The scholarly archive JSTOR has just added ten new titles to which Temple has access, listed below.
Archives of America Art Journal (1960-1999)
Jewish Quarterly Review (1888-1908; 1910-1999)
Journal of Biblical Literature (1887-1999)
Master Drawings (1963-1999)
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (1905-2000)
Metropolitan Museum Studies (1928-1936)
Muqarnas (1983-1999)
Novum Testamentum (1956-1999)
Recent Acquisitions (1985-1988)
Vetus Testamentum (1951-1999)
–Fred Rowland
The Libraries have added the following 4 online Oxford Encyclopedias to our collections: International Encyclopedia of Dance Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance They are all currently linked from the Ebooks page. –David C. Murray
With the recent addition of Access World News, The Temple Universtiy Libraries now have three databases that provide international news coverage: Access World News, LexisNexis, and World News Connection. Two of these, LexisNexis and Access World News, also provide national coverage. Access World News‘ hierarchical structure makes it easy to drill down to the desired search domain. Using the map of the world you can choose to search regions or individual countries. There are over 600 US newspapers and over 700 international newspapers to choose from. The advanced search makes it easy to identify articles in many different sections of a newspaper and many different date ranges. On the left side of the homepage there are links to a number of major papers, like The Chicago Tribune, The LA Times, The New York Times, The Times (of London), and The Washington Post. The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Philadelphia Daily News are also available from this database. Check the library’s News Sources subject list for a complete listing of our newspaper databases. To check for individual newspapers, you can also search Journal Finder.
In order to encourage input from students, faculty, and staff, the library has just opened up a Trials page. This page will provide links and instructions for accessing databases that librarians are evaluating for possible purchase. Feedback from the Temple community is strongly encouraged. There is such a proliferation of databases and other electronic resources these days that it is important for us to get as many views and opinions as possible when considering purchases. The link to the Database Trials page can be found on the top of any of the database lists.
Once on the Database Trials page, make sure to check whether a special user name and passord is necessary, which you’ll find right under the link to the trial.
So go to the Database Trials page and take a look at the new electronic resources we’re considering. If you have strong feelings about any of these resources, click on the feedback link at the top of the page and tell us what you think.
–Fred Rowland
A number of full-text journal content has been added to the JSTOR database in a variety of disciplines. This includes a number of journals fully indexed from their first volume up to a few years ago (in some cases this is as much as 50 years of content for a single journal). Titles include:
AJS Review (Arts & Sciences III Collection)
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 24 (1976-1999)
Artibus et Historiae (Arts & Sciences III Collection)
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 22 (1980-2001)
Canadian Journal of Political Science / Revue canadienne de science politique (Arts & Sciences II and Business Collections)
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 32 (1968-1999)
Dance Research Journal (Arts & Sciences III Collection)
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 31 (1969-1999)
Design Issues (Arts & Sciences III Collection)
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 15 (1984-1999)
The Harvard Theological Review (Arts & Sciences III Collection)
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 92 (1908-1999)
The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts (Arts & Sciences III Collection)
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 23 (1986-1998)
The Journal of the Learning Sciences (Arts & Sciences IV Collection)
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 8 (1991-1999)
La Ricerca Folklorica (Arts & Sciences III Collection)
New Content: Nos. 1 – 44 (1980-2001)
PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art (Arts & Sciences III Collection)
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 21 (1976-1999)
Studies in Conservation (Arts & Sciences III Collection)
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 44 (1952-1999)
Theory into Practice (Arts & Sciences IV Collection)
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 40 (1922-1961); Vol. 1 – Vol. 38 (1962-1999)
Western Folklore (Arts & Sciences III Collection)
New Content: Vol. 1 – Vol. 58 (1942-1999)
American Literature (Arts & Sciences I and Language & Literature Collections)
JSTOR Coverage: Vols. 1 – 71 (1929-1999)
Comparative Literature (Arts & Sciences III and Language & Literature Collections)
JSTOR Coverage: Vols. 1 – 51 (1949-1999)
Journal of African Cultural Studies (Arts & Sciences III and Language & Literature Collections)
JSTOR Coverage: Vols. 1 – 14 (1988-2001)
Poetics Today (Arts & Sciences III and Language & Literature Collections)
JSTOR Coverage: Vols. 1 – 20 (1979–1999)
Shakespeare Quarterly (Arts & Sciences I and Language & Literature Collections)
JSTOR Coverage: Vols. 1 – 51 (1950-2000)
Transition (Arts & Sciences I and Language & Literature Collections)
JSTOR Coverage: Nos. 1 – 80 (1961-1999)
Writing a dissertation or a thesis? Need to find out who has published what in your area of interest? Got a brilliant idea and wondering whether someone has already stolen your thunder? Want to know a faculty member’s history as a dissertation advisor? You need Digital Dissertations! The Temple University Libraries has switched from Dissertation Abstracts to Digital Dissertations, a change in databases that will make your searching of the dissertation literature much faster and more efficient. Most importantly, in Digital Dissertations Temple dissertations from 1997 to present are available in full-text!! Here are some other important features:
Check it out. You might be one step closer to that vaunted PhD. Digital Dissertations is accessible from any of the database lists on the library homepage. By the way, you can borrow non-Temple dissertations using the Thesis Request Form. Also be aware that Digital Dissertations is soon changing its name to Digital Dissertations and Theses. –Fred Rowland
We now have access to Latin American Women Writers from Alexander Street Press. When completed it will contain approximately 100,000 pages of prose, poetry and drama by women writers from Mexico, Central, and South America. In this prototype version there are about 4200 pages of prose and poetry. Drama will be added in the next release.
In the First Person (or FIRP) indexes “first-person” or primary source material in selected Alexander Street Press databases including Early Encounters in North America, Oral History Online, and Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000.
Because FIRP indexes letters, diaries, and autobiographies as well as oral historieis, it will contain many more records than are available in the Oral History Online database. FIRP can be used to find primary source material on the free web as well, and is itself a free resource. Royal Society of Chemistry Archives contains all articles published by the RSC (and its forerunner societies) from 1841 to 2004. This comes to approximately 238,000 articles in 1,400,000 pages.
Alexander Street Press has begun adding the full-run of the Black Panther Party newspaper to the Black Thought & Culture collection. http://www.alexanderstreet4.com/cgi-bin/asp/bltc/documentidx.pl?sourceid=S1 2,500 pages of Black Panther oral histories will also be added to the collection. -Al Vara, Reference
We have added substantial back file access to Nature and several Nature Research Journals. Our online coverage for Nature is now from 1987 through the present, adding more than 37,000 articles that can be obtained online. Nature is the top ranked* multidisciplinary science journal. Nature Publishing Group journals are some of the world’s premier information resources for the basic biological and physical sciences.
The Nature research journals are:
Nature Biotechnology. v.1, 1983- present. Ranked #1 in Biotechnology and Applied Microbiology.
Nature Genetics. v.1, 1992 – present. Ranked #1 in Genetics and Heredity.
Nature Medicine. v.1, 1995 – present. Ranked #1 in the Medicine, Research and Experimental category, #2 in Cell Biology, and #2 in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. v.1, 1994 – present. Ranked #3 in Biophysics, #10 in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and #10 in Cell Biology.
All journals may be accessed via Journal Finder and Diamond.
*Rankings based on impact factors in the 2004 Journal Citation Reports.
–Laura Lane, Science Librarian