We are trialing Alexander Street’s Music Online product through the end of March:
Here is the full blurb from Alexander Street:
You can view the music collections either individually or-as we recommend-through the unified Music Online interface at http://music.alexanderstreet.com.
Continue reading “Music Online trial”
Chronicle of Higher Ed Online!
The library recently won a year’s worth of free access to the Chronicle of Higher Education online. Enjoy!
No Free Lunch for arXiv?
The Chronicle of Higher Ed reports that Cornell University Library announced today that it wants the top institutional users of arXiv.org to help pay for the online scientific repository.
Going Mobile!
We now have mobile access to our Ebsco databases. It is available on our A to Z database page.
This link is for any device. We are in the process of developing a new page with links for a few electronic resources that have some form of mobile access and that should go live soon.
New Content for American History in Video
from Alexander Street: There has been another new content load for American History in Video — 1,008 new titles/253 new hours. The collection is now over halfway complete, with 1019 hours live.
Highlights Include:
* Newsreel Films and Black Panther Party Library
11 titles from the 1960’s era, including Columbia Revolt (about the Columbia sit-in) and 10 films from the Black Panther Party Library, including Marty Kenner, Movement Lawyers, Wheelock Conference, and Repression
* Documentary Educational Resources
Six new films, including Indian Self Rule, The Earth Is Our Home, and Kamikaze: Testimonials from WWII Suicide Pilots
* Presidential inauguration footage from the National Archives in Maryland
* Space footage and films from NASA
* Hundreds more releases from Universal Newsreel
In addition to the films themselves there are also many new Release Notes available (seen either in the Newsreel Browse area or in the Summary tab on the video screen)
* The Big Picture Series
From the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, showcasing military life and events of the Korean War era
* Vision USA Series
From the US Information Agency/Department of State, a 1970’s era series presenting American life and history to overseas audiences as a form of diplomacy
*Great archival footage showing campaign ads from 1960, the 1939-1940 World’s Fair, old Native American footage, US film defending the Japanese-American internment, and more
You can see all of the new titles by going to the What’s New page at this link — http://ahiv.alexanderstreet.com/WhatsNew
ACM Digital Library Online
Exciting news: our subscription to ACM Digital Library is activated. ACM is the Association for Computing Machinery. This is *the* resource for computing. It has two components: The ACM Digital Library which is just ACM content plus The Guide to Computer Literature which is a citation index “with over one million entries.”
Off-campus access should be ready in a few days.
New ACS Ejournals
New American Chemical Society ejournals: ACS Chemical Neuroscience (2009- ), ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters (2010- ), and Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (2009- ).
Cambridge Histories and Caribbean Lit
Starting off 2010 with a bang, we have two new resources: Cambridge Histories Online and Alexander Street’s Caribbean Literature. Off-campus access is now available.
Cambridge Histories Online consists of Cambridge University Press’s reference titles in history. The collection is both browseable and searchable.
Caribbean Literature (Alexander Street) is primary text material and covers the 19th and 20th centuries. Users can explore this by specific Caribbean island or region.
Architecture and Design Ebooks
Our architecture and design ebook collection from Springerlink is now up. The 93 books are from 2005-2009. We are still going to get a few more titles. Catalog records for the books will be added to CUNY+ in due course.
Find the link under Springerlink on our electronic resources pages.
Columbia goes OA
Columbia’s on the OA bandwagon–“Columbia University has joined … several leading institutions of higher learning in a commitment to a Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity. Other signatories to the compact are Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of California at Berkeley.”