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New Features in Journal Citation Reports

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Journal Citation Reportsrecently introduced the following new features:

  • Five-Year Impact Factor – Gives a broader range of citation activity for a more informative snapshot over time. For journals in subjects where citation activity continues to rise through several years, this allows more of their total citation activity to be included in a critical performance metric.
  • Eigenfactor™, also a five-year metric, is designed to reflect the prestige and citation influence of journals by considering scholarly literature as a network of journal-to-journal relationships.
  • Graphic Displays of Impact Factor “Box Plots” – A graphic interpretation of how a journal ranks in different categories.
  • Rank-in-Category Tables for Journals Covering Multiple Disciplines – Allows a journal to be seen in the context of multiple categories at a glance rather than only a single one.
  • Journal “Self Citations” – An analysis of journal self citations and their contribution to the Journal Impact Factor calculation.

Media Services Department Officially Opens

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You may have noticed changes happening on the ground level of Paley Library. Over the past few months the Library has been busy converting what used to be the periodicals room into a new Media Services department. On Monday, February 16 the Media Services department officially became operational. We have now moved the entire media collection from its current location at the Tuttleman Circulation/Reserve desk to the new Media Services location on the ground floor of Paley Library.

In addition to making available all types of media for regular (one week) and reserve (4 hours) loans, it offers multiple viewing stations and even several viewing rooms for groups. That means students can now easily borrow and view the media assigned for their courses in one location. Students may borrow headphones as well. A DVD browsing area is being developed so students and faculty can see the latest videos added to the collection. Faculty can continue to place videos and DVDs on reserve for their courses using the same procedure. Students should be directed to the new Media Services department to obtain media placed on reserve.

For more information about the new Media Services department, please contact Sebastian Derry, Head of Media Services.

Integrating the Library Into Your Blackboard Course

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Temple University librarians offer some convenient yet powerful technology for integrating library resources into a Blackboard course site or even a web page. Think about it. Put the library’s databases and research tools right where students can easily find them – in their course site. To learn about these integration technologies please attend the next Instructional Technologies Users Group (ITUG) program on Wednesday, February 11 from noon to 1 p.m. in room 111 at the TECH Center. Fred Rowland, reference librarian at Paley Library, will present on how to integrate the Library’s resources into Blackboard. Rowland will explain the different options available to faculty, such as Library Express, Blackboard Content Packages and Blackboard Course Guides. All of these options make it easy for faculty to put the library into their course. If you are unable to attend Rowland’s session and would like to integrate the Library into your course, please contact him by e-mail for more information.

New Interface for Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)

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Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) has a new interface. Besides a streamlined look-and-feel, the new interface also provides the following new features:

  • Research Guide section for undergraduates with contextual essays and chronology
  • Image Gallery, Most Popular Searches and Key Documents sections
  • Citation generator and export functionality
  • Expanded download and e-mail features
  • Keyword in Context feature from results list

In addition, you now have the option of including results from Early English Books Online (EEBO) in your ECCO search, and then linking directly to the EEBO documents (this also works the other way around – you can include ECCO results in an EEBO search).

New & Updated Titles in Oxford Reference Online

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Five new titles and five new editions were recently added to Oxford Reference Online. New Titles:

  • Dictionary of Education
  • New Encyclopedia of Insects and their Allies
  • Oxford Companion to Global Change
  • Oxford Companion to Local and Family History
  • Oxford Guide to Literary Britain

New Editions:

  • Dictionary of Economics
  • Dictionary of Food and Nutrition
  • Dictionary of Sociology
  • Dictionary of Zoology
  • Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs

Library Express!

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express-icon-smaller.jpg Library Express! arrives just in time! The new Obama administration is hailing Library Express! as one of the most essential tools in helping to kickstart our economy. The president is lobbying all Temple faculty members to contact their librarian immediately to take advantage of this offer.

As Obama recently commented, “Here’s how it works. Faculty contact librarians. Librarians create customized online course guides for classes. Faculty insert guides into Blackboard. With quick access to excellent sources, students do superior research. Everybody wins…And let me add one more thing: though the current generation of students didn’t get us into this mess, we’ll need everyone to get us out of it. Information is power. Talk to your librarian.”

We are entering terra nova. Students need every possible advantage. Providing quick access to articles, databases, tools and services in Blackboard will lead students to high quality information and improve research quality. Temple’s subject specialists are eager to create customized course guides that fit curricular needs. Integrating them into Blackboard is quick and easy. Subject Specialists // Blackboard Library Sampler // Integrating the Library into Blackboard If you’re a faculty member, contact your librarian. If you’re a student, contact your faculty member. If you are neither faculty, student, nor librarian, just sit back and watch the economy grow.

—Fred Rowland

JSTOR Update 1/29/09

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The following journals have been added to the JSTOR archive.

Annales d’Économie et de Statistique [1986- ] http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=annaeconstat Previous Title: Annales de l’inséé [1969-1985] (0019-0209) http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=annalesinsee Previous Title: Cahiers du Séminaire d’Économétrie [1951-1985] (0071-8343) http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=cahisemiecon Release Content: Nos. 1 – 27 (1951 – 1985); Nos. 3 – 59/60 (1970 – 1985); Nos. 1 – 86 (1986 – 2007) Moving Wall: 1 years Publisher: L’INSEE / GENES on behalf of ADRES ISSN: 0769-489X Note: Annales de l’inséé merged with Cahiers du Séminaire d’Économétrie to form Annales d’Économie et de Statistique.

Behaviour. Supplement http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=behasupp Release Content: Nos. 1 – 20 (1950 – 1977) Publication of this title ceased in 1977. Publisher: Brill ISSN: 0169-7544

Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. Supplementary Studies http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=bamschorriressup Release Content: Nos. 1 – 27 (1945 – 1991) Publication of this title ceased in 1991. Publisher: The American Schools of Oriental Research ISSN: 0145-3661

Early American Literature [1968- ] http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=earlamerlite Previous Title: Early American Literature Newsletter [1966-1968] (0739-8301) http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=earlamerlitenews Release Content: Vol. 1, No. 1 (Winter, 1966) – Vol. 40, No. 3 (2005) Moving Wall: 3 years Publisher: University of North Carolina Press ISSN: 0012-8163

Economía http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=economia Release Content: Vol. 1, No. 1 (Fall, 2000) – Vol. 6, No. 1 (2005) Moving Wall: 3 years Publisher: Brookings Institution Press ISSN: 1529-7470

Economic Theory http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=econtheory Release Content: Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 1991) – Vol. 26, No. 4 (November, 2005) Moving Wall: 3 years Publisher: Springer ISSN: 0938-2259

Innovation Policy and the Economy http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=innopoliecon Release Content: Vols. 1 – 3 (2000 – 2003) Moving Wall: 5 years Publisher: The University of Chicago Press ISSN: 1531-3468

Interfaces http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=interfaces Release Content: Vol. 1, No. 4 (June, 1971) – Vol. 32, No. 5 (September/October, 2002) Moving Wall: 5 years Publisher: INFORMS ISSN: 0092-2102 Note: The content for 2003 will be released as soon as the issues become available to JSTOR.

Journal of International Marketing http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=jintermarket Release Content: Vol. 1, No. 1 (1993) – Vol. 11, No. 4 (2003) Moving Wall: 5 years Publisher: American Marketing Association ISSN: 1069-031X

Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=jamerresecentegy Release Content: Vols. 1 – 40 (1962 – 2003) Moving Wall: 5 years Publisher: American Research Center in Egypt ISSN: 0065-9991

Journal of Transport Economics and Policy http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=jtranseconpoli Release Content: Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 1967) – Vol. 39, No. 3 (September, 2005) Moving Wall: 3 years Publisher: London School of Economics and University of Bath ISSN: 0022-5258

Linguistics and Philosophy [1977- ] http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=lingphil Previous Title: Foundations of Language [1965-1975] (0015-900X) http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=founlang Release Content: Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 1965) – Vol. 13, No. 4 (November, 1975); Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 1977) – Vol. 28, No. 6 (December, 2005) Moving Wall: 3 years Publisher: Springer ISSN: 0165-0157

Public Choice [1968- ] http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=publchoi Previous Title: Papers on Non-Market Decision Making [1966-1967] (1941-9716) http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=papnonmarkdecmak Release Content: Vols. 2 – 3 (1967); Vol. 4 (1968) – Vol. 125, No. 3/4 (December, 2005) Moving Wall: 3 years Publisher: Springer ISSN: 0048-5829

Religious Studies http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=relistu Release Content: Vol. 1, No. 1 (October, 1965) – Vol. 39, No. 4 (December, 2003) Moving Wall: 5 years Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISSN: 0034-4125

Systematic Botany Monographs http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=systbotamono Release Content: Vol. 1 (October, 1980) – Vol. 66 (September 29, 2003) Moving Wall: 5 years Publisher: American Society of Plant Taxonomists ISSN: 0737-8211

I Tatti Studies: Essays in the Renaissance http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=tattstudessarena Release Content: Vols. 1 – 11 (1985 – 2007) Moving Wall: 1 year Publisher: Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki s.r.l. and Villa I Tatti, The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies ISSN: 0393-5949

Victorian Poetry http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=victpoet Release Content: Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 1963) – Vol. 41, No. 4 (Winter, 2003) Moving Wall: 5 years Publisher: West Virginia University Press ISSN: 0042-5206

Water Environment Research [1992- ] http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=wateenvirese Previous Title: Research Journal of the Water Pollution Control Federation [1989-1991] (1047-7624) http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=rjwatpollcontfed Previous Title: Journal (Water Pollution Control Federation) [1960-1989] (0043-1303) http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=jwatpollcontfed Previous Title: Sewage and Industrial Wastes [1950-1959] (0096-364X) http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=sewainduwast Previous Title: Sewage Works Journal [1928-1949] (0096-9362) http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=sewaworkj Release Content: Vol. 1, No. 1 (October, 1928) – Vol. 21, No. 6 (November, 1949); Vol. 22, No. 1 (January, 1950) – Vol. 31, No. 12 (December, 1959); Vol. 32, No. 1 (January, 1960) – Vol. 61, No. 8 (August, 1989); Vol. 61, No. 9 (September, 1989) – Vol. 63, No. 7 (November/December, 1991); Vol. 64, No. 1 (January/February, 1992) – Vol. 73, No. 6 (November/December, 2001) Moving Wall: 7 years Publisher: Water Environment Federation ISSN: 1061-4303

The Wisconsin Magazine of History http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=wiscmagahist Release Content: Vol. 1, No. 1 (September, 1917) – Vol. 89, No. 2 (Winter, 2005/2006) Moving Wall: 3 years Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society ISSN: 0043-6534

The following journals have been added to the JSTOR archive as previous titles to already present journals. Please see the notes included for these titles for current title information.

New Mexico Anthropologist http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=newmexianthr Release Content: Vol. 1, No. 1 (March 13, 1937) – Vol. 6, No. 4 (October/December, 1943) Moving Wall: N/A Publisher: University of New Mexico ISSN: 0734-7030 Note: New Mexico Anthropologist is a previous title to Journal of Anthropological Research which is already released into the JSTOR archive.

Midwest Folklore http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=midwfolk Release Content: Vol. 1, No. 1 (April, 1951) – Vol. 13, No. 4 (Winter, 1963/1964) Moving Wall: N/A Publisher: Indiana University Press ISSN: 0544-0750 Note: Midwest Folklore is a previous title to Journal of Folklore Research which is already released into the JSTOR archive.

National Marketing Review [1935-1936} http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=natimarkrevi Previous Title = American Marketing Journal [1934-1936] (0193-1806) http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=amermarkj Release Content: Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 1934) – Vol. 3, No. 2 (April, 1936); Vol. 1, Nos. 1 – 4 (Summer, 1935 – Spring, 1936) Moving Wall: N/A Publisher: American Marketing Association ISSN: 0190-9509 Note: National Marketing Review and American Marketing Journal merged to form The Journal of Marketing which is already released into the JSTOR archive. The moving walls for the following titles have been reduced or eliminated at the request of the publisher. Please see the note for each title for details concerning the length of the previous and current moving wall for that title.

Acta Musicologica http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=actamusicologica Release Content: Vol. 75, No. 1 (2003) – Vol. Vol. 77, No. 2 (2005) Moving Wall: 3 years Publisher: International Musicological Society ISSN: 0001-6241 Note: By publisher request, JSTOR is decreasing the moving wall from 5 years to 3 years.

American Antiquity http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=ameranti Release Content: Vol. 70, No. 1 (January, 2005) – Vol. 71, No. 4 (October, 2006) Moving Wall: 2 years Publisher: Society for American Archaeology ISSN: 0002-7316 Note: By publisher request, JSTOR is decreasing the moving wall from 3 years to 2 years.

American Quarterly http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=amerquar Release Content: Vol. 48, No. 1 (March, 1996) – Vol. 55, No. 4 (December, 2003) Moving Wall: 5 years Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press ISSN: 0003-0678 Note: By publisher request, JSTOR is reducing the moving wall from fixed to 5 years.

Asian Folklore Studies http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=asiafolkstud Release Content: Vol. 62, No. 1 (2003) – Vol. 66, No. 1/2 (2007) Moving Wall: zero Publisher: Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture ISSN: 0385-2342 Note: By publisher request, JSTOR is decreasing the moving wall from 5 years to zero.

Ecological Applications http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=ecolappl Release Content: Vol. 14, No. 1 (February, 2004) – Vol. 15, No. 6 (December, 2005) Moving Wall: 2 years Publisher: Ecological Society of America ISSN: 1051-0761 Note: By publisher request, JSTOR is decreasing the moving wall from 4 years to 2 years. Note: The content for 2006 will be released as soon as the issues become available to JSTOR.

Ecological Monographs http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=ecolmono Release Content: Vol. 74, No. 1 (February, 2004) – Vol. 75, No. 4 (November, 2005) Moving Wall: 2 years Publisher: Ecological Society of America ISSN: 0012-9615 Note: By publisher request, JSTOR is decreasing the moving wall from 4 years to 2 years. ELH http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=elh Release Content: Vol. 62, No. 1 (Spring, 1995) – Vol. 70, No. 4 (Winter, 2003) Moving Wall: 5 years Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press ISSN: 0013-8304 Note: By publisher request, JSTOR is reducing the moving wall from fixed to 5 years.

Hispania http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=hispania Release Content: Vol. 86, No. 1 (March, 2003) – Vol. 88, No. 4 (December, 2005) Moving Wall: 3 years Publisher: American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese ISSN: 0018-2133 Note: By publisher request, JSTOR is decreasing the moving wall from 5 years to 3 years. Note: Vol. 87, Nos. 2, 4 (2004) and Vol. 88, No. 2 (2005) will be released as soon as the issues become available to JSTOR.

Human Rights Quarterly http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=humarighquar Release Content: Vol. 17, No. 1 (February, 1995) – Vol. 25, No. 4 (November, 2003) Moving Wall: 5 years Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press ISSN: 0275-0392 Note: By publisher request, JSTOR is reducing the moving wall from fixed to 5 years.

Industrial and Labor Relations Review http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=indulaborelarevi Release Content: Vol. 58, No. 2 (January, 2005) – Vol. 60, No. 1 (October, 2006) Moving Wall: 2 years Publisher: Cornell University, School of Industrial & Labor Relations ISSN: 0019-7939 Note: By publisher request, JSTOR is decreasing the moving wall from 3 years to 2 years.

International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=intereviaestsoci Release Content: Vol. 34, No. 1 (June, 2003) – Vol. 37, No. 2 (December, 2006) Moving Wall: 2 years Publisher: Croatian Musicological Society ISSN: 0351-5796 Note: By publisher request, JSTOR is decreasing the moving wall from 5 years to 2 years.

Journal of the Royal Musical Association http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=jroyamusiasso Release Content: Vol. 126, No. 1 (2001) – Vol. 128, No. 2 (2003) Moving Wall: 5 years Publisher: Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Musical Association ISSN: 0269-0403 Note: By publisher request, JSTOR is reducing the moving wall from fixed to 5 years.

Latin American Antiquity http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=latiameranti Release Content: Vol. 16, No. 1 (March, 2005) – Vol. 17, No. 4 (December, 2006) Moving Wall: 2 years Publisher: Society for American Archaeology ISSN: 1045-6635 Note: By publisher request, JSTOR is decreasing the moving wall from 3 years to 2 years.

MELUS http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=melus Release Content: Vol. 30, No. 1 (Spring, 2005) – Vol. 31, No.4 (Winter, 2006) Moving Wall: 2 years Publisher: MELUS ISSN: 0163-755X Note: By publisher request, JSTOR is decreasing the moving wall from 3 years to 2 years.

The Milbank Quarterly http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=milbankquarterly Release Content: Vol. 83, Nos. 1 – 4 (2005) Moving Wall: 1 year Publisher: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of Milbank Memorial Fund ISSN: 0887-378X Note: By publisher request, JSTOR is decreasing the moving wall from 3 years to 1 year. Note: The content for 2006-2007 will be released as soon as the issues become available to JSTOR.

New Literary History http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=newlitehist Release Content: Vol. 26, No. 1 (Winter, 1995) – Vol. 34, No. 4 (Autumn, 2003) Moving Wall: 5 years Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press ISSN: 0028-6087 Note: By publisher request, JSTOR is reducing the moving wall from fixed to 5 years.

Pacific Affairs http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=pacificaffairs Release Content: Vol. 76, No. 1 (Spring, 2003) – Vol. 77, No. 4 (Winter, 2004/2005) Moving Wall: 4 years Publisher: Pacific Affairs, University of British Columbia ISSN: 0030-851X Note: By publisher request, JSTOR is decreasing the moving wall from 5 years to 4 years.

Reviews in American History http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=reviamerhist Release Content: Vol. 23, No. 1 (March, 1995) – Vol. 31, No. 4 (December, 2003) Moving Wall: 5 years Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press ISSN: 0048-7511 Note: By publisher request, JSTOR is reducing the moving wall from fixed to 5 years.

Theatre Journal http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=theatrej Release Content: Vol. 48, No. 1 (March, 1996) – Vol. 55, No. 4 (December, 2003) Moving Wall: 5 years Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press ISSN: 0192-2882 Note: By publisher request, JSTOR is reducing the moving wall from fixed to 5 years.

Transactions of the American Philological Association http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=tranamerphilass2 Release Content: Vol. 132, No. 1/2 (Autumn, 2002) – Vol. 133, No. 2 (Autumn, 2003)
Moving Wall: 5 years Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press ISSN: 0360-5949 Note: By publisher request, JSTOR is reducing the moving wall from fixed to 5 years. Note: The content for 2001 will be released as soon as the issues become available to JSTOR.

The University of Chicago Law Review http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=univchiclawrevi Release Content: Vol. 71, No. 1 (Winter, 2004) – Vol. 74, No. 3 (Summer, 2007) Moving Wall: zero Publisher: University of Chicago Law Review ISSN: 0041-9494 Note: By publisher request, JSTOR is decreasing the moving wall from 4 years to zero.

World Politics http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=worldpolitics Release Content: Vol. 48, No. 1 (October, 1995) – Vol. 56, No. 1 (October, 2003) Moving Wall: 5 years Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press ISSN: 0043-8871 Note: By publisher request, JSTOR is reducing the moving wall from fixed to 5 years.