Check your H-index

Authors: Check your H-index in the Web of Science.

The H-index measures the productivity of a researcher and the impact of their work. The Web of Science offers a calculation of an author's H-index based on all of an author's publications that are indexed by the Web of Science. Please note that the Web of Science does not index all journals so any articles published in journals not indexed by the Web of Science will not be included in the H-index calculation.

Instructions on finding your H-index.

1. Go to the Web of Science (https://libproxy.cc.stonybrook.edu/login?url=http://isiknowledge.com/wos).
2. Click the blue link to Author Finder.
3. Type in the last name, first initial and middle initial of the author. Click Next.
4. Select the author names from the list that match the person you are searching on. Please be aware, middle initials may not be used in all article citations. Click Next.
5. Select all subject categories that apply to an author's body of work. Click Next.
6. Select all institutions that apply. Click Finish.
7. The list of articles will be refined to just author(s) with the criteria you selected.
8. Click on Citation Report on the side menu bar.
9. The H-index will be displayed.

The citation report can be generated from any general search for an author as well. The author finder feature creates a more refined search to distinguish authors with similar names.

If you have any questions on locating the H-index for an author in the Web of Science, please contact Dana Antonucci at dana.antonucci@stonybrook.edu.

2007 Call for Mashups

SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, has issued a call for entries in their 2007 video contest. The theme of the contest is Mind Mashup and entrants are to submit a short video that illustrates the value of sharing information. The contest deadline is 2 Dec 2007.

Complete details about the contest can be found at the SPARC site:

http://sparkyawards.org/

Small Business Resource Center Trial through August 31, 2007

The Library has a trial subscription, through August 31, 2007, to Gale's Small Business Resource Center, a comprehensive database offering content that covers all major areas of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, tax and more.

After trying Small Business Resource Center, we encourage you to leave a comment here on Screenings to let us know what you thought about the database.

Small Business Resource Center features a wealth of resources, including the entire Business Plans Handbook Series, which contains hundreds of sample business plans created by real-life entrepreneurs, as well as Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources, Encyclopedia of Management and Small Business Management – A Framework for Success. Also included are dozens of titles from John Wiley & Sons, publisher of the well-known “For Dummies” series, including Portable MBA in Strategy, 2nd Ed., The 7 Irrefutable Rules of Small Business Growth, and Portable MBA in Entrepreneurship.

Small Business Resource Center also includes a number of business journals – both specialty/vertical market and general business – including titles like:

• Better Asset Management


• Black Enterprise


• Consumer Comments


• Cosmetics International


• Direct Marketing


• Financial Management


• Family Business Review


• The Tax Adviser
  … and many more

For additional information about Small Business Resource Center, please visit the Gale website.

LitFinder Trial through August 31, 2007

The Library has a trial subscription through August 31, 2007 to Gale's LitFinder database, which contains 135,000 full-text poems, stories, plays and more.

Please explore LitFinder and then leave a comment here at Screenings to let us know what you think about the database.

LitFinder is international in scope, covers all time periods, and contains a wealth of primary literature content, including more than 126,500 full-text poems, 850,000 poem citations and excerpts, 5,000 full-text short stories, 2,800 full-text essays, 1,800 full-text speeches, and 1,000 full-text plays. LitFinder also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary. A subject navigator provides over 10,000 subject headings, and basic and advanced search modes allow users to search by keyword, author, subject, work title, work date, nationality, gender, timeline, and more.

LitFinder's easy-to-use interface allows users to easily target the information they are looking for or to browse the database through various refine search and browse options. For example, users can find everything from the sonnets of Shakespeare to the poetry of Maya Angelou, the love poetry of the 13th century to contemporary poems by African American women, the inaugural speeches of George Washington through George W. Bush, short stories by Edgar Allan Poe to stories by up-and-coming writer Elizabeth Weld, or essays on such subjects as the arts, science, and religion.

LitFinder also features a new user interface, 850 Spanish-language poems with English translations, and coverage of more than 600 nationalities and ethnicities and approximately 27,000 women writers. It focuses on contemporary works, including more than 3,500 full-text poems published for the first time in the current year, and new content is loaded on a quarterly basis.

For additional information about LitFinder, please visit the Gale website.

Biography Resource Center Trial through August 31, 2007

Through August 31, 2007, the Library offers a trial subscription to Gale's Biography Resource Center, a comprehensive biographical reference database in the areas of literature, science, multicultural studies, business, entertainment, politics, sports, government, history, current events and the arts.

After exploring Biography Resource Center, please leave a comment here at Screenings to let us know what you think about the database.

By combining more than 135 of the most frequently consulted Thomson Gale™ biographical sources with nearly 300 full-text periodicals, the Biography Resource Center delivers in-depth, full-text answers to a wide range of questions. This expansive reference integrates more than 1.4 million biographies from numerous sources including: Contemporary Authors®; Contemporary Black Biography; Contemporary Musicians; Contemporary Theatre, Film & Television; Dictionary of American Biography; Encyclopedia of World Biography; Notable Black American Women; Notable Scientists; Scribner’s Encyclopedia of American Lives; and Who’s Who Among African Americans as well as the Marquis Who’s Who® add-on module. Users can learn about the lives and accomplishments of past and present noteworthy figures for their own interest, to complete a research project, or as a starting point for in-depth research on a particular event, country or era — all within one, easy-to-navigate product.

Biography Resource Center provides fulltext coverage of the sources most often cited as key to biographical reference collections. Students and other library patrons will appreciate the following features when conducting their research:

• Narrative biographies — extensive biographical profiles collected from databases such as the Encyclopedia of World Biography


• Thumbnail biographies — one or more brief biographies containing key facts


• Full-text magazine articles from publications such as Time, Newsweek and U.S. News and World Report that amplify and update the narrative biographies and thumbnail biographies, and also provide information on individuals not yet profiled in the Biography Resource Center


• Recent Updates — brief updates on individuals in the news


• Links to Web sites that amplify an individual’s life and works

For additional information about Biography Resource Center, please visit the Gale website.

Royal Soc. Chemistry - Scheduled Downtime 5/23/07

RSC WEBSITE DOWN TIME

The RSC website at http://www.rsc.org will be unavailable on Wednesday 23 May 2007 from 7.00 a.m. until noon due to essential maintenance. Access to all content will be affected during this time.

Alexander Street Press - possible service interruptions

Alexander Street Press is currently experiencing technical difficulties on one of their servers. This may impact web-based access to all of our Alexander Street Press products including Oral History Online and Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000. Service interruption notice posted 10:08 am on Thur, May 10.

New Online Reference Titles

250 reference titles are now available online via the Gale Virtual Reference Collection.

The entire collection can be searched as a whole or titles within a subject area or even single titles. The complete texts of these titles are searchable. Catalog entries for all the titles are included in the STARS online catalog.

The following list is just a sample of the titles available in this online reference collection:

Acronyms, Initialisms, and Abbreviations Dictionary, 37th ed.

African American Almanac, 9th ed.

American Men and Women of Science, 22nd ed.

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990

Beacham's Guide to the Endangered Species of North America

Business Plans Handbook, Volume 12

Chemistry: Foundations and Applications

College Blue Book, 34th ed.

Company Profiles for Students

Contemporary Hispanic Biography

Contemporary Novelists

Contemporary Poets

Crime and Punishment: Essential Primary Sources

Dictionary of American History

Dictionary of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Encyclopedia of Judaica

Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 20,000 Women Through the Ages

Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, 2nd ed.

Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World

Encyclopedia of India

Encyclopedia of Modern Asia

Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd ed.

Encyclopedia of Religion

Encyclopedia of Small Business, 2nd ed.

Encyclopedia of Sociology

Encyclopedia of the American Constitution

Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa

Encyclopedia of World Biography

Environmental Encyclopedia

Europe, 1450 to 1789: An Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World

Feminism in Literature: A Gale Critical Companion

Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, 2nd ed

Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 2nd ed.

Geo-Data: The World Geographical Encyclopedia

Government, Politics, and Protest: Essential Primary Sources

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia

History of the American Cinema

Manufacturing and Distribution USA, 4th ed.

New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd ed.

Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature

Scholarships, Fellowships and Loans, 23rd ed.

Social Trends and Indicators USA

VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever 2007

West's Encyclopedia of American Law, 2nd ed.

World Education Encyclopedia

Writers Directory 2007

News from ARTstor

Paintings and Tapestries from the Getty

ARTstor is pleased to announce two new collections from the Getty.

The first, J. Paul Getty Museum Collection, contains nearly 400 paintings from the 14th century through the early 20th century.

The second collection, Study Photographs of Tapestries in the Getty Research Library, contains over 4,000 images from the Tapestries Collection. more>>

Greek, Hellenistic and Roman sculptures from the Berlin State Museums

ARTstor has just added 301 images of Greek, Hellenistic and Roman sculptures from the Collection of Classical Antiquities at the Berlin State Museums. more>>

Historic Illustrations of Art and Architecture

ARTstor has released over 300 images of historic art and architecture illustrations to the Digital Library. This collection, created by Allan Kohl, contains illustrations originally published during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. more>>

Xrefer Reference E-Books Trial thru April 30.

Melville Library currently subscribes to sets of multidisciplinary reference books in electronic format via the Gale Virtual Reference Library and Oxford Reference Online.

Through April 30th we have trial access to XreferPlus - a competing set of online reference ebooks - in order to compare Xrefer's product with Gale's and Oxford's. Access to the XreferPlus product is available from on-campus connections only.

After you have explored any or all of these online electronic reference resources, please feel free to leave a comment here on Screenings...

Blackwell-Synergy Scheduled Downtime 3/30

The Blackwell-Synergy site will be down for planned system maintenance on the 30th of March 2007 at 6:00pm EDT for two to five hours and will be unavailable during this time.

TRIAL thru 4/30: 850 Blackwell-Synergy titles

The library currently has trial access to the complete collection of 850 Blackwell-Synergy journals through April 30, 2007.

Note that the Blackwell-Synergy site will be down for planned system maintenance on the 30th of March 2007 at 6:00pm EDT for two to five hours and will be unavailable during this time.

ScienceDirect - Scheduled downtime on 3/11

ScienceDirect (but not Scopus) will be unavailable for a planned period of downtime on Sunday, March 11, 2007 for approximately 7 hours starting at 01:00 AM EST (06:00 AM MT). This is to adjust the system to take account the change to Daylight Savings Time in the United States.

3/3/07 Scheduled Downtime for Elsevier

Scheduled downtime from Elsevier and ScienceDirect...

Saturday March 3, 2007
app. 6:30a.m. to 3:30p.m.

The library has arranged for a trial of the IBISWorld Industry Intelligence product through 23 March '07.


“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.

ScienceDirect - Scheduled downtime on 2/24

ScienceDirect and Scopus
scheduled system downtime
February 24th (6am - 3pm)

Education Literature Databases

A reload and data format change for ERIC has been completed and the up-to-date version of the database is now available on the EBSCOhost platform. 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.

Also available on the EBSCOhost platform is Education Research Complete, the world’s largest and most complete collection of full text education journals. This resource offers bibliographic and full text for more than 800 education journals.

Rounding out the education literature databases, the library also provides access to Education Fulltext on the WilsonWeb platform.

Web of Knowledge - service disruptions 1/28/07

Thomson Scientific will be upgrading the Web of Knowledge on Sunday, January 28th, starting at 8:00 a.m. EST. There will be brief disruptions to access and personalization services throughout the day.

Recent eResource additions

The four most recent additions to our e-Resource collection illustrate the wide variety in the types of information the library makes available to you in a digital format.

HSUS: Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition
HSUS is a source for quantitative facts of United States history. This is the recently updated and expanded 4th edition; the previous 3 editions were released by Census Bureau in 1940, 1969, and 1975. This database contains tables of historical statistical data, documentation, and essays on a wide range of topics.

IEEE Computer Society Digital Library
The IEEE Computer Society Digital Library contains full-text content from 13 technical magazines, 10 research journals, and over 2000 conference publications. Current online publication in the CDSL is often well in advance of the print copies, while archival coverage can extend as far back as the first issue, depending upon the individual publication.

The Literary Encyclopedia
This encyclopedia provides global coverage of literary work written or translated into English. It contains over 5,900 biographical entries, 1,600 events, and 19,000 literary works. In 2007 the editors expect to add at least 10 new profiles each week.

International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance with Full-text
The IBTD is the latest addition to our list of databases available on the easy-to-use EBSCOHost platform. IBTD indexes over 60,000 journal articles, books, book articles and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance in 126 countries, while providing full-text coverage for about 100 journals and an equal number of books.

DSpace scheduled downtime Jan 27-28

The SUNY Digital Repository (aka "Dspace") http://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/ will be unavailable January 27-28, 2007 while they migrate the system to new hardware.

ScienceDirect SCHEDULED DOWNTIME 1/20/07

Please be advised that the ScienceDirect search functionality will be upgraded on Saturday January 20th, resulting in some system downtime. It is anticipated that ScienceDirect will be unavailable for approximately 6 hours, starting at 19.30 GMT.