Library News 2005
May 2005
New Databases available via the Libraries:
1. Wiley journal backfiles in materials science and polymer science
2. AGU e-journals
3. SPE eLibrary – authentication via IP
4. Misc. other databases – International Index to Black Periodicals, Armed Conflict Database, Annual Reviews, Daily Collegian
Wiley Journal Backfiles in Materials Science and Polymer Science ( http://alias.libraries.psu.edu/eresources/WILEYINTERSCI )
Acta Polymerica 1979 - 1997
Advances in Polymer Technology 1981 - 1995
Die Angewandte Makromolekulare Chemie 1967 - 1997
Journal of Applied Polymer Science 1959 - 1995
Journal of Polymer Science 1946 - 1995
Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics 1947 - 1997
Macromolecular Rapid Communications 1980 - 1997
Macromolecular Theory and Simulations 1992 - 1997
Polymer International 1994 - 1995
Polymers for Advanced Technologies 1990 - 1995
The Materials Science backfile includes:
Advanced Materials 1989-1997
Advanced Materials for Optics and Electronics 1992-1995
Chemical Vapor Deposition 1995-1997
Fire and Materials 1976-1995
Journal of Applied Biomaterials 1990-1995
Journal of Biomedical Materials Research 1967-1995
Journal of Vinyl and Additive Technology 1979-1995
Materials and Corrosion/Werkstoffe und Korrosion 1950-1997
Particle and Particle Systems Characterization 1984-1997
Polymer Engineering and Science 1961-1995
Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics 1976-1997
Surface and Interface Analysis 1979-1995
American Geophysical Union e-journals
We have purchased access to the current issues and backfiles (1994+) of the following AGU journals. ( http://www.agu.org/pubs/agu_jour_inst.html#list ) There are limited simultaneous users allowed (4 users simultaneously for JGR; 2 simultaneous users for other titles).
Journal of Geophysical Research (all sections) (JGR)
Reviews of Geophysics
Geophysical Research Letters
Tectonics
Paleoceaonography
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
G-Cubed (Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems)
Water Resources Research
Society of Petroleum Engineers eLibrary
( http://alias.libraries.psu.edu/eresources/PETENG )
The eLibrary is now accessible without password. Access is restricted to Penn State users only. The database contains the fulltext of SPE journal and conference publications.
Other Recently Acquired Databases:
International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP)
This is an international and multi-disciplinary database that spans cultural, economic, historical, religious, social, and political issues of vital importance to African and African American studies. The IIBP provides full text coverage for over 40 African and African American Studies periodicals (from 1998 forward). It also includes abstracts and citations for over 120 other scholarly and popular journals.
Armed Conflict DatabaseCovers international and internal conflicts, as well as terrorism. It provides an interactive source of information on 70 armed conflicts including terrorism, refugees, and returnees, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), weapons used and their flows, fatalities, costs ($US), historical backgrounds, annual updates and timelines. Users can generate reports and download data as well as browse through year-by-year analyses and fact sheets online (http://alias.libraries.psu.edu/eresources/ARMEDCONFLICT)
Annual Reviews
http://alias.libraries.psu.edu/eresources/ANNREVIEWS
Access to the recent editions of titles in the Annual Reviews series.
Daily Collegian (1887-1940)
This is a digital archive of the Daily Collegian and its predecessors – the Freelance, the State Collegian, etc. http://alias.libraries.psu.edu/eresources/DCOLLEGIAN
June 2005
The EMS Library continues its Wednesday lunchtime video series this summer with a focus on water. The first six videos are from the Thirsty Planet series and look at various aspects of the competition for clean water. Series begins Wednesday, May 18 with Boiling Point: Global struggle for water. During July, we take a break from the water theme during the Arts Festival to showcase materials science aspects of the arts. We will have afternoon showings of videos on pigments, gems, jewelry, and glass.New databases and fulltext resources added:
ASM Handbooks Online
This resource features the fulltext of several ASM reference titles on materials properties including the Metals Handbook and Engineered Materials Handbooks.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
There are approximately 30 fulltext reference works in this resource, including:
- Water: Science and Issues
- Science in Dispute
- Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations
- Macmillan Encyclopedia of Energy
- Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies is the official publication of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies and regularly publishes articles and reviews on cultural history from the late fifteenth to the late nineteenth centuries. It provides a venue for exchange between scholars in such traditionally diverse fields as sociology and anthropology; history, economics, and political science; philology and literary criticism; art history and iconology; and African, American, European, and Asian studies. By extending its boundaries in the direction of cultural theory, gender studies, colonial and postcolonial studies, and postmodernism, JEMCS challenges the boundaries that separate such traditional scholarly disciplines while also bringing those disciplines into contact with each other.
Not new but still useful:
ENGnetBASE (Engineering Handbooks database)
CHEMnetBASE ( Chemistry handbooks)
(This includes fulltext versions of classics like the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.)
July 2005
New Databases available via the Libraries:
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)
Health and Psychosocial Instruments features material on unpublished information-gathering tools for clinicians that are discussed in journal articles, such as questionnaires, interview schedules, tests, checklists, rating and other scales, coding schemes, and projective techniques. The majority of tools are in medical and nursing areas such pain measurement, quality of life assessment, and drug efficacy evaluation. However, HaPI also includes tests used in medically related disciplines such as psychology, social work, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech & hearing therapy.
Mental Measurements Yearbook
Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute, contains full text information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbooks. Each entry includes test author, publication information, scoring information, an overview of the test, a description of the test materials and time needed, and one or more reviews of the test.
Readex's Early American Newspapers, 1690-1876
Content Cafe
Content Cafe provides full-color jacket images, summaries, tables of contents, book details, and nearly 650,000 readily accessible full-text reviews from ten respected journals -- including Booklist, Choice, Criticas, E-stream, Foreward, Horn Book/Magazine, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, and VOYA -- via direct links to both EBSCO's NoveList and Book Index with Reviews collections. In addition to jacket images for books, Content Cafe also provides more than 350,000 jackets for other A/V materials. Content Cafe is provided via Access Pennsylvania.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments features material on unpublished information-gathering tools for clinicians that are discussed in journal articles, such as questionnaires, interview schedules, tests, checklists, rating and other scales, coding schemes, and projective techniques. The majority of tools are in medical and nursing areas such pain measurement, quality of life assessment, and drug efficacy evaluation. However, HaPI also includes tests used in medically related disciplines such as psychology, social work, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech & hearing therapy.
Mental Measurements Yearbook
Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute, contains full text information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbooks. Each entry includes test author, publication information, scoring information, an overview of the test, a description of the test materials and time needed, and one or more reviews of the test.
Readex's Early American Newspapers, 1690-1876
Content Cafe
Content Cafe provides full-color jacket images, summaries, tables of contents, book details, and nearly 650,000 readily accessible full-text reviews from ten respected journals -- including Booklist, Choice, Criticas, E-stream, Foreward, Horn Book/Magazine, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, and VOYA -- via direct links to both EBSCO's NoveList and Book Index with Reviews collections. In addition to jacket images for books, Content Cafe also provides more than 350,000 jackets for other A/V materials. Content Cafe is provided via Access Pennsylvania.
August 2005
The Fall 2005 video series is scheduled.
Changes to Illiad include updating your address information. EMS faculty should select "EMSfaculty" when updating their personal data in order to be able to use the new EMSL document delivery service.
The University Libraries now subscribe to Smithsonian Global Sound, a music audio database that streams world music, American folk music, blues, jazz, American Indian music, and children's music. The music is sourced from the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label, the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, and other record labels. Smithsonian Global Sound is accessible from the "Music Audio" entry on the E-Resources List A-Z.
Women's History Online, 1543-1945 is a new database available to the Penn State community. This collection contains full text books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the evolution of feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights through 1945. Includes materials from continental Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand, dating from 1543-1945. The anti-feminist case is presented as well as the pro-feminist; many other titles present a purely objective record of the condition of women at a given time.
ISO Standards program
ANSI, the American National Standards Institute, is starting an innovative pilot project to promote the use of standards by engineering students, and Penn State faculty are invited to participate. Under the program, a professor can select several ISO standards for classroom use and ANSI will provide online access to them for everyone in the class, via URLs and passwords. A brief end-user agreement needs to be signed by participating faculty, and copies of the agreement must be shared with students in the class. There are thousands of ISO standards in the online collection, which is organized into 43 subject categories. You can preview these at http://webstore.ansi.org/ansidocstore/iso.asp to see if any would be appropriate to your classes.
- New librarian joins EMSL
- Fall video series announced
- Changes to Illiad interlibrary loan form
- Smithsonian Global Sound
- Women's History Online, 1543-1945
- ISO Standards program
- Gift from Dr. Martin Farley
The Fall 2005 video series is scheduled.
Changes to Illiad include updating your address information. EMS faculty should select "EMSfaculty" when updating their personal data in order to be able to use the new EMSL document delivery service.
The University Libraries now subscribe to Smithsonian Global Sound, a music audio database that streams world music, American folk music, blues, jazz, American Indian music, and children's music. The music is sourced from the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label, the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, and other record labels. Smithsonian Global Sound is accessible from the "Music Audio" entry on the E-Resources List A-Z.
Women's History Online, 1543-1945 is a new database available to the Penn State community. This collection contains full text books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the evolution of feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights through 1945. Includes materials from continental Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand, dating from 1543-1945. The anti-feminist case is presented as well as the pro-feminist; many other titles present a purely objective record of the condition of women at a given time.
ISO Standards program
ANSI, the American National Standards Institute, is starting an innovative pilot project to promote the use of standards by engineering students, and Penn State faculty are invited to participate. Under the program, a professor can select several ISO standards for classroom use and ANSI will provide online access to them for everyone in the class, via URLs and passwords. A brief end-user agreement needs to be signed by participating faculty, and copies of the agreement must be shared with students in the class. There are thousands of ISO standards in the online collection, which is organized into 43 subject categories. You can preview these at http://webstore.ansi.org/ansidocstore/iso.asp to see if any would be appropriate to your classes.
If you are interested in participating or in learning more details on the proposal, please contact Caroline Holley, ANSI Education and Training Administrator, at (212)642-4976 or cholley@ansi.org .
Gift from Dr. Martin Farley
The library received a donation from this 1987 graduate that allowed us to purchase several essential textbooks. Thank you Dr. Farley!
September 2005
NetLibrary titles in CAT
Over 8000 titles in the NetLibrary collection are now searchable in the CAT. To locate these titles, do a KEYWORD search in the CAT for the term "NetLibrary". Titles are available for many topics. This collection is provided via the Access Pennsylvania program of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
October 2005
Scientific American online from 1993 to date.
- Alert service available for the CAT. Use the My Favorites feature to set up email alerts in the CAT.
- Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports online. These short reports provide objective policy analyses on issues before Congress.
- Elsevier's ScienceDirect - Free access to some titles will end in December. E-access to titles including Materials Research Bulletin will begin in January 2006.
- New 11 x 18 inch scanning workstation is available in the EMS Library.
December 2005
Web of Science backfiles purchased. We now have access to Science Citation Index from 1900; Social Science Citation Index from 1956; Arts and Humanities- Please direct questions to ASK!
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