February 2010
| A bulletin regarding library electronic resources,
collections, and services |
UC FACULTY - SUBMIT YOUR 2009 PUBLISHED WORKS TO PARTICIPATE IN "AUTHORS, EDITORS & COMPOSERS"
On Thursday, April 22, 2010, the Libraries will once again recognize the publishing and creative accomplishments of UC's faculty at the annual "Authors, Editors & Composers" event. Scheduled for 3:30pm in the Russell C. Myers Alumni Center, "Authors, Editors & Composers" will include a reception, presentation of selected works, a printed bibliography, and an exhibit.
To submit your works published in 2009 for inclusion in "Authors, Editors & Composers," visit www.libraries.uc.edu/information/aec to complete an online form. Note: if your browser or local e-mail settings prevent you from clicking on the submission link, please copy and paste into the browser window.
For more information, visit http://www.libraries.uc.edu/information/news/index.html. Contact Melissa Cox Norris at melissa.norris@uc.edu or by phone at (513) 556-1558 with any questions.
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NEW ELECTRONIC DATABASES AVAILABLE
Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926 (MOML)
http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/MOML
Originally derived from two essential reference collections for historical legal studies, the Nineteenth Century and Twentieth Century Legal Treatises microfilm collections, Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926 provides digital images on every page of 22,000 legal treatises on U.S. and British law published from 1800 through 1926. Full-text searching on more than 10 million pages provides researchers access to critical legal history, including casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches, and more. This resource was purchased by the Law Library, but is available to the entire UC community.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Part II: Early Editions
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/ucinc_main?db=ECCO
The UC Libraries now have access to Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Part II: Early Editions. Created specifically to supplement the original Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), a database of digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century, New Editions delivers the online ease and depth of content that made ECCOa must-have resource for scholarly libraries worldwide. Enhancements to the database include: nearly 50,000 new titles of previously unavailable or inaccessible materials; cross-searchable content from Early English Books Online from ProQuest; Image Gallery, Most Popular Searches and Key Documents sections; and contextual essays and chronology aimed at novice researchers. Both the original ECCO and Early Editions are available online at http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/ucinc_main?db=ECCO. UC's access to Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Part II: Early Editions was made possible by funding from the Charles Phelps Taft Research Center.
LexisNexis CONGRESSIONAL SETS
LexisNexis U.S. Congressional Serial Set Digital Collection (1789-Present)
http://web.lexisnexis.com/congcomp/form/cong/s_pubadvanced.html?DateRestrictionControl=ALL
This digital archive offers complete coverage of the U.S. Serial Set from 1789 to the present. Part I covers the period from 1789-1969 and represents 12,880 Serial Set volumes and 38 American State Papers volumes. Containing more than 10 million pages of government publications, the Serial Set Digital Collection documents agriculture, Westward Expansion, scientific exploration, politics, international relations, business, and manufacturing. The documents, including illustration captions and table and map titles, are fully searchable PDFs.
Part II of the Serial Set Digital Collection contains all published House and Senate documents and reports from 1970 to the present. The reports are usually from congressional committees dealing with proposed legislation and issues under investigation. Researchers will find them valuable because they explain the legislative intent of bills under consideration. Part II includes: reports on proposed legislation, issues under investigation, reports from executive departments and independent organizations, and annual reports of non-governmental organizations. Both parts of the Serial Set Digital Collection have been combined into one easily searchable database that covers the period of 1789 to the present.
LexisNexis U.S. Congressional Hearings Digital Collection
http://web.lexisnexis.com/congcomp/form/cong/s_pubadvanced.html?DateRestrictionControl=ALL
Giving researchers access to the content of both published and unpublished hearings, the LexisNexis Congressional Hearings Digital Collection forms an unparalleled documentary record of events and public policy issues faced by America, as well as the objectives and actions of Congress in dealing with these events and issues. This addition to the growing digital collections available through LexisNexis Congressional brings added value to the library’s online Congressional resources by allowing users to search across multiple collections with a single search. This database includes full transcripts of the proceedings, including all oral statements, committee questions, and discussion. Also included are the texts of related reports, statistical analyses, correspondence, exhibits, and articles presented by witnesses or inserted into the record by committee members and staff.
Retrospective A: covers the period of 1824-1979 and has 73,000 titles and 12.8 million pages
Retrospective B: covers the period of 1980-2003 and has 44,400 titles and 11 million pages
As with the Serial Set, both Congressional Hearings Retrospectives have been combined into one easily searchable database. Note: Fulltext is available from 1824 to 2003, with indexing available from 1824 through the present.
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1,000,000th URL ADDED TO THE UC LIBRARY CATALOG
Stowel, John. A Sallad for the Young Ladies & Gentlemen of Douglas. Raised by Tom the Gardener. (Price Fourpence a Bunch.) Liverpool, Printed in the year 1790.
http://uclid.uc.edu/record=b4884471~S39
On January 15, 2010, the 1,000,000th URL was added to the library catalog with the link to: Stowel, John. Sallad for the Young Ladies & Gentlemen of Douglas. Raised by Tom the Gardener. (Price Fourpence a Bunch.) Liverpool, Printed in the year 1790. URL’s are listed in the Library Catalog for all types of online resources and link users directly to content at the point of discovery. The 1,000,000th URL was part of the Library Catalog record load that accompanied the addition of Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Part II: Early Editions. Just five years ago, in January 2004, the UC Libraries had only 101,000 URLs in the Library Catalog.
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Library electronic resources are accessible to University of Cincinnati students, faculty, and staff from any UC on-campus connection or through UC remote access. More information on UC remote access is available online at www.libraries.uc.edu/information/access.html. If you have any problems logging in, e-mail libhelp@uc.edu or call Library Help at 556-1994.
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