USF Polytechnic Library

I will be away from campus from Monday, June 30th and will be back Monday, July 14th. I will have limited email access (clw@lakeland.usf.edu), though not all the time.

For library enquiries, you can reach the USF Lakeland Library front desk at 863-667-7817. You can also contact the USF Tampa’s Ask-A-Librarian services at (813) 974-2729 or (866) 550-8036 (toll free). You can chat as well with a USF Librarian.

A JSTOR platform update was recently completed. This update included several bug fixes:

• The “Page of First Match” feature is restored. With this fix, selecting the “Page of First Match” link now takes users to the first page upon which a search term appears, rather than the first page of the article.
• The ability to jump to search term locations by page is restored. Users will now see the “View list of pages with search term(s)” option at the top of each article page, and then may follow a link to each page that contains one or more of their search terms.
• Thumbnail images on the “Images in JSTOR” tab are restored.
• Several bugs with searching author names, phrase searching, wildcard searching, and fuzzy searching are corrected.
• Citations are now numbered on the Export Citations and Email Citations pages.
• Date formats are corrected in the delimited lists for JSTOR collections.

Please note that an error that causes difficulties with the Adobe Reader Find and Search functionality in downloaded PDFs is not fixed at this time. This fix was originally scheduled for this release but needed to be withdrawn for further development. JSTOR is actively working on this issue and plan to release this fix as soon as possible.

The data from the 2007 Journal Citation Reports is now available in the ISI Web of Knowledge database. This data gives information on how many times a journal was cited, how many it has cited other journals and it’s impact factor, among others.

This kind of information is interesting when you are choosing a journal for submitting an article, or when you are collecting additional information for a tenure and/or promotion dossier.

You can access the Journal Citation Reports in the Web of Knowledge database. Go to MetaLib, search the database by name and click on the resulting link. In the database itself, at the very top, you will see tabs. Under the “Select a database” tab, you will see the option for the Reports. If you are from off campus, don’t forget to log into the network first. Access to this date is reserved for USF faculty, students and staff.

The USF Libraries provide access to hundreds of databases to the students and faculty. Still, some may prefer using Google Scholar, at least in their first steps in a research process.

There are several tips though that can make a quest for information more successful in Google Scholar . First, go through the Library Web site, authenticate with the proxy server or BlackBoard, and then locate Google Scholar as you would any other database in MetaLib. If you go to the trouble to do that, the “Find it@USF” (SFX) links will be available, and you can then can pull up the full text seamlessly.

You can also add to the functionality of Google Scholar by going into “Preferences” and enabling links to RefWorks or Endnote.

Because it does not have the power of commercial search engines, Google Scholar does not allow search results to be sorted by date, format, or any other way. Also, Google Book search results are mixed in with journal citations, which can be a problem if you are only looking for journal articles.

(thanks to Susan Ariew of the Tampa Library for the tips)

The USF Libraries catalog is currently unavailable. Efforts are being made to put it back online as soon as possible.

I will be away at a conference this coming week.

I will be leaving Monday June 16th and will be back Friday, June 20th at 8:00 AM. I will have email access (clw@lakeland.usf.edu), though not all the time.

For general library enquiries, you can reach the USF Lakeland Library front desk at 863-667-7817. If you need immediate assistance from a librarian, you can contact the USF Tampa’s Ask-A-Librarian services at (813) 974-2729 or (866) 550-8036 (toll free).

Have a pleasant week!

As you know, the USFL Library publishes a list of newly arrived titles every month (combined in the summer months). However, the USF Libraries catalog now sports a link you can click to see the new books in the library system.

To see the new books on management, for example, you go to entering the subject keyword “management” into the search box and it will retrieve all records with that keyword. THEN you have a link on the top left hand side that says “Limit by: New Titles” and it will give you all new titles with the keywords “management” in the record.

You can further narrow your results by limiting them by library. Select “USF Library - Lakeland” to see the new titles in our location only.

Alternatively, you can also make an Advanced Search using no keywords and selecting only the USF Library - Lakeland in the Location field. You will then see the new books in all disciplines for our location.

This USFL Library monthly list will continue to be published as well.

This trial provides access to two electronic resources: FAITS (Faulkner Advisory For Information Technology Studies) and SMP (Security Management Practices). FAITS is an information technology reference library with reports designed to help students, instructors, and administrators learn about and keep up with the critical issues, emerging trends, products, services, and vendors driving the IT industry. Topical coverage areas include IT infrastructure, telecommunications, wireless technology, data networking, convergence, security, enterprise systems, the internet, and technology vendors. SMP provides access to monthly reports covering facility security, IT and network security, financial and legal security, business continuity, biometrics, risk and crisis management, public safety, personnel security, and security technology.

This trial will end on June 16, 2008.

For this database and other library resources visit http://www.lakeland.usf.edu/library. Click on “Search the databases” to begin. You will also find this database listed under “By Subject” under Trial Databases.