Volume 7, Issue 3      February 2004      Northern State University      http://www.northern.edu/library

More Room to Stretch Out and Journals to Search at Williams Library

Walk into Williams Library, hang a left, and you’ll see we’ve rearranged the furniture in the loose periodicals section. There are more tables, more chairs and fewer shelves. Why? Budget cuts, the high price of library subscriptions and journals not being used are the primary reasons for the new look. This isn’t to say patrons aren’t looking for and finding the articles they need. Full-text articles abound on the journal databases we subscribe to, and it’s easier to find them from in the library and at home.
  Currently, we have access to over 13,000 journals with full-text articles compared to the 900 we held in the library ten years ago. Subscription databases are less expensive and with the savings we can afford to buy books. If the faculty has been hesitant to order books for the library because of cost, please order them. Otherwise, you’re at the mercy of librarians ordering items that may or may not be what you need. If you’re looking for a particular journal, search the Online Journals List. Chances are you’ll find most of what you’re looking for, and then there is always Interlibrary Loan. With Ariel technology, you can get an article in as little as a few days.
 New Databases
New on the Online Databases page is Value Line Research Center. Included are links to Value Line’s leading publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks. This service provides full subscriptions to The Value Line Investment Survey, The Value Line Investment Survey - Small and Mid-Cap Edition, The Value Line Mutual Fund Survey, The Value Line Daily Options Survey, The Value Line Special Situations Service, The Value Line Convertibles Survey and Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs).
   Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment is an enormous collection that includes more than 800 indexed images, 1,110 authors, and 80,000 pages of text. Included is an updated depiction of a buffalo dance, speeches by American Indians, passages from the Lewis and Clark journal depicting Sacagawea, the two-volume set Birds of Audubon and the three-volume set Quadrupeds of North America.
  Oxford Reference Online has been enhanced to include 50,000 entries from the Oxford Companions and an additional 20,000 entries from The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. The new Oxford Reference Online Premium Collection has improved search functions for quick and easy retrieval of short and long subject reference entries, bilingual dictionaries, English dictionaries and quotations and proverbs.

  

  The Gerontology Society of America Journals database provides full-text from January 2000 to present in biological and medical sciences (Series A), and psychological and social sciences (Series B). In addition, abstracts are available from February 1989 to December 1999, and Tables of Contents from September 1965 to December 1988. 
  The CLASE (Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades) and PERIODICA (Indice de Revistas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias) databases offer information from articles, essays, book reviews, technical reports and interviews published in journals edited in 24 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues.
  The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a service that provides access to quality-controlled open access journals. The aim of DOAJ is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals. Materials included in DOAJ come from academic, government, commercial, and non-profit private sources. All scientific and scholarly subjects are covered in scientific and scholarly periodicals that publish research or review papers in full text. By including these freely available journals in our searchable Online Journals List, we are adding more than 600 journals to our full text electronic access.
  PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. It contains material from nearly 50 top psychology publications.
  For more information on new additions and changes to our online collection, go to the New Developments page on our Web site.
 Nominations Sought for Library Award
Williams Library would like to announce the ninth annual Williams Library Award for Faculty/Student Research Collaboration.
  Through this award, Williams Library would like to focus attention on those faculty members who, through innovative means and with exemplary results, involve their students in collaborative research projects. It is intended that "research" be broadly understood to include all scholarship and creative activity, following the guidelines given under the section "Scholarship and Creative Activity" on pp. 95-96 of the 1993-1996 COHE agreement.
  The winner of the award, to consist of $500 and an engraved plate, will be chosen by three previous winners of the award and the President of the Student Senate.
    Nominations should be forwarded to the Vice President for Academic Affairs by May 15, 2004.