Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery: Database Changes http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/library/database_news/database_changes/ News and more Copyright 2011 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:59:35 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Coming Soon: new search interface for LexisNexis Academic LexisNexis is releasing a significant update to the LexisNexis Academic interface in December 2009. The most dramatic changes are in the color scheme, the navigation menu, and the Easy Search form. You can preview the new search interface at http://www.lexisnexis.com/hottopics/lnacademic/... LexisNexis is releasing a significant update to the LexisNexis Academic interface in December 2009. The most dramatic changes are in the color scheme, the navigation menu, and the Easy Search form.

You can preview the new search interface at http://www.lexisnexis.com/hottopics/lnacademic/

More information on the new interface is available at http://wiki.lexisnexis.com/academic/index.php?title=Academic_Help:_Overview#Beta_Release_Is_Available_to_Subscribers_Now

For off-campus access, please login via VPN first (http://vpn.umbc.edu).

For more info on remote access, please see http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/services/remoteaccess.php

]]> http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/library/2009/12/coming_soon_new_search_interfa.html http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/library/2009/12/coming_soon_new_search_interfa.html Database Changes Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:59:35 -0500 Women and Social Movements in the United States - New Features I am pleased to announce a new release of Women and Social Movements in the United States, bringing the collection to over 35,000 documents from nearly 150,000 pages of full text. You will notice there is new software architecture. The... I am pleased to announce a new release of Women and Social Movements in the United States, bringing the collection to over 35,000 documents from nearly 150,000 pages of full text.

You will notice there is new software architecture. The interface provides an entirely new way to search and browse the database. The database provider is making many changes to improve the site's accessibility and functionality.

This release adds two new document projects (for a total of 90 projects):
- How Did Women's Antislavery Fiction Contribute to Debates about Gender, Slavery, and Abolition, 1828-1856?, by Holly M. Kent
- How Did American and Japanese Gender Hierarchies Shape Japanese Women's Participation in the Transnational WCTU Movement in the 1880s?, by Rumi Yasutake

This release also introduces "document archives," which bring additional primary source documents to the collection. Like the document projects which have been in the collection all along, document archives are primary source documents organized by topic. The difference is that the archives contain less scholar commentary and more primary source documents, giving historians and their students the opportunity to form their own interpretation of the sources. In other words, the archives present primary sources without the pedagogical apparatus. Each archive is prefaced by just a brief introductory essay, but no abstract or annotated sources (as users will find in the more scholarly document projects).

The first document archive is featured in this release and was assembled by scholar Jana Brubaker. The archive focuses on Elizabeth Glendower Evans, a noted Boston reformer in the first third of the twentieth century. This archive contains 79 documents.

Please let us know what you think about these changes.

]]> http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/library/2009/03/women_and_social_movements_in.html http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/library/2009/03/women_and_social_movements_in.html Database Changes Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:56:34 -0500 Database Update: ScienceAccellerator.gov Customize Your Search Experience at ScienceAccelerator.gov It is exciting to announce that an array of new search and retrieval features and capabilities have been added to ScienceAccelerator.gov, providing new options for customizing your search experience. The search engine that helps... Customize Your Search Experience at ScienceAccelerator.gov

It is exciting to announce that an array of new search and retrieval features and capabilities have been added to ScienceAccelerator.gov, providing new options for customizing your search experience.

The search engine that helps you find science information from U.S. Department of Energy key resources now:
* automatically spell checks your search term(s)
* allows you to e-mail your search results
* offers the capability to export search results into your citation management software
* provides links to EurekAlert! Science News and Wikipedia information on your topic(s) of interest and
* clusters results by related topics and/or by date in order to more easily target subsequent searches.

Other search and retrieval features include:
* advanced searching
* searching within a search
* sorting search results and
* narrowing your search results by individually selecting items of interest.

The Help page has been updated to reflect the new options and to provide additional information.

Science Accelerator helps you to find research and development reports; e-prints; science conference proceedings; DOE patents, accomplishments, project descriptions, and software; DOE-associated Nobel Prize Winners; and more.

You are welcome to visit and explore all aspects of the newly-revised Science Accelerator at http://www.scienceaccelerator.gov/

]]> http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/library/2009/01/database_update_scienceaccelle.html http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/library/2009/01/database_update_scienceaccelle.html Database Changes Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:03:03 -0500 Philosopher's Index is now under Ebsco FYI Philosopher's Index is now available under Ebsco. It is available from Database Search box on our home page as well as from Research Port.... FYI

Philosopher's Index is now available under Ebsco. It is available from Database Search box on our home page as well as from Research Port.

]]> http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/library/2008/07/philosophers_index_is_now_unde.html http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/library/2008/07/philosophers_index_is_now_unde.html Database Changes Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:41:13 -0500 Music Index is now under Ebsco FYI Music Index is now moved to Ebsco site. It is available from Database Search box on our home page as well as from Research Port.... FYI
Music Index is now moved to Ebsco site. It is available from Database Search box on our home page as well as from Research Port.

]]> http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/library/2008/07/music_index_is_now_under_ebsco.html http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/library/2008/07/music_index_is_now_under_ebsco.html Database Changes Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:36:28 -0500 Web of Science is now the Web of Knowledge This new name better reflects the multidisciplinary holdings in the Web of Knowledge. The Web of Knowledge includes the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index. UMBC access includes all entries from 1998 to... This new name better reflects the multidisciplinary holdings in the Web of Knowledge. The Web of Knowledge includes the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index. UMBC access includes all entries from 1998 to present.

Click here to access the Web of Knowledge.

]]> http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/library/2008/07/web_of_science_is_now_the_web.html http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/library/2008/07/web_of_science_is_now_the_web.html Database Changes Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:25:27 -0500