tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7925395300909688343Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:50:14 +0000http://chengextra.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Richard Kearney, Electronic Resources Librarian)Blogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7925395300909688343.post-6872560713065108029Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:25:00 +00002009-08-31T14:44:52.451-05:00Starting September 1 the Cheng Library will be participating in a year-long text reference pilot project sponsored by the statewide QandANJ virtual reference service. The Library will be using Mosio’s Text a Librarian software to administer the service, which - like our local chat reference service - will be staffed 89 hours per week during most weeks of the semester, although messages may be http://chengextra.blogspot.com/2009/08/askcheng-text-messaging-service-now.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richard Kearney, Electronic Resources Librarian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7925395300909688343.post-8155308539956542329Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:42:00 +00002009-07-30T17:47:37.636-05:00During the 2009-2010 academic year, the Cheng Library is serving as part of a nationwide advisory group to Alexander Street Press and will be evaluating its product American History in Video, an online database currently providing over 1,400 documentary, archival, public affairs, and newsreel videos in streaming format covering the span of U.S. history. Each video is accompanied by a complete http://chengextra.blogspot.com/2009/07/american-history-in-video-offers-unique.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richard Kearney, Electronic Resources Librarian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7925395300909688343.post-6403700222018434264Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:02:00 +00002009-07-30T17:48:30.682-05:00The first fruit of a collaboration between the Cheng Library and the University's Graduate programs, an initial collection of 19 digitized master's theses is now available online through Theses @ The William Paterson University of New Jersey, an online database using the ProQuest search interface. The majority of titles in the initial collection are from recent Communication Disorders program http://chengextra.blogspot.com/2009/07/initial-collection-of-wpunj-graduate.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richard Kearney, Electronic Resources Librarian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7925395300909688343.post-8988546071563035052Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:14:00 +00002009-03-18T13:24:26.802-05:00The Pre-CINAHL database, which provided searchers with current awareness of the newest journal articles, and included a rotating file of limited bibliographic information while the complete citation records were being edited, has been fully merged into the CINAHL database and discontinued as a stand-alone resource. As a result, searches in the CINAHL database will include Pre-CINAHL content. http://chengextra.blogspot.com/2009/03/pre-cinahl-now-fully-merged-with-cinahl.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richard Kearney, Electronic Resources Librarian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7925395300909688343.post-7189865707223270805Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:56:00 +00002009-03-05T13:57:42.768-05:00The Cheng Library is pleased to announce that 10 journals published by the American Chemical Society - previously available only in paper format - are now accessible online. In addition to the online Accounts of Chemical Research, we have added the following titles online:Analytical ChemistryBiochemistryChemical ReviewsEnvironmental Science and TechnologyInorganic ChemistryJournal of Organic http://chengextra.blogspot.com/2009/03/11-journals-from-american-chemical.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richard Kearney, Electronic Resources Librarian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7925395300909688343.post-6897279680515257021Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:02:00 +00002008-11-06T11:05:54.412-05:00On Thursday, November 13, at 3:30 pm, the David and Lorraine Cheng Library will present a special program on the big consequences of a small fish.H. Bruce Franklin, John Cotton Dana Professor of English and American Studies at Rutgers University-Newark, will be joining us to discuss his recent book, "The Most Important Fish in the Sea: Menhaden and America." Franklin’s book focuses on menhaden, ahttp://chengextra.blogspot.com/2008/11/on-thursday-november-13-at-330-pm-david.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richard Kearney, Electronic Resources Librarian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7925395300909688343.post-4506973876625695823Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:32:00 +00002008-11-04T14:37:29.551-05:00The Web of Science database provides access to the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, supporting navigation through the tracking of citations. Our trial access to the Web of Science, available through November 27, includes the following components:Science Citation Index Expanded (1975-present) - citations from over 7,100 major journals http://chengextra.blogspot.com/2008/11/trial-access-to-web-of-science-database.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richard Kearney, Electronic Resources Librarian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7925395300909688343.post-710415050775484008Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:42:00 +00002008-11-04T12:48:33.247-05:00Prices, productivity, unemployment, earnings – the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has provided data on a host of economic issues relating to employment and unemployment for years. A newly updated webpage now makes that data much easier to find and retrieve. The webpage highlights reports from the department’s surveys such as the Consumer Expenditure Survey and the Current Population Survey. http://chengextra.blogspot.com/2008/11/new-revised-and-much-improved-bureau-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richard Kearney, Electronic Resources Librarian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7925395300909688343.post-9143664020002410699Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:12:00 +00002008-10-02T08:15:33.797-05:00EBSCO's GreenFILE database, now available through the Cheng Library, offers access to well-researched information in the fields of environmental studies and ecology. It contains citations and abstracts for articles from over 265 academic journals, with additional references to books, essays, industry profiles, magazine and trade publication articles, market research reports, and pamphlets. Its http://chengextra.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-greenfile-database-is-portal-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richard Kearney, Electronic Resources Librarian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7925395300909688343.post-770404711404308132Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:59:00 +00002008-10-02T08:04:37.450-05:00This fall your access to published research in life science and biomedical fields will be greatly improved through the Library's acquisition of Biological Abstracts to replace the discontinued Basic BIOSIS database. As compared with Basic BIOSIS, which offered selected coverage from less than 400 journals and a backfile of only five years, Biological Abstracts provides citations and abstracts http://chengextra.blogspot.com/2008/10/biological-abstracts-replaces-basic.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richard Kearney, Electronic Resources Librarian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7925395300909688343.post-3147282272993017049Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:10:00 +00002008-08-29T17:13:24.232-05:00New to the Cheng Library this year, the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Guide to Computing Literature provides significantly enhanced access to the published and unpublished research of computer science. Building on the full-text resources of the ACM Digital Library and Master Special Interest Group (SIG) File, which offers materials published by the ACM, the Guide provides citations http://chengextra.blogspot.com/2008/08/expanded-access-to-computing-research.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richard Kearney, Electronic Resources Librarian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7925395300909688343.post-6378925335995525548Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:54:00 +00002008-07-01T12:57:41.120-05:00The new Oxford Music Online portal incorporates the full content of the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, updated regularly, with several additional resources to enhance music research, including the following full-text publications:The Oxford Companion to Music - over 8,000 articles covering a wide range of subjects in music, including composers, performers, conductors, individual works, http://chengextra.blogspot.com/2008/07/grove-dictionary-of-music-and-musicians.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richard Kearney, Electronic Resources Librarian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7925395300909688343.post-8256567332079061679Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:33:00 +00002008-07-01T12:46:13.487-05:00The new Oxford Art Online portal incorporates the full content of the Grove Dictionary of Art, updated regularly, with several additional resources to enhance art research, including the following full-text publications:The Oxford Companion to Western Art - over 2,600 entries covering over 1,700 artists and their workEncyclopedia of Aesthetics - over 600 articles surveying the major concepts, http://chengextra.blogspot.com/2008/07/grove-dictionary-of-art-is-now-part-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richard Kearney, Electronic Resources Librarian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7925395300909688343.post-5207478795008441743Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:32:00 +00002008-03-27T12:36:38.799-05:00PubMed Central is the U.S. National Institutes of Health free and open access digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. Through voluntary participation by publishers, PubMed Central is building a major electronic depository for biomedical research literature. In addition to providing unrestricted access to current content, the National Library of Medicine, which manages http://chengextra.blogspot.com/2008/03/over-400-full-text-journals-now.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richard Kearney, Electronic Resources Librarian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7925395300909688343.post-8407894602400385458Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:01:00 +00002008-03-27T12:04:39.621-05:00Three new full-text databases from EBSCO provide convenient starting points for student research in important subject areas. Each database draws together a vairety of different types of sources appropriate to its subject area:History Reference Center - This reference database contains content from over 2,000 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers; http://chengextra.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-reference-centers-make-high-quality.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richard Kearney, Electronic Resources Librarian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7925395300909688343.post-6389564086901709243Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:31:00 +00002008-01-22T14:35:07.225-05:00The New York Times has recently made available a free, full-text, searchable archive of its articles, reviews and editorials covering the period from its first issue in September 1851 to December 31, 1922. The archive contains over 3.5 million items. The search engine supports searching by keyword, headline, and author, and it is also possible to limit the date range of a search. Search results http://chengextra.blogspot.com/2008/01/new-york-times-archive-search-brings-72.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richard Kearney, Electronic Resources Librarian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7925395300909688343.post-408352010454791634Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:03:00 +00002008-01-22T12:13:00.767-05:00Designed for general readers, the 4th revised edition of Magill's Medical Guide contains 960 signed entries written by experts describing the major diseases and disorders of the human body, the basics of human anatomy and physiology, specializations in medical practice, and common surgical and nonsurgical procedures. Typical entries on diseases provide details on the anatomy or body system http://chengextra.blogspot.com/2008/01/new-edition-of-magills-medical-guide.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richard Kearney, Electronic Resources Librarian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7925395300909688343.post-3902177049775570684Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:09:00 +00002008-01-18T17:27:14.644-05:00Urban Studies Abstracts, the major bibliographic index for scholarship in the field of urban studies, is now available online on the EBSCOhost search platform. The most comprehensive source for published research in urban studies, the database currently contains over 10,900 citations and abstracts for articles from over 190 journals and other periodicals, with approximately 1,200 new records http://chengextra.blogspot.com/2008/01/urban-studies-abstracts-now-available.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richard Kearney, Electronic Resources Librarian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7925395300909688343.post-1943324162065555976Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:24:00 +00002008-01-18T14:51:06.000-05:00Public Administration Abstracts, the major bibliographic index for scholarship in the field of public administration, is now available online on the EBSCOhost search platform. The most comprehensive source for published research in public administration, the database currently contains over 18,200 citations and abstracts for articles from over 270 journals and other periodicals, with http://chengextra.blogspot.com/2008/01/public-administration-abstracts-now.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richard Kearney, Electronic Resources Librarian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7925395300909688343.post-3960688831623866724Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:21:00 +00002008-01-18T13:26:32.877-05:00Educational Administration Abstracts, the major index for scholarship in the field of educational leadership, is now available online on the EBSCOhost search platform. The most comprehensive source for published research in educational administration, the database currently contains over 7,800 citations and abstracts for articles from over 150 journals and other periodicals, with approximately http://chengextra.blogspot.com/2008/01/educational-administration-abstracts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richard Kearney, Electronic Resources Librarian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7925395300909688343.post-1599641527041192677Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:24:00 +00002008-01-03T13:44:14.378-05:00We are pleased to announce that the ComDisDome (Communication Sciences and Disorders Dome) database, previously provided by ContentScan, is now available on the ProQuest Illumina search platform. ComDisDome is the principal index to scholarly literature in communication disorders, with a focus on speech-language pathology and audiology. The database offers citations to journal articles and books,http://chengextra.blogspot.com/2008/01/comdisdome-database-now-provided-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richard Kearney, Electronic Resources Librarian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7925395300909688343.post-4497443760272909489Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:17:00 +00002007-10-11T16:28:18.597-05:00Scopus, launched by Elsevier Science in 2004, has grown into one of the largest online indexes to scientific literature available. Covering the fields of science, technology, medicine and the social sciences, Scopus offers33 million citation records for articles from 15,000 peer-reviewed journals (representing over 4,000 publishers)Citations/Abstracts from:500+ conference proceedings600+ trade http://chengextra.blogspot.com/2007/10/try-scopus-this-fall-for-access-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richard Kearney, Electronic Resources Librarian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7925395300909688343.post-2257101271714249106Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:47:00 +00002007-09-18T12:50:57.395-05:00The Cheng Library is pleased to announce the addition of approximately 400 new online journals to its existing collection from Sage Publications, one of the leading academic publishers. The Sage Premier E-Journal Collection features the full-text contents of hundreds of major journals in the fields of business, education, health, the humanities, and the social sciences. Over 140,000 articles are http://chengextra.blogspot.com/2007/09/new-sage-premier-e-journal-collection.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richard Kearney, Electronic Resources Librarian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7925395300909688343.post-5506821478944591528Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:25:00 +00002007-09-17T16:28:10.751-05:00We've upgraded our major biographical database from H. W. Wilson to add more coverage and more full-text content. The Biography Reference Bank, which replaces Biographies Plus Illustrated, contains the complete contents of Wilson's Biography Index from 1984 to the present and covers over 500,000 people from all periods of history to the present time. Thousands of full-text narrative profiles are http://chengextra.blogspot.com/2007/09/biography-reference-bank-gives-you-more.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richard Kearney, Electronic Resources Librarian)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7925395300909688343.post-3364556495055606701Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:18:00 +00002007-09-11T16:33:48.395-05:00"Are They Really Ready to Work? Employer’s Perspectives on the Basic Knowledge and Applied Skills of New Entrants for the 21st Century U.S. Workforce" is one example of the types of reports available in the Conference Board Research Online Collection. Economic research reports, press releases, PowerPoints, webcasts and the Straight Talk newsletter are some of the features included in this http://chengextra.blogspot.com/2007/09/conference-board-research-online.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Richard Kearney, Electronic Resources Librarian)1