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Gale’s “Literature Criticism Online” Titles: Some Full-Text Gaps

By irobb on February 1, 2011

If you are ever read a .pdf online from one of Gale’s “Literature Criticism Online” titles, such as: Children’s literature review Classical and medieval literature criticism Contemporary Literary Criticism Drama criticism Literature criticism from 1400 to 1800 Nineteenth-century literature criticism Poetry criticism Shakespearean criticism Short Story Criticism Twentieth-century literary criticism … and come across a […]

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CiNii Open Access: “Shouldn’t we have access?”

By irobb on January 27, 2011

We do have access. Just not as much as advertised. Unfortunately, many of the coverage dates for CiNii: Open Access Journals in our ejournal A-Z list exaggerate our access. We are working to get these dates corrected. Do continue to let us know when the coverage dates are wrong. Sorry for any confusion and inconvenience.

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Emerald eJournals & eBooks: More Added!

By irobb on January 26, 2011

Our access to ejournals & ebooks from Emerald has grown. Along with Emerald Management Plus [ currently offering 225 journals from 24 management disciplines  ] we now have: Emerald Engineering eJournal Collection – includes all 19 journals within Emerald’s engineering, materials science and technology portfolio. Emerald Business, Management and Economics eBook Series Collection – over […]

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China Academic Journals & CNKI Titles: Sites Down

By irobb on January 24, 2011

**UPDATE** The power is on and the journals are back* Due to power outages at the platform site, several Chinese journal collections are unavailable: China Academic journals from East View / CNKI. Stay tuned.

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Confidential Print: Middle East, c1839-1969: New Resource

By irobb on January 20, 2011

“Anyone working on the Modern Middle East will find the Confidential Print: Middle East collection extraordinarily useful. This collection is an absolutely invaluable resource for both researchers and teachers because of the range of documents available and the ease with which one can access them. The database is straightforward, simple to use, and is readily […]

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Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954: New Resource

By irobb on January 20, 2011

“Jewish Life in America makes available to scholars some of the American Jewish Historical Society’s most important and valuable archival collections. Anyone researching the history of the American Jewish community will benefit from this treasure trove of primary sources.” – Jonathan D. Sarna, Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis […]

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JSTOR: Down for the Moment

By irobb on January 20, 2011

*UPDATE* JSTOR is back* “JSTOR is experiencing temporary problems. We are sorry for the interruption, and will be back online as quickly as possible.” –JSTOR site This also means several journal collections (like University of California press) are also down. Stay tuned.

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New Journal Added: Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

By irobb on January 19, 2011

Who knew? Apparently, many people are pleased that we now have access to the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology from 1990 to the current issue. Enjoy! ne·phrol·o·gy, noun [ ni-ˈfrä-lə-jē ] : a branch of medicine concerned with the kidneys.

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JAMA & Associated Archives: Access Problems

By irobb on January 18, 2011

Unfortunately, we are experiencing problems accessing issues prior to 1998 for JAMA and many of it’s associated archives (such as “Archives of General Psychiatry”). We are working with the publisher to fix this. Stay tuned!

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Permanent URLs: More “PURLs” of Wisdom

By irobb on January 14, 2011

The Distance Learning Support Librarian has put together a brief guide for creating Permanent URLs for subscribed resources.  The guide “Creating Persistent URLs” is found here. PURLs for the Library’s Catalogue are covered here as well.

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