ARTstor Update 12/11/09

ARTstor has announced the following:

Now available: Images of modern and contemporary Latin American art
Approximately 170 images of modern and contemporary Latin American art from Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, and Uruguay are now available in the Digital Library.

Now available: Architectural photography from Ralph Lieberman
Approximately 1,400 new images from Ralph Lieberman are now available in ARTstor.

Now available: African art and field photography from Christopher Roy
ARTstor has collaborated with Christopher D. Roy to share approximately 3,500 images of African art and culture, now available in the Digital Library

Trial of Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection

We have trial access to Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection thru 2/7/10.  The collection will include more than 300 important dramatic works in streaming audio from the curated archive of the nation’s premiere radio theatre company. The plays—which include some of the most significant dramatic literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries—are performed by leading actors from around the world and recorded specifically for online listening.

The collection presents classics of the Western canon, modern works by American luminaries, originally commissioned plays, and high profile docudramas—by both renowned and emerging playwrights, such as:

  • Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare’s classic tale of duplicity, betrayal and murder, performed by Stacy Keach, Jobeth Williams, and Kelsey Grammer;
  • Arthur Miller’s The Crucible performed by Richard Dreyfuss, Michael York and Ed Begley, Jr., which mirrors the anti-Communist hysteria of the 1950s through the lens of the seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts witch trials;
  • Reginald Rose’s classic study of persuasion and power, Twelve Angry Men, starring Hector Elizondo, Richard Kind and Dan Castellaneta;
  • The Cherry Orchard , Anton Chekhov’s timeless story of an aristocratic Russian family’s fading fortunes and struggle to maintain their status in a changing world, starring Marsha Mason, Charles Durning and Jennifer Tilly;
  • Top Girls by Olivier Award-winning playwright Caryl Churchill, a modern comedy exploring the personal expense of one woman’s rise to the top of her field during the go-getting ‘80s, starring Amy Brennenman, Carolyn Seymour and Megan Austin Oberle;
  • The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial, an L.A. Theatre Works originally commissioned docudrama about the seminal 1925 Scopes trial, starring Ed Asner, Mike Farrell and Sharon Gless.

More info is available here.  Your feedback is appreciated.

The Sixties: Content Update

The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960-1974 recently added over 9,000 pages of new content from 430 sources.  The new content includes issues of several underground newspapers, including AMEX-Canada, Booklegger Magazine, Despite Everything, Fifth Estate, Free Student, The Paper, The Rag,The Partisan, Sanity, and The Vanguard.

Also included are materials from the radical right, such as The Truth Seeker and newsletters written by Americans for Conservative Action and American Association for Justice.

Newly added materials from the radical left include documents and papers by Students for a Democratic Society and the Black Liberation Movement.

A complete listing of the new content can be seen on the site’s What’s New page.

Roper Center / iPOLL Update

New Datasets include:

Selected studies recently added to iPOLL:

Title: Time/Rockefeller Foundation/SRBI A Women’s Nation Poll [August, 2009]
Source: Survey by Time, The Rockefeller Foundation.
Methodology: Conducted by Abt SRBI, August 31-September 15, 2009 and based on telephone interviews with a national adult including oversamples of blacks and hispanics sample of 3,413. The sample included 446 African Americans and 383 Hispanics. Results were weighted to be representative of a national adult population. The results of this survey appeared in ‘The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything.’
Search for: Topic: ‘women’; Organization: ‘Time’; Date: from ’08/31/2009 to 08/31/2009′

Title: Healthcare Through Women’s Economic Lenses Survey [October, 2009]
Source: Survey by The Independent Women’s Forum.
Methodology: Conducted by The Polling Company, October 19-October 25, 2009 and based on telephone interviews with a national adult women who are registered to vote sample of 800.
Search for: Topic: ‘women’; Date: ’10/19/2009 to 10/19/2009′

Title: Public Views of the H1N1 Vaccine Shortage Survey [October, 2009]
Source: Survey by Harvard School of Public Health.
Methodology: Conducted by Social Science Research Solutions/ICR-International Communications Research, October 30-November 1, 2009 and based on telephone interviews with a national adult including oversamples of blacks and hispanics sample of 1,073. There were 107 African Americans, and 141 Hispanics. Results are weighted to be representative of a national adult population.
Search for: Topic: ‘health’; Organization: ‘Harvard School of Public Health’; Date: ’10/30/2009 to 10/30/2009′

Title: Transatlantic Trends 2009 Survey [June, 2009]
Source: Survey by German Marshall Fund of the US and the Compagnia di San Paolo, Italy, with additional support from the Luso-American Foundation, Portugal, Fundacion BBVA, Spain, and the Tipping Point Fdtn., Bulgaria.
Methodology: Conducted by TNS Opinion and Social Institutes, June 9-July 1, 2009 and based on telephone interviews with a national adult sample of 1,000. Interviews were conducted in the US by Leger Marketing of Montreal. Parallel surveys were conducted in Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, Spain, Slovakia, Turkey, Bulgaria, and Romania. All fieldwork was coordinated by TNS Opinion and Social Institutes.
Search for: ‘climate’; Date: ’06/09/2009 to 06/09/2009′

Title: Public Agenda Foundation A Place to Call Home: What Immigrants Say About Life in America Survey [April, 2009]
Methodology: Conducted by Public Agenda Foundation, April 23-June 7, 2009 and based on telephone interviews with a national foreign-born adults sample of 1,138. Interviews were conducted by ICR-International Communications Research. Foreign-born adults are described as adults 18 years or older who currently live in the US and came to the US at the age of five or older. The survey was funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Search for: Organization: ‘Public Agenda Foundation’; Date: ’04/23/2009 to 04/23/2009′

Title: Transatlantic Trends Immigration Survey [August, 2008]
Source: Survey by German Marshall Fund of the US, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation of the US, the Compagnia di San Paolo, Italy, and the Barrow Cadbury Trust, United Kingdom.
Methodology: Conducted by TNS Opinion and Social Institutes, August 29-September 29, 2008 and based on telephone interviews with a national adult sample of 1,000. Interviews were conducted in the US by Leger Marketing of Montreal. Parallel surveys were conducted in Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland.
Search for: ‘immigrat% not McCain’; Topic ‘immigration’; Date: ’08/29/2008 to 08/29/2008′

TILT Library Research Tutorial No Longer Required

Although fewer and fewer students are taking courses under the old Core Curriculum, there are still a fair number of transfer students who are not yet part of the GenEd curriculum. All of these students still taking the Core Curriculum were required to take and pass a library research tutorial called TILT, Temple’s Information Literacy Tutorial. But no more. As part of the President’s initiative to reduce the burdens of the University’s dysfunctional rules and policies, a decision was made to eliminate the TILT requirement. Here is the exact language of the Committee that voted on the change: The Education Programs and Policies Committee of the Faculty Senate agreed to revise the Core Curriculum at their November 19th meeting: • the Temple Information Literacy Tutorial (TILT) will no longer be required to graduate. This change is effective immediately, i.e. this applies to Core students graduating January 2010 and forward. Since this is effective immediately the Temple University Libraries will remove the presence of TILT from our website. As we move forward, current and new students will learn how to become effective researchers through the GenEd program. Though TILT served us well and is now going away, self-guided tutorials do have their place in learning effective research methods. We will continue to develop instructional tutorials and other materials that will help students to become better researchers through self-guided methods.

JSTOR Update 11/23/09

The following journals have been added to JSTOR.

Gnomon
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=gnomon
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (1925) – Vol. 75, No. 8 (2003)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Verlag C.H.Beck
ISSN: 0017-1417
Note: The remaining content for 2003 will be released as soon as the issues become available to JSTOR.

Grand Street
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=granstre
Release Content:
Nos. 36 – 73 (1990 – Spring, 2004)
Publisher: Jean Stein
ISSN: 0734-5496
Note: The initial release of Grand Street included Vols. 1–9 (1981-1990). A license agreement was recently signed to include the remaining content in the JSTOR archive.
Note: Publication of title ceased in 2004.

Historische Zeitschrift. Beihefte
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=histzeitbeih
Release Content:
Vol. 1 (1924) – New Series, Vol. 27 (1998)
Moving Wall: 10 years
Publisher: Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag GmbH
ISSN: 0342-5363

International Journal
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=internationalj
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 1946) – Vol. 61, No. 1 (Winter, 2005/2006)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Canadian International Council
ISSN: 0020-7020

International Labor and Working-Class History [1976- ]
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=intelaboworkhist
Previous Title: Newsletter: European Labor and Working Class History [1972-1975] (0097-8523)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=newseurolabowork
Release Content:
Nos. 1-8 (May, 1972 – November, 1975);
Nos. 9-64 (May, 1976 – Fall, 2003)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Cambridge University Press on behalf of International Labor and Working-Class, Inc.
ISSN: 0147-5479

Journal of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=jmusfineartsbos
Release Content:
Vols. 1-6 (1989-1994)
Publisher: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISSN: 1041-2433
Note: Publication of this title ceased in 1994.

Language Resources and Evaluation [2005- ]
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=langresoeval
Previous Title: Computers and the Humanities [1966-2004] (0010-4817)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=comphuma
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (September, 1966) – Vol. 38, No. 4 (November, 2004);
Vol. 39, Nos. 1-4 (February-December, 2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Springer
ISSN: 1574-020X

Midwest Sociologist
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=midwsoc
Release Content:
Vol. 2, No. 1 (June, 1939) – Vol. 21, No. 2 (July, 1959)
Moving Wall: N/A
Publisher: Blackwell on behalf of the Midwest Sociological Society
ISSN: 1948-1586
Note: Midwest Sociologist is the previous title to The Sociological Quarterly which is already released into the JSTOR archive.
Note: The content for Vol. 1 (1938) will be released as soon as the issues become available to JSTOR.

Mycological Bulletin [1904-1908]
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=mycobull
Previous Title: Ohio Mycological Bulletin [1903] (1949-4629)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=ohiomycobull
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (March 7, 1903) – Vol. 1, No. 12 (November 21, 1903);
Vol. 2, No. 13 (February 27, 1904) – Vol. 6, No. 87 (March, 1908)
Moving Wall: N/A
Publisher: Mycological Society of America
ISSN: 1949-4637
Note: Mycological Bulletin and Ohio Mycological Bulletin are previous titles to Mycologia which is already released into the JSTOR archive.

Reis [1978- ]
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=reis
Previous Title: Revista española de la opinión pública [1965-1977] (0034-9429)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=revespdelaoppub
Release Content:
Nos. 1-50 + Index (May/August, 1965 – October/December, 1977);
Nos. 1-112 (January/March, 1978 – October/December, 2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Centro de Investigaciones Sociologicas
ISSN: 0210-5233

Revista Hispánica Moderna
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=revihispmod
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (October, 1934) – Vol. 58, No. 1/2 (June/December, 2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISSN: 0034-9593

Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (1954-) [1954- ]
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=revhistmodcont
Previous Title: Etudes d’histoire moderne et contemporaine [1947-1953] (0996-2735)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=etudhistmodcont
Previous Title: Revue d’histoire moderne [1926-1940] (0996-2727)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=revhistmod
Previous Title: Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (1899-1914) [1899-1914] (0996-2743)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=revhismodcon1899
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (1899/1900) – Vol. 19, N
o. 2/3 (March/June, 1914);
Vol. 1, No. 1 (January/February, 1926) – Vol. 15, No. 41/42 (January/May, 1940);
Vols. 1-5 (1947-1953);
Vol. 1, No. 1 (January/March, 1954) – Vol. 51, No. 4 (October/December, 2004)
Moving Wall: 4 years
Publisher: Societe d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine
ISSN: 0048-8003

Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=vierzeit
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 1953) – Vol. 46, No. 4 (October, 1998)
Moving Wall: 10 years
Publisher: Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag GmbH (and its subsidiary Akademie Verlag GmbH)
ISSN: 0042-5702

World Policy Journal
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=worldpolicyj
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Fall, 1983) – Vol. 20, No. 4 (Winter, 2003/2004)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: The MIT Press and the World Policy Institute
ISSN: 0740-2775

Jazz Music Library Content Update: 11/23/09

Over 2,000 new albums (30,000+ tracks) were added to Jazz Music Library in early November.  Notable names in this release include:

  • Alice Coltrane
  • Billie Holiday
  • Bing Crosby
  • Branford Marsalis
  • Diana Krall
  • Dinah Washington
  • Duke Ellington
  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • Fred Astaire
  • Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Herbie Hancock
  • John Coltrane
  • Lionel Hampton
  • Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
  • New York Voices
  • Nina Simone
  • Sammy Davis, Jr
  • Sarah Vaughan
  • Spyro Gyra
  • The Velvet Underground