USF Lakeland Library Services

Absent from campus

clw — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:38:19 +0000

I will be away from campus from Monday, June 30th and will be back Monday, July 14th. I will have limited email access (clw@lakeland.usf.edu), though not all the time.

For library enquiries, you can reach the USF Lakeland Library front desk at 863-667-7817. You can also contact the USF Tampa�s Ask-A-Librarian services at (813) 974-2729 or (866) 550-8036 (toll free). You can chat as well with a USF Librarian.

New platform release for JSTOR

clw — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:46:45 +0000

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 This fix was originally scheduled for this release but needed to be withdrawn for further development.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.

2007 ISI Journal Citation Reports available

clw — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:00:26 +0000

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.

Super-Googling Google Scholar

clw — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:47:27 +0000

The USF Libraries provide access to hundreds of databases to the students and faculty. Still, some may prefer using Google Scholar, at least in their first steps in a research process.

There are several tips though that can make a quest for information more successful in Google Scholar . First, go through the Library Web site, authenticate with the proxy server or BlackBoard, and then locate Google Scholar as you would any other database in MetaLib. If you go to the trouble to do that, the “Find it@USF” (SFX) links will be available, and you can then can pull up the full text seamlessly.

You can also add to the functionality of Google Scholar by going into “Preferences” and enabling links to RefWorks or Endnote.

Because it does not have the power of commercial search engines, Google Scholar does not allow search results to be sorted by date, format, or any other way. Also, Google Book search results are mixed in with journal citations, which can be a problem if you are only looking for journal articles.

(thanks to Susan Ariew of the Tampa Library for the tips)

Catalog is down

clw — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:01:21 +0000

The USF Libraries catalog is currently unavailable. Efforts are being made to put it back online as soon as possible.

Absent from campus

clw — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:00:52 +0000

I will be away at a conference this coming week.

I will be leaving Monday June 16th and will be back Friday, June 20th at 8:00 AM. I will have email access (clw@lakeland.usf.edu), though not all the time.

For general library enquiries, you can reach the USF Lakeland Library front desk at 863-667-7817. If you need immediate assistance from a librarian, you can contact the USF Tampa�s Ask-A-Librarian services at (813) 974-2729 or (866) 550-8036 (toll free).

Have a pleasant week!

How to access New Book lists using the catalog

clw — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:07:01 +0000

As you know, the USFL Library publishes a list of newly arrived titles every month (combined in the summer months). However, the USF Libraries catalog now sports a link you can click to see the new books in the library system.

To see the new books on management, for example, you go to entering the subject keyword “management” into the search box and it will retrieve all records with that keyword. THEN you have a link on the top left hand side that says “Limit by: New Titles” and it will give you all new titles with the keywords “management” in the record.

You can further narrow your results by limiting them by library. Select “USF Library - Lakeland” to see the new titles in our location only.

Alternatively, you can also make an Advanced Search using no keywords and selecting only the USF Library - Lakeland in the Location field. You will then see the new books in all disciplines for our location.

This USFL Library monthly list will continue to be published as well.

Trial Access: Faulkner Advisory For Information Technology Studies) and SMP (Security Management Practices)

clw — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:16:50 +0000

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.

New database: Alinari PhotoLibrary Educational

clw — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:38:42 +0000

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.

Open door seminars

clw — Wed, 28 May 2008 12:53:58 +0000

This June, we will hold four open, drop-in seminars on library resources:

Database Searching

Tuesday, June 3, 12:00-1:00PM
Wednesday, June 4, 5:00-6:00PM
Learn to select and access the best databases for your subject, search their content and find full-text articles.

RefWorks

Tuesday, June 3, 5:00-6:00PM
Wednesday, June 4, 12:00-1:00PM
Learn how to use this citation management system that makes building bibliographies a flash.

All sessions will take place in LTB 2153. These seminars all open to all; no registration required.