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.