12/21/01: Change in Harper
Library Hours: Harper Library and USITE/Harper will close at 11 pm Sunday
-- Thursday and remain open until 7 pm Fridays beginning Winter Quarter, January
3.
12/07/01:Historical Newspapers
Online now includes Palmer's Full Text Online with full-text
articles from The Times of London for the period 1800-1870. ProQuest
includes full-text articles from the New York Times from 1851
to 1879, 1951-1970, and later; full-text articles from the Wall Street
Journal are available from as early as 1909. See News
Services and Newspapers for additional access to online news.
12/03/01: Intelex Past Masters
provides access to the Oxford Duden German Dictionary, Stith
Thompson's revision of the Motif-Index of Folk-Literature, and
to an extensive collection of philosophical texts.
11/29/01: Digital Sanborn Maps
1867-1970 provides access to Sanborn insurance maps for Illinois through
the Illinois Digital Academic Library
(IDAL). These maps are large-scale plans containing data that can be used
to estimate the potential risk for urban structures.\240 For example, extensive
information on building use is given, ranging from symbols for generic terms
such as stable, garage, and warehouse to names of owners of factories and
details on what was manufactured in them.
11/26/01: Try the beta test of Ask
a Librarian Live from Regenstein Reference and Information Services.
11/26/01: Social
Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research
focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social
welfare, social policy, and community development.
11/05/01:Purchase
Request Form: The Library welcomes suggestions for the acquisition of
materials which support the University's teaching and research programs. Before
submitting a request, please check the online catalog to determine whether
the material you want is already in the Library or on order. All suggestions
will be reviewed by the appropriate subject bibliographers in the Library
and you will receive notification of their decision.
10/26/01: CCTR,Cochrane
Controlled Trials Database, is a collection of citations for clinical trials.\240
Many of these studies were published in major journals and approximately 69%
of citations are from MEDLINE or EMBASE. The remaining citations include nonstandard
reports of unpublished studies as well as conference reports. Coverage from
the 1950's to the present.
10/17/01: The Dissertation Office
has moved to the Library administratively as well as physically. It is now
housed in Regenstein, Room 100B.
10/03/2001: The Library is holding a book sale from 10-2 October
8-13 (Monday through Saturday) in JRL120S. Entry to the book sale will be
through the door on the west end of the foyer (just after the stairs down
to Ex Libris). Prices start at $20 for hardbacks and $10 for paperbacks and
miscellaneous material and are reduced each day of the sale. All materials
free on the final day of the sale.
8/27/2001: Regenstein Microforms is moving to the east side of the
3rd floor reading room and should be operational by September 17. The film
collection will be packed for moving (and be inaccessible) beginning August
27. The fiche collection should remain accessible until September 11. The
actual move of the staff and collections will occur between September 11 and
14.
8/14/2001:Copico is
the Library's new copying vendor effective September 1st. Replacing IKON,
Copico will provide new digital photocopiers, new digital microform reader/printers,
and networked printing throughout the Library system. All equipment will
accept a current Chicago or IKON vended card with value on the card's cash
stripe.
8/01/2001: Congressional
Universe has been expanded to include Congressional Indexes, 1789-1969
and Indexes to Unpublished Hearings.
7/17/01: State Capital
Universe provides access to bills, statutes, regulations, policies &
issues, and legislative directories for each state. Includes links to other
web sites and extensive online help.
6/29/2001: PsycArticles
is the American Psychological Association's full-text electronic journal article
dabase. Coverage varies; starts with 1988 for many journals.
6/19/2001: The Library's web site recently received the most votes
for being "particularly effective in terms of usability" in a major
study undertaken by the University of Texas at Austin. Funded by the Institute
of Museum and Library Services, this study sought to develop a set of tools
that libraries, museums and other information agencies can use to create better
websites.
6/19/2001: Construction has begun on the east side of the A-level
reading room in Regenstein for the Maclab, a 70 seat Mac and Unix cluster
now located in Ryerson; USITE/Regenstein, temporarily located on the 1st floor
of Regenstein; 2 ADA workstations; and 16 group studies. Construction crews
will be working between the hours of 7 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday
to complete this project prior to the start of Autumn Quarter.
6/08/2001:Crerar
Extended Summer Hours: As an experiment, Crerar Library and USITE/Crerar
are open with extended Summer hours (Monday through Thursday, 8 am to 1 am;
Friday and Saturday 8 am to 10 pm, Sunday noon to 10 pm).
6/04/2001: The WEB OF SCIENCE now includes the following years:
Science Citation Index Expanded 1945-2001
Social Sciences Citation Index 1956-2001
Arts & Humanities Citation Index 1975-2001
Please clear the cache/history in your browser and access the Web of Science
server using the URL http://webofscience.com
5/15/2001: Euromonitor's Global
Market Information Database provides access to market size data (volume
and value), country marketing parameters, marketing forecast data, detailed
company and brand profiles, lists of business information sources, marketing
profiles, and market reports ranging from country by country studies to global
strategic analysis.
5/07/2001: To create additional growth space for the Classics Collection
in Regenstein, the Latin languages and literature collection (PA6001 to PA9999)
has been moved from the 5th floor bookstacks to the northeast corner of the
4th floor bookstacks. The P -- PA6000 collections, which remains on the 5th
floor, is being spread out and given additional growth.
5/07/2001: The Provost has provided special funding to replace the
old carpeting in Regenstein. This work will occur over the summer and is scheduled
to be completed by August 31. For additional information, please contact recarpeting@lib.uchicago.edu
3/28/2001: The Directory of
Scholarly Electronic Journals and Academic Discussion Lists, from
the Association of Research Libraries (ARL),
provides access to scholarly, academic, or professional journals and discussion
lists on the Internet. This title supersedes the Directory of Electronic
Journals, Newsletters and Academic Discussion Lists, of which the seventh
and last edition was published in 1997. The new Directory differs
from the previous one in scope; it contains only peer-reviewed electronic
journals due to the phenomenal growth in web publishing by scholarly publishers.
3/28/2001: The
Ellis and Messina Catalogues, published by Micropaleontology Press, provide
complete type-descriptions for genus- and species-level taxa with the original
illustrations and charts. Text is given verbatim, or translated from non-Roman
alphabets. Figure captions, synonymy, type level, type locality, and curatorial
data are extracted from the source; bibliographic and taxonomic references
are expanded in full, and verified. The current edition has more than 42,000
Foraminifera, 21,000 Ostracoda, and 3,000 Diatom genera and species.
3/27/2001: The American National Biography
offers portraits of more than 17,400 men and women -- from all eras and walks
of life -- whose lives have shaped the nation.
3/27/2001:Political
Science & Government Abstracts indexes international research within
the political science discipline and its complementary fields, including international
relations, law, and public administration/policy. Covers 1975 forward.
3/13/2001:
FRANCIS indexes multilingual, multidisciplinary information published
in over 4,200 journals covering the humanities (67%), social sciences (30%),
and economics (3%). Strong in religion, the history of art, psychology, and
literature (with particular emphasis on current trends in European and world
literature). Represents a wide range of materials, including serials, journal
articles, books, book chapters, conference papers, French dissertations, exhibition
catalogs, legislation, teaching materials, and reports. Product of the Institut
de l'Information Scientifique et Technique du Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique (INIST-CNRS). Covers 1984 to the present.
3/05/2001:
Gay & Lesbian Abstracts indexes publications addressing the social,
legal, economic, political, cultural, historical, literary, and health concerns
of the GLBT community. Available to one person at a time.
2/08/2001: The online version of the 2nd edition of The
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians includes the complete text
and notated music examples. Full text searching is available now and links
to images, digital sound and related sites are forthcoming. Quarterly biographical,
bibliographical and worklist updates are planned.
1/31/2001: The Library is pleased to announce the twelfth annual
T. Kimball Brooker
Prize for undergraduate book collecting. A prize information session will
be held Tuesday, February 13 at 4:30 in the Department of Special Collections.
Alice Schreyer, curator of Special Collections, will lead a discussion about
book collecting and the Brooker Prize. Other members of the prize committee
will attend. Refreshments will be served.
Full text of Federal Security Law Reports, Blue Sky Law Reports,
Trade Regulation Reporter, Federal Banking Law Reports, stock exchange
manuals, and much more.
Full text of the Labor Law Reporter, Employment Practices Guide,
Pension Plan Guide, labor law journals, and compliance manuals
for human resource managers.
Full text of the Standard Federal Tax Reporter, Federal Estate
& Gift Tax Reporter, the Internal Revenue Code, tax cases, IRS
rulings, state and federal tax forms, tax treaties, and CCH tax journals.
News and full text of legislative and regulatory developments in Internet
and electronic commerce law, including freedom of speech, privacy, intellectual
property, taxation, and criminal liability.
Contact information for federal and state courts, and federal judges,
plus news of federal judicial appointments and nominations.
1/26/2001: Try a few new Library databases:
The Economist Intelligence
Unit (EIU) produces Country Profiles and Country
Reports, containing economic, demographic, political and industry
overviews for specific countries. The site is customized and lists only
the country publications to which we subscribe online.
SourceOECD comprises three
sections: books and reports By Theme, Periodicals, and Statistics. The
site provides us with online access to numerous OECD publications and
data sets.
1/26/2001: The Library has recently subscribed to an electronic version
of the American Film Institute Catalog.
The online AFI Catalog draws its content from six printed volumes
that document every American film from 1893 to 1970 (except 1951 to 1960).
Search records by keywords; film titles; cast, crew, and character names;
subject; genre; release year and more. Most records include extensive plot
summaries.
1/17/2001: An enhanced
version of the Online Catalog is now available for testing. It offers
significantly faster keyword searching and a number of improved search options,
including the ability to mark and e-mail records, phrase and proximity searching,
and limiting by date, language and format.
11/06/2000: New Microsoft Products: As part of the University's Microsoft Campus Agreement,
2 new products are now available -- Office 2001 for the Mac and Windows ME
Upgrade. If you are a current University of Chicago Faculty, student or benefits-eligible
staff member, you can borrow the product(s) for 24 hours at any reserve location
to install on your Mac or PC.
10/09/2000: Electronic access to all IEEE magazines and journals is now
available. Coverage is from 1998 to current. At this time, our subscription
is limited to magazines and journals; we do not have access to the full text
of the IEEE conference proceedings and the IEEE standards.
10/10/2000:NetLibrary
provides access to a collection of books in business, consumer health and
medicine, computers and information technology, and general reference, available
to the University of Chicago through the Illinois Digital Academic Library (IDAL).
Over 4,000 public domain eBooks are also available.
10/05/2000: If you renewed your quarterly loans due October 6 using
the Online Catalog's Borrower Information function between September 25 and
October 3, your books were not renewed. Please resubmit
your renewal request. For additional information, please contact a Circulation
Supervisor or email Renewals@lib.uchicago.edu.
The Library apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause you.
09/19/2000: Recently it has been difficult to connect to FirstSearch.
OCLC has asked the Library to encourage our researchers to send them comments
about FirstSearch. The Library's FirstSearch
Databases Web page provides additional information and includes a request
that you notify OCLC at support@oclc.org if you cannot connect to WorldCat
or any other FirstSearch database.
09/15/2000: Over the summer, 52 inactive
serial titles were transferred from Eckhart Library to Crerar Library.
Title selection was based on usage and age of the title. The list was reviewed
by interested faculty members.
9/12/2000: New students are invited to learn more about the essential
academic resources at one of six sessions during the new student orientation
week. Returning faculty, students, and staff are invited to attend more specialized
orientations and workshops. For more information see the Crerar
Library Instruction page.
08/28/2000: The Goldsmith's-Kress Library of Economic Literature
Catalog on CD-ROM provides search and browse access to records for titles
within a microfilm collection comprising more than 60,000 printed books, and
the runs of scores of serials, from the fifteenth century to 1850. Rich in
titles for political and social history as well as economic, with materials
on topics such as population, socialism, transportation, slavery, piracy,
public utilities, smuggling, agriculture, etc. Available from a workstation
on the first floor of Regenstein, the Catalog includes the reel number
for titles in the Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature,
which is in the microfilm area on the second floor of Regenstein with the
call number microfm HB30.G64 1974.
06/26/2000: The University of Chicago Library is profiled in the
June 1st issue of Library Journal,
the leading non-association based U.S. library magazine. The Library thanks
Library Journal for permission to post this article here.
06/26/2000:EBSCOhost provides
full text for approximately 1,250 academic journals, 960 business journals,
280 health periodicals, 1,000 health pamphlets, and 23 health reference books.
Also provides selected full text from 143 US and international newspapers.
06/26/2000: The Worldmark
Yearbook includes 229 country profiles, a Year in Review essay, information
on international organizations, regional and country maps, flags, statistics,
and a metric conversion chart.
05/17/2000: OCLC is finalizing plans for the full migration of
all OCLC FirstSearch users to the new version of FirstSearch.
As part of the process, beginning May 21, Sunday FirstSearch service hours
(US Eastern Daylight Time) will be midnight to 2:00 am and 10:00 am-11:59
pm, until further notice. FirstSearch will remain available 24 hours per day
Monday through Saturday. Throughout this period, Sunday hours will be noted
on the System Alert Web page at
http://www.oclc.org/cgi-oclc/display.pl.cgi.
05/04/2000:The Regenstein Library
Stacks Move is underway. Between April 25 and May 26, staff from William
B. Meyer, Inc., a Connecticut-based company specializing in the move of library
collections, will be moving books into the new compact shelving on B-level.
Between May 15 and August 19, Meyer staff will rearrange the remaining collections
on the conventional stack floors (A, 2, 3, 4, 5) into the stacks arrangement
approved by the Board of the Library. Between August 1 and September 15, Library
staff will be moving selected Reading Room material and selected material
from Harper Storage into the Bookstacks.
05/04/2000: The TLS Centenary
Archive provides access to a searchable facsimile of the complete
editorial and advertising contents of The Times Literary Supplement (TLS)
from its first publication in 1902 forward. An important enhancement of the
web-based edition is the disclosure of the identities of the contributors
to the TLS, who were published anonymously until 1974. Currently
contains issues from the years 1902-1980.
04/07/2000: New electronic resources:
The Faber Poetry Library provides full-text
access to more than four thousand poems by over 40 British, Irish and
post-colonial poets. The Faber list includes some of the greatest modern
poets, including T.S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, James Joyce, Sylvia
Plath, and Stephen Spender.
Ulrich's International
Periodicals Directory: Provides bibliographic and access information
for nearly a quarter of a million consumer and trade magazines, academic
and scholarly publications, monographic series, newsletters, newspapers,
electronic publications, and other types of serial publications and services
published throughout the world. Also includes contact information for
over 80,000 publishers, many of which also include email addresses and
URLs.
Victorian Database
Online: Includes over 70,000 records listing books, articles, and
dissertation abstracts published from 1970 to 1999 on every field of nineteenth-century
British studies.
02/21/2000: To encourage undergraduates in the enterprise of book
collecting, the Library will award the eleventh annual T. Kimball Brooker Prize, which recognizes the thoughtful
collection of books by presenting $500 to a second-year student and $1,000
to a fourth-year. The deadline for applications is Monday, April 3, 2000.
For more information and an application, please visit the web
site for the Brooker Prize.
02/14/2000: Poole's
Plus, The Digital Index of the Nineteenth Century, provides access to
records from Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906),
the Index to Periodicals (1890-1902) (ed. William T. Stead),
a file of nineteenth-century book records, a file of nineteenth-century serial
records, and the Library Journal Cumulative Index (1876-1897).
02/08/2000: Try the new FirstSearch interface and
send your comments to the Library.
A number of enhancements include:
Searching up to three databases simultaneously
Greatly improved truncation and wildcard characters
Marking of up to 100 records
Displaying up to 100 brief records on a single screen
Enhanced links to full-text items
Limiting to items held by the University of Chicago Library or by another
library when searching WorldCat
OCLC plans to replace the current version of FirstSearch in July. Additional information about
the new interface is available on their Web site.
01/17/2000: The Universal Database of
Russian Newspapers from East View Publications, or UDRN, is a full-text
database of more than 40 Russian newspapers, the majority of which are currently
being published though a few titles ceased publication in the last year or
so. The Library has purchased both the archive (with some titles going back
to 1996) and the current year's articles, with new issues being scanned into
the database just hours after publication. This new acquisition marks a significant
improvement in accessibility to the current Russian press. For those interested
in economics, business and related political topics, this will be our first
access to the various "Kommersant" newspapers, generally thought to be the
most important business publications in the Russian Federation.
1/17/2000: Some databases added during Autumn Quarter:
The SPRESI structural
database contains about 4 million organic and organometallic compounds
and data, about 3 million reactions, and journal article references of
the period 1975-1995. Literature from 1996 on should be covered in future
updates.
The Philosopher's Index (1940-
) provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy
and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social
philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and logic as well as material
on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.
ISI's Journal Citation Reports database
(JCR Web) provides access to data that helps you evaluate and compare
scholarly journals in science and the social sciences. JCR Web uses citation
data drawn from over 8,400 scholarly and technical journals worldwide.
CatchWord provides access to
over 100 research journals for which the Library has a current print subscription.
Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts includes
journal articles, conference proceedings, technical reports, books, patents,
and many other international sources from 1978 to present. Also includes
access to Oceanic Abstracts. Subject coverage includes aquaculture, brackishwater
environments, conservation, engineering, environmental quality, fisheries,
freshwater environments, limnology, marine biotechnology, marine environments,
marine geology, meteorology, oceanography, policy and legislation, wildlife
management, and many others. Print volumes for the years 1971-1981 are
in the Crerar Library Dewey Stacks at 016.59195205/1.
MDConsult provides
full text access to selected medical texts, medical journals, practice
guidelines, drug information, patient handouts, and CME materials.
CountryWatch.com brings together
political, economic, and business information in three forms: Country
Reviews (political and economic surveys of 191 countries), Country Wire
(current news of political, economic, corporate, and environmental information
events on a country by country basis), and Country Briefings (detailed
geographical, political, economic, corporate, and environmental briefings).
Women Writers
Online, textbase of the Women Writers Project at Brown University,
contains full text of works by pre-Victorian women writers.
The Middle English Compendium
includes three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic
version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle
English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, and an associated
network of electronic resources.
ITER, Gateway
to the Middle Ages and Renaissance, indexes materials pertaining to the
Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
Individual Literature Collections
from Chadwyck-Healey, including Literary Journals Index Full Text (LIFT)
and Literary Theory. LIFT covers a broad spectrum
of literary studies, from the foundations of American and English literary
traditions to contemporary criticism and theory. Coverage includes 17th,
18th, 19th and 20th century literary studies, genre studies, criticism
and commentary, original works and more. LIFT draws its current content
from over 200 core journals in literature, with 30 of these available
in full text. Literary Theory traces the history
of literary theory and criticism from Plato to the present. It contains
over 800 works by more than 350 writers. Among the works included are:
formal treatises on criticism, essays and manifestos, literary prefaces,
theories of imagination, taste and aesthetics, and major examples of contemporary
theory.
LegalTrac
indexes articles published since January 1980 in more than 900 law journals,
newsletters, and legal newspapers, with full text of selected journals.
The print version is Current Law Index (KA1.Z946 Law).
Index of Christian
Art records works of art produced without geographical limitations
from early apostolic times up to A.D. 1400.
09/23/1999: New EFTS full-text databases
available from the WWW under PhiloLogic:
Art Theorists of the
Italian Renaissance, published by Chadwyck-Healey, Inc., is a collection
of treatises on art and architecture from the period 1470 to 1775.
Early English Prose Fiction, published by
Chadwyck-Healey, Inc., contains English prose works from the period 1500-1700
by writers from the British Isles.
Eighteenth-Century Fiction, published by Chadwyck-Healey,
Inc., contains works in English prose from the period 1700 to 1780, by
writers from the British Isles.
English Prose Drama, published by Chadwyck-Healey,
Inc., contains plays published in English prose from the early sixteenth
century to the end of the nineteenth century by writers from the British
Isles. English Prose Drama contains more than 1,800 plays by approximately
400 authors from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century.
The First Folio
of Shakespeare, prepared by Charlton Hinman and published by The Oxford
Text Archive, is based on copies of the First Folio in the Folger Shakespeare
Library.
The Patrologia Latina
Database (PLD), published by Chadwyck-Healey, Inc., represents a complete
electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologiae
Cursus Completus, (1844-1855 and 1862-1865).
Teatro Español del
Siglo de Oro, published by Chadwyck-Healey, Inc., brings together
the most important plays from the Golden Age period. It contains approximately
900 works from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, by sixteen major
authors such as Lope de Vega, Miguel de Cervantes, Calderón de la Barca
and Tirso de Molina.
Voltaire électronique,
published by Chadwyck-Healey, Inc., is based on the Voltaire Foundation's
Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire (the Oxford edition).
09/02/1999: In partnership with Networking Services and Information Technologies,
the Library is now circulating the following Microsoft
software packages from the circulation counters in Crerar, D'Angelo, Eckhart,
Harper, Regenstein, SSA and Yerkes -- Office 2000 Pro for Windows, FrontPage
2000, FrontPage 1.0 Macintosh, MSDN Library Visual Studio 6.0, Visual J++
6.0, Visual Studio 6.0 Professional Edition.
07/26/1999:
Social Work Abstracts, an index to social work and human services journals,
is available from 1977 to present, as is the National Association of Social
Workers' current directory.
