Copyright Renewals Records for Drama Online

by Eleanor Brown

The University of Pennsylvania's Catalog of Copyright Entries information page now includes online records of copyright renewals for drama (and works intended for oral delivery) up to 1968, thanks to John Mark Ockerbloom, a University of Pennsylvania digital library architect and planner, Mimi Calter, the Stanford Libraries' special projects librarian and intellectual property manager, and James Jacobs, the Stanford Libraries' government information librarian and a specialist in digital technologies and information access in the digital world.

Although the resulting copyright renewals records for drama are page images only, it's a step towards getting them in searchable form.

Penn's Catalog of Copyright Entries information page has included copyright renewals for normal books, and periodicals, but had been missing renewal records for drama. John Mark Ockerbloom could use the scanning services of Penn's Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image (SCETI), but was unable to find copyright renewal records for drama anywhere in the Philadelphia area. He asked Mimi Calter if the Stanford Libraries would loan their complete set. Once the Libraries agreed, James Jacobs managed the logistics of Inter-Library Loan for what are usually non-circulating items.

Although the resulting copyright renewals records for drama are page images only, it's a step towards getting them in searchable form. Ockerbloom has posted similar page images in the past that others have used to make transcriptions and structured data records. Once the records are scanned, the Stanford Libraries can look at creating fielded records, as they have done for the books they have in their Copyright Renewals Database. In addition, because Google is beginning to post original copyright restrictions, it's also possible to correlate renewals with original registrations, and look for interesting statistical phenomena and trends. For more information, see John Mark Ockerbloom's recent blog post: For those wanting more drama in their lives.

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E-Resources in French and Italian Studies

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by Sarah Sussman

Here are some updates on French and Italian studies e-resources. For more resources, please look at the French and Italian Studies section of the Stanford Libraries' Databases page, as well as the French and Italian Studies library Web site.

For news about online resources, recent acquisitions, and other issues relevant to research on French and Italian topics, please visit the Au courant.

Screenshot French/Italian blog home page

French E-Journals

For a wide selection of full text scholarly French e-journals, check out:

CAIRN: We have access to 143 French scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences via CAIRN. Keyword and advanced searching lead to PDF or HTML versions of the articles; citations are included for articles in journals not included in our subscription. Includes: Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France, Dix-septième siècle, Etudes rurales, and Clio-Histoire, femmes, et sociétés. For a full list of journals or help searching, please contact the curator of French and Italian Studies (ssussman@stanford.edu).

PERSEE: PERSEE is a French government-sponsored database containing full text backfiles for 72 French journals --- over 85K articles, plus other scholarly documents! The database includes major journals such as the Annales, Histoire, économie et société, and L'Homme.

Italian E-Resources

Editoria Italiana: For Italian scholarly journals, ebooks, and conference proceedings, see Editoria Italiana Online (EIO) for a growing selection from important Italian academic presses. Full text searching and display make it easy to find materials for your research.

AIDA: AIDA is an online citation database for Italian journal articles. Once you've found your articles, then go to the library stacks for the journals that you need. AIDA indexes more journals than EIO, so use them both for greater comprehensiveness.

French and Italian Newspaper Articles

Lexis-Nexis Academic is a great source for newspaper articles from France and Italy. Under the "Sources" tab, you can limit by country and publication type. Search for newspaper articles in the current editions and archives of national and regional French publications like Le Monde, Figaro, L'Express, Libération, Midi Libre, Ouest-France, and Humanité, and the Italian papers La Corriere della Sera and La Stampa.

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John Adams and Thomas Jefferson Papers Now Available Online

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by Benjamin Stone

The Stanford Libraries have acquired two new American history publications by Rotunda Press, the digital publishing arm of the University of Virginia Press:

The Adams Papers Digital Edition
The Thomas Jefferson Papers Digital Edition.

Adams Papers Digital Edition

The Adams Papers Digital Edition comprises John Adams's complete diaries, selected legal papers, and the ongoing series of family correspondence and state papers.

This XML edition presents, in a searchable online environment, all 30 volumes of The Adams Papers from the founding generation that have so far appeared in print. The contents are fully annotated, with feature-linked cross-references, and may be accessed by date, series, author, or recipient, as well as through a master index (coming shortly). Future volumes will appear in installments.

Thomas Jefferson Papers Digital Edition

Since 1950, the writings of Thomas Jefferson have been compiled in the ongoing project The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. The Thomas Jefferson Papers Digital Edition brings together all 33 volumes published through 2006 into one searchable online resource. This content will be joined soon by the first four volumes of the Retirement Series sponsored by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which documents the time between Jefferson's return to private life and his death in 1826.

This XML edition includes all the illustrations and bibliographical content of the print edition, with the added convenience of linked cross-references and indexes. Users can search this life in letters by name, date, author and recipient; and can conduct French-language searches.

Other Founding Era Papers Available

The Adams and Jefferson digital editions form part Rotunda's consolidated Founding Era platform, of which Stanford already owns The Dolley Madison Digital Edition and the Papers of George Washington Digital Edition. All are cross searchable and navigable as a collection by chronology.

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New in the Digital Library: Caribbean Literature

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by Glen Worthey

The Stanford University Libraries have recently acquired Caribbean Literature, a new digital full text collection published by the Alexander Street Press. This collection, when complete, will include more than 100,000 pages of belles lettres (poetry, prose and drama) and non-fiction (travelogues, ethnography, dictionaries, etc.); its current size is around 63,000 pages.

The geographic coverage of the collection is the entire Caribbean region; the primary dates of publication included extend from the second half of the 19th century through the present, though works from earlier periods will be included in the next releases.

The collection's principal languages are English, French and Spanish, but Papiemento and various creoles are also included -- indeed, Alexander Street Press claims that its 10,000 pages in the latter set of languages constitute "the largest collection of [Caribbean] local language and dialect yet assembled." Thanks to the publisher's innovative semantic indexing and specially created concordances, works in all these languages are cross-searchable using many different search fields. The collection also boasts of the work of several Nobel Prize winners.

Students and scholars in English, French, Spanish, Comparative Literature, Art History, and other humanities and historical fields will likely benefit from the works assembled here. Although some of these works are held by the Stanford Libraries in print form, more than 50 percent are note, making this acquisition a major enhancement to this fascinating, important and under-studied part of the literary world.

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British State Papers Available Online

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by Benjamin Stone

Building on the Stanford Libraries' excellent collection of British historical government documents, the Libraries have acquired two new collections of State Papers (UK):

State Papers Online (published by Gale)
Colonial State Papers (published by ProQuest). Both digital editions provide access to digitized manuscript documents from the National Archives (UK), as well as printed, searchable calendars that describe them.

State Papers Online

The first, State Papers Online, published by Gale, provides a digital edition of the Domestic, Foreign, Borders, Scotland, and Ireland State Papers of Britain with the Registers of the Privy Council and other State Papers now housed in the Cotton, Harley and Lansdowne collections in the British Library.

Screenshot of British State Papers home page

A critical resource for historians of early modern Britain and Europe, the British State Papers in this online edition are predominately papers of the Secretaries of State from the early Tudor period (1509) through the early eighteenth century. Parts I and II (1509-1603) are complete; additional segments for the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries are forthcoming.

The Calendars are fully searchable, and each Calendar entry has been linked directly to its related State Paper. With these links, the difficulty of locating individual manuscripts has been substantially overcome.

Among the Calendars included here are the HMC Calendars and the Haynes/Murdin transcriptions of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House. All the Calendars are fully searchable, the page or Calendar entry references in the indexes are hyperlinked to the Calendar entries, and each Calendar entry is hyperlinked to its related manuscript document. The user is now able to identify a reference in a Calendar index, from a search or browse, and link directly to the Calendar Entry and from there to the manuscript document. The scholarship in the Calendar indexes is made accessible and given a central role in State Papers Online.

Additionally, users can:

Choose to start with the series of essays by leading historians on key themes covered by the materials. Each essay has hyperlinks to the State Papers mentioned and provides an instructive way into study of the Papers themselves.
Look at Calendar entries and manuscript documents side by side.
Compare two manuscript documents or two Calendar Entries side by side.
Use a notepad for transcribing or making notes.
Create a Personal Archive in which to save Calendar entries, notes and links to manuscript documents from session to session.
Use such research tools as lists of abbreviations, glossary, chronology, details of dates, weights and measures, as well as holders of the main offices of government

State Papers Online is being published in four Parts; Parts I and II are complete and available to Stanford users. They contain:

Part I: The Tudors, 1509-1603: State Papers Domestic
The National Archives of the UK: SP 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15
British Library: Lansdowne Collection's Burghley Papers
HMC Calendars and Haynes/Murdin transcriptions of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House

Part II: The Tudors, 1509-1603: State Papers Foreign, Scotland, Borders, Ireland and Registers of the Privy Council
The National Archives of the UK: SP 46, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 65, 66, 68, 69, 70, 71, 75, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 88, 89, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 108, PC 2 British Library: Selected Cotton, Harley and Yelverton Papers

Colonial State Papers

ProQuest's Colonial State Papers provide researchers with two invaluable sources for the study of colonial American history-the manuscripts that make up the Colonial Papers in the UK National Archives, as well as the printed calendars that describe them.

The National Archives' collection 'CO 1' (full name - Privy Council and related bodies: America and West Indies, Colonial Papers) contains thousands of papers that were presented to the Privy Council and the Board of Trade between 1574-1757, and which relate to England's governance of, and activities in the American, Canadian and West Indian colonies.

ProQuest's Colonial State Papers, from ProQuest's Chadwyck-Healy publishing unit, also includes the digitized Calendar of State Papers Colonial - an advanced bibliographic tool providing more than 45,000 records of bibliographic description, covering not only CO 1, but also documents from many other collections, all relating to the American colonies. The Calendar of State Papers Colonial consists of bibliographic entries along with full transcriptions, extracts and abstracts, in fully keyed XML.

All documents have been reproduced as full color, high quality images, including a number of unique contemporary hand-drawn maps. Users can search and browse in variety of ways.

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New Digital Historical Newspapers

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by Benjamin Stone

Building on rich holdings of digital newspapers, the Stanford Libraries have added a number of historical newspapers:

The Guardian/Observer (ProQuest)

The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003) are the first British newspapers to appear in ProQuest's Historical Newspapers line, of which Stanford owns a number of U.S. titles (including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and San Francisco Chronicle, among others.) N.B.: The Observer is the National Sunday sister paper of The Guardian.

The collection offers a full text, full-image archive of both the Guardian and Observer. As with other newspapers in the ProQuest Historical Newspapers line, the Guardian and Observer can be cross-searched using a federated search feature. (Importantly, this also includes American Periodicals Series I and II.)

The Baltimore Afro-American/ (1893-1988) (ProQuest)

Next to the Chicago Defender (which Stanford already owns), The Baltimore Afro-American is arguably the most important newspaper available digitally in ProQuest's new African American newspapers series, a part of their Historical Newspapers line. It is a full-text, full-image database that is keyword searchable. The Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988) was the most widely circulated black newspaper on the Atlantic coast and has been highly influential throughout the nation. It was the first black newspaper to have correspondents reporting on World War II, foreign correspondents, and female sports correspondents. The paper's contributors have included writer Langston Hughes, intellectual J. Sunders Redding, artist Romare Beardon, and sports editor Sam Lacy.

African-American Newspapers, 1827-1998 (Readex)

Containing 270 newspapers published in 36 states-including rare and historically significant 19th-century titles, African-American Newspapers, 1827-1998 provides access to significant and extremely scarce Africa-American newspapers. The content in African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 is drawn from the most extensive African American newspaper archives in the United States-those of the Wisconsin Historical Society, Kansas State Historical Society and the Library of Congress. Selections were guided by James Danky, editor of African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography (Harvard University Press, 1998). Beginning with /Freedom's Journal/ (NY)-the first African American newspaper published in the United States-the titles in this resource include The Colored Citizen(KS), Arkansas State Press, Rights of All (NY), Wisconsin Afro-American, New York Age, L'Union (LA), Northern Star and Freeman's Advocate (NY), Richmond Planet, Cleveland Gazette, The Appeal (MN) and hundreds of others from across the U.S.

The second collection in a new American Ethnic Newspapers series, African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 can be cross-searched with all other Archive of Americana collections, including Early American Newspapers and Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980. (Stanford currently owns Series I-V of Early American Newspapers and Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980).

Currently, selections from three titles are available in the database: The Savannah Tribune (1875-1922), The New Orleans Daily Creole (1856) and Frederick Douglass' Paper (includes The North Star; 1847-1860). Many more will be added throughout the coming year.

The Christian Recorder (1877-1902) (Accessible Archives)

The Christian Recorder, in African-American Newspapers: The 19th Century (Accessible Archives), was (and remains) the official newspaper of the African-American Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States.

The Christian Recorder embodied secular as well as religious material, and included good coverage of the black regiments together with the major incidents of the Civil War. The four-page weekly contained such departments as Religious Intelligence, Domestic News, General Items, Foreign News, Obituaries, Marriages, Notices and Advertisements. It also included the normal complement of prose and poetry found in the newspapers of the day.

Stanford already owns earlier issues of the The Christian Recorder, as a part of the Accessible Archives collection African American Newspapers: The 19th Century. These newly acquired years of The Christian Recorder detail the challenges faced by African-Americans in the South after the Compromise of 1877 and the end of Reconstruction through the early 20th century. The Accessible Archives interface allows for full-text searching. (Text has been re-keyed, as well as available through facsimile images.) Advanced users may use field, proximity and boosting searches, along with the standard Boolean, wildcard, truncation and parenthesis searches.

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Lane's SFX Links Directly to Full-Text eJournal Articles

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by Marilyn Tinsley

Lane Library's SFX instance now provides direct linking from PubMed search results to the actual article. A banner above the article identifies the library, the university and the service. Links within the red banner (e.g., "show all options" and "email lane") let users easily access the services normally found on the Find-It@Stanford menu.

Screenshot of sample article found with SFX button

Example of full-text article displayed after clicking on FindIt@Stanford button

To go from PubMed to the full text of an article online, click on the SFX FindIt@Stanford button.

A new browser window opens to show the article, with the FindIt@Stanford banner at the top.

Opening the article within this frame saves users both time and clicks, especially when there is only one source for an article. When there are multiple sources, the system displays the first result. In case of any problems, the user can click on "show all options" in the red banner to view additional sources, access the library catalog, or email Lane staff about the problem.

If there is no link to full text online, the usual FindIt@Stanford menu appears, including links to interlibrary loan services (DocXpress at Lane and SULAIR ILL).

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OPPIE and FlashPoint No Longer Available After August 31, 2009

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by Stella Ota

Stanford University access to Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)-hosted OPPIE and FlashPoint came to a close on August 31, 2009. The OPPIE platform provided a simultaneous search option to six article databases: Biosis, Engineering Index, Inspec, and the three citation databases SciSearch, Social SciSearch, and Arts&Humanities. FlashPoint provided an additional front end to the external databases MathSciNet and PubMed.

Why LANL Access Ended

The end of LANL access results from developments both at Stanford and at LANL. With budget pressures increasing, the Stanford Libraries' review of databases found the once innovative multi-database LANL search tool declining in service value. Meanwhile, at LANL, development on the OPPIE interface had been halted and external partners such as Stanford were informed that database services would cease.

The LANL service was innovative when it was launched at Stanford in January 1998. SciSearch at LANL provided Web access to Science Citation Index at least two years before the data owner ISI launched its own product, Web of Science. As LANL continued to locally load records from databases with competing vendors (Biosis, Compendex/Engineering Index, and INSPEC), the result was a unique resource for Stanford researchers: a single search interface to a suite of science and engineering databases with integrated search results, sorting, and alerts. FlashPoint at LANL broadened the scope of databases searched by not only simultaneously searching all the locally loaded data but also returning search results from arXiv, MathSciNet, and PubMed. If you were looking for scientific articles but did not know where to start, then at its height, LANL was your best starting point.

However, by the 2008 transition to the new OPPIE interface, LANL service faced fair criticism; week-long service interruptions, negative user feedback on the new search interface, and the lack of de-duplication in the search results were among the top frustrations that led to a recommendation for Stanford to end access to the LANL database suite.

Alternatives to LANL Databases

Stanford researchers and students have access to all the former LANL databases. Search the Libraries' Databases and Articles page to link to your desired database. Or, launch the new SULAIR Cross Search, just moving into a public beta release this Fall, for a simultaneous search of over 20 databases including all resources formerly found via LANL. See also SULAIR Cross Search in Live Beta and INSPEC Available on the ISI Web of Knowledge Platform in this issue.

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INSPEC Available on the ISI Web of Knowledge Platform

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by Stella Ota

Stanford access to the INSPEC database is now available on the ISI Web of Knowledge platform. INSPEC (1898-present) covers the literature of astronomy, physics, computer and information science, electrical engineering, and materials science to great depth and with superior indexing.

INSPEC is a recent addition to the ISI Web of Knowledge platform which allows simultaneous searching of all licensed databases on the platform: Biosis, Derwent Innovations Index, CAB Abstracts, Medline, Zoological Record, and Web of Science (SciSearch, Social SciSearch, and Arts & Humanities). Alternatively, only the INSPEC records may be searched.

From the Stanford Libraries' databases page, selecting "INSPEC" will limit your searches to INSPEC records only. To simultaneously search the other Web of Knowledge databases, either select "ISI Web of Knowledge" from the databases page or from within the "INSPEC" search, select the "All Databases" tab at the top of the search page.

INSPEC was formerly available through LANL, which ended its database service to Stanford on August 31, 2009. See also OPPIE and FlashPoint No Longer Available After August 31, 2009 in this issue.

To search INSPEC along with 27 other databases, including all the former LANL resources, try SULAIR Cross Search, just released into public beta by the Stanford Libraries this fall. See also SULAIR Cross Search in Live Beta in this issue.

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Music Databases: What's New

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by Mimi Tashiro

The Stanford Libraries continue to expand and enhance their collection of online music databases.

Contemporary World Music

Contemporary World Music has been added to the Music Library's suite of streamed audio databases provided by Alexander Street Press. Created as a complementary database to Smithsonian Global Sound, it provides both contemporary and traditional world music recordings from labels around the world. Its primary focus, however, is contemporary genres such as Afro Pop, and World Beat. The database includes over 1,600 albums, with over 22,000 tracks. The Browse feature provides a good introduction to its contents. You can browse by Places, Names [of performers], Ensembles, Cultural Groups, Instruments, Albums, and Genres. The genres are expanded by sub-genres, which provide a detailed and rich means of finding music in the database. For instance the genre of Dance is broken down into over 70 dance types. Try it out and listen to Sophie Tucker sing My Yiddishe Momme alongside Agua Loca's Vámanos, Maname Diname by Cheb i Sabbah, and Zao performing Apartheid.

African American Music

African American Music has merged with American Song. If you have been a user of the African American Music, you'll find all your playlists, course folders, and login information from African American Music in American Song. You can restrict your searches in American Song specifically to African American music by either selecting the genre "African American Music," or from the top toolbar, clicking either Browse Albums or Browse All Recordings. Both search screens have a box labeled "show African American recordings only." You'll see the box on the upper right hand corner of either search screen.

Searching Our Alexander Street Press Databases

The music databases from Alexander Street Press can be searched individually or comprehensively. Music Online, makes it possible to do one search across most of the databases we subscribe to: American Song, Classical Music Library, Contemporary World Music, Dance in Video, and Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. A search for "spirituals" for example, will yield articles in the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music as well as nearly 300 recordings. Smithsonian Global Sound is expected to be included in this cross-search platform in fall 2009.

Oxford Music Online Addition

Our subscription to Oxford Music Online now includes Encyclopedia of Popular Music, the online version of Colin Larkin's critically acclaimed 10-volume set. Covering popular music of all genres and periods from 1900 to the present including jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music, the Encyclopedia also offers thousands of additional entries covering popular music genres, trends, styles, record labels, venues, and music festivals. Key dates, biographies, and further reading are provided for artists covered, along with complete discographies and a 5-star album rating system. The Encyclopedia of Popular Music is entirely cross-searchable with Grove Music Online through the Oxford Music Online gateway.

More Information

Visit these streaming music resources via the links in this article, or by searching the collection titles in the Stanford Libraries' Databases page. See also Sheet Music Database: Stanford Access in this issue.

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Social Science Data and Software (SSDS): Support for Your Research

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by Judy Marsh

In 1999 a unique service, Social Science Data and Software (SSDS), was launched. SSDS is a group within the Stanford University Libraries who through consulting, workshops and help documentation, provide services and support to Stanford faculty, students and staff in finding and getting social science data, and in selecting and using quantitative and qualitative software for research and instruction. Over the years, we have helped clients from the social sciences and from other departments, programs, schools and research centers, including the Bing Honors College students and honors students in general. The SSDS consulting facility, The Velma Denning Room, is home to specialized computing and print resources and is located in the Social Sciences Resource Center (SSRC) on the first floor of the Green Library Bing Wing. See also Try the Social Sciences Resource Center for Research Support in this issue.

The SSDS group supports the following resources and services.

Consulting

Consulting takes place in The Velma Denning Room during scheduled hours, by appointment or via email. Users who cannot drop by can send their questions or arrange an appointment via our Web site. The current quarter walk-in schedule is posted on our Web site.

Data specialists provide help in finding and getting social science data. Requests for data typically fall into two broad categories: data for course work and data for research, and may include recommendations for data appropriate for curricular objectives, and suggestions for data sources for secondary research. Data consultations often go beyond suggesting sources by helping users correctly access, download and use data.
Software consultants provide services and 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 in their project. Examples include survey design and tips for data entry, solutions to common software problems, data management and data reshaping and conversion. The SSDS Web site features a software FAQ that includes general information about software support and where to access software on campus. A Software Knowledge Base identifies and describes data analysis functions within a software program. Visitors to The Velma Denning Room can evaluate a variety of quantitative and qualitative software packages, including specialized software packages for advanced methods and spatial statistics.

Workshops

Our group workshops attract researchers from a wide variety of departments, schools and research centers. Standard workshops are offered from fall through spring and cover SSDS resources and services in general, ways to locate and download data sets, and comparisons of quantitative and qualitative software for individual research or instructional needs. Check out our current quarter workshop schedule and details.

In addition to standard workshops, we provide by-request sessions from faculty for honors students, research seminars and data-intensive classes that include survey design and best practices for entering data, how to identify and download secondary data sets, and appropriate software choices for analyzing structured or unstructured (interview) data.

Key computing and Print Resources

The DEWI (Data Extraction Web Interface) Data System is a Web-based tool for finding and extracting variables from selected datasets within Stanford's social science numeric data collection. Locate variables by browsing or by searching on keywords. In addition, users can view useful information such as variable sample frequencies, descriptions and documentation. After variables are selected, the resulting file can be downloaded in the most popular statistical software formats to your computer. Find DEWI at: http://dewi.stanford.edu.

ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) is an archive of over 7,000 data collections and 500,000 files. Stanford users can download ICPSR datasets directly via the ICPSR Web site from computers in the Stanford University network or connect off-campus via Stanford's Proxy server.

Roper Center for Public Opinion Research specializes in data from surveys of public opinion. Stanford users can download datasets in the Roper collection that are available in ASCII or SPSS portable formats. Request other Roper Center data via the SSDS Web site.

Social science data on CD-ROM are available from computers in The Velma Denning Room. Datasets cover a broad range of social science topics and time periods from U.S. Federal agencies, international organizations, foreign governments and independent producers.

Workstations in The Velma Denning Room include active desktop links that allow Stanford users quick access to a variety of SSDS data and software resources and to data on CD-ROM. Users who are working with data and software consultants can save their extracted files to an SSDS server and then access them from any of the Windows workstations. In addition, users can save files via AFS or via transportable media.

SSDS help guides are designed to assist users who are getting started with software packages. Printed guides are available in The Velma Denning Room or users can view and download guides via the SSDS Web site.

A reference library of textbooks on quantitative and qualitative research methods, software manuals, database codebooks, and a selection of magazines and journals is available in The Velma Denning Room.

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Try the Social Sciences Resource Center for Research Support

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by Judy Marsh

Located on the first floor of the Green Library Bing Wing, the Social Sciences Resource Center (SSRC) is home to an array of collections, computing resources and services in support of advanced research in the social sciences. A Web-based information kiosk located in the Center's main public area provides basic directional information and introduces users to key SSRC resources, services and contacts. The Center provides resources and services described below.

The Social Science Subject Specialists

The social science subject specialists interpret the social science and government documents collections for the Stanford community and provide advanced research assistance on an appointment basis. In addition, the SSRC subject specialists give by-request workshops for classes and other Stanford groups.

The Jonsson Social Sciences Reading Room

The Jonsson Social Sciences Reading Room contains an extensive social science reference collection, which includes texts, scholarly encyclopedias, handbooks, dictionaries, directories, guides, and current issues of selected journals in the social sciences. Dual-boot iMac computers (Windows, MacOS) provide access to online and software resources for research and instruction. Software programs include basic quantitative software, SPSS, Stata, SAS, qualitative software, NVivo and software used in conjunction with Geographical Information Systems (GIS).

The Jonsson Library of Government Documents

The Jonsson Library of Government Documents contains print and microform collections, including publications from the U.S. Federal Government, State of California, United Nations, international agencies and foreign countries. Online databases from U.S. federal and state agencies and international organizations provide full-text publications and statistical information. Details about selected online sources can be found in several other articles in this issue:

New Books

Users can browse a rotating selection of books in the social sciences. New books are located in the Center's main public area and circulate for a limited period.

Facilities

Group study rooms, networked printers and photocopy machines are located on the first floor of the Center. A microform reader-printer is located in the basement level of the Jonsson Library.

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Business Databases: Campus-Wide Access for Stanford Community

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by Mihoko Hosoi

The Jackson Library at the Graduate School of Business (GSB) recently acquired campus-wide access to the following databases: Local Market Audience Analyst, Conference Board, and Mergent Online. Local Market Audience Analyst is a new subscription. Conference Board and Mergent Online were previously available only within GSB network. The expanded access will facilitate business-related research activities for all at Stanford. Here are brief descriptions of these databases.

Local Market Audience Analyst

Local Market Audience Analyst is a market research database provided by SRDS (Standard Rate and Data Service). It includes data on over 200 Experian Simmons lifestyles and Nielsen Claritas PRIZM segments. The database consists of four kinds of reports: market profile reports, lifestyle analysis reports, demographics reports, and PRIZM reports.

The market profile reports provide marketing details for the DMA (Designated Market Areas) or county you select for analysis. For example, you can perform a search on San Francisco (DMA) area and find out that residents in the area are more likely to own Apple PC (index 169) compared with the national average (index 100). The lifestyle analysis reports are helpful to identify related lifestyle behaviors, cross-sell/synergy opportunities, and market potential. For example, you'll see that those who spend $1,000+ annually on home improvements are 13% (index 113) more likely to have an Internet connection at home.

The demographic reports provide demographic characteristics (age, income, education, household size, home values, etc.) for every DMA. PRIZM reports provide data based on PRIZM Social Groups (e.g. urban uptown, middleburbs, city centers, rustic living) and PRIZM Lifestage Groups (e.g. midlife success, young accumulators, affluent empty nests.)

This database was previously published annually in print as Lifestyle Market Analyst (Jackson Library holds 1992, 1994-2008 at Main HF5415.33.U6 L54).

Conference Board

The Conference Board database includes Conference Board reports on business topics such as accounting, benefits, board practices and compensation, business & education, compensation, corporate contributions, corporate governance, economic risk, and employee engagement. It also includes its annual studies such as Top Executive Compensation and Corporate Contributions reports. The Economic Research section provides latest economic indicators and forecasts. The database also provides access to Conference Board Review articles, PowerPoint slides, WebCasts, and its Canadian publications.

Mergent Online

Mergent Online (formerly FIS Online) is a company research database produced by Mergent (formerly Moody's). It provides company details (history, joint ventures, business description, property, subsidiaries, long term debt, executives, capital stock, etc.), financials, EDGAR reports, news, annual reports, research analysis (insider holdings, insider traders, and institutional holdings), and industry reports. It covers both U.S. and international companies, and includes archives (inactive or dead companies) as well as current data. Searches can be performed with a company name, ticker, SICS code, NAICS code, keyword, or by setting a search criteria based on financial values, ratios, etc.

Financials can be exported to Excel. Compared with other company research databases held at the Jackson Library, this database provides more detailed corporate history descriptions.

Access to These Databases

These databases are available to the Stanford community via the Jackson Library's Database A-Z Web site and also via the Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources' Databases Web site. Questions and comments are welcome at the Jackson Library InfoDesk, jackson-infodesk@gsb.stanford.edu.

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Rediscovering and Mining Digital Government Information

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by James Jacobs

Government information is a rich and vital primary information resource for researchers across the academic disciplines. The Stanford Libraries takes pride in its collections of government information from US Government agencies, CA state agencies and intergovernmental- and non-governmental organizations like the United Nations and its community of organizations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and many others. Note that Stanford has been a US Depository since 1895!

Over the past several years, much headway has been made on digital access to government information, making it much easier for Stanford faculty, students, researchers and staff to gain access to this rich information environment. This headway has come from both commercial information providers like LexisNexis as well as non-profit/government organizations like the Federal Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) and the Stanford Libraries.

Below are a few new US government databases and digital resources that are now available to the Stanford community. For additional digital government information available to Stanford, see Intergovernmental and Nongovernmental Digital Resources and Data and Statistical E-Resources in this issue.

All these databases are available via the Stanford Libraries' databases page.

Screenshot of LexisNexis Congressional Publications home page

Congressional Research Digital Collection

Over the past year, Stanford Library has purchased the Congressional Research Digital Collection (CRDC) for LexisNexis Congressional Publications database, making this database even more comprehensive in coverage of historical and contemporary Congressional publications.

The CRDC includes 3 modules:

Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports,
Committee Prints, and
Miscellaneous Congressional Publications.

These three modules are searchable from the main interface, and are indexed together with the other modules (House and Senate reports and documents, Hearings, legislative histories), making it quick and easy to access this rich treasure trove of Congressional information.

Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports (1916 - Present): The Congressional Research Service (CRS) was established within the Library of Congress to provide members, committees, and congressional staff with nonpartisan and objective research and analysis on all public policy issues. However, CRS Reports were never made public or distributed to Federal Depository Libraries. (Stanford has been a depository since 1895.) Some were sold by private publishers and LexisNexis sold a small percentage in their microfiche collection, CRS Major Studies and Issue Briefs. Because of this historical anomaly, these valuable reports were difficult to find until now.

Currently, the CRS research divisions are: American Law; Domestic Social Policy; Foreign Affairs, Defense and Trade; Government and Finance; Knowledge Services; and Resources, Science and Industry. Many CRS reports are updated at varying intervals, so it is always important to note the exact date of issuance rather than just the title and the year of publication. CRS Reports are a valuable resource for PWR students through faculty and researchers in a wide range of subject areas.

Note: Since the advent of the Web, many researchers, libraries and non-profit organizations have attempted to make CRS Reports more accessible. Because of these efforts, digital CRS Reports are also freely available online at: OpenCRS and the University of North Texas CRS digital archive. They have also been harvested and collected by the Stanford Libraries.

Committee Prints and Miscellaneous Congressional Publications (1830 - Present): The official committee prints publication category began when committees started to issue printed versions of their own internal working papers.

Today, committee prints can contain anything relevant to the legislative and oversight functions of Congress and include a wide variety of publications approved and issued by committees or portions of committees, such as Committee rules and calendars, Compilations of laws, Transcripts of markup sessions or other proceedings, research materials published on official committee Web sites, majority and minority staff reports, certain joint committee reports and newsletters, Legislative descriptions and analyses, Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe newsletters, certain special commission reports, CBO reports, and OTA reports.

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports (1947 - 1974)

FBIS was created by the US Intelligence community to monitor, translate and disseminate openly available foreign mass media transmitted by radio, TV and print. FBIS is translated into English from more than 50 languages.

The Stanford Libraries currently has access to FBIS from 1974-1996 via Readex/Newsbank. Over the next year, Readex will be loading newly digitized FBIS content to extend this resource back to FBIS' beginning in 1947.

Note: In 1996, FBIS changed its name to the World News Connection for which Stanford Libraries also has a subscription.

Department of Energy's Information Bridge (1991 - Present)

The Information Bridge is a freely available database that provides access to over 210,000 full-text documents and bibliographic citations of Department of Energy (DOE) research report literature in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental cleanup, energy technologies, and other topics. The Information Bridge includes the full-text and bibliographic records of DOE-sponsored report literature produced by the DOE and DOE contractor research and development community. Users can also embed the Information Bridge widget in their blogs or Web sites.

Science Accelerator

Science Accelerator provides a federated search across the scientific resources developed and maintained by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) including the collected resources of the Department of Energy (DOE). Science Accelerator searches across DOE and Federal R&D accomplishments and project summaries, patents, the Energy Citations Database, the Energy Science and Technology Software Center, Energy Files, Information Bridge and OSTI's Science Conference Proceedings database.

Please contact James Jacobs (jrjacobs@stanford.edu) for questions, reference needs, comments or collection suggestions.

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Intergovernmental and Nongovernmental Digital Resources

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by James Jacobs

Below are a few intergovernmental and nongovernmental e-resources that are available to the Stanford community. See also: Rediscovering and Mining Digital Government Information and Data and Statistical E-Resources in this issue.

All these databases are available via the Stanford Libraries' databases page.

Policy Archive

The Policy Archive, a joint effort between the Center for Governmental Studies and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Library, is a digital archive of global, non-partisan public policy research containing over 27,000 documents on topics from banking and business to human rights, trade and transportation.

This digital archive collects and disseminates summaries and full text, videos, reports, briefs, and multimedia material of think tank-, university-, government-, and foundation-funded policy research. It offers a subject index, an internal search engine, abstracts, email notifications of newly added research, and will soon expand to offer information on researchers and funders, and even user-generated publication reviews. Perhaps most interestingly, researchers can quickly and easily upload to the archive their own publications as well as supplemental files such as press releases, charts, or data sets, giving broader access to key research and policy analysis to other researchers, communities and the public.

Intergovernmental and Non-Governmental Organizations' Search Engines

The IGO/NGO search engines are two Google custom search engines (GSE) created by James Jacobs. (For more information about GSE, see here.) These search engines are useful for those doing research on topics of interest to Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs) and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). We've separated IGOs from NGOs to make for more focused search results.

The IGO Search searches across hundreds of IGO Web sites, enabling users to research topics such as human rights, development, environment, education, HIV/AIDS and health from IGOs like the United Nations, World Bank, UN Development Program (UNDP), Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), European Union, Organization of American States, the Asian Development Bank and many others.

The NGO search indexes local, regional and international NGOs from sources as diverse as AARP, Earth Watch Institute, International Crisis Group, OXFAM, and the World Agricultural Forum. In conjunction, these two search engines will be useful for researchers across the public policy spectrum.

Please contact James Jacobs (jrjacobs@stanford.edu) for questions, reference needs, comments or collection suggestions.

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Data and Statistical E-Resources

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by James Jacobs

Below are some new data and statistical e-resources that are available to the Stanford community. See also: Rediscovering and Mining Digital Government Information and Intergovernmental and Nongovernmental Digital Resources in this issue.

All these databases are available via the Stanford Libraries' databases page.

OECD.stat

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) was founded in 1948 to help administer the Marshall Plan for the reconstruction of Europe after World War II. Since then, it has been one of the primary organizations for researchers and students to gain access to comparable economic and development data and statistics at the country level in subject areas like GDP, unemployment, income, population, labor, education, trade, finance etc. OECD publications and statistics have long been available digitally via SourceOECD (also at the Stanford Libraries databases page) but now OECD has created OECD.stat, an easy to use interface to access all of their statistics in one interface. OECD.Stat includes data and metadata for 30 OECD member countries and approximately 50 non-member countries. Data can be exported in Excel or .CSV formats. Coverage is generally 2000 - present. For earlier OECD statistics, researchers should consult SourceOECD.

Data.gov

Data.gov, Launched on May 21, 2009, is part of the Obama administration's government transparency initiative. Data.gov provides access to Federal datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. Data.gov offers data in three ways: through the "raw" data catalog, using tools and through the geodata catalog. The "Raw" Data Catalog provides an instant download of datasets while the Tools Catalog provides hyperlinks to tools that allow users to mine datasets. Data comes from over 100 Federal agencies. Data coverage is not historical, but over time more data sets from a variety of Federal agencies will become available. Users are encouraged to suggest other datasets.

UNdata

Since 2005, the United Nations has offered free access to global statistics from across the UN system. UNdata allows users to search and download statistical time series for countries from around the world covering a wide range of economic and socio-demographic topics. Includes Indicator databases (Key Global Indicators, Millennium Development Goals, Gender Info, Indicators on Women and Men, The State of the Worlds Children 2008, ECE Database), UNESCO UIS Data, ILO Data, Energy Statistics, Greenhouse Gas Inventory, FAO Data, WHO Data, Human Development Report, Industrial Commodity Statistics, ITU Data, Official Country Data, Estimates of Main Aggregates, Demographic Statistics, World Population Prospects, UNHCR Statistical Yearbook, Commodity Trade Statistics, and UNWTO Data, with more databases to be added.

Note: Statistics from the UN go back to 1946 (and earlier if League of Nations is considered). For historical statistics, please consult the Statistical Yearbook of the United Nations, which is located in the Social Sciences Resource Center of Green Library.

China Data Online

China Data Online, published by the University of Michigan's China Data Center, is a database of economic-, industrial- and demographic statistics at the national, provincial, city and county levels. The site also includes statistical yearbooks, census data, industrial and marketing surveys and an atlas of China. Features include the "Statistics on Map" tool (located on the side menu) to compare data for geographic areas side by side. Coverage varies:

Yearly Macro-economy Statistics (1949 -)
Monthly Macro-economic Statistics (1998 - )
Monthly Reports on Economic Development (2002 - )
City Statistics (1996 - )
County Statistics (1997 - )
Industrial Statistics (2001 - )
Various statistical yearbooks (2002 - )

Please contact James Jacobs (jrjacobs@stanford.edu) for questions, reference needs, comments or collection suggestions.

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Search IEEE Xplore on Your Mobile Device

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by Kathleen Gust

Graphic of cell phone with Xplore Mobile screen page

Get your know-how on the go, and put the most sought-after technical data in the palm of your hand! IEEE Xplore Mobile is offering a beta version of a new service that provides free search of all IEEE Xplore documents directly on your mobile device. The interface provides a single search box that is easy to view on any Web-enabled phone.

Users can conduct simple searches and view up to 10 article abstracts per search. To retrieve full-text articles later at your computer you can send the article links to your e-mail address.

IEEE Xplore Mobile is viewable on all Web-enabled mobile devices. It has been optimized for newer mobile devices (i.e., Apple iPhone, Blackberry Storm). When using older mobile devices (i.e., Blackberry 8360, Blackberry Curve), you may be able to choose "Internet Browser" as your default browser in your device's options for optimal viewing.

For more details visit:

http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/subscriptions/info/xplore_mobile.html

To start searching, point your mobile browser to:

http://m.ieeexplore.ieee.org/

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Reaxys Now Site Licensed for Stanford Users

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by Grace Baysinger

Updated monthly, Reaxys is a Web-based system for searching the world's most extensive collection of organic, organometallic, and inorganic chemistry data. Reaxys enables you to search by structure, substructure, reaction, text, and property data. Expert chemists carefully select journals and patents so that only high-quality, experimental data are included in Reaxys.

Organic Chemistry

Reaxys provides all the organic chemistry information synthetic chemists need to explore the chemical space surrounding lead discovery projects - from identifying synthetic routes to exploring pharmacological, ecological and toxicological outcomes. Specific bioassay results, logPs, toxicity values and other valuable data are all directly accessible.

Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry

Reaxys provides deep coverage of structures, properties and citations in inorganic and organometallic chemistry, including phosphors, catalysts and polymers and other substances used in electronics, magnetics, optics and nanoscience. It covers general inorganic compounds, such as nano materials, zeolites, laser materials, coordination and solid-state compounds, glasses and ceramic materials, alloys, doped materials and minerals. This data is sourced from the world-renowned Gmelin database.

The content in Reaxys comes from the following sources:

The Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry;
The Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry;
Selected literature from 1772 to today; and
Organic chemistry and Life Science patents from US (since 1976), World and European (since 1978) patent publications.

Batch querying refers to a sequence of stored searches, which can be executed at once. Batch querying can be done in Reaxys using either SD Files or text files. These searches include structure searches and field searches in all contexts of the database. See more details.

For More Information

For more information about Reaxys, please see:

http://info.reaxys.com/

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SciFinder Web Enhancements

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by Grace Baysinger

SciFinder is a research discovery tool that allows you to explore the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) databases that contain literature from many scientific disciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more! You can explore one single source for scientific information in journals and patent literature from around the world.

With SciFinder, you can be more creative and productive in your research process. SciFinder is easy-to-use and offers you:

Access to current, high-quality scientific information.
Links to more relevant journal articles and patent documents than any other source.
The ability to significantly improve your productivity.
Capabilities for exploring substructures and reactions.

New Release

The upcoming release of SciFinder, planned for mid-September, will include performance and usability improvements and the following powerful new features:

Collaboration Tools: Improve your workflow efficiency by sharing project information with colleagues.

Link to other SciFinder users within your organization.
Tag references with helpful descriptive user-defined terms.
Add comments to references for sharing.

Reaction Search Enhancements: Easily focus your reaction searches to save time.

Refine reactions by solvent limiters.
Get similar reactions.
Sort reaction answer sets (e.g., by number of steps, percentage yield, publication year, or similarity).

Substance Property Enhancements: Increase your productivity by refining substance answer sets and customizing results.

Refine substances by physical property values.
Export physical properties to Microsoft(r) Excel(r).
View 13C NMR Predicted Spectra for 25 million substances.

Key Links for SciFinder

One-Time Registration (Required)

Access Web version of SciFinder (on- and off-campus)

Training and Support Information (includes online tutorials and how-to guides)

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Inorganic Crystal Structure Database: New Version on the Web

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by Grace Baysinger

The Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD), the most comprehensive database on fully determined inorganic crystal structures, is now available as an enhanced Web-based application, providing easy access from anywhere around the world.

After two years of development by FIZ Karlsruhe, the new Web version was designed to meet both the increased requirements of the ISCD user community (user friendly interface, easy to navigate, up-to date retrieval interface and visualization, flexible export of data) and the requirements of modern software development.

At present, the ICSD contains:

1,400 crystal structures of the elements,
23,000 records for binary compounds,
42,500 records for ternary compounds.
45,000 records for quarternary and quintenary compounds, and
About 90,000 entries (70,3%) have been assigned a structure type. There are currently 4,860 structure prototypes.

New Features of ICSD Web include:

New and extended information about ICSD, including complete Help information.
Enhanced search functionality: easy to use and intuitive search interface.
Easy analysis of large and complex data sets.
Simple and powerful query management: load, modify and save queries.
Personalization/User Profiles for IP access based account.

Screenshot of ICD Web interface, with each if its six parts numbered to help text explanation in this article

The ICSD Web interface is divided into six parts:

The header shows a welcome message. The "Logout" button allows you to leave the current session. After database searches have been performed, a "Print" button will appear.
The Navigation allows you to jump back to the "Basic Search" form, to access specialized pages for performing advanced searches, and to manage your queries.
The main interface is the central working place for the ICSD. Here you can enter and refine searches.
The search action field allows you to run, save and clear your current query.
In the search summary field preliminary numbers of results are shown.
The Query History field contains your last 30 performed searches and allows you to access them quickly and conveniently.

Many options are available for display and analysis of results. For more details, screen shots, examples and a detailed description, please check here and here.

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Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry III: Online Version Accessible

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by Grace Baysinger

Published in 2008 and available online in 2009, Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry III (CHEC-III) is a 15-volume reference work that provides the first point of entry to the literature for all scientists interested in heterocyclic ring systems. Stanford Libraries has purchased the online version of this key resource.

Screenshot of Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry III home page

Since publishing in 1984, Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry (CHEC) has become the standard work on the subject, indispensable to all serious readers in the interdisciplinary areas where heterocycles are employed. CHEC-III builds on and complements the material in CHEC and CHEC-II and is designed for use both alone and with these two works.

Written by leading scientists who have evaluated and summarized the most important data published over the last decade, Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry III will be an invaluable addition to the reference library of those working with heterocyclic ring systems.

Other Comprehensive... reference work titles available online at Stanford include:

Comprehensive Coordination Chemistry II

Comprehensive Medicinal Chemistry II

Comprehensive Microsystems

Comprehensive Organic Group Functional Transformations II

Comprehensive Organic Synthesis

Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry III

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Table of Contents

Copyright Renewals Records for Drama Online

by Eleanor Brown

E-Resources in French and Italian Studies

by Sarah Sussman

French E-Journals

Italian E-Resources

French and Italian Newspaper Articles

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson Papers Now Available Online

by Benjamin Stone

Adams Papers Digital Edition

Thomas Jefferson Papers Digital Edition

Other Founding Era Papers Available

New in the Digital Library: Caribbean Literature

by Glen Worthey

British State Papers Available Online

by Benjamin Stone

State Papers Online

Colonial State Papers

New Digital Historical Newspapers

by Benjamin Stone

The Guardian/Observer (ProQuest)

The Baltimore Afro-American/ (1893-1988) (ProQuest)

African-American Newspapers, 1827-1998 (Readex)

The Christian Recorder (1877-1902) (Accessible Archives)

Lane's SFX Links Directly to Full-Text eJournal Articles

by Marilyn Tinsley

OPPIE and FlashPoint No Longer Available After August 31, 2009

by Stella Ota

Why LANL Access Ended

Alternatives to LANL Databases

INSPEC Available on the ISI Web of Knowledge Platform

by Stella Ota

Martin Luther King Database Launched at Stanford

by Molly Molloy

Music Databases: What's New

by Mimi Tashiro

Contemporary World Music

African American Music

Searching Our Alexander Street Press Databases

Oxford Music Online Addition

More Information

Sheet Music Database: Stanford Access

by Ray Heigemeir

Social Science Data and Software (SSDS): Support for Your Research

by Judy Marsh

Consulting

Workshops

Key computing and Print Resources

UK Dissertations Available Online

by Mary Munill

Try the Social Sciences Resource Center for Research Support

by Judy Marsh

The Social Science Subject Specialists

The Jonsson Social Sciences Reading Room

The Jonsson Library of Government Documents

New Books

Facilities

Business Databases: Campus-Wide Access for Stanford Community

by Mihoko Hosoi

Local Market Audience Analyst

Conference Board

Mergent Online

Access to These Databases

Rediscovering and Mining Digital Government Information

by James Jacobs

Congressional Research Digital Collection

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports (1947 - 1974)

Department of Energy's Information Bridge (1991 - Present)

Science Accelerator

Intergovernmental and Nongovernmental Digital Resources

by James Jacobs

Policy Archive

Intergovernmental and Non-Governmental Organizations' Search Engines

Data and Statistical E-Resources

by James Jacobs

OECD.stat

Data.gov

UNdata

China Data Online