Wallenberg Hall Showcases New Technology
at Its Best
CourseWork: Updates and Highlights
Video Kiosks Promote Student Events
New Web Site for SULAIR
Redesigning the SULAIR Web
Reset Your Own SUNet Password
Whiteboard Capture Tools Enhance Writing
and Studying
Come to the IT Open House on January 14
Automated In-Room Network Registration
SKIL Interactive Tutorial Launched
Copyright and Fair Use Web Site Updated
ITSS Changes Its Email Virus Scanning Policy
HighWire Press: An Award and New Journals
Courselets Now Available
Stanford Libraries Offer New Enhanced Images
Online
New Digital Resource for 18th Century Studies
Electronic Media in Special Collections
Chemistry Web Sites for All
Get E-resources in Socrates
Scholars’ Workshops on Electronic Resources
LANL Updates Interface to INSPEC and Citation
Indexes
Ethical Standards for Using Electronic Resources
New Electronic Resources in the Social Sciences
GIS Support in Branner Library
Virtual Data Resources for the Social Sciences
CRC Handbook of Chemistry & Physics Revised
Household Products Database
Lane Medical Library’s GAIN Initiative
“ TECH Desk” for the Stanford University
Medical Center
Illustrated Shakespeare Web Site
SciFinder Scholar 2004 is Here
VPUE’s Academic Technology Specialist
Program
Academic Technology Lab: What’s New
for Winter 2004
Academic Technology Specialists Program Expands
Try the Sundial Calendar
Meyer Library’s Technology Services
Desk: An Update
Technology-Enhanced Classrooms in Meyer Library
There’s Life After Forsythe
Email Directory Services Change at Stanford
Dealing with Computer Waste
OSX.3 Panther at Stanford
WebAuth Ver. 3: Single Sign-On Support
ITSS Technology Training Services for Winter
2004
New Client Web Sites for ITSS Services
Multimedia Studio Offers Individual Consultations
Stanford Bookstore Computer Store: See What’s
New for 2004
Security Enhancements Planned for Stanford
Use Webmail When You’re Away
Internet Archive: Where Old Web Pages Go
The Stanford community now has access to a greatly increased set of online,
searchable image collections via the Luna Insight image database system. These
collections now contain close to 150,000 images licensed from museums and collections
all over the world, including two entirely new Stanford-produced digital collections
featuring some of the jewels of the Stanford libraries' physical holdings.
These new collections are the fruits of collaboration among many Stanford University Libraries, and a number of generous donors. They are on the Web at:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/hdis/insight.html
The Stanford collections, the Stanford Geological Survey and Maps of Africa, not only highlight some of the most visually stunning and historically significant materials of the collections, they also allow researchers at Stanford and worldwide to search, view and study rare map materials online in unprecedented ways, through high-resolution zooming, side-by-side comparison of multiple images, rich descriptive metadata and innovative cross-collection (and inter-institutional) searching.
The Stanford Geological Survey (SGS) existed for 100 years, from 1895 until 1995. During this time, students and faculty went into the field to survey and map parts of California, Nevada and Utah. From 2001-2003, Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections has received grants from the California State Library to catalog, scan, and display the maps, field notebooks and field reports from this collection. Even to the non-specialist, this collection of maps is visually breathtaking.
Maps of Africa features antiquarian maps from the collections of the late Dr. Oscar I. Norwich and the Stanford University Libraries, dating from the late 15th to the early 20th century. They are a majestic tribute to centuries of exploration, cultural interaction, mapmaking, printing, and collecting, as well as a scholarly source for a wide range of researchers. The acquisition and digitization of the Maps of Africa are part of the William Jacobson Africana Program.
Chief among the newly available images licensed from other sources is the immense, and immensely rich, collection from the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO), boasting over 100,000 images from museums primarily in North American and Europe. Other smaller collections, each with its unique, narrow focus, are the Farber Gravestone Collection (primarily pre-1800 Northeastern American gravestone sculpture gathered by the American Antiquarian Society); and the Japanese Historical Maps collection, based on the holdings of the U.C. Berkeley East Asian Library.
All these collections, as well as previously available collections of Athanasius Kircher Correspondence, Chicana Art, and the David Rumsey Map Collection, can be viewed and searched after downloading and installing the Luna Insight browser. See download links, installation instructions, and help files at the Humanities Digital Information Service Web site:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/hdis/insight.html
Log in as "stanford," with password "stanford" (no quotes) to see the full complement of image collections. Use cross-collection searching to compare hand-drawn geological maps of California with antiquarian commercial maps from the Rumsey Collection. View manuscript letters from Athanasius Kircher's 17th-century African correspondents side-by-side with maps of the same period.
Stanford University Libraries recently added a major new digital resource for 18th century studies Æ Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) from Gale. This digital collection is being released in a series of subject modules, some of which are available now. Delivery of all modules is expected by mid-2004. The complete collection will contain approximately 150,000 titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800. Material in this digital collection is based on the English Short Title Catalogue.
The complete collection will contain over 30 million pages. The full text of the content is searchable. The researcher can also search by author, title, date, subject area, and other access points. As a future enhancement for access, once the necessary information becomes available from Gale, the Stanford Libraries will also add links in Socrates to take the reader from their online catalog directly to a specific title in ECCO.
Stanford readers interested in Eighteenth Century Collections Online can check the Stanford Libraries' databases page at:
http://library.stanford.edu/catdb/alldata.html
A number of audio and video recordings in Special Collections were preserved over the summer, thanks to a special funding allocation from Technical Services, the Digital Library Program, Special Collections and the Humanities Digital Information Service, all units within Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR).
• Ten videos from the R. Buckminster Fuller collection, recorded in formats now obsolete and exhibiting signs of deterioration, have been transferred and VHS viewing copies are available to researchers.
• Frequently requested videos from University Archives, including Ansel Adams and Wallace Stegner, a conversation, a program presented by the Associates of the Stanford University Libraries in October 1982, have also been preserved.
• A total of 156 audiotapes from the papers of poets Robert Creeley and Allen Ginsberg Æ representing a total of 210 hours of recorded sound Æ have been digitized.
• A total of six DVDs and seventy-five CD-ROMs are now available documenting the presidency of the Chilean president Eduardo Frei. These resources are the fruits of a joint digitization project undertaken by Stanford University Libraries and the Fundacion Eduardo Frei in Santiago, Chile. A finding aid to this fascinating collection can be accessed on the Web at http://dynaweb.oac.cdlib.org/dynaweb/ead/stanford/mss/msd0001/.
All of these resources can be accessed via a media workstation recently installed in the Special Collections Reading Room in the Bing Wing of Green Library. The workstation not only provides a secure environment for accessing copies of original electronic records in the collections; it is also equipped for playing CDs, DVDs, VHS and U-matic tapes, and streaming media.
For your viewing pleasure, check out these sites on the Chemical and Engineering
News Online Web page:
This site discusses the chemistry behind many of the products people use in everyday life, covering topics ranging from hair coloring and Silly Putty to baseballs and the smell of a new car.
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/whatstuff/stuff.html
Chemistry isn't confined to laboratories and classrooms. Nature is full of chemistry, too. "Critter Chemistry" demonstrates the active role chemistry takes in the animal kingdom.
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/critter/critterchemistry.html
While everyone is familiar with the Periodic Table of Elements, a special issue celebrating the 80th Anniversary of Chemical and Engineering News featured 89 essays on the periodic table. For example, Carl Djerassi wrote the essay for Oxygen.
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/80th/elements.html
Since more and more scholarly resources are being published electronically, Stanford University Libraries has been steadily adding records for electronic books and journals to Socrates, its online catalog. Records for two large collections were added in the past year, consisting of titles in the ebrary collection (over 8,000 titles), and those in the Early English books collection (over 68,000 titles).
For more information about the Early English books collection, see "New Full Text Collections from the HDIS"in the Spring 2003 issue of Speaking of Computers at http://academiccomputing.stanford.edu/pubs/SOC/Back_Issues/SOC62/.
The Libraries' online catalog now has over 120,000 records with a URL. You can click on a URL in a displayed record in Socrates and be taken directly to that electronic book or journal. You can focus on this type of resource by limiting your searches in Socrates to "electronic resources".
Before you try an Internet search engine, remember that the Libraries' catalog is also an effective tool for discovering and accessing a large number of e-resources, many of which are available only to Stanford users.
You can access Socrates by clicking on the Catalog button at the top of most Stanford University Libraries' Web pages (http://www-sul.stanford.edu/).
Six new sessions are planned for the Scholars' Workshops this quarter. Among those scheduled are: Desktop Research, Using EndNote, Using RefWorks, and Using GIS. Check the complete schedule at:
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/green/scholars_workshops.html
All workshops are held on Wednesdays 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.
In mid-December, the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) debuted its "SearchPlus" interface for Stanford University's access to four powerful databases: INSPEC and the three citation indexes SciSearch, Social SciSearch, and Arts & Humanities Search. The new interface provides simultaneous searching of all four resources through a single search, with the option to select only specific databases for searching.
INSPEC focuses on the literature of physics, electronics, computing, and controls. SciSearch covers a select core of journals in science, technology and medicine. Social SciSearch indexes sociology, psychology, and other social sciences publications, and Arts & Humanities Search similarly retrieves citations to research publications on language, literature, and other disciplines in arts and humanities.
The three citation indexes were moved into a single interface "SciSearchPlus" in Spring 2003 as the first phase of database migration project at LANL. (See the April 2003 issue of Speaking of Computers at http://acomp.stanford.edu/acpubs/SOC/Back_Issues/SOC62/library.html#lib11.)
With this latest move of the INSPEC database into the SciSearchPlus platform, the interface has been enhanced and renamed as "SearchPlus". In the coming months, the remaining databases that Stanford University users access from LANL will also be migrated into the SearchPlus platform. These databases are: BIOSIS, which indexes the literature of the life sciences and Engineering Index, which covers the engineering literatue.
Ethics and intellectual property rights have grown in importance along with the ease of access to electronic resources. Authors don't want others to plagiarize their work. Publishers don't want authors to redistribute content such as journal articles as in most cases the publisher owns the copyright for these articles. Some Web sites want you to request permission before linking to their page.
The Stanford Libraries have usually signed license agreements to get access to databases, e-journals, and data collections for the campus. Licenses almost always restrict usage to academic purposes. For example, the agreement for Chemical Abstracts Online via SciFinder Scholar (SFS) states that users may not use SFS for commercial research (e.g., research that is done under a funding or consultant contract where the results are delivered to a for-profit organization; or for research that involves patentability searching). Agreements also prohibit downloading too much content (e.g., all articles from a journal issue), and redistributing materials (storing and providing access to full-text articles on a personal Web page).
All members of the campus community need to be "good citizens" to maintain ongoing access to digital library resources. Violations of agreements may result in access being suspended for the entire campus. While these are exciting times because it is possible to quickly discover large quantities of relevant information, one person can jeopardize access to resources for the entire campus. If you are unsure about the usage conditions for a particular resource, please check the Web page for it or contact your local librarian on campus.
The Social Science Resource Center, which is located on the first floor of Green Library, has several new electronic resources available to assist patrons in their research and teaching.
The International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences is the largest reference work ever published for the social and behavioral sciences. Stanford University has full access to the online version of the Encyclopedia, which includes almost 4000 articles on social and behavioral science topics written by leading scholars in the field.
The vast database of articles is enhanced by flexible search-and-retrieval facilities and by a rich variety of electronic reference links. Every article in the electronic edition is supported by an abstract prepared specifically for the online publication.
The International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences can be found at:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/referenceworks/0080430767
The Stanford Libraries now subscribe to the United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN COMTRADE). The database contains detailed merchandise trade data at the 5-digit standard international trade classification (SITC) level for 274 countries as early as 1962.
The interface provides interactive selection, extraction and graphing features across a range of variables (value, country, commodities). Also included are Country Market Analysis Profiles developed by the UNCTAD-WTO Trade Information Center. To take a closer look at UN COMTRADE, please link to:
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/comtrade/default.aspx
Beginning this quarter, the Stanford Libraries also have access to the World Bank e-Library. The World Bank e-Library, is an online, fully cross-searchable portal of over 1200 World Bank titles in full-text PDF format. All new titles are added to the library as they are published.
In addition to full-text, the e-Library subscription includes campus-wide access to two key World Bank numeric datasets: World Development Indicators (WDI) and Global Development Finance (GDF). To access the e-Library, please find the link on the Libraries' databases page at:
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/catdb/alldata.html
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are computer tools that allow you to explore the spatial component in your data. With GIS, you can perform spatial analysis, create custom maps, and query data based on location. Stanford has abundant resources to help you use GIS as a study and research tool or as an instructional aid.
The Branner Earth Sciences Library offers Geographic Information Systems support to students and faculty. These support services have expanded over the past few years to include:
• Software: Free access to the newest versions of GIS software, such as ArcGIS and ArcPad, through their campus-wide site license for ESRI software. The software may be downloaded to any Stanford-owned machine from the Web site at http://gis.stanford.edu/ .
• Hardware: Branner Library houses 4 Windows 2000 workstations where students can store projects, access GIS software and data and connect to a color printer, a 36" plotter, and a 40" scanner (by appointment only).
• Data: Branner regularly acquires new spatial data such as GIS vector layers, satellite images, and high-resolution digital elevation models. They also maintain up-to-date Web pages with links to extensive data resources.
• Learning GIS: Stanford affiliates now have unlimited access to ESRI's Virtual Campus, which offers online instruction for ESRI software via the Web at http://gis.stanford.edu/virtual_campus.html. Branner Library also loans many GIS tutorials, software manuals, and reference books.
• Technical Support and Consultations: GIS reference hours are from 2-5p.m., Monday through Friday, and questions may be sent to: gis@sulmail.stanford.edu/.
• Web Site: Completely redesigned, the Web site gives you access to GIS software and data, free on-line GIS courses, information on who is using GIS around Stanford, and the GIS site of the week. You can find it at:
Social Science Data and Software (SSDS) is a group within the Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR) that provides services and support to Stanford faculty, staff and students, in the acquisition and use of social science data.
SSDS supports these virtual data resources:
DEWI is a Web-based data search and extraction system for easy access to over
100 social science datasets. Extract files can be saved in a variety of statistical
software formats, such as SAS, SPSS, or Stata, and downloaded directly to your
computer for further analysis. Links to codebooks and other online resources
are provided for each dataset. Examples include: the General Social Survey
Cumulative File; American National Election Studies Cumulative File; Correlates
of War Project: International and Civil War Data; 1816-1992, Slave Sales and
Appraisals, 1775-1865;and Latino National Political Survey 1989-1990.
DEWI is ideal for use in the classroom and has been used in introductory courses on social science computing and quantitative methods. Take DEWI for a test drive and see if it can be useful in your courses. Find the DEWI data system at http://dewi.stanford.edu. If you have questions about DEWI or suggestions for datasets, send them a message at consult-data@lists.stanford.edu.
Stanford users can access over 5,300 dataset titles archived at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. You can download data directly to a computer with a central campus IP address.
ICPSR's data resources cover a broad range of research and instructional data in the areas of sociology, political science, demography, history, economics, education, criminal justice, and international relations. Their Special Topic Archives provide access to specialized collections: Health and Medical Care Archive, International Archive of Education Data, National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging, National Archive of Criminal Justice Data, and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive.
For more information about ICPSR and the direct access service, click on ICPSR under the Data button on the Social Science Data and Software (SSDS) Web site at http://ssds.stanford.edu/.
Stanford users can access Roper's iPoll database of nearly a half million questions asked on national public opinion surveys since 1935. In addition, Stanford faculty, staff, and students can order the complete datasets from several thousand polls from 70 foreign countries, and specialized archive collections that include the Latin American Databank and UBS Investor Surveys.
For more information, click on Roper under the Data button on the Social Science Data and Software (SSDS) Web site at http://ssds.stanford.edu/ .
For more information about and links to these resources, visit the SSDS Web site at:
The latest Web version of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics has a variety of additions, as well as enhancements to its interface.
The additions include:
• Completely revised, reformatted and enhanced Physical Constants of Organic Compounds table: This table now contains almost 11,000 compounds that have been selected on the basis of their importance in research, teaching, industrial applications, and health and safety considerations. Structure diagrams have been redrawn and physical constant values have been updated with results from recent literature.
• Chemical carcinogens: This topic now includes updated data from the recent NTP 10th Report on Carcinogens.
• Critical Constants table: This table has been expanded and updated to reflect new and more accurate measurements of critical temperature, pressure, and molar volume, as well as normal boiling point of 858 fluids. These parameters are widely used to specify fluid properties and as input to various estimation schemes. References to the original literature have been added to the new table.
• Other refinements and new topics include: Properties of Refrigerants, Fermi Energy and Related Properties of Metals, Flame and Bead tests, Density of ethanol-water mixtures, Interstellar Molecules, Directory of Physical and Chemical Data Sources, Ionization Potentials of Atoms and Neutron Cross Sections.
Enhancements to the interface include:
• A substance search that is easier to use with five frequently used search fields pre-selected.
• An increase in the number of interactive tables from 46 to 63.
• The ability to export tables to Excel.
• Improved table manipulation, with access speeds improved and the left-hand column lockable for easier viewing.
You can find the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics on the Web at:
Produced by the National Library of Medicine and based on the Consumer Product Information Database, the Household Products Database links over 4,000 consumer brands to health effects from Material Safety Data Sheets provided by manufacturers. It allows scientists and consumers to research products based on chemical ingredients.
You'll find the Household Products database on the Web at:
http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/
The database is designed to help answer the following typical questions:
• What are the chemical ingredients and their percentage in specific brands?
• Which products contain specific chemical ingredients?
• Who manufactures a specific brand? How do I contact this manufacturer?
• What are the acute and chronic effects of chemical ingredients in a specific brand?
• What other information is available about chemicals in the toxicology-related databases of the National Library of Medicine?
Better access to online information is one of the Lane Library's strategic initiatives. GAIN spells out their current objectives:
• Get 70 percent of the Library's journals online
• Avoid passwords and barriers
• Increase years available
• Negotiate more content
Get 70 percent of Lane Library's journals online: Lane added over 260 new titles over the summer to reach the 60 percent mark. PDF format is essential if more than one version of the title is available. Check their e-journal list for more new titles. Their goal is to reach 70 percent by the end of 2004.
Avoid passwords and barriers: The library eliminated passwords for 55 journals. SKOLAR and MD Consult are now both available for clinical reference without passwords. A new method to obtain passwords for restricted content is now available 24/7 on the Web. Go to Lane's e-journal page, click the Get Passwords link, and enter your SUNet ID or Library Barcode. It's that simple.
1300 journal titles are currently linked from PubMed@Stanford. Over 500 online journals are available via the Lane Web site but unlinked in PubMed. Not all publishers are participating in part or at all in the linkout program. Always check the Lane e-journals page for full online availability.
Increase years available: Lane Library will be upgrading to more years as online back runs become available. For many titles this is not yet an option. When it is, Lane will target the past 15 years. Availability is changing rapidly, so check the e-journals page for years of coverage. Some new online back runs include:
American journal of physiology, 1977- _
Annual reviews (19 titles), v.1- _
Journal of biological chemistry, 1905-_
Journal of applied physiology, 1966-_
Journal of cell biology, 1975-_
Journal of experimental medicine,1975-_
Journal of general physiology, 1975-_
Journal of lipid research, 1959-_
Journal of neurophysiology, 1966-_
Nature, 1987-_
Physiological reviews, 1966-_
PNAS, 1915-_
Science, 1895-_
Negotiate more content: Lane is reviewing your requests, interlibrary loan requests and availability of online journals, reference and books to prioritize additions for 2004. Targeted areas cover the new Stanford Institutes of Medicine to support translational research. Send your recommendations through their online form at:
http://lane.stanford.edu/about/suggestionforpurchase.html
Information Resources and Technology (IRT) is introducing a pilot program for the Stanford University Medical Center community called, "TECH," Technology Expert Consultation Hours. Located at Lane Medical Library, the TECH Desk will provide Medical Center faculty, students and staff with expert advice on a variety of networking, multimedia and instructional technologies.
Need help installing and registering your wireless card? Trying to optimize an image with PhotoShop? Interested in setting up a "virtual file cabinet" of PDFs using EndNote? TECH can help!
For more information on TECH Desk hours and the services provided, see Lane Library's Web page at:
The University of Wisconsin - Madison Libraries has a digital collection of works by William Shakespeare (and a few other British playwrights). The site includes selections from twelve illustrated works by and about William Shakespeare dating from 1826 - 1919. The collection allows you to easily access the pictures, some text is available and fully searchable, such as title pages, and synopses of plays. Some examples include: a five volume set, The spirit of the plays of Shakspeaire [sic], drawn and engraved by Frank Howard, 1833, consisting of a series plates for each play, with explanatory text. The dramatic souvenir: Being literary and graphical illustrations of Shakespeare and other celebrated English dramatists, published by Charles Tilt,1833, has about two pages per play: a synopsis, and several pictures.
http://libtext.library.wisc.edu/IllusShake/
The SciFinder Scholar (SFS) search interface enables users to search Chemical Abstracts, one of the largest databases, quickly and easily. Chemical Abstracts indexes 8,000 serials, conference proceedings, patents, dissertations, technical reports, and books. It includes 23 million bibliographic citations, 22.4 million substances, 36.7 million sequences, and 7.3 million reactions. To learn more about SFS, go to:
http://www.cas.org/SCIFINDER/SCHOLAR/index.html
To download the 2004 version: