The Middlebury Blog Network » electronic resources http://sites.middlebury.edu/middblogs Selected Posts from the Midd Blogosphere Fri, 03 Jul 2015 14:48:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 New library collection: Illustrated London News, 1842-2003 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddLibraryInformationServices/~3/jYMLu0vlkVc/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddLibraryInformationServices/~3/jYMLu0vlkVc/#comments Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:59:25 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=31371 Continue reading ]]> Middlebury College now has full access to The Illustrated London News digital archive, 1842-2003. The archive incudes over 260,000 color pages and full-text searching. Find it on our Journals & Databases page (go/journals) or our Databases A-Z page (go/databases).

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]]> http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2013/03/07/new-library-collection-illustrated-london-news-1842-2003/feed/ 0 e-libro: full-text en Español {trial access through April 12} http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddLibraryInformationServices/~3/ho1Y69rDRsc/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddLibraryInformationServices/~3/ho1Y69rDRsc/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:07:31 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=28476 Continue reading Continue reading ]]> We now have trial access to over 45,000 Spanish language books, research papers, and doctoral thesis, all in full-text, via e-libro. Access e-libro here or visit our New & Trials page for a list of additional library resources.

The trial runs through April 12th. Please send comments to Rebekah Irwin (rirwin@middlebury.edu) or your library liaison.

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Journal of Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness – new on Project MUSE http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddLibraryInformationServices/~3/CY6TPEbFm8w/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddLibraryInformationServices/~3/CY6TPEbFm8w/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:59:42 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=28331 Continue reading Continue reading ]]>

Current content from the Journal of Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness, a publication of the New England Educational Assessment Network, is newly available on Project MUSE. Topics explored in this journal include:

  • How do institutions learn about emerging trends in assessment?
  • What pressing questions do all institutions face when it comes to assessing the quality and effectiveness of student learning?
  •  What are the best practices in promoting institutional effectiveness in the educational enterprise?

As of today, you can find this journal by browsing go/journals, and soon you will be able to find it cataloged in Midcat, and article results when you search Summon. (And no need to alert the Office of Assessment and Planning about this – they’re already aware.)

 

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ClimateWire and EnergyWire {two new trials} http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddLibraryInformationServices/~3/z0gg_ReQGDI/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddLibraryInformationServices/~3/z0gg_ReQGDI/#comments Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:30:04 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=28392 Continue reading Continue reading ]]> Through April 5th, Middlebury College has access to two new publications about environmental and energy policy: ClimateWire and EnergyWire, both by Environment & Energy Publishing (E&E).

Solar panels from Self Reliance

Middlebury currently provides access to the following E&E publications:

Environment & Energy Daily, E&E Daily (A daily news service focused on environmental and energy issues in Congress)
Greenwire (Daily stories energy and environmental policy)
Land Letter (A weekly natural resources report)
E&ENews PM (A late afternoon roundup providing coverage of policy news around the country and the world)
E&ETV (Featuring in-depth interviews and analysis with energy and environmental policy leaders)

All of these publications are available through E&E’s website,  and on our New & Trial Resources page (go/trials).

Please send comments to Rebekah Irwin (rirwin@middlebury.edu) or your library liaison.

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Digital microfilm for the Boston Globe, New York Times, Burlington Free Press http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddLibraryInformationServices/~3/OQWoJt6bA6E/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddLibraryInformationServices/~3/OQWoJt6bA6E/#comments Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:57:15 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=28386 Continue reading Continue reading ]]> Middlebury College now has access to a selection of regional and national microfilmed newspapers with full graphics without the need of traditional microfilm equipment.

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Visit Proquest Digital Microfilm or the New & Trial Resources Research Guide (go/newresources).

Currently, our access includes The Burlington Free Press (2010-forward), Boston Globe (Jan 2008-forward) and The New York Times, East Coast late edition (Jan 2008-forward).

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New websites for Gale, Proquest, Oxford University Press, among others http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddLibraryInformationServices/~3/xqbOq1HYDfs/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddLibraryInformationServices/~3/xqbOq1HYDfs/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:19:00 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=27560 Continue reading Continue reading ]]> The new year is a popular time for publishers to make changes, both subtle and downright drastic, to the journals and databases that the library subscribes to. Here’s a round-up of a few of the websites that recently underwent face-lists:

We do our best to ensure that when these platform changes happen, all you will see is a new look, not a broken link. If you do encounter problems with these or any other online resources, please let us know at eaccess-admin@middlebury.edu.

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Library collections in the new year (online and off) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddLibraryInformationServices/~3/aVumQdRvE0M/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MiddLibraryInformationServices/~3/aVumQdRvE0M/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:18:30 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=27557 Continue reading Continue reading ]]> We thought we would ring-in the new year with a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the work required to bring over 76,000 full-text journals and hundreds of online databases to the Middlebury community. Both the end, and the beginning, of each year are the busiest for those of us maintaining library collections online and off, in print.

Most of our efforts from September into early November go toward making sure our subscriptions, for both print and online journals, continue uninterrupted from one year to the next. Of the nearly 2,000 subscriptions we have, there are always a few that somehow fail to get renewed despite our best efforts. For example, we might discover in March that we have not received any recent issues of Veja, a weekly magazine published in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Occasionally, we can fill the gaps of a lapsed subscription, but not always.

There is usually a mountain of mail awaiting us in the new year: books, newspapers, magazines, and journals from all over the world and bills for these books, newspapers, and magazines from around the world. If we spend the last few days of the previous year ensuring access to our library collections after December 31st, we spend the first few days of the new year digging ourselves out of the mail room, looking for those lost issues from the previous year and for bills to pay.

Especially in the new year, but any other time too, please let us know if you cannot find something online or in print that you know was there before. Our email: eaccess-admin@middlebury.edu. Happy new year!

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Celebrate Constitution Day, September 17th http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2010/09/10/celebrate-constitution-day-september-17th/ http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2010/09/10/celebrate-constitution-day-september-17th/#comments Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:54:19 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=24045 Continue reading Continue reading ]]> You don’t have to be taking a class on constitutional law to reflect about the importance of the US Constitution or debate the issues.   There are library databases, publisher, government, and other websites that feature articles and other content to highlight or debate aspects of our Constitution.  Here are a few:

U.S. National Archives Constitution Day page
Also see their electronic version of the Constitution of the United States

NewsBank (publisher of the library database Archive  of Americana) Special Reports: The U.S. Constitution page

Find addtional library databases on the library subject guides.

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Access to e-content: permanent or not? http://sites.middlebury.edu/middblogs/2010/04/16/access-to-e-content-permanent-or-not/ http://sites.middlebury.edu/middblogs/2010/04/16/access-to-e-content-permanent-or-not/#comments Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:13:09 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=22818 Continue reading ]]> We have online access to a large number of journals and newspapers.  The terms governing our access vary considerably, and can change with the passage of time.  One of the most important aspects of our access is the extent to which it is dependable and permanent.  Following is an attempt to illustrate the range of stability of our electronic offerings.

The most stable and permanent situation is when we have a subscription with the publisher to a specific journal or packaged group of journals (e.g. Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Taylor & Francis).  In this case we have guaranteed permanent access to all material published during the years of our subscription.  Often we will also have access to a backfile of material published before our subscription started.  In some cases we are assured continuing access to this backfile, while in other cases ongoing access to any material dating from before the start of our subscription is not guaranteed.

We have deals with some of our larger commercial publishers (e.g. Elsevier Science Direct, Sage Premier, Springer SpringerLink), generally with contract periods of two to four years, under which we maintain electronic subscriptions to the journals we used to subscribe to in print, and we are allowed access to a large group of additional journals for a very low package price. We have the same guaranteed permanent access for our subscribed titles as for any other subscriptions.  We do not, however, acquire permanent access rights to titles in the low-cost “bonus” package; we have access to these titles only for the duration of the package deal.  These deals are commonly renewed for subsequent terms, so we will usually retain access to the bonus titles for an extended period.  However, sometimes the roster of journals in the package will change somewhat upon renewal of the deal, so we will gain access to new titles, but we may lose access to some titles we formerly had.  Occasionally a title in the bonus package will vanish in the middle of the term, but we have no recourse since there are no guarantees of access for the individual non-subscribed titles.

Our access to many journals and newspapers is not directly with the publishers, but rather through subscriptions to aggregated full-text databases (e.g. Academic OneFile, Ethnic NewsWatch, Lexis-Nexis Academic).  The vendors of the aggregations license content from the publishers, and these arrangements sometimes change; new titles are added from time to time, but others are deleted.  So, we may find that a title or titles we have counted on, or that portions of the content of a title, have suddenly vanished.  Since we have no direct relationship with the publishers of the original material, we acquire no ownership rights, and if something is pulled from the database, we are simply out of luck.  And in the most drastic situation, if we cancel our subscription to one of these databases, no matter how long we have subscribed our access to everything ends immediately,  One exception to the impermanence of aggregated content is archival databases (e.g. British Periodicals Collection, JSTOR, ProQuest Historical Newspapers), for which we have purchased perpetual access to material covering a certain period of time.

In addition to the resources we pay for, we facilitate access to many free and open-access publications, as a service to our users.  Obviously, since the providers are furnishing this material to all at no cost, there are no guarantees of availability or permanence.  We have no standing with the providers, so we are not in a position to request that problems be resolved.

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