Library News and Events

Blackwell Synergy and Wiley InterScience journal publishers have merged. As a result, more than 800 Blackwell Synergy journals are now only available on Wiley InterScience.

How will this affect you?
It may not affect you at all, unless you are looking for an article that was formerly available through Blackwell Synergy.

If the “Find Full Text” link in a database takes you to the Wiley InterScience home page instead of directly to your article, follow these steps to get to your article:

• Copy the title of your article, and paste it into the Wiley InterScience search box. Be sure to put the article title in quotation marks. This should take you to the article.
• Or, if you see a DOI number in your citation, copy and paste this number into the search box.

If you had a personal account on Blackwell Synergy for alerts or RSS feeds, this account will be transferred to Wiley Interscience.

If you have any questions about finding articles or journals on Wiley Interscience, contact a reference librarian at refdesk@radford.edu; 831-5688; or IM RULibSpot.

We are pleased to announce several new EBSCOhost databases provided to Radford and other state colleges and universities by the VIVA consortium:

For a description of each database, please see the alphabetical or subject database lists under Find Articles & More, or go directly to the EBSCOhost database menu.

These databases will replace the following Gale InfoTrac databases previously provided by VIVA. The InfoTrac databases will no longer be available as of July 1.

After careful consideration, VIVA decided to award a new contract for multidisplinary and subject databases to EBSCOhost. The new EBSCO databases will provide more peer-reviewed full-text journals, plus significantly more coverage in the areas of business and education.

VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia, is the consortium of the nonprofit academic libraries within the Commonwealth of Virginia. Members include all of Virginia’s state-assisted colleges and universities, as well as 33 private, nonprofit institutions and the Library of Virginia.

McConnell Library has added more e-journals and e-books for your research. These include:

• over 1,250 e-journals in the Elsevier ScienceDirect collection, covering the social and behavioral sciences and the health and life sciences
• more back issues of important scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, and sciences in the JSTOR Arts & Sciences V collection– at least 120 journals when completed.
• complete online backfiles of The National Review and The New Republic, two leading journals of opinion on American politics and culture.
• over 2,500 scholarly e-books in a new NetLibrary collection
• over 600 e-books and other documents on international security in Praeger Security International Online, including defense and foreign policy, strategy, regional security, twentieth century military history, and terrorism.
• comprehensive bilingual dictionaries for French, German, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, and Russian in Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
• over 300 high-quality reference books from the world’s leading publishers in Credo Reference, including dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, and books of quotations, as well as subject-specific titles covering everything from the arts to accountancy and law to literature.

Check the full “New Databases List” for a complete list of new databases and e-resources added recently.

We’ve added a new database called SBRnet (Sports Business Research Network), covering market research and industry news for sports, sporting goods, and sports media. It also includes directories for college and professional sports.

Take a look at SBRnet!

In September and October, we are evaluating a number of databases as potential purchases for the Library. Please try out some of these databases and let us know what you think.

The list of database trials is linked from the “Find Articles & More” page. If you would like to bookmark the list, here is the link: http://rulib.runet.edu/search/ftlist%5Ebib93%2C1%2C0%2C19/mode=2.

Once you choose a database from the list, please click on the “About Resource” button to get a description of the database, when the trial expires, and a link to the trial.

We welcome comments from students, faculty, and staff. Please think about whether the database would help with courses or research. Is it easy to use? Do we already have databases that provide the same information, or would it add better coverage?

We will be adding more trials in the coming days, so be sure to check the list for updates. If you have any questions about these database trials or the selection process, please contact Gerald Gordon, Collection Development Librarian.

The following ProQuest and Chadwyck-Healy databases will be unavailable from 10:00 p.m., Saturday, June 9, 2007 through 7:00 a.m, Sunday, June 10, 2007 as ProQuest upgrades network hardware:

• ABI INFORM
• American Periodicals Series
• C19: The Nineteenth Century Index
• Criminal Justice Periodicals
• International Index to the Performing Arts Full Text
• Periodicals Archive Online
• Periodicals Index Online
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers (New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post)
• Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900

The list of new titles added to the McConnell Library and Harvey Center collections in April 2007 is now available on the library web site under “What’s New”.

What’s new? Check the new titles list for books, DVDs, CDs, etc. added to the collections in McConnell and the Harvey Center in March 2007.

The March list is sorted by the department (or other library fund) for which it was purchased. You may also view a list sorted by subject term and a cumulative list of new titles since July 2006.

We have also added several databases and online journal collections, listed on the What’s New page under “New Databases and Journal Collections.”

Curious about what’s new in the McConnell Library and Harvey Center collections?

Check the new titles list for books, DVDs, CD, etc. added in February 2007.

The default list is sorted by the department (or other library fund) for which it was purchased. You may also view a list sorted by subject term and a cumulative list of new titles since July 2006.

Check the “What’s New?” page for updates on new research databases and new online journals.

The online edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education is now available to all faculty, staff, and students! McConnell Library has purchased a campus-wide site license to “The Chronicle,” the leading source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.

“The Chronicle” web site includes the following features:

• the latest news in academe updated daily
• all of the text from the current print issue, which prints and mails on Friday, is posted the following Monday morning
• a searchable archive of back issues going back to September 1989
• all commentary and essays from the weekly magazine, The Chronicle Review
• all the data from the annual Almanac and other reports in an easy-to-search
  database
• the capability to set up email alerts or RSS feeds.

A note: the Daily Report e-newsletter is presently not available as part of our campus-wide subscription; however, the publisher plans to make it available in campus-wide online subscriptions later this year.