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As of 8:00pm Friday, June 27th, the Blackwell Synergy database will be closed down and over the weekend the content will be moved into the Wiley Interscience database.  During the move, the Wiley Interscience database will be unavailable.  Wiley Interscience should be back up by 8:00pm on Sunday, June 29th.  Most of the Blackwell Synergy content will be loaded by this time but there is some older content that will not be available right away but will be loaded in the next two weeks. A list of missing content will be available on Monday.

This move comes as a result of Blackwell Publishing, publisher of the Blackwell Synergy database being purchased by John Wiley & Sons, another publisher, some months back.  A brand new interface for the Wiley Interscience database will be rolled out some time in 2009.

Looking for IPA transcriptions and literal translations of songs and arias? The library is pleased to announce a new subscription to IPA Source.

With over 3,450 texts, IPA Source is the web’s largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts.

IPA Source currently includes 2,924 Art Songs, 470 Opera Arias, 62 Latin Texts, 440 Composers, and 321 Poets. The database also includes MP3 recordings of various song and aria texts.

Doing some sociology, criminal justice, or other social science research? The library is pleased to announce a new subscription to SocIndex with Full Text:

With more than 1,918,000 records, SocIndex with Full Text offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. These include abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse & other addictions, violence and many others. It contains full text for 428 “core” coverage journals dating back to 1908, and 163 “priority” coverage journals. This database also includes full text for more than 735 books and monographs, and full text for 6,785 conference papers.

SocIndex with Full Text is found under the Find an Article (Databases) page and several of the Research/Subject guides including Sociology and Criminal Justice.

Starting today, the Library has launched a redesigned website. Please visit http://library.uttyler.edu to see the new design. Many of the services faculty and student are already familiar with are still here but be sure to visit the Research Guides at http://libguides.uttyler.edu/. We are using a product called LibGuides to implement our research guides. LibGuides allows for more interaction online as well as for a variety of new and exciting features to better help our students and academic community.

Faculty members can contact their Librarian Liasons (http://library.uttyler.edu/liaison_directory.html) if they have any questions or comments. They can also leave comments here on the blog for feedback.

We hope that you will visit the new website, and that it will become a destination that meets your research needs.

The library now has a trial to Historical Statistics of the United States:

Historical Statistics of the United States presents the numerical history of the United States. This definitive reference work contains more than 37,000 annual time series of quantitative historical information covering virtually every quantifiable dimension of American history: population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, governance, and international relations, all from the earliest times to the present. Each series is fully documented and placed in historical context by a recognized expert. It will be a valuable resource for libraries, students, scholars, and journalists. There is nothing comparable.

• The standard source for the quantitative facts of American history
• A sweeping, comprehensive and thoroughly revised new edition
• In both print and electronic formats
• More than 1900 tables
• 39 chapters covering the full breadth of American history
• Over 170 maps, graphs and timelines
• Print version in 5 volumes
• Electronic version can be downloaded for easy analysis and chart preparation
• Dozens of new topics have been added including American Indians, slavery, poverty, non-profit organizations, race and ethnicity
• Over 100 essays putting information in historical context
• Fully cross-referenced and indexed

Give it a try and let us know what you think - leave a comment here or send us an email. The trial ends 3/27/2008.

To find out what trials we have access to at any given time, click on the “Databases by Subject” link on the Library’s Homepage and then click on the “Database Trials” link.

Do you need an image or two to add a little extra something to your research paper or presentation? The library is pleased to announce a new database subscription, ArtStor.

ARTstor is a digital library of approximately 550,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.

ARTStor allows you to save and print these images so that they can be used in your assignments. For information on how to get the most out of ARTStor, check out their user guides, try their recorded or live online training sessions, or ask a librarian. Faculty who are interested in using some of the advanced ARTStor features, such as creating personal folders for presenting personal images to classes, will need to contact me so that I can set up an account for you.

ARTStor is listed on our Databases by Title list and under Databases by Subject –> Visual and Performing Arts, Social Sciences, Philosophy & Religion, or Literature & Languages. Please give it a try and let us know what you think; comment here or drop us an email.

The library now has access to a new database trial - SociIndex with FullText:

With more than 1,918,000 records, SocIndex with Full Text offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. These include abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse & other addictions, violence and many others. It contains full text for 428 “core” coverage journals dating back to 1908, and 163 “priority” coverage journals. This database also includes full text for more than 735 books and monographs, and full text for 6,785 conference papers.

For more information check out the Ebso SocIndex page. Give it a try and let us know what you think - leave a comment here or send us an email.

To find out what trials we have access to at any given time, click on the “Databases by Subject” link on the Library’s Homepage and then click on the “Database Trials” link.

We are currently recruiting U.T. Tyler students to help test a new design for the library’s website. The process involves a session in the library to view the new design and complete some common tasks. We want to know how user friendly (or not) is our new design. The testing would take about 20 to 30 minutes. We are looking at the week of March 24 for actual testing.

Please contact Angel Rivera, Reference and Outreach Librarian, at 903-566-7165 or via e-mail at arivera@uttyler.edu.

Participants’ names will be entered in a prize drawing.

Sign up today!

The library has just gotten a trial to Sabin Americana, 1500-1926. The password for the trial is sabin.

With more than 29,000 full-text primary source documents, Sabin Americana covers a span of 400 years in North, Central and South America, as well as the Caribbean providing a full-text searchable digital collection that highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, literature, customs and momentous events of the times – from an American and global perspective. Users will have quick access to books, pamphlets, broadsides and documents from an assortment of genres – from sermons and political tracts to legislation and literature.

Give it a try and let us know what you think - leave a comment here or send us an email. The trial ends 3/27/2008.

To find out what trials we have access to at any given time, click on the “Databases by Subject” link on the Library’s Homepage and then click on the “Database Trials” link.

“Footnote.com is a place where original historical documents are combined with social networking in order to create a truly unique experience involving the stories of our past.

The Footnote.com collections feature documents, most never before available before on the Internet, relating to the Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII, U.S. Presidents, historical newspapers and naturalization documents.”

Our trial to Footnote is good through February 21st. The trial is only available on-campus.