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The proliferation of electronic journals offered by publishers and aggregators has made it increasingly more difficult to identify and catalog all of the titles available to the Stanford community. To better manage the Stanford Libraries' electronic journals, Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SUL/AIR) has implemented a new electronic journals management system called TDNet.
TDNet is a powerful new addition to the reference resources of Stanford University Libraries that provides quick and easy access to over 13,000 journal titles directly from your desktop. It is available to anyone with a SUNet ID, both on-campus and off-campus through the Libraries' authenticated proxy server (http://library.stanford.edu/apcproxy/index.html). You can search for a particular journal title, browse alphabetical and subject-based lists, determine the coverage of a given title and whether Stanford also holds a print copy of the title. Each URL is linked to the corresponding record so that you can quickly and seamlessly access the electronic version of the journal, whether it's located on the publisher's Web site or is available through an aggregator. There is also a direct link to Socrates, the Stanford Libraries' catalog, for all titles that are owned in print format. The Electronic Journals page is updated on a weekly basis.
You can access Stanford's Electronic Journals page:
• By going directly to http://www.tdnet.com/stanford/, or
• From the SUL/AIR home page (http://library.stanford.edu/) by clicking on E-Journals.
There are several ways to search for a journal.
Keyword search: You can search by journal title, publisher, issn or vendor from the pull down menu. If you know the journal title you are seeking, enter it in the keyword box on the Electronic Journals main page. Remember to omit the initial articles "a," "an," and "the". Even if you know a word or two in a journal title but are unsure of the starting word(s), you can retrieve all journals that include those word(s) in the title. You can also search using abbreviations since keyword searches are string searches (e.g., the screen example above is the result of entering journal title "Rock".)
Alphabetic List: Browse the list alphabetically to find the title by clicking on the initial letter (again omitting "a," "an," and "the"). The Jump to Page feature at the bottom of each results page indicates the alphabetic range of titles covered in the page, allowing you to target your title more easily.
Subject browse: You can find lists of e-journals on a particular subject by choosing a subject on the pull down menu.
Advanced searching: You can search using any combination of journal title, publisher, issn and vendor. For journal titles using short, commonly used terms, such as Science and Nature, the fastest way to find the title is to search by the journal title and publisher (e.g., Science and AAAS).
Journal
Title: You may see a journal listed under this heading more than once. Check
the dates in the Online Coverage column. If access is available more
than one way, choose the link with coverage appropriate to your search. If
the journal title itself is a hyperlink that means that access is available
directly from the publisher. Click on the title to link to the journal page
and find the coverage. In brackets you see the company that provides us with
access to this journal. Some common examples include Gale (Expanded Academic
ASAP), Factiva (DJI Academic), LEXIS - NEXIS (Academic) Jstor, Project Muse.
Online Coverage: Shows dates of electronic journal coverage.
Full-text access:
The check indicates
that the full electronic text is available.
The half-colored
box indicates that only selected articles are available.
Print Holdings:
The underlined check
indicates that Stanford holds a print version of the title. Clicking on the
icon will take you to Socrates to see the Libraries' print holdings for this
title.
Table of Contents/Publisher:
The underlined circle
indicates that the publisher provides tables of contents online. Click on the
icon to see the table of contents.
For questions or comments on TDNet, you can click on Tell Us on Stanford's Electronic Journals main page (http://www.tdnet.com/stanford/).
Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SUL/AIR) recently completed a project to provide wireless coverage throughout all its facilities. Wireless access is now possible in all of the public areas, and the stacks, classrooms and offices in Green, Meyer, the Tresidder computer cluster, the on-campus branch libraries, and the marine-biology library at Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station in Monterey. The wireless coverage area also extends throughout the courtyard between Meyer and Green East, and includes the Moon Beans coffee kiosk.
To use this service, members of the Stanford community need a laptop computer or a PDA equipped with WiFi (also called 802.11b) and registered for wireless access. Note that this registration also permits wireless access in many other areas of the campus. Students can register their computers through their RCC (Residential Computing Coordinator); faculty and staff can register their systems through their department's LNA (Local Network Administrator). Those who have difficulty reaching an RCC or LNA can contact HelpSU at helpsu@stanford.edu or 725-HELP.
Wireless connections are about ten times faster than home DSL, though they are significantly slower than the type of wired access that is provided on campus. Note that wireless communications of any type can be easily intercepted, and should not be used for sensitive data. However, secure Web pages (the ones that show the locked icon) are just as secure over a wireless connection as over a wired connection. Those pages are encrypted, and even if they are intercepted, they can't be decrypted by anyone other than the intended recipient. The same applies to sessions with a remote computer established through MacSamson or Samson for Windows, as long as the secure icon (a double headed arrow) is showing.
If you have any questions about wireless in the Libraries, or wish to report any problems with wireless access, please send email to wireless@acomp.stanford.edu.
Beginning this quarter, Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SUL/AIR) is modifying the login procedure to its Library kiosks. Users will be required to login to "Stanford Only" kiosks using their SUNet ID.
As you might know, SUL/AIR supports two types of kiosks: a "Stanford Only" kiosk and a "General Public" kiosk. A "Stanford Only" kiosk is restricted to those Stanford affiliated users with a SUNet ID. This enables these library patrons to use the Residential Computing Print Accounting System that automatically deducts money from their account when printing from the kiosk. A "General Public" kiosk requires no login, but is more restricted and uses a local card-swipe Print Server to deduct money from either the patron's Stanford ID Card or a Xerox Copy Card. Signs are posted at each kiosk to alert the patron as to which kiosk they are using.)
As a library patron, before you can use a "Stanford Only" kiosk, you must accept the Stanford University Computer and Network Use Policy. You can agree to this policy, which is explained in a kiosk on-screen window, by clicking on the OK button in the window. You will then be presented with the login window, where you can enter your SUNet username and password. Once you are authenticated, you can access the applications and services available on the kiosk.
After logging in with a SUNet ID to a "Stanford Only" kiosk, you will automatically be logged into PC-Leland for Kerberos security. There will be no need to re-authenticate to use Samson or Webmail.
One advantage of this change, is that your AFS home directory will be automatically mounted upon login. This will allow you to save such things as email attachments from Webmail or full-text journal articles, rather than having to print them in the libraries.
Note that it's essential to remember that once you log into the Stanford kiosk with a SUNet ID, you must logout of the computer and not just PC-Leland! Logging out of PC-Leland alone will not log you off your session. A floating Logout button on every kiosk screen will serve both as a reminder to logout when finished and as a quick way to logout when you are finished using the kiosk. Don't forget to click on this button when finished.
For more information about using the library kiosks, click on the Tell Us button at the top of the SUL/AIR home page (http://www-sul.stanford.edu/).
This academic year, the Scholars' Workshops will include electronic information resources in the Sciences, in addition to the Humanities and Social Sciences resources. Want to know about desktop research, managing bibliographies, or gay and lesbian studies? Watch for the exciting new offerings at:
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/green/scholars_workshops.html
All workshops are held onWednesdays from 4:00-5:00 p.m. in the SSRC Multimedia Seminar Room, room 121A, which is located in the Social Sciences Resource Center on the first floor of the Bing Wing of Green Library. No registration is required. For more information, please contact Malgorzata Schaefer at (650) 723-9275 or mschaefe@stanford.edu.
Beginning this quarter, Stanford readers using the ebrary e-book service no longer have to pay for printing or copying from titles in this service. You can try e-brary at:
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/stanford/
In the past, Stanford's subscription to ebrary provided for searching and viewing, but an individual had to set up his or her own ebrary account and pay for ebrary print charges on a per-page basis. Under the new plan, Stanford readers do not have to pay anything (except, of course, any campus printing charges that would apply to all printing).
Note also the new Select Collections drop down box in in the upper right corner of the ebrary site. This new function allows quick switching among ebrary collections and also any special Stanford collection running in that environment (such as the U.S. Serial Set volumes you will see among those choices).
The David Rumsey Map Collection is one of the largest privately-held map collections
in the United States. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century
maps, mainly of North and South America. Also included are world atlases, globes,
maritime charts, wall maps, and other cartographic objects. Rumsey released
a Web site in the spring of 2000. It currently has over 8,000 images to view
and is updated regularly:
The cataloging records for 4,000 of these images have been loaded into Socrates, Stanford's online catalog, and will continue to be added on a monthly basis. (You can access Socrates on the Stanford Libraries home page at http://www-sul.stanford.edu/.)
To pull up all of the records in the catalog, search for David Rumsey in Socrates. If you are looking for a specific region or area, type in the main Enter Terms field David Rumsey and [location], for example, David Rumsey and Africa. This search yields 122 citations ranging from 1700-1922. From the long record, there is a link to an interactive Web page that allows the user to view the image. (Note: The site works better using Internet Explorer rather than Netscape.)
Once you have opened the link, click on the map once and choose "data" from the left-hand column to read the full description of the map. Double click on the image to bring it into the image workspace. Note the toolbar, which allows you to manipulate the image. Zoom into the image using the magnifying glass icon or the maximize button. By clicking on the map repeatedly with the magnifying glass tool, the image can be viewed at very high resolution. Cataloging data can be displayed on this screen by clicking on the image data button. Clicking on the print button will print the map image. Returning to the main screen allows the user to search the Rumsey site for other maps of interest. To do so, click on the search button on the left and choose the search method of your preference.
This is an excellent resource for those studying historical cartography, the opening of the western United States, early mapping of the California Gold Rush and the railroads, the four great surveys of the West, and other similar subjects.
The Humanities Digital Information Service (HDIS) is pleased to remind the Stanford community of a number of newly available digital resources for humanities and interdisciplinary studies:
The Historical New York Times (1851-1999): The complete, searchable text and images of the United States' newspaper of record, from its very first issue. See also, "Expanded Access to Newspaper Resources".)
Asian American Drama: A collection of more than 250 plays, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information.
Black Drama: Approximately 1,200 rare and hard-to-find plays written from the 1850s to the present by playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African Diaspora countries.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries: The largest collection of women's diaries and correspondence ever assembled. Spanning more than 300 years, it brings the personal experiences of hundreds of women to researchers, students, and general readers.
Literary Theory: A comprehensive collection of works of literary theory and criticism, dating back more than 2,000 years. Over 1,000 texts by 330 authors are included. The database includes all major authors from Aristotle and Dryden to James and Derrida.
Links to all of these online collections can be found:
• in Socrates, the Stanford University Libraries' online catalog,
• on the All Databases page at http://library.stanford.edu/catdb/alldata.html, and
• on the HDIS Web site at http://library.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/hdis/text.html.
Image Collections: In addition to these textual resources, HDIS is regularly expanding their offerings of highly structured, searchable image collections, offered through the Luna Insight viewer. Among these, they hope to offer some locally-produced image collections of historical maps, as well as AMICO, representing the collections of museums throughout the United States.
Luna Insight itself is going through some significant changes this fall, including an easier-to-use Web browser plugin (in addition to the downloadable client version available previously). For up-to-date instructions on these offerings, and on how to install and use Luna Insight, please see the HDIS image page at:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/hdis/image.html
In July 2003, Stanford changed access to Dissertations Abstracts from the OCLC FirstSearch service to ProQuest's Digital Dissertations at:
http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/gateway/
The new access provides several advantages. For digitized disssertations since 1997 from other universities, the ProQuest version offers free, 24-page previews of the full text. Note that obtaining the full text of the entire dissertation does require individual purchase.
For digitized Stanford dissertations since 1989, Stanford researchers can download for free the entire text of the dissertation. Previously, this special Stanford functionality was available only through the separate service Current Research at Stanford (http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/stanford/main/).
The Current Research service continues to be available for those who wish to search only Stanford dissertations. Note that many of the Current Research generic instructions refer to full text availability only for 1997 forward, but Stanford dissertation digitization in fact extends back to 1989.
Stanford access to full-text newspapers has been significantly improved by the addition of two major resources – NewsBank Full-Text Newspapers and the New York Times in the ProQuest Historical Newspapers edition.
NewsBank Full-Text Newspapers provides searching and retrieval of all content
(except paid advertisements) from approximately 300 U.S. newspapers, with particular
emphasis on regional and local newspapers. California titles include the San
Jose Mercury News, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and Sacramento
Bee, all with coverage back to the mid-1980's. In addition to many regional
sources, there are also a number of titles of national interest, such as the Washington
Post (1977- ), USA Today (1988- ) and Christian Science Monitor (1987-
). With the addition of this full-text database, the Stanford University Libraries
and Academic Information Resources (SUL/AIR) has discontinued access to the
much more limited NewsBank NewsFile and Gale's National Newspaper Index.
The New York Times Historical database from ProQuest provides full-text searching and retrieval of article images in PDF (and also page map images) from 1851 through 1999.
Stanford also continues to have access to the Wall Street Journal Historical database, covering 1889-1985, presented under the same ProQuest interface.
To link to these resources, please consult the SUL/AIR Databases page at:
http://library.stanford.edu/catdb/alldata/
This quarter, you'll find new additions and changes to databases listed in the database collection on the Stanford University Libraries Web site at:
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/catdb/alldata.html
Following are some of those additions and changes:
The Online Archive of California is a searchable database of over 7,300 "finding aids" to primary sources. The OAC also provides over 100,000 digital facsimiles and 25,000 pages in transcribed texts of selected primary sources.
Fans of the World of Learning, The International Guide to the Academic World, can now use it online. This resource "offers an unprecedented level of access to global institutions of higher education and learning, and to the people who work within them."
Melvyl now includes periodicals as well as other library materials in one file. It also has a new search engine and interface available at http://melvyl.cdlib.org/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b and via the Databases page on the Libraries' homepage(http://library.stanford.edu/catdb/alldata.html). On August 1, 2003 the old version of Melvyl was discontinued. If you try the old URL, you will be redirected to the new page. Note that Melvyl no longer includes Stanford periodicals. Socrates remains your best source for that information.
The Readers' Guide Retrospective now covers 1890-1982. So if you are trying to find an article in a popular U.S. magazine, give it a try. The familiar green books will remain in Green Library's Information Center, but the online version is very handy.
SoS, an important online reference work for organic chemists, provides a comprehensive and critical selection of reliable organic and organometallic synthetic methods. The Swain Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Library has the print version (Ref QD262 .S35) and it's on the Web at:
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/swain/sos/index.html
The Social Science Resource Center, which is located on the first floor of Green Library, has an array of new computing and electronic resources available to assist patrons in their research and teaching.
The qualitative software applications, NVIVO Nud*ist and Atlas TI, are now available for public use in the Jonsson Social Sciences Reading Room computer cluster. For more information, see Acquisition and Use of Social Science Data" on this page.
Several new electronic resources are now available on the Web.
Dissertation Abstracts from ProQuest Digital Dissertations: ProQuest Digital Dissertations replaces OCLC as Stanford's source of dissertations abstracts. For details, see "New Access to Dissertations".
ProQuest Social Sciences Module: The ProQuest Social Science Module provides electronic access to approximately 400 journals in the social sciences. A major advantage of this Module is that it provides full-text access to current content in many core social science journals that are not available elsewhere. The ProQuest Social Sciences Module can be found at:
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/catdb/alldata.html#p
Online Historical Resources for North American Immigration Studies: The April 2003 issue of this newsletter noted the availability of a digital version of the z1 (1910-1911) in 42 volumes (http://site.ebrary.com/lib/stanfordimmigrationdillingham). This work deals with immigration to the United States by people of diverse ethnic, racial and national origin with an emphasis on those of European origin.
Two works will complement the Immigration Commission Report. The first is North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories (IMLD) available on the Libraries' Databases page (http://www-sul.stanford.edu/catdb/alldata.html) and at:
http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/imldlive/
IMLD includes more than 100,000 pages of personal narratives including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories. Much of the material is previously unpublished. Several thousand pages of Ellis Island Oral History interviews, indexed and searchable for the first time, are included. Included as well are more recent waves of immigrants from Latin America and Asia.
Also under way, and slated for completion and Stanford access during the coming academic year, is a digital version of the Survey on Race Relations. In the 1920s, scholars undertook a project administered at Stanford and preserved at the Hoover Archives to document the experience of East Asian and other non-European residents of the Pacific Coast. The "raw data" of the archive includes a vast number of completed questionnaires, including numerous open-ended personal reflections, financial records, conference reports, meeting notes, bibliographies, printed materials and miscellaneous other findings. A preliminary inventory and description of the print archive now being digitized can be found at http://dynaweb.oac.cdlib.org/dynaweb/ead/hoover/ under the title Survey of Race Relations Records.
Social Science Data and Software (SSDS) is a group within the Stanford University Libraries/Academic Information Resources (SUL/AIR) that provides services and support to Stanford faculty, staff and students, in the acquisition and use of social science data. These services are available via the Web, email, phone, by appointment and during scheduled walk-in hours. Detailed information about SSDS services and resources, and consultation hours and contacts, are on the Web at:
For questions or to make an appointment, send email to consult-ssds@lists. stanford.edu for data services; or to consult-stat@stanford.edu for software services.
In-person consultations take place in The Velma Denning Room, located in the
Social Sciences Resource Center (SSRC), on the first floor of the Green Library
Bing Wing. Group workshops provide an effective vehicle for introducing SSDS
services and resources. Each year, SSDS staff participate in the Scholars'
Workshops and conduct workshops for Honors' College students from various undergraduate
programs. See also "Scholars' Workshops on Electronic Resources".
Other by-request workshops are tailored for data-intensive classes and research
seminars.
A rich collection of numeric datasets on CD-ROM and diskette from U.S. federal agencies, international organizations and foreign governments include a range of topics and time periods. Users have access to detailed and summary census enumerations, demographic, economic, financial, and education data from computers in The Velma Denning Room. All dataset titles on CD-ROM and diskette are in the online catalog, Socrates. Datasets not included in Socrates can be obtained upon request.
Stanford is a member of ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) and the Roper Center for Public Opinion. Stanford users can order ICPSR directly from the ICPSR Web site on any computer in the Stanford University network, or connect off-campus via Stanford's proxy server. The Roper Center Web site also includes the popular IPOLL and JPOLL online databases. Order Roper datasets from the form on the SSDS Web site.
The Data Extraction Web Interface (DEWI) System is a Web-based application for accessing social science numeric data. It incorporates codebook information, allowing users to search datasets by keywords and select variables for sub-setting and extraction. Users can save custom-made datasets on their own desktop in a variety of formats compatible with popular statistical software. A recent enhancement, based on users' feedback, enables browsing through all variables in a specific dataset. DEWI datasets are selected from the Stanford University Libraries' collection. You can find the DEWI System at http://dewi.stanford.edu/. For more information DEWI, contact Ron Nakao, ronbo@stanford.edu, 725-1062.
The software consultants provide support to Stanford users of popular statistical software: SPSS, SAS, and Stata. New this year is support for the qualitative software packages, NVivo and Atlas.ti. Other specialized software is available on computers for clients to evaluate for future use and purchase. In addition, data conversion software is available for formatting between popular statistical packages. A reference library of software manuals and texts on statistics are available in The Velma Denning Room. Getting Started guides for learning statistical and qualitative software packages, including SPSS, SAS, Stata, and NVivo are also available in The Velma Denning Room and via the Web site.
Stanford University has a campus-wide site license for RefWorks, a Web-based bibliographic management service. The RefWorks interface can be viewed in English, Chinese (Taiwan), Japanese, and Korean. RefWorks is free for Stanford faculty, students, and staff. To sign up for an individual account, go to:
https://www.refworks.com/refworks/newuser.asp
RefWorks allows you to create a personal, searchable, database of citations. Within RefWorks, you can search the Stanford Library Catalog (Socrates), other catalogs, and PubMed by clicking on the Search Online Database button. RefWorks has also created filters that enable you to easily import references from hundreds of databases (e.g. CSA databases, JSTOR, LANL databases, OCLC, Ovid, ProQuest Digital Dissertations, RLIN Eureka, SciFinder Scholar). For a complete list of database services supported, please see:
http://www.refworks.com/refworks/importdbs.asp
Citations stored in RefWorks can be formatted and merged into your Microsoft Word documents as footnotes, endnotes, or a custom bibliography. A number of "output styles" are available to help you format your bibliography in seconds (e.g. ACS, AMA, APA, JBC, MLA, PNAS, Science). Staff at RefWorks will create other output style formats if the one you need isn't available. Excellent online help that provides step-by-step instructions are available at:
http://www.refworks.com/refworks/help/refworks.htm
Because RefWorks is Web-based (i.e., citations are stored on the Web not on your computer), you are able to access your citations from any Mac, PC, or Unix workstation, as long as it's connected to the Internet. RefWorks has read-only access, so you can collaborate and share citations more easily with colleagues.
For more details about using RefWorks on campus, please see http://library.stanford.edu/depts/serg/bibsoftware.html . You can also contact Grace Baysinger (graceb@stanford.edu).
New from the American Mathematical Society is a MathSciNet-based referencing tool called MRef. A free service, MRef is designed to confirm and create links for known references in the standard Mathematical Reviews citation formats (including a link to the MathSciNet record) that you can copy and paste into your bibliography or reference list. (You'll find information about MathSciNet at http://ams.rice.edu/mathscinet/.)
MRef is designed to complement MR Lookup, which has been available for several years. MR Lookup allows authors and publishers to create permanent direct links from article references to the MathSciNet review of each article. Article references can also be verified using MR Lookup. MR Lookup is available at http://www.ams.org/mrlookup/.
The key difference between MRef and MR Lookup is that MR Lookup requires you to fill out a form with author, title, journal, etc., in separate fields, while in MRef all you do is type (or paste) the citation as is into the search box. In fact, even if the authors do not precede the article title or there are typographical errors in the citation, MRef will generate the correct citation in a variety of standard formats (including MathSciNet, BibTeX, AMSRefs, and TeX formats). It also provides the HTML code of the link to the MathSciNet record for pasting into an HTML document.
Note: Whereas MR Lookup returns up to 3 results when there is ambiguity in the data being searched, MRef returns nothing when there is ambiguity. To access MRef, go to http://www.ams.org/mathscinet-mref. For information on how to use MRef, see http://www.ams.org/mr-database/MRefHelp.html.
The MRef site also provides a bookmarklet link that allows you to highlight a citation that appears on a Web page and automatically performs a search in MRef by selecting the bookmark from your Bookmarks or Favorites list in your Web browser. For more information about this interactive tool, see http://www.ams.org/mr-database/MRefBookmarklet.html.
HighWire Press, the online publishing division of Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SUL/AIR), produces indexed, full-text versions of scientific, technical, and medical journals. A list of currently available journals can be found at HighWire's Web site:
The following list includes journals that were recently added, or will soon be added.
| American Journal of Physiology - Legacy Content | 8/1/2003 |
| The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 9/4/2003 |
| The Annals of Family Medicine | 5/30/2003 |
| Annals of Internal Medicine | 6/30/2003 |
| Aqua KE Government Documents | 9/2/2003 |
| Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | 9/1/2003 |
| Health Affairs | 9/9/2003 |
| Japanese Journal of Cancer Research | 1/15/2004 |
| The Journal of the American Board of Family Practice | 5/9/2003 |
| Journal of Animal Science | 4/15/2003 |
| Journal of Biomolecular Techniques* | 6/18/2003 |
| Journal of Clinical Pharmacology | 8/27/2003 |
| Journal of Dairy Science | 4/15/2003 |
| NeuroRx | 1/15/2004 |
| Obstetrics & Gynecology | 12/15/2000 |
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