Back File Added --> Current Digest to the Post Soviet Press (1949 - present)

Current digest of the (Post) Soviet Press
http://dlib.eastview.com.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/sources/publications.jsp?uid=350

The Current Digest of the (Post-)Soviet Press was founded in 1949. Each week it presents a selection of Russian-language press materials, carefully translated into English. The translations are intended for use in teaching and research. They are therefore presented as documentary materials without elaboration or comment, and state the opinions and views of the original authors, not of the publisher of the journal.

The Current Digest carried translations of all important documents of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Soviet government, providing an impressive documentary record of:

• all significant speeches by Soviet leaders;
• meetings of all Party congresses, including the 1956 20th Party Congress and Nikita Khrushchev’s “secret speech” denouncing the Stalinist “cult of personality”;
• all five-year plans and reports on plan fulfillment;
• all important Soviet laws, including initial drafts, official public discussion of the drafts, and final versions as adopted by the USSR Supreme Soviet;
• Soviet diplomacy, Soviet-US summits and other meetings of Soviet leaders with their foreign counterparts; and
• all Soviet treaties, including arms-control treaties, and all major foreign-policy developments, from the Cuban missile crisis through the Soviet war in Afghanistan and withdrawal from that country.

In the Soviet period, CDPSP editors were ever alert for anything atypical that might herald a change in Soviet life. At the same time they provided readers with representative samples of what was typically in the press.

Upcoming changes to Credo--training on offer

Credo will be launching a new platform in June.

To prepare for these changes, Credo is offering online training sessions.
The training takes about 45 minutes and will highlight some of the
searching capabilities and key resources, suggest how to promote and
customize your site using your admin tools, and finally offer a sneak peak
of the new platform that will be launching in June.

Thursday, March 20th at 1pm (EST) 3pm (MST)
Or
Wednesday, March 26th at 10am (EST) 12pm (MST)
Or
Wednesday, March 26th at 3pm (EST) 5pm (MST)
Or
Monday, March 31 at 1pm (EST) 3pm (MST)

To view the most recent training schedule and to sign up, please visit:
http://corp.credoreference.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=560&Itemid=106

When you sign up, you will be sent connection information.

Please check the Credo website later for more updates and training
sessions.

News in Canadian Digitization--Canadiana. org Bulletin

Highlights in this issue

* Upcoming Alouette Canada Portal with 1,000,000 metadata records
* Work will continue on Canadian Directories
*

Safari Tech Training Sessions

Hi. Karen Hinton from ProQuest will be conducting two training sessions on Safari Books Online on Thursday, March 20 in IC B. The sessions, which will feature the same content repeated, will take place from 1-2 pm and 2-3 pm. Please invite any interested colleagues both inside and outside LCR.

Note that these sessions are in addition to the session dealing with the ProQuest and CSA databases that will be held in the morning of the same day (9:30 - 11:00 am)

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks.

Andrew

New Product Announcement-->Erudit

Erudit

This database has been activated on Serials Solutions and SFX.
We are investigating marc records for the books etc.

Érudit welcomes any Academic journal, regardless of its publisher and country of origin. It is also the site of dissemination of Quebec journals supported by the Fonds québécois de recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC). The collection covers a wide range of disciplines in the human, social and natural sciences. The search tool allows to look into a corpus comprised of recently published articles and retroactively digitalized articles from past issues. Two publishing centres handle e-journal production: one located at Université de Montréal and the other at Université Laval.

Through its activities, Érudit has developed expertise in the production and dissemination of E-books. It adheres to the most stable digital text-processing norms pertaining both to e-Books and Web content. Beyond e-book production, this site is experimental in two respects. First, it enables publishers to develop a graphic design and the means to e-books availability for readers. Second, offering e-books in one form or another constitutes a form of experimentation concerning uses and new services for readerships.

Érudit is a dissemination platform for Theses by various universities. As a starting point, this site, which is based on an interuniversity-network architecture, provides free access to online theses from Université de Montréal, Université Laval and other universities in North America and Europe.

The Other documents and data section contributes to scientific communication expansion through the submission and dissemination of texts such as research reports and notes, conference presentations and other documents that authors-researchers wish to post online. The documents under this section are not the ones awaiting approval for publication in the journals disseminated by Érudit; this section is independent of the journal publishers. It relies upon the cooperation of numerous research structures while providing an individual online deposit service. This free-access section presents an interuniversity-network architecture and provides compatibility with the Open Archives initiative protocol.

New Product Announcement-->Armed Conflict Database

Armed conflict database
http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=http://acd.iiss.org/

Welcome to the IISS Armed Conflict Database, a frequently updated source of information on armed conflicts worldwide. You can generate reports and download data as well as browse through the yearly analyses and fact sheets online.

Refworks Webinars

We are pleased to announce the RefWorks Webinar schedule for April 2008. In addition to our Fundamentals and Advanced Feature sessions, we're also offering a session specifically on RefShare. And this month we're offering sessions in German and Spanish, and sessions in English by our U.K.-based trainer. Please feel free to share the links below with your users or simply direct them to the RefWorks website (www.refworks.com) to enroll. Registration is limited to 50 people per class and enrollment is required:

RefWorks Fundamentals

This 75 minute session covers all the basics - creating a RefWorks account, importing data, organizing your database and generating a bibliography. Great for new users or even existing users who would like a refresher.

Tuesday, April 01, 2008 10:00 am Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -05:00, New
York) Enroll Now!
https://refworks.webex.com/refworks/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=718580033

Wednesday, April 09, 2008 1:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -05:00, New
York)

Enroll Now!
https://refworks.webex.com/refworks/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=712177973

Thursday, April 17, 2008 1:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -05:00, New
York)

Enroll Now!
https://refworks.webex.com/refworks/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=710020681

Knovel Upgrades

Acting upon extensive user feedback, we are introducing the first of a series of enhancements to our online product. A new release of Knovel will become available on Monday, February 25th and will feature usability enhancements including cleaner interface designs, more efficient navigation, simpler search refinement and improved browse capabilities. We’re confident these enhancements will help you gain even more productivity from Knovel.

ArtStor Updates: Modern and Fine Art

The Phillips Collection to contribute images of modern art to ARTstor
The Phillips Collection will be represented in ARTstor with 1,200 images of Modern and Contemporary art from around the world. Located in Washington, D.C., the Phillips Collection was founded in 1921 and is the first museum of Modern art in the United States.


Collaborative agreement with the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College
The Cornell Fine Arts museum at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida will contribute 60 images of American and European prints and paintings to ARTstor.


Final images added to the Modern Latin American Art Collection
ARTstor and the Art and Art History Department at the University of Texas, Austin have collaborated on a project to digitize and distribute approximately 4,700 teaching slides from Professor Jacqueline Barnitz’s collection. This second release of nearly 800 images completes the collection.

New Product Announcement-->International Pharmaceutical Abstracts

International Pharmaceutical Abstracts


In their never ending quest to make sure we are well equipped for self diagnosis and self medication those wacky guys in HSL bring you a new medical db.

Produced in co-operation with the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists International Pharmaceutical Abstracts includes 30 years of in-depth indexed reference to the world pharmacy (in the broadest sense) literature; plus, related health, medical, cosmetic journals, and state pharmacy journals; abstracts of presentations at major pharmacy meetings are also included. IPA is unique in its coverage-no other service provides this. The numerous references to alternative and herbal medicine (over 10,000 references) are an example of this unique coverage.

600 Journals Added To Scopus

Elsevier has added another 600 titles to their abstract and citation database, Scopus. They say that Scopus already covers 15,000 journals so this addition must put them at 15,6000 or thereabouts; certainly a hefty figure however you count it. In contrast, Web of Science presently treats only about 8,700 journals; that being said, the two aren't quite the same thing and they have different guidelines for inclusion but I the differences are blurring and likely don't mean much to many users.

The list of newly added journals can be found at http://www.info.scopus.com/detail/what/documents/titles2008.xls. It's a mixed bag of titles, from many subjects and publishers.

The complete announcement can be found at http://www.resourceshelf.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/new_scopus.html.

New Product Announcement-->Theatre in Video (Arts, Cultural History)

Theatre in video

Many thanks to Cindy who has been patiently waiting for this one to come along.

I expect we will see more and more of these new digital products that incorporate video, images, and/or sound. While we test these products for deliverability and compatibility, be sure to let ITS know if you experience persistent bandwidth problems.

That being said, this is tons of fun with more Shakespeare than you can shake a spear at.

Wilson Interface Upgrade....Finally!

Come on guys, you have to admit the full text translation could be an "interesting" feature. Anyone want to take a look and report back?

The new Wilsonweb CX Edition is packed with features to enhance your search experience. To help you and your patrons get the most out of CX, we're offering free WilsonWeb CX Training Events, conducted live over the internet with WebEx web meeting software.

Register at www.hwwilson.com/training.
WilsonWeb CX Training Events Sessions start at 2 p.m. EST and last about an hour.
l Thursday, February 7
l Thursday, February 14
l Thursday, February 21
l Thursday, February 28
All are welcome. Registration closes an hour before the start of each session. Questions? Dan Firrincili, 800-367-6770, ext. 3691, dfirrincili@hwwilson.com

Learn more about WilsonWeb CX Edition!

* "Frameless" Interface--for faster loading, and better integration with the frames of your institution's website.

* Enhanced Layout & Graphics: Clearer screens and more accessible tools, for quicker, more intuitive searching.

* Navigational Improvements: New Full Text, Page Image, and Peer Reviewed tabs in results let you isolate those records at a click. In Full Display mode, you can now also choose between scrolling through results or clicking from record to record--navigating the way you find most comfortable.

* Simplified Print, Email & Save functions: New links let you capture complete bibliographic information, abstract, and full text (if available) right from the article record.

* Simplified Search History screen allows you to more handily review, update, combine and organize saved searches, and receive new information on any search in email alerts.

* Full text translations: Electronic conversion of articles into Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Korean, Japanese, and Russian.

Changes to IEEE Xplore

We are writing to inform you that an upgrade of the IEEE Xplore Digital Library is scheduled for Saturday, 26 January. During this deployment, the system will be unavailable for up to up to eight hours beginning at approximately 9:00 AM ET. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

As a result of this new release, the IEEE Xplore digital library will be enhanced with:

Support of OpenURL images and custom text
- Customers will have the ability to post their logo or text in their OpenURL links.

Conference Proceedings weekly update alerts
- Enables a user to receive weekly update alerts for every conference title via either email or RSS whenever a new conference proceeding title is added to IEEE Xplore.

Scitopia.org search from the IEEE Xplore home page
- The IEEE Xplore home page will feature a quick search box enabling users to easily search scitopia.org, the free federated search portal to the digital libraries of leading science and technology societies.

Draft standards search
- Users will be able to limit their search to IEEE draft standards only from the Advanced Search page in IEEE Xplore.

New Product Announcement--> Environment Complete (Environment, Ecology, Geography, Law)

Environment complete

Environment Complete offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Environment Complete contains more than 1,772,000 records from more than 1,660 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s (including 1,094 active core titles) as well as more than 100 monographs. The database also contains full text for more than 600 journals

New Product Announcement--> Education Research Complete (Education)

Education research complete

Education Research Complete is the definitive online resource for education research. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,820 journals, as well as full text for more than 900 journals, and includes full text for more than 71 books and monographs, and for numerous education-related conference papers.

New Product Announcement-->Computers & Applied Sciences Complete

Computers & applied sciences complete

Computers & Applied Sciences Complete covers the research and development spectrum of the computing and applied sciences disciplines. CASC provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,470 academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources from a diverse collection. Full text is also available for more than 660 periodicals.

New Product Announcement-->World Book Advanced

World Book advanced

If you are thinking of complaining because its too basic, don't bother we get it as part of the Lois Hole package. If you are thinking of letting me know you think its just right for your students, please don't, I need to be able to dream.

Upcoming changes to Business Source Complete and Datamonitor

We are pleased to announce that at the end of this month, 7,500 Life Science Analytics company profiles will be added to the Company Profile authority in Business Source Complete. Every LSA company profile contains detailed and accurate company information drawn from the MedTRACK database, including product details, management information and company news. The entire LSA report collection is refreshed every two months, ensuring that the collection remains an invaluable and up-to-date compendium of company information.


Important note: Also at the end of this month, some changes to the Datamonitor Company Profile in all Business Source products will make it necessary to update any persistent links you have created to Datamonitor Company Profile content, by rerunning your original search.

Problem with Scopus Records

Dear Librarian,

In the past two weeks, as a part of our initiative of loading pre-1996 articles to enrich Scopus content, a large number of articles from Elsevier journals were loaded erroneously into Scopus with incorrect publication year and incomplete source title information.

As a result of this, an incorrect publishing year of 2007 and 2008 has been assigned to these records and only limited source information is available, namely journal title and page numbers. Because of the incomplete information, the mechanism that is used to remove duplicate articles hasn't worked properly either. As a consequence, the records are incorrectly appearing in your search alerts as well.

A solution to resolve this issue is already in place and we expect the records with the incorrect information to be removed from Scopus by the end of next week.