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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.

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.

Due to essential site maintenance, access will be unavailable for up to one hour for full-text database Wiley InterScience on Saturday, June 13, starting at 9:00 AM.

To further scholarship in many disciplines, the USF Libraries recently purchased the online version of the American Periodicals Series.

American Periodicals Series Online features over 1,100 periodicals spanning nearly 200 years from colonial times to the advent of American involvement in World War II. Containing more than seven million digitized page images, titles range from America’s first scientific journal to popular magazines.

The publications in this collection cover three broad periods:

• The years between 1740 and 1800 that offer insight in America’s transition from a British colony to an independent nation with eighty-nine published journals;
• The first sixty years of the nineteenth century that showcase the golden age of American periodicals where most great literary works of the nineteenth century appeared in a magazine with more than nine hundred titles; and
• The Civil War (1861-1865) and Reconstruction (1865-1877) period that reflect the nation in turmoil and growth, the settling of the West, and the emergence of modern America with more than nine hundred titles.

Because the database contains digitized images of periodical pages, researchers can see all of the original typography, drawings, graphic elements, and article layouts exactly as they were originally published. American Periodical Series may prove useful in the following disciplines: history, arts, social sciences, humanities, statistics, medicine, sciences, and government and international affairs.

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

June is GLBT Pride month. We have published our USFP Library 2009 list of resources listing books, children’s books, electronic journals and databases.