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Database News 2005/2006

New Databases | Database Updates | CD-ROM LAN

New Databases Added in 2005/2006

Business | General & News | Humanities & Social Sciences | Science, Technology, & Medicine

New Business Databases

• Compustat on WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services)
• Current Index to Statistics
• Economist Intelligence Unit (select publications previously available in print) ^New
• International Financial Statistics ^New
• RIA Checkpoint ^New
• SRDS Media Publications ^New

New General and News Databases

• OCLC Electronic Books (Ebooks)
• MarciveWeb Docs (previously on CD-ROM)

New Humanities & Social Sciences Databases

• ARTstor ^New
• Chronicle of Higher Education ^New
• Grove Art Online ^New
• Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) ^New
• Journal Citation Reports (Social Sciences edition)
• Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) (freely available) ^New
• Mental Measurements Yearbook
• Oxford English Dictionary ^New (previously on CD-ROM at the Downtown Campus Library)
• PsycEXTRA
• Social Work Abstracts
• SocINDEX with Full Text
• Testing & Education Reference Center

New Science, Technology, & Medicine Databases

• ACM Digital Library (all ACM publications)
• APS Journals (American Physical Society)
• ASME Online Journals (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
• IHS Standards
  • ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, sections II and X
  • AEC Referenced Standards
  • Medical Devices Standards
• Journal Citation Reports (Science edition)
• Materials Science: a Sage Full-Text Collection
• Scopus ^New (trial access until December 31, 2006)

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Database Updates

New Collections | New Full-Text Availability | Title Changes | Items No Longer Available | Forthcoming Titles

New Collections Now Available

• The full content of the Chronicle of Higher Education website is now accessible. No department usernames/passwords are needed. The weekly print equivalent is available from September 1989 through the most recent edition. Also available are the weekly Chronicle Review and annual Almanac.
• Four ScienceDirect e-journal backfile subject collections are available to all UT System institutions in 2006: Neuroscience, Nursing & Health, Organic Chemistry, and Social Sciences. Information about the collections' content is located at http://info.sciencedirect.com/content/journals/backfiles/. Coverage begins with each journal's first issue published, beginning in 1949.
• The new journals Nature Methods, Nature Physics, and Nature Chemical Biology are now available, as well as the web feature News @ Nature. In addition to our current subscription to recent issues of Nature (1997 - current), back issues (1950 - 1986 and 1987 - 1996) are now available. Nature Research journal issues are now available from the first issue published in 1983.
• Select Economist Intelligence Unit publications that were previously available in the UTSA Library in print are now only available online. This includes Country Risk Analysis, Country Profile, and Country Forecast services for Mexico only; Country Reports for Mexico, Singapore, and Taiwan; Country Commerce (all available countries); and Country Finance (all available countries). Other content included in our recent trial -- Risk, Executive, and Industry Briefings, as well as ViewsWire -- are not included in our current online subscription.
• JSTOR Biological Sciences collection, which contains all of the JSTOR Ecology & Botany titles, plus more than 70 new titles to eventually be added, is available beginning in January 2006. JSTOR Biological Sciences will effectively replace JSTOR Ecology & Botany. Title list
• Online access to various engineering standards is now available through IHS Standards. Collections include the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (sections II and X), the Medical Devices Standards collection, and the AEC Referenced Standards collection.
• Sustainability Science Abstracts, a subfile of Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management, is now available.
• FirstGov, the official web portal of the U.S. Government, has released a Spanish language version of the site. Visit FirstGov en Español for more information.
• Back issues of subscribed journals published by the Institute of Physics are now available. Coverage extends from the first issue published in 1884 through the present.
• ENGnetBASE, an electronic collection of over 300 engineering handbooks, is now available. The collection is also accessible on the Engineering Village 2 platform. (Note: In order to view entire e-books, your browser must be set to open Adobe Acrobat PDFs within your browser window. In Acrobat, go to Edit > Preferences and select Internet. Under Web Browser Options, select the Display PDF in Browser checkbox.)
• Referex, a collection of hundreds of engineering-oriented reference ebooks, is now available on the Engineering Village 2 platform.
• Back issues of journals published by SIAM are available in LOCUS, the online archive: 1952 - 1996.
• Backfiles of Annual Reviews Online are now accessible on the web. Coverage now stretches from the first volume published in 1932 through the present.
• Two new JSTOR collections - JSTOR Arts & Sciences IV and JSTOR Arts & Sciences Complement - are now available. Title lists
• Science Abstracts Journal back issues (1898 - 1968) are available through INSPEC on Engineering Village 2. Coverage for Inspec is now from 1896 to the present.
• Engineering Index backfiles (1884 - 1968) are available through Compendex on Engineering Village 2. Coverage for Compendex now stretches from 1884 to the present.

New Full-Text Availability in Existing Databases

• Online access to ACM proceedings and SIG newsletters has been added to the library's existing ACM Digital Library subscription, so access to all ACM publications is now included in the library's online subscription.
• Mergent Online (previously entitled FIS Online) now includes the ability to search the Experian National Business Private Company database, U.S. and International HSD Equity Pricing, and Equity Research Reports.
• International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) now includes the full text of 88 music-oriented journals and magazines, in addition to abstracts of over 300 other journals and magazines.
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text now includes all available full text online: from 1997 to the present.

Forthcoming Titles - Coming Soon

• More news to be announced in the near future.

Title Changes & Other Changes

• Periodicals Content Index (PCI Full Text) changed its title to Periodicals Archive Online in 2006.
• Effective January 2006, Biological Abstracts is available on the EBSCO platform. The database was previously available on the Ovid platform.
• In December 2005, American Humanities Index was absorbed by its parent database, Humanities Index International.
• In September 2005, Union Lists of Periodicals was absorbed by WorldCat.
• Effective July 2005, EconLit is available on the EBSCOhost platform. The database is no longer accessible through the FirstSearch database platform. Access will no longer be restricted only to faculty members and graduate students.
• Effective June 2005, PAIS International is available on the Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) platform. The database was previously accessible through the FirstSearch database platform.
• Research Insight data is now available as Compustat (via WRDS).
• ProQuest Digital Dissertations Full Text is now called ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text. The database is now available on the ProQuest search platform and incorporates new features, including improved searching and indexing and instant access to available full-text documents.
• Beginning February 2005, all Kluwer Online journals are only available in SpringerLINK.
• America's Newspapers was absorbed by Access World News in February 2005. All content previously included in America's Newspapers is now included in Access World News. To access American newspapers, go to > Access World News > North America > United States.
• America's Newspapers + International Newspapers has split into two separate titles: America's Newspapers and Access World News.
• Marcive GPO CAT/PAC, a CD-ROM product, is now available online as MarciveWeb DOCS.

Items No Longer Available

• Effective July 2005, Sociological Collection is no longer available. The e-resource is succeeded by a new database, SocINDEX with Full Text.
• Criminal Justice Abstracts (via SilverPlatter) is no longer available, effective July 1, 2005. Criminal Justice Abstracts (via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) is still available.
• Primary Search and its subfiles, EBSCO Animals and Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, will no longer be available, effective July 1, 2005. The group was previously available as a part of the library's TexShare subscription.
• What Do I Read Next? will no longer be available, effective July 1, 2005. The database was previously available as part of the library's TexShare subscription.
• CQ Researcher en español will no longer be available in 2005. Translations of articles from the English version of the database, CQ Researcher, are available through December 17, 2004. The CQ Researcher en español website will remain available through May 2005, but no new Spanish translations will be added. Further information regarding access to the CD-ROM backfile will be available shortly.

Changes to the Library's CD-ROM LAN

The Library has made changes to its CD-ROM LAN (local area network) at the John Peace Library. Due to evolving technology, it has become difficult for the Library to support a CD-ROM LAN. As a result, the Library has reconfigured its networked CD-ROMs so that they are available on one of two workstations at the John Peace Library.

Resources available on workstation one are the English Short Title Catalogue and the Foundation Grants Index. Resources on the first workstation are not available remotely or for use by more than one library patron at a time. SciFinder Scholar may be accessed on the second workstation by faculty, students, and staff currently affiliated with UTSA. SciFinder Scholar is also accessible on campus to UTSA faculty and staff via special client software. For more information on using these resources, visit the reference desk at the John Peace Library or call (210) 458-4573.

The Foundation Grants Index is also available for use at the Downtown Campus Library. Other CD-ROM resources available at the Downtown Campus Library include SciFinder Scholar, American Heritage Dictionary, Dictionary of National Biography, Classic 100 Poems, American Decades, and City of San Antonio Unified Development Code. Please contact the Downtown Campus Library staff at (210) 458-2446 for further assistance with these resources.

Note: Oxford English Dictionary is now available online. It was previously available on CD-ROM at the Downtown Campus Library.

The Library's long-term goal is to transition as many CD-ROM resources as possible to web-based resources, making them available to a wider audience, both on-campus and off-. The Library will do so as funding and time allow.

Current database trials available

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Updated September 4, 2006