JSTOR Update 5/13/09

The following journals have been added to JSTOR.

The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=jgildageprogera
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 2002) – Vol. 2, No. 4 (October, 2003)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Society for Historians of the Gilded Age & Progressive Era
ISSN: 1537-7814

Lindbergia
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=lindbergia
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1/2 (1971) – Vol. 29, No. 3 (2004)
Moving Wall: 4 years
Publisher: Oikos Editorial Office
ISSN: 0105-0761

Polish American Studies
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=poliamerstud
Release Content:
Vol. 1 (1944) – Vol. 64, No. 2 (Autumn, 2007)
Moving Wall: 1 year
Publisher: Polish American Historical Association
ISSN: 0032-2806

Moving Wall Reductions

By publisher request, JSTOR is decreasing the moving wall of Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes from 5 to 3 years.

Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=jwarbcourinst
Release Content:
Vols. 67 – 68 (2004 – 2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: The Warburg Institute
ISSN: 0075-4390

By publisher request, JSTOR coverage for Technology and Culture is changing from fixed at 1999 to a moving wall of 5 years.

Technology and Culture
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=techcult
Release Content:
Vol. 40, No. 1 (January, 1999) – Vol. 44, No. 4 (October, 2003)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press on behalf of the Society for the History of Technology
ISSN: 0040-165X

ARTstor Update 5/11/09

Additional contemporary art from Larry Qualls now in ARTstor
More than 4,300 additional images from Larry Qualls’ archive of contemporary art are now available in the ARTstor Digital Library. The images most recently made available in the Digital Library includes works of art shown during gallery seasons of Summer 2002, Fall 2002, Winter 2003, and Spring 2003.

First images from the Asian Art Photographic Distribution collection
ARTstor has recently added more than 4,700 images from the University of Michigan Asian Art Photographic Distribution (AAPD) to the Digital Library. This release consists of Chinese painting, sculpture, and decorative arts as well as Japanese painting and prints.

Final images added to Carnegie Institution of Washington Photographs of Mayan Excavations
ARTstor, in collaboration with the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, has added approximately 6,600 more images to the Carnegie Institution of Washington Photographs of Mayan Excavations collection.

Project Muse Content Update: 4/30/09

The following 14 new journals went online in Project Muse between February – April 2009:

Canadian Public Policy
Publisher: University of Toronto Press

La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Publisher: La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Franciscan Studies
Publisher: The Franciscan Institute

Histoire social/Social history
Publisher: University of Toronto Press

International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
Publisher: Indiana University Press

JEGP, Journal of English and Germanic Philology
Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies
Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Journal of Slavic Linguistics
Publisher: Slavica Publishers

MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.
Publisher: MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United State

The Middle East Journal
Publisher: Middle East Institute

Le mouvement social
Publisher: Association Le Mouvement Social

The Pluralist
Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Serbian Studies: Journal of the North American Society for Serbian Studies
Publisher: Slavica Publishers

Tenso
Publisher: Société Guilhem IX

New & Updated Titles in Credo Reference

Credo Reference recently added the following 11 new/updated titles:

New

  • Critical Terms for Religious Studies, University of Chicago Press
  • Penguin Dictionary of Biology
  • Who Was Who at Waterloo: A Biography of the Battle, Pearson Education

Updated

  • Debrett’s People of Today 2009
  • Jablonski’s Dictionary of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations, Elsevier Health Sciences
  • The Macquarie Dictionary
  • Marquis Who’s Who in America
  • Marquis Who’s Who in the World
  • Marquis Who Was Who in America 1607-1984
  • Marquis Who Was Who in America 1985-present
  • The Penguin English Dictionary

Alexander Street Press Music & Performing Arts Content Update: 4/29/09

New Content

  • Added 379 classical scores from Edition Peters and University Music Editions, including works by composers Anton Webern, James Dillon, Jonathan Dove, Dunstaple, Brian Ferneyhough, Philip Grange, Stephen McNeff, and Jonathan Rathbone (added to Classical Scores Library).
  • 150 tracks from Rounder Records, including The 20th Anniversary Concert: Live at Carnegie Hall—The New Lost City Ramblers, Jelly Roll Morton: Anamule Dance, Tom Paxton: And Loving You, Deep River of Song: Louisiana (added to American Song).
  • 470 tracks from Six Degrees Records, including Issa Bagayogo: Tassoumakan, Azam Ali: Elysium for the Brave, Spanish Harlem Orchestra: United We Swing, Gaudi / Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: Dub Qawwali (added to Contemporary World Music).
  • 550 pages of full-text reference, including Live at the Village Vanguard, by Max Gordon, and The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop-And Why It Matters, by Tricia Rose (added to African American Music Reference).

Content Coming Soon

  • The George Balanchine Foundation (for Dance in Video). New works licensed include rare and unpublished films of the choreographer’s work.
  • Charles Dennis Productions (for Dance in Video). The “Alive and Kicking” video documentary series showcases cutting-edge dance and performance artists.
  • ArtHaus Musik (for Opera in Video). Works include Wagner’s Tännhauser (Camilla Nylund) 2008 performance; Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra (Thomas Hampson) 2002 performance; Verdi’s La Traviata (Angela Gheorghiu, Ramon Vargas) 2007 performance; and Janacek’s Jenufa (Eva Marton) 2005 performance.
  • Sun Records (for American Song). Artists from this legendary Nashville record label include Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Patti Page, Sleepy LaBeef, and The Dixie Cups.
  • High Tone Records (for American Song). New recordings licensed include great American artists such as Honeyboy Edwards, Otis Rush, Sonny Burgess, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, and Tom Russell.
  • Universal Edition (for Classical Scores Library). We’ve licensed 2,000 new scores from a wide variety of composers, including Berg, Berio, Boulez, Bruckner, Chopin, Debussy, Granados, Grieg, Janacek, Kodaly, Messiaen, Milhaud, Mussorgsky, Reger, Satie, Stockhausen, Weber, Webern, and more.

America’s Historical Newspapers Content Update: 4/29/09

The following content was recently added to America’s Historical Newspapers:

Publication Issues Publication Location Date Start Date End
Gazette-Telegraph 3 Colorado Springs, CO 1918-08-06 1922-12-09
Idaho Falls Times 2 Idaho City, ID 1913-01-07 1913-01-21
Times Picayune 223 New Orleans, LA 1861-01-15 1899-12-25
Maryland Gazette 55 Annapolis, MD 1728-12-03 1734-11-22
Baltimore American 2 Baltimore, MD 1907-04-30 1908-08-04
Albany Evening Journal 34 Albany, NY 1852-05-08 1872-12-19
New York Herald 86 New York, NY 1865-06-11

1865-09-08

Northern Herald 6 Plattsburgh, NY 1812-01-11 1814-08-26
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune 602 Cincinnati, OH 1870-01-01 1879-04-30
Public Ledger 1418 Philadelphia, PA 1842-01-01 1872-05-31
Standard 1 Clarksville, TX 1852-10-23  
Salt Lake Telegram 5 Salt Lake City, UT 1904-0319 1916-11-26

New: Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period

Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period, from Alexander Street Press, has just been added to the Libraries’ collections.  It includes 60 volumes of poetry by 47 authors. Accompanying the texts are extensive bio-critical essays, specially written for the database by leading scholars in the field, as well as selected criticism from the critical bibliography compiled by the editors.

Temple University Libraries Announce 2009 Library Prize Winners

Update: A ceremony to award the prize’s was held in Paley Library’s Lecture Hall at 4:00pm on Thursday April 30th, 2009. Temple University Libraries have announced the winners of the fifth annual Library Prize for Undergraduate Research. As this prestigious award entered its fourth year, 60 outstanding applications were received. Applications represented disciplines, schools and colleges across Temple’s campus. Congratulations to our winners (in alphabetical order):

Danielle Country – “Girl, Translated”- (Latin 4082) Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Laura M. Samponaro

George A. Keddie – “Catholic Eucharistic Theology and the Gospel of Judas: Exposing the Formative Value of Sethian Criticism” (Religion 4882) Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Vasiliki M. Limberis

Cara Shay – “The Neurobiology and Development of Compulsive Hoarding and Its Relationship to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder” (Psychology 3306) Faculty Sponsors: Dr. Diana S. Woodruff-Pak (primary) and Dr. Ingrid Olson And our honorable mentions (in alphabetical order)

James H. Baraldi – “Gangliosidosis” – (Psychology 3306) Faculty Sponsors: Dr. Diana S. Woodruff-Pak (primary), Dr. Luis Del Valle, and Dr. George P. Tuszynski

Megan Donnelly – “More than Whores and Housewives: Reconsidering Judith Leyster’s The Proposition” – (Art History 2197) Faculty Sponsors: Dr. Jonathan Kline

The complete papers are available to download and interviews with the winners will be soon posted to the Library Prize site.