Did you know you can link directly to our Electronic Journals A-Z list, individual articles, specific databases, e-reserves, and even individual titles in the library catalog? It’s a snap! We’ve developed a handy set of quick tutorials to show you how.
Linking to Library Resources from GeorgiaView or other web page applications
The Center for Irish Studies has underwritten a new and growing interdisciplinary collection related to Ireland. The JSTOR Ireland Collection is now available, in addition to the other JSTOR collections we already provide (Arts & Sciences I, II, III, and IV collections, and Health & General Sciences). All of our JSTOR collections can be searched or browsed simultaneously here. A description and list of titles included (many of which are due to appear later in 2009) in the JSTOR Ireland Collection can be viewed, browsed, and searched here. Henderson Library thanks the Center for Irish Studies for their support.
JSTOR specializes in older journal issues, and some collections include other materials such as pamphlets and manuscripts. The most recently published journal issues (past 3-5 years) are not available in full text via JSTOR. Please consult our Electronic Journals A-Z list (also linked from the library homepage) for a comprehensive search of our full-text electronic journals.
We are pleased to announce that on Monday, March 17, GALILEO (Georgia’s virtual library) will have a brand-new look. All of the 336 databases currently available will remain in GALILEO’s new interface, which is called GALILEO Scholar. You might have already seen this new look, which has been available for months as a “Preview the new, improved GALILEO!” link within the current GALILEO homepage.
Below are a few tips for using the new GALILEO site effectively. The links will take you to the actual pages, using political science as a subject example.
Please ask a librarian whenever we can be of assistance. We’d love to help! 
When browsing for databases by subject (yellow tab), after you choose a subject category, the Subject Search page (blue tab) appears, which only searches the databases available statewide. To see a comprehensive list (relevant to this subject category) including the many more databases funded by Henderson Library, just click on the Articles & Databases tab on the blue/gray bar (after you have clicked on a subject category).
Here’s a little background on our recent e-journals announcement. In case you’re wondering how we were able to add 389 electronic journals to our collection in the midst of Henderson Library’s ongoing budget crisis, this might be of interest to you. (Many thanks to Iris Durden, Serials Librarian, for providing both the work and the information on this achievement!)
Because faculty and students are increasingly expecting resources to be available online, Henderson Library has been constantly evaluating current periodical print subscriptions to determine the best format for delivery of information for the present learning environment as well as for future needs. The Library provides access to periodicals online through various full-text databases and through individual subscriptions with online access (both free and for reasonable upcharge fees). The continuing analysis of subscription options for journals and databases is necessitated by ongoing library budget shortfalls, as well as rapidly rising subscription costs and frequent shifts in publishing strategies.
The journal publishing market has changed drastically during the past few years. Many journal publishers are restructuring their subscription options and charges in a variety of ways. For example, many publishers no longer offer “free online” with a print subscription, instead charging an additional fee (5-10%) for online access with the print subscription, or offering reduced pricing (compared to print only subscription) for online only access. If “free online” is offered with a print subscription, access might be for only one person at a time (username/ password required), rather than unlimited simultaneous use (“site license”/IP authentication).
A number of prominent journal publishers have begun pulling their current journal content from aggregated full-text databases and are now offering their periodical titles in their own full-text packages and/or portals. Examples: Duke University Press, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, etc.
The economics of the publishing world continue to evolve at a rapid pace. The recent Harvard decision to adopt an open-access policy for providing free online access to their faculty publications is being widely discussed in academia and beyond.
For further information, please see Journal Pricing from SPARC, the Open Access FAQ from the Public Library of Science, and news on scholarly communication and publishing from SPARC.
We are pleased to let you know that Henderson Library has now added 389 electronic journals to our collection. Included are 12 titles in Project Muse, 18 titles from Duke University Press (plus current subscriptions to 11 additional titles for which we already had online back issues), 177 titles from Cambridge University Press, and 182 titles from Oxford University Press. These, along with all of our e-journals, are now available via our Electronic Journals A-Z list, where you can search by journal title, publisher, or ISSN, or browse by subject.
You can access our e-journals and databases from anywhere with your GALILEO password (only needed when off-campus). We’re in the process of putting this new information in the library catalog as well. We had previously subscribed to some of these journals in print. For those which have been changed from print to electronic format, we have placed a sign in each journal’s former location in the Current Periodicals shelving area on the 3rd floor of the Library.
There is a good possibility the renovation of the Zach S. Henderson
Library will be completed in time that the full building, housing all
our collections, furnishings, and personnel, will be available to the
public by the beginning of fall classes in August of 2008. Meanwhile,
in February of 2008 Georgia Southern University must raze the building
in which the Federal and Georgia documents collection is now temporarily housed. Therefore the documents collection will have to be temporarily housed in other quarters between February and August of 2008.
We have begun moving the most recently published, most often-used, and
reference government documents materials to the publicly accessible
portion of Henderson Library’s third floor. Government documents on
microform will be placed in a storage area on the Library’s bottom
floor and items will be paged for patrons upon demand. In addition, the law collection (which had been housed in the temporary government documents building) will be located on the third floor of the Library. Service for these collections will be offered from the Information Services Desk on the third floor. More information on the relocation is at http://library.georgiasouthern.edu/documents/govdocsmove.html, and more information on the government document collection and services is available at http://library.georgiasouthern.edu/documents/
In order to make room for the government documents and the law collection, the Bound Periodicals published earlier than 2000 have been relocated to the ARC (Automated Retrieval Collection) for the time being. We look forward to having more space on open shelves following the expansion. Thank you for your patience during the final exciting months of the expansion and renovation! As always, our many e-journals are available in our Electronic Journals A-Z list, as well as in the library catalog.
