We’re pleased to announce that the Web of Knowledge database has now been enhanced. See the full announcement here, and check out the citation mapping demonstration here.
Web of Knowledge is one of our major research resources, and includes Web of Science (Arts and Humanities Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index) and Biosis Previews/Biology Abstracts.
We’re pleased to announce that the EBSCOhost databases (Academic Search Complete, Business Source Complete, ERIC, etc.) will unveil a new interface any day now. There is a functional beta version already accessible via a link from the current interface. Look for the “New Features!” link in red in the upper right hand corner. From that page you’ll be able to “Test Drive EBSCOhost 2.0 Beta”. Enjoy!
(Update: The new interface is now live. Let us know what you think!)
We’re pleased to announce that 700 regional journals have now been added to Web of Science.
“The newly identified collection contains journals that typically target a regional rather than international audience by approaching subjects from a local perspective or focusing on particular topics of regional interest.
For more than two years, Thomson Reuters has reviewed thousands of regional journals in all areas of science, social science and arts and humanities. Although selection criteria for a regional journal are fundamentally the same as for an international journal, the importance of the regional journal is measured in terms of the specificity of its content rather than in its citation impact.”
The full announcement is here. The full list of journals covered is here.
Here’s the description of Web of Science, via GALILEO:
“Web of Science provides access to the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index covering over 8,000 journals. These three databases can be searched separately, in any combination, or all at once. These databases are unique in that the user can search to find which articles have cited a certain author or article. This technique of doing research, called pearl growing, allows researchers to find articles that are related to an earlier work. Often this technique turns up articles which are not found through traditional subject and keyword searches.”
Zach S. Henderson Library is pleased to announce that year-end funding from President Bruce Grube will enable the addition of significant new electronic collections in the near future. As we recently announced, these will include JSTOR Arts & Sciences II (124 electronic journals in such areas as economics, history, archaeology, classics, and Asian, African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and Slavic studies), available in July 2008; and ebrary History and Political Science (5700 electronic books), which we plan to add in time for the Fall 2008 semester. Details on more new resources will be announced soon.
Meanwhile, in order to provide you with the best mix of information sources and tools in accordance with a tight budget, our library faculty continually evaluate our current offerings in light of their content, usage level, cost, and usability. As these factors change and alternatives appear, we find in some cases that a database is receiving little or no use, that rapidly rising costs (due to inflation, as well as increases in licensing costs based upon our FTE) make it impossible for us to maintain such subscriptions, or that there are better alternatives for our needs.
Following is a list of resources which will expire soon, along with the alternatives we provide for finding similar information. To access the resources in GALILEO from off-campus, please click here for the current password. Please ask a librarian (here for IM/phone or here for your own Subject Specialist Librarian) if you would like a personal introduction to a different interface, or assistance with a research strategy (including automatic journal or search alerts).
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When you search in Google Scholar, you’re able to identify scholarly journal articles much easier than in the main Google search. And have you noticed also that many of these are in “full text” (the entire article online), but that you would have to pay for others?
The secret trick you need to know is that, if you’re searching from on-campus, or if you’re off-campus and go to Google Scholar from GALILEO, you will see many more Google Scholar articles in full text than you would normally be able to access from off-campus. Articles from EBSCOHost and JSTOR are two good examples.
This is because our librarians have worked behind the scenes to directly link you from Google to the vast number of full e-journal articles which Henderson Library has already paid for in GALILEO. (Of course, Google Scholar only includes a small part of all that is in GALILEO.)
This is one example of how librarians work alongside Google in delivering the information you need, regardless of the time or location. For another one, check out the Open Worldcat project (with a nifty Facebook application), which lets you search for items in libraries worldwide, including ours, via Google.
Recent changes to GALILEO, along with the new interface, have included the Civil Rights Digital Library and GreenFILE. Watch here for future developments.
Dear Patrons,
In order to provide you with the best mix of information sources and tools in accordance with a tight budget, our library faculty continually evaluate alternative means of delivering resources. For example, in 2001 we initiated table-of-contents alerts via e-mail.
After May 31, 2008, the Zach S. Henderson Library will no longer have access to Ingenta Gateway and Reveal, which has been one of our tools for providing alerts for journal articles. We will continue to provide access to several alerting services through many of our databases, such as those on EBSCOHost (instructions here), which provide e-mail and RSS options. This way you can receive free alerts (with direct links) through your e-mail or blog reader, for new articles which fit your own customized searches, or new tables of content from your favorite journals.
In addition, we provide indexes and tables of content for a wide range of resources, available via GALILEO. And of course all of our electronic journals are available via the “Electronic Journals A-Z” button on the library homepage.
For assistance with journal alerts or other questions, your Subject Specialist Librarians are eager to help.
Or IM, call, or drop by the Reference Desk.
The link below is one example of the new and updated data sets in the ICPSR database, available via GALILEO here:
The following announcement comes from Jocelyn Poole, Head of Information Services at the Henderson Library. Thank you.
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The GALILEO password changes on May 5, 2008. The new password will be valid until June 14, 2008. To get the password, go to the library catalog and click on “Your Account.” After you log in using your Eagle ID number, click the request button at the top of the screen to get the password. For more detailed instructions see http://library.georgiasouthern.edu/forms/galpass.html.
ONLY Georgia Southern faculty, staff and students may have this password.
Do not give this password to anyone who is not a student at Georgia Southern or employed by the University. Please do not post this password on publicly accessible web sites. If you give this password to your students, please ask them not to share it with anyone else.
GALILEO is a service of the ! University System of Georgia. The 150+
databases available through GALILEO may be reached from the GALILEO home
page. The password allows you to have access to most of the databases when you are not on campus.
The GALILEO password also gives users working from home or other off campus
locations access to the databases Georgia Southern subscribes to directly.
See http://library.georgiasouthern.edu/forms/galpass.html for more
information.
Jocelyn Poole
Head of Information Services
Zach S. Henderson Library
P.O. Box 8074
Georgia Southern University Statesboro, GA 30460-8074
jpoole@georgiasouthern.edu
(912)478-7818
