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.

Update to Hein Online content (not just for law, good for history and polisci as well)

A total of 203,571 pages have now been added to HeinOnline with this latest release of new material -- our second consecutive release of more than 200,000 pages!

We are also proud to announce that this latest update includes our first release of Code of Federal Regulations material, which includes the 1938 edition through the 1947 supplements. As mentioned previously, future releases will include greatly expanded CFR coverage.

Here is detailed information on this latest HeinOnline content release ...

New Journals
Human Rights (ABA)
North Dakota Law Review
Saskatchewan Law Review
UMKC Law Review

U.S. Reports Library Update
11 new Slip Opinions have been included with this latest release.

Treaties and Agreements Library Update
Current Treaty Index
Eds. 1-25 (1982-1999)

Treaties in Force
1932 Vol.

Federal Register Library -- New Addition
Code of Federal Regulation
1938-1947 supplements

Upcoming Changes to Silverplatter Interface

Upgrades are coming in Mid-July

The Preview Site represents a “live environment” where you and your users can log in and see your subscribed content in the new WebSPIRS interface. As well as an updated look and cleaner display of limits and indexes, you will discover three new features to support end users:

I had to cobble together the link for the preview site so I've only done one for Social Work Abstracts. You can navigate to the other databases from this link.

New Features include:

Direct Export
Export citations to RefWorks®, EndNote® and ProCite® - and soon Reference Manager

Find Citation
Quickly locate the citation you need using reference information, even if it'’s incomplete

Find Similar
Identify articles that are similar in coverage

The Resource Center is your main source for all related information including a list of frequently asked questions (FAQs), training schedules and materials, screen shots, announcements, and much more. As new materials become available, they will be posted to this site meaning you'll be the first to access the new online tutorial, quick reference cards, and end-user guides.

ebrary Ships New Reader

ebrary Ships New Reader

I've installed it although I don't see much difference.

Upcoming ProQuest enhancements

To preview these enhancements, please visit our website at:

Dear ProQuest Customer,

The next ProQuest release is scheduled for June 11th . This release will have exciting new enhancements including:

Enhancements to our "More like this" feature making it easier to find and use.

*­The feature will be displayed automatically at the bottom of the article page and will always be open
* link to More like this will be added to the top of the full text article page to further promote this feature

Author Profiles Enhancement - Profiles that include dissertations will be hyperlinked to the best available format for that dissertation.
Two new citations styles will be available: Harvard and Vancouver.

* Harvard is an author-date style similar to Chicago/Turabian
* Vancouver will be listed as a new option

To enhance support for our customers outside of the United States, ProQuest will add four new interface languages

* Italian
* ­Russian
* Polish
* Norwegian

As well as ten new article translation languages bringing the total number of languages to twelve

*­Spanish
*­Portuguese
*­French
*­German
*Italian
*­Russian
*Polish
* Chinese-simplified
* Chinese-traditional
* Japanese
* Korean
* Turkish

My Research Summary and the Marked List page will be combined into a single feature called My Research. The tab at the top of every page will be updated to display a single selection. The search results page has also been updated so the My Research options (Email/Cite/Export) will be added above the first result.

ProQuest now offers RSS feeds

ProQuest :: RSS Feeds

Includes an overview of how RSS feeds could be implemented library pages, faculty pages, and course syllabi.

Social Bookmarking, Scholars Boxes--the emerging need for centralized information management

At Calgary we are currently testing an internet based citation management tool. It has many great features for saving references for bibliographies, but I'm a bit disappointed that it doesn't have many of the features I enjoy with FURL.

FURL is a social bookmarking tool that allows me to capture links to web pages, articles and other online content.

Like many others, I've become used to finding almost all my information online, and having to collate a blizzard of print-outs if I want to organize information for long term work is increasingly frustrating.

What I need is to be able to seamlessly

* capture information for online storage and later decide what is worth reading or keeping
* annotate my links and add whatever metadata suits me and my projects
* see who else has linked to the same information or chose to keep my links private
* create "reading clubs" to share information with people who's interests overlap with mine
* allow other people to collaborate with me on my documents or in annotating links
* clip quotes as I'm reading, add annotations and put them into new documents or folders
* search the full text of my stored information
* send information to my colleagues or students via email
* organize the material in folders
* keep it for as long as I want, even if I leave this university (heaven forfend) and go somewhere else
* access this "personal portfolio" from any computer with an internet connection

Technology and applications exist to make this all possible, but we need a product that brings this all together in one package.

After a little online digging I find I'm not alone in longing for a better solution to the information management problem. Here are some links I've come across:

'Towards Library Groupware with Personalised Link Routing', Ariadne Issue 40

Scholar's Box

and an interesting exchange on the Making Links blog

If anyone else has some references or projects to add to this list let me know and I'll post them.

Visual mapping of knowledge

RedNova News--Mapping Scientific Knowledge in Diagram Form

Software is used for concept mapping. Free download is available.

-original link from SciTech Daily

New Product Announcement-->Science Direct Encyclopedias

Comprehensive coordination chemistry II: from biology to nanotechnology

• Comprehensive Coordination Chemistry II (CCC II) presents a very detailed study of this core scientific discipline within Inorganic Chemistry. Its aim is to give both the specialist and non-specialist chemist, in academia and industrial and government laboratories, a clear overview of the major developments in coordination chemistry since the early 1980s

Comprehensive composite materials

• Covers key aspects of naturally occurring and synthetic composite materials. Also covers smart materials as they relate to composites, including process monitoring, embedded sensors and actuators, and damage detection

Encyclopedia of applied plant sciences

• The Encyclopedia of Applied Plant Sciences is a comprehensive yet succinct publication that covers the application of current advantages in the biological sciences so both academic and corporate researchers can produce sustainable, safe food, feed and food ingredients, and renewable raw materials.

This important work also covers continuing advances in the application of knowledge in ecology and plant pathology, genetics, physiology, biochemistry and biotechnology, as well as the ethical issues surrounding controversial techniques available to modern plant science.

Encyclopedia of atmospheric sciences

• It presents a fully structured exposition of the core knowledge of atmospheric sciences, with special attention to applied aspects, especially of predictability and reliability of data compilation. The scope of the work ranges from spectroscopy of atmospheric particles to weather prediction.

Encyclopedia of biological chemistry

• This compilation of more than 500 different entries encompasses all aspects of biochemistry, as well as the extensions of this subject into the related fields of molecular biology, cell biology, genetics and biophysics.

Encyclopedia of biodiversity

• Major themes of the work include the evolution of biodiversity, systems for classifying and defining biodiversity, ecological patterns and theories of biodiversity, and an assessment of contemporary patterns and trends in biodiversity.

Encyclopedia of energy

• This important work contains a selection of additional material including a chronology of energy-related developments, an annotated bibliography of reference works and data sources, a directory of energy-related organizations, and a selection of reference tables including: measurement systems; common units and their definitions; and energy and power conversion factors.

Encyclopedia of food microbiology

• Each article in the encyclopedia is approximately 4000 words in length and contains tables, line drawings, black-and-white photographs, and electron micrographs, where appropriate.

Encyclopedia of forest sciences

• Taking an international approach, the work covers developing forest science techniques together with vital basic information on the important elements of forestry. Relevant biology and ecology, different types of forestry, scientific names of trees and shrubs and the applied, economic and social aspects of forest management are all included.

Encyclopedia of genetics

• At over 1,700 entries this is the largest reference work on genetics currently available with complete, up-to-date information. Articles range from short definitions, succinct summaries and biographies, to indepth reviews alphabetically arranged on all topics from Abortive Transduction to Zygotic Lethal Gene.

Encyclopedia of human nutrition

• The Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition is a credible, wealth of information in the field of human nutrition. The work includes extensive material put together by a team of experts focusing on clinical nutrition, dietary management, gastrointestinal and liver diseases, genomics, nutritional impact of genetically modified food and nutrient gene interactions.

Encyclopedia of immunology

• This is a distillation of current immunological knowledge covering cellular, molecular, biochemical, genetic and technical aspects of the subject. It also provides information on related areas, including microbiology, virology and parasitology. Entries are included on all diseases affecting the immune system (HIV and primary and secondary immunodeficiencies), and autoimmune diseases (insulin dependent diabetes, mellitus, myasthenia gravis and rheumatoid arthritis). Other topics covered include the immune response to bacterial, viral and parasitic infections, and the therapeutic manipulation of the immune system.

Encyclopedia of information systems

• The Encyclopedia of Information Systems provides essential answers to questions increasingly asked by people in all walks of life. People can no longer claim that information about computer viruses, for example, is unimportant to their work, or that advances in speech recognition and encryption will leave them unaffected. The encyclopedia is therefore more useful than one might suspect to people well beyond the walls of information systems departments. Offering both general and technical information about major elements, issues, opinions, and key studies, as well as cross-references to related subjects, it captures the dynamic growth and complexity unique to our era.

Encyclopedia of materials

• Covers all of materials science and technology, focussing on the following areas:

Functional Phenomena; Structural Phenomena; Fundamental Core Theory; Structural Materials; Polymers and Materials Chemistry; Functional Materials

Encyclopedia of separation science

• Separation Science is the science of separating mixtures into their components and identifying the nature of these components. It covers virtually every area of the hard sciences, from chemistry, biology, medicine, pharmacy, clinical chemistry, petroleum, cosmetic, nuclear, food, agrochemical, brewing and winemaking industry and environmental sciences.

Encyclopedia of soils in the environment

• Concise articles surveying specific aspects of soils (soil genesis, soil chemistry and mineralogy, soil physics and hydrology, and soil biology) will be complemented by articles covering cross-disciplinary aspects, such as the role of soils in ecology, the history of soil utilization for agricultural and engineering purposes, and soils in relation to the remediation of pollution and the mitigation of global climate change.

Encyclopedia of spectroscopy and spectrometry

• The Encyclopedia of Spectroscopy and Spectrometry provides authoritative and comprehensive coverage of the whole topic of spectroscopy, from theory to applications. Short articles, each covering one aspect of spectroscopy, provide the professional spectroscopist working in academia or industry with the essential facts and background on areas of spectroscopy peripheral to their own. Each article is flagged as to which area of spectroscopy it covers ("Mass Spectroscopy", "Magnetic Resonance", etc.) and whether it covers theory, methods and instrumentation, or applications.

Encyclopedia of virology

• The material covers biological, molecular, and medical topics concerning viruses in animals, plants, bacteria, and insects.

New enhancements to Knovel

Knovel K-News

Go to the newsletter for more information on changs that took effect June 1st.

Changes to Hein On Line

Note from Hein Online, references to two new books (I confess I didn't know that Hein Online carried historic monographs, this is worth checking out for supporting social and political history)

The two new books were
Bibliography of the English Colonial Treaties with the American Indians including a Synopsis of each Treaty
Treaties Defeated by the Senate

Dear HeinOnline subscribers,

Listed below you will find the latest release (nearly 82,000 pages) of new content that has just been added to HeinOnline.

The free Cataloging Aid has been updated to reflect the new titles.

In addition, this release includes something new to HeinOnline. For the first time, we have included links to several "electronic-only" journals. Within HeinOnline, we have indexed the article title and article author. When conducting a search by author or title within the Law Journal Library, you may receive a result for an author or an article that is part of one of the electronic journals. We have included links to the journal's website for your convenience.

Here is a sample search that displays the "e-only" journal links:

Go to the HeinOnline search screen within the Law Journal Library
and enter the name "Donohue" in the author search field. You will get results for all instances in which "Donohue" is the author, including four results that appear in Duke Law & Technology Review. You'll notice that these four results are in a darker blue color to distinguish them as being content that is external to the content in HeinOnline.

Here is a sample search result:

Askanazi, Jennifer; Caplan, Glen; Descoteau, Dianne; Donohue, Kelly; Glasser, Darin; Graham, Justin Fate of Napster: Digital Downloading Faces an Uphill Battle, The
1. 2001 Duke L. & Tech. Rev. 0013
<http://heinonline.org/HOL/ExternalArticle?index=external-journals/dltr/dltr
2001&item=12&set_as_cursor=0>
Content external to HeinOnline

The following "electronic-only" journals have now been indexed in
HeinOnline:

Duke Law & Technology Review
Santa Clara Journal of International Law
Federal Courts Law Review

Back to the latest release, the following new journals are available:

Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy Vols. 1977-29 (1977-2004)

Canadian Law Libraries Vols. 1970-14 (1970-1989)

Connecticut Insurance Law Journal Vols. 1-10 (1995-2004)

Duke Law & Technology Review (electronic Journal) 2001-2005

Federal Courts Law Review (electronic Journal) 1998-2005

Federal Law Review Vols. 22-32 (1993-2004)

Health Lawyer (ABA) Vols. 1-15 (1982-2003)

Indigenous Law Journal at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law Vols. 1-3 (2002-2004)

Juvenile and Family Court Journal Vols. 38-54 (1987-2003)

Law School Bulletin Vols. 1-11 (1929-1946)

Litigation (ABA)Vols. 1-4 (1975-1978)

QLR Vols. 1-22 (1980-2003)

Santa Clara Journal of International Law (electronic Journal)Vols. 1-3 (2003-2005)

Urban Lawyer (ABA) Vols. 1-36 (1969-2004)

Two new monographs have also been added to the Treaties and Agreements Library

Bibliography of the English Colonial Treaties with the American Indians including a Synopsis of each Treaty
Author: DePuy, Henry F. Originally Published: Lenox Club; 1917

This work identifies and lists a brief synopsis of the many treaties entered into between the American Indians and the English colonies. The treaties contained within this work are original sources of information of some of the most important events connected with the settlement of the United States and its land titles.

Treaties Defeated by the Senate
Author: Holt, W. Stull
Originally Published: Baltimore; Johns Hopkins Press; 1933

Beginning with an examination of the Constitutional origin of the conflict between the President and the Senate regarding foreign relations, Holt goes on to discuss the legal and political aspects of U.S. treaty making from 1789 through the Versailles Treaty in 1919.

New Product Announcement--->International Financial Statistics Online

International Financial Statistics Online

IFS reports, for most countries of the world, current data needed in the analysis of problems of international payments and of inflation and deflation, i.e., data on exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, and national accounts.

The IFS database contains approximately 32,000 time series covering more than 200 countries and areas and includes all series appearing on the IFS Country Pages; exchange rate series for all Fund member countries, plus Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles; major Fund accounts series; and most other world, area, and country series from the IFS World Tables.

The IFS database contains time series data from 1948.

Project Muse Journal--->Hesperia

HESPERIA

Hesperia is published quarterly by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

Founded in 1932 and devoted primarily to the timely publication of reports on projects sponsored by the School, Hesperia also welcomes submissions from all scholars working in the fields of Greek archaeology, art, epigraphy, history, and literature.

The geographic limits are those of the entire Greek world, with no chronological restrictions. Articles presenting primary research, interdisciplinary studies, theoretical discussions, and syntheses of topics and problems are all featured. Studies on the history and practice of archaeology and ethnography in the Mediterranean are also included.

Marquis who's who now includes historic biographies

Dear Valued Subscriber,

I am happy to inform you that, starting tonight (May 17th) at approximately 9pm Eastern Standard Time, your subscription to Marquis Who's Who on the Web will include approximately 70,000 digitized biographies from our Who Was Who in America print archive! This new addition to the database -- Who's Who in American History -- is included FREE with your subscription.

This is the first launch of our digitization initiative, and includes nearly 60% of the total 110,000 historical biographies that will be added by the end of this summer.

Because of the special nature of these biographies, we have made them searchable among the entire database, as well as through their own customized search screen that has search features unique to these historical biographies.

You will notice there are now three options for searching the Marquis Who's Who database:

1. Entire Database - this is the default search screen that opens upon log-in, and allows you to search every biography in our database, including the segments below.

2. Current Biographies - this search screen, which includes the same search features as the Entire Database screen, returns biographies of living people only, which have been included in our more recent publications. This database segment is intended for those who are interested in researching living people active in their careers.

3. Historical Biographies - this search screen allows you to search among only the most important (deceased) people in history - from Christopher Columbus to Ronald Reagan. This database segment encompasses all of our digitized biographies, as well as highly noteworthy people selected from our more recent publications. Again, because of the special nature of these historical figures, custom search features are available. You can search by Death Information (including year, place, and even events like the "Alamo").

A historical occupation search list is provided, with such occupations as "Activists & Reformers" and "Outlaws". Click on "Search Tips" on the left side to see sample Historical Searches to help you get the most out of your research.

UN commodity trade statistics database

UN commodity trade statistics database

UN Comtrade stands for United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database. Every year over 130 countries provide the United Nations Statistics Division with their annual international trade statistics, detailed by commodity and partner country.

These data are processed into a standard format with consistent coding and valuation. All values are converted into US dollars using exchange rates supplied by the countries, or derived from monthly market rates and volume of trade.
Quantities are, if provided by the country and if possible, converted into metric units. The data are then stored in a computerized data base system, called UN COMTRADE.

For many countries the data coverage starts as far back as 1962 and goes up to the most recent completed year.

New Product Announcement-->United Nations common database

United Nations common database

An important addition to our collection for anyone studying regional and international development or economics.

It contains more than eight million data elements in more than 300 statistical series. In most cases time series are available from 1970 or 1980 and many series are disaggregated to show underlying distributions.

Among the main data sources are the Statistics Division's own databases in merchandise trade, national accounts, demography and population, energy, status of women and industrial commodities production; and statistics from the Population Division, the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs' Project Link, FAO, ILO, IMF, ITU, OECD, UNESCO, WHO, WIPO, World Bank and World Tourism Organization, among others.

The UNCDB is unique among large Web databases in providing for each series comprehensive footnotes and meta-information on sources and definitions. Because a true relational database underlies the Web interface, new data and meta-information are available to users as soon as they are entered.

JSTOR citation Search, preview available

Dear JSTOR Participant:

I am very happy to announce that a preview of the JSTOR Citation Search is now available.

Since the release of the new JSTOR search engine and interfaces in January 2005, many users have requested a simpler option for performing searches for authors and article titles. The Citation Search is intended to provide a quick and straightforward means of entering bibliographic data to conduct a search for known articles. Users may enter any combination of bibliographic data to try to locate an article. The search engine will first look for an exact match to the data entered into the form. If no exact match is found, the search engine will automatically identify the closest matches and will present them to the user.

The Citation Search Preview period will last for one month. During this time, we encourage you to send us your comments via the special feedback form that is linked to the Citation Search page. Your suggestions and questions will help us to prioritize changes and refinements for the final release of the feature. Work on the final version will begin after this one-month preview; however, the Citation Search (preview version) will remain available during the entire development period.

If you have any questions about the Citation Search or other questions about JSTOR, please contact JSTOR User Services at support@jstor.org.

Toward a Transparent Classroom

Toward a Transparent Classroom

Jefferson Flanders from New York University reflects on the impact of a wireless classroom on teaching. Students are now able to check facts, seek second opinions, and look for definitions in real time during his lectures.

-from Inside Higher Ed

ALA | Information Literacy Standards for Science and Technology

ALA | Information Literacy Standards for Science and Technology

-from ResourceShelf