What’s New at the GSU Zach S. Henderson Library

Faculty members, did you know that there’s a free online resource that provides the data found in Journal Citation Reports?

Check out Eigenfactor, which is based upon Journal Citation Reports and has become widely used in determining the value of individual journals.  It even provides journal rankings by subject area!  Here’s an article with more details about Eigenfactor, and here’s their own page of frequently asked questions.

Now that you know the scoop, you can impress your colleagues with your wisdom!

The Statesboro Herald is featuring an article on Henderson Library’s Ben Franklin exhibit and the events surrounding it.  Check it out here.

The Studio Statesboro Vodcast presents video coverage of the opening reception of the Benjamin Franklin exhibit here at Henderson Library this past weekend.  Check out all the other upcoming events in the Ben’s Ten celebration here!

Happy Spring Break!  We’re pleased to announce the addition of five new databases to the GALILEO list.

ArchiveGrid

Available only on campus, ArchiveGrid provides Online access to nearly a million
descriptions of archival collections owned by thousands of
libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide.
ArchiveGrid is an important destination for searching for historical
documents, personal papers and family histories held in archives.

CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online)

Available only on campus, CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online) provides access to
high-quality art images from around the world contributed and described
by leading museums, all rights-cleared for educational use. Every work
in CAMIO is represented by at least one high-resolution image and a
description. Many have additional views of the work, sound, video and
curatorial notes. CAMIO art images span the following categories:

• Photographs
• Prints
• Sculptures
• Paintings
• Decorative arts
• Posters
• Costumes
• Utilitarian objects
• Jewelry

COS Funding Opportunities

Provided by the Office of Research Services & Sponsored Programs, COS Funding Opportunities is a database of funding sources including:

• More than 25,000 records representing over $33 billion in funding.
• Opportunities by sponsors throughout the world for recipients throughout the world.
• Sponsors include private foundations, public agencies, national and local governments, corporations and more.
• Monies available for work in all disciplines physical sciences, social sciences, life sciences, health & medicine, arts & humanities.
• Funding for many purposes, such as research, collaborations, travel, curriculum development, conferences, fellowships, postdoctoral positions, equipment acquisitions, capital or operating expenses.
• Updated daily, all information verified with sponsor, edited for consistency and optimized for accurate searching.

OAIster

An open-access (free) database, OAIster is a catalog of more than 19 million open-access digital resources
from over 1,000 organizations developed by the University of Michigan
and harvested using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for
Metadata Harvesting). Digital resources in OAIster include items such as:

• Digitized (i.e., scanned) books and articles
• Born-digital texts
• Audio files (e.g., wav, mp3)
• Images (e.g., tiff, gif)
• Movies (e.g., mp4, quicktime)
• Datasets (e.g., downloadable statistics files)

PrimateLit

An open-access (free) database, the PrimateLit database provides bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities. Coverage of the database spans 1940 to present and includes all publication categories (articles, books, abstracts, technical reports, dissertations, book chapters, etc.) and many subject areas (behavior, colony management, ecology, reproduction, field studies, disease models, veterinary science, psychology, physiology, pharmacology, evolution, taxonomy, developmental and molecular biology, genetics and zoogeography).

Dr. Karl E. Peace has donated the papers of his late wife, Dr. Jiann-Ping Hsu, for whom the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health is named, to Henderson Library’s Special Collections.

Dr. Hsu (1947-2004) was born in China. She received her initial degree in Mathematics at National Taiwan University, her Master’s degree at Columbia University, and her Ph.D. at University of California, Berkeley. She conducted tests on the effects of new drugs for the US Food and Drug Administration and for such firms as SmithKline and French Labs and Parke-Davis. She was a member of many organizations in the field of pharmaceuticals and public health and was posthumously awarded the President’s Medal for outstanding contributions to the International Chinese Statistical Association, 2004. For more information about her, consult this website.

The collection consists of handouts, examinations, and class notes from courses in Biostatistics, especially at University of California, Berkeley, 1972-1976; data on tests performed at U.S. Food and Drug Administration on such new drugs as Desyrel, Halcion, Lopid, Tagamet, and Zantac; other tests performed at SmithKline & French Labs, Parke-Davis, and Schering-Plough Corp.; and some publications by and about Dr. Hsu, including her doctoral dissertation (Berkeley, 1977).

The inventory of the papers is available on request; for a bibliography of other publications by Dr. Hsu’s publications, please visit the Karl E. Peace Library website.

Brought to you by Marvin Goss, Special Collections Department Head.

http://www.recovery.gov/

“Recovery.gov is a website that lets you, the taxpayer, figure out where the money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is going. There are going to be a few different ways to search for information. The money is being distributed by Federal agencies, and soon you’ll be able to see where it’s going – to which states, to which congressional districts, even to which Federal contractors.”

Recommended to you by Government Documents Librarian, Lori Lester.

Please join us for the opening reception of the Benjamin Franklin exhibit!  Details here.

Robert S. Cameron has created a very thorough work on this topic; tanks and their emergence in the U.S. Army. Cameron has included practically anything one would want to know about armor units for the United States in WWI and WWII, with chapters ranging from their transportation to battle as well as more specific topics. The author has also included many pictures, charts, and maps that will help the reader comprehend this subject much more easily. This book is great for anyone who needs to learn more about WWI and WWII armor units from the United States perspective, as well as anyone who just wants to learn more about tanks in general.

This book will be available for checkout shortly at: D 114.19:M 71

Brought to you by Government Documents Librarian, Lori Lester, and Government Documents Student Assistant, Chris Booth.

Thanks to all of you who participated in the 2008 annual survey about GALILEO!  The results are in. We hope you’re pleased with this Georgia resource!  (Comments are welcome here.)