ERIC via EBSCO upgrades

We are pleased to announce that the 2006 ERIC reload and data format change has been completed and the up-to-date version of the database is now available on EBSCOhost. Records marked by ERIC as “peer-reviewed” can be easily accessed via a new check-box limiter. The thesaurus has been upgraded to include new terms and the database now contains more than 1,194,000 records and links to more than 100,000 full text documents from ERIC.

Product Change-->CINAHL moves to EBSCO and gets full text!!

The Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library products are coming down the pipe.

Many thanks to Gloria, Joyce, and Andrew P for fast tracking this one to help out with instruction.

CINAHL Plus with full text


CINAHL Plus with Full Text database is a comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 560 journals indexed in CINAHL. Of those, nearly 400 have cover-to-cover indexing in CINAHL, and of those, more than 230 are not available with full text from any other EBSCO database. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index- -with no embargo. With more than 600,000 full-text articles dating back to 1937, CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature. This EBSCO database also features author affiliations, searchable cited references, research instruments, evidence-based care sheets and continuing education modules.

Note that the OVID access will only last to March, so get your users migrating!

ISI Web of Knowledge Upgrade

More details

* Quickly target the correct author with the Distinct Author Identification System, available in Web of Science®.

* Take advantage of new EndNote® Web functionality

ArtStor upgrade--Contemporary, European and Asian Art

Additional Contemporary Art from the Larry Qualls Archive
Larry Qualls has been systematically documenting contemporary art exhibitions at galleries and other exhibition spaces throughout New York City and elsewhere. We are pleased to announce now that we have just released additional images from the Larry Qualls Archive, bringing the total number available to ARTstor users to approximately 7,500. more

More European Art and Architecture from Scala Archives and Art Resource
We are pleased to announce that we released additional images of major works of Italian and other European art from Scala Archives, bringing the total number of Scala images now available to ARTstor users to approximately 3,000. more

Southern Asian Art: ACSAA Color Slide Project Completed
The American Council for Southern Asian Art (ACSAA) project is now complete. An additional 7,000 images from the ACSAA collection are now available to ARTstor users, bringing the total number of images to 12,186. more

New Product Announcement-->e-Duke Scholarly Collection

e-Duke Scholarly Collection

Not sure if you guys were aware that Duke University Press removed some of its titles from Project Muse.

In any case we now have access to the e-Duke package wit the following journals

American Literary Scholarship
American Literature
American Speech
boundary 2
Camera Obscura
Common Knowledge
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
differences
Eighteenth-Century Life
Ethnohistory
French Historical Studies
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
Hispanic American Historical Review
History of Political Economy
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas
Mediterranean Quarterly
Modern Language Quarterly
New German Critique
Pedagogy
Poetics Today
positions: east asia cultures critique
Public Culture
Radical History Review
SAQ: South Atlantic Quarterly
Social Science History
Social Text
Theater

New Product Announcement-->CAB Abstracts

CAB Abstracts


Heads up all of you that are not aware of the coverage of this product...

CAB abstracts is a bibliographic database compiled by CAB International. It covers the significant research and development literature in the fields of agriculture, forestry, aspects of human health, human nutrition, animal health, and the management and conservation of natural resources. CAB abstracts indexes articles, books, conferences, reports and other kinds of literature dated 1910 to the present.

Note this product will be paid from library funds for Veterinary Medicine.

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New Product Announcement-->Classical Music Library

I believe I missed this when on leave...so just in case here is the official announcement


Classical music library
http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=http://ucalgary.classical.com

Classical Music Library is the world's largest multi-label database of Classical music recordings for listening and learning in libraries. Coverage of repertoire is increasing as new labels are added with a particular focus on contemporary music and women composers.

Product Upgrade-->Blackwell Synergy

I am pleased to tell you that the Blackwell Synergy online journals platform has now been relaunched with a new design. Please take a look at www.blackwell-synergy.com

• movement of the major functions to the left-hand menu, the grouping together of tools at each level of the website
• tabs being replaced by left-menu listings and a cleaner and more modern look and feel.
  
• In addition, the new website meets the latest accessibility standards (ADA section 508 and W3C’s WAI-AA).

Marketing Resources Available We have provided some resources for promoting awareness of the online journals in your library, including email templates that you can forward out to faculty and students. Feel free to edit these to make them more appropriate for your institution: www.blackwellpublishing.com/librarians/marketing.asp You’ll also find links to a PowerPoint demo of the new site which explains many of the major functions, as well as a list of features for librarians and a summary of what’s new and what’s changed here: www.blackwellpublishing.com/librarians/journal_information.asp Remember to sign up for the Librarians’ Newsletter to keep updated on new features and journal developments. Top Online Access to Blackwell Publishing Journals All institutional subscriptions to Blackwell Publishing journals include an element of online access. For the first time in 2007, Standard print subscriptions will include online access to the current and two previous years’ content, increased from the one year previously offered. Premium subscriptions include print plus online access to current content, content dating back to January 1st 1997, and OnlineEarly articles published online before print. Online Only subscriptions include the same access rights as Premium. Both Premium and OnlineOnly subscriptions include archival rights to paid for content. In most cases, Standard subscriptions are at 90% of the Premium price and Online Only subscriptions are at 85% of the Premium price. Access is provided through Blackwell Synergy. For more information about subscribing to online journals, visit: www.blackwellpublishing.com/cservices/journal_online.asp?site=1 For information about licensing the Collection of online journals visit: www.blackwellpublishing.com/librarians Top

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Overview of Blackwell Synergy Features

• clear search and browse functions and ability to search within other databases
• articles available in PDF and full-text HTML
• HTML articles include embedded references, figures and tables
• OnlineEarly and OnlineAccepted articles available online before issue publication
• OnlineOpen articles available free to all as part of our open access initiative
• quick links to the most-downloaded and most-cited articles by journal
• reference links and citing article links allow users to follow the research
• export citations of articles into reference management software
• receive e-alerts for tables of contents, topic and author research alerts, citation alerts and OnlineEarly and OnlineAccepted alerts
• all e-alerts available as email or RSS newsfeeds

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Your Feedback

We hope that you and your library patrons will find the new look Blackwell Synergy easy to use and invaluable for study and research. Please do send us any feedback by filling in the Feedback form on: www.blackwell-synergy.com

Best wishes,

The Blackwell Synergy Team
Blackwell Publishing
libraryinfo@blackwellpublishing.com
www.blackwellpublishing.com/librarians

Product Upgrade-->ISI Web of Science

New in Web of Science®:

* Citation Report — New, powerful citation analysis feature

* Distinct Author Identification System — Find the right author, quickly

* Full Author Names — Web of Science now captures full author names as they are listed in original articles

Product Upgrade-->Literature Online

ProQuest is pleased to announce the latest release of Literature Online.

This release is a data update only, and includes the following new content:

New Criticism and Reference resources this month
Sixty-two new and revised author biographies have been added to this month's release. The new entries include examples from the full range of authors covered by Literature Online Reference Edition, from the Elizabethan court poet George Gascoigne to contemporary crime writers Arnaldur Indriðason and James Ellroy.

Other authors include:
• Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• US historical writer William Bradford
• English poet and critic John Heath-Stubbs
• Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh
• Scottish novelist Susan Ferrier
• Elizabethan sonneteer Lady Mary Wroth
• African-American children's writer Virginia Hamilton
• Feminist novelist Erica Jong
• Booker-shortlisted author of Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
• Nineteenth century American writer Elizabeth Stoddard
• Author of The Outsider 'cycle' Colin Wilson
• Author of Night-Thoughts Edward Young
• English Decadent poet Theodore Wratislaw
• African-American novelist and dramatist Shay Youngblood

Product Upgrade-->SportDiscus now Full Text

Our SPORTDiscus subscription has been upgraded to SPORTDiscus with Full Text:

From the EBSCO website:

"SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals, providing full text for more than 415 journals indexed in SPORTDiscus. Of those, nearly 250 have cover-to-cover indexing in SPORTDiscus. With more than 700,000 full-text articles dating back to 1985, SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of sports and sports medicine literature."

Andrew

Product Upgrade-->North American Indian Biographical Database

Welcome to the fourth release of North American Indian Biographical Database. As a customer, you are automatically connected to the new content (http://ibio.alexanderstreet.com).


Please forward this email to faculty and users, so that they may enjoy the database’s newest additions:


The database has grown to more than 62,000 pages of text and images. Included are biographies, autobiographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries, letters, and oral histories. Full-length reference works also are included to give background and context to the narratives. North American Indian Biographical Database is dedicated to telling the life stories of both the well-known historical figures such as Pocahontas and Sitting Bull, and also the lesser-known men and women whose day-to-day experiences give an equally valuable portrayal of Indian culture.


Newly added materials include several major contemporary works from University of California Press, University of New Mexico Press, University of Nebraska Press, and Coyote Books.


New and current full-length biographies include works on

· Quanah Parker
· Dennis Banks
· Susan La Flesche Picotte
· Cochise
· Jim Thorpe
· Crowfoot
· Peter Pitchlynn
· Sacajawea
· Geronimo
· Hosteen Klah
· Black Elk
· Pocahontas
· George Washington Grayson
· Standing Buffalo
· and many other figures

More than twenty volumes covering chiefs of various nations are now included, as well as a modern edition of the collected speeches of Sitting Bull. The 5-volume Encyclopedia on American Indian Artists by the Center for Indigenous Arts & Cultures is in the database (searchable as the American Indian Art Series). The recent publication, American Indian Biographies (Salem Press, 2005) also adds many contemporary names to the collection.

This release contains many seminal reference works, including the complete volumes of Edward Curtis's The North American Indian, the McKenney-Hall History of the Indian Tribes of North America volumes, and J. Norman Heard’s five volumes of the Handbook of the American Frontier.

New Product Announcement--->Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment (STKE)

We have started a subscription to Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment (STKE), one of the most highly-requested titles via Document Delivery over the past few years.

From the STKE website:

"Signal transduction is the study of how cells control their own and each others' behaviors through chemical signals. Signal transduction research is an intensely active field of biomedical research and is of interest to a broad array of scientists. Science's STKE should be useful to the scientists who specialize in signal transduction, as well as the many scientists who need to follow and apply the current findings of this field even though their primary interest may not be in signal transduction mechanisms themselves."

The link for STKE is
http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=http://stke.sciencemag.org/

More information can be found at http://stke.sciencemag.org.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/about/.


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Andrew Waller
Serials Librarian
Collections Services
University of Calgary Library

ArtStor upgrade

Contemporary American Architecture and Public Art

ARTstor Digital Library recently added over 600 images focused on contemporary architecture and public art in the western United States.

Works by Elizabeth Peyton

ARTstor is now actively collaborating with a wide range of living artists and estates of modern artists. A collaboration with artist Elizabeth Peyton has allowed us to add to the ARTstor Digital Library images of 173 works by this remarkable contemporary American painter and draughtsman.

Ghiberti’s “Gates of Paradise”: Additional Images

To complement the existing 590 color photographs of Lorenzo Ghiberti’s “Gates of Paradise” available in the ARTstor Digital Library, we recently released approximately 150 black-and-white photographs of frieze elements in their state prior to the recent cleaning campaign.

ArtStor adds Native American ledger drawings

Native American “ledger drawings”

This collection consists of high resolution images of approximately 2,000 Plains Indian "ledger drawings." Plains Indian ledger drawings, mostly produced in the middle to late decades of the 19th century, represent an important indigenous artistic tradition of great and increasing interest to art historians and other scholars.

New Refworks Feature

I tried the Ref-Grab it, very cool. You have to drag it onto your toolbar, but once that's done you can grab web pages citations on the fly.



BETHESDA, MD, USA (November, 2006) - RefWorks, the Web-based online research management, writing, and collaboration tool, has released another feature upgrade to the service. We are pleased to announce exciting new enhancements, including the ability to easily capture bibliographic web page data and the continued development of RefShare, a collaboration utility --- making it even more efficient for users and their colleagues to share data.

RefGrab-It, an exciting new feature introduced by RefWorks, allows users to capture web page bibliographic information through a single click! This new feature also searches the web for additional information relating to the web page (based on ISBN numbers, DOIs and PubMed IDs), working behind the scenes to get the most complete bibliographic information for the user. Any information captured through RefGrab-It can also be seamlessly imported into the user's RefWorks account.

"RefGrab-It is already one of my favorite tools," said Jeff Olsen, Associate Vice President for Online Learning and Services and Director of Library and Information Science at St John's University, New York, USA. "It captures the essential pieces of information and makes it easy for me to modify and add information to fields to supplement what is captured, saving much time. I have used reference database software for many years. RefWorks is the most intuitive and least problematic of any software that I have used. Personally, I have found RefWorks invaluable."

Another new RefWorks enhancement within RefShare, a tool for global dissemination and publication of research, now provides users the ability to collaborate more easily than ever before. Custom links can be created to search for specific author names, descriptors or any words in shared folders or databases. Users may now create an RSS Feed from their data, complete with an RSS icon for RefShare that recipients can add to their feed reader.

Additionally, each reference in a shared folder now has a Link to This Page option that automatically creates a reference-specific URL for the user to bookmark or copy and paste. These upgrades are all designed to assist users to collaborate with colleagues around the world with as much ease as possible!

The RefGrab-It feature enhancements are currently available to all RefWorks users. The RefShare enhancements are only available to institutions subscribing to the module. The Web-based nature of the product allows users to access the new benefits without having to re-load software or make any other changes to their RefWorks accounts.

About RefWorks
RefWorks helps researchers be more effective by aiding in the management, organization, collaboration, and dissemination of information. Thousands of researchers in over 750 institutions around the world use RefWorks daily. Founded in 2001 by a team of experts in the field of bibliography database management, RefWorks supports hundreds of online databases and output styles covering a broad range of subject areas. RefWorks collaborates with some of the world's most prestigious online information service providers including CSA, BioOne, EBSCO, Elsevier, HighWire, H.W. Wilson, ISI Web of Science, OCLC, Ovid and ProQuest, to name a few.

Peterson's Gradline to retire

Ovid regularly reviews its products to ensure that we have properly aligned our investment and resources to support and maintain premier content based on customer demand. As part of this process we identify products that are no longer commercially viable.

In our latest review, Peterson's GRADLINE was found to have an insufficient number of subscribers to support its continued publication on SilverPlatter. As a result we have decided to terminate the database on December 31st, 2006.

New Product Announcement-->Eighteenth Century Journals II

We now have access to Eighteenth Century Journals II.

From the online introduction to this product:

"The purpose of Eighteenth Century Journals II is to make available digitally for the first time unique or extremely rare eighteenth century periodicals. The primary aim of the project is to promote a truly broad representation of the culture of print journalism in the eighteenth century. Therefore, there was no selection of titles on the basis of subject matter or theme; or by whether a title was well- or lesser known, either by contemporary readers or scholars of today. Instead, the periodicals included in this project have been carefully chosen to convey the eclectism and evolution of the publishing world between 1695 and 1812.

Eighteenth Century Journals II is the continuation of a series which began with the microfilm collection Eighteenth Century Journals, which made available rare periodicals from the Hope Collection at the Bodleian Library. There is no duplication of material from this first microfilm collection: rather, the selections made for the second series deliberately complement and contrast with those of the original project.

Eighteenth Century Journals II is based on the holdings of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas, Austin, which contains one of the finest collections of rare 17th and 18th century British periodicals in the world. The starting point for selection was British Newspapers and Periodicals 1632-1800, a descriptive catalogue of the early periodical holdings at the University of Texas, compiled by Powell Stewart in 1950. The selection process was then widened to include additional titles accessioned after Powell Stewart’s original inventory, and items from the Queen Anne list of serials at the Center.

The titles were then carefully surveyed against Primary Source Media’s microfilm collection Early English Newspapers; Chadwyck-Healey’s Early English Books Online (EEBO); ProQuest's digital collection British Periodicals, and Thomson Gale’s Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), to ensure that there was no duplication whatsoever of material already included in these projects.

The final 70 titles, consisting of 60 journals from the Powell Stewart catalogue, and 10 from the Queen Anne list of serials, were assessed for suitability for digitisation, based on their physical condition. Conservation was carried out wherever possible on fragile items."

New Product Announcement-->QP Source Professional

We now have access to this long-awaited legal product. The link is http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/loggedin/qp_source.html. Access is via username and password, through an authentication page (hopefully, IP access will be available in the future). Three simultaneous users.

From the QP Source fact sheet:

"QP Source Professional gives you immediate access to the following resources:
• Revised Statutes of Alberta 2000
• Alberta Statutes, consolidated (and unproclaimed)
• Alberta Regulations
• Tables of Private and Public Statutes
• Index of Regulations
• Alberta Gazette (Part I & II) updated twice per month
• Registrar’s Periodical updated twice per month
• Annual Volume 1996 - Present • Spring and Fall Sitting legislation
• Orders-in-Council 1967 - Present
• Alberta Rules of Court and Practice Notes
• Court Calendar
• Annotated FOIP
• FOIP Guidelines & Practices Manual
• Alberta Securities Rules and Forms
• Occupational Health and Safety Code
• Occupational Health and Safety Code Explanation Guide
• Environmental Codes of Practice (with link to Codes of Practice Management Area maps)
• Specified Penalty Listing
• links to Government Telephone Directory, Bills and Amendments, Alberta Hansard, Court Judgments as well as Orders-in-Council
• Links to Legislation Related external sites.
• comprehensive on-line HELP notes and glossary
• RSS links"

Product Upgrade Announcement-->Hospitality and Tourism Complete

We have upgraded our Hospitality and Tourism database to EBSCO Hospitality and Tourism Complete (we got an extremely good price). From the EBSCO database list:

"Hospitality & Tourism Complete covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. This comprehensive database combines the records of three renowned collections: Cornell University’s former Hospitality database, Articles in Hospitality and Tourism (AHT), formerly co-produced by the Universities of Surrey and Oxford Brookes, and the Lodging, Restaurant & Tourism Index (LRTI), formerly produced by Purdue University. Together, this collection contains more than 500,000 records from more than 500 titles, with coverage dating as far back as 1965. In addition, Hospitality & Tourism Complete contains full text for more than 200 publications."

Hospitality and Tourism Complete has been set up as an SFX target, though only to the journal level at present (EBSCO and ExLibris are working on this). Serials Solutions MARC records should appear in the catalogue with the December load (thanks Joyce!).