More New Resources!

The following databases have been added to the library web site:
• Bio Med (Central) provides access to 199 peer-reviewed open access journals in all aspects of biomedical research
• Book Review Index Plus was formerly a print resource and is now available online. It provides access to reviews of books in over 600 journals. Coverage goes back to 1965.
• Columbia International Affairs Online is, according to their online description, “the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.”
• Early Republic database contains the seventeen volumes of primary material documenting the actions, debates, and thoughts of the First Federal Congress and its members that were collected by the First Federal Congress Project (FFCP) and published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Essay & General Literature Index was formerly a print resource and is now available online. It provides access to essays contained in nearly 7000 anthologies and collections. Coverage goes back to 1985.
• Literature Online Index provides access to more than 350,000 English and American literary works in full-text (and to Anglo-Saxon and Middle English texts as well). It also provides literary criticism, in both journals and complete reference books, on authors and works contained in the database.
• RILM Abstract of Music Literature is an online index of scholarship on music from all over the world. Short descriptions of journal articles are available.
• Short Story Index was also formerly a print resource which is now available online. It gives the publication information (names and dates of books, journals and magazines) for short stories back to 1994. 4000 short stories are available in full-text.

We now have ten concurrent users for the Mergent database.

New ebooks include Classical & Medieval Literary Criticism and Literary Criticism 1400-1800. These resources are part of the Gale literary criticism series in our reference collection. We have volumes 1-111 and 1-164 respectively in print. The current and subsequent volumes will be available online. Ebooks available soon are the New Catholic Encyclopedia and Children’s Literature Review.

African American National Biography

The African American National Biography edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham  compliments our resources the Oxford National Biography and the American National Biography (ANB). When the ANB was re-released in 1999, its editor Casper Grathwohl asked Gates to highlight one of the African Americans listed in the then new edition. Gates found that so many important figures were missing from the ANB, that a completely new encyclopedia would have to be created as its complement; Grathwohl and Gate’s co-editor Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham immediately assented.

Gate’s mentor in African American studies, John Wesley Blassingame, Sr., had been adamant that the discipline of African American studies had to end the cycle of each new scholar having to re-do the work of previous scholars because the earlier work had fallen into obscurity. A complete collection of quality reference books such as encyclopedias, bibliographies and concordances would insure the continuation and accumulation of scholarship in the field. Gates has been responsible for many innovations in the field of African American studies including collections of slave narratives and the discovery of the first novel by an African American, Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson. The African American National Biography is the culmination of his work to create a solid basis for African American scholarship and will be his greatest contribution for generations to come. The African American National Biography will continue as the primary reference tool in the field as well.  This title is located in our Silent Reading Room.

Yet More Online Journals!

The following journals are now available online directly through the publisher. The most current issues of these journals are available – no embargoes! Go to our Journal Holdings A-Z to access them

Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Christian Bioethics
Educational Studies
Irish Studies Review
Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media
Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
Journal of Family Communication
Journal of Literacy Research
Journal of Mass Media Ethics
Journal of Media Economics
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
Journal of Personality Assessment
Peabody Journal of Education
Rhetoric Review
Rhetorical Society Quarterly
Southern Communication Journal
Teaching of Psychology
The Educational Forum
The International Journal of Human Rights
The Professional Geographers
Theory into Practice
Mathematical Programming
Environmental Management
Quarterly Journal of Economics
Review of Economics and Statistics
Daedalus

Mary

New Online Journals at Doherty

E-Journals Added

Doherty Library has just added online versions of several of our print periodical subscriptions. Although many of these journals are also already included in our online databases, some are not. Even better, these online journals often fill in the embargo period imposed by certain databases – So the most recent issues of these journals are available online now as well as print! Check our Journal Holdings A-Z for the exact dates for each particular journal. The journals newly available online are:

The American Political Science Review
Anglo-Saxon England
Annual Review of Applied Linguistics
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Behavioral Medicine
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
Central European History
Change
The China Quarterly
The Classical Quarterly
College Teaching
Comparative Studies in Society and History
Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development
Greece and Rome
The Harvard Theological Review
History: Review of New Books
Journal of Advertising Research
Journal of American Studies
Journal of Child Language
Journal of Chinese Political Science
Journal of Ecclesiastical History
The Journal of Economic History
The Journal of Educational Research
The Journal of Experimental Education
Medieval Philosophy and Theology
New Testament Studies
New Theatre Quarterly
Perspectives on Political Science
Perspectives on Politics
Philosophy
Preventing School Failure
PS, Political Science and Politics
Religious Studies
The Review of Politics
Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements
Social Philosophy and Policy
Studies in Second Language Acquisition
Urban History

Mary

The Greenwood Endowment for Children’s Literature

The Patrick Spann Greenwood Children’s Literature Collection

Does it seem strange for an academic library to have an extensive collection of children’s books? Not to UST education majors seeking curriculum materials for their coursework! Since the 1970’s, the Greenwood endowment has supported the acquisition of material in children’s literature and other materials in the areas of general education and human development related to the curricula offered by the School of Education. The Greenwood collection was made possible by a gift from Mr. and Mrs. N. W. Freeman in memory of their grandson, Patrick Spann Greenwood (1970-1972). Books in the Collection can be recognized by their distinctive memorial bookplate.  A large part of the Collection is found in the children’s literature area of the library’s book stacks (that’s the PZ’s on the 2^nd floor of Doherty). All the children’s books are available for check-out by UST students, faculty and staff. Other materials — general education and human development — are shelved where appropriate throughout the library. UST Education majors as well as all students and library patrons past, present and future benefit greatly from this simple act of generosity by the Freemans.

Rachel

America at a Crossroads: 9/11 Film Series Acquired

America at a Crossroads Documentary Series

This month, the library received twelve documentaries for the Center for International Studies Films and Documentaries Series.  The DVDs are from PBS Home Video:  AMERICA AT A CROSSROADS SERIES.  The films explore “the challenges confronting the post 9/11 world – including the war on terrorism, the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the experience of American troops, the struggle for balance within the Islamic world, Muslim life in America, and perspectives on America’s role globally.”  This collection of titles is shelved behind the circulation desk.  The film titles are:
The Brotherhood
The Case for War: In Defense of Freedom
Europe’s 9/11
Faith Without Fear
Gangs of Iraq
JIHAD: The Men and Ideas Behind Al Qaeda
Kansas to Kandahar
The Muslim Americans
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Security Versus Liberty: The Other War
Struggle for the Soul of Islam: Inside Indonesia
Warriors

Dianne

Embargoes and Moving Walls

What’s an embargo? What’s a moving wall?

Thousands of journals are now accessible online through full-text databases provided by Doherty library.  Due to that fact, some of our regular users have experienced the embargo.  Still others have run into a moving wall.  Have you?  Many publishers will not license a journal to a full text database without an embargo.  An embargo is a delay in making the full text content electronically available for articles cited in the database.  The moving wall can be said to represent that time period or gap between the latest issue of a journal available in the online database and the most recently published issues of the journal.  Embargoes vary – some titles have very short embargoes, perhaps a week or a month, others can have full text embargos that last up to a year or longer.  Publishers say they manage “print erosion” and maintain revenue opportunities through embargoes or moving walls.  In other words, libraries still have to maintain many print subscriptions in order to provide their users with the latest content available in embargoed journals, thus ensuring that publishers will not be faced with multiple cancellations of titles they choose to make available through online databases.

Rachel