ISI Web of Knowledge – Enhancements & Online Training

ISI Web of KnowledgeSM has been enhanced

Citation Mapping. View the beta version of this powerful new Web of Science® visualization tool. Visualize citation relationships and understand the meaning of a cited reference search. Map citations by author, institution, country, subject, and more.  ONLINE TUTORIAL  

Additional All-Database search options • Now you can sort by Times Cited and search for specific addresses within an All-Database search, making this powerful feature even more flexible and convenient.

Collaborate and share material easier with EndNote® • Designate read/write access for shared EndNote Web folders. Link to the full text of articles directly from EndNote Web records.

 Web of Science® Coverage Expanded!
700 regional journals have been added to Web of Science as part of an ongoing effort to enhance the breadth of regional coverage.
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August classes now enrolling

Mapping and Other Enhancements

EndNote Web in the Web of Knowledge

Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 2:00 pm, EDT

In the News: 2008 Summer Olympics

Week of August 4, 2008

News Item: The Games of the XXIX Olympiad begin this week in Beijing and will run through August 24th. A few of the recent problems associated with the event include the following: at least 20,000 people have cleaned up algal blooms along the coastlines of Qingdao where sailing events will be held; poor air quality plagues Beijing and nearby cities; the past and current treatment of Tibetans by the Chinese government prompted Students for a Free Tibet to disrupt the Olympic torch relay this past spring. Included here are titles related to the social history of the Olympics and its past games.

Beijing’s Games: What the Olympics Mean to China
By Susan Brownell. Rowman & Littlefield, 2008
Call Number: GV722 2008 .B76 2008

Berlin games: How the Nazis Stole the Olympic Dream
By Guy Walters. William Morrow, 2006
Call Number: GV722 1936 .W35 2006

The Best Olympics Ever?: Social Impacts of Sydney 2000
By Helen Lenskyj. State University of New York Press, 2002
Call Number: Available online through NetLibrary
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In the News: The Banking Industry, Credit Crisis & Sluggish Economic Growth

Week of July 28, 2008

News Item: A couple of weeks ago, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) had taken control of the Pasadena, California-based IndyMac Bancorp due to losses from defaulted mortgages. Are more ban collapses on the way? Included here are select titles that examine bank failures, deregulation, and management.

Bailout: An Insider’s Account of Bank Failures and Rescues
By Irvine H. Sprague. Basic Books, 1986
Call Number: HG2491 .S67 1986

Bank Mergers in a Deregulated Environment: Promise and Peril
By Bernard Shull. Quorum Books, 2001
Call Number: HG1722 .S585 2001 (Also available via NetLibrary)

Belly Up: The Collapse of the Penn Square Bank
By Phillip L. Zweig. Crown Publishers, 1985
Call Number: HG2613 .O354 P419 1985
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In the News: Nelson Mandela

Week of July 21, 2008

News Item: Former South African President, anti-apartheid activist, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Nelson Mandela celebrated his 90th birthday last week. He was recently removed from a United States terrorism watch list. A bill, sponsored by U.S. Senators John Kerry (D-MA), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and Bob Corker (R-TN), and signed by President Bush in early July, called for the removal of Mandela from the list.

In His Own Words
By Nelson Mandela. Little, Brown and Co., 2003
Call Number: DT1974 .M338 2003

An Irresistible Vision: Mandela and the End of Apartheid (DVD)
BBCW Productions. Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2004
Call Number: DT1949 .M35 M3623 2004 (Media Center)

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
By Nelson Mandela. Phelps-Stokes Institute for African, African-American, and American Indian Affairs, 1990
Call Number: DT1949 .M35 A3 1994
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EBSCO Databases Have a New Interface

EBSCO has released its new interface, EBSCOhost 2.0. Some of your favorite databases now have a new look:

  • Academic Search Premier
  • America: History and Life
  • Business Source Premier
  • Cinhal Plus with Full-Text
  • MLA International Bibliography
  • SocINDEX with Full-Text
  • SportDiscus with Full-Text

New features include: a simpler search screen, the ability to preview an article by mouseover, new result list, new search history capability, and URLS that can be bookmarked .Your personal My EBSCOhost folder has not been affected, and any articles, searches and alerts you have saved on the old interface are still available in your folder. For more information, see a librarian or visit the EBSCOhost 2.0 Support Center at http://support.ebsco.com/ebscohost2.

In the News: Native Americans & The Longest Walk 2008

Week of July 14, 2008

News Item: Last Friday, thousands gathered in Washington, D.C. after completing an 8,000 mile cross-country walk that began over five months ago. During the “Longest Walk 2008,” participants marched in support of “environmental and sacred sites protection, cultural survival, youth empowerment and Native American rights.” Dennis Banks, co-founder of the American Indian Movement, was one of the event’s organizers. The original “Longest Walk” took place in 1978.

Blood of the Land: The Government and Corporate War against the American Indian Movement
By Rex Weyler. Vintage Books, 1984
Call Number: E93 .S54 1984

Daily Life of Native Americans in the Twentieth Century
By Donald Fixico. Greenwood Press, 2006
Call Number: E98 .S7 F56 2006

Editorializing “the Indian Problem”: The New York Times on Native Americans, 1860-1900
Compiled by Robert Hays. Southern Illinois University Press
Call Number: E98 .P99 H39 2007

Ghost Dancing the Law: The Wounded Knee Trials
By John William Sayer. Harvard University Press, 1997
Call Number: KF224 .B27 S39 1997
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Blackwell Synergy and Wiley InterScience Merger

“The journal content previously available on Blackwell Synergy is now being delivered through Wiley InterScience www.interscience.wiley.com due to the merger of Wiley-Blackwell’s online journal systems. Blackwell Synergy is no longer operating.”

According to the Wiley site, this is just the first phase of a total integration of products. For now, Blackwell Reference is on the same platform, and only the journal content has migrated. The expected roll-out date of the new interface is early 2009. If you were familiar with the Blackwell interface, you will notice that the Wiley site does not indicate an individual institution’s subscriptions. To confirm the coverage of a journal, type in the journal title in the electronic journal search box, http://www.library.fau.edu/ecollect/ejournals.htm.

Information for Registered Users of Blackwell Synergy:

No action is necessary — all active Synergy accounts* have been migrated automatically. If you already had a Wiley InterScience account your information will be combined. You may be requested to accept new terms and conditions the first time you log in after June 30th.

Journal content pages will look slightly different but you can still find them if you have bookmarked the page. You will be redirected to the equivalent page where it exists on Wiley InterScience or to the journal issues page. Once in Wiley InterScience we would suggest you re-save your bookmarks for your favourite journals.

Access to articles and most functions will continue uninterrupted, although you will notice small differences in design and terminology. Key changes are described below and will be highlighted the first time you log in after June 30th

For more information see Wiley’s Onlline Content Transition News.