Library News

The Syracuse University Library has purchased Elsevier’s Materials Science backfile, consisting of online content for 108 Elsevier journal titles for years prior to 1995 (years of coverage varies by journal). The library has offered many of these journals from 1995 onward via Science Direct and has others in print. With earlier years of these important journals now accessible through Science Direct, faculty and students have much more convenient access to the articles they need. For example, the journal Polymer is now available online beginning with 1960 issues.

A complete list of titles and years covered is available at http://info.sciencedirect.com/techsupport/journals/bfmatsci.htm.

Materials science is especially important to the Syracuse University Library because it is an excellent example of the innovative and interdisciplinary research taking place on campus. Chemistry, Biomedical and Chemical Engineering, the Biomaterials Institute, Physics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, the GeoFoam Research Center, and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering are among the departments and research organizations that benefit from these titles.

In addition, the Library also recently licensed additional journals from Sage Publishers. A number of their materials science titles were part of that arrangement, with access back to 1999.

Both the Elsevier and Sage materials science titles are available via the E-journal locator.

Large backfile purchases, such as the Materials Science package, represent an excellent investment for the Syracuse University Library since they are a one-time purchase, rather than an ongoing commitment. In effect, the Library now owns this content rather than leasing it.

By pursuing innovative strategies like this to acquire online content at substantial savings, the SU Library not only stretches its dollars, but reaffirms its commitment to simultaneously providing the maximum amount of scholarly material and the highest quality journals to SU students, faculty and researchers.

For more information or assistance with the Materials Science backfile titles, contact Scott Warren at 443-8339 or sawarr01@syr.edu.

Posted by Pamela McLaughlin at 3:39 PM | Permalink

The Library has activated access to the web version of SciFinder. Unlike the desktop program, SciFinder Web can be used from off-campus via the EZproxy authentication server
SciFinder Web Edition offers many of the features of the desktop version of SciFinder Scholar. In addition, in this new browser-based version, you are able to save answer sets against your account on the server; navigate to stages of your search using breadcrumbs; generate and view keep me posted results about updated searches; analyze answer set automatically; analyze substances by substance role, elements, reaction availability, or commercial availability; limit substance refine by the absence of commercially available substances; and more.
Before using SciFinder Web Edition for the first time, you need to register for an account.
There will be a representative from Chemical Abstracts at our Information Fair on Tuesday, October 7 (see http://libweb.syr.edu/librarynews/archives/001066.html ) demonstrating the web product and helping people register.

The Library has currently switched over 1 of the 6 simultaneous access seats that we have available as part of our SciFinder subscription to the web version - i.e., 1 person at a time can use the web version and the remaining 5 seats are allotted to users of the desktop program. We'll be monitoring the usage statistics to see how many people are using the web version vs. the desktop version and will make changes as necessary.

Contact Tom Keays if you have any problems or concerns.

URL: http://library.syr.edu/research/database/scifinder/
Contact: Tom Keays htkeays@syr.edu

Posted by Kathleen White at 9:42 AM | Permalink

Science Reference Center from EBSCO is a comprehensive research database that provides access to a wide range of full text science-oriented content. It contains more than 630 full text titles, including leading science encyclopedias, reference books, and periodicals, as well biographies and images. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife. Science Reference Center is especially strong in meeting general or introductory science research needs. In addition, over 70 science-oriented educational benchmarks are aligned with relevant articles to help ensure that curriculum and/or science-specific educational standards are being met.

For more information or to arrange for a demonstration, please contact Janet Pease at 443-9768 or jlpease@syr.edu.

Posted by Pamela McLaughlin at 1:56 PM | Permalink

Syracuse University Library now subscribes to China Data Online, the product of a collaboration between the University of Michigan's China Data Center and All China Market Research Co., Ltd.

China Data Online provides comprehensive information on China’s economic and social development at national, provincial, county, city, and industrial levels. Its core databases include:
• Monthly Statistics - provides the monthly macroeconomic statistics at national, provincial and city levels from 1998 to the present;
• National Statistics - provides statistical data at the national level from 1949 to the present;
• Provincial Statistics - provides statistical data at the provincial level from 1949 to the present;
• City Statistics - provides annual statistics of prefecture and county level cities from 1996;
• County Statistics - provides the annual county statistics from 1997;
• Industrial Statistics - provides monthly and yearly statistics by industries from 1999; and
• Statistical Yearbooks - includes a series of China national, provincial, city and professional statistical yearbooks, which will be expanded to cover all statistical yearbooks published by the National Bureau of Statistics of China.

In addition, its China Census Databases contain approximately 3,000 electronic census data books that provide a unique collection of various census data for all provinces, cities, counties and townships of mainland China. The databases include: Industrial Census Data; Basic Unit Census Data; Economic Census Data; Agricultural Census Data; and Population Census and Survey Data.

For more information about China Data Online, please contact Marty Hanson, mjhanson@syr.edu, 443-1947. For assistance in using the database, please contact Paul Bern, phbern@syr.edu, 443-1352.

Posted by Pamela McLaughlin at 1:48 PM | Permalink

Syracuse University Library now subscribes to the Scopus database, published by Elsevier. Scopus is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary abstract and citation database covering scientific, engineering, medical, and social sciences information. In addition to title, author, and subject searching, Scopus provides cited reference searching capabilities, links to full-text, saved searches, and an alerting feature.

Scopus covers 15,000 peer-reviewed and open access journals from over 4,000 publishers, over 600 trade publications, 500 conference proceedings, 200 book series, as well as more than 386 million scientific web pages, and 22 million patent records from five patent offices. References and cited reference information are provided from 1996 forward. Abstracts go back further, with retrospective content being continually added. Scopus is updated daily with new information.

Scopus makes available an online interactive tutorial series; training sessions will be offered in the fall. For more information about Scopus or to schedule a demo, contact Elizabeth Wallace at elwallac@syr.edu.

Posted by Pamela McLaughlin at 3:37 PM | Permalink

On September 1, 2008, the Library will no longer subscribe to the Academic OneFile database. We are sending out this information in advance to enable those in the planning stages for the fall semester to make other arrangements.

The library continues to offer several general and interdisciplinary databases, all of which are available through the Find Articles page and the SUMMIT Catalog (Find Books). If you need assistance selecting a database, please stop by a library service desk or use our online research assistance service.

If you have questions about this change, please contact Tasha Cooper, Social Sciences/Area Studies Bibliographer, nacoop01@syr.edu; 443-9518.

Posted by Pamela McLaughlin at 9:28 AM | Permalink

Syracuse University Library and the Barclay Law Library are pleased to announce new additions to the LexisNexis Congressional database. This joint purchase provides additional full-text congressional material to researchers at Syracuse University.

The new modules include searchable collections of Congressional Hearings (1824- ), Congressional Committee Prints (1830- ), and Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports (1916- ) in pdf format. A database of high resolution color images of the U.S. Serial Set Maps (1789-1969) collection is also part of the new purchase. These new modules add to the basic content of LexisNexis Congressional, e.g., abstracts and indexing for congressional publications, full-text of selected recent publications, and the U.S. Serial Set digital collection module purchased previously.

A comprehensive online resource, LexisNexis Congressional uses a single search interface for its collections of congressional publications and legislative information. It is ideal for student and faculty research in the areas of public policy, U.S. history, and law.

Syracuse University Library users may connect to these new LexisNexis Congressional digital collections by going to the library’s databases/Find Articles page: http://library.syr.edu/research/database/ and selecting Congressional or LexisNexis Congressional.

College of Law users may access LexisNexis Congressional through the Barclay Law Library's Federal Resources web page: http://www.law.syr.edu/lawlibrary/electronic/federal.aspx

For more information or assistance with LexisNexis Congressional, please contact Elaine Coppola, Syracuse University Library, emcoppla@syr.edu or 443-9523 or Robert Weiner, Barclay Law Library, rjweiner@law.syr.edu, or 443-5424.

Posted by Pamela McLaughlin at 9:09 AM | Permalink

The SU Library has added a new feature called RefShare to our campus site license for RefWorks. RefWorks is an online citation management tool designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies. It allows you to save and store citations, generate bibliographies in different styles (e.g., APA, MLA, Chicago) and, using the Write-N-Cite feature, automatically add references to a paper and generate a bibliography with them. You can import references from a number of SU Library’s online databases, the SUMMIT library catalog, and other bibliographic management tools, or you can manually enter the information into RefWorks.

RefShare is an add-on module to RefWorks that provides a quick and easy way to share your entire RefWorks database or specific folders with other researchers, further enhancing collaborative research. You can share your RefWorks references with members of the SU community and globally with any researcher who has access to the Internet.

For more information on RefShare, visit SU Library’s RefWorks help page at: http://library.syr.edu/cite/RefWorksHelp.html.

Our Spring 2008 RefWorks training schedule is now posted at: http://library.syr.edu/cite/RefWorksTraining.html. Classes are free of charge, and registration is not required.

Posted by Pamela McLaughlin at 11:30 AM | Permalink

Academic OneFile is a premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive.

Full-Text: More than 6,300 full-text titles (more than 11,000 titles in all).

Newswires: 121 wire services.

Newspapers: Over 400 newspaper services covering worldwide current events with full indexing of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Christian Science Monitor.

Images: Includes some full color images.

Audio: Patrons can now listen to any National Public Radio program, as well as read transcripts, for shows produced by NPR from 1990 to present. Podcasts from government agencies such as the Census and the State Department are also available in Academic OneFile.

8 Languages: Every article in Academic OneFile can now be translated into eight different languages.

Coverage: Integrated backfile coverage from 1980 to the present. Updated daily.

Posted by Pamela McLaughlin at 4:02 PM | Permalink

Combining South African and African Studies, NiPAD provides access to two million records and integrates information from over 40 smaller databases published in Africa, Europe, and the United States. Subject coverage includes politics, history, economics, business, mining, natural sciences, environment, development, social issues, anthropology, literature, language, law, music, tourism, and many more. The database includes sources such as books, journal articles, government and NGO reports; includes some fulltext.

Posted by Pamela McLaughlin at 4:22 PM | Permalink

The Library has added 10 years to the backfile of the Web of Science, which now spans from 1985 to the present. Web of Science includes the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. To take advantage of the new coverage, previous users should clear the cache/history in their browser before accessing the database. The URL is http://libezproxy.syr.edu/login?url=http://isiknowledge.com

Staff at any library reference desk can provide assistance in using this database. For locations and services, see http://library.syr.edu/information/reference/index.html

Posted by Pamela McLaughlin at 1:53 PM | Permalink

As of July 1, the OCLC FirstSearch interface has been replaced by WilsonWeb for access to the H.W. Wilson databases (indexes, abstracts and full text). This change will be reflected in the SULinks service, the databases Main Menu as well as the E Journal Locator and the SUMMIT catalog.

Users will see some changes in names and content. The biggest one is that WilsonSelect Plus has been replaced by Wilson OmniFile, a database that incorporates six Wilson databases:

§ Education Full Text
§ General Science Full Text
§ Humanities Full Text
§ Readers' Guide Full Text
§ Social Sciences Full Text
§ Wilson Business Full Text

In addition, Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition presents complete indexing, abstracting, and full text from all of the journals in the five databases below to which Wilson has full text rights. Indexing and abstracting is present for all articles from those journals without regard to whether or not we have the full text for that particular article.

§ Applied Science & Technology Full Text
§ Art Full Text
§ Biological & Agricultural Index Plus
§ Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text
§ Library Literature & Information Science Full Text

Questions and comments? Please contact your subject specialist or the Reference Desk at 443-4083.

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Syracuse University Library has recently subscribed to the online version of several SRDS publications, including:

- Consumer Magazine Advertising Source
- Newspaper Advertising Source
- Radio Advertising Source
- TV & Cable Source
- Business Publication Advertising Source

You will find these online publications on the Library’s databases page http://library.syr.edu/research/database/index.html, listed as: SRDS Online Services.

After clicking on SRDS Online Services, you will see the links to the above publications in the “My Services Area.”

Navigation hint: You can use the Go To menu to switch from one publication to another or to return to the “My Solution Center” starting point.

We will continue to subscribe to the print publications as well, which are available at the reference desk in Bird library.

Questions and comments? Please contact: Tasha Cooper; 443-9518; nacoop01@syr.edu

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The Library has just acquired a new database for music: The Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM). As part of New World's mandate to serve the educational community, DRAM utilizes JSTOR as a model, and facilitates American music research by scholars and students by offering on-demand, streaming access of complete works.

Currently, there are over 1,200 CDs (7,500 compositions) on DRAM. The basis for the collection is the diverse catalogue of American music recordings by New World Records. From folk to opera, Native American to jazz, 19th century classical to early rock, musical theater, contemporary, electronic and beyond, New World has served composers, artists, students and the general public since its inception in 1975 with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.

Alongside the high quality music streams, complete liner notes, scholarly essays, bibliographies and discographies are available for viewing on the Database. Playlists can be created by faculty to more specifically address curriculum needs.

For additional information about the database and its technical requirements, please visit the web site or contact Music Librarian, Carole Vidali .

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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.

Continue reading "New Databases at SU Library" »

Posted by at 9:52 AM | Permalink

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

Posted by at 9:36 AM | Permalink

Syracuse University Library recently purchased LOCUS, the SIAM electronic archive. SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) publishes journals in applied mathematics and computational sciences. The SIAM archive makes all articles published from 1952 to 1996 available in full text electronic format. Each article is available as a searchable PDF. The SIAM archive may be viewed at http://locus.siam.org/

The library currently receives both the print and electronic editions of all SIAM journals. Current electronic holdings are linked from SUMMIT.

The full text articles and references are linked from the MathSciNet (Mathematical Reviews) database. SIAM journals are also indexed by Compendex (Engineering Index, Inspec & NTIS, combined).

Contact Mary DeCarlo
mmdecarl@syr.edu

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A vast array of online and print resources is available to researchers at Syracuse University Library. Experienced researchers have learned which search tools best serve their needs and how to efficiently navigate within and between them. However, this multitude of choices is quite daunting for the uninitiated. In response, the Electronic Resources Advisory Group has created a user-friendly, quick start page for undergraduate students and others new to the research process. Initially, it will be linked from the Databases Main Menu, E-Journals: Full Text Journal Locator and Instruction pages. Take a look!

Research Starting Points
http://library.syr.edu/research/start.html

Electronic Resources Advisory Group Members
Nancy Turner (Chair)
Michael Pasqualoni
Maryjane Poulin
Pamela Thomas
Abby Kasowitz-Scheer (ex-officio)

Posted by at 10:32 AM | Permalink

Three new databases have been enhanced with SU Library's open url linking service, SULinks. These databases are:

CAB Direct
International Index to Music Periodicals (Chadwyck Healey)
International Index to the Performing Arts (Chadwyck Healey)

For more information about the SULinks service and how it streamlines the research process, visit, the SULinks FAQ.

Posted by at 12:36 PM | Permalink

CSA has developed a new interface for users, named Illumina. Users will now see a different look when they log into databases published by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. Combined, Syracuse University Library and Moon Library at SUNY ESF subscribe to over twenty databases from CSA, from ARTbibliographies Modern to Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management.

Continue reading "New User Interface for Cambridge Scientific Databases" »

Posted by at 12:16 PM | Permalink

The ACLS History E-Book Project announced today that its site now includes almost 1000 titles--selected by historians in the fields of American, Asian, European, and Middle Eastern history, and the history of technology. The History E Book Project will continue to add titles and fields, including forth-coming books in Latin American and African history, in the course of the next year.

Access to the Project is through SU Library's subscription. Individual titles are linked from the SUMMIT catalog, are accessible as a package from the Databases Main Menu under History, or at:
http://libezproxy.syr.edu/login?url=http://www.historyebook.org

Posted by at 10:53 AM | Permalink

The Databases Main Menu has been enhanced with a new way to locate databases by types of content. Check it out from the Main Menu when you click on the link Databases by Content Type. From this page, you can browse within these categories:

• Audio Files


• Electronic Books and Text


• Full Text


• Photographs and Images databases


• Reference Works


• Statistics and Numeric Sets

This enhancement will make it simpler to identify SU Library databases that include non-textual content requested required multimedia presentations as well as allowing users to more easily see what full text content is available to them online.

Comments and feedback to Nancy Turner, Electronic Resources Librarian, are encouraged.

Posted by at 12:02 PM | Permalink

Elsevier Engineering Information, Inc. is in the process of digitizing all volumes of Engineering Index back to 1884. The library has purchased this backfile containing references of major engineering innovations pioneered throughout the 19th and 20th centuries to provide you with access to citations on topics such as the first internal combustion engine, the foundations of aviation, telecommunications and computing. As of the week of April 5, the database goes back to 1910 and contains 1,272,794 records. Over 100,000 records are being added per week. When completed later this Spring, the fully digitized backfile will comprise close to 2 million records.

Engineering Index forms the foundation of Compendex, a bibliographic database covering over 175 disciplines and major specialties within engineering. The 1970 to present-day file contains over 7,000,000 references and abstracts taken from over 5,000 engineering journals, conferences and technical reports. Updated with new material on a weekly basis, approximately 250,000 new records are added to the database annually.

When digitization is complete, the Compendex database will provide one stop search access to 120 years of engineering literature. The Backfile is available for searching at Syracuse University as fast as Engineering Information can load the data. Take a look!

Contact: Maryjane Poulin, mdpoulin@syr.edu

Posted by at 11:51 AM | Permalink

Syracuse University Library recently purchased the 1962-1997 online backfiles of Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English. Similar in scope to the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie is one of the prime chemistry journals in the world, with a 2002 ISI Impact Factor of 7.671.

Published weekly, Angewandte Chemie delivers a mix of Review Articles, Highlights, and Communications. The Reviews summarize the important results of recent research on topical subjects in all branches of chemistry, point to unresolved problems, and discuss possible developments. The Highlights provide concise evaluations of current trends in chemical research. The Communications are critically selected and report on the latest research results. Angewandte Chemie also regularly publishes Nobel lectures in chemistry and related fields.

The journal and its backfiles are available through Wiley Interscience @ http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jtoc?ID=26737

For further information, contact Tom Keays in the Science and Technology Library, at 443-9769 or htkeays@syr.edu.

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Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) is now available through a different interface -- the Internet Database Service from CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts). The database can be access via the Library's catalog and the Databases Main Menu.

DAAI is the main bibliographic source for current material and information in the areas of design and the applied arts worldwide -- an indispensable resource for researchers, students, and librarians in the field, as well as for professional designers and artists.

The database also provides access to the Periodicals Directory, an international directory of design and craft journals, and to the Education Directory, an international directory of universities and colleges that offer courses in design and craft subjects.

Posted by at 11:47 AM | Permalink

The following new databases have been added to SU Library's collection of electronic resources and are available online.

HarpWeek : Full text access to Harper's Weekly from 1857 to 1877, including the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. This database includes scanned images of the periodical in addition to searchable text.

Sanborn Maps : Digital access to more than 660,000 large-scale maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities.

Bertolt Brechts Werkes : An electronic edition of Brecht's works based on Bertolt Brecht - Ausgew�hlte Werke in sechs B�nden - Jubil�umsausgabe um 100.

Kafkas Werke im WWW : An electronic edition of Kafka's complete works, Franz Kafka, Kritische Ausgabe, Schriften und Tageb�cher.

Posted by at 11:02 AM | Permalink

SU Library has added a new JSTOR collection to its electronic journal subscriptions. The Arts & Sciences III Collection is focused on the arts and humanities and currently contains 33 Language & Literature journals, 32 Music journals, and 7 journals in the disciplines of Art & Art History and Architecture & Architectural History. Additional titles in these fields as well as journals in cultural studies, film, folklore, performing arts, and religion will follow. The collection will be complete by the end of 2005.

A title list can be viewed at
http://www.jstor.org/about/asIII.list.html.

Posted by at 10:11 AM | Permalink

600 new peer-reviewed journals are now accessible through the Full Text Journal Locator. Freely available from the DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals, these journals represent a wide variety of subject areas, from information science (Journal of Digital Information) to chemistry (BMC Biochemistry) and the fine arts (Scope: an on-line journal of film studies). Journals can be located through a title or subject search from http://libwww.syr.edu/research/ej/index.html.

The Directory website defines itself as a "service that provides access to quality controlled Open Access Journals. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use an appropriate quality control system, and it will not be limited to particular languages or subject areas. The aim of the Directory is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact."

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