New Investment in the University Libraries
As part of the biennial budget appropriation, the University administration has approved a major new investment in the University Libraries and its collections. $2 million of new, recurring funds have been allocated to the Libraries' base budget!
This commitment will enable the Libraries to significantly build on the goal of targeting specific teaching and research needs of individual departments and classes as well as overall campus information needs. In addition to maintaining and adding to journal subscriptions and purchasing more books across many subject areas, the following new electronic resources are now available; more resources will be coming later in the Spring as publisher licenses are negotiated.
Journal Backfiles
Selected high-use journal titles now have access going back to the first issue!
Elsevier ScienceDirect: 4 new back-file sets:
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology & Supplement
Chemistry
Earth and Planetary Sciences & Supplement
Physics General & Supplement
Also note that all subscribed ScienceDirect titles now also have 1995-97 access -- so access to all other subscribed titles (i.e. titles that are not in one of the above back-file collections) will now start with 1995.
Wiley Interscience: Genetics and Evolution Back-files
BooksBooks24x7
Books24x7 is a web-based, searchable, e-book site that provides users access to the complete contents of nearly 3,000 titles covering a broad range of technology topics. Contributing publishers include: Cambridge University Press, The MIT Press, IEEE Press, John Wiley & Sons, McGraw-Hill, Microsoft Press, Sybex, Wrox Press and many others.
Safari
Safari is an exclusive collection of highly acclaimed reference content from the two premier IT publishers, OReilly & Associates, Inc., and The Pearson Technology Group. Together, these publishers’ imprints deliver well over half of the IT books published. The Libraries has already licensed 225 titles from among Safari's offering and will be adding more titles this Fall. The content covers Database, Java, Linux/Unix, .NET, Networking, Perl, Programming, Software Engineering, and XML.
Subject-specific Databases
Anatomy.tv
The world's most detailed 3D model of human anatomy available online created by Primal Pictures. Includes features such as interactive zoom, rotation, angle, interactive layers, extensive text, MRI, clinical slides and xrays, live action movies, animations, radiology slides, dissection videos and slides, surface anatomy videos and slides. Focuses on muscles, ligaments, nerves, veins, arteries, bones.
Art Index Retrospective
Art Index Retrospective covers 55 years (from 1929-1984)of art journalism and research from leading English-language sources, plus others published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch.
ARTstor
ARTstor is a new cross-disciplinary image database. It offers collections of approximately 300,000 art images and descriptive information covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's accompanying software tools will support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.
BMJ Publishing Group
Access to British Medical Journal and 8 other titles.
Columbia Granger's World of Poetry Online
An index to poems in anthologies. It includes 250,000 poetry citations indexed by title, first line, last line, author, subject, and searchable by keyword and by author categories. Also provides biographical entries, bibliographies, anthology descriptors and fulltext versions of poems in the public domain.
Current Protocols
6 titles will be added to the Libraries’ collection of popular laboratory manuals from John Wiley & Sons: Genetics, Immunology, Microbiology, Neuroscience, Protein Science, and Toxicology. Updated quarterly, these manuals offer illustrated step-by-step protocols with annotations pointing to special considerations, tips, and optional procedures.
ENVIROnetBASE
"Anything and everything the environmental professional or researcher needs can be found among these award-winning Lewis and CRC Press titles."
Factiva
Provides access to global news and business information, including international daily newspapers, newswires, academic and trade journals, magazines, transcripts of media programs, web sites, images.
InfoPOEMS
InfoPOEMs consists of two products -- InfoRetriever and the Daily InfoPOEMs. InfoRetriever provides filtered, graded, summarized evidence and clinical tools for use in the office or at the bedside. Daily InfoPOEMs provides a complete clinical awareness system for knowledge management.
International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance with Full Text
Contains all of the content available in International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance as well as full text for 100 titles, including Canadian Theatre Review, Dance Chronicle, Dance Teacher, Modern Drama, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Research in Dance Education, Research in Drama Education, Studies in Theatre and Performance, TDR: The Drama Review, Theater, and many more.
International Philosophical Bibliography
This online bibliography lists books and articles about philosophy and history of philosophy including: Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance to Enlightenment, 19th and 20th Centuries, and Non-Western Traditions.
Inter-Research Science Center e-journals (selected titles)
LegalTrac
Indexes 800+ legal publications, law reviews, bar association journals and legal newspapers. Web version includes some abstracts and full-text articles.
JSTOR Biological Sciences Collection
Will include at least one hundred titles when it is completed in 2007. This collection brings together the twenty-nine journals available in our existing Ecology & Botany Collection with more than seventy titles new to JSTOR. Coverage in this collection offers greater depth in fields such as biodiversity, conservation, paleontology, and plant science, in addition to introducing new areas such as cell biology and zoology.
Literature Online (LION)
Literature Online (LION) combines primary and secondary sources with the full texts of over 350,000 English and American literary works (poetry, prose, drama) as well as selected literary criticism and reference materials. Literary texts range from the seventh century to contemporary works. LION includes also the full texts of 175 current journals publishing literary scholarship. The Libraries’ subscription to the MLA Bibliography will now link to the full text of an article in LION, when available (via the Find It linking service). LION also provides over 200 video clips of contemporary poets reading from their works.
MATHnetBASE
"From the classical to the cutting-edge, from theory to applications, this online library of premier mathematics resources from Chapman & Hall/CRC Press has the answers."
Medieval and Early Modern Studies Online
Provides a large and growing resource of essential medieval and early modern sources online. MEMSO is a library of books concerning the study of medieval and early modern Britain and Ireland.
NANOnetBASE
From CRC Press, a collection of 11 electronic reference books in nanoscience and nanotechnology.
Naxos
In addition to the Classical Music Library streaming audio service, we now offer the Naxos Music Library. This audio streaming service includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Dacapo catalogues of over 85,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. While listening, you can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on the composer or artist.
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories (IMLD) includes 2,162 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of information. The collection provides a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950. Composed of contemporaneous letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives, the collection provides a rich source for scholars in a wide range of disciplines. In selected cases, users will be able to hear the actual audio voices of the immigrants.
PAIS Archive 1915-1976
Since its establishment in 1914, PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) has chronicled issues in the public debate through highly selective coverage of a wide variety of sources, including references to monographs, periodical articles, notes and announcements, government documents, policy reports and analytics. Addition of the Archive to our current PAIS International database extends comprehensive access to public and social policy information.
Public Documents Masterfile
Finding tool for public documents, combining bibliographic and index information from a variety of print tools. Historic and current bibliographic records from multiple government sources.
Science of Synthesis
Provides access to Houben-Weyl (Methods of Organic Chemistry) which includes references back to 1835. Science of Synthesis covers both organic and organometallic synthetic methods. The methods are evaluated and include full experimental details. The content is full-text, structure, and reaction searchable. Requires Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher, and pop-up blockers should be disabled.
Television News Archive
Produced by Vanderbilt University, this database is "the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news." The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from ABC, CBS, and NBC (August 1968 - present), and CNN daily news (1995 - present). Also, there are more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since September 1988. These special reports and periodic news broadcasts cover presidential press conferences and political campaign coverage, and national and international events such as the Watergate hearings, the Gulf War, and 9/11. University faculty, staff, and students can view online video from the Archive's collection of CNN material; copies or compilations of other site material can be ordered for a cost-recovery fee paid to Vanderbilt. Note: 60 Minutes, 20/20, and other news magazine programs are not included here.
Turfgrass Information Center
The Turfgrass Information File (TGIF) provides bibliographic and descriptive records of all types of works related to turfgrass culture. TGIF was established in 1983 by the United States Golf Association (USGA) Turfgrass Research Committee and the Michigan State University Libraries, and is now maintained by the Turfgrass Information Center, a division of MSU Libraries.
Value Line Investment Survey
A comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks, more than 90 industries, the stock market, and the economy.
General Interest Databases
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The publisher has up to now only allowed individual subscriptions to its online edition. They have now begun offering campus-wide access to institutions. The online version offers the full text of the very latest issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education every Monday morning. Also included are daily news updates, statistics, essays, grant listings, and unlimited, searchable access to every Chronicle published since September 1989.
Essential Science Indicators
This analytical tool offers data for ranking scientists, institutions, countries, and journals. ESI thus enables researchers to conduct ongoing, quantitative analyses of research performance and track trends in science. The compilation of science performance statistics and trends data is based on journal article publication counts and citation data from Thomson Scientific databases, which track a multidisciplinary selection of over 11,000 journals from around the world. Specifically, using ESI, one can:
- Determine the research output and impact in specific fields of research
- Rank top countries, journals, scientists, institutions and companies by field of research
- Evaluate potential employees, collaborators, reviewers, and peers
Provides brief biographical information, in digital facsimiles of the source materials in KG Saur's 34 Biographical Archives, on ca. four million people from the 4th century BC to the present. WBIS provides an index to all 34 archives, 16 of which are currently accessible on line. Others will be added as they become available.