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.

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

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.

Library survey supports expanding space for book

A new library survey supports expanding space for knowledge

Good reading as we plan our new building.

-Lorcan Dempsey

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.

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."