More News from ARTstor

* ARTstor Announces Immediate Release of Additional Images from
Museums *

In July 2005, ARTstor announced the release into the ARTstor Digital
Library of more than 25,000 images from the former AMICO Library. Now
an additional eight institutions, formerly part of AMICO, have
contributed a total of 55,000 images to ARTstor. This brings the
number of images in ARTstor from institutions which were formerly
AMICO members to approximately 80,000.

The new institutional contributors to ARTstor include:

- Dallas Museum of Art
- Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
- Indianapolis Museum of Art
- Library of Congress
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

While most of these works were originally part of the AMICO library,
some museums have contributed additional content that was not
originally part of AMICO and/or have provided ARTstor with improved
images and associated cataloging.

To locate these new images, which have been integrated into the
ARTstor Image Gallery and its browsing taxonomy, you may use “AMICO”
as keyword when searching. For best results, combine “AMICO” with
additional search criteria, such as repository or creator name.

All of the following former AMICO members are now contributing content
to ARTstor:

- Asia Society
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College
- Fine Arts Museums of San Franciso
- The Frick Collection and Art Reference Library
- George Eastman House
- Indianapolis Museum of Art
- Library of Congress
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- The Walters Art Museum

Watch for upcoming announcements about the release into the ARTstor
Digital Library of images from The Detroit Institute of the Arts, The
Art Institute of Chicago, and the Terra Foundation for American Art.

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* Images of Exploration added to the ARTstor Digital Library *

We are delighted to announce the addition of the following new image
archives, both of which deal with human exploration, to ARTstor.

First Fleet Collection

One of the most frequently consulted collections at the Natural
History Museum, London, is the corpus of watercolors collectively
known as “The First Fleet Collection." The artists were prisoners and
sailors associated with the "First Fleet" of convicts that left
England in 1787 for New South Wales, Australia. The pictures form a
record of the earliest scenes, people, plants, and wildlife
encountered by the first European settlers in Australia. The "First
Fleet Collection" consists of 629 pictures, painted by at least four
artists whose techniques and background were very different. The
collection is continually consulted by cultural historians,
scientists, students of art and art history, as well as regularly
requested for exhibition and print publishing projects. The "First
Fleet Collection" has been digitized with the support of The Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation. These wonderful watercolors are now available in
the ARTstor Digital Library, as part of the growing Image Gallery.
They may be most readily found by searching for the phrase "first
fleet".

Giza

From 1902-1947, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, conducted a
pioneering series of archeological excavations at Giza, Egypt. This
effort resulted in a rich archive of approximately 22,000 excavation
photographs. These important documentary photographs have been
digitized with the support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. They
are now available in the ARTstor Digital Library, as part of the
growing Image Gallery. They may be most readily found by searching the
keywords "Giza" and "Boston" in combination.

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* Interface Improvements *

You may have noticed that we have made a few changes to the interface.
These updates are in response to user feedback and we hope they have
increased the usability of the ARTstor tools. Our first change was to
replace the term "Course Folder" with the more accurate expression
"Shared Folder" which should better suit all of our participants -
from elementary schools through museums. We also improved the
interface through which users with instructor privileges can create a
Shared Folder. For instructions and screenshots, please see our help
page.

If you have never created a Shared Folder but would like to
learn how to share your image groups with other ARTstor users at your
institution, consider attending our Advanced Training Session.
Instructions for registering for an online training session can be
found here [http://www.artstor.org/info/using_artstor/eut_register.jsp]. As always, we welcome your feedback [mailto:userservices@artstor.org].

ARTstor Update

* Collaborative Agreement Reached Between Art Resource, Scala Archives
and ARTstor *

Art Resource, Scala Group, and ARTstor announced today that they had
reached an agreement to collaborate on the digitization and
distribution through ARTstor of approximately 12,000 high quality
digital images of Italian art and architecture. Scala Archives'
photographic holdings uniquely document the artistic heritage of Italy
and Europe from antiquity to the 20th Century, with particular
strengths in the art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance. The
scholarly literature on these subjects has long been fundamentally
dependent upon the Scala Archives, whose color photographs richly
illustrate virtually every important monograph on Italian architects,
artists, and monuments, as well as textbooks and historical surveys of
the art of Italy. Among the monuments, sites, and museums that are
expected to be included in this collaboration are the Uffizi Gallery,
the Galleria Borghese, the Vatican Museums, the Roman Forum, the
Palazzo Pitti, the Brera Museum, the Churches of Ravenna, the
Catacombs, Pompeii and very many others.

In reaching this agreement, Dr. Theodore Feder, President of Art
Resource, Alvise Passigli, Vice President and CEO of the Scala Group,
and James Shulman, ARTstor's Executive Director, expressed their
enthusiasm in collaborating to use digital technologies to make these
high quality images of the art and architecture of Italy more broadly
available for noncommercial educational and scholarly purposes. "We
are delighted to be able to augment ARTstor's offerings to its many
subscribers in a field so essential to the study of art history and
archaeology," comments Dr. Feder. "Our new partnership with Scala
Archives and Art Resource represents an important milestone in
ARTstor's ongoing effort to provide teachers, scholars and students
with high-quality digital images of key works and monuments of world
art," affirms Shulman. "We are excited at the prospect of working with
Scala in an ongoing way to further develop their extraordinarily rich
archives and ARTstor's library of images."

We hope this announcement will be of interest to scholars and teachers
in the field of Italian art, architecture and archeology. We
anticipate that the materials discussed will begin to appear in
ARTstor within the next few months, followed by periodic additions
of further materials.

Scala Archives (http://www.scalaarchives.it) was founded in Florence, Italy, in 1953 when color
photography was coming to be the medium of preference for recording
works of art. The firm soon established working relationships with
most of Italy's museums as well as a number of other institutions
outside of Italy. It has at one time or another served as the official
archive for many of these collections, including the Vatican Museums.
The archive now numbers some 80,000 large format (5 x 7" and 8 x 10")
transparencies covering all periods of Western art from antiquity to
the present. Scala transparencies are offered for use in books,
magazines, prints, CD-ROM, television, film, and publicity.

Established in 1968, Art Resource (http://www.artres.com) is the principal source of fine
art images for commercial and scholarly publications and other
contexts in the United States. Art Resource functions as the official
rights and permissions representative for a wide range of museums and
visual arts archives around the world.

* Personal Collections available in ARTstor *

We are pleased to announce to our Primary, User Support and Technical
Contacts the availability of ARTstor's Personal Collection Tools. We
have recognized from the outset that it is essential to enable and
facilitate the integration of ARTstor's content with other digital
content available to participating institutions and individual ARTstor
users. These Personal Collection Tools have been developed to allow
individual end-users to add their own images into the online ARTstor
environment. Each user will have his or her own private Personal
Collection section of online ARTstor. Once a user uploads images to
this part of the site, he or she will be able to add those images to
public or private image groups and make use of them like any other
image in ARTstor.

First, here is an example of how Personal Collections can be helpful.
Professor Smith is teaching an architecture class. He has taken
several digital photographs on a recent trip to Chicago and would like
to use them for a lecture. He is aware of the ability to do that with
the Offline Image Viewer. However, Professor Smith encourages his
students to review his lectures online in ARTstor Image Groups. Unless
Professor Smith can upload his images for creating his Image Group –
the basis of his lecture – he will only be able to present his lecture
offline. Sharing his lecture through an OIV presentation file is still
possible but more difficult than directing students to the ARTstor
website to review his Image Group.

By default, your users' Personal Collections are disabled and your
users will not see links for Personal Collections tools in ARTstor.
This email is being sent to you to provide more information about the
policy surrounding ARTstor's Personal Collections tool and to instruct
you in the few, simple steps you must take in order to activate
Personal Collections for the users at your institution. We will wait
at least one week before announcing the availability of Personal
Collections to our Announcement Mailing List. Before that time, you
may want to try to configure your service at the Administrative Level
via these steps:

- Visit our SuperAdmin website at http://admin.artstor.org.

- Log in with the access code and password that your institution uses
to obtain instructor privileges. (If you don't have that information,
please contact us [userservices@artstor.org] and we will provide it.)

- Select the "Enable Personal Collections for Users" link from the
left-hand navigation bar. You will see a list of all users at your
institution who have Instructor Privileges, and are therefore eligible
to create Personal Collections.

You now have the following configuration choices.

- You can enable Personal Collections for all of your current and
future users with Instructor Privileges.

To give every current user Personal Collection privileges, use the
checkbox next to "Select All" to activate every user on the list.
Check the box to "Automatically enable Personal Collections for any
future users with Instructor Privileges" at the bottom of the page if
you want all future users to automatically have Personal Collections
enabled when they register for Instructor Privileges.

- You can enable Personal Collections for individual users with
Instructor Privileges as needed.

Select users one at a time by checking the checkbox next to their
email addresses. Do not check the box to "Automatically enable
Personal Collections for any future users with Instructor Privileges"
at the bottom of the page. By not choosing this option, you will
require each user to contact you in order to activate Personal
Collections for themselves. That may provide a desirable opportunity
to discuss copyright or set other relevant standards for uploading.

If you would like your deactivated users to see the links to Personal
Collections tools, clear the checkbox next to "Don't show Personal
Collection links to instructors if their Personal Collections are not
enabled in the list above." A deactivated user will be able to select
the link to upload images to his or her Personal Collection but
instead of being able to upload images, he or she will see this
message: "To enable your Personal Collection, please contact your
local ARTstor administrator: [contact information]". The contact name
will be the same as currently listed to request Instructor Privileges.
Please let us know[4] if you would like to change the contact name.

- You can leave Personal Collections disabled for all individual
users.

If you do not intend to invite any of your users to participate in
Personal Collections, select the checkbox next to "Don't show Personal
Collection links to instructors if their Personal Collections are not
enabled in the list above." This will effectively "opt out" of the
service and your users won't be troubled or confused by grayed-out
links to Personal Collections.

If you decide to enable your users to participate in Personal
Collections, here is some additional information about the tools. You
should also download this handout [http://www.artstor.org/info/using_artstor/personalcollections.pdf] and distribute it to new Personal
Collections users.

When a user adds an image from a local drive (be it something scanned,
purchased, or taken with a digital camera), the image file is uploaded
to the remote ARTstor server and a derivative image file that allows
the user to zoom in on the image (like any other ARTstor image) is
created in FPX format. Original images can be uploaded in any of the
following image formats: JPG / JPEG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, or PNG.

The original uploaded file is then discarded, since our keeping it
would (depending upon the size of the file) begin to represent a
significant amount of storage space. If the user decides to
save/download their uploaded images out of ARTstor, the image will be
exported in jpg format at the original dimensions. (These images will
not be restricted to the 400 pixel maximum; if a 1600 x 1600 pixel
image is uploaded, a 1600 x 1600 pixel JPG will be available for
download.)

The user is able to catalog uploaded images and to sort them into
topics. Each time the user logs in, he or she will now see a "My
Personal Collection" listed after the other ARTstor Collections in the
ARTstor Library. This Collection can be searched, opened and browsed
just like other ARTstor collections; but it is visible only to the
individual user and – depending on security choices the individual
makes – his or her institution.

There are two levels of security for Personal Collection images:
limited access and institutional access. Each image is assigned a
security level of limited access by default. Access levels can be
altered on an image-by-image basis. Here are the definitions for both
levels of security.

Limited access:

- Only a search by the creator will retrieve the image
- Only the creator can save the image into an Image Group
- Only the creator can download a copy of the image
- Only the creator can print a copy of the image
- Only the creator can save the image into an OIV presentation
- All other users can view the image when saved in an Image Group to
which they have access

Institutional access:

- A search by any institutional user will retrieve the image
- All institutional users can save the image into an Image Group
- All institutional users can download a copy of the image
- All institutional users can print a copy of the image
- All institutional users can save the image into an OIV presentation

Please note that in order to save Personal Collection images into an
OIV presentation, the user must have downloaded and installed the most
recent version of the OIV software, version 2.0. OIV derivatives are
created hourly and can be downloaded into OIV 2.0 an hour or two after
uploading new images.

The challenges involved in rolling out this service have not been
about the technology but rather about the intersection between an
outside entity (ARTstor), you, and your users. Personal Collections
are akin to creating reserves (where you are accustomed to managing
the process of individual users creating or modifying content that
they share with others on campus) but the policies are made more
complex by our role as the locus where this sharing takes place.

We have attempted to set our policy in a way that protects the
usefulness of this tool while setting some meaningful guidelines for
the service. However, our initial policy is provisional and subject to
change as we learn more about how this tool will be used.

- We believe that in the near term, this capacity should be limited to
those individuals to whom you have assigned Instructor Privileges.
This will enable all of us to learn together how the service works
within a more controlled environment. Students who are making
presentations will, of course, still be able to add images to the
Offline Image Viewer, but would not have the personal collections
tools at this point. Limiting access for the time being is
particularly valuable as we better understand, together, the
intellectual property issues associated with ARTstor's serving as a
remote host for content added by individuals at a participating
institution.

- We have decided to allot server space by individuals. While it seems
more intuitive to provide a cap on the number of images (that can then
be managed by the institution), the far more relevant measure is the
total memory utilized. Hence, for the academic year 2005-2006, we are
proposing that individuals receive 500MB of Personal Collection space
each. (500MB could potentially store up to 2000 image files –
depending on the image resolution.) This approach will allow us to
test provisionally the costs and benefits of providing such a service.
If, in the future, we find that individuals are in need of additional
space, we will explore alternative solutions.

- We will provide institutions with additional SuperAdmin tools that
will allow the contact person to review the personal collection usage
and determine which collections are to be maintained on an ongoing
basis, and also to upload images into personal collection on behalf of
users with instructor's privileges. These tools should be made
available before the Spring Semester 2006;

- Since we really have no way of fully understanding the costs
associated with providing this service to what is currently about 450
institutions, we still may need to charge some modest fees for the
service at some point. For the time being, however, we are planning on
launching the service as outlined in this note for no fees (provided
institutions work within the storage caps described above). All images
added in the 2005-2006 year would be maintained for no cost through
the end of the academic year 2008-2009. With this promise in hand, we
hope that users will use the system without fear that their efforts
will be wasted.

- Since we are still learning about the long-term consequences of
storing and serving this content back to institutions, we propose that
we will plan to work with users who intend to move to different
participating institutions to migrate their personal collections to a
different participating institution so that the work of uploading the
collection would not be lost;

- Finally, we will provide separate disclaimers to inform individuals
of their responsibilities in selecting and posting content and will
indicate that neither ARTstor, nor the institution with which the
institution is affiliated, will be screening such content and
therefore could not take responsibility for it.

New Issues in Project Muse

We are pleased to announce the addition of the following new issues
to the Muse database:


Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Volume 79, Number 3, Fall 2005
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/bulletin_of_the_history_of_medicine/toc/bhm79.3.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/bulletin_of_the_history_of_medicine/toc/bhm79.3.html


The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique
49(2), June/juin 2004
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_journal_of_linguistics/toc/cjl49.2.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/canadian_journal_of_linguistics/toc/cjl49.2.html


Cinema Journal
44, Number 4, Summer 2005
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/cinema_journal/toc/cj44.4.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/cinema_journal/toc/cj44.4.html


GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
Volume 11, Number 4, 2005
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_lesbian_and_gay_studies/toc/glq11.4.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/journal_of_lesbian_and_gay_studies/toc/glq11.4.html


Journal of Asian American Studies
Volume 8, Number 2, June 2005
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_asian_american_studies/toc/jaas8.2.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/journal_of_asian_american_studies/toc/jaas8.2.html


Journal of College Student Development
Volume 46, Number 5, September/October 2005
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_college_student_development/toc/csd46.5.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/journal_of_college_student_development/toc/csd46.5.html


Journal of Modern Literature
Volume 28, Number 3, Winter 2005
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_modern_literature/toc/jml28.3.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/journal_of_modern_literature/toc/jml28.3.html


The Journal of Speculative Philosophy
Volume 19, Number 2, 2005 (New Series)
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_speculative_philosophy/toc/jsp19.2.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/journal_of_speculative_philosophy/toc/jsp19.2.html


Journal of the History of Ideas
Volume 66, Number 2, April 2005
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_ideas/toc/jhi66.2.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_ideas/toc/jhi66.2.html


Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Volume 60, Number 4, October 2005
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_medicine_and_allied_sciences/toc/jhm60.4.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_medicine_and_allied_sciences/toc/jhm60.4.html


Journal of Women's History
Volume 17, Number 3, 2005
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_womens_history/toc/jowh17.3.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/journal_of_womens_history/toc/jowh17.3.html


Language
Volume 81, Number 3, September 2005
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/language/toc/lan81.3.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/language/toc/lan81.3.html


Luso-Brazilian Review
Volume 42, Number 1, 2005
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/luso-brazilian_review/toc/lbr41.3.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/luso-brazilian_review/toc/lbr41.3.html


Modern Judaism
Volume 25, Number 3, October 2005
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/modern_judaism/toc/mj25.3.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/modern_judaism/toc/mj25.3.html


Music and Letters
Volume 86, Number 3, 2005
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/music_and_letters/toc/mal86.3.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/music_and_letters/toc/mal86.3.html


New Literary History
Volume 36, Number 3, Summer 2005
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/new_literary_history/toc/nlh36.3.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/new_literary_history/toc/nlh36.3.html


Northeast African Studies
Volume 7, Number 3, 2000 (New Series)
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/northeast_african_studies/toc/nas7.3.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/northeast_african_studies/toc/nas7.3.html


Pedagogy
Volume 5, Issue 3, Fall 2005
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/pedagogy/toc/ped5.3.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/pedagogy/toc/ped5.3.html


Prairie Schooner
Volume 79, Number 3, Fall 2005
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/prairie_schooner/toc/psg79.3.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/prairie_schooner/toc/psg79.3.html


Red Cedar Review
Volume 40, 2005
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/red_cedar_review/toc/rcr40.1.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/red_cedar_review/toc/rcr40.1.html


The Review of Higher Education
Volume 29, Number 1, Fall 2005
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/review_of_higher_education/toc/rhe29.1.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/review_of_higher_education/toc/rhe29.1.html


Reviews in American History
Volume 33, Number 3, September 2005
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/reviews_in_american_history/toc/rah33.3.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/reviews_in_american_history/toc/rah33.3.html


Shakespeare Quarterly
Volume 56, Number 1, Spring 2005
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/shakespeare_quarterly/toc/shq56.1.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/shakespeare_quarterly/toc/shq56.1.html


Victorian Periodicals Review
Volume 38, Number 2, Summer 2005
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/victorian_periodicals_review/toc/vpr38.2.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/victorian_periodicals_review/toc/vpr38.2.html

RED CEDAR REVIEW DEBUTS IN PROJECT MUSE

***From the Michigan State University Press:

Red Cedar Review

Red Cedar Review, the longest running undergraduate-run publication in the United States,
is published annually in collaboration with Michigan State University Press. Celebrating
its 40th year of publication in 2005, Red Cedar Review proudly features new and emerging
writers as well as established authors, including Margaret Atwood, William Stafford,
Pablo Neruda, W.S. Merwin, Diane Wakoski, Charles Baxter, and Stuart Dybek.

E-ISSN: 1554-6721
Print ISSN: 0034-1967

Edited by Jennifer Popa, Teal Amthor-Shaffer, and Jon Speilburg.

Included in the MUSE 2005 Full Collection and Arts and Humanities Collection.

For more information about the journal:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/red_cedar_review/
OR
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/rcr/

For the Table of Contents:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/red_cedar_review/toc/rcr40.1.html
OR
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/rcr/toc/rcr40.1.html

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The Canadian Historical Review
Volume 86, Number 3, September 2005
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The Chaucer Review
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China: An International Journal
Volume 4, Number 2, September 2006
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http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/china/toc/chn1.2.html


Common Knowledge
Volume 11, Issue 3, Fall 2005
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/common_knowledge/toc/ckn11.3.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/common_knowledge/toc/ckn11.3.html


Criticism
Volume 46, Number 3, Summer 2004
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ELH
Volume 72, Number 3, Fall 2005
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Journal of Early Christian Studies
Volume 13, Number 3, Fall 2005
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The Journal of General Education
Volume 54, Number 1, 2005
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Journal of Narrative Theory
Volume 34, Number 3, Fall 2004
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Journal of Narrative Theory
Volume 35, Number 1, Winter 2005
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positions: east asia cultures critique
Volume 13, Number 2, Fall 2005
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SHAW The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies
Volume 25, 2005
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Social Science History
Volume 29, Number 3, Fall 2005
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Texas Studies in Literature and Language
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We are pleased to announce that fifteen new titles have been added to the JSTOR archive.
Institutions that participate in collections with new titles will be able to access the
new content immediately.

AJS Review (Arts & Sciences III Collection)
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 24 (1976-1999)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Association for Jewish Studies
ISSN: 03640094

Applied Vegetation Science (Biological Sciences Collection)
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 2 (1998–1999)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Opulus Press AB
ISSN: 14022001

Artibus et Historiae (Arts & Sciences III Collection)
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 22 (1980-2001)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: IRSA s.c.
ISSN: 03919064

Canadian Journal of Political Science / Revue canadienne de science politique (Arts &
Sciences II and Business Collections)
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 32 (1968-1999)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Canadian Political Science
Association
ISSN: 00084239
NOTE: The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science split in 1967 to form
Canadian Journal of Political Science / Revue canadienne de science politique and The
Canadian Journal of Economics. The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science
and The Canadian Journal of Economics were publicly released into the JSTOR archive in
June 2001.

Dance Research Journal (Arts & Sciences III Collection)
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 31 (1969-1999)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Congress on Research in Dance
ISSN: 01497677

Design Issues (Arts & Sciences III Collection)
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 15 (1984-1999)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: The MIT Press
ISSN: 07479360

The Harvard Theological Review (Arts & Sciences III Collection)
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 92 (1908-1999)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Harvard Divinity School
ISSN: 00178160

The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts (Arts & Sciences III Collection)
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 23 (1986-1998)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Florida International University Board of Trustees on behalf of The
Wolfsonian-FIU
ISSN: 08887314
NOTE: No issues were published 1999-2001.

The Journal of the Learning Sciences (Arts & Sciences IV Collection)
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 8 (1991-1999)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
ISSN: 10508406

La Ricerca Folklorica (Arts & Sciences III Collection)
New Content: Nos. 1 – 44 (1980-2001)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Grafo s.p.a.
ISSN: 03919099

Micropaleontology (Biological Sciences Collection)
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 8 (1947-1954); Vol. 1 – Vol. 47 (1955-2001)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: The Micropaleontology Project., Inc.
ISSN: 00262803

PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art (Arts & Sciences III Collection)
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 21 (1976-1999)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: The MIT Press on behalf of Performing Arts Journal, Inc.
ISSN: 1520281x

Studies in Conservation (Arts & Sciences III Collection)
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 44 (1952-1999)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: The International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
ISSN: 00393630

Theory into Practice (Arts & Sciences IV Collection)
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 40 (1922-1961); Vol. 1 – Vol. 38 (1962-1999)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
ISSN: 00405841

Western Folklore (Arts & Sciences III Collection)
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 58 (1942-1999)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Western States Folklore Society
ISSN: 0043373x
By publisher request, JSTOR is reducing the moving walls for three titles:

Archaeological Reports (Arts & Sciences II Collection)
New Content: Nos. 47 – 48 (2000/2001-2001/2002)
Moving Wall = 3 years (previously 5 years)
Publisher: The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies
ISSN: 05706084

Hispanic Review (Arts & Sciences III and Language & Literature Collections)
New Content: Vol. 68, no. 1 – Vol. 69, no. 4 (2000 – 2001)
Moving Wall: 3 years (previously 5 years)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISSN: 00182176

The Journal of Hellenic Studies (Arts & Sciences II Collection)
New Content: Vols. 120 – 121 (2000-2001)
Moving Wall: 3 years (previously 5 years)
Publisher: The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies
ISSN: 00754269

Two titles have been updated with previously missing issues no longer missing:

The Condor (Biological Sciences Collection)
New Content: Vol. 93, no. 4 (November, 1991)
Publisher: Cooper Ornithological Society
ISSN: 00105422

Mathematics Magazine (Arts & Sciences II and Mathematics & Statistics Collections)
New Content: Vol. 23, nos. 1-2 (September/October-November/December, 1949)
Publisher: Mathematical Association of America
ISSN: 0025570x
One title with a moving wall of zero has had the most recent digitized issues added:

The American Journal of International Law (Arts & Sciences I Collection)
New Content: Vol. 99, no. 1 (January, 2005)
Publisher: American Society of International Law
ISSN: 00029300

Six previously released titles have been reworked to improve quality. The rework process
resulted in improved image quality, caption searching, and enhanced display of
non-English languages for the following titles:

American Literature (Arts & Sciences I and Language & Literature Collections)
JSTOR Coverage: Vols. 1 – 71 (1929-1999)
Fixed Wall: 2000
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISSN: 00029831

Comparative Literature (Arts & Sciences III and Language & Literature Collections)
JSTOR Coverage: Vols. 1 – 51 (1949-1999)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: University of Oregon
ISSN: 00104124

Journal of African Cultural Studies (Arts & Sciences III and Language & Literature
Collections)
Previous Title: African Languages and Cultures (ISSN: 0954416x)
JSTOR Coverage: Vols. 1 – 14 (1988-2001)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Ltd.
ISSN: 13696815

Poetics Today (Arts & Sciences III and Language & Literature Collections)
JSTOR Coverage: Vols. 1 – 20 (1979–1999)
Fixed Wall: 2000
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISSN: 03335372

Shakespeare Quarterly (Arts & Sciences I and Language & Literature Collections)
JSTOR Coverage: Vols. 1 – 51 (1950-2000)
Moving Wall: JSTOR will resume a moving wall of 5 years in 2007
Publisher: Folger Shakespeare Library
ISSN: 00373222

Transition (Arts & Sciences I and Language & Literature Collections)
JSTOR Coverage: Nos. 1 – 80 (1961-1999)
Fixed Wall: 2000
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISSN: 00411191

Nineteen titles linked to recent content have also been updated. A full list of titles
with links to recent content may be found at http://www.jstor.org/about/recent-issues.html

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issues that we are unable to find. To see which issues are missing, or for information
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page http://www.jstor.org/about/issues/index.html

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Delimited lists of all available JSTOR titles can be accessed at
http://www.jstor.org/about/delimited.lists.html

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Bill & Member Notes: This function allows users to store their own information on the Bill and Member Information Pages. The notes field can store position papers, meeting notes, correspondence, white papers, PAC contributions or anything else relevant to the bill. These notes can also be shared between GalleryWatch user accounts within an organization, giving users an information management tool already built into their legislative tracking service. The notes can also be searched making the database a contact management and a research tool of your organizations institutional knowledge.

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Bill Text Comments: Like the Bill & Member Notes, this function allows clients to store comments within the text of bills to share with other staff members to streamline your organization's policy development.

Modern and Contemporary Art in ARTstor

Content:

* Modern and Contemporary Art in ARTstor
* Collaborative Agreement Reached Between The Cooper Union for the
Advancement of Science and Art and ARTstor


Modern and Contemporary Art in ARTstor

We know that many ARTstor users have been eagerly awaiting the day
when ARTstor would be able to offer a representative body of 20th –
and now 21st – century art. And so we would now like to announce that
we have recently released into the ARTstor Digital Library tens of
thousands of images of modern and contemporary art works by scores of
artists. Artists now represented in ARTstor range from William
Baziotes and Isabel Bishop to Jacob Lawrence and Kasimir Malevich to
Frank Lloyd Wright and Francisco Zuñiga.

We are continuing to negotiate agreements that will allow us to offer
an expanding body of modern and contemporary art images. And in coming
weeks we will expect to announce both the addition of further 20th
(and 21st!) century art images as well as a series of collection
development partnerships that focus specifically on modern and
contemporary art – such as the following announcement of an important
partnership with the Cooper Union in the area of graphic design.

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Collaborative Agreement Reached Between The Cooper Union for the
Advancement of Science and Art and ARTstor

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and ARTstor
are pleased to announce that they have reached an agreement whereby
the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography (part of Cooper
Union’s School of Art) and ARTstor will collaborate on the
distribution through ARTstor of several thousand high quality digital
images of modern graphic design. This collaboration will focus
initially on a digital design archive previously familiar to the
graphic design community as the National Graphic Design Image
Database. We anticipate making these images available to ARTstor users in the course of the spring semester 2006.


The focus of the Lubalin Center’s efforts, including the effort
represented by the former National Graphic Design Image Database, has
been to disseminate material related to the history of visual
communication in the twentieth century and to encourage and support
interdisciplinary studies of visual history and communication. The
present collaboration will make this rich body of visual material and
related scholarship available online in ARTstor, where it will
complement related graphic design materials from a variety of sources.
The audience for these highly valued materials will include teachers,
students, designers, and all students of the history of visual
communications, who will value having the ability to access, browse,
and make rich educational artistic uses of this valued resource.

“The collection created by the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and
Typography represents a pioneering effort in the documentation and
dissemination of graphic design history,” says Ellen Lupton, Curator
of Contemporary Design, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. “The
on-line collection is an invaluable and unequaled resource for
designers, students, and educators." Sheila de Bretteville, Professor
of Graphic Design, Yale University, adds that “an online resource
devoted to the history as well as the most advanced contemporary forms
of graphic design is essential to students, faculty and practitioners
hungry for this visual stimulation. ARTstor’s effort to resurrect the
former National Graphic Design Image Database would be a most needed
and desired start!”

In reaching this agreement, Mike Essl, full-time faculty member in
graphic design at Cooper Union, expressed his enthusiasm in
collaborating with ARTstor to make this important graphic design
resource more broadly available for noncommercial artistic,
pedagogical and artistic purposes. “The Lubalin Center is very pleased
to be working with ARTstor in making our online digital image archives
more widely available to students and researchers in the field and
excited to participate in its representation of modern design
content.” Max Marmor, ARTstor’s Director of Collection Development,
expressed ARTstor’s keen interest in this partnership. “The Lubalin
Center’s graphic design collections, and its admirable efforts to make
them available in digital form, are well-known. We at ARTstor are
delighted to help in reviving the pioneering effort embodied in the
former National Graphic Design Image Database, and to help make the
Lubalin Center’s resources more readily available to artists, teachers
and students.”

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, established
in 1859, is among the nation's oldest and most distinguished
institutions of higher learning. The college, the legacy of Peter
Cooper, occupies a special place in the history of American education.
It is the only private, full-scholarship college in the United States
dedicated exclusively to preparing students for the professions of
art, architecture and engineering. Since opening in 1985, the Herb
Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography has served as a hands-on
research facility for students, faculty, design professionals and the
public. The facility has evolved into a multifaceted resource devoted
to the documentation and preservation of the history of graphic
design.

CELEBRATING NATIONAL HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH

A Special Report focusing on Hispanic Heritage is now available and includes articles in both English and Spanish.

This site is designed to support your study of National Hispanic Heritage Month, September 15-October 15. The site contains both current and historical information organized into topical areas on

*culture
*historical figures and leaders
*important issues and events
*global culture and perspectives

Articles have been included for their relevance to the topics and their various perspectives. This site is an excellent resource for tracing the history of Hispanics and learning about their contributions to the world in politics, sports, education, the arts, etc.

SPANISH and ENGLISH ARTICLES AVAILABLE
Articles in both English and Spanish make this site usable to the vast majority of students and patrons using your library. English articles have been selected from several NewsBank resources. Spanish articles have been chosen from the wide collection of Spanish newspapers and wire services available from NewsBank. This multi-lingual coverage is an added feature of this Special Report site

Photos of noted people and events are included also, as are links to related web sites.

Suggested search terms to help locate additional information in your NewsBank products are listed to encourage further research.

Maps on North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean region are available to help find the location of information in articles.

All articles are easily accessed and can be printed or e-mailed from within the site.

OTHER AVAILBLE SPECIAL REPORTS
NewsBank has always been committed to providing libraries with the best coverage of important issues and events. In addition to the National Hispanic Heritage Month site, we continue our ongoing Special Report coverage of The War on Terrorism, Iraq, Science and Health in the News, Hurricane Katrina and Other Natural Disasters, World Health and Our Planet Earth.

All sites are accessible at infoweb.newsbank.com along with your NewsBank products.

ERIC Adds Content for New School Year

ERIC is pleased to announce that the first database update of new education-related content is now available on the ERIC Web site at www.eric.ed.gov. This update includes journal titles and documents published in 2004 and 2005 from publishers and organizations that signed new authorization agreements with ERIC this year. Additional agreements are in progress with previous providers to ERIC and newly identified sources of high-quality education literature.

This inaugural ERIC update adds more than 100 comprehensively indexed journals to the database, including titles from publishers such as Blackwell, Taylor & Francis, Baywood, and other distinguished publishers of education journals. New to ERIC are more than one dozen journals not previously indexed in ERIC, and 110 full-text journal articles. Most of the newly added articles are peer reviewed. Peer-reviewed materials can now be easily identified by checking the new "Peer Reviewed" field in the ERIC Search Results. . In addition to newly indexed journal articles, this first 2005 ERIC update adds 700 free, full-text documents to the database from a wide variety of contributing institutions. Examples of organizations contributing materials to ERIC, in addition to the U.S. Department of Education, are federal, state, and private entities including: the Government Accounting Office, Education Commission for the States, Council of Chief State School Officers, Educational Testing Service, Success for All Foundation, and the Southern Regional Education Board, among others. ERIC is recognized for its wealth of grey literature resources that are not included in other major databases. Materials include research reports, conference papers, dissertations, literature reviews, and other documents in education. This initial update includes the following highlights:

*More than 250 U.S. Department of Education reports, including reports produced by the National Center for Education Statistics and the regional educational laboratories

*Institute of Education Sciences What Works Clearinghouse reports

*More than 160 documents submitted by state agencies in more than 15 states

The ERIC database will continue to be updated with newly acquired materials. Visit the News section of the ERIC Web site at www.eric.ed.gov for quick links to information on new content, lists of ERIC journals, and other recent enhancements. Notable new features include improvements to the ERIC search function, and Journals Indexed in ERIC. In addition to these features, more enhancements are under development and will be announced this summer in the ERIC Web site's News section.

New Offline Viewer in ARTstor

SEPTEMBER 2, 2005 *

* New version of the Offline Image Viewer available for Macintosh computers *

The Offline Image Viewer is ARTstor's tool for:

- Giving reliable, Internet-independent classroom presentations; - Creating presentations of personal/institutional images with or without ARTstor images.

The latest release of the ARTstor Offline Image Viewer (version 2.0) contains additional features and enhanced functionality that were not available in previous versions of the software. Many of the new features are a direct result of user feedback and recommendations.

In addition to all of the functionality of previous versions, the new release of the Offline Image Viewer will include the following new features:

- Blank "slides" can now be created for each screen of a presentation; - ARTstor images and local images can be pasted into the slides; - Customized text can now be included along with images when presenting; - Multiple images and text fields can be accommodated on a single slide; - Zoomed-in portions of an image can be saved for display on a slide; - The background color behind the images and text, as well as the entire slide, can be customized; - A smaller, presentation-only file can be exported without requiring the full-size image files; - Presentations can be exported in a format compatible with the previous version of the Offline Image Viewer; - Connections to ARTstor for authentication and for downloading Image Groups can be accommodated through certain proxy servers; - Users can choose where the image file cache will reside on their machine; - Users can choose the maximum amount of memory the application will be permitted to use on their computer.

To download your new copy, click on the "Search and Browse for Images" link on the ARTstor home page[2] and enter the Digital Library. In order to access the software, you will need to log on to your ARTstor user account first. Once logged on, click on the "Tools" toolbar button and select the option for "Offline Image Viewer Download". You will be prompted to accept the "Terms and Conditions of Use[3]" before downloading the software. Click on the "Accept" button to proceed.

You'll see a new window in which all currently available versions of the OIV will be listed. The recommended version for your workstation will be pre-selected for you. To download the previous version of the OIV or the format for another operating system, click on the appropriate radio button. Click on the "Submit" button to begin your download. A pop-up window will appear prompting you to choose between opening and saving the new file. Click on the "Save" button and select a location on your computer to which you would like to save the file. The default location is your desktop. The file is about 10.9 MB large, so the download can take some time on slower internet connections.

Once the software is downloaded to your computer (the title of the file is OIV_2.0_Mac_Install.exe), double-click on the program icon to expand the file into OIV_Installer.dmg. Double-click on the OIV_Installer.dmg icon and it should open a window with an Offline Image Viewer program icon inside. The window title is OIV2.0. Drag and drop the Offline Image Viewer program icon onto your desktop. The Offline Viewer is then available for use from that computer and you do not need to download it again the next time you want to use the program. Double-click on the program icon on your desktop to begin using the Offline Image Viewer.

ARTstor User Services is offering daily online training sessions on this upgrade. To view a list of scheduled training sessions, click on the "Upcoming" tab on this webpage: http://artstor.webex.com. For additional instructions on how to register and attend an online session, view this page (http://www.artstor.org/info/using_artstor/endusertraining.jsp) in the "Using ARTstor" section of our website.

JSTOR Upgrades

Dear JSTOR Participant:

We are glad to announce two JSTOR search engine developments that were released Wednesday, August 31.


Article Locator

The Article Locator is a new search form that allows you to find a specific article with an easy, fill-in-the-blank form. To locate a single article, enter as much information as you have from an article reference or citation. The form will search multiple fields of a citation simultaneously, such as author name, article title, journal title, volume/issue information, year, etc.

The Article Locator was available for preview from June 2005 to August 2005 as the JSTOR “Citation Search.” During the preview period, we received over 150 messages from JSTOR users who had tested the form. Based on this feedback, we made several improvements to the form, including:

- Renaming the form to “Article Locator” to better reflect the functionality. - Refining the “near match” capability to result in closer matches when no exact match is found. - Returning more detailed information to better indicate the nature of any errors encountered.

The Article Locator may be accessed directly at:

http://www.jstor.org/search/ArticleLocatorSearch


JSTOR XML Gateway

As part of our continued effort to increase the convenience of access to the archive, we have developed an XML gateway to better facilitate metasearching of JSTOR content. As some of our participating institutions have chosen to implement a metasearch engine for their users, we recognized the need to provide both a stable, standardized method for querying the JSTOR archive and also a manner of returning results that could be easily utilized by a metasearch program.

More information about the JSTOR XML gateway may be found at:

http://www.jstor.org/about/xml_gateway.html

JSTOR has metasearching agreements with a number of partners, several of whom assisted us in testing the new gateway, including: Auto-Graphics Inc., Endeavor Information Systems Inc., ExLibris, and WebFeat. For a complete list of all of our current partners, please see the Metasearch Partner Contact Information page:

http://www.jstor.org/about/metasearch_partners.html

If you have any questions about these new developments, please do not hesitate to contact JSTOR User Services (support@jstor.org ).

NewsBank Enhancements

NewsBank is pleased to announce the launch of a new search engine that will significantly improve the speed, functionality and effectiveness of searches across its news archives. Several new, advanced features and enhancements will provide immediate benefits to students, including:

· Faster searches. The speed of searches has been vastly improved. Searches return results in seconds, regardless of the number of publications being searched, the number of articles retrieved or the complexity of the search.

· Better relevance rankings. The new search engine does a superior job of putting "best matches first" based on the search criteria, so students are more likely to find relevant articles.

· Unlimited search results. Searches will now return the total number of articles that match the search criteria-rather than a number reflecting "at least this many" hits, which was available previously. This is important to power searchers, who may need to find every reference to a person, company or topic in the news.

· "Oldest matches first" option. Students now have the option to view search results in the order of oldest to newest (according to publication date), enabling them to effectively research events or topics that follow a specific timeline.

· Inclusion of "stopwords." To improve speed, most search engines remove very common words, or "stopwords," from searches, including "the," "a" and "to." NewsBank's new search engine includes stopwords for greater precision, without impacting speed. For the phrase "the number of," search engines that remove stopwords retrieve results based only on the word "number," since "the" and "of" are removed. NewsBank's new search engine retrieves articles with the exact phrase "the number of," which are likely to include valuable statistical references.

· Smarter stemming. The automatic inclusion of the plural forms of words in searches-or "stemming"-is one way search engines ensure that students retrieve all the articles they are looking for. NewsBank's new search engine does a better job of including the plural forms of words, resulting in fewer "false hits."

NewsBank's new search engine went "live" last night, August 31, 2005, for Access World News and America's Newspapers. No action is required on your part. You will find the implementation and transition seamless.

NewsBank strives to provide market-leading products, the best customer service and user satisfaction. NewsBank's implementation of this new search engine is one of several ongoing initiatives designed to achieve these goals. Should you have any questions or comments regarding NewsBank's products and services, or the implementation of this new search engine and the value it will bring to your library, please contact NewsBank by calling 800.243.7694 or emailing customerservice@newsbank.com.

Thank you for your time and attention and for your continued use of NewsBank's products and services.

Sincerely,

The NewsBank Customer Services Team