JSTOR Update 10/12/10

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The following journals have been added to JSTOR:

  • Black Camera Vol. 1, No. 1 (Summer, 1985) – Vol. 21, No. 2 (Fall/Winter, 2006) Moving Wall: 3 years Publisher: Indiana University Press ISSN: 1536-3155
  • Feminist Teacher Vol. 1, No. 2 (Winter, 1985) – Vol. 17, No. 1 (2006) Moving Wall: 3 years Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISSN: 0882-4843
  • History and Memory Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring/Summer, 1989) – Vol. 10, No. 2 (Fall, 1998) Moving Wall: 3 years Publisher: Indiana University Press ISSN: 0935-560X Note: The content for 1999-2006 will be released as soon as the issues become available to JSTOR.
  • Indiana Magazine of History [1913- ] Previous Title: The Indiana Quarterly Magazine of History [1905-1913] (0147-2259) Vol. 1, No. 1 (First Quarter, 1905) – Vol. 9, No. 1 (March, 1913); Vol. 9, No. 2 (June, 1913) – Vol. 103, No. 4 (December, 2007) Moving Wall: 2 years Publisher: Indiana University Department of History in cooperation with the Indiana Historical Society. ISSN: 0019-6673
  • International Legal Materials Vol. 1, No. 1 (August, 1962) – Vol. 46, No. 6 (November, 2007) Moving Wall: 2 years Publisher: American Society of International Law ISSN: 0020-7829
  • Journal of Film and Video [1984- ] Previous Title: Journal of the University Film and Video Association [1982-1983] (0734-919X) Previous Title: Journal of the University Film Association [1968-1981] (0041-9311) Previous Title: Journal of the University Film Producers Association [1949-1967] (2155-8159) Vol. 1, No. 1 (March, 1949) – Vol. 19, No. 3/4 (1967); Vol. 20, No. 1 (1968) – Vol. 33, No. 4 (Fall, 1981); Vol. 34, No. 1 (Winter, 1982) – Vol. 35, No. 4 (Fall, 1983); Vol. 36, No. 1 (Winter, 1984) – Vol. 58, No. 4 (Winter, 2006) Moving Wall: 3 years Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISSN: 0742-4671
  • The Journal of General Education Vol. 1, No. 1 (October, 1946) – Vol. 53, No. 3/4 (2004) Moving Wall: 5 years Publisher: The Pennsylvania State University-Penn State University Press ISSN: 0021-3667
  • The Journal of Speculative Philosophy Vol. 1, No. 1 (1867) – Vol. 22, No. 4 (December, 1893); New Series, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1987) – New Series, Vol. 18, No. 4 (2004) Moving Wall: 5 years Publisher: The Pennsylvania State University-Penn State University Press ISSN: 0891-625X Note: No issues were published in 1894-1986.
  • Math Horizons Vol. 1, No. 1 (Winter, 1993) – Vol. 14, No. 2 (November, 2006) Moving Wall: 3 years Publisher: The Mathematical Association of America ISSN: 1072-4117
  • Pennsylvania History Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 1934) – Vol. 71, No. 4 (Autumn, 2004) Moving Wall: 5 years Publisher: The Pennsylvania State University-Penn State University Press ISSN: 0031-4528
  • Pennsylvania Legacies Full Text Content: Vol. 1, No. 1 (November, 2001) – Vol. 4, No. 2 (November, 2004) Moving Wall: 5 years Publisher: Historical Society of Pennsylvania ISSN: 1544-6360
  • Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (American Society of International Law) [1974- ] Previous Title: Proceedings of the American Society of International Law at Its Annual Meeting (1921-1969) [1921-1969] (0272-5045) Previous Title: Proceedings of the American Society of International Law at the Meeting of Its Executive Council [1918-1920] (0272-5053) Previous Title: Proceedings of the American Society of International Law at Its Annual Meeting (1907-1917) [1907-1917] (0272-5061) Vols. 1-11 (April 19-20, 1907 – April 26-28, 1917); Vols. 12/13 – 14 (April 27, 1918/April 17, 1919 – November 13, 1920); Vols. 15-63 (April 27-30, 1921 – April 24-26, 1969); Vols. 68-101 (1974-2007) Moving Wall: 2 years Publisher: American Society of International Law ISSN: 0272-5037
  • Prooftexts Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 1981) – Vol. 19, No. 3 (September, 1999) Moving Wall: 3 years Publisher: Indiana University Press ISSN: 0272-9601 Note: The content for 2000-2006 will be released as soon as the issues become available to JSTOR.
  • Qui Parle Vol. 2, No. 1 (Spring, 1988) – Vol. 15, No. 1 (Fall/Winter, 2004) Moving Wall: 5 years Publisher: University of Nebraska Press ISSN: 1041-8385
  • symploke Vol. 1, No. 1 (Winter, 1993) – Vol. 12, No. 1/2 (2004) Moving Wall: 5 years Publisher: University of Nebraska Press ISSN: 1069-0697
  • Women in German Yearbook Vols. 1-20 (1985-2004) Moving Wall: 5 years Publisher: University of Nebraska Press ISSN: 1058-7446

Trial: Sage Research Methods Online

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We are running a trial of Sage Research Methods Online (SRMO) through 12/31/10. SRMO provides advanced search and discovery tools to support researchers and students as they explore relevant research methods content across the social and behavioral sciences, covering quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods (includes the well-known Little Green Books)

Biography Resource Center is now Biography in Context

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Gale has rolled out a new interface to Biography Resource Center and re-named it Biography in Context. Besides a change to the look, other changes include:

  • Search occupations, nationalities, birthplaces and deathplaces right from the homepage — not just names
  • Sharing tools for any social media app you can think of
  • Citation generation in MLA and APA format
  • Print or email as PDF
  • Search assist for person topic pages
  • ReadSpeaker text-to-speech on every document
  • Translation for Chinese (simplified), French, German, Korean, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish..and back to English again
  • Thousands more photos than ever before
  • Embedded videos
  • Podcasts and audio files
  • Citation generation
  • Advanced search by document type, content type
  • Factboxes on person topic pages

Integrating the Library into Blackboard 9

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Temple University Libraries’ subject specialists create guides to library resources for general subjects as well as for specific courses and assignments. Faculty should contact Subject Specialists to get more information on these. Here is the Research Guides homepage.

Blackboard is a great place to make these guides available to students. View the Screencast below to see how easy it is to embed a library guide into your Blackboard course.

For more information, see Integrating the Library Into Blackboard.

Welcome Back Temple Students! ceLIBration Welcomes New Students

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The staff of Temple University Libraries are excited about the start of the fall 2010 semester. We want to welcome all of our returning students back to campus, and we welcome all of our new students as well. Temple University Libraries has some new and exciting things in store for the fall campus, plus lots of interesting events for you to attend. Be on the lookout for our “Guide for Library Users” that will appear as an insert in the Temple Student News, and keep following our library blog throughout the semester.

You can also follow us on Twitter at /templelibraries and on Facebook.

On Friday, August 27 the Temple University Libraries held its fourth annual ceLIBration event in Paley Library as apart of all the Welcome Week festivities. The several hundred students who attended ate over 300 hot dogs, 400 cookies, 500 soft pretzels, 100 Jimmy Johns sandwiches, and more water and soda then we can count. In addition to the music and games, a highlight of ceLIBration was the Great Library Scavenger Hunt. Participants had to complete a series of tasks to find the answers to the questions, and in doing so they traveled to every corner of Paley Library.

The winners of the first hunt were Dion Trinidad (first place – shown below on the left), Dannielle Harrington (second place) and Laura Carione (third place). The winners of the second hunt were Katie Gensemer (first place), Kevin Chaya (second place) and Jennifer Cubbler (third place) – all three shown below on the right.

The Temple University Libraries thanks all the students who came out to ceLIBrate with us, and we look forward to a good fall semester. As always, we are here to help you succeed.

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TU Libraries switches to Refworks 2.0

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Refworks is the citation management program that the Temple University Libraries offers to the university community that makes it easier to store, organize, annotate, and output citations as bibliographies. On Monday, August 23, the Libraries’ switched over to the new Refworks 2.0 interface, which provides a more intuitive and efficient user experience. Anyone familiar with the first version of Refworks (now called Refworks Classic) should be able to make this transition with relative ease.  (The Refworks Classic interface will be available until December simply by clicking on the “Refworks Classic” link in the upper right corner of the Refworks 2.0 interface.)  As before, users can access Refworks 2.0 from the Libraries’ homepage under “Find Articles.”

Here are some of the improvements in Refworks 2.0:

  • Shortcuts that allow quick access to important features
  • Reduced menu bar that includes only the most important items
  • Tabs for quick access to (all) References, Folders, and shared folders

In Refworks 2.0 you don’t need to constantly shift from one page to another to perform simple functions as was often necessary in Refworks Classic.  The same great features are now easier to find and use.  Take a spin on Refworks 2.0!

Here’s a Refworks 2.0 preview. 

—Fred Rowland

 

Survey Will Gather Information About Electronic Resource Use

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In an effort to gather information about the usage of the Temple University Libraries’ electronic resources, an occasional web-based survey will be launched on Tuesday, August 31. The survey form will appear when connecting to any electronic resource. That includes the library catalog, the journal databases, music libraries, electronic books, etc. The online web survey must be completed in order to gain access to the desired electronic resource. This four question survey, while creating a momentary disruption, will only be conducted for two consecutive hours per month through the next academic year. The survey is anonymous and will coincide with short on-site surveys of a similar nature being offered at Paley Library.

The University administration has requested that we conduct this survey in order to gain more information about how the institutional investment in electronic information resources contributes to our scholars’ and researchers’ capacity to perform research that leads to new discoveries. While this survey will create some minimal disruption in the short run, the data gathered will be of great benefit to our instituition in the long run. Therefore we will greatly appreciate your understanding and cooperation if and when you are asked to complete the survey form.

Should you have further questions, an FAQ is appended to the online survey instrument or you can contact the Controller’s Office which is sponsoring the survey.