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.