ARTstor Collections Summary 2008

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ARTstor Collections Summary 2008
In 2008, the community continued to contribute important and unique collections to the ARTstor Digital Library. ARTstor released 22 new collections, added content to 21 existing collections, and reached agreements with 33 new museums, photoarchives, libraries, scholars, professional photographers, and artists and artists’ estates. The ARTstor Digital Library collection now totals 890,000 images and will soon include nearly 1,000,000 images with the release of the Magnum Photos collection in early 2009. Continue reading “ARTstor Collections Summary 2008”

Workshop on Open Access Publishing and Digital Libraries, Dec. 10

The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty to attend a workshop on Open Access publishing and digital libraries. The Open Access movement is revolutionizing scholarly communication–scholars are making their research freely available on the Internet. Many Open Access journals are published online only and are peer-reviewed. We’ll learn about the history and current status of Open Access movement and discuss its impact on our scholarship. Digital Libraries are online collections of content ranging from archival materials to videos to articles to raw data to theses. We’ll look at special search engines as well as key disciplinary repositories. This presentation will benefit faculty looking for new venues to share their work before, during, and after publication. In addition, faculty will learn about new resources for research.
This workshop will be held on Wednesday, December 10, from 1-1:45 pm in the library classroom, A 540. RSVP to Prof. Monica Berger: mberger@citytech.cuny.edu

New Content Added to Black Drama

bdWe’ve upgraded to Black Drama, Second Edition, which adds 110 plays (for a total of 1310 plays) from 210 playwrights  to the collection.  New and notable additions to the second edition include plays written by Pearl Cleage (American), Maryse Conde (Guadeloupean), Alice Childress (American), Femi Euba (Nigerian), James Weldon Johnson (American), Adrienne Kennedy (American), Anna Deveare Smith (American), Ngugi wa Thiong’o (Kenyan), Roy Williams (English), and many others.

HighWire Journals in Ebsco Databases

Links to the 326 journals in Stanford’s open access HighWire are now available in Ebsco databases. Many of these journals are in science but there are a considerable number of titles in the social sciences, humanities, and other areas. HighWire offers 2,029,167 articles free of charge.
In Ebsco, look for “Check Highwire Press for Full Text.” Note that many HighWire titles have embargoes that limit users from access to current content. 

Obama Profiled in Oxford African American Studies Center

oaasc1To mark a very special moment in our nation’s history, the Oxford African American Studies Center has been updated to commemorate Barack Obama’s groundbreaking victory in this year’s presidential election. In a moving essay that examines President-Elect Obama’s historic achievement alongside other watershed moments in African American history, Editor in Chief Henry Louis Gates celebrates and honors the undeniable impact of November 4, 2008. [from NYLINK’s Check It Out]

New! Pop Culture Universe

Pop Culture Universe
Pop Culture Universe

Check out our new resource, Pop Culture Universe. It covers [from the publisher’s website] ”new technology (iPods, gaming, gadgets)…Internet memes and chatspeak…movies, TV, radio…music…comics and graphic novels…sports and pastimes…fads, fashion, and fast food.” And it has tools for instructors to incorporate popular culture into the classroom as well as resources for student work.
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Saving and Emailing from JSTOR and Sage

The new version of JSTOR requires users to register a username and password in order to email results to themselves. Saving via downloading to a flash drive or a hard drive seems to the easiest way to work with content in JSTOR.

To email results in JSTOR, the user needs to login, checkoff results, click on the link for saved citations (upper right of page below your login identity), then select the citations again and click on “export.” Then, finally, one can email citations with links. Off-campus users will have to authenticate into JSTOR to access the articles.

Sage also requires a little learning curve. You don’t need to create a username/password to work with results. After checking off the results you want, the critical step is to click on the button “Add to My Marked Citations.” If you don’t click that button, your results are not saved even if you check off the box next to the article. The final step is to select either *View/Edit My Marked Citations or * Email/Download/Save/Print My Marked Citations. The rest is fairly straightforward. As with JSTOR, full text can’t be emailed—only citations with links.