Database of the Month: ARTstor

Are you an art lover? Certainly ARTstor has something you will enjoy.

The ARTstor Digital Library is a nonprofit resource that provides more than one million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. Its community-built collections comprise contributions from outstanding international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates.

The Digital Library serves educators, scholars, curators, librarians, and students at more than 1,350+ universities, community colleges, museums, libraries, and K-12 schools in 46 countries worldwide. Collections are used for teaching and study in a wide range of subject areas, including art, architecture, music, religion, anthropology, literature, world history, American Studies, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, and more.

You can access ARTstor via GALILEO or directly at: www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=artj-col1

For more information about ARTstor, please Ask a Librarian or call 706-562-1492.


Happy Discovery! Happy Holidays!

Database of the Month: Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale (RILM)

Are you a music lover? Perhaps RILM Abstracts of Music Literature has what you are looking for!

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, a comprehensive, ongoing guide to publications on music from all over the world, is an indispensable tool for scholars, students, librarians, performers, teachers, and music lovers. It provides broad yet detailed coverage and facilitates both focused research and browsing for readers of all levels.

RILM's broad international coverage and concise abstracts distinguish it from all other music reference resources. All scholarly works are included: articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, dissertations, Festschriften, films and videos, iconographies, critical commentaries to complete works, ethnographic recordings, conference proceedings, electronic resources, and reviews.

For more information on what RILM has to offer, visit: http://www.rilm.org/

Happy Searching! Happy Discovering!

Database of the Month: JSTOR

One of CSU Libraries' most popular databases is JSTOR.

JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive of over one thousand academic journals and other scholarly content. It is a rich database repository of full-text journal articles that covers the arts and sciences.

CSU Libraries provide access to the following JSTOR collections:

• JSTOR Arts and Sciences I, II, III, IV and V
• JSTOR Life Sciences
• JSTOR Plant Sciences
  

An overview of special features in JSTOR is online at: http://about.jstor.org/support-training/help/myjstor-saving-searches-or-citations-0. Other tutorials available are:

• How to Search JSTOR (Streaming video)
• Advanced Searching in JSTOR (Streaming video)

You can access JSTOR both on campus and at home.

Accessing JSTOR on campus is easy. Simply go to GALILEO and click on JSTOR under the Databases A-Z tab.

Accessing JSTOR at home is also easy. Please see the short video about accessing all GALILEO databases at: http://library.columbusstate.edu/how_do_i/offcampus.php. You will also need to make sure that your browser has the following settings:

• Accepts Cookies
• Allows for Pop-Ups

You can select these settings under the Tools menu on most browsers.

For further assistance with JSTOR, please Ask a Librarian or call: 706-562-1492.

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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

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Database of the Month: Naxos Music Library

Are you in the mood for listening to some music? Well, this month's Database of the Month, the Naxos Music Library, has a lot to offer you!

The Naxos Music Library (NML) is the world's largest online classical music library.

Currently, it offers:

• Streaming access to more than 43,500 CDs with more than 600,000 tracks;
• Catalogs of more than 50 classical, jazz and world music labels;
• Synopses of over 700 operas;
• A pronunciation guide for composer and artist names;
• Glossary of musical terms
• Playing times of individual works or movements
• Detailed music notes and opera libretti.
• Ability to create personalized playlists.

The NML can be searched by composer, work and label; by keyword search and by a sophisticated advanced search engine with up to 10 combined search criteria.

NML can be accessed from GALILEO, anywhere, anytime. And with the new iPhone / iPod Touch App / Android App you can also access the NML on the go.

For more information and links to streaming video tutorials, please check out CSU Libraries' Electronic Resource Guides and Ask a Librarian.

For searching tips, daily commentaries about the Naxos Music Library collection and much more, please see the Naxos Music Library blog.

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Database of the Month: America's Newspapers

Have you ever found the perfect citation to a newspaper article, but had problems finding it in the library?


Do you ever want to browse through newspapers, such as the New York Times, but do not have a subscription to them?

CSU Libraries can help with its access to America's Newspapers!

America's Newspapers by Newsbank is a database of local (Columbus Ledger-Enquirer), state (including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution), and national newspapers (including the New York Times) of the U.S. Each indexed newspaper includes local and regional news, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and community information. Paid ads are excluded.

America’s Newspapers provides CSU students and faculty with authoritative, staff-written coverage of local and national topics, along with specific articles, obituaries, statistics, quotations, facts, analysis and much more. Several features of this unique database are:

• Contains daily updates of comprehensive news coverage at the local, state, regional and national levels
• Offers 24/7 online access to tens of millions of fully searchable current and archived articles
• Includes the complete electronic editions of more than 1,500 full-text newspapers nationwide—over 75% not available in any other library database
• Features an intuitive, map-based interface and powerful, user-friendly search options
• Enables users to search a single newspaper, a select group of titles or the entire collection
  

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

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Database of the Month: kcdlonline

KRAUS CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT LIBRARY

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The Kraus Curriculum Development Library (kcdlonline) is a continuously updated, searchable database that brings together educational objectives, content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques for all subjects covered in PreK-12 and Adult Basic Education. With a growing database of nearly 5,000 curriculum documents, kcdlonline provides you with a direct link to the curricula you need and contact information on the agencies that issue the curricula.

The Kraus Curriculum Development Library in this online version comprises over 50,000 current pages of text submitted by educational agencies for easy access and reference. Documents from the 20th edition forward are available in a PDF format. You can view these PDFs directly from the kcdlonline web site with Adobe Acrobat Reader software. (Suggestion: For faster processing and viewing, we recommend that you download the files to your local hard drive for convenient viewing.)

In addition to this KCDL database, over 400 of the documents included in past editions of KCDL are available through kcdlonline's hyperlinks to the issuing agencies' web sites.

For more information about kcdlonline, please see its Tips and Tricks page or contact CSU Libraries.

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Database of the Month: ERIC

ERIC - the Education Resources Information Center - is an online digital library of education research and information that contains more than 1.3 million records and links to more than 323,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966 . ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC provides ready access to education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research.

In addition to this ERIC has launched the SearchEduResources YouTube channel. The channel is designed to provide instructional tutorials and other short videos to ERIC's broad base of users. A selection of 19 tutorials is now available to provide guidance on ERIC's suite of online features and tools. Visitors can receive alerts when new videos are added by subscribing to the channel.Over the past year, ERIC has established a presence in social media and implemented an expanded selection of collaboration tools. These include a Twitter feed, Facebook page, RSS feeds, and a "Share" tool that enables searchers to post citations and searches to social applications and sites.

Database of the Month: ACM Digital Library

The ACM Digital Library contains the full-text for articles published in ACM and affiliated organizations' periodicals and proceedings since 1985, as well as bibliographic information, abstracts, and reviews for those articles. These publications cover various fields related to computing, including software, hardware, computational theory, artificial intelligence, information science, human-computer interaction, instructional technology, and the research and development communities involved in computing.

Searching of the full-text is available using keywords, authors, and ACM subject classification terms, and features phrase searching, use of wildcards, and Boolean expression searching as well as search limitation on fields, publication, and publication date. If you would like to see a video tutorial on how to use the ACM Digital Library from the James A. Cannavino Library at Marist College, click here.

This database includes links to two related resources: the Guide to Computing Literature and Computing Reviews. The Guide is a collection of bibliographic citations and abstracts of works published by the ACM and 3,000 other publishers. Computing Reviews comprehensively reviews books, articles, conference proceedings, theses, technical reports, and Web-based publications in computer science.

*Note: You will need Adobe Acrobat to access this information*

Database of the Month: Black Drama

Black Drama contains the full text of 1,200 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 100 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. The collection includes musical comedies, domestic dramas, folk dramas, history plays, anti-slavery plays, one-act plays, and other works. Many were published in a wide range of magazines and anthologies; others have never before been published or performed. Students and scholars will have immediate access to plays addressing a wide range of struggles and triumphs, including migration to Northern cities, mothers’ keeping families together, exploitation by white land owners, interracial unity, racial violence, civil rights activism, and the black war hero. The plays explore themes including civil rights, desegregation, and a wide range of ideologies – integrationist and separatist, revolutionary and nationalist. While the collection is strong in social and political drama, it also covers domestic drama and satires.

Much of the collection consists of previously unpublished plays by writers such as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Femi Euba, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others. The database also covers key writings of the Harlem Renaissance, works performed for the Federal Theatre Project, and plays by critically acclaimed dramatists of the 1940s. In addition, the collection covers the Black Arts movement of the sixties and seventies and works performed by the Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School (BARTS), The Negro Ensemble Company, and other companies.

Each play is extensively and deeply indexed, allowing both keyword and multi-fielded searching, and is accompanied by reference materials, and images. The result is an exceptionally deep and collection that illustrates the many purposes that black theater has served.

Database of the Month: Classical Music Library

Classical Music Library is the world's largest multi-label database of Classical music recordings for listening and learning in libraries. The growing collection of 60,000-plus tracks includes recordings from the world's greatest labels including Hyperion, Bridge Records, Artemis-Vanguard, Hänssler Classic, Vox and many more. Coverage includes music written from the earliest times (e.g. Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera. They add repertoire according to the MLA publication ‘A Basic Music Library’ to ensure Classical Music Library will include at least one recording of each work listed. They also provide multiple recordings of most major works, to enable comparative listening. Classical Music Library also includes many works not in the MLA list, and is increasingly adding recordings by great performers and composers.

The newest release of Classical Music Library includes new features and updates from the previous interface. Most notably, they’ve added in an Album browse, which allows users to browse all classical works by album and find associated recordings of those works. They also have updated playlist functionality, which allows the user to annotate individual items in a playlist and link out to any item, whether it’s in the database or anywhere on the web. Users can also decide whether or not to share playlists with users at their institution or anyone who subscribes to Classical Music Library. They’ve also taken into consideration user feedback and users can now search for complete recordings of classical works through our Advanced Search. This way, users can limit their search results to only recordings where we have the complete work available instead of highlights/snippets.

Content will be added on a regular basis, and exciting new materials will be highlighted on the home page, so please check back regularly for updates.

Wilson OmniFile on Korea and the G20

Korea’s year of chairing the G20 has just finished, and Wilson Omnifile carries a wealth of full-text journals and periodicals—such as Koreana and Korea Journal—that can help you learn more about a country that has gone through an amazing transformation in the last fifty years.

A search on Korean history, for example, returns an interesting article on Seoul’s ancient city walls, which provides a good starting point for researching the city’s history and geography. The article also includes color photographs, and is available for patrons to listen to using ReadSpeaker.

About the Wilson OmniFile

Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content (indexing, abstracts, and full text) from six of Wilson's full-text databases:

• Education Full Text
• General Science Full Text
• Humanities Full Text
• Readers' Guide Full Text
• Social Sciences Full Text
• Wilson Business Full Text
  

Full-text articles from five additional periodical databases are also included when available:

• Applied Science & Technology Full Text
• Art Full Text
• Biological & Agricultural Index
• Index to Legal Periodicals & Books
• Library Literature & Information Science Full Text.
  

Indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text coverage in 1994.

Wilson Omnifile is available online via GALILEO.

Online tutorials and more information about Wilson Omnifile is also available online on CSU Libraries' Electronic Resource Guides.

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Database of the Month: IngentaConnect

Have you ever found a citation to an article in a journal that is not owned by the library? What did you do? Did you give up the search and find something else to use that was may not be as "good?"

A great resource to use when you cannot find an article in any of the library’s print or online journals is IngentaConnect.

IngentaConnect’s database contains articles from more than 29,500 publications. More than 8,000 of these publications are available online. Through IngentaConnect, you have access to 4,547,834 journal articles, reports and book chapters. Many of the publications available contain up-to-date information about almost all fields of knowledge. It is especially strong in the physical sciences and business fields.

The IngentaConnect search functions are intuitive and easy-to-use. IngentaConnect also allows you to browse over 13,530 publications.

To download an article through IngentaConnect, simply click on its title link. You will first see an abstract of the article and then a link to the full-text.

If the CSU Libraries do not own the journal, you will see the following text:

The full text electronic article is available for purchase. You will be able to download the full text electronic article after payment.

Click on Buy Now and then sign into the database.

Please note that if you do not already have an account with IngentaConnect, you must register first. Although this step is required, you will not be charged for any articles that you download from IngentaConnect.

It is that easy! Through IngentaConnect, you will be able to get almost instant delivery of information that you could not have found elsewhere.

More information about IngentaConnect can be found at: http://library.colstate.edu/how_do_i/galileo/ingenta.asp.

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Database of the Month: Hoover's Company Capsules and Profiles

CSU Libraries has many useful business resources.

In GALIEO, there's ABI Inform, which has articles from numerous business publications, and Business Source Complete, which has many articles, as well as financial reports.

Hoovers Company Capsules & Profiles, however, is a database that specializes in companies--over 40,000 of them. Users can search for the company by name or stock ticker symbol or they can browse them in the A-Z list. With the advanced search, users can search for an executive by name or do a location search to find companies headquartered in a specific city.

Each company has a fact sheet listing especially important information, such as the address, CEO's, top competitors, and key financial data. There is also a side-menu allowing the user to look at more detailed information about the company including: a general overview, history, people, products and operations, competitors and financial information. If the user wants to do a comparison of different companies in an industry, they need only find one, and then click on the links to go to the fact sheets for competitors.

The people section gives not only top CEO's in the company, but also names of executives lower in the chain. In some cases, it also lists ages and salaries.

The financial section can be a one-stop-shop for financial information on a company. It contains detailed financial information regarding the balance sheet, income, liability and shareholder's equity, and cash flow that can be viewed annually or quarterly.

Hoovers can be found by going to GALILEO and clicking on the Databases A-Z tab. It's listed under H. It's also reachable by going to Company and Industry Information under the Browse by Subject tab.

Explore GALILEO today and see what it can offer you.

By LuMarie Guth, Government Documents Coordinator