SBC Library News: September 2006

Saturday, September 30, 2006

ARTstor and JSTOR

JSTOR and ARTstor would like to announce the availability of a
prototype which aims to facilitate searching across the archived
content in JSTOR and the image content in ARTstor. The JSTOR/ARTstor
Search Prototype is available in the JSTOR Sandbox (http://sandbox.jstor.org[2]),
an area of the JSTOR website used to showcase possible new features
and to gather feedback to help direct future development of JSTOR.

The JSTOR/ARTstor Search Prototype allows JSTOR users to conduct a
basic search across three types of content: JSTOR article text, JSTOR
image caption text, and ARTstor image metadata. After conducting a
search, users are presented with search results separated into three
tabs:

- The Articles tab lists JSTOR search results for matches in journal
article text.
- The Images from Articles tab shows results of a JSTOR caption
search, and includes thumbnails of each article page containing an
image with a keyword match in the image caption.*
- The ARTstor Images tab lists results of matches for the keyword or
phrase in ARTstor image metadata. The search is performed on the
creator, title, and subject terms of the metadata.

Users at sites that participate in both JSTOR and ARTstor will be able
to view thumbnails of ARTstor images, and may link directly from JSTOR
to content in ARTstor. Users at institutions which are not currently
ARTstor participating sites may view ARTstor image metadata in the
search results but will not see the image thumbnails.

The main goal of featuring prototypes in the JSTOR Sandbox is to
assess their value to JSTOR users. We encourage you to try the
prototypes and send us your feedback via the Comment on this feature
link on any Sandbox page.

If you have questions about the JSTOR/ARTstor Search Prototype, please
send a message through the Feedback Form (http://artstor-sandbox.jstor.org/feedback/LuxComment).

*To date, JSTOR has acquired captions for approximately 65% of the
titles held in the archive, and is continuing to capture them
retroactively. As a result, caption searching will be less successful
for archive content digitized before 2002 (including all Arts &
Sciences I journals), when JSTOR first began to acquire caption text.
Captions have been acquired for images in all Language & Literature,
Architecture & Architectural History, and Art & Art History journals,
as well as the journal Science.

Friday, September 29, 2006

Addition to ARTstor from Art Resource

* New Addition to the ARTstor Digital Library: European art and
architecture from Art Resource, Scala Archives *

ARTstor recently announced a collaboration with Art Resource and Scala
Archives (Florence, Italy) (http://www.artstor.org/info/collections/scala_announce.jsp).
Through this collaboration, ARTstor will make available approximately
12,000 high quality images of European art and architecture, with a
special focus on the archaeology, art and architecture of Italy and on
the collections of the major museums of Italy and other European
countries.

The first fruits of this collaboration are now available to ARTstor
users. They include more than 1,100 high quality images of major works
of Italian and other European art.

To convey some sense of the range and depth of this expanding
collection, there are already

- more than 60 new images of or relating to works by Botticelli
- more than 50 new images of or relating to works by Caravaggio
- more than 30 new images of or relating to works by Correggio
- more than 40 new images of or relating to works by Mantegna
- more than 80 new images of or relating to works by Raphael
- more than 275 new images of works from the Uffizi Gallery
- more than 25 new images of works from the Louvre

We anticipate releasing another approximately 2,000 Scala images in
late 2006 or very early 2007.

To browse these new ARTstor images, please click on ?Image Gallery? on
the ARTstor ?welcome page? and then select ?Italian and European Art
from Scala Archives.? Or simply search such keyword phrases ?Scala
Florence? or (for an individual artist) "Scala Botticelli" etc.

Please note that we are hard at work "clustering" these superior
images with other ARTstor images that depict the same works of art.
For an example of this clustering process, through which we are
striving to help ARTstor users find the optimal image of a given work
of art, please search for "Raphael Disputa Scala".

If you have questions about accessing these collections in ARTstor, or
questions about ARTstor in general, please contact User Services.
Email: userservices@artstor.org
Phone: (888) 287-0079 (USA only)
Phone: (212) 500-2400

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* New Addition to the ARTstor Digital Library: European art and
architecture from Art Resource, Scala Archives *

ARTstor recently announced a collaboration with Art Resource and Scala
Archives (Florence, Italy) (http://www.artstor.org/info/collections/scala_announce.jsp).
Through this collaboration, ARTstor will make available approximately
12,000 high quality images of European art and architecture, with a
special focus on the archaeology, art and architecture of Italy and on
the collections of the major museums of Italy and other European
countries.

The first fruits of this collaboration are now available to ARTstor
users. They include more than 1,100 high quality images of major works
of Italian and other European art.

To convey some sense of the range and depth of this expanding
collection, there are already

- more than 60 new images of or relating to works by Botticelli
- more than 50 new images of or relating to works by Caravaggio
- more than 30 new images of or relating to works by Correggio
- more than 40 new images of or relating to works by Mantegna
- more than 80 new images of or relating to works by Raphael
- more than 275 new images of works from the Uffizi Gallery
- more than 25 new images of works from the Louvre

We anticipate releasing another approximately 2,000 Scala images in
late 2006 or very early 2007.

To browse these new ARTstor images, please click on Image Gallery on
the ARTstor welcome page and then select Italian and European Art
from Scala Archives. Or simply search such keyword phrases Scala
Florence or (for an individual artist) "Scala Botticelli" etc.

Please note that we are hard at work "clustering" these superior
images with other ARTstor images that depict the same works of art.
For an example of this clustering process, through which we are
striving to help ARTstor users find the optimal image of a given work
of art, please search for "Raphael Disputa Scala".

If you have questions about accessing these collections in ARTstor, or
questions about ARTstor in general, please contact User Services.
Email: userservices@artstor.org
Phone: (888) 287-0079 (USA only)
Phone: (212) 500-2400

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Thursday, September 28, 2006

ARTstor Adds Three Digital Collections from Cornell

New Addition to the ARTstor Digital Library: Three Digital
Collections from the Cornell University Library *

We are pleased to announce that the ARTstor Digital Library has just
been enriched by three important digital collections from the Cornell
University Library. The collections are:

*Andrew Dickson White Architectural Photographs*

The Andrew Dickson White Architectural Photographs Collection is a collection of nearly
1,400 19th- and early 20th-century photographs of architecture,
decorative arts and sculpture in Europe and the U.S. These materials
will complement both ARTstors already strong holdings in the history
of architecture and its expanding holdings in the history of
photography.

*Southeast Asia Visions *

Southeast Asia Visions is a digital collection of European travel accounts of Southeast Asia dating
between 1630 and 1930, from Cornell University Library's John M.
Echols Collection and Rare and Manuscript Collections. This collection
provides online access to the visual content of more than 350 books
and journal articles written in English and French. The images now
included in ARTstor from the Southeast Asia Visions collection were
selected for the quality of their first-hand documentation and visual
beauty, providing a comprehensive visual representation of Southeast
Asia as recorded by Europeans. The accounts in the collection include
some 10,000 images, drawings, photographs, prints and maps, many of
them in color. This collection will powerfully complement ARTstors
already rich holdings in the art, architecture and culture of Asia (as
reflected in the Huntington Archive of Asian Art, the Mellon
International Dunhuang Archive, and the ACSAA Collection from the
University of Michigan, the first fruits of which have recently been
released into the ARTstor Digital Library).

*Masterpieces from the Hill Ornithological Collection, Cornell
University Library*

This selection from the Hill Ornithological Collection at Cornell offers a collection of more than 200 images that
traces the development of ornithological illustration in the 18th and
19th centuries. In its focus upon the 18th and 19th centuries, the
collection complements ARTstors already strong holdings in the
history of prints (anchored by ARTstors digital version of The
Illustrated Bartsch) as well as ARTstors growing collection of
natural history illustration (especially the First Fleet collection
from the Natural History, London).

To browse these new images, please click on Image Gallery on the
ARTstor welcome page and then select from the following: Andrew
Dickson White Collection of Architectural Photographs (Cornell
University Library); Southeast Asia Visions: John M. Echols
Collection (Cornell University Library); or Hill Ornithology
Collection (Cornell University Library). Or you may simply search by
keyword (e.g. Visions Cornell).

We are grateful to the Cornell University Library for wishing to share
these outstanding digital collections through the ARTstor Digital
Library.

If you have questions about accessing these collections in ARTstor, or
questions about ARTstor in general, please contact User Services.
Email: userservices@artstor.org
Phone: (888) 287-0079 (USA only)
Phone: (212) 500-2400

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

IngentaConnect

We would like to advise you about a few changes you will see on
IngentaConnect from today, let you know about our latest work with
GoogleScholar (and how it benefits you), and inform you of the latest
publishers who will be adding content to the service in the near future.

Firstly, the latest release of IngentaConnect incorporates a number of
features driven by feedback from our users:
* Increased support for citation managers, with additional download formats
BibTeX and RDF now being offered alongside previously available
EndNote,ProCite and plain text.
* New social software interoperability enabling users to bookmark citations
to del.icio.us, FURL, CiteULike, Connotea and Bidsonomy with just one click.
* Newly-architected page layouts to standardize display of user-interactive
options, and to increase visibility of tools at article-level (the site's
entry point for most users), thereby increasing efficiency and usability.

The new pages have been designed to present our tools/options more
consistently, by consolidating these in the right-hand navigation menu. The
tools are now presented as expandable menu options, with headings of:
Print, Subscription options, Article access options, Export option, Linking
options, Alerting options, Bookmarking options. To read more about the
rationale behind these changes, please see this posting on our blog:
http://allmyeye.blogspot.com/2006/09/refining-article-page.html

In addition to these user-driven developments, you will soon notice
discreet advertising on some pages of the site; we have introduced this to
enable our publisher partners to explore alternative revenue streams for
scholarly content. To view the full press release about these changes,
please visit: http://www.ingenta.com/corporate/company/news/trade/ic_2_5.htm

As ever, we welcome your feedback about IngentaConnect -- please contact us
at help@ingentaconnect.com if you would like to comment on these changes.

Secondly, we are working closely with Google Scholar at the moment to
provide them with library holdings data, which will enable them to link
your users to your subscriptions on IngentaConnect, even if you don't have
a link resolver. Google Scholar will recognise users within the IP ranges
you have registered with us, and add a prominent "Full Text@IngentaConnect"
link to records from subscribed content. This will link your users to
appropriate copies of articles and, we hope, save some of the frustration
and costs of linking to unsubscribed content. We are pleased to be the first
service Google have chosen to work with on this project. To read our full
Google Scholar press release, please visit:
http://www.ingenta.com/corporate/company/news/trade/google_library_links.htm

Thirdly, we are very pleased to let you know that the following publishers
have recently signed to begin hosting their content with IngentaConnect:

American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry
Cambridge Medical Publications
Civic Research Institute
Inderscience Publishers
Mammal Research Institute
Norwegian University of Technology and Science
Oxford Economic Forecasting
Oxford International Review
Philosophia Africana
University of Iowa

In addition, Brill Academic Publishers have re-signed for a further 3
years' e-publishing via IngentaConnect. The full press release of this
announcement can be viewed at:
http://www.ingenta.com/corporate/company/news/trade/new_pubs_sep06.htm

Please do not hesitate to contact us via help@ingentaconnect.com if you
have any queries or feedback.

With best wishes,

Kirsty Meddings
Product Development Manager
IngentaConnect
Phone: +44 (0)1865 397800
Direct: +44 (0)1865 397838

New Addition to ARTstor

Three Digital Collections from the Cornell University Library

We are pleased to announce that the ARTstor Digital Library has just been enriched by
three important digital collections from the Cornell University Library. The
collections are:

Andrew Dickson White Architectural Photographs
The Andrew Dickson White Architectural Photographs Collection is a collection of nearly
1,400 19th- and early 20th-century photographs of architecture, decorative arts and
sculpture in Europe and the U.S. These materials will complement both ARTstor's already
strong holdings in the history of architecture and its expanding holdings in the
history of photography.

Southeast Asia Visions
"Southeast Asia Visions" is a digital collection of European travel accounts of
Southeast Asia dating between 1630 and 1930, from Cornell University Library's John M.
Echols Collection and Rare and Manuscript Collections. This collection provides online
access to the visual content of more than 350 books and journal articles written in
English and French. The images now included in ARTstor from the Southeast Asia Visions
collection were selected for the quality of their first-hand documentation and visual
beauty, providing a comprehensive visual representation of Southeast Asia as recorded
by Europeans. The accounts in the collection include some 10,000 images, drawings,
photographs, prints and maps, many of them in color. This collection will powerfully
complement ARTstor's already rich holdings in the art, architecture and culture of Asia
(as reflected in the Huntington Archive of Asian Art, the Mellon International Dunhuang
Archive, and the ACSAA Collection from the University of Michigan, the first fruits of
which have recently been released into the ARTstor Digital Library).

Masterpieces from the Hill Ornithological Collection, Cornell University Library
This selection from the Hill Ornithological Collection at Cornell offers a collection
of more than 200 images that traces the development of ornithological illustration in
the 18th and 19th centuries. In its focus upon the 18th and 19th centuries, the
collection complements ARTstor's already strong holdings in the history of prints
(anchored by ARTstor's digital version of The Illustrated Bartsch) as well as ARTstor's
growing collection of natural history illustration (especially the "First Fleet"
collection from the Natural History, London).

To browse these new images, please click on "Image Gallery" on the ARTstor "welcome
page" and then select from the following: "Andrew Dickson White Collection of
Architectural Photographs (Cornell University Library)"; "Southeast Asia Visions: John
M. Echols Collection (Cornell University Library)"; or "Hill Ornithology Collection
(Cornell University Library)." Or you may simply search by keyword (e.g. "Visions
Cornell").

We are grateful to the Cornell University Library for wishing to share these
outstanding digital collections through the ARTstor Digital Library.

If you have questions about accessing these collections in ARTstor, or questions about
ARTstor in general, please contact User Services.
userservices@artstor.org
(USA only)
Phone: (212) 500-2400

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Information Central at LexisNexis

Please take a look at our Information Central site at
http://www.lexisnexis.com/academicmigration
<http://www.lexisnexis.com/academicmigration> . Under the "Product
Highlights" page you will find new downloads. In addition to the FAQ
sheet, we have posted documentation in PDF format on the Easy Search
Form, Results Clustering, and SmartIndexing. We are planning to add more
of these Product Feature documents in the coming months. Please let me
know if there are topics you would like documented in this way, or if
you have any suggestions for making these documents more useful as
instructional aids.

Best regards,
Alistair

Alistair Morrison | Product Manager, LexisNexis Academic
LexisNexis, 7500 Old Georgetown Road, Suite 1300, Bethesda MD 20814
Telephone: 301-951-4529 | Switchboard: 800-638-8380 | Fax: 301-652-1273
Email: alistair.morrison@lexisnexis.com
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New Title in Project Muse

The following journal, previously announced as joining Project MUSE, is now online:

** From the University of Texas Press:

Southwestern Historical Quarterly

Published since 1897, Southwestern Historical Quarterly is the oldest continuously
published scholarly journal in Texas, bringing the latest research in Texas history to a
wide audience of history lovers and scholars. The Quarterly also regularly
publishes edited and annotated historical documents.

E-ISSN: 1558-9560
Print ISSN: 0038-478X
OCLC NUMBER: 60625229
Included in the following packages:
Premium Collection
Standard Collection
Social Sciences Collection
Premium Collection
Standard Collection
Social Sciences Collection

For more information on the journal:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/southwestern_historical_quarterly
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/southwestern_historical_quarterly

For the Table of Contents:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/southwestern_historical_quarterly/toc/swh110.1.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/southwestern_historical_quarterly/toc/swh110.1.html

ARTstor Adds Islamic Art

* New Addition to the ARTstor Digital Library! Islamic Art and
Architecture *

In February of this year, we announced the first fruits of our
collaboration with Sheila Blair, Jonathan Bloom and Walter Denny,
through which we will make available up to 25,000 images from the
personal image archives of these three distinguished Islamicists.

We are pleased to announce now that we have recently released
approximately 3,900 further images from this collection, bringing the
total to approximately 5,500 images. An additional 2,500 images will
be released later this year or in early 2007. To browse these new
images, please click on Image Gallery on the ARTstor welcome page
and then select Islamic Art and Architecture Collection (Sheila
Blair, Jonathan Bloom, Walter Denny). Or search for images from these
scholars' archives using their names as keywords (e.g. "Walter
Denny").

If you have questions about accessing this content in ARTstor, or
questions about ARTstor in general, please contact User Services.

Email: userservices@artstor.org
Phone: (888) 287-0079 (USA only)
Phone: (212) 500-2400

Monday, September 25, 2006

New Issues in Project Muse

Friday, September 22, 2006

ARTstor and ADAGP

* Recent Addition to the ARTstor Digital Library: Works by modern and
contemporary Artists represented by the Soci�t� des auteurs dans les
arts graphiques et plastiques (ADAGP) *

In July 2006 we announced an important agreement between the French
artists� rights society (the Soci�t� des auteurs dans les arts
graphiques et plastiques (�ADAGP�)), The Artists Rights Society of
the United States (ARS), and ARTstor. We are now happy to announce
that under this agreement, the ARTstor Digital Library now includes
approximately 4,000 digital images of art works by nearly 350 ADAGP
artists and estates.

Artists whose works are now represented in ARTstor as a result of
these agreements include: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Emile Bernard, Pierre
Bonnard, Constantin Brancusi, Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Andre
Derain, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Wassily
Kandinsky, Le Corbusier, Fernand Leger, Rene Magritte, Joan Miro, and
Edouard Vuillard.

ADAGP is the French collective society for the rights of authors in
the visual arts (such as painters, sculptors, photographers,
architects, and others).

ARS is a preeminent organization for visual artists in the United
States. Founded in 1987, ARS represents the intellectual property
rights interests of over 40,000 visual artists and estates of visual
artists

Thursday, September 21, 2006

ARTstor and the ACSAA

* New Addition to the ARTstor Digital Library! Works from the Color
Slide Project, American Council for Southern Asian Art (ACSAA) *

ARTstor recently announced an important collaboration with the
University of Michigan and the American Council for Southern Asian Art
(ACSAA). Through this partnership, ARTstor will make available to
ARTstor users the approximately 12,000 images of the ACSAA Color Slide
Project, familiar to all teachers of the art and architecture of
Southern Asia.

The first fruits of this collaboration are now available to ARTstor
users. They include nearly 5,000 images. An additional 7,000 images
will be released later this year or in early 2007. To browse these new
images, please click on �Image Gallery� on the ARTstor �welcome page�
and then select �ACSAA Collection (University of Michigan).� Or simply
search the keyword �ACSAA.�

If you have questions about accessing this content in ARTstor, or
questions about ARTstor in general, please contact User Services.
Email: userservices@artstor.org
Phone: (888) 287-0079 (USA only)
Phone: (212) 500-2400

Forthcoming eContent from NetLibrary for Fall 2006

BioOne's New Database

BioOne is very pleased to announce the name of our new database, BioOne.2, scheduled to
go live in January 2007. BioOne.2 has 25 confirmed titles, with more anticipated for
addition prior to the launch date. A list of the 25 titles is attached. For
counter-balance, the original collection will be identified as BioOne.1. We are also
pleased that we will be offering significantly discounted pricing on subscriptions to
BioOne.2 for libraries ordering both collections.

BioOne wants to thank all the subscribers who took time to participate in our "Name the
New Database" contest. Three winners were selected and will receive a $100 American
Express gift card.

I am excited to be introducing BioOne.2 to libraries in the United States and Canada. We
are beginning to take orders now for the January launch. Please feel free to contact me
for more information and a price quote.

Sincerely,

Carrie Esch

*************************************
Carrie Esch, M.L.S.
BioOne Marketing Representative
Amigos Library Services, Inc.
14400 Midway Road, Dallas, TX 75244-3509
1-800-843-8482 ext: 2802
972-340-2802 (direct)
972-991-6061 (fax)
http://www.amigos.org
http://www.bioone.org

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Update of ERIC Web Site

ERIC is pleased to announce the release of the updated ERIC Web site.
Improvements and enhancements to the redesigned site include:
Lighter graphic design – to speed load time and present an
uncluttered appearance
Expanded journals list – information now includes years of coverage
and total number of records in ERIC
Refined relevance sorting and new sort options – users may now choose
the default (relevance), author, publication date, or source options
Search term highlighting – yellow highlighting helps users see where,
and how frequently, their search term(s) occur in the results set
The new Web site reflects valuable user feedback and technology advances.

New Books in ACLS E-Book Project

The ACLS History E-Book Project has just added 130 books to its collection,bringing the
total to 1398. As current subscribers, you have access to allof the new books added to
the collection. Instructions for downloading your new MARC records are in an addendum
below. However, there has been an important change in our MARC records.

With the current release, the History E-Book Project now is making use of Handle
technology for its persistent url system. This change is the result of innovations by our
distribution partners at the University of Michigan Library's Scholarly Publishing Office
(SPO). SPO's former permanent url system (the name resolver system) will continue to
function, but there are some advantages to the new handle-based urls that make it worth
reloading your catalog records to take advantage of this change.

The old name resolver system was developed at a time when standards and methods for
permanent urls were still evolving and was always intended as a temporary bridge to a
more functional persistent url scheme. Although persistent url technology will no doubt
continue to evolve its current stability made this a reasonable time to make this change.
The Handle System, developed by the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, is a
general-purpose distributed information system that provides efficient, extensible, and
secure identifier and resolution services for use on networks such as the Internet.

As well as ensuring greater reliability and meeting current standards for persistence,
the switch will also mean some changes in the user experience. Formerly, the persistence
urls took the form of http://name.umdl.umich.edu/heb99999.
Handle based persistent urls look like http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.99999.

More important for most users, the handle-based url will resolve directly to the volume
(except in the case of multiple volumes associated with a single record, in which case
the user will be presented with a list of the volumes from which to choose).

The old form of the urls will continue to work, but the new urls are more durable over
the long run as well as more satisfying to users, and HEB wouldlike to encourage you to
update your records.

More information about handles can be found at:
http://www.handle.net/introduction.html

If you have any questions, please email us at info@hebook.org.

Best,
Eileen Gardiner and Ronald G. Musto

MARC RECORDS DOWNLOAD
The MARC records for the ACLS History E-Book Project are available via yourbrowser from
the following url: ftp.umdl.umich.edu/pub/records/

You will have two choices for downloading records:
acls1-5a.zip
acls5a.zip

New subscribers should downlaod the full set: acls1-5a.zip.

We also encourage all other subscribers to download the full set of acls1-5a.zip and
replace your older records with the new records with Handles. Thenew records will simply
overwrite your old records.

However, should you choose to simply add the new records available and havemixed url and
Handle records, you can simply download acls5a.zip.

Both downloads contain three files:
a. The records in USMARC communications format
b. The same records in ASCII format
c. readme.txt - in ASCII format (explains what is contained in each of
the above)

You will notice a discrepancy between the number of files and the number ofbooks in the
collection due to the fact that multi-volume collections havea single record.

Monday, September 18, 2006

New Issues in Project Muse

New Web Site Debuts at www.eric.ed.gov

On September 3, 2006, ERIC released a new streamlined and restructured
Web site. With a more powerful search engine, faster-loading pages,
and an updated home page design including up-front links to ERIC
features and information, the new site reflects ERIC-user feedback as
well as technology changes.

The list of journals indexed in ERIC has been reformatted and now shows
years of coverage and the total number of records in ERIC. The About
ERIC page and some Help text has been rewritten for improved
readability. Other areas will be similarly improved in the coming
months. The addition of a dynamic "In the Spotlight" area on the home
page will offer a changing assortment of ERIC news, user-assistance
information, and additional features.

New Search Engine is Capstone of Redesigned Site

Searching the ERIC collection is now faster and easier than ever,
thanks to the updated site design and new search technology. The
cross-platform search engine offers the user community the following
improvements to enhance their ERIC experience:

? Significantly faster searches and document retrieval
? Search terms highlighted in each results-record
? New relevance-weighting standards to improve the quality of the
search-results display
? Addition of three options for sorting search results - author,
source, and publication date
? Removal of the stemming feature means that quotes are no longer
needed for exact matching of individual words or acronyms. The
asterisk (*) wildcard provides stemming-like functionality (sometimes
referred to as truncation), if needed. To use the wildcard feature,
specify a minimum of three letters (e.g., laugh* to retrieve laugh,
laughed, laughing, laughter)
? Enhanced author searches permitting inclusion of first or middle
initials (e.g., "Doe, C. John" or "Doe, John C.")

Underpinning ERIC's "new face" is the same core commitment to
dissemination of education research and information. ERIC welcomes
your input and invites you to contact us at ericfeedback@csc.com.

ERIC Content Continues to Grow

Through August 2006, more than 37,000 bibliographic records from 2004
to 2006 were added to the ERIC database, including nearly 9,000 free
full-text documents from the U.S. Department of Education, state
education agencies, professional organizations, and other nonprofits
with grey literature. More than 850 recent journal articles (dated
2004 to 2006) are now available at no cost in full-text format. ERIC
has comprehensively indexed articles from more than 500 journals, and
added documents from nearly 340 organizations producing non-journal
literature.

Did You Know.

ERIC Update reaches users in every state of the U.S., the District of
Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and the Northern
Marianas; every Canadian province; Mexico, and 32 other countries.

During August, ERIC users wrote from across the U.S., as well as
Austria, Canada, England, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Kuwait,
Mexico, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan, and more. We
look forward to hearing from you.

MoMA and ARTstor

* The Museum of Modern Art and ARTstor to Collaborate on Digitization
Project *

The Museum of Modern Art and ARTstor announced a project to digitize
nearly 23,000 photographs from the MoMA Archives� comprehensive
collection of exhibition installation photographs and distribute them
through ARTstor. This material richly documents every major exhibition
held at the Museum, beginning with the inaugural exhibition of 1929.
Enhanced and comprehensive online access to this important collection
will strongly encourage and advance scholarship on the history and
institutions of modern art.

In reaching this agreement, Milan Hughston, Chief of Library and
Museum Archives and Max Marmor, ARTstor�s Director of Collection
Development, expressed their shared enthusiasm in collaborating to use
digital technologies to make these high quality images of contemporary
art and architecture more broadly available for noncommercial
educational and scholarly purposes.

"The Museum's 75th Anniversary in 2004 gave us a chance to highlight
this collection in a special publication, Art in Our Time, edited by
Museum Archivist Michelle Elligott and Harriet Bee. Those images were
only a small sampling of a vast body of important material, and we are
grateful to ARTstor for recognizing the value of digitizing the entire
collection for distribution," comments Hughston.

"Our new collaboration with staff of the MoMA Library and Archives,"
adds Marmor, "represents an important milestone in ARTstor's ongoing
effort to provide teachers, scholars and students with digital image
collections documenting the development of modern and contemporary
art. We are delighted to help make this important photographic archive
available now online for non-commercial use in education and
research." The MoMA installation photographs are highly prized by art
historians and other scholars. In addition to Art in Our Time, they
provided the basis for Mary Anne Staniszewski�s pioneering The Power
of Display: a History of Exhibition Installations at the Museum of
Modern Art (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998).

The MoMA Archives was established in 1989 to preserve and to make
accessible historical documents about the Museum and modern and
contemporary art. The Photographic Archive documents and maintains the
complete visual history of the Museum. �The installation photographs
of exhibitions at MoMA are a unique and valuable resource. Like the
other collections in the Archives, these materials tell the story of
modern and contemporary art. Because of MoMA�s singular role in the
introduction and dissemination of modern art, these photos document
this evolution and are critical to the study of modern art as well as
the history of modern museums, and the field of installation design,�
according to Michelle Elligott, Museum Archivist.

Friday, September 15, 2006

NewsBank's World Economics Special Report

NewsBank's World Economics Special Report is now available to provide you with
information on economic conditions and issues around the world.

It includes a special focus on the International Monetary Fund Conference to be held
September 19-20th in Singapore.

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. The global economy
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. United Kingdom and Ireland

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NewsBanks World Economics Special Report is now available to provide you with information on economic conditions and issues around the world.

It includes a special focus on the International Monetary Fund Conference to be held September 19-20th in Singapore.

This Special Report covers
The International Monetary Fund/World Bank activities
The global economy
Economic issue for each region of the world
Africa
Asia
Australia and Oceania
Europe
Middle East
North America
United Kingdom and Ireland

Related images, links to related web sites, maps and suggested search terms to use in your NewsBank products to find more related information are also included.

NewsBank offers a variety of Special Reports as part of your subscription. Updated daily, they offer a way to quickly find the latest information on important topics.

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World Geography
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September 11 2001
Conflict and Terrorism Around the World
Hispanic Heritage Month

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Thursday, September 14, 2006

NewsBank Hot Topics

HOT TOPICS
CURRENT EVENTS
Find more articles about these topics in NewsBanks Special Reports
SOCIAL ISSUES Hispanic Heritage Month
TOPIC: Hispanic Heritage Month begins on September 15th. What have been some of the major issues involving Hispanic Americans recently? Who are some of the contemporary Hispanic-American leaders?
SEARCH TERMS: Hispanics

ECONOMICS International Monetary Fund Meeting
TOPIC: The annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank will be in Singapore this year. What are the functions of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank? What will be some of the major issues addressed at the meeting?
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ENVIRONMENT Earthquake from Louisiana to Florida
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ENVIRONMENT Global Warming and Hurricanes
TOPIC: Scientists have found that global warming may be the cause of stronger hurricanes. If this is true, what is implied about the cause of global warming? What can be done about it?
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SOCIAL STUDIES RESEARCH TOPICS
CIVICS, GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS Primary Results
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EDUCATION Harvard Drops Early Admissions
TOPIC: Top Ivy League college Harvard University has dropped its policy of early admissions. What is the reason for this change? How have other colleges and universities responded to this decision?
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HISTORY Civil War Submarine H.L. Hunley
TOPIC: The first submarine in history to sink and enemy warship was the Confederate H.L. Hunley. Scientists have removed a hatch for study in an attempt to piece together some questions about its sinking. Where and when was the Civil War battle that sank the Hunley? What are some of the specifics researchers are looking for on the Hunley to learn more about the battle?
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SCIENCE AND HEALTH RESEARCH TOPICS
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TOPIC: Dr. Christopher Murray of the Harvard School of Public Health combining the impact location of residence, race and income on life expectancy. Who came out as benefiting most? Whose lives are found most negatively impacted?
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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Construction on the International Space Station
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SPORTS RESEARCH TOPICS
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SEARCH TERMS: football AND NCAA

SPORTS U.S. Open
TOPIC: Roger Federer has won his third straight U.S. Open, making him the only tennis player to win 3 consecutive Wimbledons and 3 straight Opens. The womens winner was Russian Maria Sharapova, winning her first U.S. Open. How many Grand Slams has Federer won in his career? What major title did Maria Sharapova win in 2004?
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SPORTS Agassi Retires
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SPORTS Roger Goodell Starts as New NFL Commissioner
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ARTS AND LITERATURE RESEARCH TOPICS
FILM AND TELEVISION Islamic TV Network Bridges TV
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LITERATURE Naguib Mahfouz
TOPIC: Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz was a Nobel Prize-winner. What city was the focus of his novels? Who has Mahfouz been compared to as a writer?
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PERFORMING ARTS Symphony Orchestra
TOPIC: Many cities have a symphony orchestra opening its new season this month. What are some cities with a symphony orchestra? What are their concert plans for this season?
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PEOPLE Steve Irwin
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New Content in BioOne

BioOne is pleased to announce that content for Wildlife Monographs is now on the site.

Journal: Wildlife Monographs Print ISSN: 0084-0173 Frequency: Infrequently

Wildlife Monographs is a supplement to the Journal of Wildlife Management, which offers results from major studies, including definitive syntheses of the topic area and comprehensive reviews of the literature.

The Wildlife Society, founded in 1937, is an association of professionals dedicated to advancing the stewardship of wildlife and its habitats through science and education. The society works to develop and maintain professional standards and increase public awareness and appreciation of wildlife management through a series of unique publications.

For a list of current holdings, please check the BioOne website at http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-current-issue#W. I've also attached a Word version of the current BioOne Titles & Publishers List.

New Journals at JSTOR

We are pleased to announce that seventeen new journals have been added to the JSTOR archive. Institutions that participate in collections with new journals will be able to access the new content immediately.

The American Journal of Economics and Sociology (Arts & Sciences Complement and Business II Collections)
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 59, 1941-2000
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Inc.
ISSN: 0002-9246
The American Journal of Nursing (Health & General Sciences)
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 98, 1900-1998
Moving Wall: 7 years
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISSN: 0002-936x
California Law Review (Arts & Sciences IV Collection)
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 90, 1912-2002
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: California Law Review, Inc.
ISSN: 0008-1221
Educational Studies in Mathematics (Arts & Sciences IV and Mathematics & Statistics Collections)
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 51, 1968-2002
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Springer Science + Business Media
ISSN: 0013-1954
Environmental Health Perspectives (Health & General Sciences Collection)
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 114 (Issue 3), 1972-2006
Moving Wall: none (content for this title is released as soon as the latest issues become available to JSTOR.)
Publisher: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
ISSN: 0091-6765
The Florida Entomologist (Biological Sciences Collection)
Previous Title: The Florida Buggist (1930-4013)
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 87, 1917-2004
Moving Wall: 1 year
Publisher: Florida Entomological Society
ISSN: 0015-4040
Journal of Community Health Nursing (Health & General Sciences Collection)
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 17, 1984-2000
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
ISSN: 0737-0016
Journal of Orthoptera Research (Biological Sciences Collection)
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 13, 1992-2004
Moving Wall: 1 year
Publisher: Orthopterists’ Society
ISSN: 1082-6467
Law and Philosophy (Arts & Sciences IV Collection)
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 21, 1982-2002
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Springer Science + Business Media
ISSN: 0167-5249
Luso-Brazillian Review (Arts & Sciences Complement)
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 40, 1964-2003
Moving Wall: 2 years
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
ISSN: 0024-7413
Mammalian Species (Biological Sciences Collection)
Release Content: Nos. 1 – 646, 1969-2000
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: American Society of Mammalogists
ISSN: 0076-3519
Palaios (Biological Sciences Collection)
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 15, 1986-2000
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology
ISSN: 0883-1351
Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture (Arts & Sciences Complement)
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 8, 1982-2000 (no volumes were published in 2001 and 2002. Volume 9 was published in 2003.)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Vernacular Architecture Forum
ISSN: 0887-9885
Review of Religious Research (Arts & Sciences Complement)
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 45 (Issue 2), 1959-2003
Moving Wall: 2 years
Publisher: Religious Research Association, Inc.
ISSN: 0034-673x
Revue économique (Arts & Sciences Complement and Business II Collections)
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 53, 1950-2002
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Presses de Sciences Po
ISSN: 0035-2764
Social Scientist (Arts & Sciences Complement)
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 30, 1972-2002
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Social Scientist
ISSN: 0970-0293
The Yearbook of English Studies (Arts & Sciences Complement)
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 32, 1971-2002
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association
ISSN: 0306-2473

Two titles with a moving wall of zero have had the most recent digitized issues added:

The American Journal of International Law (Arts & Sciences I Collection)
Release Content: Vol. 100 (Issue 1), 2006
Publisher: American Society of International Law
ISSN: 0002-9300
The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic (Arts & Sciences II and Mathematics & Statistics Collections)
Release Content: Vol. 12 (Issue 1), 2006
Publisher: Association for Symbolic Logic
ISSN: 1079-8986

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

19th-Century Music (Arts & Sciences III and Music Collections)
New Content: Vol. 2 (Issue 3), 1979;
Vol. 3 (Issue 1), 1979;
Vol. 4 (Issue 1), 1980
Publisher: University of California Press
ISSN: 0148-2076
Advances in Applied Probability (Arts & Sciences Complement and Mathematics & Statistics Collections)
New Content: Vol. 2 (Issue 1), 1970
Publisher: Applied Probability Trust
ISSN: 0001-8678
Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, University of London (Arts & Sciences II Collection)
New Content: Vol. 1 (Issue 1), 1917;
Vol. 8 (Issue 4), 1937
Publisher: Cambridge University Press on behalf of the School of Oriental and African Studies
ISSN: 1356-1898
Cell Stress & Chaperones (Biological Sciences Collection)
New Content: Vol. 3 (Supplement), 1998
Publisher: Alliance Communications Group
ISSN: 1355-8145
Comparative Education (Arts & Sciences IV Collection)
New Content: Vol. 6 (Issues 1-3), 1970;
Vol. 24 (Issue 1), 1988
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Ltd.
ISSN: 0305-0068
Feminist Studies (Arts & Sciences III and Language & Literature Collections)
New Content: Vol. 3 (Issue 1/2), 1975
Publisher: Feminist Studies, Inc.
ISSN: 0046-3663
International Journal of American Linguistics (Arts & Sciences Complement)
New Content: Vol. 57 (Issue 1) – Vol. 58 (Issue 4), 1991-1992
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
ISSN: 0020-7071
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (Arts & Sciences IV Collection)
New Content: Vol. 41 (Issue 6), 1951
Publisher: Northwestern University
ISSN: 0885-2731
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (Arts & Sciences IV Collection)
New Content: Vol. 88 (Issue 3), 1998
Publisher: Northwestern University
ISSN: 0091-2169
Journal of Cuneiform Studies (Arts & Sciences Complement)
New Content: Vol. 2 (Issue 4), 1948;
Vol. 4 (Issue 4), 1950;
Vol. 9 (Issue 4), 1955;
Vol. 20 (Issue 1), 1966;
Vol. 34 (Issue 3/4), 1982;
Vol. 35 (Issues 1/2-3/4), 1983;
Vol. 42 (Issue 2), 1990
Publisher: The American Schools of Oriental Research
ISSN: 0022-0256
Journal of the American Musicological Society (Arts & Sciences III and Music Collections)
New Content: Vol. 48 (Issue 3), 1995
Publisher: University of California Press on behalf of the American Musicological Society
ISSN: 0003-0139
The Journal of Risk and Insurance (Arts & Sciences IV and Business Collections)
New Content: Vol. 58 (Issue 1), 1991
Publisher: American Risk and Insurance Association
ISSN: 0022-4367
Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London (Arts & Sciences II Collection)
New Content: Vol. 19 (Issue 1) – Vol. 20 (Issue 2), 1964-1965
Publisher: The Royal Society
ISSN: 0035-9149
Review of Educational Research (Arts & Sciences IV Collection)
New Content: Vol. 39 (Issue 5), 1969
Publisher: American Educational Research Association
ISSN: 0034-6543

By publisher request, JSTOR is reducing the moving wall for two journals:

Annals of the American Academy of Political an Social Science (Arts & Sciences Complement)
Release Content: Vols. 573 – 584, 2001-2002
Moving Wall: 3 years (previously 5 years)
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc. in association with the American Academy of Political and Social Science
ISSN: 0002-7162
International Political Science Review / Revue internationale de science politique (Arts & Sciences Complement)
Release Content: Vols. 22 – 23, 2001-2002
Moving Wall: 3 years (previously 5 years)
Publisher: Sage Publications, Ltd.
ISSN: 0192-5121

Two 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:

Journal of Applied Econometrics (Arts & Sciences I and Business Collections)
JSTOR Coverage:
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISSN: 0883-7252
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (Arts & Sciences I and Business Collections)
JSTOR Coverage:
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
ISSN: 0022-2879

Although JSTOR seeks to provide every issue from a journal's run, on occasion there are issues that we are unable to find. To see which issues are missing, or for information about how to help JSTOR complete the archive, please visit JSTOR's Back Issues Needed page http://www.jstor.org/about/issues/index.html.

More detailed information about all JSTOR titles and collections can be accessed at http://www.jstor.org/about/collection.list.html.

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

Participation information for JSTOR collections may be found at http://www.jstor.org/about/participation.html.

Should you have any questions about any of the JSTOR collections, please do not hesitate to contact us at support@jstor.org.

SBC Library News

Saturday, September 30, 2006

ARTstor and JSTOR

Friday, September 29, 2006

Addition to ARTstor from Art Resource

NetLibrary October eBook of the Month

Thursday, September 28, 2006

ARTstor Adds Three Digital Collections from Cornell

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

IngentaConnect

New Addition to ARTstor

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Information Central at LexisNexis

New Title in Project Muse

ARTstor Adds Islamic Art

Monday, September 25, 2006

New Issues in Project Muse

Friday, September 22, 2006

ARTstor and ADAGP

Thursday, September 21, 2006

ARTstor and the ACSAA

Forthcoming eContent from NetLibrary for Fall 2006

BioOne's New Database

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Update of ERIC Web Site

New Books in ACLS E-Book Project

Monday, September 18, 2006

New Issues in Project Muse

New Web Site Debuts at www.eric.ed.gov

MoMA and ARTstor

Friday, September 15, 2006

NewsBank's World Economics Special Report

NewsBank Special Report

Thursday, September 14, 2006

NewsBank Hot Topics

New Content in BioOne

New Journals at JSTOR

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