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September 29, 2009
Issue No. 81

Table of Contents

• Highlights and Features
  • New Look for STARS
    
  • CourseWork-New My Workspace
    
  • Google Books-New Features
    
  • New Stanford Calendar
    
  • Secure Instant Messaging
    
  • SU Answers-More Student Info
    
  • Mapping the Republic of Letters
    
  • ATL Assists Faculty
    
  • SU Instructor Gets Sakai Award
    
  • AIP Partners with CLOCKSS
    
  • StanfordCardPlan Changes
    
  • See SU Libraries in Second Life
    
  • SULAIR Cross Search in Live Beta
    
  • Digital Humanities 2011 at SU
    
  • Find Green Library on Facebook
    
  • Green Stacks Guide Goes Mobile
    
  • Parker on the Web to Launch
    
  • HighWire Press Expansion News
    

Those who use the STARS system to register for, complete, and track compliance (and other) training at Stanford will be happy to know that STARS got a bit of a face-lift this past spring and is now easier and more straightforward to use.

STARS (Stanford Training And Registration System) is Stanford's implementation of PeopleSoft's Enterprise Learning Management module. Training providers across campus use STARS to manage programs that provide everything from Environmental Health and Safety compliance training to research administration, computer, and learning and development classes. Those who need to register for these classes access STARS via the "STARS (Training)" tab within Axess.

Home Page Changes

The STARS Home page has been reorganized to be more useful and easier to navigate. The main menu on the left has been simplified, and the Search feature now appears right up front and defaults to "Search Catalog" --- the search type most commonly used. Search results now appear in a visually clean table format that displays course titles, descriptions, and delivery methods (i.e., classroom vs. web/self-paced), and the click of a button takes the user to the appropriate enrollment page.

Certification Registration Simplified

An obvious link within the main Search box now provides one-click access to a complete list of Programs available through STARS. More importantly, the Program registration process has been significantly streamlined. In the past a user had to register for the Program and then also enroll in each and every separate course/activity associated with that Program. Now, registering for any Program will automatically enroll the user in all associated courses (if approval is not required for the program registration).

This simplification has substantially reduced confusion about the Program registration process, improving the experience for both end users and program administrators. Users can check the status of their Certification progress at any time by clicking the My Certification Status link on the left menu.

What Training Do I Need

The new My Training Needs link on the left menu bar takes users to a customized survey tool that helps them identify training courses required for their role at Stanford. The tool asks a series of questions that clarifies the user's responsibilities, then generates a list of required training classes based on their input. The classes are added to the user's My Learning page as "planned" training events--- the user is not actively registered for the classes, but has a convenient set of bookmarks available for registration at his/her convenience.

More Information

Internal Audit & Institutional Compliance manages the STARS system, in collaboration with Administrative Systems. Both groups worked closely with the Stanford training groups who manage their programs via STARS to develop, test, and implement these enhancements.

For more information, see Internal Audit's STARS information page at:

http://stars.stanford.edu

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My Workspace is the first page users see when they log in to CourseWork, Stanford's learning management system. The navigation on the left allows users to manage information across courses, such as Schedule and Announcements. However, the main page has been used to simply describe this navigation, post announcements and information from the system administrator, and list frequently asked questions.

The new My Workspace page now organizes these questions into instructor and student topics, which can be rolled over for a brief description or clicked to access step-by-step instructions. This helps users to scan and target their area of interest quickly.

CourseWork's new My Workspace page.

The description of the navigation has been moved to a secondary page, allowing two new types of articles to be featured on the main page. The goal of the new content is to help instructors think more about how they can best use CourseWork for teaching:

• Spotlight: This area describes improvements to CourseWork, promotes certain features, and highlights best practices for a particular tool or set of tools.
• Showcase: This area features stories of successful use of CourseWork across different disciplines at Stanford.

The new and improved My Workspace is slated to debut this quarter (Fall 2009).

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Google Books has unveiled some great new features:

• Embeds and links: This new toolbar option allows you to embed a preview of a full view or partner book in any of your Web sites or blogs--all with a simple html snippet. See this example of The Lucifer Effect by Philip G. Zimbardo:

• Better search within each book: Now, for public domain and partner books, it's easier to see exactly where your search term appears within the book. You see more context around the term, including an image from the part of the page on which it appears. See this example of a mention of former Stanford basketball star Jennifer Azzi in Natural-born Cyborgs:

• Thumbnail view: Click on the thumbnail view button in the toolbar to see an overview of all the pages in a public domain book or in a magazine.
• Contents drop-down menu: Above the book itself, you'll find a Contents drop-down that allows you to jump to chapters within the book--or articles within a magazine.
• Plain Text Mode: It's easier to find the plain text versions of public domain books.
• Page Turn Button and Animation: In addition to scrolling through the book, you can now also click the page turn button at the bottom of the screen, even if you haven't yet finished the page.
• Improved Book Overview Page: On the Overview page you'll find an assortment of useful data about the book. See this overview of A Stranger in a Strange Land.

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For those of you who may have been away during the summer, Stanford has a new enterprise-wide calendar! The migration from Sundial (Stanford's previous calendar service) to the new Stanford Calendar completed successfully in early July.

Those of you who had been using Sundial had your meetings migrated to the new Stanford Calendar and everyone could start using the new features, particularly the integration between the Stanford Calendar and Stanford Email.

If you are just coming up-to-speed on Stanford's new email and calendar services, visit the Stanford Email & Calendar Web page. You'll find links to information and resources that can help you use these tools most effectively. There is also a collection of helpful tips for using the calendar service.

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Instant Messaging is used for everything from scheduling lunch with friends to sharing information about a problem in real-time. To ensure that Stanford business is conducted with a level of assurance regarding the security of the service and the authenticity of the person sending the message, Stanford is rolling out an Instant Messaging service for our community.

While instant messaging is usually between two individuals, messages can also be shared among a group. Instant messages sent during a group chat can be seen by all members of the group simultaneously, regardless of individual location: in a conference room, in a campus office, while working at home, while traveling, etc.

This service uses your SUNet ID and password for authentication and encrypts all conversations between users of the Stanford service. Anyone on campus with a full SUNet ID account can use this service.

More information on how to use Stanford IM is available on the service page:

http://www.stanford.edu/services/instantmessaging/

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The Student Services Center (SSC) has joined Stanford Answers, the online knowledgebase from IT Services, to provide even more information online. Stanford Answers continues to provide a fast and easy way for all members of the Stanford community to find answers to their information technology questions.

Visit the Student Services Center Online

Now students and parents can use the SSC's askJane Web site to find answers to commonly asked questions about their University bill, registration, financial aid, housing, Stanford ePay, and cashier services. The site is named in honor of Jane Stanford, co-founder of Stanford University, and was launched with a sister site documenting the life and dedication of Jane Stanford. The Jane Stanford site is linked on the askJane site or can be reached directly.

To see all of the student information, visit http://askJane.stanford.edu. You'll also find a link to askJane on the Student Services Center Web site and Stanford Answers now includes a link to the SSC.

Get Information Technology Answers

The Information Technology part of Stanford Answers continues to grow. Available at http://answers.stanford.edu, the IT Support Center has the information you need to help secure your data, make the most of the new calendar, work anywhere with WebEx, and so much more.

When you click Login to the full collection, you'll have access to in-depth answers and videos about the software you use most like MS Office and Apple Boot Camp. And the list is always growing. Recently, we've added help for Adobe Acrobat 9, Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3.1, Publisher2007, and InfoPath 2007. Got a question about an operating system? Get answers instantly for Windows Mobile 6, Mac OS 10.5 Leopard, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and others.

More Information

If you have questions about the SSC's new askJane site, send an email to askjanefeedback@stanford.edu. If you have questions about Stanford Answers, send us a note at stanford_answers@lists.stanford.edu.

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The Republic of Letters, an intellectual network initially based on the writing and exchange of letters, was a pre-disciplinary community in which most of the modern disciplines developed. It was the ancestor to a wide range of intellectual societies from the seventeenth-century salons and eighteenth-century coffeehouses to the scientific academy or learned society and the modern research university.

In 2008, with the receipt of a grant from the Presidential Fund for Innovation in the Humanities, a group of Stanford faculty, led by Dan Edelstein and Paula Findlen, and including Keith Baker, John Bender, Giovanna Ceserani, Jessica Riskin, and Caroline Winterer began Mapping the Republic of Letters to piece together a vision of the Republic of Letters that spans many centuries and continents. This interdisciplinary project has since grown to include a network of scholars at other institutions and a number of different data sets, capturing information about travel, correspondence, and libraries in the 17th and 18th centuries.

An example of interactive visualization of correspondence from the
Electronic Enlightenment, which you can view online.

With the help of the Stanford Humanities Center's Academic Technology Specialist, Nicole Coleman, and the Tooling Up for Digital Histories Spatial History Project at Stanford, the team has begun processing and visualizing this data.

One example of this effort is an interactive visualization of correspondence from the Electronic Enlightenment, which you can view online. Though still in its early stages, this opportunity to see entire correspondence collections mapped across the globe and across time makes possible a clearer understanding of how shifts in knowledge-centers occurred and encourages further explorations into how to visualize the exchange of ideas and information in the Republic of Letters to help us understand its significance in connecting people across time and space.

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The Academic Technology Lab (ATL) is a resource center for faculty, instructors and TAs interested in using multimedia to improve teaching, learning and research at Stanford.

ATL consultants provide training and support for the development of instructional materials including interactive presentations, videos, DVDs and Web sites. They also assist faculty who want to integrate technology tools into their courses, such as CourseWork (Stanford's learning management system).

The ATL has a wide array of equipment and software to support Academic Computing projects including video and audio capture and podcasting.

Recent Projects

Recent ATL projects include:

• Classics 130 From Homer to Hip Hop classroom capture and media encoding for video distribution on iTunesU and CourseWork.
• The ATL also provides support for the production of Associate Professor of English, Nicholas Jenkins's, Wave poetry podcast in the ATL recording studio.
• In addition, the ATL has collaborated with Mark Feldman (Program in Writing and Rhetoric) and his students to implement student-written audio guides at the Cantor Arts Center.

To Set Up An ATL Appointment

Academic Technology Lab staff meets with faculty by appointment. Faculty, Instructors and TA's can e-mail acomp-consult@lists.stanford.edu with a description of their projects, dates, and times they are available for a consultation.

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Last year, the Sakai Teaching and Learning Community established the Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award (TWSIA) to recognize instructors making exceptional use of Sakai, an open-source software project upon which CourseWork is based.

This year, the winners for the second annual award were announced at the 10th Sakai Conference in Boston. Dr. Edith Sheffer from Stanford, was awarded second place for her course, Germany and the World Wars, 1870-1990. The first-place award winner was Dr. Andrea Crampton from Charles Sturt University in Australia for her course Introduction to Forensic Science. Honorable mentions were given to Dr. Mark Van Dyke, Marist College (USA), and Ms. Cherry Stewart, University of New England (Australia).

Dr. Sheffer impressed the judging committee for her creative use of the Sakai Wiki tool as a means for students to develop their own historical characters in the context of real historical events. Dr. Sheffer and the other winning instructors used Sakai to shift away from passive teacher-centered learning towards a more active student-centered pedagogical approach.

The first and second place winners presented during the Sakai Conference. Their recorded presentations can be found at http://vimeo.com/tag:twsia09.

A recent interview with Dr. Sheffer on her use of the Sakai Wiki tool is also featured on the Teaching with CourseWork Web site.

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The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has announced it will preserve its award-winning publications in the CLOCKSS digital archive of scholarly research content. AIP will place over 150,000 articles in the archive, including back-file materials dating back to 1999.

CLOCKSS is a community-governed, not-for-profit collaboration between librarians and publishers. The CLOCKSS archive ensures the long-term availability of scholarly digital content. With CLOCKSS, content is housed and preserved at major research libraries around the world. When a title is no longer available from any publisher, and with the approval of the CLOCKSS Board of Directors, that title is copied from the archive and made freely available to everyone with a Web browser. The Board is composed equally of publishers and libraries. Additionally, CLOCKSS supporters appoint one representative to serve on the CLOCKSS Advisory Council.

"AIP has long been committed to digital archiving, formulating our first policy statement on the subject more than 10 years ago," said Tim Ingoldsby, AIP's Director of Strategic Initiatives and Publisher Relations. "In the intervening years, we've been gratified when other publishers have taken our framework as a model when fashioning their own archiving policy."

"We are pleased AIP has joined the CLOCKSS community. By depositing its vital content into the CLOCKSS archive, AIP is ensuring its materials will be available for future scholars," notes CLOCKSS Co-Chair and Berkeley Electronic Press' CEO, Gordon Tibbitts. "And through its participation on the Advisory Council, AIP is ensuring that its authors' and readers' interests are represented as CLOCKSS works to build a state-of-the-art archive."

About CLOCKSS

CLOCKSS is a joint venture between the world's leading scholarly publishers and research libraries. Its mission is to build a sustainable, geographically distributed dark archive with which to ensure the long-term survival of Web-based scholarly publications for the benefit of the greater global research community. Governing Libraries include the Australian National University, Indiana University, the National Institute for Informatics (Japan), New York Public Library, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Rice University, Stanford University, the University of Alberta, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Hong Kong, and the University of Virginia. Governing Publishers include the American Medical Association, the American Physiological Society, bepress, Elsevier, IOP Publishing, Nature Publishing Group, Oxford University Press, SAGE Publications, Springer, Taylor & Francis and Wiley-Blackwell.

For More Information

For more information about CLOCKSS, please visit http://www.clockss.org/ or contact Amy Kohrman, 650-721-5838, akohrman@clockss.org.

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Due to low usage by staff and faculty and to better accommodate the needs of students, the StanfordCardPlan program is being modified as detailed below.

StanfordCardPlan Prior to September 2009

The StanfordCardPlan was a pre-paid expense plan that enabled students, faculty and staff to use their Stanford ID card as a debit card to purchase goods and services on campus. This included goods and services such as paying for meals at many campus cafes and making purchases at the Stanford Bookstore. The StanfordCardPlan also allowed Stanford ID cards to be used at photocopiers and printers in the libraries and at other locations on campus.

Faculty and staff's StanfordCardPlan balances will be refunded via check by September 30, 2009. Students' balances will be credited to students' accounts.

Changes Effective September 1, 2009

Students: Under the new StanfordCardPlan, students can charge up to $1,000 per quarter at the Stanford Bookstore and other campus locations, including library printers and copiers. Students will need to login to Axess and accept the terms and conditions of the new plan.

Faculty and Staff: For library printing and copying, current faculty and staff can purchase and add funds to their Stanford ID Card from one of the Cash-to-Card machines listed below. (Emeritus faculty can't use their Stanford ID for printing and copying and must purchase a Print/Copy Card.)

Tresidder Computer Cluster
Green Library
Jackson Library at GSB*
Meyer Library
Lane Library
Mathematical and Computer Sciences Library*
Swain Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Library*
Engineering Library
Physics Library

*Note: The Cash-to-Card machines in the Jackson, Mathematical and Computer Science, Swain Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and Physics libraries are older machines that do not accept most newer bills.

Faculty and staff can also consider the Cardinal Dollars program, administered by Stanford Dining. Cardinal Dollars offers money saving plans for dining on campus using your Stanford ID card.

For More Information

Details on paying for printing and copying in the libraries are available at: What are the procedures for printing and copying in the libraries?

For more information about the changes to the StanfordCardPlan, see the Overview of the StanfordCardPlan.

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Virtual worlds, most particularly Second Life, are being used by academics world-wide for collaboration, research and education. Stanford University Libraries' Second Life island provides a new way to make the libraries' unique collections more accessible, and also provides a set of tools to support the teaching, learning and research needs of many different members of the Stanford community.

• Researchers - explore the use of virtual worlds to visualize information in new and unique ways.
• Faculty - hold classes and meet with students or colleagues who are not physically able to come to campus.
• Students - collaborate with classmates, experiment with virtual environments, and meet to discuss projects without leaving their dorms.

The Stanford Libraries' Special Collections Exhibit in Second Life.

What's on the Island

SULAIR's island currently offers several exhibits, has successfully hosted live-feed lectures, conferences, in-world classes and tours, and has provided international outreach for our Special Collections. We have several permanent exhibits for special collections, including Zuancho kimono textile design, artifacts relating to the founding of Tel Aviv, and a variety of rare antique books images, plus links to the various Libraries' Web pages, and samples of Stanford's Google scanned books.

Our most recent exhibits include a documentary, Women in a New Land, on our International pier, and a Virtual Archive that contains interactive manuscript boxes with digitized representations of real world content normally confined to use in the Green Library Field Room. (For a video of this exhibit, see http://sul-qtsd.stanford.edu/intro2scua.mov.)

Not Just for the Tech Savvy

Second Life is not just for the tech savvy, and plenty of help is available for the novice user. Our island is continually evolving and our group of volunteers is always looking for new ways to meet the educational needs of the Stanford community. We invite you to come explore and join the Libraries in discovering new and creative ways of using this versatile tool.

For More Information

If you are already a Second Life user, here is a link to our island.

For more information, questions or comments, please email us at secondlife@lists.stanford.edu.

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As multi-database searching through the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) came to a close in August 2009, SULAIR Cross Search was being unveiled. Developed through the Stanford University Libraries' partnership with Deep Web Technologies, the search engine developer behind LANL's original SciSearch interface as well as Scitopia, WorldWideScience, and Science.gov, SULAIR Cross Search provides Stanford researchers and students with a single search option for multiple online resources.

SULAIR Cross Search allows users to quickly find relevant items of interest or to identify resources that they may want to explore individually for an in-depth search. Searches may be limited to specific databases or all available sources may be searched simultaneously. Search results are merged and put into one relevancy ranked list, and are analyzed/clustered by topic, author, source publication, publisher, and date in the left margin. The results list may also be sorted by date, author, or title or the results display limited to a specific online resource. Desired results may be printed or emailed as well as exported directly to RefWorks.

Create Your Own Search Cluster and Set up Alerts

Functionality available for users who create a personal profile include "Search Builder", a personal default set of online resources to search, and alerts, a search that is scheduled to regularly re-run and notify the reader of new matches. After creating your own cluster using Search Builder, you will get a URL that can be embedded in other Web pages.

Currently Available Platforms

For the initial launch, 28 article databases and ejournal/ebook platforms are available, including all of the resources offered previously via LANL OPPIE and LANL FlashPoint. (See also OPPIE and FlashPoint No Longer Available After August 31, 2009.) Additional online resources may be added in future. Resources currently available include:

ABI/Inform Global
Academic Search Premier
ACM Guide to Computing Literature
Aerospace & High Technology Database
American Chemical Society Journals
ADS (Astrophysical Data System) Abstracts Service
Annual Reviews
ASFA: Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts
Biosis Previews
CAB Abstracts
COS Funding Opportunities
Current Index to Statistics
Derwent Innovations Index
Dissertations and Theses
Engineering Village
Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management
GeoRef
HighWire Press
IEEE Xplore
INSPEC
Knovel
Lexis-Nexis Academic
MathSciNet
PsycINFO
PubMed (1950-)
SCI-TECHnetBASE
Web of Science
Zoological Record

Please send questions, comments, and suggestions to federated-search-feedback@lists.stanford.edu.

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We are proud to announce that Stanford has been selected to host the international conference Digital Humanities 2011. This long-running annual conference is the principal meeting of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), and of its constituents, the United States' Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), Great Britain's Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), and the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (SDH/SEMI). The conference will be held on campus in June 2011.

First Digital Humanities Conference in 1989

The Digital Humanities conferences generally alternate between Europe and the United States or Canada, and hosting the conference here is indeed a rare opportunity: aside from meetings in Victoria, BC (in 2005), and in Santa Barbara (in 1995), there has never been a West Coast venue. Annual joint conferences among these professional organizations began in 1989, following more than a decade of individual association meetings. Beginning in the days when the word "computer" was only whispered in the halls of humanities departments, this conference was indeed a pioneering one in the field of digital humanities. Now that both humanists and general public can't imagine a world without electronic texts of many different kinds, the conference continues to be one of the most thoughtful, well-attended, cutting-edge, and genial of professional conferences.

DH Communities and Associated Fields

Although each of the constituent ADHO organizations has its geographic home, their communities have always been far-reaching: scholars from France, Italy, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Hungary, Germany, Japan, Russia, and other countries regularly attend (and host) the Digital Humanities meetings. Given our geographic and institutional ties, Stanford hopes for the first time to make a substantial outreach effort to Spanish-speaking scholars and practitioners of humanities computing and related fields.

And those fields are remarkably diverse, as one can see by perusing the programs of conferences past, or by reading the primary print journal of the associations, Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC), published by Oxford University Press, the innovative online journal Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ), or any of a number of related periodicals, monographs, and collections listed on the ADHO Web site. They include computer-assisted textual analysis of various sorts; authorship attribution studies; statistical approaches to textual study; digital librarianship; scholarly editing and publication; computational approaches to the visual, musical and other arts; geographically informed (e.g., GIS-enabled) approaches to history and literature; computational and corpus linguistics; and even "straight" computer science. Newer and still-emerging fields such as software studies and game studies have also found a comfortable home in the DH community.

Stanford - DH Pioneer, Now Conference Host

Like the DH conferences themselves, Stanford was a pioneer in digital humanities scholarship, librarianship and pedagogy, and it remains, of course, a leader in these fields. Although we have many scholars and organizations on campus involved in various kinds of digital humanities work, three of these will be the organizational hosts of DH 2011: the principal host, the Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources, is joined by the Stanford Humanities Center and Stanford Humanities Lab as co-hosts.

Our hosting of DH 2011 will provide an unprecedented opportunity not only for affiliates of these organizations, but also for all those working in digital humanities fields -- student, scholar, librarian, hacker, or merely curious -- to make a contribution and benefit from the thinking of colleagues from around the world.

For More Information

Glen Worthey (gworthy@stanford.edu), of the Libraries' Humanities Digital Information Service (HDIS), and Matt Jockers (mjockers@stanford.edu), of the Libraries' Academic Technology Specialist Program are local organizers of the conference. Please contact us with any questions or ideas for making DH 2011 at Stanford a success. And although it's still early, do plan on coming: this is a conference you won't want to miss.

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Become a Fan of Green Library on Facebook at facebook.com/greenlibrary.

Green Library is currently the most popular U.S. academic library on Facebook, with over 1000 fans.

Fans of Green Library can access library hours, Chat with a Librarian, and library related news and events on Facebook. Green Library shares news and links with Fans related to library services and resources, as well as general news of interest to book lovers and Stanford community members.

Our Fans add to the value of our page by commenting on our posts and interacting with one another through the Green Library Facebook page.

Join the fun by becoming a Fan today!

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Now you can use your mobile device to quickly locate the book or other materials you're looking for in Green Library. For a mobile version of the Green Stacks Locations Guide, just point your Web-enabled mobile device to:

http://greenstacks.stanford.edu/

Then find the call number area you're looking for (e.g., KK-KZ) and click on the appropriate location (e.g., Bing Wing W2) under "Click for directions". You can also use the mobile version of the stacks guide to check a map of the library for the location or your material and see when Green Library is open.

Check out the guide by pointing your Web-enabled mobile device to:

http://greenstacks.stanford.edu/

Give it a try and let us know what you think by contacting us at infocenter@stanford.edu. Note that we also have a pocket-sized paper version of the Green Stacks Locations Guide available at the Green Library Information Desk.

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The 1.0 version of Parker on the Web, an interactive, Web-based workspace designed to support research and teaching associated with the manuscripts in the world-famous Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, will launch on October 1, 2009. A beta version of the site is currently available, albeit with fewer manuscripts and slightly different functionality from version 1.0.

What Parker on the Web Will Offer

As of the launch date, users will have access to:

• High-resolution copies of every imageable page of the Library's remarkable collection of 559 manuscripts spanning from the sixth to the sixteenth centuries;
• A fully tagged version of M. R. James' well-known catalog (A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Corpus Christi College Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1912) updated and expanded by a project team at work since 2005; and
• Bibliographic entries for more than 6,000 secondary works and more than 18,000 citations linking those works to individual manuscripts.

Parker on the Web will also offer access to digital copies of some editions and secondary works. The site relies on a combination of commercial, open source, and custom built technologies to support image viewing and information retrieval. Users can easily zoom, pan and rotate the high-resolution images, and can examine the scale and color bars used when each image was captured. The application supports keyword and sophisticated fielded searching on the amplified manuscript descriptions, "abstracts" of each manuscript created by the project team, and the bibliography.

Support for the Parker on the Web Project

Parker on the Web is the product of more than five years' work by Corpus Christi College, the Cambridge University Library and the Stanford University Libraries, generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. Included under the "Tutorials" and "About" links, Parker on the Web also contains background information about the project and five short tutorials that explain how the site is used.

Matthew Parker (1504-1575) at the age of 70. He is
holding a beautiful bound Latin Bible opened to show
the text of Micah 6:8: 'I will show you, o man, what is
good; and what the Lord requires of you, but to do
justice and to love mercy and to walk humbly
with your God.'(CCCC MS 582)

About Matthew Parker and the Parker Library

Matthew Parker (1504 -75) was a powerful figure of the English Reformation who was largely responsible for the Church of England as a national institution. Parker's talents were sought after by both Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. He served as a chaplain to Anne Boleyn and proved himself a capable administrator, becoming Master of Corpus Christi College (1544-53), Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, and Archbishop of Canterbury (1559 -75).

A benefactor to the University of Cambridge, Parker's greatest tangible legacy is his library of manuscripts and early printed books entrusted to Corpus Christi College in 1574. He was an avid book collector, salvaging medieval manuscripts dispersed at the dissolution of the monasteries. He was particularly keen on preserving materials relating to Anglo-Saxon England, motivated by his search for evidence of an ancient English-speaking church independent of Rome. To ensure the safekeeping of his collection, Parker included a clause with his donation to Corpus Christi College. It required an annual inspection of the completeness of the collection. Should there be more than twelve items missing, the entire collection would revert to Gonville and Caius College. In the case of a similar event in the new location, the collection would be moved to Trinity Hall and then back to Corpus Christi College. There was no need ever to invoke this clause.

The extraordinary collection of documents that resulted from Parker's efforts has been continuously housed at Corpus Christi College since 1574. It includes items that span more than a thousand years, from the St. Augustine Gospels (sixth century) to sixteenth century records of the English reformation. The Parker Library's holdings of Old English texts accounts for nearly a quarter of all extant manuscripts in Anglo-Saxon, including the earliest copy of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (c. 890), the Old English Bede and King Alfred's translation of Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care. Other subjects represented are music, medieval travelogues and maps, bestiaries, royal ceremonies, historical chronicles and Bibles. The Parker Library's magnificent collection of English illuminated manuscripts provides invaluable resources to scholars in a variety of disciplines -- including art, music, science, literature, politics and religion.

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HighWire Press, the online publishing division of Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR), hosts the largest repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, including journals and full text articles from over 140 scholarly publishers.

In addition to over 100 books, reference works, and other non-journal content sites, HighWire hosts editions of over 1200 full text journals in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and humanities, as well as cross-content products for niche markets that combine content from many different sources.

Recently, HighWire announced an increase in the growth of its books program, with over 30 new titles launched online so far this year and hundreds more scheduled through 2009 and early 2010.

For many years, HighWire has developed and hosted non-journal content, such as books, reference works, databases, continuing education, and conference proceedings sites. In 2000, the Oxford English Dictionary was launched on HighWire, and in 2003, Red Book Online, the reference work on childhood infectious disease published by the American Academy of Pediatrics, launched on HighWire.

The quantity of books and reference works going live or planning to launch with HighWire has increased significantly in recent years as publishers seek greater integration between journals and other online content.

"In the next 12 months, about a third of the new sites going up on HighWire will be books, reference works, and handbooks," said John Sack, Director of HighWire. "Our approach involves intelligently integrating books and journals online to offer publishers new opportunities to productize (and monetize) across all content."

For more information about HighWire Press, see their Web site:

http://highwire.stanford.edu/

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