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July 11, 2005

In addition to the Web of Knowledge, the Library has added many new databases in all subject areas to its extensive collection of electronic resources.

These new databases became available on July 1 and are accessible via SUMMIT, the online catalog, and the Databases Main Menu.

The new databases include:

ARTstor
A collection of 300,000 images for use in the teaching and study of art, architecture and archaelogy. Specialized image collections include Asian art, Native American art and culture from the Smithsonian, the MoMA collection for architecuture and design and the Schlesinger photograph collection on the history of women in America.


Classical Music Library from Alexander Street Press
Classical music from the earliest Gregorian chants to works by modern composers-including symphonic music, vocal and instrumental music, choral works, and other forms.

Foundation Directory Online from the Foundation Center
Extensive program details for 1,500+ leading foundations; detailed application guidelines for 7,200+ foundations; and sponsoring company information for corporate givers. This service also includes a searchable file of more than half a million grants. The Trustees, Officers, and Donors search field and its corresponding index allow users to search among over 350,000 trustee, officer and donor names.

NewspaperARCHIVE Elite from EBSCO
Search hundreds of newspapers (.pdf) by title and date or by keyword. Database includes the Syracuse Post Standard. Coverage for some papers goes back to the 1700's.

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The Library has acquired ISI Web of Knowledge, the premiere citation database for all science, social science, and humanities disciplines, along with backfiles to 1995.

Web of Knowledge provides access to the content of 8,700 authoritative, high-impact journals, including 200 open-access journals covered by Science Citation Index ExpandedTM, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.

Using “cited reference searching,” a unique search method, users can navigate forward, backward, and through the literature, searching all disciplines and time spans to uncover information relevant to their research. Users can also navigate to electronic full-text journal articles.

Access to this database is available through SUMMIT, the online catalog, through the Databases Main Menu, and directly at http://libezproxy.syr.edu/login?url=http://isiknowledge.com


New Databases at SU Library

In addition to the Web of Knowledge, the Library has added many new databases in all subject areas to its extensive collection of electronic resources. These became available on July 1 and are accessible via SUMMIT, the online catalog, and the Databases Main Menu.

The new databases include:

ARTstor
A collection of 300,000 images for use in the teaching and study of art, architecture and archaelogy. Specialized image collections include Asian art, Native American art and culture from the Smithsonian, the MoMA collection for architecuture and design and the Schlesinger photograph collection on the history of women in America.


Classical Music Library from Alexander Street Press
Classical music from the earliest Gregorian chants to works by modern composers-including symphonic music, vocal and instrumental music, choral works, and other forms.

Foundation Directory Online from the Foundation Center
Extensive program details for 1,500+ leading foundations; detailed application guidelines for 7,200+ foundations; and sponsoring company information for corporate givers. This service also includes a searchable file of more than half a million grants. The Trustees, Officers, and Donors search field and its corresponding index allow users to search among over 350,000 trustee, officer and donor names.

NewspaperARCHIVE Elite from EBSCO
Search hundreds of newspapers (.pdf) by title and date or by keyword. Database includes the Syracuse Post Standard. Coverage for some papers goes back to the 1700's.

For more information about these databases, including training opportunities, please contact your departmental liaison.

ISI's Web of Knowledge now Available

The essential (and long-awaited here at SU) database for research, ISI's Web of Knowledge, is now available. The citation index provides access to the content of 8700 authoritative, high impact journals, including 200 open access journals, covered by Science Citation Index ExpandedTM, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Backfiles are provided to 1995.

Access is available through SUMMIT, the online catalog, through the Databases Main Menu and directly at: http://libezproxy.syr.edu/login?url=http://isiknowledge.com

July 1, 2005

This summer, materials on the second floor of E.S. Bird Library may not appear in their usual places because the Library is in the midst of a shifting project.

By the opening of the fall semester current periodicals and newspapers on the second floor of E.S. Bird Library, as well as materials having call numbers that begin with B, C, and D, will have been shifted to new second-floor locations.

Current periodicals and newspapers will move to a more visible and comfortable location adjacent to the soft seating area, by the west-side windows facing the Schine Student Center.

Temporary stacks will be built near the present Current Periodicals area to house the books with call numbers in the BVs to the BZs. Temporary signage will be posted for the time that these books are “out of sequence,” and staff will be available to help locate books. By mid-August the temporary stacks will be removed, and the area will again become a reading space.

Finally, to help increase available shelving throughout E.S. Bird Library, selected JSTOR journals—that is, those journals that have an online electronic equivalent through the JSTOR program—will be removed from the general collection stacks.


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