Colgate University Libraries News and Events

The OECD iLibrary of books, papers and statistics has been added by the Library and the Economics Department. 
 
OECD iLibrary users at subscribing institutions are able to conduct searches, retrieve listings of publications meeting the search criteria, and choose to download selected titles in various formats, or selected statistical data in spreadsheet format. Access is available for titles published from January 1998 onwards.   OECD iLibrary is still a work in progress and features will be added to improve its functionality.
 
Users can browse by theme or country.  One can perfom searches across all the content or restrict searches to specific content - e.g. just statistical data.  The resource also provides a number of tools to allow users to reformat the data and create charts.

A platform for one of our providers of electronic journals- ScienceDirect - which provides access to the Elsevier and Cell Press journals has been experiencing intermittent outages this week.   The problems are likely connected with a planned service outage on Saturday, August 28th to upgrade their platform.  The service will be unavailable for most of that day.

A new version of the Library's Databases A-Z list is available.  The new list does not show specialized encyclopedias by default making it easier to identify true database resources.  Users may select the option to add the encyclopedias to the list if they desire.   Users may also limit the list by the initial letter (e.g. all databases starting with "n").

The Wiley Interscience and Blackwell journal titles are moving to a new integrated platform this weekend - August 7-8.  Titles on these platforms will not be available most of Saturday and part of Sunday.  Service should be restored by Monday but with any upgrade of this magnitude - it is not unlikely that there will be unexpected difficulties. 
 
LexisNexis Academic is also moving to a new platform over the weekend and will be unavailable beginning noon Saturday, August 7th, for 1-4 hours.

World Development Indicators and Africa Development Indicators have been removed as databases from the Library's website and catalog.  The World Bank has released the data contained within these as the DATA (World Bank) so access to the former titles are no longer available.
 
The Alternative Press Index and Archive has been withdrawn from FirstSearch and they are no longer available.

Changes in digital resources
Geobase, a multidisciplinary database of indexed research literature on the earth sciences, including geology, human and physical geography, environmental sciences, oceanography, geomechanics, alternative energy sources, pollution, waste management and nature conservation, which has been available on FirstSearch has moved to the Engineering Village platform.  Content is the same but functionality has been enhanced.
 
Several of the NOVEL NY databases provided by the New York State Library have changed.
 
Proquest Platinum, Proquest Teachers Journals, and Gale's Health and Wellness Center are discontinued and have been removed from the available resources.
 
Newly available resources include:
 
Academic OneFile  (Gale) - Contains peer-reviewed full-text articles to many leading journals and reference sources. Extensive coverage of the sciences, technology, medicine, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.
 
General Onefile (Gale) - a source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics
 
Health Reference Center - Academic (Gale) - Multi-source database providing access to full-text of nursing and allied health journals, plus a wide variety of personal health information sources that offer reliable health information to researchers, including nursing and allied health students.
 

During the past several months, six of the ConnectNY libraries have participated in a pilot shared ebook project.  Over 6,000 ebook records were loaded into our catalogs and when users selected any of the titles more than twice, an order for the title was created and it was purchased for group access (purchase on use model). 
 
That portion of the pilot project is complete and approximately 300 titles were added.  The original 6,000 titles have been removed and replaced by the 300 titles which were purchased which we now own.  The list of titles is available in call number order
 

Postcards at Colgate, recently added to our digital collections, showcases the campus and the surrounding area as they were in the early part of the 20th century. These black and white photographic postcards were mainly unsent ... collected as souvenirs of a place and time. A few ended up in a scrapbook were the collector made comments to the subject matter. Like this one, where the writer describes the gym (prior to Huntington) with a sentiment that might sound familiar ... "Our dinky little gym. It has long since grown too small for the use of the college men and we are promised a new and bigger one. This is located right at the foot of the hill, beside the lake" (the old gym stood where JC Colgate is now).

A few were sent - like this one, which reminds the recipient, "Hope you are well and being good boy. Daddy".
We hope you enjoy seeing how the campus has changed over the course of the years (almost a full century).
 
 

Monthly Catalog of U.S. government publications, 1895-1976
The Monthly Catalog of US Government Publications, 1895-1976 is a faithful digital version of the US Government Printing Office’s authorized government bibliography from 1895 to June 1976. Due to the huge amount of information printed by the U.S. Government, very few documents have historically been catalogued. The Monthly Catalog is the only finding aid to this vast body of literature.
 
Gale

Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy
New Catholic Encyclopedia 2009 supplement
 
Sage
Encyclopedia of global warming and climate change
Encyclopedia of death & the human experience

ABC Clio
Africa and the Americas : culture, politics and history: a multidisciplinary encyclopedia
Japan
Modern Sports Ethics
Women's Rights: People and Perspectives

Oxford
Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace

The Libraries have been able to add the following additional resources:
 
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
ECCO delivers every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.   It vividly brings this period to life with materials ranging from books and directories to Bibles, sheet music, sermons and advertisements and contains 26 million pages of text from more than 136,000 titles (155,000 volumes)
 
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: a Transnational Archive : Part 1 Debates over Slavery and Abolition
SAS is a historical archive that embraces the scholarly study of slavery in a comprehensive, conceptual and global way. It contains 1.5 million pages, including more than 7,000 books and pamphlets, 80 newspaper and periodical titles, and a dozen major manuscript collections.  It strongly supports research with a U.S. focus, but also includes resources from Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean – allowing for comparative research.
 
Illustrated London News
With its debut in 1842, The Illustrated London News became the world's first fully illustrated weekly newspaper, marking a revolution in journalism and news reporting. It presented a vivid picture of British and world events - including news of war, disaster, ceremonies, the arts and science - with coverage ranging from the Great Fire of Hamburg to Queen Victoria's fancy dress ball at Buckingham Palace, both featured in the first issue. In The Illustrated London News Historical Archive you will find the entire run of the publication (1842-2003) - including all Special Numbers and Reports - reproduced in high-quality colour facsimile images.
 
World Newspaper Archive - African Newspapers
African Newspapers features titles published in Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. Languages include English, German, French, Portuguese, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Sotho, and others.  Titles will include:

• East African Standard, Mombasa Times & Uganda Argus (Kenya)
• Leselinyana la Lesutho (Lesotho)
• O Africano (Mozambique)
• Lagos Standard (Nigeria)
• Cape Town Gazette and African Advertiser (South Africa)
• Ilanga Lase Natal (South Africa)
• Buluwayo Chronicle (Zimbabwe)