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The USF Libraries have recently acquired the Political Science Online Archives through EBSCO.

The EBSCO Political Science Online Archives consists of: National Review Archive, the Nation Archive, and the New Republic Archive.

National Review Archive

The National Review Archive provides coverage of national and international issues from a conservative viewpoint. Covers political, economic, social, and cultural issues and trends, books and the arts. While the current issue and the past issues back to 2004 can be found online, this database offers complete indexing & abstracting and full text coverage for all issues of the National Review from the first issue in 1955 through the present. Available on the EBSCO platform.

The Nation Archive

The Nation Archive is a database that indexes the complete back-file of the weekly periodical The Nation including issues from its inception in 1865 to the present. The Nation Archive provides users commentary written from a liberal and progressive perspective on a variety of notable events. The content is in the form of letters, editorials, and articles that cover diverse subjects such as: politics, economics and the humanities. The database’s search interface can facilitate both general and advanced information searches and can display results in full text PDF format. Advanced searches can use fields for supporting author, titles and subject term searching. Advances searches can also can target specific document types such as article, book review, and editorial. Further search limits can be used to select image type such as photograph or chart. This resource would support both undergraduate courses and graduate research.

The New Republic Archive

The New Republic Archive is an electronic database provided by EBSCO and accessible through EBSCOHost. The database indexes the complete back-file of the semi-weekly periodical The New Republic with issues beginning in 1914 to the present. The New Republic Archive provides users with commentary about current events, the arts, society, the economy, and political trends written from a range of viewpoints. The content also includes: letters, editorials, and articles that cover diverse subjects such as: the sciences, politics, and economics. The database’s search interface can facilitate both general and advanced information searches and can display results in full text PDF format as well as HTML format. Advanced searches can use fields for supporting author, titles and subject term searching. Advances searches can also can target specific document types such as article, book review, and editorial. Further search limits can be used to select image type such as photograph or chart. Advanced database features allow for the selection, printing and emailing of saved search citations. The database also supports the exporting of citations into bibliographic management software such as RefWorks, Endnote, and Reference Manager. This resource would support both undergraduate courses and graduate research.

For these resources and other library databases, visit http://poly.usf.edu/library.xml. Click on “Electronic Resources” or “Search the Databases” to begin.

The USF Libraries have recently acquired LexisNexis’ Congressional Record.

Congressional Universe gives users access to indexed current and archived issues of the Congressional Record as well as content from predecessor publications. The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress and contains an account of the various dialogues and debates conducted upon of the floors of the House and Senate. Coverage extends from 1985 to the present and is updated daily when Congress is in session.

Content from earlier issues of the Congressional Record ranging from 1873 to 1997 is released periodically as it is made available by the publisher. Content from predecessor publications such as the Congressional Globe (1833-1873), Register of Debates (1824-1837) and the Annals of Congress (1789-1824) is also being released periodically by the publisher in an ongoing process of preparing printed materials for electronic access.

Other content in the Congressional Record includes: a record of votes, committee reports and a digest of daily floor actions. The digest describes activities such as: the number of bills introduced, the floor actions taken that day, and a summary of committee meetings activities including their agendas and schedules. Content search options include: keyword, subject, full-text, Member of Congress, Bills, Laws, Resolutions and Roll Call Votes. Search results are displayed in full text format.

For these resources and other library databases, visit http://poly.usf.edu/library.xml. Click on “Electronic Resources” or “Search the Databases” to begin.

Saturday July 18th, starting at 5:00AM Eastern for approximately 2 hours and Monday, July 20th, starting at 4:00AM Eastern for up to one hour. The full-text database will be done for maintenance.

In partnership with the School of Library and Information Science, the USF Libraries have recently acquired Library Literature & Information Science Retrospective.

Covering the period from 1905-1983, Library Literature & Information Science Retrospective from H.W. Wilson indexes articles and book reviews of key library and information science periodicals. Books, chapters in collected works such as conference proceedings, library school theses, and pamphlets are also indexed. Coverage also includes the full text of Wilson Library Bulletin from 1914 to 1983. This is a comprehensive index to the literature with over 1,200 periodicals and citations to more than 500,000 articles. USF also subscribes to the current file, Library Literature & Information Science Full Text that covers from 1984 to the present, with full text beginning in 1994. Library Literature & Information Science Retrospective is an index to library and information science content but does not contain the full text of that content.

For these resources and other library databases, visit http://poly.usf.edu/library.xml. Click on “Electronic Resources” or “Search the Databases” to begin.

Requested by the USF History Department, the USF Libraries have acquired a database that focuses on current economic affairs within the global community.

RGE Monitor, named one of the world’s best economic resources by Business Week, The Economist, Forbes and the Wall Street Journal, delivers global economic insights to the business and academic community. Founded in 2004 by a prestigious team of economic and political experts, RGE Monitor defines key economic and strategic debates and presents arguments on all sides. Content and analysis is delivered through a variety of channels. “Spotlight Issues” are identified and set in priority order, searchable by either importance or date. “Global Daily Digests” are available on the website, through email, or by a continuously updated RSS feeds. “Working Paper Series” highlights the most relevant publications from the economic experts from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).

Note: Requires the creation of an account. Once established, your user name is your email address.

For these resources and other library databases, visit http://poly.usf.edu/library.xml. Click on “Electronic Resources” or “Search the Databases” to begin.

Here are the items newly arrived at the USF Polytechnic Library during the month of June. As always, new circulating books are found in the “New books” stacks in the Group Study area; the new A/V titles are being immediately shelved in their respective stacks.

Of note, we have continued receiving the 2008 award-winning Children’s Books as well as a A/V titles for class use and for the Gifted & Talented program. We also received a copy of the documentary film “The Hollywood Library” which the USF Poly Library premiered during Banned Books Week in 2007.

A/V

• Kids + money (Documentary : 2008) Kids + money [videorecording] : a portrait of teenagers in Los Angeles / a film by Lauren Greenfield ; produced and directed by Lauren Greenfield. [United States] : Greenfield/Evers LLC, c2008.
  GT524 .K53 2008
• The Ray Bradbury theater [videorecording] / Alliance Atlantis. [Needham, MA] : Echo Bridge Home Entertainment, c2004.
  PN1992.77 .R39 2004
• Treasures of The twilight zone [videorecording]. [New York, N.Y.?] : CBS Video ; Chatsworth, CA : Distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment, c1999.
  PN1992.77 .T87 T74 1999
• Twilight zone (Television program : 2002-2003) The twilight zone [videorecording] / Trilogy ; New Line Television ; executive producers, John Watson, Mark Stern, Pen Densham ; Ira Steven Behr. [United States] : New Line Home Entertainment, [2004]
  PN1992.77 .T922 2004
• SpaceCamp (Motion picture) SpaceCamp [videorecording] / ABC Motion Pictures ; story by Patrick Bailey and Larry B. Williams ; screenplay by W.W. Wicket and Casey T. Mitchell ; produced by Patrick Bailey and Walter Coblenz ; directed by Harry Winer. [S.l.] : MGM Home Entertainment, 2004.
  PN1997.2 .S63 2004
• A sound of thunder [videorecording] / Franchise Pictures presents ; directed by Peter Hyams ; screenplay by Thomas Dean Donnelly & Joshua Oppenheimer and Greg Poirier ; screen story by Thomas Dean Donnelly & Joshua Oppenheimer ; produced by Moshe Diamant, Howard Baldwin, Karen Baldwin ; a Scenario Lane/Jericho production ; in association with Crusader Entertainment ; an ApolloMedia … [et al.] co-production. Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c2005.
  PN1997.2 .S646 2005
• Rapid tooling design [videorecording] / produced by Society of Manufacturing Engineers ; producer/director, Jerome T. Cook ; written by Todd Grimm. Dearborn, Mich. : Society of Manufacturing Engineers, c2008.
  TS171.4 .R37 2008
• The Hollywood librarian [videorecording] : a look at librarians through film / Overdue Productions presents ; a documentary film by Ann Seidl ; written and directed by Ann Seidl Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, c2009.
  Z682 .H65 2009

Books

• Advertising 2.0 : social media marketing in a Web 2.0 world / Tracy L. Tuten. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.
  HF6146 .I58 T88 2008
• Hate on the net : extremist sites, neo-fascism on-line, electronic jihad / Antonio Roversi, Lawrence Smith. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2008.
  HT1521 .R69 2008

Children’s Books

• The Lincolns : a scrapbook look at Abraham and Mary / Candace Fleming. New York : Schwartz & Wade Books, c2008.
  E457.905 .F58 2008
• Christo and Jeanne-Claude : through the Gates and beyond / Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan. New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2008.
  N7193 .C5 G74 2008
• Chains : seeds of America / Laurie Halse Anderson. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2008.
  PS3551 .N3678 C52 2008
• Knucklehead : tall tales & mostly true stories about growing up Scieszka / Jon Scieszka. New York, N.Y. : Viking, 2008.
  PS3569 .C5748 Z46 2008
• The blacker the berry : poems / by Joyce Carol Thomas ; illustrated by Floyd Cooper. New York : HarperCollins, 2008.
  PS3570 .H565 B53 2008
• Masterpiece / Elise Broach ; illustrated by Kelly Murphy. New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2008.
  PZ7 .B78083 Mas 2008
• The hunger games / Suzanne Collins. New York : Scholastic Press, 2008.
  PZ7 .C6837 Hun 2008
• The London Eye mystery / Siobhan Dowd. Oxford ; New York : David Fickling Books, 2008, c2007.
  PZ7 .D7538 Lo 2008
• Chicken said, “Cluck!” / by Judyann Ackerman Grant ; pictures by Sue Truesdell. New York : HarperCollins, c2008.
  PZ7 .G766775 Ch 2008
• Nation / Terry Pratchett. New York, NY : HarperCollins, c2008.
  PZ7 .P8865 Nat 2008
• Here lies Arthur / Philip Reeve. New York [N.Y.] : Scholastic Press, 2008.
  PZ7 .R25576 He 2008
• Are you ready to play outside? / by Mo Willems. New York : Hyperion Books for Children, c2008.
  PZ7 .W65535 Ar 2008
• After Tupac & D Foster / Jacqueline Woodson. New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, c2008.
  PZ7 .W84945 Af 2008
• Moribito : guardian of the Spirit / by Nahoko Uehashi ; [translated by Cathy Hirano ; illustrated by Yuko Shimizu]. New York : Arthur A. Levine Books, 2008.
  PZ7 .U277 Mo 2008
• Bird / by Zetta Elliott ; illustrated by Shadra Strickland. New York : Lee & Low Books Inc., c2008.
  PZ7.5 .E44 Bir 2008
• Keeping the night watch / Hope Anita Smith ; with illustrations by E.B. Lewis. New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2008.
  PZ7.5 .S54 Ke 2008
• Frogs. New York, NY : Scholastic Nonfiction, 2008.
  QL668 .E2 B47 2008

Databases

• American Periodicals Series

Even the best laid plans need to change sometimes – please note that the seminars have been moved to a new, later date.

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We invite you to our open door seminars, offered online via Elluminate this week. These will be the last such seminars this semester:

Database Searching
Wednesday, July 8, 12:00-1:00PM
Learn to select and access the best databases for your subject, search their content and find full-text articles.

RefWorks
Wednesday, July 8, 1:00-2:00PM
Learn how to use this citation management system that makes building bibliographies a flash.

These seminars are open to all; no registration required.

The links to enter the seminar on the date and time specified are below. Please make sure to click on the correct one for the session you desire to attend.

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Database Searching:
Meeting Link: http://131.247.100.61:80/join_meeting.html?meetingId=1246383851780
Add to Calendar: http://131.247.100.61:80/build_calendar.event?meetingId=1246383851780
Starts: July 08, 2009 12:00 PM EDT
Ends: July 08, 2009 1:00 PM EDT

RefWorks
Meeting Link: http://131.247.100.61:80/join_meeting.html?meetingId=1246384142791
Add to Calendar: http://131.247.100.61:80/build_calendar.event?meetingId=1246384142791
Starts: July 08, 2009 1:00 PM EDT
Ends: July 08, 2009 2:00 PM EDT

Enter your name at the login prompt.

These meetings do not require a password to join. Please leave the password field blank.

If this is the first time you will be using Elluminate, you may be prompted to download some software which may take anywhere from 2 to 20 minutes depending upon your Internet connection speed. You can pre-configure your system with the required software by going to the support page located at: http://131.247.100.61:80/support.help.

Please make sure your computer has a microphone and speakers to be able to talk and hear while you are in the Elluminate meeting.

The USF Polytechnic Library (and the Open Use Lab) will be closed on Friday and Saturday, July 3rd and 4th in observance of Independence Day.

LTB 1115 will reopen on Monday, July 6th at 8:00 AM.

Have a great holiday week-end!

The USF Libraries currently subscribe to three of the International Monetary Fund‘s (IMF) statistical databases: Balance of Payments Statistics, Direction of Trade Statistics, and International Financial Statistics. A fourth, Government Finance Statistics (GFS), is currently available to us as a trial until July 2nd.

GFS is a specialized statistics system, with balancing components designed to facilitate analysis of the government and public sectors. Here are some quick facts about this database:

Time series: 135,000+
Countries covered: 133
Historical data: 1990
Data frequency: Annual
Publication Updates: Quarterly
Export formats: Excel, .csv, Access, tabbed text, html

Please try it and let me know what you think. In order to access this database at the below link, you must either be on campus or logged onto the library’s web page. It may be helpful to try the tutorials available on this web page first.

http://www.imfstatistics.org/gfs/

USF Libraries currently has trial access to two resources from Mergent: Private Company Database and WebReports.

First, we have access to Mergent’s Private Company Database. Dun & Bradstreet provides key information on U.S. and Canadian companies with annual sales greater than $3 million and global companies with annual sales greater than $10 million. You can go into Mergent through our databases, as usual and you will notice that on the basic search screen, toward the bottom, you can select a box that says “include private companies.” Also with this trial, in the Advanced Search, you can make it so only “Private Company DB” is selected or leave all selected. You can also access this database by going to the following URL: http://www.MergentOnline.com. Just remember to log into the library’s web site if you are off campus.

Facts and Figures

Total number of records over 1 million
Contains companies with total sales ranging from 5.7 million to 68.5 billion Total employees for these companies range from 1 to 807,600 Companies operating in the U.S. and Canada over 525,000 records Companies outside the U.S. and Canada over 500,000 records

We also have trial access to Digital Corporate Manuals. Mergent WebReports is an online database that allows you to access a vast archive of corporate and industry related documents. WebReports contains more than 180,000 documents covering over 100 countries and industries using an easy to navigate and reliable system. To access Mergent WebReports, please go to the following web site: http://webreports.mergent.com . Make sure you are logged in to the library’s web site if off campus. I would also like to mention that we do have these documents in our Reference Annex and in microfilm.

Both of these trials will last until July 10th. Please let me know your thoughts on these resources.