try this out: Shane and I have been working for the past several months on an easy, Web-based way to search for articles published by local researchers. It is finally ready for your consideration. There are obvious limitations -- it searches only the ISI databases; it searches only by keyword; and at present it searches only one keyword at a time. I am not certain where it should be deployed or in what direction we should take it. Your input would be useful.
https://www.lib.umn.edu/scieng/wos/
Gary
We currently have a trial for the Professional level of the Foundation Directory Online, trial lasts through July 14.
We currently have a trial for the Professional level of the Foundation Directory Online. This database contains over 80,000 records for U.S. foundations, grantmaking public charities, and corporate givers, including sponsoring company information. It has full-text search capability across 230,000+ IRS Forms 990; a searchable index of over 360,000 names; direct links to grantmaker and corporate Websites; 19 fields to search by; and flexible sorting and printing capabilties.
The trial will last through July 14th.
To access the database, go to The Foundation Center website: www.fdncenter.org and click the link to the Foundation Directory Online (box in lower, middle of page).
username: trial5
password: research
--Martha
http://umnlib-test.oit.umn.edu:8997/F?func=file&file_name=find-b&local_base=tcmncat
trial
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19th Century Masterfile trial:
trial available at.
http://poolesplus.odyssi.com/cgi-bin/phtml?ppsearch.htm
Book Review Index is going to available from Gale/Thomson. We may want to work out a library-wide deal so that some reference collections can cancel the print; Wils Ref would probably retain the print as the "library of record.'"
Best, Celia and Lisa, Wils Ref Collections
End Date: Dec. 30 Vendor contact: David Z
Dear Colleagues,
This afternoon I spent more time than I should have trying to compare Book Review Index with three other indexes. I conclude that BRI is a pretty good index and that we should acquire it. The Gale search interface is easy to use, results come quickly, and it seems to cover a significantly greater number of sources than do the others. ASP has the advantage of bringing along with it the full texts to many of the citations, but as you can see, it covers only about half as many titles as does BRI.
--Gordon
My methodology:
I selected two British historians,
Timothy Garton Ash, author of 9 books. I searched for reviews of all his books.
Norman Davies, author of 10 books. I specifically searched for reviews of his Microcosm: portrait of a Central European city (2002)
1. Book review index (and BRI Plus)
Advanced search, "Author--Work (rv): "timothy garton ash" --> 202 hits. This search found the author's name in four different forms:
Timothy Garton Ash 1 hit
Ash, Timothy Garton 83 hits
Garton-Ash, Timothy 1 hit
Garton Ash, Timothy 117 hits
Advanced search: kw "davies" and kw microcosm" --> 11 hits (plus two for another book by a different davies)
2. Academic search premier
Advanced search: kw timothy and kw garton and kw ash and document type = book review --> 102 hits.
Advanced search: kw davies and kw microcosm and document type = book review --> 5 hits (plus one for the other book)
3. Historical Abstracts:
"Garton Ash"and review* --> 6 hits
"davies and microcosm" --> 1 hit
4. A&HCI + SSCI:
Garton Ash -- go to general search, enter the cited author's name (as found in the index) into the "topic" search box, and set document type to "book review". In his case, search ("ash tg" or gartonash) --> 53 hits.
Davies - in the general search mode, enter "davies and microcosm" in topic line, set document type to book review --> 3 hits; plus several more for the other title.
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Hi, HSS selectors--
The American Reference Books Annual Online trial is now available, thanks to Jim Stemper. Details follow--
Judy
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University of Minnesota is now authenticated for TRIAL access to ARBA Online through November 5, 2004. The annual subscription fee for your institution is $150 per annum, unlimited users from your IP addresses.
Please point your browsers to http://arba.odyssi.com. You should go directly to the ARBA Online Search Engine. Additional information on contents and rates are available at www.arbaonline.com.
If you have any difficulties seeing the search engines, please verify your IP addresses listed below and contact us. Welcome aboard.
From: Celia Hales Mabry
Subject: Fwd: Re: Fwd: Gallup Brain -- You Now Have Access to Our Database
Dear Wils Ref and Collections Staff,
Here is a database that has already been requested by several faculty. Please give your feedback to Lisa (pillow) or me (c-hale).
Many thanks, Celia
URL - http://institution.gallup.com/
Subject: Gallup Brain -- You Now Have Access to Our Database
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 09:40:16 -0500
Jim S,
Thank you again for trying the Gallup Brain.
The Gallup Brain contains all Gallup Poll data past and present. It is an
excellent source of data for students, professors, and anyone who wants to
be current on the most important issues facing world leaders.
You can access the Gallup Brain by using this link --
We encourage you to post this link on your resources Web site or to
publicize it within your organization.
If you need help, please contact Peter Shafer at 877-242-5587. If you are
having difficulties accessing the site, call Stephanie Oswald at
800-288-8593.
Enjoy! We will be sending you a one-year License Agreement soon.
The links for Twin Cities, Duluth, Crookston and Morris are set. Thanks
again and we look forward to working with you. The trial ends on December
6, 2004.
note from Julia Wallace re CQ trails is below:
From: "Julia F. Wallace"
To:
Subject: Trials from CQ
Date: 31Mar04 10:49am
The Libraries have trials of some new collections from CQ through the month
of April. Please give them a try, and send your feedback to me.
Three new collections from CQ Press are available for testing. These are
related to the services we already have within the CQ Electronic
Library. The new services are:
· CQ Insider (essentially a series of organization charts and contact
lists for Congress, agencies, and organizations)
· CQ Voting and Elections Collection (with elections data as well as
analysis for state and national elections and political party information)
· CQ Congress Collection (with legislative analysis, information on
members, mapping of key votes, a variety of background information, and
links to other sources)
No passwords are needed, just link through the CQ Electronic Library at
http://library.cqpress.com/index.php. NOTE: We already have subscriptions
to the CQ Researcher and CQ Weekly at this site.
In addition, we also have a trial for CQ.com. This is a legislative
tracking service aimed at “professionals following Congress.” It is used
by lobbyists and governmental affairs offices, but also can be used for
teaching. It offers sophisticated bill tracking and also news and
analysis. Purchasers may pick and choose from 23 databases which are
included. Our trial includes almost all of them. This trial also does not
require passwords, just go to http://www.cq.com/
Both of these trials are listed in the Current Trials database at
http://staff.lib.umn.edu/cdm/ersc/trials.phtml
Available through April 30 - try these now.
Julie