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From the publishers of the Project MUSE database:
Project MUSE is pleased to announce the release of a new web interface, enhanced with many features to aid ease of navigation, expand discovery, and encourage deeper interaction with the wealth of scholarly content offered by MUSE.
(…) the new site design offers several new tools and resources for scholars, librarians, and publishers. MUSE offers
full text access to current content from nearly 400 high quality journals in the humanities and social sciences, from some 100 not-for-profit
publishers, and the web site’s improved features will help users find, utilize and share this content more readily and efficiently.
A highlight of MUSE’s new web site is wider range of functionality at the individual journal article level, including the ability to email a link, find more articles from the same author(s), and share the article via popular social bookmarking services. Color indicators allow users to easily determine to which content they have full text access, at both the journal and article level.
To access, visit http://www.poly.usf.edu/Offices/Library.xml and click on “Search the databases”.
Announcing a recent addition to the e-resource collection of the USF Libraries—Business Source Premier, an EBSCOHost database.
Business Source Premier is one of the definitive scholarly databases in the field of business due to its depth and coverage. The database provides full text articles from more than 2,300 journals, including over 1,100 peer reviewed journals, and indexing for an additional 1,000 titles. Full text coverage dates vary, but some go back to the first issue of the journal. Full text articles from the Harvard Business Review date back to 1922. Business Source Premier also provides full text access to non-journal content. Content with the number of items within that category includes: case studies (166), books (139), market research reports (426), industry reports (5095), country reports (1409), company profiles (10,051) and SWOT analyses (2842). Global Monitor, Datamonitor, Countrywatch, and EIU are the source of this content. Business Source Premier also provides full text for more for more than 50 regional business publications, including titles from Crain Communications.
As one of the EBSCOHost databases acquired by the USF Libraries, Business Source Premier is available to impaired users requiring screen-readers or using keyboard controls.
To access, visit http://www.poly.usf.edu/Offices/Library.xml and click on “Search the databases”.
The USF Poly Library will be closed on Monday, September 1, 2008 in observance of Labor Day. To note, the Open Use Lab will be closed as well.
Have a good holiday week-end!
We are pleased to announce the acquisition of ARTstor, made possible by the generous support of the USF Women’s Club.
ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences. It was generously funded by the USF Women’s Club on behalf of all faculty, staff, and students at the University of South Florida. The name ARTstor is derived from JSTOR, a digital library initiative sponsored by the Mellon Foundation. This digital library of images consists of more than sixty collections that have been added for their teaching and research value. ARTstor has incorporated approximately eighty-five percent of the former AMICO library with more than 90,000 images from over twenty contributing museums. In addition to museums, ARTstor collections are comprised of contributions from individual photographers, scholars, special collections at libraries, and photo archives. Some of the significant collections within ARTstor include: images from the Library of Congress, the Peabody Museum at Harvard, the Mellon International Dunhuang Archive, the Schlesinger History of Women in America Collection, Native American Art and Culture from the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution and the QTVR Panoramas of World Architecture. ARTstor collections are added regularly to improve the depth and breadth of the collection. There are plans for another 900,000 images to be added. Participating institutions are encouraged to enhance the content in ARTstor by contributing already digitized collections to ARTstor for use by all participating institutions.
ARTstor supports researchers both within the arts and in disciplines outside of the arts. This includes historians of art and architecture and others engaged with the visual arts, as well as individuals in fields as diverse as American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies, Music, Religious Studies, and Renaissance Studies, all of whom should find the images in ARTstor to be relevant to their teaching and research.
There are set of recommended system requirements for the optimal use of ARTstor. The beta version of ARTstor was launched June, 2008 requiring the use of Internet Explorer version 7.0 and Firefox 2.0 and higher. Please consult the ARTstor web site for a detailed list of these requirements. NOTE: Popup blocking software must be disabled in order to open an image. An alternative to disabling this software is to hold down the “Ctrl” key as you click on image or link.
This resource comes with a set of tools to view, present and manage images for research and teaching. One can browse the content by collection, classification, geography; create groups of images and organize them in shared folders; upload personal image and sound files to ARTstor; export images; and export citations to RefWorks, EndNote, and ProCite. USF instructors can share ARTstor content through Blackboard to help students explore world art, architecture, and visual culture.
For this and other library databases, visit http://www.poly.usf.edu/Offices/Library.xml. Click on “Search the databases”.
Announcing the acquisition of an online resource that has been a frequent request of USF faculty–PsychiatryOnline.
PsychiatryOnline is a web-based portal that features the DSM-IV-TR, one of the most widely used psychiatric references. The portal also includes journals such as the American Journal of Psychiatry, Psychiatric Services, Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, Psychosomatics and Academic Psychiatry. Additional content includes textbooks such as the American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry and Gabbard’s Treatments of Psychiatric Disorders; self-assessment tools for study, board certification and recertification review; American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines for the treatment of psychiatric disorders; and clinical and research news from Psychiatric News.
PsychiatryOnline supports unlimited PDA downloads, cross-format searching across books and journals on the site, linking between references, and the emailing of the full text of any book section.
For this and other library databases, visit http://www.poly.usf.edu/Offices/Library.xml. Click on “Search the databases”.
Announcing the latest addition to the USF Libraries E-Resources Collection—Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database.
The Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) provides more than 315,000 reviews of children’s books. All are full text searchable from 37 review sources. Reviewers include book authors, librarians, writers and editors, teachers, and children’s literature specialists who read and critically review more than 4,000 books annually. Each month CLCD features interviews with children’s book authors and illustrators, and several sets of themed reviews which are archived for continued reference. There are links to author and illustrator sites, publishers, parent and teacher resources, children’s literature collections, and upcoming events relating to children’s literature.
For this and other library databases, visit http://www.poly.usf.edu/Offices/Library.xml. Click on “Search the databases”.
Welcome back! (and for the new USF Poly students, welcome!)
The Library has new resources to start the new academic year: some 10 000 e-books have been added to our collections, as well as multiple databases, especially for business and arts & sciences.
I’m sure you have noticed the new website as well (http://www.poly.usf.edu/Offices/Library.xml for those of you reading this through the feed). All your favorite links are still there (Search the catalog, Search the databases, Connect Remotely, etc.) and you will find new pages with information on plagiarism and copyright, for example. Please note that the online forms are not functional right now but they are being worked on and they will be available again real soon. We have print versions of some of the forms at the Front Desk if need be.
Catalog-wise, two changes: the USF Sarasota/Manatee collections are now integrated in the USF catalog, no need to do a separate search. As well, we are still running the beta of the USF version of WorldCat Local. This is a new generation of catalog with a lot of Web 2.0 applications. Try it and let us know what you think.
We would also like to point out the new scanner in the Open Use Lab, attached to a multimedia workstation. Software for ADA access has also been installed on specific workstations as well.
Have a great year, and please remember that we are here to help!
UPDATE: All online forms but one are now operational. The still missing form is for faculty to request an A/V item to be shown in class.
The USF Libraries have recently purchased access to Mintel Oxygen, a database that focuses on marketing research.
Mintel Oxygen is one of the leading marketing research databases being utilized by 120 of the top U.S. universities. It has become one of the best resources for timely and unique information about the business to consumer (b2c) marketplace. The academic version of Mintel Reports branded as Mintel Oxygen provides comprehensive coverage of the U.S. and European markets from consumer behavior to SWOT and brand share analysis. Academic users can access 400 new reports each year that on average number one hundred pages. Analysis combines consumer habits and attitudes within the competitive landscape. A five-year forecast shows how businesses anticipate and plan for the future. The database includes a wide range of consumer market reports as well as daily news articles on corporate, product and advertising activity. The market reports analyze market sizes and trends, market segmentation, and consumer attitudes and purchasing habits. Features of Mintel Oxygen include “What’s Hot” focusing on market issues as they happen, tools to make graphs from any report, company profiles, searchable daily news digest and powerful personalization features. As a primary tool for researchers in marketing, Mintel Oxygen will also support the researcher in entrepreneurship, finance, advertising, journalism, communications, consumer psychology, and economics.
Each time the resource is accessed one must agree to the terms of use. First time users must create a profile. It is requested that a USF email address be used in the creation of this profile.
For these and other library databases, visit http://www.poly.usf.edu/Offices/Library.xml. Click on “Search the databases”.
WDI Online: World Development Indicators, developed and maintained by the World Bank, is a critical source of data on the global economy. It contains statistical data for over 900 development indicators and time series data from 1960 to the present for 227 economies. Data includes social, economic, financial, natural resource, and environmental indicators. Includes data on such areas as pollution, energy production, poverty, trade, labor, health, education, exports, government debt, and telecommunications. The interface is supported in seven languages. Data can be exported to standard formats like Excel, helping to make WDI Online an essential tool for researching global economies.
For these and other library databases, visit http://www.poly.usf.edu/Offices/Library.xml. Click on “Search the databases”.
Announcing the recent acquisition by the USF Libraries of a new business database called IBISWorld.
IBISWorld provides reports for all of the 723 US industries enabling research on the entire sector of the U.S. economy. Information is updated every four months, ensuring the latest information. Reports are divided into three searchable modules: Industry Market Research; Company Research, and Business Environment. Market research reports contain trends, statistics and analysis on market size, market share of competitors and industry growth rates. Major market segments are identified and also those forces affecting demand and supply within the industry. Performance analysis includes emerging industry trends as well as recent production performance. Each comprehensive study also examines details such as the barriers to entry, industry averages, technology & systems and domestic and international markets. Tables and statistics include: industry revenue, exports, imports, wages and number of companies in the industry. Business Environment Research Reports explain how economic, demographic and other changes influence people, enterprises and commerce. By using a unique ‘outside-looking-in’ approach one can examine a company’s external environment to help successfully control business risks and identify market opportunities.
For this and other library resources visit http://www.poly.usf.edu/Offices/Library.xml. Click on “Search the databases”.
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