Friday, July 28, 2006

Lexis-Nexis Company Dossier TRIAL: ENDED


The Library has arranged for a trial of the Lexis-Nexis Company Dossier add-on to our subscription to Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe. The trial runs from Aug 1 to Aug 31.

Company Dossier provides access to information on 35 million U.S. and International companies. Searches by name or ticker symbol can be entered from the main Academic Universe page, or you can choose Advanced Search for more complex inquiries.

To get to Company Dossier open Academic Universe and look in the lower right of the screen.

Once you have tried Company Dossier, please return here and complete our Lexis-Nexis Company Dossier evaluation survey.

Feedback, thoughts, and comments about are encouraged, and should be sent to Susan Lieberthal, Business Librarian, at susan.lieberthal@stonybrook.edu or 631.632.9951. Don't forget to take the survey!

Thursday, July 27, 2006

IBISWorld TRIAL: ENDED

Our trial access to IBISWorld Industry Intelligence has been extended until Aug 11th.

Please take a test drive of IBISWorld and then respond to our evaluation survey.

For more information about this trial please see the previous Screenings post.

Thursday, July 20, 2006

Mergent Online TRIAL: 7/20-8/3

The library has arranged for a trial of Mergent Online. Mergent Online is an Internet-based suite of information resources that enables in-depth business and financial research. This trial runs from July 20 to Aug 3.

Once you have reviewed Mergent Online please return here and take our Survey. Survey information will assist us in making better subscription decisions.

Our trial access is limited to 3 simultaneous users. If you are unable to access Mergent Online please try again later, as the limit may have been reached.

The trial provides access to the following products:

U.S. Company Data & Archives
International Company Data & Archives
U.S. Annual Reports
International Annual Reports
U.S. Earnings Estimates
International Earnings Estimates
U.S. HSD Equity Pricing (20+ Years History)
International HSD Equity Pricing (20+ Years History)
Unadjusted Equity Pricing
Mergent Equity Research Reports
Standardized Financials
Standardized Financial Transparency
Institutional Holdings
Insider Trades
Expanded Long-Term Debt
Executive Biographies
Competitor Reports
Industry Reports (North America, Asia pacific, Europe)
Experian National Business Private Company Database
Non-EDGAR Filings

Feedback, comments, and questions about Mergent Online are encouraged and should be communicated to Susan Lieberthal, Business Librarian, at susan.lieberthal@stonybrook.edu or 631.632.9951. Don't forget to take our Survey for Mergent Online!

Check out a previous post about another business database trial with IBISWorld.

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

BioAbs & ZooRec TRIAL: ENDED

The library has arranged for a trial of Biological Abstracts (pdf description) and Zoological Record (pdf description).

Access to these databases is currently available via our Web Of Knowledge link.

The trial runs from July 12 to Aug 10
.

Feedback, thoughts, and comments about Biological Abstracts and/or Zoological Record are encouraged, and should be sent to Dana Antonucci: dana.antonucci@stonybrook.edu or 631.632.7150.

Monday, July 17, 2006

7/17/06 Intermittent interruptions in Proxy services

As we upgrade our proxy server, which is what permits you to access our subscription resources from off-campus, we are experiencing periodic interruptions in service.

If you are trying to get to one of the library databases from off-campus today and receive any kind of error message, please simply wait and try again later.

Thanks for your patience while we work to improve our services to off-campus library users.

Friday, July 14, 2006

UlrichsWeb scheduled maintenance: Sat. 7/15

On Saturday, July 15, Ulrichsweb.com and Ulrich's Serials Analysis System may be intermittently unavailable from approximately 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. EST while the vendor performs scheduled server maintenance.

IBISWorld Industry Intelligence TRIAL: ENDED


The library has arranged for a trial of the IBISWorld Industry Intelligence product. The trial will run from July 14 thru July 28.

Use this link - IBISWorld Industry Intelligence - to access the trial.

“IBISWorld publishes the most comprehensive and up-to-date collection of US Industry Research covering 700 industries and 98% of GDP. Each IBISWorld Industry Market Research Report of about 35 pages in length contains analysis and data on key statistics, industry structure including supply/demand chain, market characteristics, product & customer segments, cost structure industry conditions, key drivers, major players & market share, recent performance & 5-year revenue forecasts. The database is further supplemented by 8000 US and Canadian publicly- traded company profiles and 400 Economic and Demographic Data Items which explain the meaning of an external sensitivity and the IBISWorld forecast of its meaning.”

A short Getting Started Manual is available via email. If you would like a manual please contact Susan Lieberthal, Business Librarian, at susan.lieberthal@stonybrook.edu or 631.632.9951.

Feedback, thoughts, and comments about IBISWord Industry Intelligence are encouraged, and should be sent to Susan as well. Please complete our Survey regarding IBISWorld Industry Intelligence.

Thursday, July 13, 2006

ARTstor – it’s not just for Artists!

ARTstor is a digital initiative by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. It is a repository for thousands of digital images and data. Images and their respective collections in ARTstor represent a broad range of cultures and time periods. Students are permitted to use ARTstor images in their research papers and other scholarly products, and faculty can collect and store images for a variety of purposes such as lecture materials and tests.

ARTstor contains several different collections. The most basic collection is the Image Gallery; a set of over 250,000 images offering a broad overview of world art, architecture, and visual cultural. Although this collection was originally based on slides used primarily for art history courses, it has grown to include images from a variety of sources and can be useful for a wide range of disciplines.

For example, in the Image Gallery.…

  • Historians will find Civil War cartoons of John Tenniel of interest.
  • Latin American and Caribbean Studies folks may find uses for the Cuban Heritage set of early 1900’s photographs and 1900’s-present postcards.
  • Natural historians, botanists, biologists, and anthropologists should be excited to see images from “The First Fleet”. The First Fleet set is comprised of 629 watercolors painted by prisoners and sailors associated with the First Fleet of convicts sent from England to New South Wales in 1787. These paintings illustrate European settlers’ first encounters with the people, plants, and wildlife in Australia.
  • Early 20th Century American Sheet Music Covers should catch the attention of musicologists, illustrators, designers and historians.
  • 275 amazing images from Vesalius’ treatise on human anatomy are valuable to medical historians, anatomists, and artists.

Two separate ARTstor collections of particular significance to the Stony Brook community are the Huntington Archive of Asian Art and the Mellon International Dunhuang Archive (MIDA). The Huntington archive contains over 300,000 photographs of Asian art and architecture, taken by art historians John and Susan Huntington over a 30 year period. Countries represented in this collection include India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, China, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, and Myanmar. Many of the monuments and artwork photographed by the Huntingtons have since been destroyed, stolen, lost, or modified.

The Mellon International Dunhuang Archive (MIDA) archive is an ongoing, multi-national effort to create high-quality digital reconstructions of murals, other artwork, and texts associated with several hundred Buddhist cave shrines in Dunhuang, China. This collection even includes 360-degree QuickTime virtual reality (QTVR) reconstructions of 23 cave shrines. These QTVR renderings of the caves allow you to stand inside, turn around, and look at all the walls as if you were actually there! Stunning.

A few of the other individual collections in ARTstor include:

  • The MoMA Digital Design Collection. 8,000 digital images of about 6,200 works from MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design. Only 5% of these works have been previously published. The majority of objects in this collection are not on permanent exhibition.
  • The Native American Art and Culture Collection from the Smithsonian’s National Anthropological Archive includes 10,000 historical photographs digitized from the original glass plate negatives, as well as 2,000 Plains Indian “ledger drawings” from the mid- to late-19th century.
  • The Illustrated Bartsch contains about 50,000 images of Old Master European Prints from the 15th to the early-19th centuries. The library also has a print copy of this work – but you cannot check it out! ARTstor’s Illustrated Bartsch allows you to browse and analyze the images from anywhere you have an Internet connection…
  • The Schlesinger History of Women in America Collection contains about 36,000 photographs from the Harvard’s Schlesinger Library. These photographs document women’s work in a variety of areas such as domestic service, factories, nursing, agriculture, etc., as well women who played key roles in the women’s suffrage and women’s rights movements. This collection offers a uniquely documented view of women’s history and experience.

ARTstor is available from the library homepage under the Database Finder and the E-Books and Texts links. As you can see, ARTstor is not just for artists and art historians anymore. Regardless of your area of expertise, there is almost certainly something in ARTstor for you!