IBISWorld Industry Intelligence TRIAL: ENDED

The library has arranged for a trial of the IBISWorld Industry Intelligence product. The trial will run from July 14 thru July 28.

Use this link - IBISWorld Industry Intelligence - to access the trial.

“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.

ARTstor – it’s not just for Artists!

ARTstor is a digital initiative by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. It is a repository for thousands of digital images and data. Images and their respective collections in ARTstor represent a broad range of cultures and time periods. Students are permitted to use ARTstor images in their research papers and other scholarly products, and faculty can collect and store images for a variety of purposes such as lecture materials and tests.

ARTstor contains several different collections. The most basic collection is the Image Gallery; a set of over 250,000 images offering a broad overview of world art, architecture, and visual cultural. Although this collection was originally based on slides used primarily for art history courses, it has grown to include images from a variety of sources and can be useful for a wide range of disciplines.

For example, in the Image Gallery.…

• Historians will find Civil War cartoons of John Tenniel of interest.
• Latin American and Caribbean Studies folks may find uses for the Cuban Heritage set of early 1900’s photographs and 1900’s-present postcards.
• Natural historians, botanists, biologists, and anthropologists should be excited to see images from “The First Fleet”. The First Fleet set is comprised of 629 watercolors painted by prisoners and sailors associated with the First Fleet of convicts sent from England to New South Wales in 1787. These paintings illustrate European settlers’ first encounters with the people, plants, and wildlife in Australia.
• Early 20^th Century American Sheet Music Covers should catch the attention of musicologists, illustrators, designers and historians.
• 275 amazing images from Vesalius’ treatise on human anatomy are valuable to medical historians, anatomists, and artists.

Two separate ARTstor collections of particular significance to the Stony Brook community are the Huntington Archive of Asian Art and the Mellon International Dunhuang Archive (MIDA). The Huntington archive contains over 300,000 photographs of Asian art and architecture, taken by art historians John and Susan Huntington over a 30 year period. Countries represented in this collection include India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, China, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, and Myanmar. Many of the monuments and artwork photographed by the Huntingtons have since been destroyed, stolen, lost, or modified.

The Mellon International Dunhuang Archive (MIDA) archive is an ongoing, multi-national effort to create high-quality digital reconstructions of murals, other artwork, and texts associated with several hundred Buddhist cave shrines in Dunhuang, China. This collection even includes 360-degree QuickTime virtual reality (QTVR) reconstructions of 23 cave shrines. These QTVR renderings of the caves allow you to stand inside, turn around, and look at all the walls as if you were actually there! Stunning.

A few of the other individual collections in ARTstor include:

• The MoMA Digital Design Collection. 8,000 digital images of about 6,200 works from MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design. Only 5% of these works have been previously published. The majority of objects in this collection are not on permanent exhibition.
• The Native American Art and Culture Collection from the Smithsonian’s National Anthropological Archive includes 10,000 historical photographs digitized from the original glass plate negatives, as well as 2,000 Plains Indian “ledger drawings” from the mid- to late-19^th century.
• The Illustrated Bartsch contains about 50,000 images of Old Master European Prints from the 15^th to the early-19^th centuries. The library also has a print copy of this work – but you cannot check it out! ARTstor’s Illustrated Bartsch allows you to browse and analyze the images from anywhere you have an Internet connection…
• The Schlesinger History of Women in America Collection contains about 36,000 photographs from the Harvard’s Schlesinger Library. These photographs document women’s work in a variety of areas such as domestic service, factories, nursing, agriculture, etc., as well women who played key roles in the women’s suffrage and women’s rights movements. This collection offers a uniquely documented view of women’s history and experience.

ARTstor is available from the library homepage under the Database Finder and the E-Books and Texts links. As you can see, ARTstor is not just for artists and art historians anymore. Regardless of your area of expertise, there is almost certainly something in ARTstor for you!

Interface Changes

There are many databases that we have renewed with different vendors for this upcoming fiscal year. These vendor changes will cause a noticeable change in the interface that you see for each of these databases.

Three of our existing databases will now be available on the EBSCOhost platform rather than through OCLC’s FirstSearch. This change also means that these databases will available for multi-database searching as discussed in a previous post.

EconLit (Economics)
RILM (Abstracts of Music Literature)
MLA (Literature & Language)

Another set of databases will be available on the WilsonWeb platform rather than through OCLC’s FirstSearch. WilsonWeb also has multi-database search capabilities for this set of databases; look for the Open Database Selection Area link on the WilsonWeb search page to see the list of databases available for cross-searching.

Education Full Text (formerly Education Abstracts)
General Science Full Text (formerly General Science Abstracts)
Humanities Full Text (formerly Humanities Abstracts)
Reader's Guide Full Text (formerly Reader's Guide Abstracts)
Social Sciences Full Text(formerly Social Sciences Abstracts)
Omnifile Full Text Mega (Multi-disciplinary)
Business Full Text (Business)

New SUNYConnect database package

Allows multi-database searching via EBSCOhost interface

SUNYConnect is cooperative initiative that allows the SUNY campuses to share collections and services. One shared set of resources we receive through SUNYConnect is a package of online databases on the EBSCOhost platform.

The EBSCOhost interface is easy to use and is common across the range of databases included in the SUNYConnect package. This common platform has the added benefit of allowing you to search more than one database simultaneously.

To search multiple databases at the same time, simply connect to one of them (for example, Academic Search Premier) and click the Choose Databases tab near the top of the screen. A list of available databases will appear. Just check the boxes next to the databases you want to search simultaneously and click the Continue button. The next screen that appears will be a search screen.

The databases available to us in this SUNYConnect / EBSCOhost package are:

Academic Search Premier (Multidisciplinary)
Business Source Premier (Business)
CINAHL Plus with Full Text (Nursing and Allied Health)
CINAHL Select (Nursing and Allied Health)
ERIC (Education)
MEDLINE (Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry, Veterinary Medicine, Health-Care System, etc.)
Professional Development Collection (Information and resources for Professional Educators)
Military & Government Collection (Current news for all branches of the military and government)
Regional Business News (Small collection covering all metropolitan and rural areas in the USA)
MasterFILE Premier (Multidisciplinary)
Education Resource Complete (Education) - available by July 31^st, 2006

Database Changes - effective July 1st

InfoTrac Onefile replaced by Academic Search Premier

In an effort to improve subject coverage and provide easier access to a variety of resources, we are switching from the InfoTrac Onefile product to Academic Search Premier as our major multi-disciplinary full-text database. Academic Search Premier is already available, and access to InfoTrac Onfile will end on June 30, 2006.

Academic Search Premier, is a scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database with the full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 8,200 journals in the collection. Subjects covered by this database include computer science, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, as well as general interest and popular, current-event topics.

Academic Search Premier includes PDF backfiles to 1975 or further for over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color.

Create Change

The Create Change website is a resource which addresses issues in scholarly communication. The site is geared toward helping faculty and other researchers learn about sharing and using their research more effectively in a world where the scholarly communication model is rapidly changing.

The site poses the question "“Shouldn't the way we share research be as advanced as the Internet?"” and then provides information and practical methods for faculty to use in advancing the way we share research. Policies, technologies, best-practices and actions you can take to promote change are all available at the Create Change site.

Create Change was developed by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and is supported by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL).

LibriVox - an audiobook project

acoustical liberation of books in the public domain

LibriVox is a free, open web site (i.e., not a library-subscribed resource) that provides access to audio-books in the public domain. LibriVox relies on vounteers to read and record the books. Their mission is to make all public domain books available in audio format for free on the internet.

Most of the books that the LibriVox volunteers record come from Project Gutenberg. Project Gutenberg itself contains the text of over 18,000 books in the public domain. The Internet Archive and ibiblio.org host LibriVox's audio files.

LibriVox does not limit their coverage to English-language materials. There are over 20 titles already available in other languages, including German, Hebrew, Russian and Old English. In fact, although it is still a work in progress, you can listen to many of Grimm's Fairy Tales in both English and German.

If you would like to read (or in some cases, listen to) news about LibriVox, check out the in-the-press list of stories compiled at the LibriVox site.