Access to IEEE/IET Electronic Library Now Available

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 runs through May 16, 2008.

Oxford Music Online

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.