JSTOR Update 9/4/09

The following journals have been added to JSTOR.

Dante Studies, with the Annual Report of the Dante Society [1966- ]
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=dantestudies
Previous Title: Annual Reports of the Dante Society, with Accompanying Papers [1955-1965] (1948-1608)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=annrepdantsocwap
Previous Title: Annual Reports of the Dante Society [1882-1954] (1948-1594)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=annrepdantesoc
Release Content:
Nos. 1-68/72 (1882-1954);
Nos. 73-83 (1955-1965);
Nos. 84-123 (1966-2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Dante Society of America
ISSN: 0070-2862

Journal of the Southwest [1987- ]
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=jsouthwest
Previous Title: Arizona and the West [1959-1986] (0004-1408)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=arizwest
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring, 1959) – Vol. 28, No. 4 (Winter, 1986);
Vol. 29, No. 1 (Spring, 1987) – Vol. 47, No. 4 (Winter, 2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Journal of the Southwest
ISSN: 0894-8410

Ornithological Monographs
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=ornithmono
Release Content:
Nos. 1-57 (1964-2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: University of California Press for the American Ornithologists’ Union
ISSN: 0078-6594

Religion & Literature [1984- ]
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=reliandliter
Previous Title: Notre Dame English Journal [1965-1983] (0029-4500)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=notedameengj
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Winter, 1965/1966) – Vol. 15, No. 3 (Summer, 1983);
Vol. 16, No. 1 (Winter, 1984) – Vol. 37, No. 3 (Autumn, 2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: University of Notre Dame
ISSN: 0888-3769

Federal Online Documents Access Disrupted

For many years we have listed tens of thousands of United States government documents in our online catalog of holdings together with URLs to their online equivalents hosted by agencies of the federal government. These URLs have been provided to libraries nationwide by the GPO (Government Printing Office).

On August 24th the GPO server providing these URLs suffered a catastrophic failure. GPO attempts to restore service have thus far been ineffective. As of Tuesday 9/1 only 6,000 out of 116,000 URLs had been restored. On Wednesday 9/2 the GPO server went completely offline.

This is a nationwide problem. Users of the Temple University online catalog who seek to access online U.S. government publications they find through the catalog should look at the full catalog record and use the second alternate URL if one is provided in the catalog record. The purl.access.gpo.gov link will not work until further notice. We will continue to monitor the situation and will announce restoration of PURL services by GPO.

Project Muse Content Update: 9/2/09

The following 14 new journals went live in Project Muse between May – August 2009:

American Music
Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Archives of Asian Art
Publisher: University of Hawai’i Press

Black Women, Gender & Families
Publisher: University of Illinois Press

The Byron Journal
Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Conservative Judaism
Publisher: Rabbinical Assembly

Genocide Studies and Prevention
Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Publisher: Harvard-Yenching Institute

Journal of Education Finance
Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Revista Hispánica Moderna
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Romani Studies
Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Studies in American Jewish Literature
Publisher: Purdue University Press

Studies in the Age of Chaucer
Publisher: The New Chaucer Society

U.S. Catholic Historian
Publisher: The Catholic University of America Press

Western American Literature
Publisher: Western Literature Association

Alexander Street Press Music & Performing Arts Content Update : 9/1/09

Classical Scores Library has added 918 new works totaling 47,488 pages. New scores from Faber and contemporary music publisher Universal Edition include works by Joseph Achron, Richard Rodney Bennett, Alban Berg, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Anne Boyd, Anton Bruckner, Frederick Delius, Morton Feldman, Leos Janacek, Gustav Mahler, Frank Martin, Claudio Monteverdi, Arvo Pärt, Max Reger, Wolfgang Rihm, Steve Reich, Jean Sibelius, Richard Strauss, Anton Webern, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and more. The collection now includes a total of 13,558 scores totaling 277,028 pages.

Contemporary World Music has added 304 albums, bringing the total to 1,750 albums (23,235 tracks). New content includes albums licensed from Appleseed Recordings, Black Sun Records, Buda Musique, Celestial Harmonies, Fortuna Records, Piranha Records, and World Music Network. New music includes afro-pop, ambient, chant, contemporary Celtic and British folk music, electronic, jazz fusion, new age, ska, and more.

Jazz Music Library has added 583 albums (7,577 tracks), bringing the total to 2.549 CDs and 26,599 tracks. New works have been licensed from Audiophile, Concord Records, Contemporary Records, Jazzology Records, Original Jazz Classics, Pablo, and Prestige Records. New material includes recordings from Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Art Tatum, Count Basie, Karrin Allyson, Benny Carter, Eric Dolphy, Etta Jones, Louie Bellson, Milt Jackson, Sarah Vaughan, Zoot Sims, and more.

Dance in Video has added 39 new titles, bringing the total to 189 videos. New titles added to the collection include videos from the Alive and Kicking Series; performances by the Cullberg Ballet, the Nederlands Dans Theater, Li Chiao-Ping, the American Dance Festival Repertory Company, the National Ballet of Canada, Kaeja d’Dance Company, Pennsylvania Dance Theatre, the Dutch National Ballet, and the American Dance Festival Repertory Company; interviews with Trisha Brown, Wu Jing Shu, Honi Coles, Ethel Butler, Molissa Fenley, and members of the Exit Dance Theatre; and documentaries on ballroom dancing, the dance art of Thailand, the Royal Academy of Dancing, and the restaging of “State of Darkness” with Molissa Fenley and Peter Boal.

Opera in Video had added 45 new operas, bringing the total to 108 titles. New titles from Opus Arte and the Bel Canto Society include operas from composers Albeniz (Merlin, 2003 Madrid); Bernstein (Trouble in Tahiti, 2001, London); Bizet (Carmen, 2007 Covent Garden), 1946 and 1954 films of Donizetti’s L’Elisir D’Amore; 1955 film of Giordano’s Andrea Chenier with Mario Del Monaco; Gounod (Romeo et Juliette, 1994 Covent Garden); Monteverdi (L’Orfeo, Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda); Mussorgsky (Khovanshchina, 2007 Liceu); Rameau (Les Boréades, Les Indes galantes, Castor et Pollux); Wagner (Das Rheingold, Tristan und Isolde, Lohengrin, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung).

African American Music Reference has added 11 new sources.  New titles include:

  • Jazz from the Beginning, by Garvin Bushell and Mark Tucker (Da Capo Press, 1998).
  • Nuthin’ but a “G” Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap, by Eithne Quinn (Columbia University Press, 2005).
  • Ella Fitzgerald: The Complete Biography, by Stuart Nicholson (Routledge, 2004).
  • Hip Hop Matters: Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement, by S. Craig Watkins (Beacon Press, 2005).
  • Two books by Douglas Henry Daniels: One O’Clock Jump: The Unforgettable Story of the Oklahoma City Blue Devils (Beacon Press, 2005) and Lester Leaps In: The Life and Times of Lester "Pres" Young (Beacon Press, 2002).
  • The Velvet Lounge: On Late Chicago Jazz, by Gerald Majer (Columbia University Press, 2005).
  • The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech, by Shane White and Graham White (Beacon Press, 2005).
  • Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe, by Gayle F. Wald (Beacon Press, 2007).
  • Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit, by Suzanne E. Smith (Harvard University Press, 1999).
  • A Right to Sing the Blues: African Americans, Jews, and the American Popular Song, by Jeffrey Melnick (Harvard University Press, 1999).

Welcome Back! Preview Our New Homepage

The staff of the Temple University Libraries welcomes all of our new students and faculty and all those returning to campus. We look forward to being your partner in helping everyone to achieve academic success this fall. Over the summer we have worked to improve the Libraries. You will find new computers in many areas of the Libraries. All of the computers at the Science, Architecture and Engineering Library are new. We have also replaced many of our laptops, added additional laptops and even a few netbook computers – all availble for loan at our Circulation/Reserve Desk. One of our big summer projects was to develop a prototype for a new Libraries homepage. We hope you will look at our preview and provide us with your feedback. We will introduce the new homepage at a later date. Best wishes for a great fall semester and academic year.

JSTOR Update 8/25/09

The following journals have been added to JSTOR.

Archives de sciences sociales des religions [1973- ]
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=archscisocrel
Previous Title: Archives de sociologie des religions [1956-1972] (0003-9659)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=archsocirel
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (January/June, 1956) – Vol. 17, No. 34 (July/December, 1972);
Vol. 18, No. 35 (January/June, 1973) – Vol. 48, No. 124 (October/December, 2003)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: EHESS
ISSN: 0335-5985

College Teaching [1985- ]
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=collegeteaching
Previous Title: Improving College and University Teaching [1953-1984] (0019-3089)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=impcollunivteach
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (February, 1953) – Vol. 32, No. 4 (Fall, 1984);
Vol. 33, No. 1 (Winter, 1985) – Vol. 51, No. 4 (Fall, 2003)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Heldref Publications
ISSN: 8756-7555

Current Directions in Psychological Science
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=curdirpsychscie
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (February, 1992) – Vol. 12, No. 6 (December, 2003)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Blackwell on behalf of the Association for Psychological Science
ISSN: 0963-7214

European Journal of Population / Revue Européenne de Démographie
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=eurojpopu
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 1985) – Vol. 21, No. 4 (2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Springer
ISSN: 0168-6577

Health and History
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=healthhist
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (1998) – Vol. 9, No. 2 (2007)
Moving Wall: 1 years
Publisher: Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine, Inc.
ISSN: 1442-1771

Historische Zeitschrift
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=histzeit
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (1859) – Vol. 267, No. 3 (December, 1998)
Moving Wall: 10 years
Publisher: Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag GmbH (and its subsidiary Akademie Verlag GmbH)
ISSN: 0018-2613

The International History Review
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=interhistrev
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 1979) – Vol. 27, No. 4 (December, 2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: The International History Review
ISSN: 0707-5332

Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie [1990- ]
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=jgenphilscience
Previous Title: Zeitschrift für allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie / Journal for General Philosophy of Science[1970-1989] (0044-2216)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=zeitallgwissen
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (1970) – Vol. 20, No. 2 (1989);
Vol. 21, No. 1 (1990) – Vol. 36, No. 2 (2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Springer
ISSN: 0925-4560

Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory [1994- ]
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=jarchmeththeo
Previous Title: Archaeological Method and Theory [1989-1993] (1043-1691)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=archmeththeo
Previous Title: Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory [1978-1987] (0162-8003)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=advarchmeththeo
Release Content:
Vols. 1-11 (1978-1987);
Vols. 1-5 (1989-1993);
Vol. 1, No. 1 (March, 1994) – Vol. 12, No. 4 (December, 2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Springer
ISSN: 1072-5369

Journal of Avian Medicine and Surgery [1995- ]
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=javianmedsurg
Previous Title: Journal of the Association of Avian Veterinarians [1989-1994] (1044-8314)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=jassoavianvet
Previous Title: AAV Today [1987-1988] (0892-9904)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=aavtoday
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring, 1987) – Vol. 2, No. 4 (Winter, 1988);
Vol. 3, No. 1 (Spring, 1989) – Vol. 8, No. 4 (1994);
Vol. 9, No. 1 (March, 1995) – Vol. 16, No. 4 (December, 2002)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Association of Avian Veterinarians
ISSN: 1082-6742
Note: The remaining content for Vol. 1 (1987) will be released as soon as the issue becomes available to JSTOR.
Note: The content for 2003-2005 will be released as soon as the issues become available to JSTOR.

The Journal of Educational Research
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=jeducresearch
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 1920) – Vol. 97, No. 2 (November/December, 2003)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Heldref Publications
ISSN: 0022-0671

The Journal of Experimental Education
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=jexperimentedu
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (September 15, 1932) – Vol. 72, No. 1 (Fall, 2003)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Heldref Publications
ISSN: 0022-0973

Population and Environment [1980- ]
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=populationenviro
Previous Title: Journal of Population [1978-1979] (0146-1052)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=jpopulation
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring, 1978) – Vol. 2, No. 4 (Winter, 1979);
Vol. 3, No. 1 (Spring, 1980) – Vol. 27, No. 2 (November, 2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Springer
ISSN: 0199-0039

Presidential Studies Quarterly
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=presstudq
Release Content:
Vol. 4/5, No. 3/4 and No. 1 (Summer/Fall, 1974 – Winter, 1975) – Vol. 35, No. 4 (December, 2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress
ISSN: 0360-4918
Note: Content for Vols. 1-3 of the previous title are not yet available to JSTOR.

Psychological Science (Health & General Sciences; Life Sciences)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=psychsci
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 1990) – Vol. 14, No. 6 (November, 2003)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Blackwell on behalf of the Association for Psychological Science
ISSN: 0956-7976

Psychological Science in the Public Interest (Health & General Sciences; Life Sciences)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=psychscipubint
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (May, 2000) – Vol. 4, No. 3 (December, 2003)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Blackwell on behalf of the Association for Psychological Science
ISSN: 1529-1006

Social Indicators Research (Arts & Sciences VI)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=sociindirese
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (May, 1974) – Vol. 74, No. 3 (December, 2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Springer
ISSN: 0303-8300

Tobacco Control (Health & General Sciences; Life Sciences)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=tobaccocontrol
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 4 (December, 1992) – Vol. 14, No. 5 (October, 2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
ISSN: 0964-4563
Note: The remaining content for Vol. 1 (1992) and Vol. 14 (2005) will be released as soon as the issues become available to JSTOR.

The Town Planning Review (Arts & Sciences VI)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=townplanrev
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (April, 1910) – Vol. 74, No. 4 (October, 2003)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISSN: 0041-0020

ARTstor Update 8/21/09

ARTstor has announced the following:

New collection agreement: World Monuments Fund
ARTstor is collaborating with the World Monuments Fund (WMF) to share approximately 2,000 images of architecture, sites, and monuments from around the world in the Digital Library.

Now available in ARTstor: Additional images from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
More than 1,000 images from The Metropolitan Museum of Art have been added to the Digital Library, including hundreds of additions to Images for Academic Publishing (IAP).

New features: Save details to image groups and nested folders
In response to feedback from our user community, ARTstor has released two new features in the Digital Library. You will now see an icon in the ARTstor Image Viewer that allows you to zoom in and save a particular detail of an image to an image group. With this new feature, full views and multiple details of an image may appear together in any given group, as well as be exported for use in the Offline Image Viewer (OIV) or PowerPoint. This ability to save and share multiple views of the same image helps to meet the many teaching, research, and presentation needs of the ARTstor community.

ARTstor has also enhanced the functionality of folders in the Digital Library. Instructor-level users can now create nested sub-folders that can be moved easily from one folder to another by dragging and dropping. For example, you may build draft versions of your image groups in a private folder and simply drag them to a public folder when they are ready to be shared. The addition of nested folders allows you to organize ARTstor content in ways that are meaningful and intuitive to you

Jill Luedke is new Reference Librarian and Subject Specialist in Art

I am delighted to welcome Jill Luedke to Temple University Libraries. Jill joined us as the Reference Librarian and Subject Specialist in Art on Monday, August 10. Jill will work with faculty and students in art, art history and art education at the Tyler School of Art, providing them with instructional services and research assistance. Jill will also help develop and manage print and electronic collections in art-related subject areas, and will develop guides and resources for finding and navigating the rich resources now offered at Temple.

Jill comes to us from the Adam & Sophie Gimbel Design Library at the New School in New York, New York, where she served as a Reference and Instruction Librarian. Prior to that, she worked as the Visual Resources Assistant, and then the Electronic Reserves Manager, also at the New School.

Jill earned a B.A. in Art and Art History, with a specialization in German, from Fort Hays State University, in Hays, Kansas. She received a dual MS in Library & Information Science and the History of Art & Design from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. She is active in the Art Libraries Society of New York, and recently published an article, “ It All Started with a Button…”, in the Urban Library Journal. Please join me again in welcoming Jill Luedke to Temple University Libraries.

With warm wishes,

Larry P. Alford