NetLibrary December eBook of the Month

The New Grove Guide to Wagner and His Operas
By Barry Millington
Oxford University Press, 2006

The December eBook of the Month profiles the life and
the work of one of the most controversial figures in
the history of ideas as well as music. Drawing upon
the scholarship of The New Grove Dictionary of Opera,
the most comprehensive dictionary of opera in the
world, The New Grove Guide to Wagner and His Operas
offers a concise survey and guide, providing both
seasoned Wagner-lovers and neophytes with all they
require for an in-depth appreciation of Wagner.

Author Barry Millington has completely updated the
original pieces and contributed four new chapters on
Wagner, including a summary of Wagner productions
from 1876 to the present day, a suggested listening
and viewing guide, complete chronology of Wagner's
operas, and a glossary of terms that will delight any
opera-goer. In addition, there are detailed entries
on each of Wagner's operas, a main biographical
section, and a group of separate articles on such
topics as Leitmotif and Gesamtkunstwerk, as well as a
newly revised updated article on Bayreuth.

Designed to increase awareness of online resources
and highlight the value of your eBook collection, the
December eBook of the Month is provided through the
generous support of Oxford University Press and will
be provided with free, unlimited access December 1-
31. Don’t miss this opportunity to showcase your
NetLibrary collection by sharing this indispensable
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Ulrich's on CSA

Ulrichsweb.com - Identify Serials that are available via RSS Feed!

The new ?RSS Available? Advanced Search limiter makes it possible for users to identify the growing number of periodicals that are providing headlines, recent issues or other content via RSS (Really Simple Syndication). An RSS feed provides content via XML files that are then read by an RSS reader or web browser. CSA is adding RSS availability data to thousands of individual Ulrich?s records so that users can learn about the various frequencies, formats, and providers of these content-delivery feeds. Ulrich?s records also display the URL of the RSS feed(s) for the periodical. Users may create their own lists of RSS feed URLs in Ulrichsweb.com, click on the URL to link to the RSS feed, or cut and paste the URL into their preferred RSS reader.

Ulrich's Serials Analysis System - New online Tutorials!

Four new tutorials covering key features of Ulrich?s Serials Analysis System have been added to the CSA Customer Training & Education offerings: Getting Started; Your Library Reports; Comparison & Overlap Analysis Reports; and Aggregator Comparison Reports. The tutorials run using Adobe Flash Player and last approximately three minutes each. In addition to narration, each tutorial contains subtitles that may be turned on/off. Whether you are a current subscriber or just interested in learning more about the powerful set of serials evaluation tools that Ulrich?s Serials Analysis System provides, you can access the tutorials at http://www.elabs7.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=mwc,13w1,14,8kgp,2xuk,c2fp,9mbh

Ulrich's Resource Linker - More language options and Google Scholar links!

Customers of CSA's hosted OpenURL link resolver now have the ability to select from among a growing number of language options for the A-to-Z list interface. The current list of language options includes Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, English (US), English (UK), French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish and Taiwanese with more soon to follow. Also new in Ulrich?s Resource Linker is the ability for customers using the Mozilla Firefox web browser to display their library?s e-holdings in Google Scholar results. This added functionality allows students and others who search Google Scholar or the Google News Archive to link from results to full-text in the resources to which the library has full-text access. For more information about these exciting new Ulrich?s Resource Linker enhancements, contact support@csa.com.

CSA looks forward to continuing to enhance the Ulrich?s suite of products with serials search and discovery tools that keep your library at the center of your institution?s information hub.

STAT-USA Enhancements

STAT-USA has made a few changes to STAT-USA/Internet and USA Trade Online
in an effort to enhance the merchandise trade data available to users.

On the STAT-USA/Internet site, we have added the individual "exhibits" of
the U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services FT900 report.

On both services, we've made the Bureau of the Census' cross-classification
tables available. This lets you find out what Harmonized System numbers
correspond to a given SITC, North American Industry Classification System
(NAICS), or End Use code number.

Finally, we've posted the 2007 Calendar of Releases. This lets you know
when merchandise trade, as well as all other major economic indicators,
will be posted in 2007.

To read the complete article about these changes, please click on
http://home.stat-usa.gov/statnews

Project Muse and OAI

Project MUSE is pleased to announce that MUSE data now can be accessed through OAI, Open Archives Initiative. By launching this capability, MUSE subscribers gain flexibility with the increased number of channels by which to access MUSE articles.

MUSE is a Repository

The purpose of OAI is to facilitate the exchange of metadata between various institutions and database providers with a goal of increasing the availability of scholarly communication. It allows an institution to gather metadata from database providers. OAI is designed to work between a Harvester and a Repository. A harvester is a client application that is operated by a service provider, such as an institution, as a means of collecting metadata from repositories. A repository is a network accessible server that is managed by a data provider, such as MUSE, to expose metadata to harvesters. As a repository, MUSE will receive HTTP requests from harvesters and respond by generating and serving XML documents. The data in these documents may contain the actual article metadata or it may be more general information that would then lead to further, more specific queries on the part of the harvester. This allows for a controlled crawl of the metadata. The essence of OAI is the exchange of the data; what a harvester does with MUSE metadata once they gather it is not part of OAI. There are only 6 OAI commands:

- Identify - Tells what version MUSE supports (2.0)

- List Metadata Formats - Shows all formats that MUSE supports (Dublin Core)

- List Sets - Gives listing of all journals in MUSE, which allows for subsequent crawling of specific titles.

- List Identifiers - Finds articles pertinent to the request (which can be filtered by date or journal) but retrieves only the identifier, not the full metadata.

- List Records - Same as List Identifiers but returns full metadata records. Can result in a very large document to be served to the harvester.

- Get Record - Same as List Records but requires an article identifier and returns only that one matching article's metadata.

The OAI functionality in MUSE is still in the beta phase and we encourage subscribers to contact us with feedback about the helpfulness of this technology in searching and retrieving articles in MUSE. Feedback may be sent to the MUSE Customer Support desk at muse@muse.jhu.edu.

New in ARTstor

* What's new in ARTstor *

*Native American “ledger drawings” *

This collection consists of high resolution images of approximately
2,000 Plains Indian "ledger drawings." Plains Indian ledger drawings,
mostly produced in the middle to late decades of the 19th century,
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*Additional Works from the Clark Art Institute*

ARTstor just released 281 new images of art works from the collections
of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. These new images
complement the collection we announced just over one year ago, and it
includes revisions to the data that accompanied the previous release.

To locate the images of art works from the Clark Art Institute, select
“Image Gallery” on the ARTstor “welcome page,” then select Sterling
and Francine Clark Art Institute.


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* Tools & Tips *

*Larger Downloads*

We are pleased to announce the release of larger downloads for
approximately 100,000 images in the ARTstor digital library. This new
download capacity is part of ARTstor’s ongoing effort to facilitate
broad access to digital images for teaching and scholarship. Users
will be permitted to download large images (many at 1024 pixels on the
long side) for use in classroom presentations and for other
noncommercial, educational uses in a variety of software environments.
[more…]


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* Upcoming Collections *

*ARTstor Collaboration with ART on FILE*

ARTstor and ART on FILE have now reached an agreement to digitize, at
very high resolution, the entire ART on FILE archive of images. ART on
FILE[9] is a preeminent source of high quality teaching images of
contemporary architecture and public art. Produced by photographers
Rob Wilkinson and Colleen Chartier, ART on FILE images are have
appeared in most national and international design magazines, text
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*Documenting the Art and Architecture of Korea*

ARTstor will digitize and distribute the unique Strom Archive of the
art and architecture of Korean Buddhist monasteries. The Strom Archive
consists primarily of photographs of South Korean Buddhist temple and
monastery painting from the Choson Period (1392-1910). [more…[11]]

*ARTstor Sponsors Guide to Best Practices for the use of Quick Time
Virtual Reality (QTVR)*

ARTstor, in partnership with the Society of Architectural Historians,
is pleased to announce its sponsorship of a forthcoming Guide to Best
Practice for the use of Quick Time Virtual Reality (QTVR) in
documenting archaeological, architectural and other cultural heritage
sites. The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
(IATH) at the University of Virginia is coordinating the production of
this much-needed guide. [more…]

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Changes at ERIC

OCLC is pleased to announce changes to the ERIC database. These changes
will be available Dec. 10, 2006 and are the result of the ERIC producers
changing the data they send us. Some new fields have been added; other
fields have been discontinued. The new fields apply to new records.
ERIC introduced the peer reviewed field in 2005 for journal articles
published 2004 onward. Fields that have been discontinued may remain on
legacy records but they will not be on new records. A list of the
complete changes will be sent to the Z39.50 listserv on Nov. 9. The
revised Z39.50 documentation will be available on Nov. 9 at
http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/firstsearch/z3950/z3950_databa
ses/default.htm.

Some of the changes are:

* Peer-reviewed indicator. This field indicates if a journal is
peer-reviewed. It can be searched as an index in the Expert search or
used as a limiter.

* Education level identifies the specific education community for
which the resource is intended. This field can be searched.

* Reference count is the number of references in an article.

* Major and minor descriptors and major and minor identifiers are
no longer distinguished on new records.


ERIC provides access to over 1.1 million bibliographic records for
education-related journals and non-journal literature. ERIC links to
free full-text for over 100,000 items.

NewsBank Hot Topics

NewsBank Hot Topics is provided as part of your NewsBank subscription to alert librarians, patrons, teachers and students to hot topics found in NewsBank products.

The attached WORD version is for duplication and distribution. It may also be posted in the library or classrooms.

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NATIONAL IMPACT
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Connecticut Senator – Joe Lieberman
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Massachusetts Governor Race
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Minnesota House of Representatives – Keith Ellison
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International Reaction
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New Issues in Project Muse

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


American Imago
Volume 63, Number 3, Fall 2006
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_imago/toc/aim63.3.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/american_imago/toc/aim63.3.html


Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs
2006
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/brookings-wharton_papers_on_urban_affairs/toc/urb2006.1.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/brookings-wharton_papers_on_urban_affairs/toc/urb2006.1.html


Civil War History
Volume 52, Number 4, December 2006
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/civil_war_history/toc/cwh52.4.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/civil_war_history/toc/cwh52.4.html


Essays in Criticism
Volume 56, Number 4, October 2006
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/essays_in_criticism/toc/eic56.4.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/essays_in_criticism/toc/eic56.4.html


History Workshop Journal
Issue 62, Autumn 2006
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/history_workshop_journal/toc/hwj62.1.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/history_workshop_journal/toc/hwj62.1.html


Jewish Social Studies
Volume 12, Number 3, Spring/Summer 2006 (New Series)
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/jewish_social_studies/toc/jss12.3.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/jewish_social_studies/toc/jss12.3.html


Journal of Asian American Studies
Volume 9, Number 3, October 2006
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_asian_american_studies/toc/jaas9.3.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/journal_of_asian_american_studies/toc/jaas9.3.html


Journal of Democracy
Volume 17, Number 4, October 2006
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_democracy/toc/jod17.4.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/journal_of_democracy/toc/jod17.4.html


The Journal of General Education
Volume 55, Number 2, 2006
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_general_education/toc/jge55.2.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/journal_of_general_education/toc/jge55.2.html


The Journal of Higher Education
Volume 77, Number 6, November/December 2006
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_higher_education/toc/jhe77.6.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/journal_of_higher_education/toc/jhe77.6.html


Journal of the History of Philosophy
Volume 44, Number 4, October 2006
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_philosophy/toc/hph44.4.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_philosophy/toc/hph44.4.html


Journal of World History
Volume 17, Number 4, December 2006
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_world_history/toc/jwh17.4.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/journal_of_world_history/toc/jwh17.4.html


Korean Studies
Volume 30, 2006
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/korean_studies/toc/ks30.1.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/korean_studies/toc/ks30.1.html


Linguistic Inquiry
Volume 37, Number 4, Fall 2006
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/linguistic_inquiry/toc/lin37.4.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/linguistic_inquiry/toc/lin37.4.html


Modern Drama
Volume 49, Number 3, Fall 2006
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/modern_drama/toc/mdr49.3.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/modern_drama/toc/mdr49.3.html


Music and Letters
Volume 87, Number 4, 2006
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/music_and_letters/toc/mal87.4.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/music_and_letters/toc/mal87.4.html


NWSA Journal
Volume 18, Number 3, Fall 2006
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/nwsa_journal/toc/nwsa18.3.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/nwsa_journal/toc/nwsa18.3.html


Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Volume 110, Number 1, July 2006
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/southwestern_historical_quarterly/toc/swh110.2.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/southwestern_historical_quarterly/toc/swh110.2.html


Studies in World Christianity
Volume 12, Number 3, 2006
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/studies_in_world_christianity/toc/swc12.3.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/studies_in_world_christianity/toc/swc12.3.html


SubStance
Issue 111 (Volume 35, Number 3), 2006
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/substance/toc/sub35.3.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/substance/toc/sub35.3.html


Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society
Volume 42, Number 3, Summer 2006
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/transactions_of_the_charles_s_peirce_society/toc/csp42.3.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/transactions_of_the_charles_s_peirce_society/toc/csp42.3.html


Victorian Periodicals Review
Volume 39, Number 3, Fall 2006
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/victorian_periodicals_review/toc/vpr39.3.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/victorian_periodicals_review/toc/vpr39.3.html


Victorian Poetry
Volume 44, Number 3, Fall 2006
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/victorian_poetry/toc/vp44.3.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals/victorian_poetry/toc/vp44.3.html

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1) When a user goes to log onto their ARTstor account, the email field
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actually fixed problem #1, but #2 still remains an issue for Mac users.
While we continue working on this outstanding page rendering bug (#2),
we recommend that Mac users either roll back to a previous version of
Firefox (0.9.1 - 1.0.8), or use the alternative Safari browser.

Internet Explorer (PCs only)
On October 18, 2006, Microsoft released version 7.0 of the Internet
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Since IE 7.0 was available in beta prior to the release, we were able to
do some testing before the new browser was made available to Windows
2003 and XP users. So far, there do not seem to be too many
compatibility issues, aside from the following:

1) When opening the Image Viewer window, the bottom row of icons often
gets covered up by the Windows taskbar. We are working on a fix to this
bug, but in the meantime, users may use the following workaround:
http://www.artstor.org/webhelp/When_I_open_an_Image_Viewer_window,_the_i
cons_and_or_navigation_bars_are_missing.htm.
2) A new major new feature of IE 7.0 is tabbed browsing. Since the
ARTstor application and the Image Viewer launch in separate windows, if
the IE 7.0 browser launches either within a tab, users will experience
some odd display issues. The default setting for IE 7.0 should be fine,
but if users experience any difficulties, they should check their
settings for tabbed browsing. Go to the Tools menu > Internet Options >
General tab > Tabs section, click on Settings button > "When a popup is
encountered" section, make sure the box next to "Always open pop-ups in
a new tab" is unchecked > Click OK.

This is a summary of all currently known bugs with the new Firefox and
Internet Explorer releases. If you experience any other compatibility
issues with either of these browsers, please do contact us (toll free:
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document all known bugs so that we can develop fixes as soon as
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