Help

MLA International Bibliography Home PageCLOSE WINDOW | CONTENTS

The left-hand navigation bar on the Home Page contains useful ways of accessing the information contained in MLA International Bibliography:

The Search link will allow you to search the full text of works contained in MLA International Bibliography using a combination of search terms. It also provides a range of flexible search boxes to help you refine your enquiries.

The Information Centre includes information about MLA International Bibliography, such as content and editorial policy. It is also the access point for administration resources and contact details.

The Literature Collections link will take you back to the Chadwyck-Healey Literature Collections home page, where you can access any of the literary databases to which you are subscribed alongside MLA International Bibliography.

The Site Map link will take you to a page listing links to the main areas of the site.

BACK TO TOP OF PAGE

Copyright © 2004-2006 ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights reserved.

ESI & rankings - faculty may ask about this

The Task Force on Research Infrastructure recently released its preliminary reporT ( http://www1.umn.edu/systemwide/strategic_positioning/
tf_prelim_reports_0603/res_infra_prelim.pdf.
Use the link below to read the whole message.

Note especially Kevin's comment:
"Hence, reproducing these rankings would not be a straightforward task for someone trying to answer a question at a reference desk."

and what to tell inquirers:
Any attempt at ranking subject areas or departments is inherently controversial, and while we've taken considerable effort to handle the ESI data in a fair manner, some questions/concern about this can be expected from interested faculty members. If a faculty member approaches you concerning the use of the ESI data in the Task Force report, please feel free to refer them to Wendy or myself (messn006@umn.edu).

Cheers,
Kevin

From: Kevin Messner
Subject: [AP-LIB] heads up on Task Force in Research Infrastructure report
To: AP-LIB@LISTS.UMN.EDU

AP folks:

The Task Force on Research Infrastructure recently released its preliminary report (http://www1.umn.edu/systemwide/strategic_positioning/tf_prelim_reports_0603/res_infra_prelim.pdf).

Wendy Lougee is a member of this task force, and I think it is worth noting that the Libraries' collections are mentioned several times in this report as a priority service and resource for the University.

I also wanted to alert you that the task force made use in the report of Institutional-level citation metrics from the Thomson-ISI Essential Science Indicators (ESI) product, which the Libraries recently licensed. Especially since this is a fairly new library resource, you may receive questions about ESI from faculty or others who read the report.

The task force needed a method to assess the relative strength of research in various subject areas at the University. The method using ESI to achieve this is described in some detail in the Task Force report (Appendix A, p 21-3), and so I refer you to that document for details. For sake of clarity, though, I'll mention that the percentage rankings shown in the Task Force report were calculated including only ranked universities, not other types of institutions such as corporations and government agencies which show in ESI rankings. That is, we (Marc Jenkins, the task force co-Chair, and I) hand-selected the universities from the institutional rankings shown in ESI, and retabulated the rankings for this subset of institutions. Hence, reproducing these rankings would not be a straightforward task for someone trying to answer a question at a reference desk.

Any attempt at ranking subject areas or departments is inherently controversial, and while we've taken considerable effort to handle the ESI data in a fair manner, some questions/concern about this can be expected from interested faculty members. If a faculty member approaches you concerning the use of the ESI data in the Task Force report, please feel free to refer them to Wendy or myself (messn006@umn.edu).

Cheers,
Kevin

I Libri & Le Riviste

Title:I Libri Database Plus & Le Riviste Database
Description:
I Libri Database Plus is an up-to-date and comprehensive bibliographical resource for Italian books relevant to academic libraries published from 1985 to date; in addition, there are over 7000 tables of contents for records, and this number continues to grow.

Le Revista Database is the most complete and up-to-date source of information on Italian periodical publications in all subject areas.

more info below:

MP--

fyi, I just renewed I LIBRI on 3186-S. But it got me wondering about how many
people know about this index (I'd totally forgotten myself).

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forwarded:

It's kind of late, but we have just received a renewal invoice from Casalini for our 2006 subscription to the above e-resource title on 3186-S. This order also includes our access to "Le Riviste database [electronic resource] = Italian periodicals on-line" (bib# 4324655).

The 2006 renewal cost is US$1,084.18 (or EUR$850.00). We paid US$1,195.50 for 2005. Please let me know if it is okay to renew and pay on 3186-S.

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Access problems include:

It's listed in the "Indexes and Databases A to Z" only under letter I
(not, as I would have expected, under R), with a rather confusing description:

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Title:I Libri Database Plus; Le Riviste Database
Description:I Libri Database Plus is an up-to-date and comprehensive bibliographical resource for Italian books relevant to academic libraries published from 1985 to date; in addition, there are over 7000 tables of contents for records, and this number continues to grow. Le Revista Database is the most complete and up-to-date source of information on Italian periodical publications in all subject areas.

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A MNCAT search for the title
Italian periodicals online
will get us to the proper record and link, and the description there of the
periodicals database is perhaps more informative than the one above for
that segment:

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Summary Comprehensive bibliographical coverage of periodicals published in Italy, the Vatican City, the Republic of San Marino, the Italian canton of Switzerland, and Malta.
Note Title from web page (viewed on Nov. 7, 2002).
Note Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Note In English, with links to interfaces in French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

*********

The menu that comes up when we enter the databases includes choices

i libri database
i libri international
le riviste database

and if we choose the second one, we are also offered a chance to search

les livres database = French Bibliography On-Line
libros database = Spanish Bibliography On-Line

as well as, or instead of, the Italian one. But that seems to be the only
way to get to those two databases -- e.g. they do not appear in MNCAT under
either their original or English-language titles.

So we've really got four databases here, two of which can't be found via
MNCAT or the A-Z list at all; one of which (le Riviste database) can be
found in the A-Z list only under letter I as a tie-in to I Libri ; and
the "main" one of which (I Libri) can be found in the A-Z list only under
letter I, where Italian-speakers would probably not to think to look for
it (since it's the equivalent of indexing in English by initial word "The").
And, not surprisingly, even though it's alphabetized in the A-Z list under
I, a search in MNCAT for

i libri database

won't get to it (though a search for just: libri database will, as one
would expect).

Title browse searches in MNCAT for

i libri international
libri international
les livres database
livres database
libros database

of course turn up nothing either. Nor do keyword-adjacent searches.

I thought we once had an index subject list for National Bibliographies,
but if so I can't find it now, but since most of these don't show as
MNCAT records presumably they wouldn't be listed there if it exists anyway.

Suggestions?

Denny

Denny,
I'll work on a guide for National Bibliographies. There's a placeholder for this topic on Book, Journals and Publishing on the "more Reference works" page. http://www.lib.umn.edu/libdata/page.phtml?page_id=686
Most of the resources are print, but it would be good to have an available listing.

Martha

RefWorks & Google Scholar

.
Google Scholar now allows citations to be imported into RefWorks. Don't get too excited - it's one at a time, the procedure has several steps, and it's unlike importing from any other index.

Check out the instructions that Lisa McGuire has provided for us on the U of M RefWorks page under "Importing Citations into Refworks: Guides". There's also info about it when you log into RefWorks, at the top of the screen.

Julie

Free foreign "WorldCat" equivalents (sort of)

I've often used AMICUS and COPAC, free websites which (respectively) search union catalogs of major Canadian librarians and major United Kingdom libraries.

Just today I found out about "Libraries Australia," which is a comparable union catalog for Australian libraries.

I'd sent in a request a while ago for MNCAT to link to AMICUS and COPAC, but no action yet. I'll send along one for Libraries Australia as well. In the meanwhile, if anybody wants to use them:

http://amicus.collectionscanada.ca/aaweb/aalogine.htm

(it's not necessary to register; just click the "search" button to search)

http://copac.ac.uk/

http://librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au/apps/kss

Denny

HEARTH files

Philip H's communication with Cornell paid off this week when they asked us to be the test site for the file of electronic records for the HEARTH (Home Economics Archive- Research, Tradition, History) and CHLA (Core Historical Literature of Agriculture) texts. Betsy F is working with the records to see if they can be imported, need massaging, etc. --Scott M.

America History & LIfe and Historical Abstracts

>Dear Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life subscribers,
>
>Celebrating 50 years of reference publishing in 2005, ABC-CLIO embarked on
>a multi-year program to upgrade and enhance Historical Abstracts and
>America: History and Life. With a redesigned interface and over 1.2
>million entries and 330,000 full-text links, these landmark resources are
>more than ever the first place to begin any search in the area of history.
>
>A beta version of both databases will be available to you as of Thursday,
>December 1, whereby you can choose to access either the existing database
>or the beta site version, for the entire month of December. We think you,
>and your patrons, will be pleased with the new look, navigational ease,
>and enhanced research capabilities available within the beta site version.
>The option of using either the existing or the beta databases will last
>throughout December, before the newly enhanced version becomes the sole
>access option for both Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life,
>on Monday, January 2, 2006.
>
>The following enhancements will be accessible to you via the beta site
>version on Thursday, December 1:
> * New interface will allow users to get to the information they need
> quickly and easily, with fewer page downloads and fewer mouse clicks
> * A combined simple and advanced search screen allows the user to
> control the display of search fields and search results
> * New pop-up help tips assist the user in constructing successful
> searches
> * New retrospective coverage from JSTOR journals dating from
> 1838-2005, resulting in an increase of nearly 78% in full-text links by
> project’s end
> * New search history functionality records search criteria, allowing
> users to rerun previous searches
> * New expand and collapse record functionality streamlines the process
> of viewing results by displaying and hiding abstracts at the click of a mouse
>
>Other useful enhancements –
> * A new Export to Citation Manager feature will allow the user to save
> results directly to EndNote, ProCite, or Reference Manager
> * New setup functionality for non-OpenURL resolvers, permitting
> linking to non-OpenURL catalogs
> * A User’s Forum will provide technical and database content support
> and a place for discussions related to the databases
> * Full-text links to over 330,000 sources, including ProQuest’s
> Dissertations and Theses Database
>
>You will receive another announcement before the beta version databases
>actively switch over to being the sole database access option for
>Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life, on Monday, January 2,
>2006. We are confident that you, and your patrons, will find the
>redesigned interface and enhancements welcome improvements and an even
>more helpful resource. Your comments and feedback are always welcome.
>
>Best regards,
>
>The team at ABC-CLIO

American Film Institute Catalog online now covering 1893-1970 inclusive

copy of note I just sent along:

********************

The description of the AFI Catalog (under "Indexes") says that 1951-1960
has not yet been added to the database but is "in progress":

More Information
Title: American Film Institute Catalog
Description: The AFI Catalog documents information on every feature-length
film produced in America or financed by American production companies from
1893 to 1970 (except 1951-1960, which is in progress). The catalog provides
information on over 45,000 films including more than 17,500 made in the early
years of film from 1893 to 1910. Also included are approximately one million
personal name entries for cast and production credits, plot summaries, historical
and source notes.
URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/afi.cgi

***********************

Actually, they have now added those years, so that clause should be dropped
from the description -- it now covers 1893 to 1970 completely.

http://afi.chadwyck.com/about/features.htm

What's New - August 2005
Additional film records

This release of the American Film Institute Catalog contains the most
recent data produced by the editorial staff at the American Film Institute.
American Film Institute Catalog now covers 1893-1970 and provides in-depth
indexing of over 47,500 films.

*****************

Denny Lien / Wilson IRIS

Genline

Despite the generic sounding name, this database is limited to Swedish church records from the 16th-20th century and is targeted toward those wanting to carry out research in Swedish genealogy. Read on for details; check desk or email for logon info, note that the software is loaded on one computer in the Info Commons!!!

UPDATE : the GENLINE CD is now in the REf consultation workstation and the logon info is in the FAQ staff side.

Dear Everyone,

We recently had a request for information about our subscription to Genline. I feel that I can finally give you all official - and helpful - information about it.

I purchased only one port. The company had indicated that they would have IP access ready by now, but that has not happened, so I have had to settle for this special arrangement. For the time being, access to this database is by user-name and password only. The search software has been loaded onto workstation IC-25 in the Information Commons -- the one just inside the far door (adjacent to the entrance to 170 Wilson). After you log onto a workstation with your x500 login and password, click on the icon -- Genline Family Finder 2.0 -- at the top of the screen.

Logon and password: see your email from Gordon; Susan will get info to desk later.

The database now contains a very large number of parish records, and the search interface, once you know how it is organized, is not hard to use. The records themselves are not full-text searchable; one must scroll through the screens as if these were on microfilm or fiche. However, the fact that these are available on line is a tremendous leap forward.

Therefore, if at all possible please refer patrons to me (or perhaps to Jan Roseen, if she is willing) for assistance. One must know Swedish -- and be able to read 19th-century handwriting -- in order to exploit Genline.

I would be glad to show it to you all, if you really are interested.

--Gordon

New E-Resources

New E-Resources
Now available via LUMINA and MNCAT:
ACM Computing Reviews
http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/acmr.cgi
Universal Database of Russian National Bibliography
http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/udrb.cgi
-- Jim S

MN Digital Library Project

Minnesota Digital Library Project

The Minnesota Digital Library (MDL) Coalition -- a group of content providers from libraries, archives, historical societies, and museums in Minnesota -- endeavors to create a Minnesota Digital Library, providing a server and database environment and imaging support that will serve as a foundation for future activity. The MDL Coalition will work with local, regional, and statewide collections to identify and digitize unique resources and special collections to support education, scholarship, and entertainment through Internet-access by the citizens of Minnesota as well as for a global audience. Minnesota Reflections, funded by a Minnesota LSTA grant, will be the initial statewide digitization effort sponsored by the MDL Coalition.

The recent workshop at the MN Historical Society featured the application of the coming Minnesota Reflections database for use with History Day students. --sg

Movie Review Query Engine

a cool web site for movie reviews call the Movie Review Query
Engine

http://www.mrqe.com/lookup

Seems to work fine and is easy to search -- I checked for reviews for a nine-year-old
semi-obscure favorite movie of mine, THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD, and instantly got almost
forty reviews, only one from a source (NEW YORK TIMES) that asked for registration.

I spot checked a dozen or so of the hits, and all came up quickly with full-text
reviews. Many but not all are from small papers etc. but all seem to be legitimate
(e.g. not random individual bloggers pontificating).

TITANIC brings up 223 reviews. Each HARRY POTTER brings up from 270 to 311 hits.
SIDEWAYS brings up 240. I'd thus guess that they're pulling things from about
300 to 350 sources. For SIDEWAYS, there were six with "registration required"
and, interestingly, about twenty from non-English-language sources (all grouped
at the end).

Older movies like BIRTH OF A NATION or various Marx Bros films show five to thirty
hits when I tried. I assume these are relatively recent reviews; I didn't find
anything that indicated the publication date coverage of the database.

See also their statistics summary at
http://www.mrqe.com/lookup?file=db-stats

The database was last rebuilt:
Thu Jun 2 8:39:45 GMT 2005
The database is comprised of:
457121 articles of 46580 different titles, plus 58607 title aliases.

Looks like a great source to keep in mind for students looking for movie reviews.
especially for recent movies and/or for non-US/non-English reviews.

I notice that we have an "Indexes" entry for "Film Reviews" but nothing
under it; this looks like a candidate:

Articles and More
Subject Listings: Film Reviews
There are no article databases beginning with the letter "." If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to Ask Us!
Back to Indexes

I'll add this note to the IRIS Blog.

Denny

Google info (Karen W)

(date 1/24/05) The agreement between the University of Michigan and Google came up at all the CIC meetings Karen W. attended at ALA.

Press release and Q&A
Chronicle article
Google page examples

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism Online

Colleagues,

We now have the Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism Online. It's in MNCat under that title; it's in the LibData database; it's in the list under Reference Sources -- Literature and in All Electronic Resourceslist (temporarily in the Ts under The Johns Hopkins . . . ).

This encyclopedic source is very comprehensive, covering literary theorists and critics from around the world, including chapters on Arabic theory and criticism, Chinese theory and criticism, Greek, German, and so on. The
online version is more up to date than the print edition in the Reference room.

Marcia

World Shakespeare Bibliography Online

Colleagues,

The University Libraries now subscribe to the World Shakespeare Bibliography Online < http://www.worldshakesbib.org/>. You can find it at this URL, in MNCAT under its title, and, temporarily, highlighted on the Libraries' home page as a new resource.

This file provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1964 and early 2005. It cumulates and expands the bibliographies from the Shakespeare Quarterly. The scope is international, with coverage extending to more than 118 languages and representing every country in North America, South America, and Europe, and nearly every country in Asia, Africa, and Australasia. The more than 102,200 records in this version cite several hundred thousand additional reviews of books, productions, films, and audio recordings.

The World Shakespeare Bibliography Online is updated at regular intervals, with coverage annually moving forward at least one year and backwards at least three years.

Marcia

HW WilsonWeb enhancements

WilsonWeb enhancements page from H.W.Wilson.

New E-Resources

New E-Resources
* Gale Virtual Reference Library -- additions (read on below for full title list):
Business Plans Handbook
Encyclopedia of World Biography
http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/gvrl.cgi
* SPORT Discus now available via EBSCO
http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/sd.cgi
-- Jim S

Acronyms, Initialisms and Abbreviations Dictionary , 34th Ed., 4v, 2005
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 , 2v, 2004
Business Plans Handbook , Vol. 1, 1995
Business Plans Handbook , Vol. 2, 1996
Business Plans Handbook , Vol. 3, 1997

Business Plans Handbook , Vol. 4, 1997
Business Plans Handbook , Vol. 5, 1998
Business Plans Handbook , Vol. 6, 1999
Business Plans Handbook , Vol. 7, 2000
Business Plans Handbook , Vol. 8, 2001
Business Plans Handbook , Vol. 9, 2002
Business Plans Handbook , Vol. 10, 2004
Contemporary Novelists , 7th Ed., 2001
Contemporary Poets , 7th Ed., 2001
Dictionary of American History , 3rd Ed., 10v, 2003
Encyclopedia of American Industries , 4 Ed., 2v, 2005
Encyclopedia of World Biography , Vol. 24, 2 Ed., 2005
Encyclopedia of World Biography , 2 Ed., 23v, 1998
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture , 5v, 2000

Sport Discus news

Read the Sport Discus changes in the Kinesiology Faculty/ Library Blog.

www.turnitin.com fyi

I fielded a call from a faculty member inquiring if the Libraries subscribe to turnitin.com, an antiplagiarism Web site. I found some clues on the U's site, and transferred him to Jerilyn. I will update this note as I learn more. The web address is www.turnitin.com

The Senate Committee reports referencing it include:
http://www1.umn.edu/usenate/scit/04-11-02.html
excerpt:
"III). Professor Lopez called on Linda Ellinger and Jonathan Poppele to share information on plagiarism prevention software. Ms. Ellinger noted that she is the University's account administrator for Turnitin, an on-line plagiarism prevention software. The University's rationale for entering into an agreement with Turnitin was to be able to offer faculty and instructors a tool for preventing plagiarism."

Read on for details - how the U's account is related to WebCT. --SG

further excerpt from Senate committee report:
http://www1.umn.edu/usenate/scit/04-11-02.html
"Additional information highlighted by Ms. Ellinger included:

o TurnitinÆ does not find information that is not on-line.

o The success of TurnitinÆ is dependent on the size and scope of its database.

o TurnitinÆ has a collaborative agreement with WebCT. This means faculty using WebCT can have TurnitinÆ links appear directly on their web pages, thus allowing students to upload their papers to TurnitinÆ directly from a WebCT page. This would be an added feature, which the University would need to purchase.

o The University has been able to negotiate a fairly reasonable contract with TurnitinÆ. Typically TurnitinÆ charges by the size of the institution, but given the limited use by University faculty/instructors, a pro-rated rate has been negotiated.

o After the first two years of having an agreement with TurnitinÆ, the University conducted a fairly extensive survey to determine why some faculty chose to use the software and why others did not.

o Student concerns around TurnitinÆ include:

o Ownership of the material.

o Privacy issues – is it possible to personally identify a studentπs material? Ms. Ellinger has contacted TurnitinÆ to find out how long they keep personally identifiable data connected to a student."

Google Scholar FAQ

This is a heads-up that Jody has put up the Google Scholar FAQs that
she had distributed earlier for your review.

Google Scholar is at: http://scholar.google.com/

Check out Jday's entry at:
http://faq.lib.umn.edu/public/searchResults.pl?keywords=google+scholar&action=Search+FAQs&method=AND
Thanks Jody! -Jerilyn

Database of Ads, Advertising Images

For advertising images, primary source, etc.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/

The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, providing a coherent view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved in one particular advertising collection available at Duke University. The advertisements are from the J. Walter Thompson Company Competitive Advertisements Collection of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing

Gwen

MNLINK "old" gateway gone

Just went to check MNLINK to see if a book checked out here is available elsewhere in the Twin Cities, and discovered that the option of searching the "old" gateway version has vanished. Maybe it's just me, but I hate the new gateway. Sigh. / Denny Lien

Land Survey plat maps

I submitted the LMIC web site with the original public land survey plat maps to be cataloged, and it is now there (thanks to Stacie.) This will be a useful site I think. What I like, in addition to the maps themselves, is the good historical background information and the search feature which allows you to find a township and range using a place or feature name, or to search for maps using township and range. It also has a very complete Legend with "a primer on interpreting the symbology used on the original PLSS plat maps."

The main title on the MNCAT entry is Original public land survey plat maps of Minnesota [electronic resource] and the URL is http://www.gis.state.mn.us/GLO/Index.htm

Julie

Chronicle - access

Questions often come up about e-access to the Chronicle of Higher Education. With Academic Search Premier, we now have quite a bit of Chronicle e-access.
Full Text: 01/08/1999 to present (with a 1 Month delay)
Note: the most recent month is not available.

One way to get to specific issues/volumes is to use the e-journals page, enter Chronicle, and then simply use the sfx enable link into link into the ASP page for the Chronicle.
Laurel

Gale Databases page

If the Academic Search demo got you curious about quick access to other ELM databases not listed on our index menu (such as INFORME), take a look at:
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/menu

Contemporary Authors reminder

Note from recent HSS CDM meeting:
3. We will acquire **one user** access for Contemporary Authors (formerly available through Gale) using fund (Humanities Electronics).

ERIC

Re: ERIC
Even though the E Subscribe link is still available (as of tonight) on the INDEXES web page, don't send anyone there. Use the ERIC indexes and the free database at:
http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/ericc.cgi
http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/eric.cgi
http://www.eric.ed.gov/
The new guide to ERIC databases that Julie talked about at the meeting this morning is at:
http://www.lib.umn.edu/libdata/page.phtml?page_id=1472

World Biographical Information System Online

To: Lisa Pillow ,
Denny Lien ,
Celia E Hales ,
Eugene J Leadon ,
Subject: World Biographical Index no longer free as of September 1st

Important Notice for Users of the World Biographical Index

The internet edition World Biographical Index has been available free-of-charge and has been used intensively by users worldwide for biographical research.

The index data is continuously enlarged and extended, and represents both a unique index to the Biographical Archives on microfiche as well as a biographical research tool in its own right. In September 2004, the database will receive a new and even more user-friendly interface.

We regret to inform you that, due to the technical and editorial expenses, the database will be offered on the internet only as a paid annual subscription as of 1st September 2004.

Naturally, you are interested in maintaining your access to the index, which should remain available for your research. Please contact your librarian about arranging a subscription for your library or institution. If you are interested in a subscription for yourself, please contact us.

By the way: The World Biographical Index is free-of-charge for subscribers to the World Biographical Information System Online (WBIS Online) and for those who purchased one or more Biographical Archives on microfiche over the last 12 months.

The World Biographical Information System Online started in June 2004. It represents the most comprehensive biographical database available, already offering 2.28 million digitized biographical articles on 1.3 million people. In addition, it contains biographical profiles from the index, on more than 3.8 million individuals. Further, 2 million biographical articles will be added every year. For more information, please go to www.saur.de/wbis-online.

K. G. Saur Verlag

July 2004

WilsonWeb update

explanation of situation plus two responses from WilsonWeb.

I sent to the WilsonWeb feedback page the three complaints/observations I'd made about problems with READER'S GUIDE RETROSPECTIVE, plus one that Lynn S. had sent to me. I got acknowledgement of receipt on all four, but the only real answer so far was for Lynn's -- her comment and WilsonWeb's reply below. Will pass along anything I eventually hear on the other three issues. / Denny

**************
and yet another message sent around our department recently re RGR:

Our patrons (and some staff members, too) have been finding some of the wording on the choices for the print/e-mail screen to be confusing. Specifically the use of the word "full" to mean an extended citation rather than "full text". On the search screen there is a limit for "full text", so the user is already conditioned to think of the word "full" in association with the text. I hope you will
reconsider the wording of this screen so that we can avoid further disappointed and angry patrons who thought that they had captured the full text, when in fact, all they had were citations.

*****************************
Dear Mr. L.
Thank you for your feedback message.
We have some good news for you. We have in the works several new enhancements to WilsonWeb, one of which addresses your concern about the text on the Print Email Save pages. We are changing the text in the "Fields:" area to make the meanings clearer, plus we are changing the order of the choices. The new text and order of choices will be, as follows:

* FULL TEXT & images included, if available
* All citation fields/Custom display
* Brief citation display

We plan to have this in place by the end of August.

Thank you for the suggestion.

Regards,
Bernie S
Product Manager, WilsonWeb

Dear Mr. Lien:

This is to acknowledge the receipt of your feedback message.

By copy of this email, I am sending your correspondence to the appropriate department for investigation into your first search for "Bilderberg Group." It is possible that the record is simply missing from the database for some reason. Once we have determined why your search did not reflect what you were seeing in the print version, we will let you know.

Regarding you second search for the "see" reference for "Baccharis pilularis", it is not surprising that the search returned better results with the All-Smart Search. A keyword search is limited to the fields in the citation, however, the All-Smart Search will look in the Thesaurus for the Used For term. That explains the 90% relevancy ranking with your All-Smart Search results. Incidentally, the default setting for WilsonWeb is the recommended All-Smart Search on the Advanced Search screen. This search is a good example of why we recommend the All-Smart Search. If Keyword is your default setting (an option in the Administrator's Module) it would have been changed by your local administrator.

Thank you for your questions.

Regards,
Bernie Seiler
Product Manager, WilsonWeb

Primary Source documents for American History

I just came across this nice web page done at Duke - it might give us ideas for web info/user education on primary sources for American history.

Don't forget government documents (not just the Serial Set) when you talk about primary sources! http://docs.lib.duke.edu/exhibits/primsrcs.htm

Of course the example they use is particularly nice, since it will be included in the Digital Serial Set we already have purchased, as soon as Readex gets to 1856. In the meantime there are many good publications already up in full text, and more comes regularly. Be sure to take a look, at http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/css.cgi

If this whets your interest in the Serial Set ( a truly remarkable resource) take a look also at the select volumes in the American Memory collection at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwss.html Here you find select volumes all the way up to 1917, including the Reports of explorations and surveys and related maps, very valuable and frequently stolen from libraries.... For an easy way to see what American Memory has included, I recommend the Browse, where you can scroll through a list of all the titles included in this digital collection (a VERY small but high interest selection.)

--Julie
------------------------
I just noticed yesterday that Ebsco's Advanced or Refine Search screen offers the choice of Publication types in a pull-down menu. The menu appears in both Academic Premier and Masterfile Premier:
Periodical
Newspaper
Book
Primary Source Document.
--Susan

Find It! article in OIT Newsletter

since last fall, we have published two OIT Newsletter articles, the latest and most complete being in the May 2004 issue (http://www1.umn.edu/oit/newsletter/04/0504_itn/lib_link.html ).
-excerpt from note sent from John B to Susan G.

From JB
To: Susan
Subject: Re: FindIt! page as a LibData resource?
Cc: Kate

Susan,

Thanks for your note.

We didn't "spotlight" the service in the beginning because of the incremental nature of the rollout (i.e., just a few databases enabled, and a very partial target list on the full-text side). We didn't want to promote a service that was half-baked. However, since last fall, we have published two OIT Newsletter articles, the latest and most complete being in the May 2004 issue (http://www1.umn.edu/oit/newsletter/04/0504_itn/lib_link.html ). The article is a good promotional piece and contains screenshots and links to the enabled source list and the "Try It" page. Perhaps the FAQ record could include the link to the article as a "Related Link." I'm copying Kate M. on this reply because that FAQ record is hers.

Also, with regards to searching the FAQ, one can retrieve the record using the phrase "find it" if the two words are wrapped in quotes or through the exact phrase option in Advanced Search mode.

Open Worldcat - pilot

http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/pilot/

Try this out! I was looking for a Web page that might include a description of a reference book (in this case, the Writer's Advisor by Alkire, published by Gale). I ran a Google search using the terms: writer's advisor gale alkire and the first result was a public version of Worldcat.

Run the search in Google, try the first result from Worlcat , type in 55455 and see what happens next!
--sg

Harvard Business School Cases

Virginia wrote up this note on Harvard Business School Cases. Lisa notes that she's fielded this question at the desk.

Harvard Business School Cases are available for purchase from Harvard Business Online, around $6.50 per case study. Here is the link to the website:
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/products/cases/index.html

They are indexed in Business Source Premier, but are not available full-text -- the citation provides a link to Harvard Business Online for purchase. Detailed instructions are in the "continued" portion of this entry.

To Search Business Source Premier:

Begin with http://www.lib.umn.edu
Click on Indexes
Click on B
Scroll down and click on Business Source Premier
Log on with your X-500 email name and password
Click on Publications (tab at the top of the page)
Type in Harvard Business School Cases
Click on the link to Harvard Business School Cases
You can now browse the case studies, year by year.

Alternatively, you could log on to Business Source Premier
Click on Advanced Search
type in a keyword AND Harvard Business School Cases (select Publication Name in the drop down menu)

written by Virginia for Chat / entry suggested by Lisa

No more Union List db

Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 09:46:48 -0400
From: OCLC Reference
Subject: ADVANCE NOTICE OF DISCONTINUATION OF THE UNION LISTS OF PERIODICA LS DATABASE ON OCLC FIRSTSEARCH
To: FIRSTSEARCH-L@OCLC.ORG

ADVANCE NOTICE OF DISCONTINUATION OF THE UNION LISTS OF PERIODICALS DATABASE
ON OCLC FIRSTSEARCH

Following the availability of local data record information in WorldCat for
over a year now, and in view of steadily declining usage of the Union Lists
of Periodicals database, OCLC has concluded that it is in the membership's
best interests to discontinue per-search and subscription access to the
Union Lists of Periodicals database in OCLC FirstSearch on Tuesday, August
31, 2004. The database will also be removed from the OCLC Base Package on
that day. Consequently, the Union Lists of Periodicals database will not be
updated as scheduled in August 2004.

Please note that users will continue to have access to local data records
created by their libraries in WorldCat where they will be significantly more
visible and more likely to be used. OCLC has carefully evaluated the
availability of this information through both WorldCat and the Union Lists
of Periodicals database, and believes that FirstSearch users will be well
served by the availability of union list information in WorldCat where the
information is complete and more current. Additionally, the discontinuation
of the Union Lists of Periodicals database does not impact the Union Listing
service in any way.

Please contact your OCLC regional service provider (network, service center,
distributor, international division) or OCLC Support (1-800-848-5800 or
support@oclc.org) with questions.
________________________________________________________

Jim Stemper
University of Minnesota Libraries
309-19th Ave. So., Minneapolis,

Artstor

note from Deborah U.

ALL:

Following Marcia's lead, I thought I might highlight a few of the
interesting discussions and activities I was involved in this past April at
the Art Libraries Conference (ARLIS/NA), held in NYC.

As Moderator of the Academic Libraries Division it was my responsibility to
set an agenda, and you can be sure that ARTstor was a priority item. I had
anticipated that much of the discussion would focus on the pricing and the
fact that they are not allowing consortial pricing -- yet. One of the
outcomes of our discussion was to propose to the ARLIS/NA Executive Board
that a letter be written to ARTstor requesting some reconsideration about
the pricing structure. ARTstor was also up at the conference for demo.

The CIC group met and we also discussed ARTstor fairly extensively. At this
meeting, the art librarians from Penn State, Northwestern, and UMI shared
their experiences as testbed sites for ARTstor. All agree the interface is
good and the content gets high marks. The pitfalls are that the system can
be a bit sluggish and for some reason some of the images have come out
fuzzy. We remind ourselves that it is still a work in progress and that
these problem areas are being addressed.

I lead a session titled " Librarians as Art and Architecture Historians."
The three scholar-librarians on the panel read the most fascinating papers
on a New Mexican folk artist, Juan Sanchez, a Cuban architect Eugenio
Rayneri, and the history of the roofed area in North America. In
introducing the session, I spoke about how librarians are effective
scholars because we have a strong grasp of the research. Not only do have a
handle on conventional approaches to research, but we can deviate in
creative ways, confidently! Discussion that followed the readings focused
on the individual research experiences and then I spoke about how the
papers worked nicely together because each related ritual objects and
ritual to a specific place and culture.

I saw the Whitney Biennial and for the first time visited El Museo del
Barrio! I was also invited to see Agnes Gund's (of MOMA) private collection.

Art is life!
Deborah

Evans and text creation info

report from Marcia.

To: AcadProgHSS@lib.umn.edu
Subject: Text Creation Partnership - Digital Evans meeting

Colleagues,

Last week I attended the Digital Evans - Text Creation Partnership
Selection Task Force meeting at the American Antiquarian Society in
Worcester, Mass. Professor Ed Griffin from English also attended. He and
I represented the faculty-librarian partner wing. Three other librarians
(Mark Sandler of Michigan who heads the TCP, Nancy Godleski from Yale, and
Barbara Preece who heads the Boston Library Consortium were a part of the
group. We met with nine scholars, four staff from the AAS, and two people
from Readex, the publisher/ We determined some principles and we offered
guidance on subjects and genres to the American Antiquarian Society staff.
The AAS staff will choose the 6000 titles to be keyboarded for the
fully-searchable TCP product out of the 36,000 titles in Evans. And,
importantly, our faculty will be invited to offer their own individual
recommendations too.

I also spent time with the AAS newspaper librarian. I will report the good
news from him about their interest in our problem of old bound newspapers
to the group working on those here.

Marcia

LCSH online

Looking for that perfect subject heading for a patron? Try the LC Authorities
-SG

Worldcat enhancements

On April 18, 2004, the WorldCat database on FirstSearch is scheduled to move
to a new technology platform that has enabled several major enhancements.
The most noticeable of these is a change to the keyword (default) index for
WorldCat, which after the changes will include Author Keywords, ISBNs and
publication dates. The addition of Author Keyword mirrors the operation of
many local systems and other search services.

The reloading of WorldCat on FirstSearch has enabled many other
enhancements. These will include new indexes and minor display changes
designed to improve results. After the installation of these changes, users
will get different results - most noticeably in the Keyword Index - from the
same searches they did previously. Please note that neither the old results
nor the new results are erroneous; the indexing has simply changed.

Praxis FAQ

AFter the third reference question on this in several months, I made an
FAQ. Index terms are:
PRAXIS (not yet added but key word searchable), teacher licensure, PPST,
pre-professional skills tests, study guides, national teacher
examinations.
--Gwen

InfoScience online Van's note re stamps appearing

From: Van Houlson
Subject: Re: InfoSci Online

Info-Sci Online was purchased using Business Reference funds and I have contacted Ebsco and the database producer with our concerns. The annoying stamps for copyright (multiple ones appear on each page) seem to occur for all pre-2003 documents and for a mix of 2003 documents. The 2004 images are clean and we hope they will stay that way.

-- Van

At 3/31/04, Nancy Herther wrote:
Hello!

I got a complaint from a faculty member yesterday about the records in the new Info Sci Online database. For his search, he pulled up a variety of sources, many of which had blue "Copyright Idea Group, Inc" stamps across the text on each page (at least four/page). He felt this made the records unreadable.

I went into the database myself and, yes, many records do have these marks and it is very irritating. Could this complaint be passed along to the vendor? I would think they could find another way to mark their documents with copyright statements, if they tried.

I'm copying this to others for their information - and with a work-around.

Yes the documents do come up with the marks and they do make reading the documents online difficult. One document I picked was "Pricing strategies for digital books," if you want to see one - or you can do your own search (I found many). HOWEVER, if you print off the document, the marks appear less severe on the printed copy and the document IS readable.

I'll copy this to others in HSS in case they get similar complaints.

The database, again, is: "InfoSci-Online, a collection of full-text literature covering research trends, technologies, and challenges in the fields of information science, technology and management. This database is comprised of over book chapters, journal articles, case studies and conference papers of over 200 titles from Idea Group Publishing including the Information Resources Management Journal, Annals of Cases on Information Technology, Journal of Database Management, and Journal of End-User Computing."

It looks like a good database, but this is an obstacle to usage.

Thanks

Nancy Herther

Van Houlson
Librarian
Business Reference Library

Staff Web preview

Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 10:36:26 -0600

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Colleagues,

Last fall, a group including Lori Cramer, Lara Friedman-Shedlov, Susan Koelmel, Marilyn McClaskey, Shane Nackerud, and Jan Roseen formed to review our existing staff web and make recommendations on content that reflects our organization and navigation and tools that enable easy access to key information. My thanks to this group for all their background work!

Using their results and recommendations, an implementation group came together earlier this year including Eric Celeste, Erin George, Marilyn McClaskey, and Jan Roseen to start building a new Libraries Staff Web Site. I want to thank them for their efforts to bring to life a new staff site http://wiki.lib.umn.edu, which is now up and running as a "preview" and ready for your perusal.

The site is managed using PmWiki, a tool primarily designed to support easy, collaborative authoring and maintenance of web sites. If you'd like to learn more about PmWiki, click on the WikiHelp link at the bottom of any page of the new site.

During this preview period, the current staff web site at "http://staff.lib.umn.edu" will remain unchanged and available. In early April, the preview will end and the new site will become the Libraries staff home page connecting to a combination of content developed in the PmWiki environment, links to University resources, and content from the current staff web, a practice that will continue as the implementation group works to ensure access to useful and accurate information and tools as the new site evolves.

Look around the preview site and please send your comments to Erin using the link on the front page. During the next couple days, the site may be down for short periods of time for maintenance, so keep checking back. The implementation group invites all Libraries staff to attend a staff web site brown bag session on Wednesday, April 7 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Wilson S30B. Eric, Erin, Marilyn, and Jan will be there to discuss the PmWiki tool, the new site's content and navigation, and comments and suggestions for continuing to build a timely and useful Libraries staff web site.

Wendy

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University of Minnesota
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Mental Measurements Yearbook Online

The online version of Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) only shows the most recent editions of the tests. For older editions, check in the print version. The online edition is meant to supplement, not replace, the print edition. Also, HAPI (Health and Psychosocial Instruments) usually gives the reference to the appropriate print MMY edition. (BK per Laurel Haycock email.)

Bio-Medical Library Newsletter

See the link to the new Bio-Medical Library Newsletter. It is a new link listed in "LINKS" on the main IRIS Blog page, right sidebar, lower section.
General note:
LINKS will always show on the main page. (Other entries stop showing on the main page as they get older, but are still in the Blog unless they are deleted deliberately.) -- SG.

RefWorks new features 2004

Subject: RefWorks Spring 2004 Release: New Program Enhancements. The next RefWorks release will include program enhancements as outlined below.

Subject: RefWorks Spring 2004 Release: New Program Enhancements

The next RefWorks release will include the program enhancements as outlined
below. For questions about any of the enhancements described here,
contact support@refworks.com.

General Features

1) Quick print
A "print" button has been added to the main viewing area of RefWorks -
accessible while viewing all records, search results or an individual
folder. Once selected, users can choose to print selected references,
entire pages of references, or all references. References will be
printed in the order they appear on screen, in the format designated by
the user.

2) Duplicate checking
Users now have both "Close Match" and "Exact Match" options when
checking for duplicates.

3) Improved sorting for APA In-Text citations for subsequent authors

Adding & Editing References

1) Required fields for specific output formats now identified
RefWorks asterisks all of the required fields for the user's currently
selected output format when the user manually adds a new reference or
edits an existing reference. This allows users to ensure that they
have adequate information added in each record to produce accurate,
correct citations in their selected format.

2) Text attributes
Bold, italics, superscript, subscript, and underline can now be added to
the data from within the program.
Note: RefWorks strongly recommends that this feature only be used for
specific terms such as species names. The feature should not be used
for titles of periodicals or books; RefWorks automatically adjusts text
attributes for these fields based on the selected output format.

3) Reference Types now alphabetized in the drop down box

4) Translator and Compiler now available as secondary author fields for
all Book reference types

5) Specifying folders
When specifying a folder, RefWorks now displays the selected folder in
the drop down box. If a second folder is specified, the last selected
folder will show.

Administration Tools

1) Limiting users by e-mail address
Administrators may limit users who register with specific e-mail
addresses. For example, addresses with "@hotmail.com" or
"@yahoomail.com" can be blocked.

2) Customized login pages
The login page can now be customized for specific sites. Administrators
can add contact details, logos or other information to the customized
login page.

3) Administrators may now add their own Z39.50 search sites

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This message is being sent to all RefWorks users. If you no longer wish
to receive information about new features available on RefWorks, please
reply to this message with "remove RefWorks" in the subject.

Network Upgrade

https://www.umn.edu/nts/networkupgrade/
See below for the full text of John G-L's note.

To: all-staff
From: John Geertz-Larson
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 15:45:08 -0600

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Now that we're close to the official end of winter, it's time for road construction to begin on the "Information Superhighway" as well as on that other kind of road. The University's Networking and Telecommunications Service (NTS) begins work March 21 on the St. Paul campus to replace data network switching and routing equipment that was installed in 1997 with a five year life expectancy. You may see publicity materials and receive email and voice mail messages about the upgrade project with the title "Gopher GigaNet" and a slogan, "Welcome the Future."

The upgrade project will consist of three processes. Two of them will be done on a building-by-building basis. NTS estimates that it will take approximately two months for each process to be accomplished in St. Paul, and similar lengths of time in other areas of the Twin Cities campus which follow.

Magrath will be the sixth St. Paul building in order of installation, followed by Vet. Science (7th). Their installations will probably begin during the first two weeks of the process. The Hill Area buildings Hodson (52nd), Borlaug (54th), and Skok (55th) will follow later. There may also be other work taking place, such as running fiber optic cable between closets.

1) Building-by-building hardware installation -- in which new ethernet switches are installed in wiring closets. NTS does not intend this to affect your Internet and local network service, but there may be some early morning disruptions if existing switches must be moved out of the way.

St. Paul 3/17/04 - 5/14/04
East Bank south of Wash. Ave. 5/14/04 - 7/23/04
West Bank 7/26/04 - 9/10/04
East Bank north of Wash. Ave. 9/13/04 - 12/1/04

2) Campuswide core network cut-over -- the week of July 4, or possibly moved up to June if other work runs ahead of schedule. There will be a two-week freeze on network changes at this point.

3) Building-by-building cut-over -- in which the connection for each active data jack is physically moved from an old switch to a new one. Each jack will be out of service briefly at some point between 7 a.m. and 12 noon. Typically it will take about one minute per jack, but in some buildings it may take up to five minutes while connections are disbursed from a central closet into distributed ones. There will be a freeze on service orders.

St. Paul 7/12/04 - 8/13/04
East Bank south of Wash. Ave. 8/16/04 - 10/4/04
West Bank 10/5/04 - 11/8/04
East Bank north of Wash. Ave. 11/9/04 - 12/31/04

Each building will have signs posted telling when work is being done. We hope to be able to give advance notice by email, although I imagine the early days of the project will include a shakedown period. The project's web page https://www.umn.edu/nts/networkupgrade/track_progress/ will show progress and schedules as they are updated.

Just as with the other kind of road construction, we expect the detours will lead to an improved "ride" when the project is done. Your mileage may vary: speed increases will depend on the age and wiring condition of individual jacks, but there will also be capacity, reliability, and security improvements.

If you'd like to read more information about the upgrade project, there is a web site https://www.umn.edu/nts/networkupgrade/ with an overview and a link to an article from the Daily http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2004/03/04/8620.

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John Geertz-Larson
U. Libraries - Information Technology Services

RefWorks Group Code

RefWorks Group Code note from John Butler (see also Continue reading...)

The Group Code is used to authorize access to RefWorks by means of institutional affiliation. It is needed when users, for one reason or another, do NOT access RefWorks through our proxied links presented on the RefWorks gateway page at: http://www.lib.umn.edu/refworks/ . Users will NOT need to use the Group Code unless they access RefWorks through the Libraries' gateway page.

To:
Subject: RefWorks Group Code

Academic Programs and Bio-Med,

I'm sure some of you have discovered that we are now providing a means for users to access the RefWorks Group Code. The Group Code is used to authorize access to RefWorks by means of institutional affiliation. It is needed when users, for one reason or another, do NOT access RefWorks through our proxied links presented on the RefWorks gateway page at: http://www.lib.umn.edu/refworks/ . Users will NOT need to use the Group Code unless they access RefWorks through the Libraries' gateway page.

When will users need the Group Code? *****************************

The Group Code is needed only when attempting to access one's RefWorks account from an off-campus location AND 1) when using the Write-N-Cite feature, or 2) when going through the RefWorks company's main page rather than the Libraries' RefWorks page at: http://www.lib.umn.edu/refworks/. Again, a user will NOT need to use this code if you access RefWorks through the Libraries' RefWorks page.

How to get the Group Code? *************************************

We have set up two links on the Libraries' RefWorks page (one in the left navigation bar; another right under the login info). Also, there is a "What is a "Group Code"? When do I need and where do I get it?" question in the RefWorks FAQ ( http://www.lib.umn.edu/refworks/faq.phtml ).

Users will need to authenticate with their U of M Internet ID and PW to gain access to the page that displays the U of M Group Code.

A final word - we've resisted using the Group Code for as long as possible, simply because we think this method is bad practice, both in the short- and long-term. However, there are some critical access issues, especially involving use of the Write-N-Cite feature, that compel us to offer this until RefWorks facilitates a different way to configure their software. For general purposes, please encourage users to continue accessing RefWorks via the Libraries' RefWorks page.

Thanks,

John

Browser Back button behavior

If the backup button on iE gives you a "page expired" message, Gordon offers two fixes:
1. hit the refresh command and try to remember to use the World Cat commands.

2. Try your search with Netscape; I should think that you won't get this problem.
--Gordon (thanks Gordon!) entered by SG

Dyabola online

Just a reminder; you can use Dyabola online (archaeology database) with the password they provide on the CD package:
EsklB9tF
For more instructions see "Continue reading about Dyabola"

Just a reminder; you can use Dyabola online (archaeology database) with the password they provide on the CD package:
EsklB9tF

and say yes when it asks if this is the right password.

Remember to set the search on RealKatalog.
Choose STRING in Title and Comment.
Change search box from Exact Spelling to Ignore Capitals and Accents.

For some reason the back workstation can get in but the ref workstation closer to the room can not.

Barb points out that Dyabola online is not on any LUMINA menus. I have sent a note to Dennis Lien asking him to get us IP access, which is available from the publisher. --SG

Digital Dissertations includes CIC theses

Date 1/26/04To: all-staff@sweetums.lib.umn.edu
Subject: [All-Staff] CIC and Proquest Digital Dissertations
CIC Dissertations and Theses

Access to the full text of dissertations originating from all CIC institutions written since 1997 is now available to University of Minnesota users through Proquest Digital Dissertations. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations

The subset of CIC indexing and abstracts, and full text dissertations and available masters theses are also available as a discreet resource though Proquest's "Current Research@" service at: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/cic/main

Questions and comments welcome.
cgs
Charles G. Spetland (Mailto:c-spet@tc.umn.edu )
Collection Development Officer
University of Minnesota Libraries
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