New EBSCOhost Enhancements for Citations

New for this month:

EBSCOhost Citation Format and Export Enhancements (EBSCO has updated MLA and APA citation formats to conform to the latest guidelines available. Extensive help and citation format guides are now available to all EBSCOhost users, including information on how to cite, as well as extra instructions specific to EBSCOhost citations. For additional information, click on the online citation help link within the Print/E-mail/Save Manager in EBSCOhost)

Eureka Migration Now Slated for September

Please note that our subscription to Anthropological Literature will migrate from the Eureka platform to the FirstSearch platform effective in September.  This is a result of the recent merger between RLG and OCLC.  I will post more information as it becomes available.

Wilson Library Bulletin Now Available Electronically

From H. W. Wilson:

Libraries that subscribe to Education Full Text now have access to articles cover to cover from Wilson Library Bulletin, issues 1983 to 1995.  The acclaimed trade magazine for librarians (published 1914 to 1995) delivers an abundance of information on library practices and their evolution, exploring all the innovations, controversies, trends and historical events that went into the making of modern librarianship.

For direct access, search Wilson Library Bulletin in the A-Z e-journals list.

New ARTstor Content Added

The following new collection has just been added to ARTstor: Negative Collection Archives from the Frick Art Reference Library. The first archive consists of over 3,000 images produced by the Italian photographic firm of Sansoni and richly documents fresco cycles and other forms of architectural decoration throughout Italy.  The second archive, from A.C. Cooper and related archives, documents paintings as they passed through art auction galleries in London in the 1920s and 1930s.

More information on the ARTstor site….

Book Index With Reviews Free Access to End Soon

EBSCO has been providing access to this database for the last year at no charge.  Beginning July 1st, we’ll no longer have access to the database.  I was just checking statistics for our year long trial of Book Index With Reviews and noticing that the usage has never been particularly heavy…although last month (April) marked the highest use of all.  Over the course of the trial, there have been 41 logins, 144 searches, and 344 abstracts viewed.  Doesn’t seem that it was too popular.  If you feel differently, now is the time to express your views (in the comments section below) or drive up the usage numbers!

Access the database for old times sake… 

EBSCOhost One-Step RSS Feeds and Alerts

EBSCOhost now features a new, one-step process for creating Search and Journal Alerts, and capturing RSS feeds. Initially, this new process can be enabled by users who click on the red New Features link in the top right corner of the EBSCOhost screen, and then check the box in front of the feature, listed under What’s New. It is then enabled for the current search session. Later in the fall, this feature will move off the New Features screen in EBSCOhost, and can be turned on or off by library administrators who have access to EBSCOadmin. More information on the EBSCO site….

ARTstor Updates: New Collections Added

Getty Collections of Paintings and Tapestries
The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection contains nearly 400 paintings from the 14th century through the early 20th century.  In addition, Study Photographs of Tapestries in the Getty Research Library, contains over 4,000 images from the Tapestries Collection.
More information…

Greek, Hellenistic and Roman sculptures from the Berlin State Museums:
Includes 301 images of Greek, Hellenistic and Roman sculptures from the Collection of Classical Antiquities at the Berlin State Museums.
More information…

Historic Illustrations of Art and Architecture
Includes over 300 images of historic art and architecture illustrations to the Digital Library.  This collection, created by Allan Kohl, contains illustrations originally published during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
More information…

ScienceDirect Offers RSS Feeds

News from Elsevier: “RSS feeds are available on ScienceDirect for search results, citations and new articles, as well as more than 300 pre-selected topics. RSS feeds alert you immediately when ScienceDirect has new content.”

Interdisciplinary Uses of ARTstor

Check out the following interdisciplinary guides for ARTstor use and please pass them along to any faculty members who might be interested.  You might also give them a heads up about the training opp in August!

Interdisciplinary Guides

April E-Book of the Month: Caesar in Gaul and Rome: War in Words

Not sure why they didn’t use this one for the Ides of March, but, whatever….

Caesar in Gaul and Rome: War in Words
By Andrew M. Riggsby
University of Texas Press, 2006

“Anyone who has even a passing acquaintance with Latin knows “Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres” (“All Gaul is divided into three parts”), the opening line of De Bello Gallico, Julius Caesar’s famous commentary on his campaigns against the Gauls. But what did Caesar intend to accomplish by writing and publishing his commentaries, how did he go about it, and what potentially unforeseen consequences did his writing have?

These are the questions that author Andrew Riggsby pursues in the award‑winning Caesar in Gaul and Rome. Named by the Association of American Publishers as the 2006 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP) award winner for Excellence in Classics and Ancient History, Caesar in Gaul and Rome uses contemporary literary methods to examine the historical impact De Bello Gallico had on the Roman reading public and offers a fresh interpretation of Julius Caesar’s Gallic War that focuses on Caesar’s construction of national identity and self‑presentation.” (from NetLibrary press release)