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We are pleased to announce that a new JSTOR platform was launched on April 4. Among the new improvements is a faceted search feature to narrow results by discipline, journal, article type, publication date, language, times an article is cited in JSTOR, number of pages, and articles with images. The new version includes some basic interface changes and new features. Check it out and try it!
On January 31, 2008, faculty, staff, students, and members of the Lewisburg community participated in a series of event promoting awareness of climate change and other environmental issues. The day's events were sponsored by the Bucknell Environmental Center. The archive features videos and PowerPoint presentations of the interdisciplinary faculty panel discussions, as well as photos of student and faculty scholarship displayed during the lunch event. The Focus the Nation archive is the first collection housed in Bucknell's ScholarVault, a digital archive of scholarly, creative, and research output by Bucknell faculty, students, and staff.
This archive of materials related to the event was built by the Library and Information Technology Department's Digital Initiatives Group and is accessible here:
www.bucknell.edu/ScholarVault.xml
ISR subscribes to the Knovel Digital Library, a large collection of important engineering reference books, all available full-text online. Really indispensable titles like Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary are available campus-wide. Knovel includes a unit converter and periodic table of elements, and provides what they call "productivity tools" that allow users to take tables and data from some of their online engineering handbooks, and manipulate the data.
Now Knovel has given the Digital Library a new look, and will feature "usability enhancements including a cleaner interface, more efficient navigation, simpler search refinement and improved browsing capabilities." Take a look at http://www.knovel.com
As we announced in several email messages (beginning in summer 2007), we have phased our our Docutek eRes system, because that "electronic reserves" functionality can be provided better using Blackboard. All courses that exist in Banner (our student information system) are created in Blackboard, and course rosters are also automatically synchronized between Banner and Blackboard each day at 6:30 AM. In other words, it's much easier for students to access your online readings using Blackboard, and your audience is automatically limited to the students enrolled in your course (among the other advantages and tools that Blackboard provides).
If you haven't yet uploaded your eRes readings into Blackboard, you need to do so as soon as possible, since we aren't turning on any courses in eRes this semester, and the server itself will be unavailable soon.
We have instructions on how to move course materials from eRes to Blackboard at:
Moving Readings from ERes to Blackboard.
If you have any questions about the process of uploading PDF files (and other documents) into Blackboard, please send email to ITEC. We'll be happy to help you as you make this transition from eRes to Blackboard.
We are very pleased to report that ISR has negotiated a contract with Elsevier for access to their ScienceDirect online journal archive, effective immediately. All of the Elsevier journals subscribed to by Bucknell University will now be available online, from 1995 to the present issue. In addition, all of the Elsevier journals currently owned by any of the libraries in our consortium, PALINET, will also be available to us.
Our license will now provide online access to over 800 journal titles in all fields of science and engineering, and a number of social science disciplines. Look for the green "full-text available" icon when searching ScienceDirect to be able to download a pdf version of the journal article.
Currently the journals can be searched from the ScienceDirect.com web site, or by using the Scirus.com web browser. We have also created links from our Electronic Journals list to the ScienceDirect titles.
For more information contact Jim Van Fleet at vanfleet@bucknell.edu or x73235.
LexisNexis Academic, a database with full-text news, business and legal information has a new interface. Options include Easy and Advanced forms and a Sources tab that limiting your search to specific documents such as legal cases. To use LexisNexis Academic, go to the A - Z database list http://www.bucknell.edu/script/ISR/Databases/. (Access restricted to Bucknell users.) Contact the Reference/Information Desk, Main Level refdesk@bucknell.edu if you need assistance.
Do you struggle with citing your sources using the APA, MLA or Chicago formats? RefWorks can help!
RefWorks is web-based software that allows you to do things like:
- automatically format citations in a variety of styles (e.g. MLA or APA) with a few clicks.
- import citation information from online databases about books, journal articles, videos, etc.,
- organize and store your references into folders according to your topic of interest or particular assignment or project.
- generate a correctly formatted reference page or bibliography.
For more information, please visit our RefWorks Introduction web page, which explains how to set up a RefWorks account, how to log into Refworks, and contains some additional information about how it could be used.
Please contact the Reference Desk with any questions.
Read a good "Knovel" lately? Bucknell now has online access to the Knovel Electronic Library (www.knovel.com), a collection of over 800 books and databases of science and engineering information. Besides being able to browse the titles or search the entire Library, Knovel includes productivity tools (interactive tables, graphs and live equations) that allow users to work within Knovel to analyze the data they find.
And to make things more interesting, Knovel is now offering the "University Challenge." Students can navigate to http://www.info.knovel.com/challenge/ and answer 5 questions using the tools in the Knovel Library. Correct answers will enter you in a drawing for iPod prizes, and the chance to win a $1500 scholarship.
Knovel puts important reference books like Perry's Chemical Engineering Handbook, Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary, and Mark's Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers right on your desktop computer. Any Bucknell student, staff, or faculty member can access the Library from a networked computer. Try it out and win the Challenge!
Did you know that the Library has a subscription to "Journal Citation Reports" (JCR) from Thompson-ISI?
The following information is taken from ISI's website:
"JCR is a comprehensive and unique resource that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. It is the only source of citation data on journals, and includes virtually all areas of science, technology, and social sciences. JCR can show you the:
* Most frequently cited journals in a field
* Highest impact journals in a field
* Largest journals in a field
Citation and article counts are important indicators of how frequently current researchers are using individual journals. By tabulating and aggregating citation and article counts, JCR offers a unique perspective for journal evaluation and comparison."
Search a great database for theatre & dance and related areas!
Information about the IIPA:
International Index of Performing Arts (IIPA) Full Text is the only online resource covering the performing arts. It enables you to search and browse citations, abstracts and selected full text in a comprehensive range of journals. A variety of subjects is covered, including dance, film, drama, television, the arts and entertainment industry, stagecraft, magic, musical theatre and performance art. Abstracts are provided for every citation from 1998 forward to give further detail and offer additional access points to information. The coverage in IIPA Full Text is wide, ranging from as early as 1864 right up to the present.
Access IIPA from the the Theatre & Dance Research by Subject Guide
or through the Databases list
ISR is pleased to announce that we have begun a subscription to the online edition of the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (BEOS).
The following information about the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (BEOS) was taken from Blackwell's webpage:
[BEOS]...Arranged across eleven volumes in A-Z format and also available online, it will be the reference for students, researchers, librarians, and academics in the field. This ground-breaking project will bring together specially commissioned entries written and edited by an international team of the world's best scholars and teachers. It provides:
- 1800 entries/3.5 million words arranged across c.6000 pages
- Clear, concise, expert definitions and explanations of the key concepts written by leading scholars in the field
- An essential reference for expert and newcomer alike, with entries ranging from short definitions of key terms to extended explorations of major topics
- Materials that have historically defined the discipline, but also more recent developments, significantly updating the store of sociological knowledge
- Introductions to sociological theories and research that have developed outside of the United States and Western Europe
- Sophisticated cross-referencing and search facilities
- Timeline, lexicon by subject area, bibliography, and index
BEOS will be accessible through the library catalog or on the Sociology section of the library's Research by Subject pages. It is also available through the Blackwell Reference Online listing on the Databases page.
Please contact the reference desk with any questions .
ISR is pleased to announce that we have begun a subscription to CQ Political Reference Suite. The URL for this resource is: http://library.cqpress.com/prs/index.php
CQ Political Reference Suite is an electronic collection of reference books and other material from CQ. The following titles are included in the subscription:
Each resource can be browsed or searched individually. In addition, they can be searched collectively using the search box at the top of the screen.
A link to CQ Political Reference Suite has been created in ISR's Databases page. In addition, records for CQ Political Reference Suite and records for each of its individual components will be added to the library catalog.
Please contact the library's reference desk with any questions.
The following was taken from a press release:
Dear Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life Subscriber,
We’re pleased to announce that the following enhancements became active in the databases on January 3, 2007, with the release of Version 4.2.
- Tagged search result records are now maintained across multiple searches within a session
- “Untag all” functionality is now available on the results page
- A single-term search may now be conducted from within a browseable index
- The use of ANDing/ORing logic is now an option for subject terms in a displayed record
- Search results are now pre-sorted based on publication date and, secondarily, on chronology scope
- Search pre-processing now handles commonly misspelled words and those with American, British, and Canadian spelling variations
- The “No Results Found” page now provides additional search assistance for the user, including single-click re-search of individual terms from the original query
Go to the America History and Life database.
Go to the Historical Abstracts database.
ISR is pleased to announce that Bucknell now has access to "Journal Citation Reports (JCR)" from Thompson ISI. JCR can be accessed at: http://isiknowledge.com
The following information is taken from ISI's website:
Journal Citation Reports is a comprehensive and unique resource that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data. JCR is published annually in two editions. JCR Science Edition contains data from over 5,900 journals in science and technology. JCR Social Sciences Edition contains data from over 1,700 journals in the social sciences.
Journal Citation Reports can show you the:
* Most frequently cited journals in a field
* Highest impact journals in a field
* Largest journals in a field
Citation and article counts are important indicators of how frequently current researchers are using individual journals. By tabulating and aggregating citation and article counts, JCR offers a unique perspective for journal evaluation and comparison.
Please contact the library's reference desk with any questions about JCR.
Knovel Corporation is one of our newest vendors offering access to nearly 700 engineering and scientific reference books, handbooks, standards, and databases. Knovel has added the ability to interactively manipulate and search for content across this entire collection. Using Internet Explorer, the Knovel site is only a click away at www.knovel.com. We arranged to have Bucknell IP authentication so you will never be asked for a Login to "open" a book.
Users can use keyword and/or data searches. The new chemical structure searching feature even allows users to even draw the chemical compound before searching. Users have the flexibility of navigating through e-References page-by-page or to search across the site and manipulate interactive tables, graphs, equations, spreadsheets, and other structured information.
Knovel books include Perry’s Chemical Engineers Handbook, Lange’s Handbook of Chemistry, and a host of titles in Engineering, including Mark’s Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers and the ASME Boiler and Pressure vessel codes. All of the Knovel titles will soon be included as links in our Online Catalog.
From the Knovel home page click on Help Center and/or Explore Knovel Features to get you started. Enjoy Knovel and happy searching.
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