Screenings

Trial of Waters & Oceans Worldwide Database

2010-05-19T12:00:00.006-04:00

Waters & Oceans Worldwide combines databases on all facets of international water research. Included in this collection are records from the now-ceased database Marine, Oceanographic and Freshwater Resources (MOFR), plus six of the world's major water resource databases, including WATERLIT, The Freshwater Biological Association Library Catalogue, The International Water Management Institute Database (IMWI), AQUAREF, ACQUIRE and Delft Hydro. The database includes over 1,854,600 citations and abstracts dating back to the 1970s, on all aspects of water and water-related subjects ranging from coastal and offshore engineering to pollution and water treatment. The trial runs through the end of June 2010.

ARTstor Scheduled Maintenance

2010-04-29T12:36:00.002-04:00

ARTstor will be performing temporary maintenance on Saturday evening, May 1, 2010 between the hours of 9:00 PM and 2:00 AM EDT. At this time, service will be termporarily suspended.

American Geophysical Union Backfile Now Available

2010-03-05T09:33:00.003-05:00

The library has recently acquired access to the digitized backfile of journals published by the American Geophysical Union (AGU), a worldwide scientific community that started more than 110 years ago. A list of the journals in the collection, dates included, and links to full text are available on the AGU Digital Library website. Also available is a set of streamed AGU lectures and interviews.

The American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Historical Monograph Collection - Trial Access through June 30

2010-02-24T15:05:00.000-05:00

The American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Historical Monograph Collection, Series 1: 13th Century-1893, and Series 2: 1894-1923.

These ATLA collections contain more than 29,000 titles focused on religion and theology.

Series 1 contains over 5 million pages of content and consists of titles from the 13th Century through the 1893 World Parliament of Religions, with the majority of titles from the 19th century. Since religion was such an integral part of the social, political and economic fabric of life during the time period of this collection, historians researching a wide range of areas, not just religion, will find invaluable material relevant to their work.

Series 2 consists of titles published from 1894 through 1923 and presents a comprehensive picture of the growing interest in and understanding of Eastern religions from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. It also highlights significant shifts in the religious identification of Americans, and of new interest in and experimentation with non-western religions.

Series 2 contains hundreds of volumes describing the evangelical movement and collections of evangelical sermons, including coverage of the debates between science and religion in the late nineteenth century. A significant number of titles that describe the missionary activities of the period are included, as well as numerous biographies of nineteenth century theologians, which provide perspective on how and why these leaders were valued in the nineteenth century. The collection offers a unique array of books by and about women and the church, and also books about Native Americans and their religion, and the view that Puritans and others.

More information, including title lists.

American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Trial through June 30

2010-02-24T15:00:00.000-05:00

The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection, Series 1: 1691-1820; and Series 2: 1821-1837.

The collections include digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals housed in the American Antiquarian Society, the premier library documenting the life of America's people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Series 1 presents over 500 titles, dating from 1691 through 1820, with over 850,000 total pages. Almost every seventeenth- and eighteenth-century American title is represented in addition to the majority of works published before 1821. Subject strengths include but are not limited to Afro-Americana, agriculture, children's literature, education, eighteenth-century imprints, leisure and hobbies, Masonic works, medicine, religion, science and technology, the trades, and women's literature. Long runs of popular magazines can be found here, as well as unusual and short-lived titles, such as works published in Peru and Cuba, an early millennial publication, satirical serials, music journals, and titles printed and edited by women.

Series 2 presents over 1,000 titles, dating from 1821 through 1837. The subject matter covered represents the Jacksonian Democracy era in history and is broad in scope, including agriculture, entertainment, history, literary criticism, and politics.

Historical Abstracts and America:History & Life Full-Text Upgrades Through June 30

2010-02-24T10:14:00.004-05:00

Two of the library's important history databases, Historical Abstracts and America: History & Life, now have trial access to full-text upgrades through June 30, 2010.

Historical Abstracts with Full Text
Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and much more. Selective indexing of historical articles from more than 1,800 journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.

Through June 30, 2010, it will also include full text of more than 300 journals and over 130 books.

America: History and Life with Full Text
Covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. Selective indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present, including abstracts in English of articles published in more than 40 languages.

Through June 30, 2010, it will also include full-text coverage of nearly 200 journals and over 90 books.

Cambridge Books Online Trial

2010-02-01T15:08:00.001-05:00

Cambridge University Press is one of the largest and most prestigious academic publishers in the world and publishes scholarly journals and books for subjects as diverse as astronomy, Shakespeare studies, economics, mathematics and politics. Cambridge Books Online provides desktop access to thousands of books published by Cambridge. Trial access to this collection is available until the end of March 2010.

Trial of Readers' Guide Retrospective Available

2010-01-22T11:20:00.006-05:00

Readers' Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. Over 3 million articles from approximately 375 leading magazines are indexed. Coverage for the database includes the years 1890 through 1982. The trial lasts until the end of February 2010.

ScienceDirect Scheduled Service Outage on Jan.23rd

2010-01-21T16:12:00.000-05:00

ScienceDirect will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 12 hours on Saturday, January 23 from 8:00AM to 8:00PM EST.

LexisNexis Scheduled Service Outage on October 31

2009-10-25T12:14:00.003-04:00

The LexisNexis Academic, Congressional, and Statistical databases will be unavailable beginning Saturday, October 31st, at 9:00pm until Sunday, November 1st, 5:00am.

Electronic Journal Downtime -- Time Changed

2009-10-18T12:40:00.005-04:00

Due to a required system upgrade, access to electronic journals, Galaxy databases, and full text linking will be unavailable for a 4-hour period beginning Saturday, October 24th at 2:00 am.

Open Access to American History in Video

2009-10-07T13:43:00.002-04:00

American History in Video is freely available (no username or password required) through November 15, 2009. According to the publisher, Alexander Street Press, it includes "more than 1,500 titles and 500 hours. It will continue to grow to include more than 5,000 complete titles and 2,000 hours of rare newsreels and important documentaries from leading producers such as PBS, The History Channel®, Bullfrog Films, and California Newsreel."

Electronic Books from Springer Publishing on Trial

2009-09-16T11:35:00.006-04:00

This trial covers all Springer eBook Collections for copyright years 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 including nearly 10,000 eBooks and eReference Works, and is available until the end of October. The titles included cover a wide range of subject areas, with emphasis on science, technology, and medicine. Titles we can access are identified by green squares.

Latino Writing Collections

2009-09-16T11:15:00.004-04:00

Trial access is available until October 15th to three collections of Latino Writing. The collections include poetry, short stories, folk tales, novels, memoirs, non-fiction, and plays in both Spanish and English from Latino writers around the world. They are made available in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month by Alexander Street Press. The collections are Latino Literature, Caribbean Literature, and Latin American Women Writers

Username: eviews
Password: hispanicheritage

GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources)

2009-08-04T11:04:00.005-04:00

GREENR focuses on the academic study of sustainability and the environment. Both interactive and current, GREENR allows users to navigate issue, organization and country portals. This resource provides news, background information, video, unique commentaries, primary source documents and statistics in the categories of energy systems, healthcare, food, climate change, population, and economic development. Through an arrangement made by SUNYConnect, the database is on trial until the end of 2009.

GSS 1972-2008 Cumulative Data File now Available

2009-07-29T14:50:00.007-04:00

The 1972-2008 GSS cumulative data file for the National Opinion Research Center's General Social Surveys (GSS) is now available from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research via RoperExpress immediate download.

The newly released data file contains individual response coding for 53,043 respondents and 5,364 variables. The questionnaire contains a standard core of demographic and attitudinal variables, plus certain topics of special interest selected for rotation (called "topical modules"). Items that appeared on national surveys between 1973 and 1975 are replicated. The exact wording of these questions is retained to facilitate time trend studies as well as replications of earlier findings.

The Early Republic - Trial Through July 15, 2009

2009-06-04T17:34:00.006-04:00

The new digital collection The Early Republic will be available on a trial basis through July 15, 2009. No log-in or password are required.

Explore The Early Republic.

Since 1972, 17 volumes of primary material documenting the actions, debates, and thoughts of the First Federal Congress and its members have been collected by the First Federal Congress Project (FFCP) and published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. These volumes of the Documentary History of the First Federal Congress are used by Congress, historians, political scientists, and jurists to understand the most important and productive Congress in United States history.

The Early Republic brings this rich legacy to the fingertips of a new generation of students and scholars. Comprising 17,000 annotated pages and 250 images, the innovative online reference features a cumulative index and robust search engine. The Early Republic will incorporate the full text of future volumes and will eventually incorporate digital editions of other publications relating to the colonial period and revolution.

After trying the collection, give us your feedback. You can leave a comment below or email William Glenn, selector for History, at william.glenn@stonybrook.edu.

More information on The First Federal Congress Project and the Documentary History of the First Federal Congress, 1789-1791.

How To Search the collection.

Free Access to Swine Flu Information from DynaMed

2009-04-30T17:08:00.000-04:00

Due to the recent global outbreak of Swine Influenza, EBSCO Publishing and the DynaMed Editors have made DynaMed’s information about Swine Influenza free to health care providers and institutions throughout the world. The DynaMed topic on Swine Influenza consolidates information from multiple sources for health care providers to stay current with recommendations for monitoring, diagnosing, and treating patients with flu-like illnesses during this outbreak. DynaMed Editors will continue to monitor information and update this topic as needed throughout this global crisis.

American History in Video Available Free on Web Until April 30

2009-04-09T13:01:00.005-04:00

American History in Video, from Alexander Street Press, has been released and is available free on the Web through April 30th at http://ahivfree.alexanderstreet.com.

This new online resource for teaching and research will include thousands of rare newsreels from 1929 through the 1960s, including the entire series of both Universal and United. You'll also find the historic Longine Chronoscope broadcasts and hundreds of hours of documentaries from leading producers such as The History Channel®.

All videos and transcripts in the collection have been Semantically Indexed and are fully searchable and browsable.

Freely access the entire collection on the Web now through Thursday, April 30th.

http://ahivfree.alexanderstreet.com

No username or password required.

SBU Digitized Collections, scheduled maintenance

2009-02-24T17:14:00.003-05:00

There may be periodic interruptions in access to the Stony Brook University Libraries' digitized collections on Wed, 2/15 as we conduct scheduled maintenance to the server on which the collections reside.

Scheduled E-Resource Downtime, 2/20 @ 5.30pm

2009-02-19T15:52:00.000-05:00

Friday, 2/20/09, there will be a scheduled interruption in access to the library's electronic resources due to campus server upgrades.

The downtime will begin at about 5.30pm and last approximately one hour.

Electronic Resources from the New York State Library

2009-01-28T11:30:00.008-05:00

New York State employees, including Stony Brook University faculty and staff, can access online journals and databases available from the New York State Library. To enable access, a State Library borrower's card must be obtained. While there is overlap between our holdings and those available from the State Library, many resources are available which are not part of our collection.

More Springer Titles Now Available

2009-01-26T12:41:00.004-05:00

Almost 1700 titles published online by Springer are now available thanks to the Library's participation in a new contract sponsored by the NERL (Northeast Research Libraries) Consortium. Each title is linked from the Electronic Journals page and can also be accessed from the Springer site.

ScienceDirect Scheduled Maintenance

2009-01-08T16:09:00.000-05:00

On Saturday, 10 January, ScienceDirect will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately eight hours starting at 2:30 p.m., EST.

EndNote X2 Update Available

2009-01-08T13:59:00.001-05:00

EndNote X2 Update Available - X2.0.2 for Windows and X2.0.1 for Mac OS X

How to update EndNote

1. Update installed EndNote X2 or X2.0.1 using Program Updates. Within EndNote , choose " EndNote Program Updates" from the "Help" menu.

WINDOWS NOTE: While the update/installer is titled X2.0.2, the "About EndNote " description remains "X2.0.1 (Build 3514)" after installation. This version of the update does not require users to uninstall and reinstall the program.

2. Alternatively EndNote X2 users can download the free update at http://www.endnote.com/support/ENX201_WinMac_updater.asp

**The temporary online search results are back in this updated version! Now you can choose between having results automatically stored in the library or kept separate for more selectivity.

Important news regarding SciFinder Scholar

2009-01-08T13:56:00.002-05:00

On January 30, 2009, CAS will discontinue access to the following versions of SciFinder:

SciFinder Scholar 2006 for Microsoft Windows

SciFinder Scholar 2006 for MAC OS X

If you are still running one of the versions above, please go to Softweb [https://softweb.cc.stonybrook.edu/] to download the latest version, SciFinder Scholar 2007 or register for the web version of SciFinder by clicking here [https://libproxy.cc.stonybrook.edu/loggedin/scifinder.html].

Access to IEEE/IET Electronic Library Now Available

2008-12-26T17:17:00.003-05:00

The IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL) provides access to almost a third of the world's current electrical engineering and computer science literature. Content includes full-text access to all IEEE journals, transactions, and magazines; IEEE conference proceedings; IET journals and conference proceedings; and all current IEEE standards. Complete backfile to 1988, with select publications to 1913.

Dec. 27: Wiley Journals Scheduled Downtime

2008-12-23T14:41:00.003-05:00

Due to essential site maintenance, access may be intermittently unavailable from Saturday, December 27th, 9:00am for 2 - 6 hours.

Dec 9th: possible network outage

2008-11-26T15:20:00.004-05:00

There will be a potential network outage on Tues. Dec 9th 2008 between 1700-1900 while DoIT and UHMC Network Services test SBU's new Internet redundancy connection.

Free access to Royal Soc. Digitial Archive until Feb 2009

2008-11-21T13:34:00.000-05:00

The Royal Society Digital Journal Archive
(http://journals.royalsociety.org) is now free to access until 1 February
2009.

The Royal Society Digital Archive is easily the most
comprehensive journal archive in science and contains some of the
most significant scientific papers ever published. Covering
almost 350 years of scientific research across the disciplines it
is a priceless academic resource. The Royal Society Digital
Journal Archive, dating back to 1665 and containing approximately
52,000 articles, is available online and is FREE for a three
month period.

The development of this digital resource means that the Society's
online collection now contains every paper ever published in the
Royal Society's journals - from the very first peer-reviewed
paper in Philosophical Transactions in 1665 to the most recent
interdisciplinary article in Journal of the Royal Society
Interface.

Seminal research papers include accounts of Michael Faraday's
groundbreaking series of electrical experiments, Isaac Newton's
invention of the reflecting telescope and the first research
paper published by Stephen Hawking. The Archive provides a record
of some key scientific discoveries from the last 343 years
including: Halley's description of 'his comet' in 1705; details
of the double Helix of DNA by James Watson and Francis Crick in
1954; and Edmond Stone's breakthrough in 1763 that willow bark
cured fevers, leading to the discovery of salicylic acid and
later the development of aspirin.

During this three month period, librarians and academics will be
able to access and download any article from this comprehensive
scientific publishing resource completely free of charge. Find
out more about the Archive at
http://publishing.royalsociety.org/archive or access the Archive
directly at http://journals.royalsociety.org.

ScienceDirect - Nov 15th scheduled downtime

2008-11-12T10:06:00.002-05:00

On Saturday Nov. 15th ScienceDirect will be offline for scheduled maintenance for nine hours. The scheduled downtime is from 8.00am EST until 5.00pm EST.

Trial of the full IEEE Electronic Library (IEL) until Nov. 30, 2008

2008-11-07T10:09:00.002-05:00

The full-text IEEE Electronic Library (IEL) includes :

IEEE journals and transactions back to 1988,
all IEEE conference proceedings,
IEEE Standards,
IET journals and conference proceedings,
Computer Society Digital Library

Access the trial subscription now by going to the IEEE Xplore® digital library ,
your account should be IP authenticated and you will be logged in automatically.
Please direct any questions and especially comments to Godlind Johnson (godlind.johnson@sunysb.edu)

The library's trial of the full IEEE Electronic Library (IEL) ends November 30, 2008

Institutional Repositories Searched in Web of Knowledge

2008-10-16T11:05:00.000-04:00

Searches in the Web of Knowledge database include results from 716 institutional repositories along with full text. In addition, content from thousands of scientifically-focused websites are included in search results. All websites searched have been selected by Web of Knowledge staff and adhere to high standards of scientific integrity, accuracy, timeliness, and readability.

New Titles Added to Oxford Reference Online

2008-10-03T16:45:00.000-04:00

Oxford Reference Online has added four in-depth and scholarly titles. Coverage of the sciences is enhanced with the new Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, containing over 21,000 entries, and The New Encyclopedia of Reptiles and Amphibians, which includes over 200 color illustrations and photographs. Also new are the Grove Book of Operas and The New Grove Book of Opera Singers. There are close to 200 titles in the entire collection.

Uniworld Business Directories now available

2008-09-18T10:49:00.000-04:00

Two business directories published by Uniworld are now available to the Stony Brook University community. Foreign Firms Operating in the United States and American Firms Operating in Foreign Countries provide global contact information for American businesses with offices abroad and foreign firms with offices in the United States. Updated annually, 190 countries and 130,000 companies are included.

Cambridge Histories Online

2008-09-15T17:11:00.000-04:00

Available on a trial basis until Friday, October 17th, Cambridge Histories Online includes 64 titles and over 250 volumes in the Cambridge history series published since 1960. Among the titles included are The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations (4 volumes), Economic History of Europe (8 volumes), History of Science (4 volumes), History of Literary Criticism (8 volumes), and the New Cambridge History of India (21 volumes). The entire collection can be searched together, or searches can be restricted to broad subject groupings or to individual volumes.

JSTOR PDF/ Mac Preview problem fixed

2008-09-15T13:55:00.000-04:00

JSTOR reports that they have located and fixed a problem that caused an incompatibility between JSTOR PDF files and older versions of Mac Preview. This problem caused only part of the article to be viewable in Preview. The fix released today means that JSTOR PDF files should now be viewable in their entirety in Preview 3.0.9 (the current version integrated with Mac OS 10.4) as well as newer versions integrated with Mac OS 10.5.

Users of Preview 3.0.9 should note, however, that the page images of articles are usually highly compressed to save file size, and may be slow to open on this version of Preview. It is believed that this is a limitation of Preview that Apple corrected in the version of Preview shipped with Mac OS 10.5.

Biological Abstracts on Web of Knowledge

2008-09-09T12:18:00.000-04:00

From now until November 8th, Biological Abstracts will be available on the familiar Web of Knowledge platform. You can search the database simultaneously with Web of Science, or search it directly by going to the "Select a Database" tab. Biological Abstracts continues to be available on the OVID platform.

JSTOR PDF Incompatibility with Mac Preview

2008-09-03T15:37:00.001-04:00

The following was recently announced by JSTOR. If you are having trouble seeing all the pages in a downloaded PDF document, this may solve your problem:

Certain versions of Mac Preview are incompatible with the newest generation of JSTOR PDFs. For some users, this means that only the cover page is displaying. Other users have reported that the downloaded article appears to be missing the first portion of the article—it begins somewhere after the first 10 pages of the article. The article is in fact intact and complete, but some pages are not displayed properly. JSTOR is working to fix this and plans to continue to support the use of Preview with JSTOR PDFs.

For now, the quickest workaround is to download the latest free copy of Adobe Reader, available on the Adobe web site:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2_allversions.html

Once Adobe Reader is downloaded, please check to make sure that the default PDF viewer is set to Adobe Reader rather than the original PDF viewer installed on your Mac.

The default viewer for PDF documents in Mac OS X is Preview. To change the file association for PDF files:

Select any PDF file and choose File > Get Info.

Choose the application that you want to open PDF files from the Open With menu.

Click Change All, and then click Continue.

You will also want to make sure that the popup blocker is turned off for the JSTOR site. The new PDF files are set to open in a new window and popup blockers may affect this.

ScienceDirect Upgrade

2008-07-29T14:12:00.000-04:00

From 05:30 EDT on Saturday August 2, to 01:30 EDT on Sunday August 3 (09:30 UTC to August 3, 05:30 UTC), ScienceDirect will be unavailable due to an upgrade of the administrative system that will improve the access and entitlements process to both platforms.

Email alerts and RSS feeds for ScienceDirect will not be sent from 11:30 EDT on August 1 (15:30 UTC) until the downtime has finished. Email alerts and RSS feeds can still be created until 05:30 EDT on August 2 (09:30 UTC), but they will not be sent until after the upgrade is completed.

Update - Blackwell e-journals move to Wiley InterScience

2008-06-30T14:46:00.000-04:00

As of 6/30/2008 the Blackwell-Synergy e-journals are linking to the main WileyInterscience web page rather than directly to the journal level. This is part of the ongoing process of migrating the Blackwell content over to the Wiley InterScience platform. Wiley is actively working to resolve this issue and they hope to have it resolved within the next few days.

WorldWideScience.org - Explore The Global Science Gateway

2008-06-24T13:32:00.000-04:00

WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway linking national and international scientific databases and repositories. This site allows users to search scientific information collected from around the world. Much of the information in this database is not available via conventional web searching.

Wiley InterScience & Blackwell Synergy - Scheduled Downtime

2008-06-23T16:23:00.002-04:00

Access to Wiley InterScience and Blackwell Synergy will be unavailable the weekend of the 28th and 29th of June, during which time Blackwell Synergy content will transfer to Wiley InterScience.

This change is part of the merger of Blackwell Publishing with John Wiley and Sons. The merger will result in a combination of all Wiley-Blackwell's online products onto a single online platform.

All Blackwell Synergy journal content will move to Wiley InterScience as of June 30, 2008, at which point Synergy will cease to be available. Beyond this initial phase, Wiley-Blackwell is planning to launch a next-generation online service in 2009 that will include the best features of both Blackwell Synergy and Wiley InterScience and which will introduce innovative new functionality and capabilities.

Accessing recent Chron. of Higher Ed. articles

2008-06-20T14:19:00.004-04:00

To access the text of the recent Chronicle of Higher Education articles, use the LexisNexis Academic link:

After you click on the link the following appears. Leave the search terms box empty (unless you're looking for something specific) and just enter a date range at the bottom of the screen. For example, use the "date is after" option if you're looking for something in the last couple of weeks or so.

After hitting the SEARCH button, the following is displayed. Click on the title(s) to go to the full text.

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics now available online.

2008-05-27T15:01:00.001-04:00

Access to version 2008 of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (corresponding to the 88th edition of the printed book) is now available to the University community. The Handbook covers all types of physical science data commonly encountered by scientists and engineers. Major tables of numerical data are presented in the form of interactive tables. Substances in these tables can be retrieved by searching on name, formula,or CAS Registry Number, and such a search can be combined with a request for a desired property.

News from Project MUSE

2008-05-22T16:37:00.000-04:00

Project MUSE introduces linked subject headings
(reproduced from Project MUSE's recent email announcement)

Users of Project MUSE articles and Tables of Contents in our recently-launched new format may have noticed an additional feature - "clickable" subject headings for each article, allowing fast and easy connections to related content in Project MUSE. Built upon the rich controlled vocabulary classification of all MUSE articles and reviews with Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) by our in-house professional cataloging staff, this new functionality quickly connects scholars to additional relevant content to enhance their research.

Linked subject headings are a powerful discovery tool for users. Following a subject heading link brings the user to an alphabetical listing of all current subject headings utilized for MUSE articles, with the selected heading as the entry point in the list. The researcher may then view additional articles that share the same subject heading, or peruse further articles with related headings. The list of subject headings is annotated with the current number of MUSE articles and reviews to which that heading is assigned.

One of the many benefits of the linked subject headings is the ability to refine a research topic when articles with a more specific focus are needed. Conversely, the linked subject headings can guide a user to articles with a broader approach when the assignment requires a more general discussion of the research topic.

MUSE has always assigned LC subject headings to articles to help users identify the topics discussed within an article and in turn, to select articles most suitable to their research. Now, by simply clicking on a subject heading, users can move from subject to subject, article to article, exploring topics and articles related to their search topic.

All MUSE articles and Tables of Contents produced since mid-April 2008 offer the new linked subject headings functionality; as older content is converted to the new format, the feature will also become available for archival articles, reviews, and Tables of Contents.

Wiley InterScience Scheduled Maintenance 5/25

2008-05-22T15:36:00.001-04:00

Due to essential site maintenance, access to Wiley InterScience will be temporarily unavailable on the following dates:

Saturday, May 25th beginning at 7.00AM, unavailable for 4-8 hours
Thursday, May 29th beginning at 4.00PM, unavailable for about 1 hour

CQ Almanac Trial extended

2008-05-19T10:07:00.000-04:00

The CQ Almanac offers original narrative accounts of every major piece of legislation that lawmakers considered during a congressional session. Arranged thematically, CQ Almanac organizes, distills, and cross-indexes for permanent reference the full year in Congress and in national politics. It includes coverage of the people, elections, legislation, and controversies in the U.S. Congress from 1945-2006; in-depth reviews and analyses of legislation and policy; and roll call votes for all major legislation. The trial has been extended through June 16, 2008.

Gallica Digital Library

2008-05-01T13:25:00.000-04:00

The Gallica Digital Library from the Bibliothèque nationale de France provides free access to thousands of digital books as well as 18th and 19th century journals. The collection includes material from various subject areas including chemistry, philosophy and history. The full-text journals available in Gallica have been added to the Library's Electronic Journals A-Z list.

For more information or to view lists of the books, journals and audio files available in Gallica visit: http://gallica2.bnf.fr/?&lang=EN

EBSCOhost interface changes in July 2008

2008-04-22T10:48:00.000-04:00

The new EBSCOhost 2.0 interface, expected in July 2008, will feature a simplified search screen and a smarter results page. The clustering feature will be enhanced, an interactive breadcrumb trail will be added, and date limits will be controlled with a sliding bar. The new EBSCOhost interface will include a preview pane that activates when you hover over a record, as well as a more accessible folder feature. To preview the new interface with these and other enhancements, check out the flash presentation from EBSCO: ebscohost.com/2.0_flash

Library databases that use the EBSCOhost interface and that may be affected by the changes include:

Academic Search Premier
America: History & Life
Business Source Premier
CINAHL
EconLit
Education Research Complete
ERIC
Gender Studies Database
Historical Abstracts
LISTA
MagillOnLiterature Plus
MasterFile Premier
MLA International Bibliography
PsycArticles
PsycCritiques
PsycInfo
and others...

LexisNexis plans visual update for April 26

2008-04-22T09:22:00.000-04:00

LexisNexis is planning to release a visual redesign of LexisNexis Academic on April 26. The main differences between the new look and the old are the moving of the navigation links from the right side of the page to the left and the removal of the shaded background from the search forms.

If you have not done so already, please see the preview of the new design at http://www.lexisnexis.com/academicmigration/viewpage.asp?p=22.

Apart from adding the “Selected Sources tray” described on the preview page, this release will not change the way the product functions. It will still contain the same search forms, with the same fields and the same search logic, etc. The net result will be a cleaner design that provides the same functionality.

ACM Introduces Author Profile Pages

2008-04-18T10:56:00.000-04:00

ACM has introduced Author Profile pages with citation and usage statistics to the Digital Library.

The new features, which also include Bibliometrics, provide a snapshot of an individual author's contributions to computing, and a basic measure of their influence on the field.

You will find these pages by clicking on any author or colleague from a Citation Page in the ACM Digital Library.

4/18 Scheduled downtime for local digital collections

2008-04-17T14:29:00.000-04:00

Several local digital collections will be unavailable from 9.30-12.00 a.m. on Friday, April 18th during a scheduled system upgrade. The affected digital collections include:

Iraqi Archaeology Digital Texts Collection
Long Island Digital Books Collection
Long Island Historic Postcards Collection
New York State Maps
Poetry Center Reading Series
SCAN Newsletter
SCAN Newsletter - International Edition
Stony Brook Oral History Project
University Video Collection

RefWorks on Trial

2008-04-15T16:40:00.000-04:00

RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that allows users to manage and share their research. Features include:

Accessible from any computer
No installation
Multi-language interfaces (Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Chinese)
Unlimited number of references
Import/Export
870+ predefined import filters
Import/capture web pages
RSS feeds
Link to PDF
Output style formats (RTF, MS-Word, Text, HTML, XML, Open Office)
Duplicate check (exact and close match)
Integration with Word (Write-N-Cite)
Format bibliographies
Blackboard integration

To create an account:
1. Go to www.refworks.com/refworks (on campus) or https://libproxy.cc.stonybrook.edu/login?url=http://www.refworks.com/refworks (off campus).
2. Click on Sign Up for an Individual Account.
3. Enter the appropriate information and click on Register.

Several data providers have a direct export link within their interface. This is an easy way for new users to begin creating their personal database. Such providers include: CSA, EBSCOHost, OCLC, OVID, ProQuest, BioMed Central, BioOne, ABC-Clio, NISC, Elsevier Engineering Village, and SFX. For a complete list of service providers who are currently compatible with RefWorks go to www.refworks.com/refworks/importdbs.asp.

In addition, there is a RefWorks tutorial available within the program itself. To access this feature just click on the Tutorial link located at the top of each page, or go directly to http://www.refworks.com/tutorial.

The trial runs through 5/31/2008.

Feel free to share your thoughts as a comment to this post.

CQ Almanac on Trial

2008-04-14T14:47:00.003-04:00

Oxford Music Online

2008-04-11T14:22:00.004-04:00

Grove Music Online is now part of the Oxford Music Online database. Grove Music Online includes the full texts of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd Edition (2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd Edition (2001), as well as all subsequent updates and emendations. In addition, a new linking program features improved and expanded links to sound examples via partnerships with DRAM, Naxos, as well as links to the RILM database of music bibliography. Grove Music Online articles also feature biographical linking to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. In addition to Grove, The Oxford Music Online database includes The Oxford Companion to Music and The Oxford Dictionary of Music.

Oxford Art Online

2008-04-11T11:03:00.000-04:00

Grove Art Online is now part of the Oxford Art Online database. Grove Art Online includes more than 23,000 subject entries, 21,000 biographies, 500,000 bibliographic citations, 40,000 image links and 5,000 images. In addition to Grove, Oxford Art Online includes The Oxford Companion to Western Art, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, and The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics.

Scopus Trial

2008-04-10T13:05:00.000-04:00

Elsevier describes its Scopus database as "the largest abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources." It is updated daily and includes references to articles in 15,000 per-reviewed journals from over 4,000 publishers. References to conference proceedings, book series, and other types of material are included as are links to 386 million scientific web pages. Subject focus is on the Life, Health, Physical, and Social Sciences. Our trial runs to the end of June.

Health Sciences Library - Catalog Upgrade

2008-03-14T16:38:00.000-04:00

The Health Sciences Library will upgrading their catalog over the weekend (3/14-3/17). Their catalog will be unavailable during the upgrade.

Troubleshooting Naxos issues

2008-03-06T17:37:00.001-05:00

There have been several different issues with Naxos recently. In this post we'll deal with each in turn...

1) Browser cookies and the importance of logging out of Naxos properly

If you are using Naxos and you exit by simply closing the browser rather than by clicking the red LOG OUT button in the upper right of the screen, you will likely experience problems when trying to reconnect to Naxos. If this happens you need to delete the cookies saved by your browser in order to log back in normally.

A quick check --> If the URL in your browser's address box ends in "default.asp" then you are connecting correctly. If it ends in "home.asp" you probably have a cookie left over from an improper exit that is now interfering with your ability to connect.

2) Naxos' session time out and what constitutes "activity"

Naxos is set to time a user session out after 1 hour of inactivity. Listening to music in Naxos is not "active" and so if you select over an hour's worth of music and just let it play you will get a session time out at the end of an hour. To be "active" you need to periodically click links in the interface. Perhaps the best thing to do is only select up to 50 minutes of music to play at once, so that you have to take an "active" step to get to more music thereby resetting the activity/inactivity clock.

My guess is that a session time out is considered an improper logout as well - see issue #1 above to resolve.

3) Macs need some tweaking for Naxos

As it turns out, flip4mac is not supported by Naxos. If you are listening on a Mac, Naxos recommends that you uninstall flip4mac or disable it. Naxos also recommends that Mac users have Windows Media Player 9 for the Mac installed, even though it's no longer supported by Microsoft. See the 2 attached docs for info on Macs and Naxos.

Upcoming EBSCOhost improvements

2008-02-28T13:20:00.000-05:00

EBSCO has just notified us that this summer (July 2008), EBSCOhost will receive a brand new look and feel, based on extensive user testing and feedback, to provide you with the most powerful, clean and intuitive interface available. This is the first redesign of the EBSCOhost interface since 2002, and its functionality incorporates the latest technological advances.

An overview of EBSCOhost 2.0 is provided in a Flash demonstration (http://www.ebscohost.com/2.0_flash).

To view the EBSCOhost 2.0 web pages and learn more about its key features, go to http://www.ebscohost.com/thisTopic.php?marketID=1&topicID=969.

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

2008-02-05T10:15:00.000-05:00

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.

Instructions on finding your H-index.

1. Go to the Web of Science.
2. Select author from the drop down menu next to the first search box. Click on the blue author finder link under the search box. (Please note the author finder option only appears when the drop down menu is changed to an author search.)
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 to further refine your search or click Finish Now to perform the search.
5. Select all subject categories that apply to an author's body of work. Click Next.
6. Select all institutions that apply. Click Finish Now.
7. The list of articles will be refined to just author(s) with the criteria you selected.
8. Click on Create Citation Report on the menu bar above the results set.
9. The H-index will be displayed next to the “Citations in Years” graph.

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 [at] stonybrook.edu.

IEEE Xplore Upgrade - 2 Feb '08

2008-01-30T11:11:00.000-05:00

Note that the IEEE Xplore Digitial Library will be unavailable during the upgrade.

An upgrade of the IEEE Xplore Digital Library is scheduled for Saturday, 2 February. During this deployment, the system will be unavailable for up to eight hours beginning at approximately 9:00 AM EST.

As a result of this new release, the IEEE Xplore digital library will be
enhanced with:

Conference Proceedings weekly update alerts
- Enables a user to receive weekly update alerts for every conference
title via either email or RSS whenever a new conference proceeding title is
added to IEEE Xplore.

Scitopia.org search from the IEEE Xplore home page
- The IEEE Xplore home page will feature a quick search box enabling
users to easily search scitopia.org, the free federated search portal to
the digital libraries of leading science and technology societies.

Draft standards search
- Users will be able to limit their search to IEEE draft standards
only from the Advanced Search page in IEEE Xplore.

This release is part of IEEE's ongoing effort to bring you the best IEEE
Xplore experience possible and incorporates suggestions they have received
from their subscribers.

Wireless campus network and library databases

2008-01-29T09:46:00.000-05:00

Airnet,the campus wireless service, has 2 connection modes - one lets you into the library databases and the other does not...

1) Limited Network Access (aka Captive Portal) is highly restrictive access to wireless connections on campus. At the moment, Limited Network Access does not allow you to connect directly to the library databases.

2) Normal Network Access (aka Airnet Client) is the preferred access method for SBU-affiliated people. This is an actual piece of client software that you need to download and use for wireless access on campus. The Airnet Client allows access to the library databases.

The Airnet client software can be found here:
http://clientsupport.stonybrook.edu/public/wireless/airnet.shtml
Contact Client Support if you have questions about network access on campus.

New French Language database

2008-01-14T11:07:00.000-05:00

The ARTFL database consists of over 2600 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts. There is also an Italian component – Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI) – containing 1780 vernacular texts dated prior to 1375, including Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, as well as many lesser-known texts.

Reference sources include Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopedie, Dictionnaires d'autrefois, which combines Nicot's Thresor de la langue française (1606), Féraud's Dictionaire critique de la langue française (1787-1788), Littré's Dictionnaire de la langue française (1872-1877), and the Dictionnaire de L'Académie française 1st (1694), 4th (1762), 5th (1798), 6th (1835), and 8th (1932-5) editions. Also available are Pierre Bayle's Dictionnaire historique et critique (5th edition, 1740), and the Trésor de la Langue Française dictionary (TLFi).

The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) is a cooperative enterprise of the Laboratoire ATILF (Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française) of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Division of the Humanities, the Division of the Social Sciences, and Electronic Text Services (ETS) of the University of Chicago.

More material is added regularly and is noted on the ARTFL “What’s New” page.

Summary of ARTstor's 2007 additions

2008-01-09T10:01:00.000-05:00

In 2007 ARTstor added 29 new collections, and added content to 11 existing collections.

See the full release of information from ARTstor about the collections they added, enhanced, and updated in 2007.

Check your H-index

2007-11-15T19:34:00.000-05:00

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

2007-08-10T16:28:00.000-04:00

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

2007-06-08T17:08:00.001-04:00

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

2007-06-08T17:02:00.001-04:00

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

2007-06-08T16:55:00.000-04:00

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

2007-05-16T09:36:00.000-04:00

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

2007-05-10T10:05:00.000-04:00

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

2007-04-27T13:38:00.000-04:00

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

2007-04-24T16:28:00.000-04:00

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.

2007-04-04T09:47:00.000-04:00

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

2007-03-27T15:17:00.000-04:00

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

2007-03-27T15:12:00.000-04:00

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

2007-03-08T10:41:00.001-05:00

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

2007-03-01T13:27:00.000-05:00

Scheduled downtime from Elsevier and ScienceDirect...

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

2007-02-23T15:11:00.000-05:00

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

2007-02-20T14:15:00.000-05:00

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

Education Literature Databases

2007-01-29T11:55:00.000-05:00

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

2007-01-26T11:23:00.000-05:00

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

2007-01-26T09:26:00.000-05:00

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

2007-01-19T11:00:00.000-05:00

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

2007-01-16T14:08:00.000-05:00

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.

New Pauly TRIAL through Jan 20, 2007

2006-12-18T16:42:00.000-05:00

All Aspects of the Ancient World

The New Pauly has become a recognized standard reference work for students and scholars of the ancient world. It provides comprehensive coverage of the ancient world from the prehistory of the Aegean (2nd millennium BCE) to late antiquity (600-800 CE). A special section of the encyclopedia is devoted to the reception of the ancient world until the present day and the history of classical scholarship. The scholarship of the New Pauly reflects both traditional and new areas and approaches presented by internationally recognised leading experts. The articles in the New Pauly cover all aspects of the ancient world: persons, places, institutions, events, artifacts, technical terms, ideas and concepts etc. The subject goes beyond the traditional paradigm by giving special attention to the interaction between Greek and Roman culture and the neighbouring Semitic, Celtic, Germanic etc. cultures. Many articles are illustrated with maps, site plans, genealogical tables, and black-and white photographs. The New Pauly is essential to all collections supporting teaching and research in classical antiquity and the classical tradition as standard reference for students, teachers, and scholars alike.

About the New Pauly Online Edition

The New Pauly Online Edition combines a familiar look with fast and effective research facilities. The entire text of Metzler's Der neue Pauly, which was published in 18 volumes (13 on Antiquity, 5 on the Classical Tradition) and one index volume, is available here together with all volumes of Brill's New Pauly now in print, with regular updates when new translations become available. Advanced search facilities, complimented by keyword and subject indices, enable the user to search and combine data efficiently from a vast corpus of over 27,000 entries end sub-entries - within seconds.

The guiding principle in developing the online version of the New Pauly was to supply its users with exactly the same information the book itself would provide, while improving their ability to search and, consequently, use the information.

Included in Pauly Online

Metzler's Der neue Pauly (German) Volumes 1-18 + index volume
Brill's New Pauly (English) Volumes 1-6 Antiquity (Summer 2005) with volume 7 (Antiquity) and volume I (The Classical Tradition) to be added before the end of 2005.

Feedback, comments, and questions about New Pauly are encouraged and should be directed to Nathan Baum (nathan.baum@stonybrook.edu) or 631.632.9959.

Theatre in Video - TRIAL 12/5/06-1/5/07

2006-12-08T16:37:00.000-05:00

Theatre in Video contains more than 250 of the world’s most important plays, together with more than 100 video documentaries, online in streaming video—more than 500 hours in all. These definitive performances, by leading actors and directors, have been painstakingly licensed from a wide range of copyright holders. They are now delivered to you over the Internet, in a revolutionary new format developed specifically for drama.

For the first time, students, instructors, and researchers can bookmark specific scenes, monologues, and staging examples and then include those online links in their papers and course reserves. Class assignments and published papers will take on a whole new dimension.

While the texts of plays can serve as lasting documents, the productions are ephemeral; a live performance is gone when the curtain falls. And yet the collaborative elements of theatre in performance – the work of the actors, directors, and designers – have tremendous scholarly and educational value long after a production closes. Now, with Theatre in Video, students and researchers will be able to revisit great performances again and again, and these landmark events can become a permanent part of the curriculum.

More info from the publisher at: http://alexanderstreet.com/products/ativ.htm

Reference USA - TRIAL until 11 Dec 2006

2006-11-29T16:15:00.000-05:00

ReferenceUSA is directory resource available to us as a TRIAL until
11 Dec 2006.

The ReferenceUSA database contains, in module format, detailed
information on more than 13 million U.S. businesses; 120 million
U.S. households; 683,000 U.S. health care providers; 1 million Canadian
businesses; and 11 million Canadian residents. Information is
compiled from the following public sources: more than 5,600 Yellow
Page and Business White Page telephone directories; annual reports,
10-Ks and other SEC information; Continuing Medical Education (CME)
directories; federal, state, provincial and municipal government data;
Chamber of Commerce information; leading business magazines, trade
publications, newsletters, major newspapers, industry and specialty
directories; and postal service information, including both U.S. and
Canadian National Change of Address updates.   250 employees make
telephone calls to verify the information on each business and health
care provider in the database. 17 million phone calls are made each year,
and businesses with 100 or more employees are phone-verified at least
twice a year.  


For more information, or to send comments/suggestions/feedback, please contact
Susan Lieberthal, Business Librarian, or Aimee deChambeau, Journalism Librarian.

Play Index now online

2006-11-16T15:58:00.000-05:00

Play Index on WilsonWeb is the electronic version of Play Index - the print version is in Main Library Reference, Call# PN1655.P55.

In the Play Index you can search over 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present and published from 1949 to the present in the convenient electronic form that many of you prefer.

An invaluable aid to finding the perfect plays to match your production resources, Play Index covers a wide range of plays written in or translated into English, including mysteries, pageants, plays in verse, puppet performances, radio and television plays, and classic drama. Search for plays by title; author; subject (sisters, culture conflict, marriage); style (symbolism, experimental theater); genre (comedy, melodrama, musical); cast type; and more. Play Index provides the full publication details needed to locate the play in its published manifestations.

For plays published separately, the publisher, date, pagination, ISBN, and LC number are given. Plays in collections link to full bibliographic information. Teachers, students, drama coaches, theater groups, directors, performers, and researchers will heavily use this outstanding resource. Its broad scope- from puppet plays to classical drama- and detailed cast analysis make Play Index suitable to a variety of uses. Play Index includes plays published as single volumes and also plays in anthologies and collections. All Play master records contain a link to the results of an Internet metasearch of specially selected Web sites to link to full text, criticism, and other useful information.

Historical Statistics of the US - TRIAL thru Dec 15th

2006-11-16T15:24:00.000-05:00

A trial of the online version of the 4^th edition of the Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition Online (HSUS) is now available until December 15^th. HSUS contains quantitative indicators of American history.

According to the product notes for this new edition: Most series from the previous edition were extended by roughly thirty years, and the coverage of most topics was enhanced. More than a dozen new topics were added: American Indians, slavery, outlying areas, poverty, nonprofit organizations, and the Confederate States of America, to list a few examples. Finally, the chapters in the new edition are preceded by essays that introduce the quantitative history of their subject, provide a guide to the sources, and offer expert advice on the reliability of the data and the limits that might be placed on their interpretation.

You may want to take the site tour before playing with the trial version of HSUS: https://hsus.cambridge.org/HSUSHelp/SiteTour/Site_tour.htm

Note that the trial version of this database only permits downloading, emailing, and pdf viewing from Part A, although you can search and view html files in all parts.

Feedback, comments, and questions about HSUS are encouraged and should be directed to Elaine Hoffman, Government Documents Librarian: Elaine.Hoffman@stonybrook.edu or 631.632.1151

RSC scheduled downtime 12/2/06

2006-11-15T11:05:00.000-05:00

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) website (http://www.rsc.org) will be unavailable on Saturday 2 December 2006 from 09.00 to 17.00 GMT for essential maintenance.

The RSC apologises for any inconvenience that this downtime may cause.

ARTstor Update

2006-11-08T09:12:00.000-05:00

ARTstor regularly makes important collection additions and feature enhancements. The best way to learn about these updates is to join the ARTstor Announce electronic mailing list. Just send a blank email to: join-artstor-announce@lists.artstor.org and you will receive an email confirmation when you have been added to the list.

Some of the announcements made over the past few months have highlighted new collections and features such as:
• Contemporary art works by artists managed by the American and French artists’ rights societies (ARS and ADAGP)
• High quality images of key works of art and architecture from Art Resource, Scala and the Eric Lessing archives.
• Islamic art and architecture images from the personal archives of the distinguished Islamicists Sheila Blair, Jonathan Bloom and Walter Denny
• JSTOR/ARTstor search prototype that provides a single search interface to ARTstor and JSTOR content.

ScienceDirect - Scheduled downtime on 10/29

2006-10-27T08:58:00.000-04:00

ScienceDirect will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance on Sunday, October 29th for approximately 8 hours starting at 01:00 AM EDT.

2006-10-04T12:03:00.000-04:00

A forwarded message from the RedLightGreen Team....

Dear RedLightGreen user,

I am contacting you to let you know that on November 5th the
RedLightGreen service will end. RLG, RedLightGreen's parent
not-for-profit company has combined forces with another organization
that supports a similar service, WorldCat.org. We have decided to
invest all of our efforts into developing and supporting a single
product rather than continuing to support two.

We'd like to encourage you to update your RedLightGreen bookmarks to
point to WorldCat.org, and to try out this new service that will help
you find books and other research resources provided by nearly 12,000
libraries worldwide. Like RedLightGreen, WorldCat.org will help you
get access to research materials at your local library. WorldCat.org
is easy to use, and supports many of the same features as
RedLightGreen; the one service that WorldCat.org does not currently
support is citation formatting, but we are working on implementing
this feature in WorldCat.org in the near future.

If you saved citations in RedLightGreen, you can retrieve your
citation list from RedLightGreen until November 4th by following these
steps:

- Connect to RedLightGreen Use the Sign In link (if you aren't
automatically signed in)
- Click the Your List link in the upper right
- You can then select the E-Mail link to send your citations to your
e-mail account, or get a printer-friendly view to print or download

If you have questions or comments, use the Feedback link on any page
in RedLightGreen to let us know.

We want to take this opportunity to thank you for using RedLightGreen.
We wish you the best of luck in locating useful books and other
research resources.

The RedLightGreen Team

RSC scheduled downtime 10/21/06

2006-10-04T11:59:00.000-04:00

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) website (http://www.rsc.org) will be unavailable for up to 48 hours from 07:00 GMT on 21 October 2006 for an essential hardware upgrade.

The RSC apologises for any inconvenience that this downtime may cause.

18th Century Collection: TRIAL until Oct 13th.

2006-09-20T11:05:00.000-04:00

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) is now available as a TRIAL until October 13, 2006. Derived from the Eighteenth Century microfilm collection from Thomson Gale, ECCO features digitized versions of 150,000 printed volumes — comprising more than 26 million pages — in essence, every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. With full-text search capabilities across all 26 million pages, this collection provides multidisciplinary research opportunities not possible until now.

A wealth of original material is included in Eighteenth Century Collections Online — from books and broadsides, Bibles, tract books and sermons to printed ephemera — with works by many well-known and lesser-known individuals all providing a diverse collection of material for every scholar and researcher of the eighteenth century.

The collection is presented in seven subject areas:
• History and Geography
• Social Science and Fine Arts
• Medicine, Science and Technology
• Literature and Language
• Religion and Philosophy
• Law
• Reference

Material found in this resource is based on the English Short Title Catalogue bibliography and is derived from some of the world’s largest and most prestigious university, private, public and research libraries. Eighteenth Century Collections Online not only offers full-text searching but also many levels of metadata, which will enable researchers to study this century in fresh, new ways.

After you try Eighteenth Century Collections Online, please complete our online survey. Your opinions will help us in making a decision about subscribing to this database.

To view additional product information, visit Thomson Gale’s Eighteenth Century Collections Online website: http://www.gale.com/EighteenthCentury/index.htm.

For more information, or to send comments/suggestions/feedback, please contact William Glenn, History Librarian, at William.glenn@stonybrook.edu, or at (631) 632-7334.

InterDok DoPP database now available for free

2006-09-19T11:55:00.000-04:00

InterDok Corporation has published the Directory of Published Proceedings since 1965. The print version of the Directory was converted to an online format in February of 2005, and is now available to us free of charge.

The DoPP contains over 280,000 records of published conference proceedings in Science, Medicine, Engineering, Social Sciences, and Humanities. This database is useful for verifying and/or completing title, date, sponsor, and other information associated with the published proceedings from a specific conference. Note that it does not contain, nor does it index, the contents of the proceedings.

IEEE Xplore scheduled downtime 9/16/06

2006-09-13T16:13:00.000-04:00

On Saturday, 16 September, 2006, from approximately 9:00AM to 9:00PM EDT, IEEE Xplore is scheduled to undergo a major service upgrade. The site will be unavailable during this time. We apologize for any inconvenience.