Trials for March 2010

It’s not official, but think of March as streaming video month?  Towards that end, the UNH Library has 4 trials running through April 6, all with video content.

1.)    Alexander Street Press – Counseling and Therapy in Video – online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling.

2.)    Alexander Street Press – American History in Video – collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.

3.) Digital Campus by Swank Video (Username: Fdemo087/ Password: Academic1) – provides streaming video from Major Hollywood and independent movie studios. The trial only gives us access to 15 minute samples from a handful of titles, giving us a chance to see how to use the service.  The real collection includes 16,000 titles.  ( You can browse through the list at: http://www.swank.com/digitalcampus/ )   If we decide to use Digital Campus, we purchase only the titles we want from the collection.

4.)    Books 24×7 Leadership Development Channel – collection of videos featuring  business authors, experts, and CEOs.

Please check them out and send us your comments!

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EBSCO Providing Enhanced Content Through June

The UNH Library is pleased to announce that EBSCO is is providing the university community with a number of full-text products as a free trial through June 30, 2010. The trial includes full-text of: all content indexed by America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts; the American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 1 and/or Series 2; and the American Theological Library Association Historical Monographs Collection,  Series I (13^th Century to 1893) and Series II (1894 to 1923).

These online Collections contain: comprehensive and rare archival content and historical primary sources; the ability to view all of the original typography, graphics and drawings; an incredible state-of-the art interface, and seamless, cross database searching through the standard EBSCO search page. You can search within specific collections by clicking on those collections from the search page. To view information about specific EBSCO databases, visit their website by clicking here.

We encourage you to take advantage of this free trial. And more importantly, let us know what you think of the database content and functionality. This will help us establish priorities for purchase in the future.

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Product Trials for Black History Month

The UNH Library is pleased to announce the following product trials for the month of February. Please share this information with your students and colleagues, use them, and let us know what you think. Such input is important to us as we weigh future expenditures in a time of shrinking budgets.

Proquest Historical Newspapers. Black Newspapers Collection. http://libproxy.unh.edu/login?url=http://proquest.umi.com/login  This digital archive-offers full-text and full-image articles for significant newspapers dating back to the 18th Century.  The Black Newspapers Collection provides access to nine titles including the Chicago Defender and Baltimore Afro-American.

Black Studies Center  http://libproxy.unh.edu/login?url=http://bsc.chadwyck.com   Black Studies Center is a fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and much more.

 Ethnic NewsWatch http://libproxy.unh.edu/login?url=http://proquest.umi.com/login Ethnic NewsWatch™ (ENW) features newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. With titles dating from 1990, ENW presents a comprehensive, full-text collection of nearly 1.6 million articles from more than 300 publications offering both national and regional coverage. While the content may mirror mainstream media coverage, the viewpoints are decidedly unique.

 

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Colonial State Papers

The UNH Library would like to announce a trial for the Colonial State Papers, which provides access to primary materials related to the English colonization  of North America. The trial is scheduled to run through February 12, 2009. The link for the resource is: http://www.library.unh.edu/scripts/redirect.pl?dbase=367

This resource contains primary source material dating from the late 16th Century through the mid 18th Century.  It includes materials about England’s earliest colonization efforts, early encounters with Native Americans, Atlantic trade, maritime affairs and piracy, as well as ongoing conflicts with other colonial powers, particularly France and Spain.

Please give it a try and let us know what you think. We base our future purchases on the feedback we receive from such trials.

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Literature Criticism Online and Refworks

The UNH Library added a couple of databases this summer that may be of interest

Literature Criticism Online contains a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. It includes centuries of analysis, both scholarly and popular, from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals. It is delivered in an format that is both accessible matches the exact look and feel of the print originals. 

Refworks, is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool, is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.

If you have any questions about or need assistance for any of the Library’s databases, please don’t hesitate to let us know.

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Free Trial: Images of the American Civil War

Alexander Street Press has released a beta version of Images of the American Civil War: Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera. The collection is freely available without a password for one month at http://cpho.alexanderstreet.com/

This beta release includes nearly 1,400 images and is searchable by place, date, battle/campaign/event, photographer, setting, and more. Additionally, short contextual descriptions about the images are included. At completion, the collection will have more than 50,000 photographs, prints, and other visual materials that illustrate the experience of Americans in a time of national crisis. Types of images included are:

• Photographic portraits of Civil War officers and enlisted men • Recruitment posters from the North and South • Illustrated envelopes and cartes-de-visite • Etchings and engravings representing battle views and key historical events • Satiric cartoons from a wide range of periodicals • Hundreds of rare stereographs

Please let us know if you have any comments regarding this online collection.

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New Database Trial: ARTstor

The UNH Library a new trial running for ARTstor! The trial will run until June 8th. If this database is useful for your research, please post comments here or contact the Electronic Resources Librarian.

What is ARTstore?

ARTstor is a digital library of approximately 700,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.

In ARTstor you can:

• Browse content by collection, classification, or geography
• Search content by keyword or advanced search terms (e.g., date and geographic origin)
• Sort search results by date, creator, or title
• View images and image data
• Zoom in on and pan images for greater detail
• Print and save images and related data to other hardware (e.g. CD, memory stick, hard drive)
• Create groups of images for later retrieval and presentation
• Organize image groups into shared folders
• Direct other ARTstor users to images or image groups
• Upload personal images and sound files to the ARTstor platform
• Export images and image groups to ARTstor’s Offline Image Viewer (OIV) presentation tool
• Save citations for images or image groups, and email or print these, as well as export them directly into EndNote, ProCite, RefWorks, Reference Manager, or a text file

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Free Access to Alexander Street’s Civil War Collections

To help mark the upcoming bicentennials of both Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, Alexander Street is offering a month of free access to its Civil War collections. These include: The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries; American Civil War Research Database; and Illustrated Civil War Newspapers and Magazines. They are also including free access to tow databases that provide streaming audio for Civil War era songs and music. The trial is good through April 30, 2008. You can find links to these resources at: http://alexanderstreet.com/resources/civilwar.access.htm

For this trial, use the following user name and password:

username: american
password: bicentennial

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Aluka Preview

Aluka, from the Zulu word for “to weave, ” is an international, collaborative initiative building an online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa. The website includes a wide variety of scholarly materials, ranging from archival documents, periodicals, books, reports, manuscripts, and reference works, to three-dimensional models, maps, oral histories, plant specimens, photographs, and slides. To demonstrate Aluka’s potential, three content areas are being developed: African Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes; African Plants; and Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa. New materials are added to the collections on an ongoing basis. Aluka’s creators intend for it to serve as a model for future efforts to document other regions of the developing world.

As subscribers to the JSTOR Collections, UNH will receive free access to Aluka through June 2008.

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New Library Resources Online

The UNH Library now offers online access to the Chicago Manual of Style [restricted to UNH users].

The online edition of the Chicago Manual of Style includes the fully-searchable text of the 15th edition with added features such as tools for editors, a quick citation guide, and searchable access to the Chicago Style Q&A, a feature popular with copy editors and grammar aficionados, wherein University of Chicago Press manuscript editors answer readers’ editorial style questions. I especially like the Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide. It provides quick reference to citing everything from monographs to blog entries and e-mail.

In addition, the Library now provides lists of newly cataloged titles. For example, if you want to see the latest acquisitions in History all you have to do is click for a list that is updated weekly. They are arranged by subject area, so you will never miss new books, music, and films.

The lists are also published as RSS feeds. RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a web feed format used to publish frequently updated content. RSS makes it possible to keep up with your favorite web sites without having to check sites by hand.

RSS feeds are subscribed to using a feed reader or aggregator, or they can be emailed when updated. Content can also be read on any RSS-capable device, including cell phones and PDAs.

• Google Reader and Bloglines are popular web-based RSS readers
• FeedBlitz and RssFwd are popular RSS-to-email services, or use our subscription box for each subject area
• See a list of available feed readers by platform
• Read more about RSS

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