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Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports has added content from the Soviet Union and Central Eurasia
The initial release of Part 7: Soviet Union and Central Eurasia is now available in the online edition of Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1974-1996. This release includes 3,693 issues; 287,526 pages; and 734,171 articles.
Magnum Photos now in ARTstor
20 New Titles in Credo Reference
Credo Reference recently added the following 20 new titles:
- Africa and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History, ABC-CLIO
- Britain and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History, ABC-CLIO
- An Encyclopedia of Keynesian Economics, Edward Elgar
- Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society & Culture, Routledge
- Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict, Elsevier
- France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History, ABC-CLIO
- Germany and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History, ABC-CLIO
- The Great Dinosaur Controversy: A Guide to the Debates, ABC-CLIO
- Handbook of Global Environmental Politics, Edward Elgar
- Human Evolution: A Guide to the Debates, ABC-CLIO
- Ireland and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History, ABC-CLIO
- The New Encyclopedia of Judaism, New York University Press
- The Nobel Memorial Laureates in Economics, Edward Elgar
- Pop Culture China! Media, Arts, and Lifestyle, ABC-CLIO
- Pop Culture Germany! Media, Arts, and Lifestyle, ABC-CLIO
- Pop Culture India! Media, Arts, and Lifestyle, ABC-CLIO
- Pop Culture Latin America! Media, Arts, and Lifestyle, ABC-CLIO
- Pop Culture Russia! Media, Arts, and Lifestyle, ABC-CLIO
- Who’s Who In Economics, Edward Elgar
- Women’s History as Scientists: A Guide to the Debates, ABC-CLIO
Trial of The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960-1974
A trial of The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960-1974, published by Alexander Street Press is now live and linked from the Trials page.
Feeling Students’ Research Anxiety
Did you know that when students were asked to associate one word with the way they feel when assigned a research project the responses included angst, tired, dread, fear, anxious, annoyed, stressed, disgusted, intrigued, excited, confused, and overwhelmed? That’s according to a new report titled “What Today’s College Students Say about Conducting Research in the Digital Age.” The report comes from an organization called Project Information Literacy. They conducted focus groups and one-on-one interviews with students to find out what it is like to be a college student these days. Their major finding is this: Research seems to be far more difficult to conduct in the digital age than it did in previous times.
Perhaps that is not completely unexpected. But this finding and many of the other insights in this valuable report can help those who assign research papers and projects to better understand the feelings and experiences of today’s student as he or she navigates their way through the electronic information landscape. For example, students report their growing dependence on Wikipedia because it provides them with the context they need to begin a research project; many students report not knowing where to begin their research. This is where the librarians at the Temple University Libraries can help.
They are experts on not only how to begin a research project, but how to acquire the necessary information and skills to finish it as well. They can help students to identify the appropriate resources, to select good research terminology, to structure a working search strategy and even how to capture and organize the content. That’s why librarians are now engaged in meeting every section of English 0802 (Analytical Reading & Writing) for two sessions in every semester. This is the perfect opportunity to learn how to conduct research in the digital age without the anxiety. Librarians are also available to developed customized research instruction sessions for any course – and many Temple faculty already take advantage of this. If you would like to do more to reduce your students’ research anxiety – to reduce their dependence on Wikipedia – and to start seeing better research papers – contact your department’s liaison librarian or contact Steven Bell for more information.
America’s Historical Newspapers Content Update: 1/30/09
The following content was recently added to America’s Historical Newspapers:
| Publication | Issues | Publication Location | Date Start | Date End |
| Daily Record-Miner | 1 | Juneau, AK | 1910-07-10 | |
| Republic | 109 | Washington, DC | 1849-07-04 | 1851-07-31 |
| Palladium | 1 | Frankfort, KY | 1816-09-06 | |
| Times Picayune | 2443 | New Orleans, LA | 1862-12-28 | 1900-12-24 |
| Boston Journal | 609 | Boston, MA | 1868-01-01 | 1891-06-30 |
| Baltimore American | 1 | Baltimore, MD | 1903-08-30 | |
| Albany Evening Journal | 9 | Albany, NY | 1853-01-19 | 1874-06-26 |
| New York Herald | 325 | New York, NY | 1863-09-01 | 1865-06-10 |
| Cincinnati Commercial Tribune | 1236 | Cincinnati, OH | 1869-01-01 | 1890-12-31 |
| Public Ledger | 1397 | Philadelphia, PA | 1836-03-25 | 1876-11-18 |
| Salt Lake Telegram | 1 | Salt Lake City, UT | 1919-12-23 |
New Features in Journal Citation Reports
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.
Large Collection of NMR Spectra Now Available in SciFinder Scholar
More than 23.8 million predicted proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectra are now available in SciFinder Scholar [more details]
Media Services Department Officially Opens
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.