What's New Archive 2002

• 12/19/02: L'Annee Philologique which covers all aspects of classical studies, including authors and texts, literature, linguistics, archaeology, epigraphy and numismatics, history, law, philosophy, and science and technology, is now available on the campus network. It analyzes 1,500 periodicals each year as well as 500 articles in collections and conference papers. Online coverage begins with 1969.
• 12/19/02: SYBWorld, the online version of the Statesman's Yearbook, covers world politics, economics, culture, and society. The 192 country profiles cover every important area, including political parties and leaders, population, economics, climate, natural resources, military capabilities, education, legal systems, culture and communications, health and environment, and international affairs. It includes facts, figures, statistics, maps, narrative profiles, and background analyses. Updated monthly.
• 11/19/02:
  • Royal Historical Society Bibiliography on CD-ROM: the History of Britain, Ireland, and the British Overseas: Based essentially upon the content of Writings on British History (1901-1974) and the Annual Bibliography of British and Irish History (1975-1995), the Royal Historical Society Bibliography includes 250,000 searchable citations. The editors have enhanced the original listings in the Writings on British History by including citations to works in categories such as women and residents of colonies that were underrepresented in earlier decades of the published bibliography. It is available on workstations in the first and third floor reading rooms of Regenstein.
  • Ut per litteras apostolicas includes the complete collection of papal letters from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and corresponds to the print publications, Registres et lettres des Papes du XIIIe siècle (32 vols.; Rome, 1883- ) and the Registres et lettres des Papes du XIVe siècle (48 vols.; Rome, 1899- ). It covers the papacies of John XXII, Benedict XII and Urban V.
  • RLG Cultural Materials is the result of a collaborative effort from an international alliance of Research Library Group member institutions, bringing together primary source materials in high-quality digital form. It provides access to authenticated, rights-cleared digital materials through an advanced and easy-to-use web interface and includes ancient maps, medieval manuscripts, handwritten letters, drawings, paintings, sound recordings, books, and moving images.
  • ABA/BNA Lawyer's Manual on Professional Conduct--Current Reports is a detailed source for news and analysis on developments in legal ethics, malpractice, and other professional issues.
  • Electronic Commerce & Law Report features comprehensive yet selective coverage of the major legal issues surrounding digital communications content, transactions, and infrastructure, on federal, state, and international levels.
  • Environment Reporter--Current Reports provides industry and the legal profession with unrivaled notification of current environmental developments.
  • Health Law Reporter provides complete, weekly coverage of the entire spectrum of health law.
  • Intellectual Property Library (United States Patent Quarterly) contains every decision from United States Patents Quarterly and United States Patents Quarterly 2d Series, intellectual property decisions from all courts from 1946 to the present.
  • International Trade Reporter--Current Reports provides comprehensive, up-to-the-minute information on developments affecting the trade and international business policies of the U.S. and major U.S. trading partners.
  • Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal covers every significant development in intellectual property law.
  • Tax Management Federal Portfolio Collection provides detailed analysis of U.S. income tax law, Federal estate, gift, generation-skipping, and exempt organization taxes; U.S. international taxation; income taxation in more than 30 foreign countries. BNA tax journals, and primary materials: the Internal Revenue Code, legislative history, treaties, regulations, tax cases, and IRS rulings.
• 11/14/02: The Fall issue of LIBRA (LIBrary Reports and Announcements), a newsletter written for the faculty and University community, is now available online. LIBRA is also published in print form. University community members who would like to be added to the hard copy mailing list, or who have questions or comments about an issue of LIBRA, please contact libra@lib.uchicago.edu
• 11/06/02: The Library discontinued its access to most of the ProQuest 5000 indexing and full-text databases on October 31. In its place, if you are a University student, faculty or staff member, please use EBSCOhost databases Academic Search Elite and Business Source Elite, which largely, though not completely, duplicate the coverage in ProQuest 5000. The following content from ProQuest continues to be available to the University community: ProQuest Newstand; ProQuest Historical Newspapers (the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times); Dissertations Direct; Dow Jones Interactive (soon to be called Factiva); Banking Information Source; Accounting and Tax Periodicals, and the Chadwyck-Healey full-text databases.
• 11/04/02: 18 WebStations have been deployed by NSIT on the 1st, 2nd and 4th floors of the Regenstein. Users with a valid CNetID can now log in and quickly check email and surf the web without waiting for a library computer to become available. Printing is not supported from these stations.
• 11/04/02: Library Book Sale: The Autumn book sale of more than 5,000 duplicate and discarded volumes will be held from Wednesday, November 6 through Saturday, November 9. Prices start at $15 for hardbacks; $5 for paperbacks and miscellaneous material, and are reduced each day of the sale. On Saturday, all remaining books are free. The book sale room is located in Regenstein, Room 120W.
• 11/04/02: Fall Information Fair: The Science Libraries Division invites you to the information fair, Wednesday, November 6 from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Crerar atrium. Come and learn about new electronic resources and library services. Suggest a new resource that's useful for your research. The Library will also be offering offering two information sessions featuring EndNote and SFX.
• 10/16/02: Biography and Genealogy Master Index: A consolidated index to biographical sketches in hundreds of current and retrospective biographical dictionaries. Coverage begins with 1980. It currently includes over 13.6 million entries.
• 10/16/02: Contemporary Authors: A Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers, 1962 to date: Covers writers of books only; chiefly English-language authors. Sketches give personal facts, career, work in progress, bibliography of writings, and biographical sources.
• 10/16/02: World of Learning: Includes over 30,000 universities, colleges, schools of art and music, libraries, learned societies, research institutes, museums and art galleries, and provides details on more than 200,000 staff and officials. It also includes information on over 400 international cultural, scientific and educational organizations.
• 10/16/02: xipolis.net, a collection of German Language reference sources, contains eighteen titles, including the Brockhaus Enzyclopädie, Duden in zehn Bänden, the Grosses Fremdwörterbuch, as well as a number of subject-specific titles.
• 10/16/02: xrefplus is a digital reference library that includes over 100 dictionaries, encyclopedias, and thesauri as well as a wide range of subject-specific titles. Publishers include Penguin, Macmillan, Bloomsbury, Debretts, and Columbia University Press.
• 10/10/02: Faculty, students and staff are eligible for on-site access and borrowing privileges at all libraries on Northwestern's Evanston campus and the Schaffner Library on the Chicago campus. For an application for borrowing privileges, click here. For details of other reciprocal access and borrowing arrangements, click here.
• 9/30/02: All night study space pilot. The Library, NSIT, the Office of the Vice President and Dean of Students in the University, and Student Government are pleased to announce that the A-level Reading Room of Regenstein Library will continue to be open 24 hours a day from Sunday at 10 a.m. through Friday at 10 p.m. during the Autumn, Winter and Spring Quarters this academic year. During the hours this reading room would normally be closed (1 a.m. to 8 a.m. Monday - Friday), it will again serve as the site for a pilot project to assess the use of (and need for) a 24-hour study space.
• 9/24/02: NSIT Data Network Operations has implemented a number of wireless access points in the Regenstein reading rooms on A-level and the 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th floors.
• 9/11/02: Photocopying Rates: Due to the marked decrease in photocopying volume over the last academic year, the price per copy on the public photocopiers throughout the library system is now $0.10 (with card) or $0.15 (with cash). The increase is required to provide these machines and to adequately service them. For additional information, please contact copies@lib.uchicago.edu
• 7/30/02: The new version of the Library Catalog becomes available on Monday August 5th. A usability study with students and faculty indicates that most users will appreciate the new features. These include: (1) a new, cleaner look with all search types available on the first page, saving time and effort; (2) options to send email lists in MLA or Chicago style formats for easy creation of bibliographies; (3) a faster way to mark records for your lists; (4) the ability to update your email address in library records to ensure timely notifications; (5) more information at the index level--in some cases, you won't need to display the full record to get all the information you need to find a title; and more. The Library intends to make further changes based on user feedback; we welcome your comments. Send them to webpac@lib.uchicago.edu.
• 6/26/02: The Digital National Security Archive contains declassified documents on topics such as the making of US policy in Afghanistan, the Cuban missile crisis, and US military uses of space.
• 6/25/02: AgeLine produced by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), provides bibliographic coverage of social gerontology--the study of aging in social, psychological, health-related, and economic contexts. The delivery of health care for the older population and its associated costs and policies is particularly well covered, as are public policy, employment, and consumer issues. Uses include investigating long-term care options; researching implications of changes in Social Security; developing strategies for marketing to baby boomers and older adults; and finding information about recruiting and guiding older workers.
• 6/17/02: Are you doing research at other libraries this summer? Check a listing of institutions with whom the Library has reciprocal agreements that may assist you in your work.
• 6/17/02: Beginning Summer Quarter, all reserve materials for undergraduate and graduate courses in the humanities and social sciences will locate in the Joseph Regenstein Library. Items that formerly were placed on course reserve at Harper will now be incorporated into Regenstein course reserves.
• 6/17/02:The faculty study wing is being recarpeted between June 17 and July 26. For a detailed schedule, click here.
• 6/11/02: The SPORTDiscus database provides access to bibliographic citations (and some full text) for research literature from around the world for sport, physical fitness and physical education topics. Covers literature discussing sport, sports medicine, exercise psychology, biomechanics, psychology, training, coaching, physical education and fitness, physical fitness and other related disciplines. With theses and monographs dating back to 1949, and journal coverage back to 1975, this database contains over 565,000 records.
• 6/10/02: Art Index Retrospective, produced by The H.W. Wilson Company, is a bibliographic database that cumulates citations to Art Index volumes 1-32 of the printed index published between 1929-1984. Subjects covered include advertising art, antiques, archaeology, architecture and architectural history, art history, crafts, decorative arts, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, motion pictures, museology, non-Western art, painting, photography, pottery, sculpture, television, and textiles. The database cites articles and reproductions of works of art that appear in periodicals published throughout the world. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch.
• 6/04/02: A free trial for the Wiley Current Protocols is available until August 29, 2002. The following titles are included:

  Current Protocols in Molecular Biology
  Current Protocols in Cell Biology
  Current Protocols in Cytometry
  Current Protocols in Food Analytical Chemistry
  Current Protocols in Human Genetics
  Current Protocols in Immunology
  Current Protocols in Magnetic Resonance Imagery
  Current Protocols in Nucleic Acid Chemistry
  Current Protocols in Neuroscience
  Current Protocols in Pharmacology
  Current Protocols in Protein Science
  Current Protocols in Toxicology

  Comments are welcome.

• 5/31/02: Interim and Summer Quarter Library Hours: Beginning June 8, the libraries, with the exception of Crerar, will have shortened hours. In particular, Harper will be open only from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. Monday through Friday; Regenstein will open at noon on Sundays. Click here for a listing of library hours.
• 5/13/02: A new digital collection is now available at the American Memory site of the Library of Congress:The First American West: The Ohio River Valley 1750-1820. Drawn from the holdings of the University of Chicago Library and the Filson Historical Society of Louisville, Kentucky, this collection presents 15,000 pages of original historical material documenting the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century.
• 5/08/02: LitFINDER includes both Poem Finder and Story Finder. Poem Finder includes over 100,000 full-text poems and 800,000 poem citations and excerpts. International in scope and comprehensive in dates of coverage, Poem Finder indexes poetry from 4,000 anthologies, 5,500 single-author works, and 6,500 periodical issues. Story Finder provides thousands of full-text short stories plus explanations, biographies, pictures and more. The database will be updated constantly with classic and contemporary stories. "Just Published Stories" includes stories published in the current year.
• 5/08/02: Black Drama currently contains over 200 plays by 64 playrights, and when complete, will contain the full text of 1,200 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 100 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Many of the works are rare, hard-to-find, or out of print, and nearly a quarter of the collection will consist of previously unpublished plays by writers such as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Femi Euba, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others. The database also includes reference materials, significant ancillary information, a rich performance database, and images.
• 5/06/02: Wiley Interscience Reference Works:
  • Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
  • Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry
  • Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis
  • Encyclopedia of Software Engineering
• 5/02/02: Business Source Premier: This EBSCOHost database contains 2,480 full text scholarly journals and business periodicals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more. Business Source Premier contains full text from the world's top management journals including Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Marketing Management and many more. The database also includes country economic reports from the EIU, WEFA, ICON Group and CountryWatch. EBSCO is in the process of creating greatly expanded indexing and abstract backfiles for 300 top scholarly business journals back to 1965 or the first issue published (whichever is more recent). More than 200 of these journals will also have PDF images back to 1965 or the first issue published. Business Source Premier contains PDF images for the great majority of journals; many of these PDF's are native (searchable) or scanned-in-color. This database is on trial through October 2002, we welcome your comments.
• 5/02/02: Academic Search Premier: This scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full text database contains full text for 3,350 scholarly publications as well as indexing and abstracting for many additional titles. EBSCOHost Academic Search Premier includes PDF images for the great majority of journals; many of these PDF's are native (searchable) or scanned-in-color. This scholarly collection provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, etc. This database is on trial through October 2002, we welcome your comments.
• 4/29/02: Computer terminals that provide access only to the Online Catalog have been added in Crerar, Harper and Regenstein. These workstations should assist in-person library users in locating a workstation for quick call number searches.
• 4/29/02: The Spring Library Book sale will be held Thursday, Friday and Saturday, May 2 -- 4 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. On Thursday, prices will be $15 for hardbacks and $5 for paperbacks and miscellaneous material. On Friday, prices will be reduced to $5 and $1. On Saturday, all remaining books will be free. The book sale room is located at the west end of the lobby in Regenstein just beyond the stairs to Ex Libris.
• 4/29/02: The Science Libraries Division and NSIT invite you to a Spring Information Fair Wednesday, May 1 from 1 to 4 p.m. at Crerar. Come and learn about new electronic resources; attend an EndNote demonstration; and see and learn about the multimedia wall and videoconferencing in USITE/Crerar.
• 4/22/02: A new issue of LIBRA (LIBrary Reports and Announcments), an occasional newsletter written for the faculty and University community, is now available online. LIBRA is also published in print form. University community members who would like to be added to the hard copy mailing list, or who have questions or comments about an issue of LIBRA, please contact libra@uchicago.edu.
• 3/27/02: The Macroeconomic Time Series Data Source Locator provides you with a list of macroeconomic data sources available at the University of Chicago categorized by year, geographic location and subject. Types of sources include books, journals, yearbooks, CD-ROMs and Internet resources. For each source we determined the oldest date listed for a particular data category (balance of payments, bond market related, etc.). There are approximately 48 titles within the database with many more to be added. The staff of the Business & Economics Resource Center working with the Digital Library Development Center created this database in order to enhance access to the University of Chicago's economic statistical sources.
• 3/25/02: All night study space pilot: The Library, NSIT, the Office of the Vice President and Dean of Students in the University, and Student Government are pleased to announce that the A-level Reading Room of Regenstein Library will be open 24 hours a day from Sunday at 10 a.m. through Friday at 10 p.m. during Spring Quarter. During the hours this reading room would normally be closed (1 a.m. to 8 a.m. Monday -- Friday), it will serve as the site for a pilot project to assess the use of (and need for) a 24-hour study space.
• 3/20/02: Polling the Nations is a compilation of more than 14,000 surveys conducted by more than 700 polling organizations in the United States and more than 80 other countries from 1986 to the present. Online counterpart of the American Public Opinion Index (1981-2000); searchable by one University user at a time.
• 3/08/02: FIAF International FilmArchive Database is an international compendium of information on film and television from the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF). It covers film literature from 300 periodicals since 1972, and includes the FIAF thesaurus. Additionally, the database features print sources for 22,000 silent films, a bibliography of FIAF members' publications and a directory of film and TV documentation collections.
• 3/07/02: Digitization of the University's archival photographs has begun. The Library has launched an ambitious project to digitize its archive of approximately 60,000 images and create a digital index that will enable them to be searched with greater speed, flexibility and precision. The most heavily used collection in the University Archives, the Photographic Files provide a rich and irreplaceable visual record of the individuals, buildings, campus landscapes, events, and student activities that have defined the historic character of the University. Information is available at: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/gifts/news/apf.html.
• 2/13/02: The Library is pleased to announce the 13th annual competition for the T. Kimball Brooker Prize for undergraduate book collectors. A $1,000 prize will be awarded to a 4th-year student and a $500 prize to a 2nd-year. Details are available on-line at: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/gifts/brooker/.
• 2/12/01: Prize Information Session: Alice Schreyer, Director, Special Collections Research Center, will discuss book collecting and the Brooker Prize on Tuesday, February 12, 2002, at 4:30 p.m. in the Special Collections Research Center, Regenstein Library.
• 2/10/02: Using Chalk: a Workshop for Faculty. Please join NSIT Instructional Technology and the Library Wednesday, February 13 between 10 am and 4 pm in Regenstein, Rooms 203, 204, 205 and 207 to discover how faculty are using and integrating online tools provided by the Chalk project via the Blackboard course management system.  Library staff will discuss how to use citation databases, electronic reserves, and art and image databases to enhance your courses. 
• 2/08/02: RISM: International Inventory of Musical Sources after 1600 contains bibliographic records for music manuscripts written after 1600 and before 1850.  Graphical images of the music incipits and the holding librarys' location are provided.
• 2/08/02: The International Medieval Bibliography (IMB) is an interdisciplinary bibliography of the European Middle Ages, covering Europe, the Middle East and North Africa in the period 400-1500.  Provides records for articles, conference proceedings, essay collections, Festschriften and exhibition catalogues from 1967 forward.  Online access available for up to 3 simultaneous users.
• 1/10/02: RIPM: International Index to Nineteenth-Century Music Periodicals indexes articles about music and musical life from specialized music journals, newspapers, literary periodicals, theatrical journals and magzines from the nineteenth-century.
• 1/04/02: USA Trade Online provides access to the latest official statistics for U.S. foreign trade, including specific U.S. export and import information on more than 18,000 commodities worldwide. Monitor trends in specific products, markets, and countries!
• 01/04/02: Winter Quarter classes at Regenstein Library will be held on Jan. 10th & 11th. Contact reg-teach@lib.uchicago.edu for details.

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