New Titles in Oxford Reference Online:
- Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
- Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History
Oxford Reference Content Update 4/6/09
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Win $1000!! Library Prize Applications Due this Monday, April 6
All Temple Undergraduates are qualified to win $1000 through the Libraries’ exciting annual initiative: Applications are due this coming Monday for 5th Annual Library Prize for Undergraduate Research Any paper or project from a summer 2008, fall 2008 or spring 2009 course is eligible, so long as a complete applications is submitted by 5 pm on April 6. Turn in your application to the Dean’s suite on the Mezzanine of Paley Library, or complete an online application through blackboard. Apply today!
Audio Versions of Articles Now Available in WilsonWeb Databases
ReadSpeaker, a "text-to-speech" enhancement, is now available in WilsonWeb databases such as OmniFile.
ReadSpeaker converts the full text and then automatically streams the audio content. No software downloads or special plug-ins are required.
To access ReadSpeaker, just open an HTML fulltext article. Near the upper left of the screen, you’ll see a "Listen" icon. Click it to hear the audio version of the article. ReadSpeaker articles can also be downloaded in an MP3 format for use on MP3 players.
ReadSpeaker only works with HTML articles, not PDFs.
C19 Index Now Includes the Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index now includes the Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism – a new reference work with over 1600 entries detailing British and Irish newspaper and periodical publishing in the nineteenth century.
Oxford Reference Content Update 3/31/09
New Titles in Oxford Reference Online:
- A Dictionary of Hinduism
- Oxford Companion to Australian Military History
- New Oxford Dictionary for Scientific Writers and Editors
New Editions:
- Concise Dictionary of Politics
- Dictionary of Business and Management
- Dictionary of Physics
- Dictionary of Psychology
- Kings and Queens of Britain
- Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
- Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions
HeinOnline Content Update 3/31/09
Notable Statistics with this release
Law Journal Library: 11 new titles (1,249 total)
Legal Classics Library: 15 new titles (1,405 total)
World Trials: 60 new titles (2,051 total)
Total number of new pages included in this release: 535,838
This release brings the total number of pages in HeinOnline to: 46,954,444
Association of American Law Schools (AALS)
Code of Federal Regulations
Federal Register Library
Foreign & International Law Resources Database
Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS)
Law Journal Library
Legal Classics
Session Laws
Treaties and Agreements Library
U.S. Congressional Documents
U.S. Federal Agency Documents, Decisions, and Appeals
U.S. Presidential Library
U.S. Supreme Court Library
United Nations Law Collection
United States Code
World Trials
JSTOR Update 3/23/09
The following journals have been added to the JSTOR archive.
The Arkansas Historical Quarterly
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=arkahistquar
Release Content:
1942 – 2005 (Vols. 1 – 64)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Arkansas Historical Association
ISSN: 0004-1823
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=intejphilreli
Release Content:
1970 – 2005 (Vols. 1 – 58)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Springer
ISSN: 0020-7047
Mississippi Review
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=mississreview
Release Content:
1972 – 2006 (Vols. 1 – 34)
Moving Wall: 2 years
Publisher: University of Southern Mississippi
ISSN: 0047-7559
The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=pennmaghistbio
Release Content:
1877 – 2003 (Vols. 1 – 127)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Historical Society of Pennsylvania
ISSN: 0031-4587
The Review of Metaphysics
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=revmetaphysics
Release Content:
1947 – 2005 (Vols. 1 – 59)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Philosophy Education Society Inc.
ISSN: 0034-6632
By publisher request, JSTOR is decreasing the moving wall for Ethnology from 5 to 3 years.
Ethnology (Arts & Sciences Complement)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=ethnology
Release Content:
2004 – 2005 (Vols. 43 – 44)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh – of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
ISSN: 0014-1828
The following previously missing issues have been added to the JSTOR archive.
Bulletin of the American Group. International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (Arts & Sciences III)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=bullamergrouinte
Release Content:
Vol. 7, No. 1 (October, 1966)
Moving Wall: N/A
Publisher: American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works
ISSN: 0535-0867
Note: Bulletin of the American Group. International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works is a previous title to Journal of the American Institute for Conservation.
Classical Philology (Arts & Sciences II)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=clasphil
Release Content:
Vol. 84, No. 4 (October, 1989)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISSN: 0009-837X
Have A Suggestion? Use Our Newest Blog to Share It
Everybody who uses the Temple University Libraries has at some point probably thought of something that could be improved, done better or made more efficient. If you have an idea for improving the library we want to hear from you – or even if you have a general complaint.
That’s why we recently upgraded our old virtual suggestion box to a brand new suggestion blog called What’s Your Suggestion. We found ourselves answering the same questions repeatedly for different individuals. We believe the blog will help to make your suggestions and our responses more transparent to the Temple University community. All suggestion blog postings will be stripped of personal information to ensure confidentiality. There is a link to the suggestion blog on the Libaries’ home page. Just look for the “Suggestions” link.
You can submit to the suggestion blog anonymously or include an email address if you prefer a personal response. Submissions to the blog are first reviewed by a staff member so any request to refrain from posting the suggestion to the blog will be honored, and a personal response will be made instead. We hope you will use “What’s Your Suggestion” to let us know how we can improve the library and better serve the Temple University community. For more information about the suggestion blog please contact Steven Bell, Associate University Librarian.
ARTstor Update 3/19/09
More archaeological objects and ethnographic artifacts from the Peabody Museum (Harvard University)
ARTstor and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University are collaborating to make available 154,000 images of Pre-Columbian, African, Native North American, and Oceanic archaeological objects and ethnographic artifacts from the Peabody Museum’s permanent collection. Learn more
Additional non-western art and architecture from Erich Lessing Archives
The Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archives will make available more than 13,000 images of world art and architecture through ARTstor Digital Library, including 4,000 images documenting the art and architecture in Asia and the Middle East. Learn more
Collection agreement: Rescue Public Murals (Heritage Preservation)
ARTstor has partnered with Heritage Preservation to share approximately 300 images of community murals in the United States through the Digital Library. Learn more
Collection agreement: African art and field photography
ARTstor is collaborating with Christopher D. Roy to share approximately 4,000 images of African art and culture in the Digital Library. Learn more
Collection agreement: Asian art from Ohio University
Ohio University has partnered with ARTstor to share approximately 3,500 images of art works and objects from Northern Vietnam. Learn more
Libraries Conduct Survey To Get Your Opinion
To continuously improve library services for the Temple University community we need to hear from our students, faculty and staff. Many of our service improvements come directly from comments and suggestions from the community. To facilitate this process the Temple University Libraries are currently conducting a campus-wide satisfaction survey. LibQual + is a standardized survey used globally by all types of academic libraries. LibQual+ differs from standard satisfaction surveys that use a Likert scale to measure satisfaction on a range from 1 to 5 or some point between “strongly agree” and “strongly disagree”. Instead LibQual+ seeks to determine someone’s minimum expectation for services, their desired level of services and then asks them to identify at what level they currently perceive the quality of the service. The other advantage of LibQual+ is that it is a standardized, national survey which makes it possible for the Temple Libraries to compare their findings to peer institutions.
As with most surveys LibQual+ is a randomized survey instrument. Therefore only certain members of the Temple University community will receive the e-mail message asking you to take the survey. However LibQual+ is being conducted on the main campus, at all the health sciences-related locations, the law school and the Ambler campus. Any member of our community at any of these Temple locations may be randomly invited to complete the survey. If you are one of those who does receive the invitation please take some time to complete the survey. Since we launched the survey on Wednesday, March 18 several hundred individuals have responded but we would greatly appreciate your response. The average time to complete the survey so far ranges between 9 and 12 minutes – so it takes very little time to complete.
LibQual+ is scheduled to end on April 2. We hope those who received the invitation will take the survey. Everyone who does is entered into a random drawing to receive some great prizes. For more information about the LibQual+ survey please contact Steven Bell.