What's New Archive

Archive of News 1999-2001

• 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.
• 12/17/01: Find book reviews using the recently available International Bibliography of Book Reviews (IBR), or browse the Guide to Book Reviews for additional book review resources in your field.
• 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.
• 12/07/01: Electronic resources added during the past year include DYABOLA and Music Index online, Keesing's Record of World Events and MATHDI (Mathematical Education), the Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, the Integrated Medical Curriculum and ISI Chemistry Server.  Browse the library's Subject Web Pages to see what's new in your field.
• 12/06/01: Search Current Geographical Publications, the online geographical bibliography of the American Geographical Society Collection.
• 12/03/01: Two new resources for cultural anthropology:
  • eHRAF Collection of Ethnography
  • eHRAF Collection of Archaeology
• 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.
• 6/19/2001: The Regenstein recarpeting project will begin June 25 and continue through the middle of September.
• 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.
• 3/01/2001: The National Journal Group's Policy Central Web site contains articles from National Journal, Hotline, Congress Daily, and Technology Daily. Additional features include the Almanac of American Politics.
• 3/01/2001: North American Women's Letters and Diaries (Colonial to 1950) currently contains the immediate experiences of 107 women, as revealed in more than 9000 pages of diaries and letters.
• 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.
• 1/26/2001: Some new legal databases:

  CCH Internet Research Network: Business and Finance

  Full text of Federal Security Law Reports, Blue Sky Law Reports, Trade Regulation Reporter, Federal Banking Law Reports, stock exchange manuals, and much more.

  CCH Internet Research Network: Health and Human Resources

  Full text of the Labor Law Reporter, Employment Practices Guide, Pension Plan Guide, labor law journals, and compliance manuals for human resource managers.

  CCH Internet Research Network: Tax

  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.

  HeinOnline

  Full text and page images of American law reviews, from the earliest issue to the most recent.

  Pike & Fischer Internet Law & Regulation

  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.

  Your Nation's Courts Online

  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.
• 07/27/2000: A number of electronic science books have been added to our collection, including Advances in Polymer Science, Harrison's Online, CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, MD Consult, Progress in Colloid and Interface Science, and Topics in Current Chemistry.
• 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.
  • Index to Theses with Abstracts Accepted for Higher Degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland: Covers theses done since 1970 from over 150 colleges and universities and can be searched by author, title, abstract, date, and university.
  • 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:
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. CatchWord provides access to over 100 research journals for which the Library has a current print subscription.
  5. 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.
  6. MDConsult provides full text access to selected medical texts, medical journals, practice guidelines, drug information, patient handouts, and CME materials.
  7. 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).
  8. Women Writers Online, textbase of the Women Writers Project at Brown University, contains full text of works by pre-Victorian women writers.
  9. 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.
  10. ITER, Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance, indexes materials pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
  11. 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.
  12. 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).
  13. 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:
  1. 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.
  2. Early English Prose Fiction, published by Chadwyck-Healey, Inc., contains English prose works from the period 1500-1700 by writers from the British Isles.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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).
  7. 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.
  8. Voltaire électronique, published by Chadwyck-Healey, Inc., is based on the Voltaire Foundation's Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire (the Oxford edition).
• 09/07/1999: Try these new databases: Current Index to Statistics, Current Contents, The Grove Dictionary of Art, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and InterScience!
• 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.
• 07/02/1999: Books in Print is available using FirstSearch.

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