USF Polytechnic Library

The USF Libraries are currently experiencing problems connecting to subscribed full-text resources (in the fields of physical and health sciences mostly) through IngentaConnect. We are working on getting the situation corrected. Thank you for your patience.

UPDATE: the problem now seems fixed. Please let the librarian know if you are still experimenting problems.

Several improvements have recently been added to the WilsonWeb interface. They include:

• “My WilsonWeb” profiles. Using their email address as their password, library users can create their own sub-account within WilsonWeb, where they can create and manage saved searches, search histories, email alerts, and RSS feeds.
• RSS feed for new search results. Configure RSS updates via links on the Search Results or Search History pages.
• “Content Discovery Keys” on Search Results page. Convenient links launch related searches, allow users to narrow results by author, subject, publication year, document type, and database (for multiple-database searches), or select previous searches from the Recent Searches listing.
• Select the language of WilsonWeb navigation buttons. New dropdown menu converts the main buttons from English (the default setting) into Spanish, French, German, Italian, or Portuguese.
• Change the default setting of the Database Selection area to open or closed.
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• New “non-peer reviewed” search limiter in periodicals databases lets you retrieve just articles from easy-reading consumer, trade, technical, and scholarly journals, while skipping rigorous peer reviewed articles and journals. Select “non-peer reviewed,” “peer-reviewed,” or retrieve all relevant articles.
• More interface colors. Make the WilsonWeb interface your own, with blue (the default), red, green or orange themes.
• Article records (single record view) now include the full text of the article (if available). Article records are now an “all-in-one” information source, with complete bibliographic information, links to other relevant articles, links to page images (if available), plus the full text of the article (if available).

Specific WilsonWeb databases have also been improved:

• Preview images in Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated. New thumbnails at the bottom of profiles let you preview all available photos. Click on any to enlarge.
• Essay and General Literature Index now includes “Library Owns?” holdings links in records for individual book parts (chapters). Click the link (connected to the library’s OPAC) to see where you can find the essay collection on the bookshelves.
• View results by component databases in OmniFile’s subject thesaurus. OmniFile, a wide-ranging periodicals database made up of diverse Wilson specialty databases, can be searched all-in-one or by any of the component databases. Now searches of the OmniFile subject thesaurus lists subjects all-in-one or by individual component databases, for quick access to more specialized “broader and narrower” topic links.

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

A short period of downtime is scheduled on Informaworld on Tuesday July 15th 2008, from midnight through 2:00 a.m. July 15th to allow some essential maintenance completion. This replaces the downtime on July 12th.

The Informaworld site is all of the Taylor & Francis titles.

Some users may experience impaired performance for a short time after the downtime has been completed. The informaworld team would like to apologize to our customers for any inconvenience this might cause.

A JSTOR platform update was recently completed. This update included several bug fixes:

• The “Page of First Match” feature is restored. With this fix, selecting the “Page of First Match” link now takes users to the first page upon which a search term appears, rather than the first page of the article.
• The ability to jump to search term locations by page is restored. Users will now see the “View list of pages with search term(s)” option at the top of each article page, and then may follow a link to each page that contains one or more of their search terms.
• Thumbnail images on the “Images in JSTOR” tab are restored.
• Several bugs with searching author names, phrase searching, wildcard searching, and fuzzy searching are corrected.
• Citations are now numbered on the Export Citations and Email Citations pages.
• Date formats are corrected in the delimited lists for JSTOR collections.

Please note that an error that causes difficulties with the Adobe Reader Find and Search functionality in downloaded PDFs is not fixed at this time. This fix was originally scheduled for this release but needed to be withdrawn for further development. JSTOR is actively working on this issue and plan to release this fix as soon as possible.

The data from the 2007 Journal Citation Reports is now available in the ISI Web of Knowledge database. This data gives information on how many times a journal was cited, how many it has cited other journals and it’s impact factor, among others.

This kind of information is interesting when you are choosing a journal for submitting an article, or when you are collecting additional information for a tenure and/or promotion dossier.

You can access the Journal Citation Reports in the Web of Knowledge database. Go to MetaLib, search the database by name and click on the resulting link. In the database itself, at the very top, you will see tabs. Under the “Select a database” tab, you will see the option for the Reports. If you are from off campus, don’t forget to log into the network first. Access to this date is reserved for USF faculty, students and staff.

This trial provides access to two electronic resources: FAITS (Faulkner Advisory For Information Technology Studies) and SMP (Security Management Practices). FAITS is an information technology reference library with reports designed to help students, instructors, and administrators learn about and keep up with the critical issues, emerging trends, products, services, and vendors driving the IT industry. Topical coverage areas include IT infrastructure, telecommunications, wireless technology, data networking, convergence, security, enterprise systems, the internet, and technology vendors. SMP provides access to monthly reports covering facility security, IT and network security, financial and legal security, business continuity, biometrics, risk and crisis management, public safety, personnel security, and security technology.

This trial will end on June 16, 2008.

For this database and other library resources visit http://www.lakeland.usf.edu/library. Click on “Search the databases” to begin. You will also find this database listed under “By Subject” under Trial Databases.

Fratelli Alinari was founded in 1852 and is the oldest photographic archive in the world with over 3,500,000 photographs, ranging from the invention of photography to the present. For the first time Alinari PhotoLibrary Educational offers online access to a selection of 150,000 pictures for virtually every discipline. The leading university professors in Italy and Europe selected the more than 90,000 nineteenth and twentieth-century historical pictures, vintage prints in sepia and black and white and 60,000 color pictures. The core of the images covers:

Historical, economic and social disciplines: Anthropology, Communication Sciences, Economy, Education Sciences, Ethnography, Geography, History, Industrial History, Journalism, Political Sciences

Scientific disciplines: Agricultural Sciences, Astronomy, Botany, Engineering, Food Sciences, Medicine, Transportation, Psychology, Zoology

Artistic and literary disciplines: Archaeology, Architecture, Art, Cinema, Drawing and Graphic Art, Fashion and Costume, Literature, Music, Photography, Television, Theater, Architecture. (Includes the great works of art from the more important national and international museums in the world such as the Uffizi, Louvre, Vatican, and the Guggenheim.)

Searches can be conducted by author, subject, place depicted, date, photographic; by thesaurus, or works of art vs. photographs. Search options by the numbers include:

• 8,000 search keywords in the iconographic thesaurus
• 2,300 geographical sites in the world in the geographic thesaurus
• 2,800 photographers
• 300 events, including wars, natural catastrophes, breakthroughs in science
• 7,800 Personalities

Important note on the use of this collection:Begin with the “Automatic Access” (green) link as there is no user name and password that is required to use this collection. Once you wish to view or download an image (480×480), there is a charge of one credit. USF has acquired 15,000 credits that are distributed across the IP ranges of the USF network. Be sure to click on the English tab to use the site in English.

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

The Wiley InterScience database, by publisher Wiley-Blackwell, will be unavailable on two instances due to maintance work:

• Saturday, May 24th, from 7:00 AM EDT, for a period of 4 to 8 hours
• Thursday, May 29th, from 4:00 AM EDT, for a period of 1 hour

Announcing the latest addition to the online collection of the USF Libraries—- International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text.

International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text is the definitive research tool for the study of theatre and the performing arts. It indexes over 60,000 journal articles, books, chapters, and dissertations on all aspects of theatre and performance from over 126 countries. International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text contains more than 400 full-text titles such as Canadian Theatre Review, Dance Chronicle, Dance Teacher, Modern Drama, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Research in Dance Education, Research in Drama Education, Studies in Theatre and Performance, TDR: The Drama Review, and Theater and more than 270 full-text books such as Avant Garde Theatre, British Realist Theatre, History of European Drama and Theatre, Learning Through Theatre, Opera, Performance Theory, Shakespeare, Theory and Performance, Theatre and the World, Twentieth-Century Actor Training, Who’s Who in Contemporary World Theatre, and World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre.

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

Elsevier, the publisher of the multidisciplinary database ScienceDirect, has announced new features:

New to ScienceDirect are features that make the platform more user friendly and deliver better, clearer results in fewer clicks.

Researchers like to quickly evaluate articles before reading them

Researchers will find preview tabs that provide quick access to the important article assessment components: the abstract, figures/tables and references. These tabs are on the results page, the table of contents page and the article page.

Researchers have to scroll to the foot of articles to view reference information, which hinders reading

We have made it possible for researchers to view reference information within the body of a paper when their cursor moves over a reference marker.

Once a researcher has evaluated and read an article, they often want to email it to their peers

A new article toolbox brings together all of the article-related functionality including “Cited By”, “E-mail Article” and more, into one easy-to-find location. Researchers can now take further action quickly and easily with little extra effort.

Researchers are interested to know how other experts rate articles they read

Due to be launched in phases over the coming months, the integration of article comments and ratings from Elsevier’s social collaboration site, 2collab enables researchers to evaluate papers according to colleague-driven comments and ratings of articles right on the article page.

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