February 2011
| A bulletin regarding library electronic resources,
collections, and services |
UC FACULTY - SUBMIT YOUR 2010 PUBLISHED WORKS TO PARTICIPATE IN "AUTHORS, EDITORS & COMPOSERS"
On Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 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 2010 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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NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE -- TWO OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL AFRICAN-AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS OF THE 20TH CENTURY
Chicago Defender (coverage 1910-1975)
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The Chicago Defender has been a leading voice of the black community well beyond the Windy City with more than two-thirds of its readership outside Chicago. The newspaper was a proponent of the Great Migration, the move of over 1.5 million African Americans from the segregated South to the industrial North from 1915 to 1925. It reported on the Red Summer race riots of 1919, and editorialized for anti-lynching legislation and the integration of blacks into the U.S. military. This newspaper also supported the aviation career of Bessie Coleman, the first African-American female pilot, and promoted the writing of Langston Hughes and Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Brooks.
Pittsburgh Courier (coverage 1911-2002)
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Urging African Americans to actively participate in shaping their political destinies – and often leading the charge – the Pittsburgh Courier was once the most widely circulated black newspaper in the U.S. in the early 20th century. The newspaper campaigned for increasing the number of black physicians and opening a hospital to serve the black community in Pittsburgh where white facilities often refused to provide services. In the 1930s, the newspaper led a nationwide protest against the Amos ‘n’ Andy radio show and its advertisers because of its offensive portrayal of African Americans. The newspapers’ “Double V” campaign during World War II demanded equal rights at home for black soldiers risking their lives overseas. Through the decades, intellectuals and influential writers such as W.E.B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey, James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, and others have written columns or reported for the newspaper.
UC’s access to the Chicago Defender and the Pittsburgh Courier was made possible with funding from the Charles Phelps Taft Research Center.
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ELSEVIER BACKFILES AVAILABLE
http://journals.ohiolink.edu/ejc/
Ohio’s college students and researchers now have access to more than 3.4 million additional articles from Elsevier, a highly regarded publisher in the fields of science and engineering with titles including The Lancet and Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine. Though OhioLINK, member libraries have had access to nearly 2,400 Elsevier journals previously, this collection includes historic backfiles, allowing Ohio’s academic community to search for and cite past works and knowledge.
The acquisition of these backfiles has been a top priority for OhioLINK over the last three years. “This purchase speaks to the hard work and dedication of the OhioLINK community,” said Eric Fingerhut, Chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents. “When it became clear these materials would help accelerate science and engineering research throughout the state, the community came together to put the resources in the hands of the students and faculty who need them.”
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NEW BUSINESS DATABASE AVAILABLE
ORBIS (Bureau van Dijk)
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The ORBIS databasecontains 60 million companies worldwide and is searchable using hundreds of criteria. ORBIS contains the following types of data: company financials in a standardized format; financial strength indicators; country profiles and outlook from the EIU; directors and contacts; original filings/images; stock data for listed companies; detailed corporate structures; market research; business and company-related news; and more. The database includes corporate family trees in diagram format. Users can also create and analyze peer groups.
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GO MOBILE WITH UC LIBRARIES
The Libraries website is now mobile.
m.libraries.uc.edu
Access the UC Libraries site on your mobile device and search the Library Catalog, access Your Library Record, check the hours and location of a library, get research help, and more. The UC Libraries mobile site is available online at m.libraries.uc.edu or www.libraries.uc.edu via a mobile device.
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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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