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.

Trial: Counseling and Therapy in Video

Temple Libraries has a trial to Counseling and Therapy in Video, from Alexander Street Press, through June 22, 2009.  According to Alexander Street:

Counseling and Therapy in Video provides the largest and richest online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling—400 hours and more than 330 videos on completion. The collection’s wealth of video and multiplicity of perspectives allow students and scholars to see, experience, and study counseling in ways never before possible. Counseling and Therapy in Video‘s suite of tools—searches and browses powered by Semantic Indexing™ and searchable transcripts synchronized to video—give the ability to drill down in seconds to find the footage of interest from hundreds of hours of video.

The videos in this collection, drawn from the catalogs of Microtraining Associates, Psychotherapy.net, and the University of Manchester Department of Psychiatry, have been created by a variety of organizations and individuals dedicated to the advancement of education and training in counseling and therapy. Several types of videos have been chosen to provide a well-rounded collection that will be of interest to students, academics, and professionals alike. [More Info]

Don’t forget that Temple Libraries already subscribes to a complementary resource from Alexander Street, Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works.

Articles in Audio

Audio versions are now available on selected articles in Wilson OmniFile, a full-text bibliographic database from H.W. Wilson, and Library PressDisplay, a database that provides the most recent sixty-day coverage of newspapers from around the world. In the case of Wilson OmniFile, the audio files are downloadable into iTunes and other portable audio players.

Wilson OmniFile

In Wilson OmniFile, just click on links to “Full Text HTML”. Then click on Listen or Download Audio.  The sound quality is surprisingly good.

Wilson OmniFile also provides translations of articles into ten different languages.

 

 

Library PressDisplay

In Library PressDisplay, just select a newspaper or an article and look for the Interactive Radio icon. Not limited to English, audio is available for numerous languages including French, German, Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese.

 

 

—Fred Rowland