New product announcement--> WRDS (Wharton Research Data Service) (Finance, Markets, Economics)

WRDS (Wharton Research Data Service)

IP access is only available from Scurfield Hall. To access WRDS from other locations University of Calgary Faculty and Ph.d. students may apply for individual accounts by contacting the Business Library or the Maps, Academic Data, Geographic Information Centre.

Wharton Research Data Services, or WRDS, is a comprehensive web-based data management system that allows faculty and students to easily retrieve information from a wide variety of financial, economic, and marketing data sources. WRDS is best known for its holdings of historical financial data from CRSP and COMPUSTAT. This data covers over 30,000 companies and includes security prices and trading volume, income and balance sheet items. Provides access to IBES' analyst projections for earnings and sales. WRDS also contains stock market indices, bond prices and interest rates, mutual fund and stock ownership information, options data, and a wide array of macroeconomic time series. International data, marketing and industry reports, and web usage data are also available on WRDS.

Gale announces updates to Literature Criticism Online!

Gale is pleased to announce a new release of Literature Criticism Online, which brings a variety of new features to this digitized collection of Gale's major criticism. The ten individual, award-winning Gale series that comprise Literature Criticism Online present a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. Imagine centuries of analysis - the scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals - delivered in an easy format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals.

In response to customer feedback, the following new features are now live to current users of the database:
* Browse Topics - access 600+ topical entries easily through our new alpha-browse feature, with new entries added regularly.
* Updated indexing in "Browse Works" and "Browse Authors" - deep cross-referencing found in Gale's Literary Index is now integrated within Literature Criticism Online.
* Titles Discussed - works entries include links to all relevant pages that discuss a related title within any given essay - extreme cross-referencing at work.
* Updated language - intuitive "Inside this Entry" and "Inside this Volume" links provide easily understood directions for exploring volumes and entries.
* Updated design to Print/View PDFs - page limits reduce the amount of loading time (and printer paper) for patrons who want more than just a two-page spread.
* Hit-Term Highlighting and Relevant Pages now available for Keyword searches - originally active in full-text searches, this has now been applied to keyword searches, too.
* New design for navigating to Relevant Pages - find your search terms easily by navigating directly to relevant pages with the click of a mouse.
* Cleaner InfoMarks for document Source Citations - links are more readily recognized in bibliographies, coursepacks, social bookmarking sites and more.

Some additional basic changes in Literature Criticism Online will have a MAJOR effect on how relevancy and currency are perceived within the database. By changing the Basic Search default index from "Full-text" to "Keyword" and changing the default sort from "Publication Date Ascending" to "Publication Date Descending", users will find the most up-to-date entries and relevant keyword search results at their fingertips, without changing anything other than their search terms!

Coming this Fall, Literature Criticism Online will become cross-searchable with two other major digitization efforts -- Something About the Author and the Dictionary of Literary Biography. These major sets are considered the premier publications in literary reference, bringing unsurpassed volumes of biographical content, images and commentary on all the major authors covered in Literature Criticism Online and beyond.

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Centre For Research Libraries newsletter-->Manhattan Project

The Fall 2008 issue of FOCUS on Global Resources highlights CRL resources that support research and teaching on early atomic science, in particular the Manhattan Project and development of the first atomic bomb. The issue features a Claremont Graduate University historian’s perspective on some newly digitized CRL collections, with links to those collections.

To view this and past issues of FOCUS, visit: http://www.crl.edu/focus/toc.asp

To download FOCUS in PDF format, go to: http://www.crl.edu/PDF/pdfFocus/Fall08.pdf

Earthscape to Cease Publication

We would like to take this moment to thank University of Calgary for its
support of the Columbia Earthscape site. You have helped us focus the
awareness of scholars and students on many vital environmental issues
affecting our planet.

As indicated last week, Earthscape will cease operations on June 30,
2009. While we can no longer update this site with new content, we
will maintain the current information through June 30, 2009.

We appreciate your commitment to and interest in the Columbia Earthscape
site.


Kind regards,
Mary

New Product Announcement-->Criminal Justice Abstracts

Criminal Justice Abstracts

"Criminal Justice Abstracts, the criminology database from SAGE Publications, contains comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines.

Prepared in co-operation with the Don M. Gottfredson Library of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University Law Library, Criminal Justice Abstracts covers crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment and sentencing. The database contains indexes and summaries of international journal articles, books, and governmental and non-governmental reports on a wide range of topics in criminal justice."

New Product Announcement-->Tests in Print

Tests in print


Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).

New Product Announcement-->Mint Global

Mint Global


Another one of those mysterious business products.

I had to allow popups for this to work with firefox.

Four different databases are presented in a modular format.

Companies
Users can build reports containing detailed standardised financial information (when available) or summary information, ownership details, graphics plus data from the other modules. Information for listed companies is comprehensive but MINT GLOBAL'S major strength is its extensive coverage of private companies.

Market Research
Over 2,600 industry and 2,700 company profiles from Datamonitor to add depth and authority to your research.

News
Stories from various high profile sources such as the FT Newswires and Newspapers, Dow Jones Newswires and Reuters. MINT GLOBAL also includes M&A news and rumours from our own database ZEPHYR. A webwatch service trawls 25,000 live web sources for up to the minute news.

Scanned reports
This module gives you the option to refer back to original documentation when you need it. Listed companies' reports are provided in full colour PDF files from Global Reports as well as quarterly and interim reports and corporate and responsibility documentation. For US listed companies full SEC filings are provided by Edgar Online. For many other countries reports are scanned from various registries.

New Product Announcement-->Henry Stewart Talks

Henry Stewart talks. Biomedical & life sciences collection

Oddly compelling, this is a collection of audio lectures with accompanying slides covering a wide range of topics. The product received a raft of positive comment from faculty when we tested it in the summer, and, while it seems a bit quaint in presentation, it does appear to be very useful as a teaching and learning supplement.

BibServices will be including marc records for the individual talks in the near future. Aaron did some work with the HST group and was able to determine they are in the process of preparing what looks to be some good quality records.

New Product Announcement-->

Social Theory

Social Theory offers an extensive selection of documents that explore the complexities and interpret the nature of social behavior and organization. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before. The current release features more than 76,000 pages of content by such major theorists as Jean Baudrillard, Simone de Beauvoir, Ulrich Beck, Howard Becker, Nancy Chodorow, Émile Durkheim, Michel Foucault, Erving Goffman, Robert Merton, and Talcott Parsons.

New Product Announcement-->CCH Titles

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission reporter. Statutes and regulations edition
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Federal Energy Regulatory Commission reporter. Opinions, orders and decisions edition
http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=http://business.cch.com/ipnetwork

Federal securities law reporter
http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=http://business.cch.com/ipnetwork

Federal estate and gift tax reporter
http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=http://tax.cchgroup.com/ipnetwork

Standard federal tax reporter
http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=http://tax.cchgroup.com/ipnetwork

Federal excise tax reporter
http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=http://tax.cchgroup.com/ipnetwork

Labor law journal (Note: access has been added to the print record. I have also asked Serials Solutions to add this title)
http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=http://hr.cch.com/ipnetwork

New Product Announcement-->RefAware

RefAware


RefAware – a web-based current awareness service. Providing one source for a
variety of research data, RefAware constantly scours the internet for the latest information and automatically delivers newly found data. By harnessing the speed and accessibility of the internet, RefAware provides a comprehensive, up-to-the minute picture of today’s global
research

Basically an alerting service. Take some time to explore this product...you'll need to set up an account. Why buy this when so many journals and packages offer alerting services as well...mostly because we are looking for tools that help users avoid repetitive work..one stop shopping. Still, with only 8,000 journals on its list I won't be deleting any of my existing alerts right away....we'll have to see. By you guys using the product and getting responses from faculty we'll be able to give the vendor good feedback.

New Product Announcement-->TALES Online

Tales Online


Tales Online is a database of folktales, fairytales, myths of indigenous peoples, legends, sagas, and fables of world cultures in collections. All of the texts and notes are exact duplication of the original and no attempt has been made to either alter the style or wording contained in the original collection. Although at times the language is awkward, it is true to the original.

The collections contained in the database includes journal articles, archival material, and tales contained in printed volumes. Each tale is analyzed by a professional or advanced student folklorist. The analysis includes: an identification of the "genre" of the tale; a notation is made if the tale is field collected or adapted. (A field collected tale is spoken by a storyteller -- anyone who is telling a story--and the tale is recorded by an individual listening to the tale. The tale is either published in a journal, placed in an archive for listening, or is later selected for inclusion in a collection in a book.) Along with the preceding the analyzer identifies the "tale type," "motifs," (a classification system of individual events which occur within a tale,) identification of characters appearing in the tale and their role, (see glossary for an explanation of the various roles possible,) and the various settings that appear in the tale.

These analyses help identify various elements of a tale in which a user may be interested. For example: role--hero, villain; setting--forest, the sea, a cave; and any other terms which may appear in the description for each tale type or motif. The use of these various analyses enable one to locate a number of tales that contain similar elements.

To aid in the selection of appropriate tale(s) a short summary has been written for each tale and appears on the results page along with the title and the source of the tale. This enables you to include all of the information for each tale in a bibliography if needed.

Updated ArtStor content (civil war, design, art history)

Century Magazine Illustrations of the American Civil War
The Century Magazine Illustrations of the American Civil War collection is now available in the Digital Library. This collection is the result of a project undertaken by Allan Kohl, Visual Resources Librarian at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, to assemble images depicting Civil War battle scenes and camp life, as well as details of weapons and uniforms.

Minneapolis College of Art and Design collection now available in ARTstor
More than 450 images are now available from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) Visual Resources Collections's Slide Library depicting works of art and architecture.


Final Images added to Sansoni Archive (Frick Art Reference Library) collection
The final images from the Sansoni Archive at the Frick Art Reference Library are now available in the ARTstor Digital Library. Digitized from large–format negatives, these images are prized by scholars as a unique visual record of lesser–known and largely unpublished works of art, many of which have subsequently been damaged, lost, or destroyed

New look for Credo Reference

What you'll see in the updated Credo:
We have added a number of new features to the site, as well as updating and improving our current features:

Faceted browsing -- REFINE searches by subject, person, location, type of content, and entries with images, animations or audio. Plus, quickly locate our long, encyclopedic entries.

LINK directly from CREDO into your other online resources! View search results in another library resource with one click - through our new "Related Resources" feature. Library configurable.

MULTILINGUAL interface -- change the interface language to Spanish, French, Chinese, Polish or Urdu.

New, vastly improved CONCEPT MAP -- invaluable for visual learners and mind mappers.

SAVED RESULTS & CITATION MANAGEMENT -- export to your tool of choice -- RefWorks, EndNote and others. BOOKMARK in your favorite site - Del.icio.us, Facebook and many more.

Thoroughly EXPLORE each title by quickly locating people and places cited, images, and contributors. Hover mouse over index for article preview.

BROWSE for books not only by subject, title or type but now by Dewey or Library of Congress classifications.


One of our key new features is the ability to provide seamless navigation from Credo Reference into other library resources - your OPAC, journals databases, etc. For more information about setting up these Resource Links, download instructions (pdf).

You can begin setting up these links now before the August release. Any links will transfer to the new site.

New Credo Content

* Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy, Routledge
* Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature, Routledge
* Concise Encyclopedia of Plant Pathology, Routledge
* Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs, Elsevier
* Encyclopedia of Ethics, Routledge
* Encyclopedia of Insects, Elsevier
* Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English, Routledge
* Encyclopedia of the Solar System, Elsevier
* Encyclopedia of Volcanoes, Elsevier
* An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films: 1895-1930, Routledge
* Handbook of Research on the Education of Young Children, Routledge
* International Encyclopedia of Hospitality Management, Elsevier
* Science in the Ancient World: An Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO
* Science in the Early Twentieth Century: An Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO
* Science in the Enlightenment: An Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO

ArtStor hosting our Archivision slides

Marilyn sent this note earlier

I am pleased to announce that Archivision Base, Module 1 and Module 2 collections - a total of 30,000 high quality architecture, landscape architecture and public art images - are now live in ARTstor for the convenience of the University of Calgary community! University of Calgary users may use these images as they would any ARTstor image. You will see this collection listed along with the others on the Welcome Page under the heading “Institutional Collections.”

Give this a whirl, especially if you haven't tried ArtStor before. It isnt' just for art remember, its also a great source of images for instruction and presentations.

Sadly, you can't then post your presentation to a public web page. Curse those copyright kill joys.

ArtStor Updates--contemporary art, archaeology, baroque

First images of contemporary art from the Franklin Furnace Archives
More than 600 images from the Franklin Furnace Archives are now available in the ARTstor Digital Library. These images depict events presented and produced by Franklin Furnace, and include works by Guillaume Bijl, Willie Cole, Karen Finley, Teh–Ching Hsieh, Liza Lou, Robbie McCauley, Ana Mendieta, and Shirin Neshat.

Additional images from the Carnegie Institution of Washington Photographs of Mayan Excavations (Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University)
ARTstor has added more than 14,000 images of Mayan excavations from the renowned photographic archives of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, which documents archaeological excavations throughout Central America.

Renaissance and Baroque architecture and sculpture from the Ralph Lieberman Archive (Harvard University)
Harvard University is collaborating with ARTstor to digitize and distribute approximately 3,500 images of Renaissance and Baroque architecture and sculpture photographed by Ralph Lieberman. A majority of the images document architecture and sculpture in Italy, but the collection will also include sites in other European countries, such as Germany and Spain.

New Product Announcement-->Waterloo directory of English newspapers and periodicals, 1800-1900

Waterloo directory of English newspapers and periodicals, 1800-1900


Here is a directory to the largest single body of historical documents arising out of nineteenth century England at the height of the British Empire. This empire was by some measures the most powerful and influential in the history of civilization: she held sway over the largest land mass and the greatest proportion of the world’s people. Having become in the 19^th century one of the most literate of all societies, England established the Victorian periodical and newspaper press as a primary vehicle of participatory democracy. The /Directory /provides a more comprehensive, detailed and useful bibliographical record (including Locations and facsimile Title Pages) than we yet have for printed books, government publications or manuscripts of the century. It is subject-comprehensive, intending to include every periodical and newspaper published on a regular basis, from daily to annually, in every language, within England: a goldmine for cultural historians, genealogists and all subject specialists. Newspapers and periodicals were more than one-hundred-fold the volume and readership of printed books.

Changes to Business & Company Resource Center

1) The addition of 35 new investment report providers from the Reuters Research on Demand collection, including: ASK Raymond James & Associates Ltd., Ibersecurities, Standard & Poor's Outlook and many more!

These reports diversify the quality investment resources available.

Over 1.5 million reports are available in BCRC with a 3-year rolling backfile

2) A new & improved "Financials Tab" that transforms static and non-exportable data into data that is dynamic, easy to analyze and easy to export Now you can:

Analyze a company across time

Compare a company's financials to their competitors, or choose specific companies to compare

Review annual or interim financial information, looking back up to 6 years or 5 interim periods

Export the data

New Interface-->MLA International Bibliography via CSA

CSA url for MLA international bibliography:


This is in addition to our existing link via ProQuest. Because of the partnership between CSA and ProQuest there was no additional cost to adding the link.