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

The IBISWorld: U.S. Industry Reports contains in-depth surveys of 723 industries. Reports are usually 30-50 pages long. Reports cover industry segments, market characteristics, industry conditions, profiles of key companies, and industry outlook. There are numerous statistical tables, which can be exported to Excel. Reports are updated every four months.  We are holding a free trial and evaluation of this database through July 31; you’ll also find it listed in GALILEO.  Please let us know what you think!  Contact Dr. Bob Fernekes, Business Librarian, at fernekes@georgiasouthern.edu or Jonathan Harwell, Collection Development & Assessment Librarian, at jharwell@georgiasouthern.edu or make a comment here on Zach’s News!

We invite you to explore two databases from IGI, as part of our ongoing development of our library wish list, pending availability of funding.

IGI InfoSci-Books and IGI InfoSci-Journals are both listed in GALILEO, and this free trial and evaluation will run through June 25.  Please tell us what you think, by contacting one of our Subject Specialist Librarians, or Jonathan Harwell, Collection Development & Assessment Librarian, at jharwell@georgiasouthern.edu

As the Zach S. Henderson Library continues with our library budget review,  with assistance from faculty campuswide, we need to know about resources that we should add to our wish list, pending availability of funding.  We invite you to try out the online resources offered by CQ Press, to which we have access through June 20.  This trial is also listed in GALILEO under “CQ Researcher & CQ Weekly” during the trial.  Please tell us what you think, by contacting one of our Subject Specialist Librarians, or Jonathan Harwell, Collection Development & Assessment Librarian, at jharwell@georgiasouthern.edu

Some of our database suppliers are providing the public with free access to information on the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu.

Check out the “Swine Flu (H1N1) Facts” icon in the middle of this page from Gale, to find free full-text articles from the Gale Virtual Reference Library (including e-reference books that we’ve purchased, which are available via GALILEO here; just click “Show All” to see the books in our GVRL collection).  Use the drop-down menu for “I want to know…” to access the Swine Flu Portal.

EBSCO and Dynamed are also offering clinical information about the virus for health care professionals here.

**Update:  Here’s the H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) page from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  (Thanks, JoEllen!)

The Microfiche Digitization Project has been adding ERIC Documents from the microfiche collection to the open-access (free) ERIC database.  (If you’re not familiar with ERIC, an education database, here’s a description of what you’ll find there.)  They’ve now completed 55% of the project, with almost 192,000 documents now available.  More details are here.  A tip on how you might be able to help with the remaining 45% is here, and you can contribute your own research here.

ERIC is available free to the public at this site.  We also have two additional interfaces to choose from, available to the GSU community and campus visitors via GALILEO:  EBSCOhost and FirstSearch.

In the present economic climate, which has seen library budgets decrease, and South Carolina’s PASCAL (their counterpart to Georgia’s GALILEO) lose 90% of its funding, one thing remains steady:  the rising prices of periodical subscriptions and electronic resource licenses.  For the rundown, including tables with periodical costs by discipline, please visit this link to Library Journal’s annual Periodicals Price Survey.

As the Zach S. Henderson Library continues with our library budget review,  with assistance from faculty campuswide, we need to know about resources that we should add to our wish list, pending availability of funding.  We invite you to try out the databases below, to which we have access during this free trial and evaluation period.  Each of these databases is also listed in GALILEO during the trial.  Please tell us what you think, by contacting one of our Subject Specialist Librarians, or Jonathan Harwell, Collection Development & Assessment Librarian, at jharwell@georgiasouthern.edu

Art Museum Image Gallery provides images & related multimedia gathered from collections of museums around the world.  Our trial access is through May 31.

Children’s Core Collection provides information about fiction & nonfiction works, story collections, picture books & magazines recommended for readers from preschool through sixth grade.  Our trial access is through May 31.

Cinema Image Gallery includes still images, links to film reviews & other articles about titles, links to biographies of the stars of film & TV, portrait photography, & more.  Our trial access is through May 31.

OmniFile Full Text Mega provides the full text of articles from over 1,750 publications, and article abstracts & indexing from over 3,500 publications, in a variety of subject areas.  Our trial access is through May 31.

R2 Library is a collection of electronic books available for individual purchase, in the areas of allied health, medicine, and nursing.  Our trial access is through May 21.

As we recently announced, there are some new resources, which are primarily open access (free) items, in GALILEO.  As further anticipated budget reductions for GALILEO are ranging from 10% to 15%, GALILEO has announced the impending statewide cancellation of two databases:  Current Contents Connect (ISI) and College Source.  The contents of Current Contents Connect are now duplicated in our subscription to Web of Science.  College Source provides college catalog information, which is now widely available for free online.

GALILEO has also made some enhancements to the main interface recently.  The following is adapted from their announcement to the library community:

Recent Changes to GALILEO

In the year since the GALILEO community interfaces were first introduced on March 17, 2008, suggestions received from users and library staffs have been addressed through the GALILEO Change Review Process. Recent changes that are now available include the following:

“Articles & Databases” is now the top tab within the subject areas, and modifications to the GALILEO “Journals A-Z” search feature have been made to better include resources that each library subscribes to with our own funds.

Where possible, “Return to GALILEO” links have been enabled within databases.

New video tutorials are available: http://www.usg.edu/galileo/help/searching/tutorials.phtml

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).