Thursday, December 15, 2005

Polling the Nation Upgrades

We are pleased to announce that after extensive design and development, Polling the Nations has a new interface ready for use. It offers a wide array of new features, virtually all recommended by subscribers. These include:

Drop down lists for topics, sources, and universe—select a topic, or polling organization, or country from the lists.

Search history—recall all parameters of a previous search with only a single click.

Search by date range —search for results within a specified range of dates.

Find all questions from a particular survey— a button,‘View All Questions in This Poll’ enables users to display all the questions in a survey with a one click.

Mark questions—select one or more questions to be loaded into an Export Cart.

Download/print/e-mail batches of questions—select any of these options for questions loaded in the Export Cart.

Choose a search template with or without drop down lists.

Choose to go from the search template to a hit list or directly to the questions.

The underlying database of survey data from 1986 to the present remains unchanged. One difference, it will now be updated more often.

OVID Books upgrade

Dear Ovid PsycBOOKS Subscriber,

We are delighted to announce that Ovid’s PsycBOOKS Cited References are now live!

With this unique new feature, users can link from references contained in the Cited References field of Ovid PsycBOOKS to a wealth of resources, such as bibliographic records in PsycBOOKS, full text articles in Journals@Ovid, PsycARTICLES and even external full text providers.

Upgrades to Sociological Abstracts

Dear Colleague,

Earlier this year we announced that, as part of its long-standing commitment to improve quality and depth of content, the CSA Sociological Abstracts database would be enhanced with several new features during 2005. We are proud to inform you that we have delivered as promised: the following features are now available as part of a subscription to CSA Sociological Abstracts on CSA Illumina.

* The 1952-1962 CSA Sociological Abstracts backfile records, previously available only in print have been added to the database, offering subscribers electronic access to some of the early literature of sociology. Records originally printed in 1979 in Social Planning/Policy and Development Abstracts have also been digitized and added to CSA Social Services Abstracts. This combined load has added 15,946 records to CSA Sociological Abstracts and CSA Social Services Abstracts. These records have been indexed with terminology from the Thesaurus of Sociological Indexing Terms.


* Abstracts have been added to 1963-1972 records in the CSA Sociological Abstracts backfile, increasing access to this literature.

* 2,000,000 Cited References have been added to the CSA Social Science Databases. Included with Core Journal articles in CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts since 2001 and in CSA Sociological Abstracts since 2002, the feature has been extended to all journal articles included in CSA Sociological Abstracts, CSA Social Services Abstracts, and CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts as of 2004.

* Over 100,000 "Scholar Profiles" from the new Scholar Universe: Social Science service are being provided complimentary to all customers of CSA social science databases delivered through the CSA Illumina platform.

New Content--JSTOR

The following titles have been added or have had content enhanced

American Antiquity
Architectural History
Biogeochemistry
Dance Chronicle
Design Issues
Diacritics
Die Welt des Islams
Dumbarton Oaks Papers
Economic Development and Cultural Change
European Journal of Education
Feminist Studies
Garden History
Grey Room
Journal of Religion in Africa
Latin American Antiquity
Law and Human Behavior
Leonardo
Leonardo. Supplemental Issue
MLN
Numen
Oriens
Paleobiology
Perspecta
Philosophical Issues
Political Behavior
Population (French Edition)
Quarterly Newsletter (Garden History Society)
Research Intelligence
Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature
Social Science History
Sociological Forum
South Central Review
Studia Islamica
Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
The American Art Journal
The American Journal of International Law
The American Journal of Philology
The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic
The French Review. Special Issue
The Garden History Society Newsletter (1749-3382)
The Journal of Negro History
The Journal of Religion
The RAND Journal of Economics
Theory and Society
Vigiliae Christianae
Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte

New Content--Hein On Line

New to the Journal Library

Arab Law Quarterly
Vols. 1-15 (1985-2000)

Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law
Vols. 1-2 (2000-2001)

Bench and Bar
Vols. 1-28,1-14,43 (1905-1920)

Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law
Vols. 1-25 (1976-2004)

Boalt Journal of Criminal Law (External to HeinOnline)
Vols. 1-9 (2000-2005)

Buffalo Women's Law Journal
Vols. 1-12 (1992-2004)

Business Law Journal
Vols. 1-19 (1923-1932)

Canadian Human Rights Yearbook
1983-1992

Canterbury Law Review
Vols. 6#3-9 (1997-2003)

Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Vols. 1-14 (1991-2005)

Columbia Science and Technology Law Review (External to HeinOnline)
Vols. 1-6 (1999-2005)

Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal
Vols. 1-4 (2001-2005)

European Journal of Law Reform
Vols. 1-4 (1999-2002)

Human Rights Law Review
Vols. 1-2 (2001-2002)

International Journal of Baltic Law
Vol. 1 (2002-2004)

International Journal of Communications Law and Policy (External to
HeinOnline)
Vols. 1-9 (1998-2004)

Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation
Vols. 1-19 (1986-2004)

Journal of Intellectual Property Law
Vols. 1-10 (1993-2003)

Journal of Law & Education
Vols. 1-33 (1972-2004)

Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law
Vols. 1-48 (1969-2003)

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judges
Vols. 1-24 (1981-2004)

Maryland Law Review
Vols. 1-2 (1901-1903)

Minnesota Intellectual Property Review
Vols. 1-5 (2000-2004)

Nevada Law Journal
Vols. 1-4 (2001-2004)

Nexus: A Journal of Opinion
Vols. 1-9 (1996-2004)

North Carolina Central Law Journal
Vols. 1969, 2-27 (1969-2005)

North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology
Vols. 1-6 (2000-2005)

Real Property, Probate and Trust Journal
Vols. 1-39 (1966-2005)

Southern Law Review
Vol. 1 (1901-1902)

Temple International & Comparative Law Journal
Vols. 1-18 (1985-2004)

Unbound: Harvard Journal of the Legal Left (External to HeinOnline)
2005 (2005)

Uniform Law Review (New Series)
Vols. 1-8 (1996-2003)

University of Missouri Bulletin Law Series
Vols. 1-50 (1913-1935)

Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics
Vols. 1-3 (2002-2003)

Yale Law and Policy Review
Vols. 1-22 (1982-2004)


Federal Register Library

Federal Register
Vol. 70 #126-168 (2005)

Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
Vol. 41 #1-29 (2005)


Treaties & Agreements Library

Treaties in Force
1929, 2005 editions

New Product Announcement-->Northern News Service

Northern news services online:

With added records for the 6 newspapers available through this service:

Northwest Territories news/North
Nunavut news/North
The Inuvik drum
Kivalliq nipivut = Kivalliq news
Deh Cho drum
Yellowknifer

EBSCO customer success centre

EBSCO sponsors this site that links to a variety of library support tools.

Dear EBSCO Publishing Customer:

We are excited to announce the launch of a new and industry-leading resource created for customers and based on valuable customer feedback: EBSCO’s new Customer Success Center.

The Customer Success Center is an unprecedented resource dedicated to our customers’ professional development and success. At the Customer Success Center you’ll find over 100 free tools, including items specifically targeted for public libraries:

* Free access to the Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) database, the industry’s leading library professional development research tool.

* A repository of success stories from some of EBSCO’s leading customers, sharing their best practices and learnings on such topics as successful community outreach, marketing library resources, planning a library card campaign, and promoting the library’s website.

* A list of grant sources with helpful tips on database investing.

* Papers and recommendations on library assessment, evaluation, and patron surveys.

* Professional development tools.

Visual Thesaurus Reminder

Our stats were a little low for this product. So here is a little reminder about a great tool that integrates directly into Word.

A short tutorial is available at:
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/tour/load.html

Periodicals Content Index name change

Just so you can keep your web pages up to date, this product is now catalogued as
Periodicals index online.
The new url is
http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=http://pio.chadwyck.com

New Product Announcement-->Canadian Health and Public Policy ebrary collections

To accommodate the new public policy and health research collections we have changed the catalogue records for ebrary a bit. The new links are listed below.

Many thanks to Bib Services for all their help in setting up the links and testing the various options. marc records are on their way, so a big thanks to BibService and ITS for their work on these as well.

When setting up links in your subject pages, be cautious about just linking to the public policy or health sections, remember that a link to the entire ebrary collection will mean that users will be able to pull a much greater range of material. Do some experimenting before deciding which links to use.

1. Ebrary [new record]
http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucalgary

This takes you to an overall link that searches across all the ebrary collections (except music scores).

2. Canadian public policy collection [new record]
http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/calgarypubpolicy

This is a collection of monograph publications from Canadian public policy institutes, government agencies, advocacy groups, think-tanks, university research centres and other public interest groups. The organizations included in this collection represent the leading edge of primary research and opinion in all areas of Canadian public policy. Their publications are vital to the understanding of developing issues in every arena of Canadian public life.

3. Canadian health research collection [new record]
http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/calgaryhealth

This is a collection of monograph publications from Canadian research institutes, government agencies and university centres working in the area of health and medical research. The organizations included in this collection are very active publishers of primary research in the field. The publications included are both general policy documents as well as those of a specialized technical nature.

RSS feed for ProQuest Dissertations

Might be one to share with faculty and grad students?

RSS4Lib:: Dissertations from ProQuest by Subject

Firefox Show and Tell

Link to the blog posting in Crooked Timber.

The post links to a flickr site where folks are displaying their Firefox customizations. The basic point is that for many Firefox is replacing the desktop as the default display.....hey didn't Microsoft try to do this with Explorer?

Firefox is great because of the opportunities to create a personal environment suited to the individual's work and needs.

Wednesday, November 30, 2005

New Journals from BE Press

Forum for Health Economics & Policy http://www.bepress.com/fhep/

Forum for Health Economics & Policy showcases articles in key substantive areas that lie at the intersection of health economics and health policy. The Health Economics section emphasizes novel empirical and theoretical work on health care markets or behavior related to individual or population health. The Health Policy section highlights health-related research directed towards a sophisticated policy audience or health services researchers. Edited by Alan Garber of Stanford University, Dana Goldman of Rand, and Tomas Philipson of the University of Chicago, Forums are chosen by the Editorial Board to reflect topics where additional research is needed by economists and where the field is advancing rapidly.


International Journal of Biostatistics http://www.bepress.com/ijb/


International Journal of Biostatistics highlights new biostatistical models and methods, new statistical theory, as well as original applications of statistical methods, for important practical problems arising from the biological, medical, public health, and agricultural sciences. It is intended that the journal cover the entire range of Biostatistics, from theoretical advances to relevant and sensible translations of a practical problem into a statistical framework, including advances in biostatistical computing. Electronic publication also allows for data and software code to be appended, and opens the door for reproducible research allowing readers to easily replicate analyses described in a paper.


International Journal of Food Engineering http://www.bepress.com/ijfe/


International Journal of Food Engineering is devoted to engineering disciplines related to processing foods. The areas of interest include heat, mass transfer and fluid flow in food processing; food microstructure development and characterization; application of artificial intelligence in food engineering research and in industry; food biotechnology; and mathematical modeling and software development for food processing purposes.


Journal of Complementary and Integrative Medicine http://www.bepress.com/jcim/


Journal of Complementary and Integrative Medicine focused on evidence concerning the efficacy and safety of complementary and alternative medical (CAM) whole systems, practices, interventions and natural health products, including herbal medicines. To facilitate information transfer to the consumer, summaries of each article will also be published in easy-to understand and colloquial language. When feasible, selected articles will be published in other languages to facilitate distribution of information to a larger international community.

Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports http://www.bepress.com/jqas/

Articles in the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports (JQAS) come from a wide variety of sports and perspectives and deal with such subjects as tournament structure, frequency and occurrence of records and the optimal focus of training for decathlons. Additionally, the journal serves as an outlet for professionals in the sports world to raise issues and ask questions as they relate to quantitative sports analysis. Edited by Benjamin Alamar of the University of California San Francisco, articles may come from a diverse set of disciplines including statistics, operations research, economics, psychology, sports management and business.

JSTOR Holdings Update

Archives of American Art Journal
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 39 (1960-1999)

The Jewish Quarterly Review
New Content: Vols. 1 – 20, Special Index Issue (1888-1908); New Series: Vol. 1 - Vol. 90, no. 1/2 (1910-1999)

Journal of Biblical Literature
New Content: Vols. 1 – 118 (1887-1999)

Journal of the North American Benthological Society (Biological Sciences Collection)
New Content: Vols. 1 – 20 (1982-2001)

Master Drawings
New Content: Vols. 1 – 37 (1963-1999)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (Arts & Sciences III)
New Content: Vols. 1 – 37, Special Index Issue (1905-1942); New Series: Vol. 1 – Vol. 58 no. 2 (1942-2000)

Metropolitan Museum Studies
New Content: Vols. 1 – 5 (1928-1936)
*Title ceased publication in 1936.

Muqarnas
New Content: Vols. 1 – 16 (1983-1999)

Novum Testamentum
New Content: Vols. 1 – 41 (1956-1999)

Recent Acquisitions
New Content: Nos. 1965/1975 – 1987/1988 (1965-1988)
*Recent Acquisitions was absorbed by the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin in 1989.

Vetus Testamentum
New Content: Vols. 1 – 49 (1951-1999)

EBSCOhost enhancements

Dear EBSCOhost Customer,

We are very pleased to announce plans to introduce several significant product enhancements in the beginning of 2006, each designed to increase the efficiency and productivity of EBSCOhost researchers around the world.

Here are the key features, which are presented in detail in our Upcoming Releases Information Table on our Customer Support & Training web site.

* Visual Search delivers a graphically-rich, extremely efficient visual searching alternative, available in addition to EBSCO's popular Basic and Advanced Searching modes.

* EBSCOhost Clustering displays links of search results sorted by subject, in addition to regular Result List article links. The links provide users with instant access to just those articles concerning particular subjects.

* Database Selection from the Basic and Advanced Search Screens is available using a drop-down list of the databases in the profile being searched, eliminating the need to return to the Choose Databases screen to select a different database.

* Database Groupings by Subject can be presented in the database drop-down list, if opted by the library administrator, to offer users groupings of databases sorted by popular subjects, such as technology, business, medical science, psychology or education.

* Printing, Emailing and Saving in Standard Industry formats allows researchers interested in citing articles using specific industry formats to choose from the following: AMA, APA, Chicago/Turabian: Humanities, Chicago/Turabian: Author-Date, Modern Language Association or Vancouver/ICMJE.

* RSS enabled Alerts allow librarians and users to feed results from EBSCOhost Search and Journal Alerts into their news readers and aggregators, as well as their web sites.

* The Option to Display, Save or Email EBSCOhost Records in MARC format feature, if enabled in EBSCOadmin, gives EBSCOhost users the option to manage delivery of search results using the MARC format.

* Context-specific Help is instantly available when users click on question mark icons.

* A Personalization Activity Report will be available for Administrators interested in statistics related to Personalized Accounts, including total numbers of Search Alerts, Journal Alerts and Personalized Accounts.

* The EBSCOhost Result List Default Sorting Option gives library administrators the choice to set a relevancy default sort for All Results on the Result List, in EBSCOadmin.

* The ability to control the Display of the Suggest Subject Terms feature at the database level, in EBSCOadmin, gives library administrators increased flexibility and control over the presentation of databases that support this popular feature. More information on features

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Web Citation Index

A news article in World Information Review indicated that ISI is about to release a product, Web Citation Index, that will search Open Access (OA) content, such as OA journals, pre-prints, and institutional repository content. It apparently uses the same technology as Web of Science, a tool we know well at the U of C.

Web Citation Index seems to have been announced last year (I must have missed something). Here's the February 2004 press release that announces ISI's partnership with NEC Laboratories America on the product plus a March 2004 article from Information Today.

Monday, November 14, 2005

Friday, November 11, 2005

OVID PsychInfo Reload Complete--New Features

The latest reload includes expanded coverage back to 1806, new Thesaurus terms, updated scope notes, and new mapped terms. In addition, Ovid has made the following changes to the database:

· Two new fields: Methodology (MD) and Type of Book (BT)

· Four changed fields: Publication Type (PT), Documentation Type (DT), Auxiliary Material (SV), and Tests & Measures (TM)

· One removed field: Form Content (FC)

Most importantly, the Source field has been restructured for all Publication Types, and the order of the fields in the records now displays according to APA specifications.

Platform Change-->Bibliography of Native North Americans

Bibliography of Native North Americans

The product has moved from SilverPlatter to the EBSCO platform. We get the product as part of a COPPUL agreement and EBSCO had the more advantageous offer.

Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Xreferplus has a new home page

Did you notice the change?

"The new home page will highlight Xreferplus’ best features and functionality, inviting your patrons to get the most out of cross-references, create customized data tables, see visual results with the Concept Map, use the time-saving Citation Formatter, and more."

Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Should the new Library include a humanities lab?

We Need Humanities Labs

Short but good think piece from Inside Higher Ed. A dedicated space for grad students and faculty in the new library could be a great addition?

Learn more about social bookmarking

Share and Play Tag on the New Web Playground

Review article from PC Magazine.

"Somewhere between Web and desktop search engines lies a new breed of "community" search engines—sites where users share among themselves the bookmarks they've created and content they've encountered. Such sites can cut through the clutter that a typical Google search might return by adding the human element. After all, communities of knowledgeable, interested people can identify relevant sites with greater accuracy than a search engine. Plus, you can leverage the work already done by others and build on that base rather than repeat it."

Looks like Yahoo's product wins....so I'm off to compare it to FURL, my current fave.

--original link from SearchEngine Watch

Monday, October 17, 2005

New Product Announcement--> Freedonia focus industry market research portal

Freedonia focus industry market research portal

You'd be forgiven for thinking this was the long awaited "marxist" market research tool....but no, its actually over 250 reports covering 18 industry sectors. Sigh.

JSTOR Updates

Artibus Asiae
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 59, no. 1/2 (1925-1999)

Artibus Asiae. Supplementum New Content:
Vols. 1 – 39 (1937-1993)
NOTE: No issues published 1994-1995. Vol. 40 published in 1996.

British Educational Research Journal
New Content: Vols. 4 – 27 (1978-2001)

The Bryologist
Vols. 1 – 104 (1898-2001)

European Journal of Education
Vols. 1 – 29 (1965-1994)

German Studies Review
Vols. 1 – 22 (1978-1999)

Learning Disability Quarterly
Vols. 1 – 25 (1978-2002)

Leonardo Music Journal
Vols. 1 – 9 (1991-1999)

Metropolitan Museum Journal
Vols. 1 – 35 (1968-2000)

Peabody Journal of Education
Vols. 1 – 72 (1923-1997)

New Product Announcement--PAIS Archive

New Product Announcement--PAIS Archive

The archive adds content from 1915 to 1976 and provides historical perspective on many of the 20th century's public and social policies. Includes over one million references to monographs, periodical articles, notes and announcements, and statements.

Update on Hein Content

Take a look at the legal classics further down--its not just for law!!

New Journals Just Added to HeinOnline's Law Journal Library:

International Financial Law Review
2003-2004

International Tax Review
Vols. 1-14 (1989-2003)

Managing Intellectual Property
2002-2004

New Additions to HeinOnline's Legal Classics Library:

Administrative Justice and the Supremacy of Law in the U.S.
John Dickinson (1927)

American Conveyancer
George T. Curtis (1847)

American Precedents of Declarations, Collected Chiefly from Manuscripts of Chief Justice Parsons and Other Accomplished Pleaders in Massachusetts, Digested and Arranged Under Distinct Titles and Divisions with a Prefixed
Digest of Rules and Cases Concerning Declarations
John Anthon (1848)

American Slave Code in Theory and Practice; Its Distinctive Features Shown by Its Statutes, Judicial Decisions, and Illustrative Facts
William Goodell (1853)

Bankruptcy in United States History
Charles Warren (1935)

Bench and Bar of Other Lands
William L. Burdick (1939)

Burge's Commentaries on Colonial and Foreign Laws
William Burge (1907-1914)

Business - A Profession
Louis D. Brandies (1933)

Chapters on Current International Law and the League of Nations
John Fischer Williams (1929)

Charles Dickens as a Legal Historian
William S. Holdsworth (1929)

Civil Code of the German Empire (1909) Code Napoleon Verbally Translated from the French
Bryant Barrett (1811)

Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence, as Administered in England and America
Joseph Story (1886)

Commentaries on Equity Pleadings, and the Incidents Thereof, According to the Practice of the Courts of Equity of England and America
Joseph Story (1848)

Commentaries on the Law of Bailments
Joseph Story (1870)

Commentaries on the Law of Statutory Crimes
Joel Prentiss Bishop (1883)

Commentary on the Law of Prize and Booty
Hugo Grotius (1950)

Constitutional History of England in Its Origin and Development
William Stubbs (1880-1884)

Course of Legal Study; Respectfully Addressed to the Students of Law in the United States
David Hoffman (1846)

De Foro Legatorum Liber Singularis. A Monograph on the Jurisdiction over Ambassadors in Both Civil and Criminal Cases
Cornelius van Bynkershoek (1946)

De Jure et Officiis Bellicis et Disciplina Militari Libri III
Balthazar Ayala (1912)

De Jure Praedae Commentarius
Hugo Grotius (1950)

Dissertation on the Freedom of Navigation and Maritime Commerce, and Such Rights of States, Relative Thereto, as Are Founded on the Law of Nations: Adapted More Particularly to the United States; and Interspersed with Moral
and Political Reflections, and Historical Facts
William Barton (1802)

Drafting of the Covenant
David Hunter Miller (1928)

English Constitutional History
Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead (1905)

Final Report of the Attorney General's Committee on Administrative Procedure
(1941)

Forms in Chancery, Admiralty, and at Common Law; Adapted to the Practice of the Federal and State Courts
(1842)

Foundations of Legal Liability-A Presentation of the Theory and Development of the Common Law
Thomas Atkins Street (1906)

General Survey of Events, Sources, Persons and Movements in Continental Legal History
(1912)

Growth of American Administrative Law
Ernest Freund, et al. (1923)

Henrici de Bracton de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae
(1878-1883)

History of Continental Civil Procedure
Arthur Engelmann (1927)

History of Continental Criminal Law
Carl Ludwig von Bar (1916)

History of Continental Criminal Procedure with Special Reference to France
A. Esmein (1913)

History of French Private Law
Jean Brissaud (1912)

History of French Public Law
Jean Brissaud (1915)

History of Germanic Private Law
Rudolf Huebner (1918)

History of Italian Law
Carlo Calisse (1928)

History of the Criminal Law of England
James Fitzjames Stephen (1883)

International Law Chiefly as Interpreted and Applied by the United States
Cheney Charles Hyde (1922)

Intervention in International Law
Ellery C. Stowell (1921)

Law and Morals
Roscoe Pound (1924)

Law of Nations Considered as Independent Political Communities-On the Rights and Duties of Nations in Time of Peace
Travers Twiss (1884)

Law of Quasi Contracts
Frederic Campbell Woodward (1913)

Legal Rights, Liabilities and Duties of Women
Edward D. Mansfield (1845)

Legislative and Documentary History of the Bank of the United States: Including the Original Bank of North America
M. St. Clair Clarke & D.A. Hall (1832)

Mental Disorder and the Criminal Law - A Study in Medico-Sociological Jurisprudence
Sheldon S. Glueck (1927)

Mr. Justice Miller and the Supreme Court 1862-1890
Charles Fairman (1939)

Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression Vols. 1-8, Supp. A, Supp B., Opinions and Judgment (1946-1948)

Prize Law during the World War - A Study of the Jurisprudence of the Prize Courts
James Wilford Garner (1927)

Problems of the Roman Criminal Law
James Leigh Strachan-Davidson (1912)

Progress of Continental Law in the Nineteenth Century
(1918)


Report of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Opinions of the Judges Thereof, in the Case of Dred Scott versus John F. A. Sandford
Benjamin C. Howard (1857)

Restraints on the Alienation of Property
John Chipman Gray (1895)

Rules of Proceeding and Debate in Deliberative Assemblies
Luther S. Cushing (1914)

Science of International Law
Thomas Alfred Walker (1893)

Seidman's Legislative History of Federal Income Tax Laws 1938-1861
J.S. Seidman (1938)

Selection of Pleadings in Civil Actions, with Occasional Annotations
Joseph Story (1829)

Selections from Three Works of Francisco Suarez
(1944)

Studies in Comparative Jurisprudence and the Conflict of Laws
George Merrill (1886)

Study of Mutual Funds
(1962)

Three Books On the Law of War and on the Duties Connected with War and on Military Discipline
Balthazar Ayala (1912)

Tractatus De Bello, De Represaliis et de Duello
Giovanni da Legnano (1917)

Treaties and Conventions Concluded between the United States of America and other Powers
(1873, 1889)

Treatise on the Criminal Law of the United States
Francis Wharton (1857)

Treatise on the Law of Agency
Floyd R. Mechem (1914)

Treatise on the Law of Fire and Life Insurance
Joseph K. Angell (1855)

Treatise on the Law of Real Property
Alfred G. Reeves (1909)

Treatise on the Specific Performance of Contracts
John Norton Pomeroy (1926)

Works of the Honourable James Wilson
James Wilson (1804)

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Comparison of Web of Science, Google Scholar, and Scopus

An Examination of Citation Counts in a New Scholarly Communication Environment

Article from D-Lib magazine comparing journal citations trapped by the three different interfaces. Want to have fun? Take an afternoon and do your own study!

-from scholarly electronic publishing weblog

Friday, October 07, 2005

New Product Announcement-->Lexi Comp

Lexi Comp Online

A comprehensive guide to drugs, including drug interactions, natural products and, most importantly, dangerous abbreviations that can lead to catastrophic consequences when your doctor's handwriting is really bad!

Note that we also have access to Lexi Comp @ Hand, which is the PDA version of this database. This is only available to med students and Michelle Sinotte is the key contact on this.

New Interface--->Petroleum Abstracts

Petroleum Abstracts

This represents quite a change in presentation from the old Dialog Access. Hope everyone enjoys the opportunity to do lots of cross database searching with the health sources on OVID.

Thursday, October 06, 2005

New JSTOR Titles

Dear JSTOR Participant,

We are pleased to announce that fifteen new titles have been added to the JSTOR archive. Institutions that participate in collections with new titles will be able to access the new content immediately.

Association for Jewish Studies Review
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 24 (1976-1999)

Applied Vegetation Science
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 2 (1998–1999)

Artibus et Historiae
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 22 (1980-2001)

Canadian Journal of Political Science / Revue canadienne de science politique
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 32 (1968-1999)

Dance Research Journal New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 31 (1969-1999)
Moving Wall: 5 years

Design Issues
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 15 (1984-1999)

The Harvard Theological Review
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 92 (1908-1999)

The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 23 (1986-1998)

The Journal of the Learning Sciences
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 8 (1991-1999)

La Ricerca Folklorica
New Content: Nos. 1 – 44 (1980-2001)

Micropaleontology
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 8 (1947-1954); Vol. 1 – Vol. 47 (1955-2001)

PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 21 (1976-1999)

Studies in Conservation
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 44 (1952-1999)

Theory into Practice
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 40 (1922-1961); Vol. 1 – Vol. 38 (1962-1999)

Western Folklore
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 58 (1942-1999)

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Article Locator

The Article Locator is a new search form that allows you to find a specific article with an easy, fill-in-the-blank form. To locate a single article, enter as much information as you have from an article reference or citation. The form will search multiple fields of a citation simultaneously, such as author name, article title, journal title, volume/issue information, year, etc.

Monday, September 26, 2005

Making Google Scholar Work for You: MIT Libraries

Making Google Scholar Work for You: MIT Libraries

Help pages from MIT for researchers using Google Scholar. Helps readers understand how to access information that MIT has licensed.

Saturday, September 17, 2005

New Product Announcement-->China Insight

China Insight

Includes information on Chinese publicly traded companies. Provides a wealth of hard-to-find data integrating in-depth company fundamentals, critical sector reports, daily corporate news events, annual reports, and independent ratings reports all in a single and manageable platform.

Who knew China had publicly traded companies?

New Product Announcement-->Geoscience World

GeoScience World

A big addition in that it provides electronic access to key journals in one of the University's areas of focus.

Serves as a comprehensive resource for research and communications in the geological and earth sciences. It is built on a core database aggregation of peer-reviewed journals indexed, linked, and inter-operable with GeoRef.

This means you can search GeoRef from this site as well as through our webspirs platform. However, while GSW is set up as a SFX target (you can link from other sites to articles in GSW) it does not appear to work as an SFX source (allowing linking out of GSW to other full text sites). I think this means that GeoRef through WebSpirs will still be a good option.

New Product Announcement--->SocIndex with Full Text

SocIndex with Full Text


This is a significant addition to our resources. I think it will be of use for any type of social science question, and a key tool for undergraduates. I'd encourage you to give it a whirl while on the desk and try it out with some suitable questions.

SocINDEX with Full Text, is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The index features more than 1,300,000 records with subject headings from a 15,600 term sociology-specific thesaurus designed by expert lexicographers. This product also contains informative abstracts for more than 620 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895.

In addition, this file provides data mined from more than 500 "priority" coverage journals as well as over 1,390 "selective" coverage journals. Further, extensive indexing for books, monographs, conference papers, and other sources is included. Searchable cited references are also provided.

SocINDEX with Full Text offers coverage from all subdisciplines of sociology, including abortion, anthropology, criminology, criminal justice, cultural sociology, demography, economic development, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, politics, religion, rural sociology, social psychology, social structure, social work, sociological theory, sociology of education, substance abuse, urban studies, violence, welfare, and many others.

SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 242 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 72 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for 547 books and monographs, and full text for 6,711 conference papers.

Thursday, September 15, 2005

Let the reader assign the subject headings

Social Terminology Enhancement through Vernacular Engagement: Exploring Collaborative Annotation to Encourage Interaction with Museum Collections

Never heard of folksomonies, or social tagging. Read this for a quick catchup.

Then try it out with
The ESP Tool

Researchers have always used each others work as building blocks in finding information (citation tracking). Building approaches like this into databases could help give users an useful alternative to controlled subject headings and keywords.

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Tufte analyses power point slide related to shuttle disaster

If you have never read anything by Tufte, this is a good introduction. Here he provides an analysis of how the presentation of information influenced assessment of the threat presented by insulation hitting the space shuttle.

Why is this important to libraries? Maybe because it helps point out that in trying to simplify information to make it accessible, we run the risk of suppressing important levels of complexity.

New Sage Journals

These have been added to our package.


Criminal Justice Review
International Criminal Justice Review
European Journal of Criminology
Crime, Media, Culture

Improving Schools
International Journal of Music Education
Psychology of Music

Global Media and Communication

Give ebrary a whirl

The good folks in ITS and BibServices have been working away on ebrary and it is pretty close to a full scale launch.

There are now 20,000 ebrary records in the test system (http://neter.lib.ucalgary.ca/) when these records hit the regular catalogue we can assume they will generate a ton of questions. So I think it might be good to start preparing yourself.

Paul Pival will be providing training for library staff. But for now, try going to the test system and playing around with the ebooks.

Many searches will pull up ebrary records, for a short cut you can just type in ebrary. Gilbert assures me that most people should be able to download the ebrary reader to their desktops. Once you link to a book, if you haven't already downloaded the reader you will be prompted to do so.

Try creating a personal account, this will allow you to explore some of the more interesting tools, for example annotations and bookmarking.

Have fun! Let me know any comments.

Friday, August 26, 2005

New Product Announcement-->International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance

International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance


International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance,represents the most comprehensive multicultural and inter-disciplinary research tool available to theater students, educators and professionals.

Initiated by the American Society for Theatre Research, IBTD becomes a valuable component to EBSCO's list of subject-specific secondary databases covering the humanities.

Since 1984, the Theatre Research Data Center (TRDC) at Brooklyn College has published 14 volumes of the IBTD. These volumes comprise a fully indexed, cross-referenced and annotated databank of over 60,000 journal articles, books, book articles and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance in 126 countries.

As experts in the subject area, TRDC will continue indexing various titles for the database as well as coordinating international contributors.

New Product Announcement--->Library of Latin Texts

Library of Latin Texts

One irritating thing is that we need to link to the brepolis home page (because of our license), instead of directly to the Library of Latin Texts. Once you click through from the home page, the link to the LLT is at the bottom of the display, and is not immediately apparent. Give it a try and you'll see what I mean.

CCLT's intention is to work towards a complete database of Latin texts, both Christian and other. The user will find here, beyond the normal addition of patristic and medieval texts (including, it’s worth emphasizing, a number previously unedited), the invaluable inclusion (thanks to our collaboration with Fr. Roberto Busa) of the main works of Thomas Aquinas (the Summa theologiae, Summa contra Gentiles and his commentaries on the Sentences), and neo-Latin classics such as the Institutio christianae religionis of John Calvin and certain Latin works of Descartes (for which we are dependent on the collaboration with the Lessico Intellettuale Europeo in Rome, directed by our friend and colleague, Tullio Gregory).

Thursday, August 25, 2005

IMSA 21st Century Information Fluency Project

IMSA 21st Century Information Fluency Project

You information literacy types might enjoy.

(I won't tell you how I fared on the fluency test for searching web pages.)

-from ResourceShelf

Friday, August 19, 2005

New Product Announcement-->Patrologiae Graecae

Patrologiae Graecae

What the heck is this you may well ask?

" PG contains more than 160 volumes of Greek material (with Latin translations) relevant to the study of the history of the Christian Church from its beginnings through the Council of Florence in 1439.

J.-P. Migne, a priest from 1824-1833, moved to Paris and began the work of assembling an enormous body of early texts from 1833 till his death in 1873.

PG is a collection of the writings of the church leaders who wrote in Greek, including both the Eastern "Fathers" and those Western Christians who wrote before the Latin takeover of the West in the third century.

PG's coverage extends to 1439, the date of the Council of Florence."

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

How Google Scholar is used at the University of California

UC Libraries Use of Google Scholar

A nice little report. I think the comments will be useful in thinking of ways we could use Google Scholar in our own work.

Thursday, August 11, 2005

Paul Pival publishes article on blogging

Blogging for the Distance Librarian
Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning
Volume: 2 Issue: 2

Based on user lookups, Merriam-Webster Online proclaimed “Blog” the word of the year for 2004.1 Distance librarianship, until mid-way through 2004, was a subject that was underrepresented in the blogosphere. The inception of a blog called The Distant Librarian: Comments on the world of Distance Librarianship is chronicled in this article, along with suggestions for how and where to get started, as well as how to incorporate blogs that support library services for distance students.

Emerald Interface Changes

www.emeraldinsight.com

We are very pleased to confirm that the new Emerald website will be launched this week. This is to ensure that the new website is in place well before the new student intake takes place for the majority of our customers in September.

All existing URL links into Emerald journals and databases will be maintained and will be fully operational.

JSTOR new titles

Dear JSTOR Participant,

We are pleased to announce that eighteen new titles have been added to the JSTOR archive.

Advances in Applied Probability
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 33 (1969-2001)

The American Journal of Psychology
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 114 (1887-2001)

APT Bulletin
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 32 (1969-2001)

Biogeochemistry
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 47 (1984-1999)

Cognition and Instruction
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 17 (1984-1999)

Copeia
New Content: Nos. 1 – 173; Vol. 1930 – Vol. 2001 (1913-2001)

Herpetological Monographs
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 15 (1982-2001)

Invertebrate Biology
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 118 (1878-1999)

Journal of Applied Probability
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 38 (1964-2001)

Journal of Architectural Education
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 48 (1947-1994)

Journal of Consumer Psychology
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 8 (1992-1999)

Journal of Educational Measurement
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 36 (1964-1999)

Journal of the American Academy of Religion
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 67 (1933-1999)

Journal of Vegetation Science
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 10 (1990-1999)

Polity
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 32, No. 2 (1968-1999)

Psychological Inquiry
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 10 (1990-1999)

The Review of Politics
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 63 (1939-2001)

The Virginia Law Register
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 20; New Series: Vol. 1 – Vol. 13 (1895-1928)

By publisher request, JSTOR is reducing the moving walls for two titles:

The Condor
New Content: Vol. 102 – Vol. 103 (2000-2001)
Moving Wall: 3 years (previously 5 years)

International Organization
New Content: Vol. 54 – Vol. 55 (2000-2001)
Moving Wall: 3 years (previously 5 years)

One title has been updated with previously missing issues no longer missing:

Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association
New Content: Vol. 1 – 10, 12, (1927-1936, 1938)

One previous title to a journal currently archived in JSTOR is now available. The Arts & Sciences III and Language & Literature Collections will now include this previous content related to the current title, Italica.

Bulletin of the American Association of Teachers of Italian
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 2 (1924-1925)

Guidelines for Producing Recorded Demonstrations

Show Me! Guidelines for Producing Recorded Demonstrations

Abstract. Although recorded demonstrations (screen capture animations with narration) have become a popular form of instruction for user interfaces, little work has been done to describe guidelines for their design. Based on our experience in several projects, we offer a starting set of guidelines for the design of recorded demonstrations. Technical guidelines encourage users to keep file sizes small, strive for universal usability, and ensure user control etc. and provide tips to achieve those goals. Content guidelines include: create short demonstrations that focus on tasks, highlight each step with auditory and visual cues, synchronize narration and animation carefully, and create demonstrations with a clear beginning, middle, and end.

Doesn't mention not eating your lunch while doing the voice overs.

-from Resource shelf

Wednesday, August 03, 2005

Update to L'annee philogique

The data of volume 74 for the year 2003 are online.

New features:

- the database is OpenURL compliant : libraries which subscribe to a Open URL provider can send us the relevant information (Name of provider and address).

- the search criteria and the associated results can now be saved from one session to another. The procedure to register online is simple and fast after you clicked on Save the search in the main window. To retrieve saved searches click on Search strategies on the navigation bar on the left.

- the abstract is now exported in the DAT format (text).
- the navigation system in the list of results is now of the type first / following / previous / last.

Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Collection Development Framework for Library and Archives Canada

Collection Development Framework for Library and Archives Canada

Important reading for Canadian Libraries. Five key directions are outlined

-Creation of a single LAC collection
-Collection of digital materials
-Focus on Aboriginal materials
-Focus on multicultural materials
-Development of a coordinate national approach

While the LAC remains dedicated to the collection of Canadiana, a quick read did not show any mention of academic materials. Many involved in the Synergies project understand the threat poised by the ephemeral nature of digital publication to Canadian scholarship.

-original link from ResourceShelf

Thursday, July 28, 2005

Changes to EBSCOhost begin

Dear EBSCOhost Customer,

We are preparing to implement the EBSCOhost and EBSCOadmin features outlined in our message sent to you on July 15, 2005. You will begin to see the new features in the next few days.

For an overview of the key features in this software upgrade, please visit the Release Information table on our customer support site.

Wednesday, July 27, 2005

OVID HealthStar changes

(I'm not sure if we use the jumpstart syntax, but included the information just in case)

We are pleased to announce that Ovid HealthSTAR will be reloaded this week.

The reload includes journal records but no longer includes the small percentage of the database represented by non-journal records. It employs the current 2005 version of MeSH® and reflects other current MEDLINE® enhancements made by NLM®.

For example, HealthSTAR will now include the extensive and recently updated Clinical Queries feature to allow users to restrict search retrievals to clinically relevant studies. Also added are the PubMed subject limits as well as many new search fields. For additional details about new and deleted fields please see the Reload News.

As before the reloaded version is a source for citations to journal articles that are retrieved using the NLM HealthSTAR search strategy. It will support the old JumpStart syntax but coverage dates will change as shown below:



· hstr=HealthSTAR/Ovid Healthstar <1975 to May 2005> will become <1966 to June 2005>

· hstf=HealthSTAR/Ovid Healthstar <1987 to May 2005> will become <1999 to June 2005>

· hstb=HealthSTAR <1975 to 1986> will become <1966 to 1998>

Monday, July 25, 2005

Alexander Street provides free access to new index for personal memoirs

In the First Person

"This release of In the First Person provides in-depth indexing of more than 2,500 collections of oral history in English from around the world. With future releases, the index will broaden to identify other first-person content, including letters, diaries, memoirs, and autobiographies, and other personal narratives."

Not just Alexander street collections, but many many others.

A search for Calgary got 44 hits.

Friday, July 22, 2005

Welcome new librarian--Sociology & Communication Studies

Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce that Christopher Thomas has accepted a limited term assignment as Liaison Librarian for Sociology and Communication Studies. Chris will be joining us on July 4, 2005 and will be assigned the office which is being vacated by Kelli Bellew-Martin during her leave. Chris' phone number will be 220-7737 and his email address will be cthomas@ucalgary.ca .

Chris' most recent library experience was with the Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology where he served for five years as Information Literacy and Public Services Librarian. Before that he worked in Calgary, from 1999 to 2000, as Business Information Specialist at TransCanada Pipelines library here in Calgary. Chris received his MLIS from the University of Western Ontario in 1999 and he has a BA (Honours) in Sociology from McMaster University.

Please keep an eye out for our new colleague and join me in welcoming him to the University of Calgary.

Regards,

Darlene

Darlene Warren

Welcome new librarian--English, French, Italian and Spanish Languages and Literatures

Colleagues,

Please join me in welcoming Diana Zimmerschied to Information Resources. Diana has accepted a limited term assignment as Liaison Librarian for English, French, Italian and Spanish languages and literatures and will be joining us on July 25, 2005. Diana will be assigned the office space which is being vacated by Mary Hemmings during her leave. Her phone number will be 220-6577 and we will forward an announcement of her email address when it is assigned.

Diana is a recent graduate of the University of Alberta's Library and Information Studies programme. She also has an B.Ed with Distinction (Generalist with a French as a Second Language minor) from the University of Alberta. She has worked as an elementary school teacher where she specialized in music instruction and French as as Second Language.

Please keep an eye out for our new colleague.

Regards,

Darlene

American Psychological Association launcheds Librarian's Resource Center

Librarian's Resource Center

Includes links to training and user support documents.

University of Texas to shelve the whole books thing

Variation on the information commons theme. Differs from our approach because the commons is separated from the books.

While the jury is out, I'm not sure I would have said that...
"content is now decoupled from context".

Thursday, July 14, 2005

OCLC offering book sale links in Open World Cat

This article in Information Today outlines upcoming changes in Open World Cat and mentions that OCLC will begin charging Libraries to participate in OWC.

Some of the services

Serials--a union catalogue of electronic journals and sources. Libraries will be able to register resolvers so users can connect directly.

Reference--libraries that offer virtual reference can have a icon added to indicate this when users search for libraries that hold an item

Book Buying--users can buy books direct from Baker & Taylor, if a home library is named by the buyer, then the library will get a portion of the sales as a credit on their OWC invoice

whew!

Thursday, July 07, 2005

New Product Announcement-->Religious and Theological Abstracts

Religious and Theological Abstracts

Provides objective summaries of articles appearing in scholarly journals in the fields of Religion and Theology. Database lists a wide variety of periodical literature, including Christian, Jewish, and other world religions, and provides English language abstracts of articles in English, Hebrew, Afrikaans, and major European languages. Indexes and abstracts articles in the fields of sociology, anthropology, criminology, demography, education, law and penology, race relations, social psychology, and urban studies. Coverage also includes policy issues in areas such as aging, violence, abuse and neglect, crisis intervention, urban development, and development policy.

New Product Announcement--->Evidence-based complementary medicine

Evidence-based complementary medicine


Research shows that many patients use herbs and supplements, but do not tell their healthcare providers. Furthermore, many patients do not trust conventional practitioners to be adequately informed about these therapies. This database is specifically designed to help healthcare providers overcome these challenges.

This scientifically accurate, comprehensive material is extensively referenced and regularly updated. It currently cites more than 12,000 published primary sources, many of them translated from foreign languages, and analyzed and integrated by healthcare professionals with extensive experience in the alternative medicine field.

This database:

* Covers over 75 medical conditions and more than 160 herbs and supplements
* Identifies potential interactions between herbal therapies and drugs
* Guides healthcare providers to ask appropriate questions to learn about their patients' usage of natural therapies
* Equips providers to knowledgeably answer patients' questions about the use of natural therapies
* Provides a summary of clinical research and rates the strength of evidence behind specific natural therapies
* Provides detailed and practical information on dosage and safety issues

Wednesday, July 06, 2005

Information and Communications Technology Assessment

All you info literacy types probably know all about this.

But in case you don't it appears to be a standardized test for information literacy.

"As part of the National Higher Education ICT Initiative, ETS and a group of colleges and universities have collaborated to create the ICT Literacy Assessment, a comprehensive test of ICT proficiency specifically designed for the higher education environment."

There is a short story about the test posted on Inside Higher Education.

Friday, June 17, 2005

Updates to Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

The second update of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online is now live! This update adds 140 new biographies of men and women who left a mark on some aspect of the British past between the thirteenth and twentieth centuries, along with 18 new ready reference lists and eight feature articles for ready reference. http://www.oxforddnb.com/oxforddnb/info/news/

140 NEW LIVES ADDED
Building and extending on the Oxford DNB's coverage of people from all walks of life, this update adds biographies of 140 people in 132 articles. The earliest new entry is soldier and writer, Sir Roger Stanegrave (fl. 1276-1336), and the latest (by death date) is politician, Inga-Stina Robson, Baroness Robson of Kiddington (1919-1999). Of the new biographies 36 are of women.

FEATURED IN THIS UPDATE

Each update spotlights distinct groups of people with a shared identity or common link. This update examines three areas (90 biographies in total), all with an introductory essay:

* European exiles and visitors to Britain -- people who came to Britain as exiles or visitors from mainland Europe, including Georgi Markov (1929-1978), the Bulgarian dissident poisoned by assassins on Waterloo Bridge, London, and gunpowder manufacturer, Francis Grueber (c.1657-1730; whose premises exploded with spectacular effect in 1703).

* Women in politics -- women active in political life from the seventeenth century onward, with notables from Jacobean courtier Mary Villiers, countess of Buckingham (c.1570-1632), to Rotha Lintorn-Orman (1895-1935), who founded the British Fascisti in 1923 intending to protect the nation from communism. This update also includes coverage of all (deceased) female British MPs

* Household names -- entrepreneurs from cocktail inventor James Pimm (1798-1866) to John Lea (1791-1874) and William Perrins (1793-1867), inventors of a savory sauce that originated with a barrel of inedible condiment they later re-opened by chance.

Our remaining biographies are of men and women who left their mark in the arts, diplomacy, the military, trade, religion, and education.

NEW LISTS AND ESSAYS

Ranging from "Rulers of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms" to "Captains of the English cricket team," the 18 new ready reference lists included in this update are sure to provide new avenues into the Dictionary.

The eight new topical essays include a look at eighteenth-century India from P.J. Marshall, an exploration of twentieth-century English music from Stephen Banfield, and an examination of medieval science from John D. North.

CORRECTIONS AND AMENDMENTS
Corrections and amendments to articles consist of known factual errors-verified by the research staff and, where necessary, contributors or external reviewers, and the addition of new material (for example, family life dates) submitted by readers or derived from recent publications. Articles are identified in the citation at the foot of the entry, and previous versions are available for consultation on the website.

JSTOR new titles--including anthropology titles back to 1848

Dear JSTOR Participant:
We are pleased to announce that thirteen new titles have been added to the JSTOR archive.

British Journal of Sociology of Education
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 22 (1980-2001)

Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
New Content: Nos. 1 – 324 (1919-2001)
Feminist Review
New Content: Nos. 1 – 63 (1979-1999)

International Statistical Review / Revue Internationale de Statistique
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 67 (1933-1999)
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 38 (1961-1999)

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 4 (1996-1999)

Journal of Business & Economic Statistics
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 17 (1983-1999)

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 8 (1992-1999)

Journal of Law and Society
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 26 (1974-1999)

Law and Human Behavior
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 23 (1977-1999)
Philosophy East and West
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 51 (1951-2001)

Sociological Perspectives
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 44 (1958-2001)

Wicazo Sa Review
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 16 (1985-2001)

By publisher request, JSTOR is reducing the moving walls for two titles:
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology
New Content: None. (No volumes were published in 2001 or 2002.)
Moving Wall: 3 years (previously 4 years)

Phoenix
New Content: Vol. 54 – Vol. 55 (2000-2001)
Moving Wall: 3 years (previously 5 years)

Seven previous titles to journals archived in JSTOR are now available. The Arts & Sciences I Collection will now include this previous content related to the current title, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
The Anthropological Review
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 8 (1863-1870)

Journal of the Anthropological Society of London
New Content: Vol. 2 – Vol. 8 (1864-1871)

The Journal of Anthropology
New Content: Vol. 1 (1870-1871)

The Journal of the Ethnological Society of London (1848-1856)
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 4 (1848-1856)

The Journal of the Ethnological Society of London (1869-1870)
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 2 (1869-1870)

Transactions of the Anthropological Society of London
New Content: Vol. 1 (1863)

Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 7 (1861-1869)

The complex title relationship between these previous titles and the current title is as follows: The Journal of Anthropology and The Journal of the Ethnological Society of London (1869-1870) merged to form The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, which is continued by The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, which in turn, is absorbed by Man. Man is continued by The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.