ARTstor Digital Library trial access until Nov. 2

The UAHuntsville Salmon Library has trial access to the ARTstor Digital Library now until November 2.  Simply go to http://www.artstor.org/ and click on “ARTstor Digital Library-Enter Here” or go to the search page at http://library.artstor.org/.  Some content will require a login.  Please contact the Reference Desk at 256-824-6529 for login information. 

The ARTstor Digital Library is a nonprofit resource that provides more than one million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. Their community-built collections comprise contributions from outstanding international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists’ estates.  Subject guides to the collection are available here

Please direct all questions and comments about this trial to http://libanswers.uah.edu/.

SpringerImages Trial until Oct. 31

Please take advantage of a new trial of SpringerImages, a comprehensive collection of scientific and medical photos, graphs, histograms, tables and more, available now until Oct. 31, 2011.  You can access the SpringerImages trial from this Website:  http://www.springer.com/mytrial

SpringerImages is:
–An expansive and rapidly growing collection of scientific and medical images (over 3 million right now and over 500,000 added every year)
–Based on high quality trusted sources, such as SpringerLink or images.MD
–Always up-to-date as images are loaded as they are published
–Provides captions and extracts from the source plus the ability to link to the full-text
–Offers creation of image sets and a one-click export to PowerPoint or PDF

Learn more from the brochure here.  Please send any feedback or comments about this trial to us at http://libanswers.uah.edu.

New at the Library in 2011


It’s going to be an exciting academic year of change at the UAHuntsville Library in the 2011 – 2012 academic year.  We have a number of new features and resources this year, some which are already here and some that are coming soon.

New furniture, workspaces, and improved study rooms are coming to the library in October.

We hope to have this all installed in the building during Fall Break, and are planning an Open House the week of Homecoming at UAHuntsville.  More information will be coming, but we plan on having a free concert in the building or just outside with local Indie Folk / Acoustic band Ashlyn Maine.

Read more about our new furniture at our earlier blog post, and become a fan of Ashlyn Maine on their Facebook page.

Scopus Database Now Available

Please go to http://www.scopus.com/home.url in order to access the Scopus database now available from the UAHuntsville Salmon Library. Access has been set up via IP Authentication (on-campus only).

Scopus, launched in November 2004, is the largest abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. You can find a wealth of easily accessible information about getting the most from your Scopus access, including demos, tutorials and downloadable user guides at http://info.scopus.com

New Vending Machines on our First Floor

Students have long asked for them, and we’re happy to finally have three new vending machines available on our first floor!  There is a can machine, bottle machine, and also a snack machine available behind the copy machines on the first floor.  Drinks range in price from sixty cents to $1.25, and snacks are available for up to a dollar.

New eBook collections from Springer

A big thank you to the Network of Alabama Academic Libraries (NAAL) for our new access to selected 2011 eBooks from Springer. Ebooks are available in the following collections:

Access Journals from SpringerLink

You have access to approximately 1700 American journal titles from 1997 to present on SpringerLink! The world’s most comprehensive online collection of scientific, technological and medical journals, books and reference works.

Get Searching or Click here for SpringerLink’s featured journal titles by collection

Improved Mobile Access

We’ve improved the mobile version of our website optimized for iPhones so that you can now enjoy more efficient access resources such as LibGuides, Academic Search Premiere, and much more.  You can now also search our catalog directly from your device as well!

If you are using an iPhone or iPod Touch, you will be automatically redirected to the mobile version of our site.  We also hope to have a version compatible with Android devices soon.

We hope you are all settling in well for the new academic year at UAHuntsville!  Remember, you can Ask Us Anything at the Library.  Be sure to Like us on Facebook or Follow us on Twitter for more information.  You can also get in touch with us through either of those resources.  Even if the answer to your question isn’t in the library, we can point you to the best resource on campus to help.

 

 

Credo Reference database trial until Sept. 30

For trial access to Credo Reference, please go to www.credoreference.com. Username and password information is available at the UAHuntsville Salmon Library Reference Desk. Stop by, call us at 256-824-6529, or send us a message at http://libanswers.uah.edu.

If you are not familiar with Credo Reference, they are the world’s largest online reference service featuring:
–555 full-text reference titles (and growing) with over 3 million entries from over 80 highly-respected publishers integrated in a robust search engine.
–Many new unique interactive features such as dynamic table functionality for world state, and county statistics, an interactive world atlas, flash animations, videos, poetry/literature readings, over 700 music files, and a critically-acclaimed concept map.
–More than 200,000 images from all subject areas, over 200,000 audio pronunciations, and a citation formatter in APA, MLA, and Chicago formats for all articles.
–New Topic Pages – Bringing library resources together (Books, eBooks, Journals, Periodicals, News, and Media) on thousands of topics.

To see a full list of titles currently available, please click on the following link: http://corp.credoreference.com/titles
Some recently added titles include:
Collins Greek-English Dictionary,
Collins English-Greek Dictionary,
Eastern Europe: An Introduction to the People, Lands, and Culture,ABC-CLIO
Globalization: Encyclopedia of Trade, Labor, and Politics, ABC-CLIO
The Hutchinson Chronology of World History, Helicon

To see a short video tour of Credo Reference, click the following link http://corp.credoreference.com/VideoTour

Please send your feedback to http://libanswers.uah.edu!

Scopus database trial now available

Please go to http://www.scopus.com/home.url in order to access the Scopus database trial account now available from the UAHuntsville Salmon Library. Access has been set up via IP Authentication (on-campus only).

Scopus, launched in November 2004, is the largest abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. With over 18,500 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers, SciVerse Scopus offers researchers a quick, easy and comprehensive resource to support their research needs in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields and, more recently, also in the arts and humanities.

You can find a wealth of easily accessible information about getting the most from your Scopus access, including demos, tutorials and downloadable user guides at http://info.scopus.com

Click here to see SciVerse Scopus content coverage at a glance, as of April 2011.

For questions or comments, please give us a call at 256-824-6529 or contact us at http://libanswers.uah.edu.

DataSets database trial until Aug. 29

Statistical Datasets

From now until Aug. 29, the UAHuntsville Salmon Library (and other NAAL members) will have trial access to the ProQuest database DataSets, described by ProQuest as “The World’s Largest Collection of Organized Statistical Data.” Please contact the Reference Desk for login information at 256-824-6529 or http://libanswers.uah.edu.

ProQuest Statistical DataSets is a Web-based research solutions tool that provides fast and easy access to 15 billion data points from licensed and public domain datasets within an easy-to-use interface. With this dynamic new product, you can scan the contents of over 580 datasets, select subjects and variables of interest, and view your data in side-by-side tables and charts.

DataSets addresses an emerging emphasis on quantitative literacy, fostering critical skills in the use, manipulation, and interpretation of numeric data. Results are customizable and instantaneous, with indicators arranged in folders by topic and source. Users can tap “live” statistics that are much more current than what is published, plus local data, time series typically extending back an average span of 34 years, and necessary bibliographic/citation information.

PREMIUM MODULES:
Easy Analytic Software Inc. (EASI), a leading statistical modeling firm that specializes in consumer demographics, is now available as a premium subscription module within LexisNexis Statistical DataSets which provides data on consumer demographics and usage/spending patterns for products and services within all States, counties, census tracts, and block groups in the US. The data can be mapped, graphed, and analyzed using all the interactive tools available in Statistical DataSets. Data sources include Mediamark’s annual Survey of the American Consumer, BLS’s Consumer Expenditure Survey, Census 2000, the American Community Survey, and the Census of Retail Trade.

Sub-national data—by Chinese Province, county, and municipality—is available as a premium subscription to Statistical DataSets.

IMF – Balance of Payments – By country, a statistical database compiled by IMF, from 1948 to the present. Calculated quarterly,
the Balance of Payments shows how much money is going into and out of a country.

IMF – Direction of Trade – By country, a statistical database compiled by IMF, from 1980 to the present. Compiled monthly, the database shows the value of a country’s imports and exports, by country of destination and origin.

IMF – Government Financial Statistics – By country, a statistical database compiled by IMF, from 1990 to the present. Compiled annually, the database shows government revenues, expenses, assets, and liabilities of member countries.

IMF – International Financial Statistics – By country, a statistical database compiled by IMF, from 1948 to the present. Compiled monthly, the database shows international transactions, exchange rates, and selected economic indicators for member countries.

For additional information visit the WiKi: http://wiki.lexisnexis.com/statistical/index.php?title=Statistical_DataSets

For videos on how DataSets works, please click here.

History Vault database trial until Aug. 29

From now until Aug. 29, the UAHuntsville Salmon Library (and other NAAL members) will have trial access to the ProQuest database History Vault. Please contact the Reference Desk for login information at 256-824-6529 or http://libanswers.uah.edu.

ProQuest is introducing more than 23 million pages of primary source material from its University Publications of America (UPA) Collection in a digital format. ProQuest History Vault unlocks the wealth of archival materials with a single search. Researchers will be able to access letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, and much more from a single interface.

Modules currently available include:
The Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Federal Government Records (691,000 pages; 37 collections)

The Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 1 (617,000 pages; 36 collections)

Search results are bibliographic metadata records with embedded links to a searchable PDF of the document. Browse options include event timelines and detailed descriptions of archival collections from which the materials are drawn. Jump right to the most significant folders in the collection, or run a search on a person, event, or controlled vocabulary subject term that catches your eye.

For more information, please view the ProQuest History Vault brochure here.

Online Access to The Huntsville Times, 1991 to Present

Looking for an article from The Huntsville Times? We are pleased to offer a trial of the Access World News: Research Collection now through August 15, 2011. The URL for this trial is: http://infoweb.newsbank.com.

Access World News: Research Collection is an unparalleled collection for academic libraries, featuring thousands of U.S. and global news sources, most available online exclusively through NewsBank. This includes 38 news sources in Alabama, including The Huntsville Times. This primary news resource supports a wide range of academic disciplines, including political science, journalism, English, history, environmental studies, sociology, economics, education, business, social sciences and more.

Questions or feedback? Please let us know at http://libanswers.uah.edu or call us at 256-824-6529.

Trial to Digital National Security Archive

Now until Aug. 12, 2011, we have access to the Digital National Security Archive at the below link:

https://www.proquest.com/trials/trialSummary.action?view=subject&trialBean.token=6ZAMBK4DRF0KTY0XJG80

ProQuest, in partnership with The National Security Archive produce the Digital National Security Archive, the most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. Over 80,000 of the most important, declassified documents – totaling more than 500,000 pages -are included in the database. Many are published now for the first time.

The National Security Archive is a non-profit research institute and library, located at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., which provides unprecedented public access to declassified government documents obtained through extensive use of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

DNSA currently contains thirty-six collections:

Afghanistan: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1973-1990
The Berlin Crisis, 1958-1962
China and the United States: From Hostility to Engagement, 1960-1998
Colombia and the United States: Political Violence, Narcotics, and Human Rights, 1948-2010
The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited: An International Collection of Documents, From the Bay of Pigs to the Brink of Nuclear War
Death Squads, Guerrilla War, Covert Operations, and Genocide: Guatemala and the United States, 1954-1999
El Salvador: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1977-1984
El Salvador: War, Peace, and Human Rights, 1980-1994
Iran: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1977-1980
The Iran-Contra Affair: The Making of a Scandal
Iraqgate: Saddam Hussein, U.S. Policy and the Prelude to the Persian Gulf War, 1980-1994
Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, 1960-1976
Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, Part II, 1977-1992
The Kissinger Telephone Conversations: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969-1977
The Kissinger Transcripts: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969-1977
The National Security Agency: Organization and Operations, 1945-2009
Nicaragua: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1978-1990
Peru: Human Rights, Drugs and Democracy, 1980-2000
The Philippines: U.S. Policy during the Marcos Years, 1965-1986
Presidential Directives on National Security from Harry Truman to William Clinton (Part I)
Presidential Directives on National Security from Harry Truman to George W. Bush (Part II)
South Africa: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1962-1989
The Soviet Estimate: U.S. Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947-1991
Terrorism and U.S. Policy, 1968-2002
The United States and the Two Koreas from Nixon to Clinton (1969-2000)
U.S. Espionage and Intelligence, 1947-1996
U.S. Intelligence and China: Collection, Analysis, and Covert Action
The U.S. Intelligence Community after 9/11
The U.S. Intelligence Community, 1947-1989
U.S. Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction: From World War II to Iraq
U.S. Military Uses of Space, 1945-1991
U.S. Nuclear History: Nuclear Arms and Politics in the Missile Age, 1955-1968
U.S. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Policy, 1945-1991
U.S. Policy in the Vietnam War, Part I: 1954-1968
U.S. Policy in the Vietnam War, Part II: 1969-1975

DNSA’s newest collection is U.S. Intelligence and China: Collection, Analysis, and Covert Action. Each collection contains a diverse range of policy documents including presidential directives, memos, diplomatic dispatches, meeting notes, independent reports, briefing papers, White House communications, email, confidential letters and other secret material. Contextual and reference supplements are provided for each collection, including general introductory material, a chronology, glossary and bibliography. Content is carefully selected by top scholars in the field.

Documents have been indexed to permit item and page-level searching across more than 20 combinable fields. In its totality, DNSA offers the most powerful research and teaching tool available in the area of U.S. foreign policy, intelligence and security issues during the pivotal period of twentieth-century history.

DNSA also contains the CIA Family Jewels Indexed. Among the most controversial documents ever compiled by the Central Intelligence Agency, the “Family Jewels” represents the CIA’s own view, in 1973, of those domestic activities it had engaged in up to that time that were outside its charter, hence illegal. Totaling 703 pages and consisting of summary reports and supporting documents sent from CIA directorates and divisions to the agency’s chief, the “Family Jewels” contains chilling references to CIA contacts with the Mafia, denials of involvement in assassinations, materials on CIA interrogations, surveillance of journalists and the antiwar movement in the U.S., penetrations of other federal agencies, a break-in at the Chilean embassy, cooperation with local law enforcement authorities, support for White House political activities, responses to the leak of the Pentagon Papers, and much more.

Questions or Feedback? Please ask us at http://libanswers.uah.edu or give us a call at 256-824-6529.

Access journals on SpringerLink now until Dec. 31!

You have access to approximately 1700 American journal titles from 1997 to present on SpringerLink! The world’s most comprehensive online collection of scientific, technological and medical journals, books and reference works.

The Salmon Library now has trial (on-campus only) access to SpringerLink until Dec. 31.

Get Searching!

or

Click here for SpringerLink’s featured journal titles by collection

Now more powerful than ever before, this premiere online service combines the functionality and ease you’ve been waiting for. SpringerLink’s integrated platform provides user friendly integrated searching between online journals, eBooks and eReference Works.

SpringerLink is a preferred data source for researchers in academic institutions and other vital knowledge centers because it is simple to use, scalable and flexible, and helps effectively serve its users.

Please contact the library with any comments, suggestions, or problems accessing content at 256-824-6529 or send your question to http://libanswers.uah.edu.