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While we were all enjoying spring break, the state library announced some welcome news. The Wyoming Newspaper Project is now live and searchable. Researchers can search the full text of newspapers printed in Wyoming between 1849 and 1922, including articles, briefs and obituaries. As of February 2009, over 407,000, or approximately half, of the full page newspaper images are available. Look for the rest of the content to be added in the coming months.
The libraries are busy adding new articles, new full-text content, new search tools, everything you need to answer your research questions.
The latest additions are listed below, and can all be accessed from the UW Libraries’ Articles & Databases page:
1. Sage Premiere Full-Text journal collection: includes over 515 titles from 1999 to the present.
2. Lexis Nexis Statistical Datasets: allows quick and easy access to a variety of data and statistics and allows for easy manipulation and export of data into Excel.
3. Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management Index
4. Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
5. Early English Books Online
6. Wellesley Index
7. Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (purchased in cooperation with the Wyoming State Library)
8. Grove Art and Music: increased number of concurrent users to 3 and 5, respectively, as a result of high user demand.
9. IEEE’s full IEEE Electronic Library: UW now has access to all of IEEE’s publications on the Xplore platform.
10. Petroleum Abstracts: UW previously had a truncated version of this database.
We are actively adding titles to our wish list and purchasing new material for the collection. If you would like us to add something, just let us know!
Did you miss the 2008 Undergraduate Research Day? Or perhaps you want to revisit the more compelling student projects? Good news! Research Day projects are now archived online by the UW Libraries. Visit them and learn more.
Undergraduate Research Day 2008 is our newest digital collection. We are also adding a collection entitled Architecture of Saratov, Russia that was translated from Russian. Eventually we will add content from the Annals of Wyoming, first as digital PDFs (digital microfiche), then as full text readable and searchable content.
Further details can be found at: http://digital.uwyo.edu/
Those of you interested in Medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts will be happy to learn that you can now view over 24,000 digital images of manuscript drawings and paintings from the Bodleian Library’s collection via ARTStor. According to the ARTStor database:
With more than 10,000 volumes, the Bodleian Library’s Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts has one of the greatest collections of Western Medieval manuscripts in the world… ARTstor has digitized virtually all of the illuminated manuscript leaves from Bodleian manuscripts through the 16th century, as well as selected 19th- and 20th- century manuscripts in the Medieval tradition. The collection also includes significant bindings, illuminated initials, and text pages. The present collaboration has made this rich body of visual material and related scholarship available online and at high resolution for the first time.
If you are on campus or logged into the library’s proxy server from off campus, you have full access to the ARTStor collection.
Librarians made the news this week when they discovered that searches for “abortion” in the POPLINE reproductive health database no longer provided results. Turns out that Bush Administration officials complained about a couple of abortion-advocacy-related articles in the database. POPLINE is funded by USAID, the federal office which provides health care funding to foreign nations, so after the complaints POPLINE administrators decided to make the term “abortion” a stopword, effectively blocking access to any articles with that term.
According to the dean in charge of POPLINE administration, based at Johns Hopkins:
“I could not disagree more strongly with this decision, and I have directed that the Popline administrators restore ‘abortion’ as a search term immediately,” said Michael J. Klag, the school’s dean in a statement issued on Friday. “I will also launch an inquiry to determine why this change occurred. The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge and not its restriction.”
This is one of the more intriguing examples I’ve seen yet of electronic attempts to censor information. We in libraries search for research and scholarship via government-funded databases all the time. Never before did I suspect that search results were being suppressed or hidden. And I certainly don’t expect to personally agree with all the research I find in my searches, nor do I assume that the current presidential administration agrees with every point of view put forth in a wide body of scholarship. What do you think?
The JSTOR database unveils a new interface on April 4, 2008.
Some of the improvements:
- “My JSTOR” allows you to manage and store citations. With your My JSTOR account, you can save or email citations or send them to bibliographic software like Endnote.
- Limit searches by discipline or specific journal title.
- Try the new “search within results” to narrow your original search.
For more information on the JSTOR upgrade, visit their sandbox.
UW Libraries adds the GreenFILE research database this week. According to provider EBSCOhost:
In keeping with our commitment to environmental consciousness, EBSCO proudly offers GreenFILE, a freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE will serve as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet.
Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow this weekend, meaning 6 more weeks of winter and time to upgrade to the newest version of SciFinder Scholar.
Seriously now, SciFinder users take note, even if you are like me and never remember to upgrade. As of January 2nd, the following version of SciFinder Scholar were discontinued:
For more information visit our SciFinder page or contact the reference desk.
