USF in Lakeland Library

We have just published our 2009 Black History Month Library resources page . Take a look to our list of books, full-text journals and databases.

Web of Knowledge is now sporting several enhancements:

• Search grant activity and funding acknowledgements in Web of Science and see where funding money is going; what research has been developed from a specific grant; and who is funding research at your institution.
• You can access searches created with the Refine and Analyze capabilities through the Search History – and create alerts.
• Discover an easier way to let the world know about your achievements: create new accounts. Suggest publication lists. And get metrics and data analysis for researchers at your institution, with the new ResearcherID batch upload and download Web services.
• Personalize your view of citation relationships with enhanced citation mapping capabilities.

Some of you might also be interested in ScienceWatch.com, a website produced by the publishers of Web of Knowledge, Thomson Reuters. This website “tracks trends and performance in basic research i.e. lists hot papers, emerging research fronts, country trends, rising stars and the like. Note that site deals primarily with STM but cover a bit of business, psychology and social sciences as well.

We invite you to our open door seminars, in LTB 2152:

Database Searching
Wednesday, February 25, 12:00-1:00PM
or
Thursday, February 26, 5:00-6:00PM
Learn to select and access the best databases for your subject, search their content and find full-text articles.

RefWorks
Wednesday, February 25, 5:00-6:00PM
or
Thursday, February 26, 12:00-1:00PM
Learn how to use this citation management system that makes building bibliographies a flash.

These seminars are open to all; no registration required. The seminars are cancelled if no one is present 10 minutes after the hour.

The new BioOne platform will officially launch on Tuesday, January 27, 2009. You will access the new platform automatically. Help will be available for the new interface, including webinars and tip sheets.

Benefits and features include:

• Open URL compliance
• Links to the Biodiversity Heritage Library Project & JSTOR
• New reference and article tools (including saved searches, customized e-alerting, easy reference export to citation manager, and seamless cited to/cited by linking)

Announcing the recent acquisition of a suite of International Monetary Fund databases.

International Financial Statistics Online is a standard source of international statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance. It reports, for most countries of the world, current data needed in the analysis of problems of international payments and of inflation and deflation, i.e., data on exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, and national accounts. This database contains time series data from 1948 and contains approximately 32,000 time series covering more than 200 countries. One can browse the database, select series of interest, and display and save the selected series in a spreadsheet format, such as Microsoft Excel.

The Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS) present, for most member countries of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), current figures on the value of exports and imports with the most important trading partners, providing current figures for about 158 countries. Smaller countries appear in the area and world tables. The information on exports and imports by trading partners that countries report to the IMF varies in terms of frequency and currency. Reported data, including total imports and exports reported for publication in the IMF International Financial Statistics (IFS), are the basis of all estimates in DOTS. The entire DOTS database is continuously supplemented with estimates.

Balance of Payments Statistics summarizes, for a specific period, the economic transactions of an economy with the rest of the world. It reports total goods, services, factor income, and current transfers an economy receives from or provides to the rest of the world. The database contains time series data from 1948 and approximately 100,000 time series covering more than 170 countries and areas.

For these databases and other library resources visit http://www.poly.usf.edu/library. Click on Databases by “Search the databases” to begin.

PRONTO is a service for faculty members to obtain a quick scan of an article in print or in microfilm format held at the USF Tampa Library. In order to facilitate easier and faster communication between PRONTO and ILL, PRONTO services is now using a module of the ILLiad program to process incoming requests. Patrons who already have ILLiad accounts for ILL will log-in the same way; patrons who do not already have ILLiad accounts, will need to create them.

The new URL for the PRONTO service on the USF Tampa Library site is http://www.lib.usf.edu/public/index.cfm?Pg=BooksArticlesMediaDeliveryPRONTO

From a Project MUSE email:

Project MUSE just released the back issues of nine of its long-held journals. The addition of the back issues now offers subscribers the complete run of eight of the titles. This latest addition of back issues is part of MUSE’s ongoing pilot program to determine the feasibility of expanding coverage to include back issues. The journals initially included in the pilot are selected journals published by The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Back issues were added for the following journals:

• Children’s Literature (Vol. 1, 1972 – Vol. 30, 2002)
• Children’s Literature Association Quarterly (Vol. 1, 1976 – Vol. 30, 2005)
• The Emily Dickinson Journal (Vol. 1, 1992 – Vol. 6, 1997)
• Journal of Early Christian Studies (Vol. 1, 1993 – Vol. 3, 1995)
• Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (Vol. 1, 1991 – Vol. 5, 1995)
• The Lion and the Unicorn (Vol. 1, 1977 – Vol. 18, 1994)
• MFS Modern Fiction Studies (Vol. 31, 1985 – Vol. 40, 1994)
• Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas (Vol. 1, 2003 -Vol. 4, 2006)
• Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology (Vol. 1, 1994 – Vol. 2, 1995)

I will be away at the SLA Leadership Summit from Tuesday, January 13th to Saturday, January 17th. I will be back on campus on Tuesday, January 20th. At the meeting, I will start my term as Chair of the Association’s Information Technology Division.

Email access will be limited. For immediate assistance, you can reach the Library’s front desk at 863.667.7817. The Tampa Library reference desk can be reached at 813.974.2729 or 866.550.8036 (toll free).

Online assistance can be found at http://poly.usf.edu/Offices/Library/Research_Help.xml.

UPDATE: corrected errors in dates

Elsevier communicated the following enhancements to Engineering Village 2.

• The “Ask An Expert” section of www.engineeringvillage.com has always given users the opportunity to ask questions of an expert engineer, EV’s product specialist Colleen Hunter, and/or an organization’s librarian. Expert engineers have experience in a variety of disciplines, including mechanical, chemical, and industrial engineering. By re-designing the “Ask An Expert” page, we hope to make it easy for users to find answers to commonly asked questions, and to direct their more specific questions to the appropriate resource. Users will be able to sign up for online trainings and download training materials via links to www.ei.org and send feedback via email.
• To help Referex users navigate through their e-book results, a Keyword Cloud will be added to all titles. The Keyword Cloud, located in the Book Details section of a search result, will show the most frequently appearing keywords in that title. By hovering over a keyword, users will be able to see how many times the word appears in the book. Clicking on a keyword will take the user to a set of results that displays the pages on which the keyword appears.
• For advanced users, the Expert Search character limit will be doubled to 8,000. This will allow users familiar with advanced Boolean logic the ability to conduct more complex searches.

Here are the items newly arrived at the USF Polytechnic Library during the month of December. As always, new circulating books are found in the “New books” stacks in the Group Study area.

To note, a new title for our Professional Development collection, Defusing the angry patron : a how-to-do-it manual for librarians and paraprofessionals . While the book does have a library focus, it contains useful tips and techniques that will help anyone dealing with customers.

Books

• Around Mulberry / Stephanie L. Dukes, Essie N. Helper-Morgan,and the Mulberry Historical Society with a foreword by Dr. Frank Satchel Jr. Charleston, S.C. : Arcadia Pub., c2008.
  F319.M95 D85 2008
• Knowledge management for services, operations and manufacturing / Tom Young. Oxford : Chandos, 2008.
  HD30.2 .Y69 2008
• The evolving sales engineer / Edward S. Levine. Indianapolis, Ind. : Dog Ear Publishing, c2007.
  HF5439.5 .L48 2007
• The essentials of science, grades 7-12 : effective curriculum, instruction, and assessment / Rick Allen. Alexandria, VA : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, c2007.
  Q181 .A414 2007
• The essentials of mathematics K-6 : effective curriculum, instruction, and assessment / Kathy Checkley. Alexandria, Va. : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, c2006.
  QA135.6 .C525 2006
• Defusing the angry patron : a how-to-do-it manual for librarians and paraprofessionals / Rhea Joyce Rubin. New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., c2000.
  Z711 .R79 2000 Professional development
• Learning commons : evolution and collaborative essentials / edited by Barbara Schader. Oxford : Chandos, 2008.
  ZA3270 .L43 2008 Reserves