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

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.

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.