USF Polytechnic Library

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”.

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”.

Gale is currently experiencing intermittent problems with their online databases. They are working on it as we speak. The USF Libraries have access to several Gale databases, including Academic ASAP, Business & Company Resource Center, General One File and a multitude of online reference encyclopedias and dictionaries.

The USF Libraries have acquired the multidisciplinary database SourceOECD.

SourceOECD is an online library of statistical databases, books, and periodicals from OECD, the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development. The OECD, a membership of 30 countries, is one of the world’s largest publishers in the fields of economics and public policy. SourceOECD is comprised of over 1,800 online books with unrestricted access grouped in 24 themes, 24 periodicals, 3 reference titles, and 26 OECD statistical databases, all in full text. Themed groupings include: Education, Energy, Emerging Economies, Environment & Sustainable Development, Finance and Investment, Science, Social Issues, Urban and Regional Development, Transportation and more. Twenty-six statistical databases from the OECD are presented enabling users to download data and build their own tables, in real time. Users can also build cross-database tables. OECD has recently launched OECD.Stat that allows searches across the various OECD databases. It is now in a beta test until September 2008. The USF Libraries hold a subscription to all OECD online publications with the exception of the third-party IEA Statistics.

To access it, search MetaLib by using the “Search the Databases” link on the library’s main page.

The USF Libraries now subscribe to AnthroSource, a collection of journals and newsletters in Anthropology.

AnthroSource strives to unite anthropological content such as peer reviewed journals, newsletters, and bulletins, in one online resource. A collaboration of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the University of California Press, AnthroSource provides current issues for fifteen of the AAA’s most critical peer-reviewed publications, including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly. It also serves as an electronic archive of all AAA journals. With USF’s subscriptions to JSTOR, there is continuous access from AnthroSource back to JSTOR for key AAA publications, including American Anthropologist. Registered users can take advantage of personalization options, such as saved searches and email alerts. Includes reference linking to ensure ease of use with the anthropological online resources.

For this database and other library resources visit http://www.lakeland.usf.edu/library/. Click on “Search the Databases” to begin.

The APA just released new rules about the citation of electronic documents with Digital Object Identifier (DOI) numbers. You can find details on the APA website at http://www.apastyle.org/elecmedia.html as well as on the University of Maryland University College Library’s website at http://www.umuc.edu/library/guides/apa.shtml#DOI.

But, students, before you apply these new rules, check with your instructor first.

OCLC Online Computer Library Center has completed the integration of twelve databases (formerly part of the RLG Eureka service) into the OCLC FirstSearch service, available through MetaLib. The RLG Eureka databases now in FirstSearch include:

• Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute
• Anthropological Literature
• Anthropology Plus
• Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
• Bibliography of the History of Art
• Chicano Database
• FRANCIS (international humanities and social sciences)
• Hand Press Book Database
• History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
• Index to 19th-Century American Art Periodicals
• Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies (social sciences)
• SCIPIO: Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs

The African Studies Companion is an annotated guide to print and electronic information sources in the field of African Studies. As in many other disciplines, there is now growing information overload on Africa and African studies. This makes the need for critical evaluation all the more important. Annotations in the African Studies Companion are evaluative rather than purely descriptive. This fully searchable electronic edition is regularly updated to provide maximum currency. The majority of listings identify primarily general, multidisciplinary sources of information, primarily those in English and relating to sub-Saharan Africa. One can search or browse all sections of the African Studies Companion individually. Sections include reference works, indexing and abstracting services, biographical sources, cartographic and GIS sources, the African press, journals and magazines, libraries and archives, a guide to using Google for African studies research and more.

For this database and other library resources visit http://www.lakeland.usf.edu/library/. Click on “Search the Databases” to begin.