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October 5, 2005
Issue No. 69

Table of Contents

• Library Resources
  • Medieval Works on Web
    
  • Fall Scholars Workshops
    
  • New Online Research Resources
    
  • Off-Campus Access to SU Resources
    
  • Project MUSE and Google
    
  • Access to Digital Art Works
    
  • New Humanities Resources
    
  • SKIL Tutorial Enhanced
    
  • DocXpress at Lane Library
    
  • Virtual Reference Library
    
  • SPE eLibrary Access Change
    
  • SSRC Digital Collections
    
  • SSDS Services
    
  • New Geoscience World
    
  • Century of Science Here
    
  • Chronicle of Philanthropy
    
  • HighWire Press New Journals
    
  • NGDA Taking Shape
    

In June, the University of Cambridge received a $1.4 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support work at Cambridge and Stanford that will make hundreds of medieval manuscripts accessible on the Internet. The collaborative project, involving the Stanford University Libraries, the Cambridge University Library and Corpus Christi College, will digitize more than 500 manuscripts housed in Corpus Christi's Parker Library.

Matthew Parker (1504-1575) was a powerful figure of the English Reformation, and was largely responsible for the establishment of the Church of England as a national institution. Parker served both Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, and at various times was Master of Corpus Christi College, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, confessor to Anne Boleyn, and Archbishop of Canterbury. Parker's greatest legacy is his library, consisting of some 600 manuscripts and books bequeathed to Corpus Christi in 1574. Parker was an avid book collector, salvaging medieval manuscripts dispersed at the dissolution of the monasteries; he was particularly keen in preserving those materials that related to Anglo-Saxon England, motivated by his search for evidence of an ancient English-speaking church independent of Rome.

Although the library has drawn visiting scholars from around the world for more than a century, access to its materials has been limited due to space and preservation concerns. The Parker on the Web project will digitize more than 200,000 pages, including editions, translations and secondary works. The effort will also create a rich electronic research environment, with supporting tools such as flexible links between high-quality images of the manuscript pages and supporting texts. This will allow scholars to conduct both text-based and contextual research. The Mellon Foundation grant will fund the project's first production phase. The full project is expected to be completed in about four years.

MS 16 Matthaei Paris Chronica Maiori II

A prototype of the Parker on the Web site, produced in the course of earlier pre-production work, contains high-resolution page images for two complete manuscripts (Parts I and II of Matthew Paris' Chronica Maiora), as well as an encoded version of M.R. James's 1912 catalog describing the entire collection, plus a selection of secondary texts. It is currently available on the web at:

http://parkerweb.stanford.edu/

Prototype development and related tasks were supported by earlier grants from the Mellon Foundation and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. Scholars and students in all relevant disciplines - especially medieval, Renaissance and early modern studies, art history, paleography, church history, the history of the English language and Anglo-Saxon studies - are invited to visit the prototype site. Feedback on the prototype will help the project team as a full site is designed and implemented in the months ahead.

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The Scholars' Workshop series for Fall Quarter will begin in October and is open to anyone in the Stanford community.

For a program update and other information, check back frequently at:

http://library.stanford.edu/how_to/instruction_workshops_tours/scholars.html

All workshops are held in the SSRC Multimedia 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.

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Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR) has new and expanded online products, mostly for science and engineering, including electronic journals, databases, books, and reference works. See also New Digital Resources in the Humanities in this issue.

Expanded Coverage of e-Journals

Many journal publishers have been digitizing their earlier volumes and are now offering expanded coverage. SULAIR has recently added back volumes to a number of their electronic journals, listed below. Access to these and other electronic journals is from SULAIR's e-journals page at:

http://www.tdnet.com/stanford/

AIAA Journals: 6 AIAA journals are now available online right back to the first issue. Major titles include the AIAA Journal, Journal of Aircraft, and Journal of Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer.

Wiley Journals: SULAIR has purchased back volumes for several sets of Wiley journals, including 11 chemistry titles, 14 materials science titles, and 8 titles in numerical engineering. Some of the prominent titles in these collections are the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (back to 1969), Materials and Corrosion/Werkstoffe und Korrosion (back to 1950) and Helvetica Chimica Acta (back to 1918).

Royal Society of Chemistry Journals: This set includes 24 journals including top titles such as Chemical Communications, The Analyst (back to 1876!) and Dalton Transactions.

Elsevier Journals: SULAIR has added long awaited online coverage for early volumes of Elsevier journals in the following subject areas:

• Organic chemistry - 14 titles, including Tetrahedron and Tetrahedron Letters.
• Physical and Analytical Chemistry - 44 titles, including Analytica Chimica Acta, Electrochimica Acta, and Journal of Chromatography A and B.
• Inorganic Chemistry - 10 titles including Journal of Organometallic Chemistry and Polyhedron.

World Scientific Journals: 17 journals covering a wide variety of science and engineering subjects are offering early volumes, including International Journals of Modern Physics, Modern Physics Letters, and Journal of Biological Systems.

Geoscience World: The full text of many geology journals is available through this resource. See Geoscience World: A New Electronic Resource in this issue for more details.

Expanded Scope of Databases

Some of SULAIR's databases have also expanded their scope. Access to these and other databases is from the complete databases list at:

http://library.stanford.edu/catdb/alldata.html

ISI Web of Science now has unlimited access. (Previously, there were a limited number of simultaneous users allowed, and as a result users were occasionally unable to log on.) The Web of Science includes the Science Citation Index Expanded (covering 1900 - present), the Social Sciences Citation Index (covering 1956 to present), and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (covering 1975 to present).

Engineering Index (also known as EI /Compendex) has expanded its coverage back to volume 1. A full 80 years of engineering literature, from 1884 to 1968, have been added to the existing Engineering Index product.

New Electronic Publications

Wiley Electronic Books: A selection of 155 electronic books published by Wiley has been added to the library collection. These books are all either recently published in print (since 2001) or are classics in their field. Subjects covered range across the sciences, and include astronomy, chemistry, statistics, materials science, and electrical engineering. The book citations and URLs for access will be added to the online catalog, Socrates, but in the meantime they can be searched and accessed through the Wiley Interscience web site.

Wiley Encyclopedia of Computational Mechanics: SULAIR has added the online Wiley Encyclopedia of Computational Mechanics that was published in 2005 and equivalent to over 2,300 print pages. This encyclopedia covers the fundamentals of computational methods in applied mechanics and their applications. The applications are numerous ranging through aerospace and civil engineering structures, geotechnics, flow problems, automotive engineering, geo-environmental modeling, biomechanics, electromagnetism, metal forming and other fields. This and other online encyclopedias can be accessed through SULAIR's encyclopedias page at:

http://library.stanford.edu/guides/encyc.html#science

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When you're off-campus (e.g., at home or traveling), you can still use the Libraries' Stanford-restricted resources, such as ARTstor, BIOSIS at LANL, ERIC, the Wall Street Journal.

If you have a SUNet ID you can access restricted databases and journals, once you set up the correct type of proxying. The procedures vary based on the web browser and computer that you use. For more information on how to access the proxy server, see:

http://library.stanford.edu/apcproxy/

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Stanford researchers and students can now use Google and Google Scholar to search the full text content of more than 270 scholarly journals in Project MUSE. Articles are viewable in both HMTL and PDF format.

Project Muse has collaborated with Google Inc. to enable these searches. Previously, you could search the collection's numerous journals through Socrates (Stanford's online catalog), many traditional abstracting and indexing databases, links from related products and MUSE's own search engine. Now Project MUSE's journal content is indexed in Google, so you can also search for and view it with that search engine.

If you have any questions about the collaboration of MUSE and Google, or other aspects of the on-line journal search, please contact muse@muse.jhu.edu. You can also access Project MUSE from the Stanford University Libraries' Databases and Articles web page. See also Find It @ Stanford and Google Scholar Search Result Integration in this issue.

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The Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR) collection of online databases containing digital images of works of art and other cultural artifacts has been realigned by the demise of AMICO, the Art Museum Image Consortium, which created a pioneering imagebase of works from more than 30 art museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, and National Museums of Scotland. These museums all contributed images of works from their collections to AMICO, which then licensed them to academic institutions, like Stanford, where they are typically used for individual study by art history students or for classroom projection. At its height, AMICO had available a pool of more than 100,000 images of art works from its member museums.

AMICO recently ceased operations and has licensed many of its images, in non-exclusive agreements, to several other vendors. Images from two of those vendors are currently available to the Stanford community.

AMICA

An imagebase produced by Cartography Associates (AMICA is an acronym for Art Museum Images from Cartography Associates), this resource contains more than 115,000 digital images of art works from the collections of an international roster of leading art museums, and includes painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts from many countries and periods. It currently includes most of the images from the former AMICO file, and is actively engaged in licensing additional images from the museums formerly associated with AMICO.

Photo of Newstand, Southwest Corner of 32nd Street and
Third Avenue, Manhattan, 1935, by Berenice Abbott

AMICA is accessible to Stanford users via the Luna Insight program, both as a fully-featured, downloadable program, and as a slightly leaner web browser plugin. (For instructions on downloading Insight, please go to http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/hdis/insight.html or disable all pop-up blockers in your browser and then go directly to AMICA.) In AMICA, viewed through Insight, one can select images, save them, create and show custom Insight presentations, or download them to other presentation software, such as PowerPoint.

An easy way to get started searching in AMICA is to click on the "search" button and then choose "by creator name" from the resulting menu. By entering the first few letters of an artist's last name, clicking the "list" button, selecting the correct artist name from the list of results, and then clicking the "select" button, one gets all the images in AMICA of works by that artist in the form of thumbnails that can be enlarged and manipulated. More complex searches, by keyword or data field, for example, are also available.

Using Insight, it is also possible to access some of the other imagebases that are available from Stanford's Humanities Digital Information Service, such as Chicana Art, Farber Gravestone Collection, and Maps of Africa. (For more information, see http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/hdis/image.html.)

ARTstor

Some of the former AMICO images have also been licensed and made available by ARTstor, which is a fast-growing database, sponsored by the Andrew Mellon Foundation. ARTstor offers about 300,000 digital images of art works and architectural monuments potentially from any geographical area or historical period. In addition to images of works from museum collections, ARTstor has also acquired images from such sources as archaeological sites, photo archives, slide collections, and even illustrations in books. In its acquisition of images of art works, ARTstor has been especially mindful of adding them in the form of discrete collections, in other words, groups of images that are related in such a way that their value as corpora are enhanced. ARTstor expects to grow to 500,000 images by the summer of 2006. See also Imagine All the Images-ARTStor Acquisition and Insight Enhancements in the September 2004 issue of this newsletter.

ARTstor is accessible to the Stanford community via the Databases A-Z list on the SULAIR web site, or by first disabling all pop-up blockers and then going to http://www.artstor.org/. It comes with its own viewing software and provides the capacity to select, save, create and show custom ARTstor presentations online or off, or download low-resolution images to presentation programs, such as PowerPoint.

An artist search is probably the easiest way to get started in ARTstor, although its search interface also makes subject searching relatively intuitive.

• For an artist search, click on "Advanced Search" at the top of the ARTstor "Search and Browse for Images" home page. In the resulting interface, type the artist's first name in the top box and last name in the next box down. Connect them with an "and" by using the pull-down menu. Leave the adjacent index boxes showing the "All Fields" default. Under "Select Collections," leave the default "Search Across All Collections" selected. Click on the "Search" button, and the works in ARTstor of the artist being searched will appear as thumbnails that can be enlarged and manipulated.
• For a simple subject search, type a subject keyword (e.g., "peasants") into the "Keyword Search" box on the "Search and Browse for Images" home page and click the "Search" button.

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SULAIR's Humanities Digital Information Service (HDIS) continues to offer a growing number of digital resources for humanities research and teaching. These resources include both commercially licensed databases and Stanford-produced digital collections, and cover a broad range of subject areas. Although boundaries are blurring somewhat between these categories, HDIS resources are still listed as primarily image collections and text collections. Described below are some notable recent examples of each category.

RLG Cultural Materials

RLG Cultural Materials is a collection of digitized manuscripts, photos, art, maps, historical documents, memorabilia and more, all brought together in a single search interface from libraries around the world.

At present, more than 230,000 items are available in a flexible web workspace developed with the materials' characteristics in mind. Users can discover, compare, interpret, and make connections between materials in ways that enrich teaching, learning, and scholarship. RLG Cultural Materials is a collaborative effort from an international alliance of libraries, archives, and museums, all members of the not-for-profit Research Libraries' Group.

North American Women's Drama

With this collection, digital publisher Alexander Street Press continues its tradition of richly annotated, almost infinitely searchable collections of primary sources, both published and previously unpublished. Like other Alexander Street collections, North American Women's Drama is a deep collection that benefits both from its narrow focus and its intense mark-up. What the publishers call "semantic indexing."

The Stanford Historical Photograph Collection

As of press time scheduled for public availability during Fall 2005, the Stanford Historical Photograph Collection is an exciting and important effort in the digitization of Stanford's own historical and archival treasures. In this collection one finds, for example, photographs of campus people and places not only "in the old days," but over a long period of vastly different "old days": from Memorial Church before the 1906 earthquake to Jim Plunkett at the 1971 Rose Bowl and beyond. Watch the HDIS space for news of this unique collection.

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SKIL, Stanford's Key to Information Literacy, has once again been improved with the re-arrangement and update of content, and completion of all graphics. Completing SKIL improves a student's ability to locate and use information needed for classes and research.

After the brief introduction and definition of Information and Communication Technology Literacy, Module I begins with Searching Socrates so that students immediately have a hands-on experience. The second module on Selecting Sources introduces the concept of peer reviewed, primary resources and using sources appropriate for the subject. The third module is devoted specifically to Databases, guiding the user to find journal articles in a live database. Module 4 (unchanged) on Locating explains call numbers, how to read a record to understand what journal issues Stanford owns, and how to find Course Reserves. Module 5 about The Web discusses various search engines, ranking, and how material on the web differs from that in the library. The last module (also unchanged) entitled Use Criteria, teaches evaluating resources, how to avoid plagiarism, and Fair Use.

The Databases Module explains how the FindIt @ Stanford menu changes according to what Stanford owns or has access to and in what format. Since the interactive part of this module could not be used without a SUNet ID, a textual version with screen shots was created.

To access the tutorial, just type skil in your browser. If you're accessing it from off-campus, type http://skil.stanford.edu/. The tutorial is open to anyone, however the emphasis is on Stanford's resources.

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Lane Medical Library implemented ILLiad software this year to manage Interlibrary Loan and Pull & Copy (Document Delivery) as one integrated service: DocXpress.

Users create a user name and password during the initial use of the service. Thereafter, they can track the progress of each request, view history of all requests, and retrieve articles online for up to two weeks after the transaction is complete.

When making requests through PubMed and FindIt @ Stanford, request forms are pre-populated with article information, simplifying requests to just a few clicks.

Work flow for Lane staff is also streamlined as many manual processes are now automated, thus providing a faster and more accurate services to users.

See DocXpress at:

http://docxpress.stanford.edu/

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The Gale Virtual Reference Library, listed in the databases and articles list on the Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources' (SULAIR) web site, offers a new way to deliver reference content. The user is able to search a single title or all of the books listed in the database, using a standard Web browser and the Adobe Acrobat plug-in. The new delivery system is being incorporated into all of Gale's databases, which will eliminate the need for repeating searches.

SULAIR can purchase one book at a time, customizing the virtual collection to the needs of the Stanford community. Currently, the small collection offers primarily specialized encyclopedias in History, Literature, Multicultural Studies, Religion and the Social Sciences. However, this e-book collection will continue to grow and include dictionaries, directories, almanacs and other types of reference materials.

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SPE, the e-library of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, is now available with IP authentication and no longer requires a password to login and download papers.

The resource remains limited to Stanford users, and can be accessed via Socrates, the Stanford Libraries' Databases A-Z list or from the Branner Earth Sciences web site.

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The digital collections of the Social Sciences Resource Center (SSRC) are now highlighted at their web site. Take a look at:

http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/green/about/rooms/ssrc/digitalcollections.html

Currently, the site provides access to:

• DEWI: Data Extraction Web Interface
• GATT Digital Library
• Survey of Race Relations
• US Immigration Commission Report (Dillingham)
• US Report on Condition of Women and Child Wage Earners

Check the web site for existing and forthcoming collections. See also New SULAIR Digital Web Sites in this issue.

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Social Science Data and Software (SSDS) provides services and support in the acquisition and delivery of social science data and the selection and use of data analysis software. SSDS staff provide these services in a variety of ways that include consultations, workshops and help documentation. SSDS provides the following resources and services:

Consulting

Scheduled walk-in consultations take place in The Velma Denning Room during fall, winter and spring quarters. Clients who have questions about SSDS' data or software resources and services or who wish to make an appointment can contact them via their Web site:

http://ssds.stanford.edu/

Workshops

Group workshops are offered during fall, winter and spring quarters. Workshops introduce SSDS resources and services in general, cover ways to locate datasets, and demonstrate the most popular quantitative and qualitative software. Instructors discuss how students can plan during the early stages of their research and use quantitative software in their projects, from statistical analysis of large datasets to the graphical display of summary information. Workshops also demonstrate how qualitative software options available at Stanford can help researchers organize and analyze interviews, field notes, photographs, and other types of data. You can find a current workshop schedule and register online via the SSDS Web site at:

http://library.stanford.edu/services/social_sci_data_soft/consulting_workshops.html

Quantitative and Qualitative Data Analysis Software

Software consultants provide support in the use of the most popular quantitative (statistical) software (SPSS, SAS and Stata) and qualitative software (NVivo, ATLAS.ti and SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys). In addition, consultants provide assistance and information for researchers who are at various stages of their projects. Some examples include: choosing the right software package, resources for learning and teaching quantitative and qualitative data analysis software, planning before data collection and tips for data entry, solutions to common software problems, data management and data reshaping and conversion.

Users visiting The Velma Denning Room can evaluate a variety of quantitative and qualitative data analysis software, including specialized software for advanced methods and spatial analysis. Software is also available for converting and formatting data between statistical software programs.

SSDS "Getting Started" guides and help documents are available in The Velma Denning Room and via their Web site:

http://library.stanford.edu/services/social_sci_data_soft/software.html

Key Data Resources

Data Extraction Web Interface (DEWI): DEWI is a web-based tool that allows users to find and extract variables from selected datasets within the Stanford University Libraries' social science numeric data collection. It is available for use by the Stanford community for research and instruction.

DEWI provides a one-stop shop where users can locate variables by browsing through the entire list of variables or by searching on keywords within the variable metadata, such as variable names, labels, descriptions or value labels. Variables can then be selected for extraction. Other useful information such as variable sample frequencies, descriptions, full-text manuals and technical documentation can be viewed within DEWI by clicking the "Codebooks, etc." button. Once you have finished selecting the variables you want, you can extract them from the full dataset. The resulting file can be downloaded in popular statistical software formats to your PC or accessed directly from your Leland account.

Find DEWI at:

http://dewi.stanford.edu/

ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research): If Stanford does not currently have data that you need, you should check the ICPSR Data Archive which houses approximately 5,000 titles. ICPSR data is restricted to the Stanford faculty, staff and students for use in research and instruction. Stanford University is a member of the Consortium's ICPSR Direct Program, so ICPSR data can be downloaded directly from any computer within the Stanford central campus network or via Stanford's proxy server. (See also Off-Campus Access to the Libraries' Stanford-Restricted Electronic Resources in this issue.)

Search the ICPSR Data Archive by title, study number, investigator, or subject term. Search results contain a variety of helpful information including the study description, collection date(s), sample frame, data type, methodology, data source, data format and related literature. You will be prompted for your Stanford email address in order to download data at ICPSR.

More information about ICPSR and the direct access service is on the SSDS Web site at:

http://library.stanford.edu/services/social_sci_data_soft/data_icpsr.html

Roper Center for Public Opinion Research: Check the archives of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research for polling or public opinion data. The first place to search is the Roper Center Catalog of Holdings. Datasets can be searched by keyword, date range, survey organization or sponsor, and the sample type. If you need assistance locating a Roper dataset, contact Ron Nakao at ronbo@stanford.edu .

Some Roper datasets can be located using Roper's iPOLL, a searchable database of polling questions and responses. Roper links questions within iPOLL to their catalog of dataset holdings, providing a powerful search option for locating Roper datasets. Any computer on Stanford's central campus network can access the iPOLL database directly. You will need to register with your Stanford email address to access iPOLL.

Popular databases at the Roper Center include the Latin American Databank (LAD) with approximately one-thousand studies from sixteen countries and JPOLL, an online database of Japanese public opinion questions and responses.

Stanford University is a member of the Roper Center, so the data in the Roper archive can be ordered for you by completing an online form. You will need a SUNet ID to make a request. Find more information about Roper and ordering Roper data at:

http://library.stanford.edu/services/social_sci_data_soft/data_roper.html

Data on CD-ROM and Diskette

A rich collection of over 500 titles in electronic format is available on computer workstations to users visiting The Velma Denning Room. Datasets cover a broad range of social science topics and time periods and are produced by U. S. federal agencies and offices, foreign governments, international organizations and commercial data collectors. Windows software allows users to select, view, extract and download datasets in various formats for further analysis. In addition, Stanford users can access and download a variety of archived datasets on diskette from a secure Web site. Further information about SSDS' resources on CD-ROM and diskette are at their Web site:

http://library.stanford.edu/services/social_sci_data_soft/data_collection.html

SSDS Library

A non-circulating library of software manuals, textbooks on statistics, database codebooks, and selected magazines and journals is available in The Velma Denning Room. Users can browse software manuals and textbooks via the SSDS Web site:

http://library.stanford.edu/services/social_sci_data_soft/software_docs.html

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Geoscience World is a new electronic resource that delivers online, aggregated journal content of not-for-profit and independent earth science publishers.

Initially, it will include 30 core journals from American Association of Petroleum Geologists, American Geological Institute, Geological Society of America, Geological Society of London, Mineralogical Society of America, Society for Sedimentary Geology, and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists.

The GeoScienceWorld portal is hosted by HighWire Press. See also HighWire Press: New Journals in this issue. Geoscience World's (GSW) initial online service, the GSW Millennium Collection, includes peer-reviewed articles and other materials from the following high impact journals in a range of geoscience areas:

AAPG Bulletin

American Mineralogist

Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France

Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Clay Minerals

Clays and Clay Minerals

Economic Geology

Environmental and Engineering Geoscience

Environmental Geosciences

Exploration and Mining Geology

Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis

Geological Magazine

Geology

The Journal of Foraminiferal Research

Journal of Paleontology

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Journal of the Geological Society

The Leading Edge

Micropaleontology

Mineralogical Magazine

Palaios

Paleobiology

Palynology

Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrology

Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry

Rocky Mountain Geology

South African Journal of Geology

Vadose Zone Journal

The Millennium Collection will be updated continuously with the most current journal issues; for most journals content will start at the year 2000. In addition, access to older issues of some journals going back as far as 1931 is available in the GSW Literature Archives. GSW can be accessed from Socrates,the Branner Earth Sciences Library web site, or directly at http://www.geoscienceworld.org.

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Century of Science, the product from Thomson Scientific that enables cited reference searching from 1900 to present, is now available to Stanford users through Web of Science (SciSearch). It will be available through SearchPlus at LANL in the fall of 2005.

With the addition of Century of Science, SciSearch now covers 1900 to the present. Century of Science is fully integrated with SciSearch and the two parts of the file can be searched together or separately. SciSearch is a multidisciplinary index to the literature of science, technology, and medicine. The database indexes over 5,000 journals representing all areas of science. An important feature is the ability to perform cited reference searches, finding recent papers that cite an earlier work. Until recently, the database covered the time period from 1945 to the present.

Century of Science indexes over 250 journals in all scientific disciplines from 1900 through 1944. Journals selected for inclusion in Century of Science are among the most frequently cited titles. Century of Science indexes many of the seminal scientific works of the first half of the twentieth century, including papers of Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Sir Alexander Fleming, and others.

The cited reference searching feature of SciSearch and Century of Science extends the reach of the database to even earlier years. Because authors cite earlier works of any time period and in any format, it is possible to use cited reference searching to discover information about works not covered by the database. For example, SciSearch can find papers that cite the works of Charles Darwin, or even of Aristotle and earlier authors. Century of Science enhances this powerful feature of SciSearch.

SciSearch is available though the SULAIR databases page at:

http://library.stanford.edu/catdb/alldata.html

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Stanford readers have had access to the web version of The Chronicle of Higher Education for several years. More recently, SULAIR has added access to the related publication The Chronicle of Philanthropy, which claims to be "the No. 1 news source ... for charity leaders, fund raisers, grant makers ..."

The web version offers the complete contents of the latest issue plus an archive going back to October 1997. The web site shows options for individual registration and payments to get added search capabilities, but Stanford readers do not need to register or to pay. Through our institutional subscription, Stanford readers automatically have full search capabilities for both articles and grant listings.

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HighWire Press, the online publishing division of Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR), 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:

http://highwire.stanford.edu/

The following list includes journals that were recently added, or will soon be added:

Armed Forces & Society, 5 Oct 2005

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 18 Oct 2005

Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 1 Mar 2006

European Respiratory Review, 1 Sep 2005

Games and Culture, 13 Jan 2006

International Journal of Behavioral Development, 15 Jan 2006

Journal of Career Development, 15 Aug 2005

Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, 14 Jul 2005

Journal of the American Dental Association JADA, 1 Dec 2005

Journal of Veterinary Medical Education, 31 Jan 2006

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Library staff at Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR) and the Map and Imagery Laboratory at the University of California, Santa Barbara are completing their first year of work on a grant to create a National Geospatial Digital Archive (NGDA).

The grant was awarded in September 2004 by the Library of Congress as part of a three-year national initiative to study the issues surrounding archiving of digital content. The NGDA team is designing a preservation infrastructure and collecting materials across a spectrum of geographic formats.

The born-digital materials being collected and preserved range from LANDSAT imagery to scans of historic maps, from state-level government data to national data sets. Of particular interest is data considered to be "at-risk" due to its lack of redundancy, regular versioning, or instability of platform. Information about the program is located on the group's Web site at:

http://www.ngda.org/

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