New subscriptions: Choice Reviews Online* and Art full text (includes Art Index Retro)
* The CRO technicians are looking in to the issue with emailing records.

Trials: Mideastwire.com until 7 December 2008 and Stat!Ref until 12 December 2008

Enhancements and Updates: ACS Publications, SciFinder, EBSCO, Gale, Factiva, JSTOR

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More additions to JSTOR…

14 new titles available:

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We have lost access to ORO (misunderstanding re our sub) – I hope to get access restored as quickly as possible.

Deirdre

The following journals have been added to JSTOR:

• The Academy of Management Executive (1993) Vols. 1, No. 1 (February, 1987) – Vol. 16, No. 4 (November, 2002) Previous Titles: The Executive [1990-1993], The Academy of Management Executive (1987) [1987-1989]
  Note: The Academy of Management Executive (1993) is the previous title to Academy of Management Perspectives. Academy of Management Perspectives will be released into the JSTOR archive in 2012.
• Africa Today Vol. 1, No. 1 (April, 1954) – Vol. 49, No. 4 (Winter, 2002)
• Eastern European Economics Vol. 1, No. (Autumn, 1962) – Vol. 40, No. 6 (November/December, 2002)
• Financial Analysts Journal [1960- ] Vol. 5, No.2, 2nd Qtr. (1949) – Vol. 15, No. 5 (1959) Vol. 16, No. 1 (January/February, 1960) – Vol. 60, No. 6 (November/December, 2004) Previous Title: The Analysts Journal [1945-1959]
  Note: Vols. 1-4 of The Analysts Journal will be added as soon as the issues become available to JSTOR.
• Folk Music Journal [1965- ] Vol. 1, No. 1 (1899) – Vol. 8, No. 35 (December, 1931) Vol. 1, Nos. 1 – 2 (May, 1914 – April, 1915) Nos. 1 – 4 (1927 – 1931) Vol. 1, No. 1 (December, 1932) – Vol. 9, No. 5 (December, 1964) Vol. 1, No. 1 (1965) – Vol. 8, No. 2 (2002) Previous Titles: Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society [1932-1964], The Journal of the English Folk Dance Society [1927-1931], The English Folk-Dance Society’s Journal [1914-1915], Journal of the Folk-Song Society [1899-1931]
  Note: The Journal of the English Folk Dance Society merged with Journal of the Folk-Song Society to form Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society.
• History Workshop Journal [1995- ] Nos. 1 – 50 (Spring, 1976 – Autumn, 2000) Previous Title: History Workshop [1976-1994]
• Iran Vols. 1 – 41 (1963 – 2003)
• The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal Vols. 1 – 24 (1974 – 1996) Publication ceased in 1996.
• Jewish Social Studies Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 1939) – Vol. 50, No. 3/4 (Summer/Autumn, 1988/1993) New Series, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Autumn, 1994) – New Series, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Autumn, 2002)
• Journal of Advertising Vol. 1, No. 1 (1972) – Vol. 31, No. 4 (Winter, 2002)
• The Journal of Developing Areas Vol. 1, No. 1 (October, 1966) – Vol. 37, No. 1 (Autumn, 2003)
• Journal of Economic Issues Vol. 1, No. 1/2 (June, 1967) – Vol. 36, No. 4 (December, 2002)
• Journal of Linguistics Vol. 1, No. 1 (April, 1965) – Vol. 38, No. 3 (November, 2002)
• Journal of the History of Biology Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring, 1968) – Vol. 37, No. 3 (Autumn, 2004)
• Language in Society Vol. 1, No. 1 (April, 1972) – Vol. 31, No. 5 (November, 2002)
• Lecture Notes-Monograph Series [1982- ] Vols. 1 – 51 (1981 – 2006) Previous Title: Lecture Notes Series [1981]
  Note: Content for this title is released as soon as the latest issues become available to JSTOR.
• Lenox Avenue: A Journal of Interarts Inquiry Vols. 1 – 5 (1995 – 1999) Publication ceased in 1999.
• Linguistic Inquiry Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 1970) – Vol. 33, No. 4 (Autumn, 2002)
• Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome [1915- ] Vols. 1 – 2 (1905 – 1908) Vols. 1 – 47 (1915/1916 – 2002) Previous Title: Supplementary Papers of the American School of Classical Studies in Rome [1905-1908]
• Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. Supplementary Volumes Vol. 1, 2002

As mentioned in a previous post JSTOR Arts & Sciences VI Collection is now available.

Titles will be available via the Journals page next week but will not be in the Catalogue until mid-November.

Deirdre

New in Web of Knowledge, Web of Science enhancements:

Conference Proceedings Citation Index – ISI Proceedings is now within Web of Science, as the Conference Proceedings Citation Index. Any search in WoS will include conference proceedings, unless you clear the check boxes of any other indexes that you do not want to search:

Citation Maps – A new citation mapping feature has been added. The Citation Map link, included in search results (full view), allows you to generate visual maps of citation relationships looking backward, forward or both, beginning with your original article. More information

Web of Knowledge (All Databases search):
EndNote – The direct export button to EndNote is now available at the top of the results page.
Scientific Web Plus – Includes theses, technical reports, dissertations, etc. from 716 repositories, as well as the social networking features commenting, bookmarking and tagging websites.
Chinese interface – Select the Chinese language link that appears at the bottom of the page to view Web of Knowledge in Simplified Chinese.
National Center for Biotechnology Information – Access links and full text to NCBI directly searches.

Note: ISIP Proceedings on the Databases pages now goes to Web of Science. A note has been added about the Conference Proceedings Citation Index but the record will be removed by the end of the year.

Deirdre

New/forthcoming:

ASABE technical library – provides full-text access to ASAE standards, journals, conference proceedings, textbooks and monographs. To see a complete list of all material in the library click on the Publications Included button.

Access ASABE technical library from the Catalogue and the Databases-A page. The individual journals will appear in the Journals page tomorrow and the Catalogue next month. If there are any textbooks or monographs titles that may be useful additions to the Catalogue, please let me know.

Leisure and tourism database from CAB International, will be available later this week (see Catalogue for information)

JSTOR Arts & Sciences VI Collection is being added to our subscription and will be available within the next 7-10 days. “With a minimum of one hundred twenty (120) titles, the Arts & Sciences VI Collection will extend JSTOR’s coverage in disciplines across the social sciences, with clusters focused in economics, education, linguistics, political science, and area studies.”– JSTOR title list

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME, currently on trial until 13 November, we will be subscribing in 2009.

Rescheduled:

Gale Cengage changes noted in Counterculture earlier this year have been delayed:

• Gale Virtual Reference Library deletions of outdated resources and addition of updates has not taken place yet
• What do I read next? was to have been switched off by now but is to remain live, possibly until renewals in 2009
• Literature Resource Center has not yet changed to the new interface (should happen in the very near future)

Deirdre

The following journals have been added to JSTOR:

• Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana History Association Vols. 1 – 45; 1960 – 2004
• M Bulletin (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) [1981-1983]. Vols. 1 – 81; 1903 – 1983 (Publication ceased). Previous Titles: MFA Bulletin [1978-1980], Boston Museum Bulletin [1966-1977], Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts [1926-1965], Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin [1903-1925]
• Microbial Ecology Vols. 1 – 46; 1974 – 2003 (The content for 2004 will be released as soon as the issues become available)
• Plant Physiology Vols. 13 – 139; 1938 – 2005 (Vols. 1-12 (1926-1937) will be released as soon as the issues become available)
• Politics and the Life Sciences Vols. 1– 23; 1982 – 2004
• Review of International Political Economy Vols. 1 – 11; 1984 – 2004
• The Slavonic and East European Review [1928- ] Vols. 1 – 82; 1922 – 2004. Previous Title: The Slavonic Review [1922-1927]
• Studies in Philology Vols. 1 – 101; 1906 – 2004
• Syria Vols. 1 – 79; 1920 – 2002
• The Threepenny Review Vols. 1 – 99; 1980 – 2004

Titles are available via the Journals page but will not be in the Catalogue until mid-November.

Deirdre