New to GALILEO: The South Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive

The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the availability of a new online resource: The South Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive.

The South Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive provides online access to six newspaper titles published in four south Georgia cities (Albany, Americus, Thomasville, and Valdosta) from 1845 to 1922. Consisting of over 81,000 newspaper pages, the archive provides historical images that are both full-text searchable and can be browsed by date.

The archive includes the following south Georgia newspaper titles: Albany News (1870-1883), Albany Patriot (1845-1866), Americus Times Recorder (1881-1921), Sumter Republican (1870-1885), Thomasville Times Enterprise (1873-1922), Valdosta Times (1908-1912).

The South Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive is a project of the Digital Library of Georgia as part of the Georgia HomePLACE initiative. The project is supported with federal LSTA funds administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Georgia Public Library Service, a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.

Other newspaper archives available through the Digital Library of Georgia include the Atlanta Historic Newspapers Archive (1847-1922), the Macon Telegraph Archive (1826-1908), the Athens Historic Newspapers Archive (1827-1922), the Columbus Enquirer Archive (1828-1890), the Milledgeville Historic Newspapers Archive (1808-1920), the Southern Israelite Archive (1929-1986), and the Red and Black Archive (1893-2006). These archives can be accessed at http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/MediaTypes/Newspapers.html

SciFinder is Now Faster!

CSU Libraries are excited to announce that the Web version of SciFinder has been updated to improve your overall user experience. You can expect faster response times in several key areas, including answer set display and pagination, detailed displays, breadcrumb navigation and large answer set print/export.

SciFinder has also added support for additional Web browsers. Mozilla Firefox 5 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 Web browsers have been added to the list of recommended browsers for SciFinder.

In addition, new Print and Export options allow for more customized information output, and a more visible Keep Me Posted (KMP) alert button will help guide you to this valuable SciFinder feature. Set up a KMP alert today to notify you monthly or even weekly when new research is available in SciFinder.

To learn more, visit What's New in the Web Version of SciFinder

SciFinder is a research discovery tool that allows you to explore the CAS databases containing literature from many scientific disciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more. You can access SciFinder in GALILEO or directly at: www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=casc-col1

Happy Searching!

EMI Classics Catalog is now Available in Naxos Music Library

CSU Libraries are excited to announce that the complete EMI Classics catalog is now available in Naxos Music Library and Naxos Music Library - Jazz! This vast catalog of recordings includes EMI Classics, Virgin Classics, and Blue Note Records.

Today, more than 225 albums are be available in NML with the remainder of the 7200 album catalog available by the end of 2011.

Naxos Music Library is the world´s largest online classical music library. Currently, it offers streaming access to more than 52,677 CDs with more than 756,740 tracks, standard and rare repertoire. Over 800 new CDs are added to the library every month.

The library offers the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues plus the complete catalogues or selected titles from over 378 classical, jazz and world music labels with more labels joining every month. Classic pop and rock music as well as Chinese orchestral music are also represented.

NML can be accessed from any computer, anywhere, anytime. With the new iPhone / iPod Touch App / Android App subscribers can also access the service on the go.

For more information, please Ask a Librarian or call 706-641-5045.

Happy Searching!

New to GALILEO: Enciclopedia Moderna

CSU Libraries are proud to announce that the following database has been added to GALILEO:

Enciclopedia Moderna, part of Spanish Reference Center, includes thousands of encyclopedia articles and images. In addition to encyclopedia content, the resource includes a dictionary, atlas, and timelines. Enciclopedia Moderna is an appropriate resource for native Spanish speakers, bilingual students, and students learning Spanish.





For more information, please Ask a Librarian or call Information Services at: 706-562-1492.

Happy Searching in Spanish!

ProQuest Databases Maintenance Downtime

ProQuest® will be performing infrastructure maintenance on August 20, 2011. A twelve (12) hour maintenance window will be required for this maintenance. The window will take place from Saturday, August 20, 2011, at 10:00 PM to Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 10:00 AM.

The following products will be unavailable during this time:

• ProQuest platform products, including ABI/INFORM and Research Library
• Genealogy and local history products, including Ancestry Library Edition

Please Ask a Librarian or call Information Services (706-562-1492) if you have any questions.

New to CSU: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses -- Full Text

The CSU Libraries are proud to announce that they have recently subscribed to the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses -- Full Text database!

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses — Full text is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. It is the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research. PQDT — Full Text includes 2.7 million searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1.2 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works (Cited directly from: www.proquest.com/en-US/catalogs/databases/detail/pqdt.shtml).

You can access the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses -- Full Text database from GALILEO or directly at: www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=pret-col1.

For more information, please Ask a Librarian!

Happy Searching!

Faculty Continental Breakfast at the Library

CSU Libraries and Academic Affairs invite all faculty to the annual Faculty Continental Breakfast at the Schwob Library (first floor, behind the ETC computer lab) on Wednesday, August 10th from 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM.

Please drop by for coffee, some tasty treats and a chance to socialize with faculty colleagues from across campus.

We hope to see you there!

Database of the Month: SciFinder

Have you ever wondered about how to research molecules and cells?
If so, you should check out SciFinder!

SciFinder is a research discovery tool that allows you to explore the CAS databases that contain literature from many scientific disciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more.

With SciFinder, you can search for substances, Markush and reaction information, patents, documents, experimental and predicted properties, spectra and much more. Moreover, SciFinder allows you to search by research topic, chemical structure, chemical name or structure, SMILES or InChI string, author or company name and many other options.

For more information about what SciFinder can offer you, please see: http://www.cas.org/products/scifindr/index.html

Happy Searching!