We now have access to Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (REP)

Niustext, Knowledge Basket South Pacific, has been launched. Niustext consists of news and information resources of the South Pacific brought together into a searchable database. We have free access to try Niustext until July 9 2009.

New Zealand Electronic Text Centre has launched Legal Māori Archive, “a collection of more than 14,000 pages of around 250 19th century documents that illustrate the bi-lingual nature of New Zealand’s legal history.” The Legal Māori Archive is freely available to the public and can be accessed via the NZETC website.

The National Register of Archives and Manuscripts (NRAM), has been redeveloped and renamed as The Community Archive.

CCH is being updated later this month to the new IntelliConnect platform. A preview will be available from 15 June.

Deirdre

The following titles have been added to JSTOR:

• Asian Ethnology Vol. 67, Nos. 1-2 (2008)
• Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 1917) – Vol. 83, No. 2 (April, 2002)
• Harvard Review [1992- ] Nos. 1-29 (1986- 2005) Previous Title: Harvard Book Review [1989-1991] Erato [1986-1988]
• Jewish History Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring, 1986) – Vol. 19, No. 3/4 (2005)
• Journal of American Studies [1967- ] Nos. 1 (September, 1960)- Vol. 37, No. 3 (December, 2003) Previous Title: Bulletin. British Association for American Studies [1960-1966]
• Journal of Religion and Health Vol. 1, No. 1 (October, 1961) – Vol. 44, No. 4 (Winter, 2005)
• Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science [1978- ] Vol. 1, No. 1 (June, 1959) – Vol. 39, No. 2 (2007) Previous Title: Journal of the Arizona Academy of Science [1959-1977]
• Revista de Historia de América Nos. 4-133 (December, 1938 – July/December, 2003)
• Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur Bde. 1- 31 (1974-2003)
• U.S. Catholic Historian Vol. 1, No. 1 (Fall, 1980) – Vol. 21, No. 4 (Fall, 2003)

Titles will be available via the Journals page next week, and added to the Catalogue mid-June.

Deirdre

New journal titles on ScienceDirect:

• Aeolian Research
• Arab Journal of Gastroenterology
• Australasian Marketing Journal (AMJ)
• Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal
• Chinese Journal of Natural Medicines
• Energy Procedia
• International Journal of Diabetes Mellitus
• International Journal of Play Therapy
• Journal of Acupuncture and Meridian Studies
• Prevenzione & Assistenza Dentale
• Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy
• Psychology of Religion and Spirituality
• Quaderni Italiani di Psichiatria
• Revista de la Sociedad Española del Dolor
• Revista Iberoamericana de Micología
• The Journal of the American College of Certified Wound Specialists

All titles were released between February 19, 2009 and May 21, 2009.
Deirdre

Eight titles have been added to Safari. Two of these are new:

• Google SketchUp: the missing manual
• Python phrasebook: essential code and commands

Six titles have been updated to new editions:

• Database design for mere mortals: a hands-on guide to relational database design
• DNS and BIND
• Java in a nutshell
• Learning Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora
• Programming C# 3.0
• XML in a nutshell

Safari titles can be swapped at any time. Please let me know or use the Recommendation Form if you would like to suggest an alternative title. Use the Company link at the bottom of any Safari page to find all Safari titles (the Whats New tab will give lists of Hot Titles or you can do a keyword search).

Deirdre

Reminder

A ProQuest training session is being held today at 2pm, Level 5 Training Room:

• 2:00 – 3:00 Factiva
• 3:00 – 3:45 LION, HCPP, PQ 5000
• 3:45 – 4:15 Safari

See previous post for details

Deirdre

Infoshare, the replacement for INFOS, has now been fully updated. INFOS is still available until Wednesday 19 August 2009, after which time it will be decommissioned.

With Infoshare, you can now:

• find and download detailed exports and imports data (by HS code and country)
• save queries for reuse
• use time-series identifiers to find specific data.

The country groups function in the select variables screen for imports, exports and re-exports is currently unavailable. For example, country groups include APEC, OECD and ASEAN.

Find more information about Infoshare on Statistics NZ website.

Deirdre

The following titles have been added to JSTOR:

• The African Archaeological Review Vol. 1 (1983) – Vol. 22, No. 3 (September, 2005)
• Ambio Special Report Nos. 1-6 (1972-1979)
• The Journal of Geology Vol. 1, No. 1 (January/February, 1893) – Vol. 111, No. 6 (November, 2003)
• The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 2002) – Vol. 2, No. 4 (October, 2003)
• Lindbergia Vol. 1, No. 1/2 (1971) – Vol. 29, No. 3 (2004)
• Polish American Studies Vol. 1 (1944) – Vol. 64, No. 2 (Autumn, 2007)
• Women’s Studies Quarterly [1981- ] Vol. 1, No. 1 (Fall, 1972) – Vol. 34, No. 3/4 (Fall/Winter, 2006) Previous Title: Women’s Studies Newsletter [1972-1980]

Moving Wall Reductions: JSTOR is decreasing moving walls:

• Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes Vols. 67 – 68 (2004 – 2005)
• Technology and Culture Vol. 40, No. 1 (January, 1999) – Vol. 44, No. 4 (October, 2003)

In addition, previously missing issues for 26 titles have been added.

Titles will be available via the Journals page next week, and added to the Catalogue mid-June.

Deirdre

From Tuesday, May 12 through Thursday, May 14, you can listen to more than 18,000 jazz recordings online in streaming audio.

There are free music downloads, jazz videos, teaching tools, quizzes that test your jazz knowledge, contests, and prizes you can win! It’s all part of the celebration marking the launch of the new online collection, Jazz Music Library. Access it for free for the duration of the festival.

Learn more about Jazz Music Library

Enter the Playlist Contest. If your playlist is chosen, you could win a free, one-year subscription to Jazz Music Library for our library!

PS. We will have access to about 8 am Friday May 15

Deirdre

We have trial access to the Annual Register until the end of May. Access is from the Electronic Resources Trials page on the Library Web.

Product Description: The Annual Register is a classic reference work providing historians and students with information on the major and minor events of the last two and a half centuries, as they were seen by contemporaries. From James Cook’s landing on the shores of Australia to the Iraq war, The Annual Register contains a wealth of information with reports on every country in the world. The new printed volume of The Annual Register will be added to the digital version every year.

Coverage / Backfile: Annual issues from 1758-2007 are currently available in The Annual Register online. In 2009 the 250th anniversary edition of The Annual Register will be published and this will be added to the online version before the end of 2009.

More information: About The Annual Register: A Record of World Events

Deirdre

Five new titles have been added to the Classics collection:

• Companion to Late Antiquity by Rousseau
• Companion to Ancient History by Erskine
• Companion to Julius Caesar by Griffin
• Companion to Ovid by Knox
• Companion to Archaic Greece by Raaflaub

Deirdre