New E-Resources

January 2008—The Libraries have added the following new online subscriptions and digital texts since August 2007.  Most are new acquisitions, while several represent a change of format or significant enhancement to ongoing subscriptions. All are available to Marquette users from any campus network location, as well as from off-campus.  If you have questions, please drop by the Information Desk or use other AskUs! services.

New Databases

Chronicle of Higher Educationprovides full text of the weekly higher education newspaper, posted each Monday morning.  Has a searchable archive; commentary and essays in the weekly Chronicle Review, plus exclusive digital content, such as blogs and e-newsletters; data from special reports in database format; podcasts, slide shows, and video.

Oxford Islamic Studies Online covers global Islamic history, concepts, people, practices, politics, and culture.  Over 3,000 references, chapters from scholarly and introductory works, Qur'anic materials, primary sources, images, and timelines.

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online  contains four dictionaries, and translates terms to and from French, German, Italian, or Spanish.  Audio pronunciations will be added in 2008.

Tests in Print serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language.  TIP is produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska.

New Format (moved to web)

Global Insight provides economic, financial, and demographic time series data.  The data can be downloaded to and used most easily with a spreadsheet package, but can be used in several other formats as well.

Index Theologicus contains the monthly issues of the theological periodical index, ZeitschriftenInhaltsDienst.  Includes over 140,000 article records from more than 1,000 sources worldwide going back to 1990.  Subject headings and class titles are in German, while help screens are in English.

Notable Enhancements

Dissertations and Theses: Full Text a major upgrade to the resource formerly called “Dissertation Abstracts.”  Library users now have access to full text dissertations from other institutions, as well as those published by Marquette students.  The number of available full text (PDF) dissertations is expected to hit 1 million by mid-year 2008.

EBSCOhost (interface for Academic Search Elite, Alt-Health Watch, and others) has been upgraded to offer a different kind of searching: Visual Search. Visual Search includes two new search styles: navigate among articles in a block format, with compass zoom controls and a mini-map of the entire Result List. Or, navigate among articles using gliding columns and a clear breadcrumb trail.  Both styles allow users to stack by publication or subject, narrow results by subject, sort them by relevance or date, and dynamically filter results using a date range slider bar.  Also new is an Image Quick View enhancement to the EBSCOhost Result List.  This feature will include the appearance of thumbnail images on Result Lists which, when clicked, will instantly reveal full-sized images to users.

JSTOR has added 44 journal titles, consisting of 2.8 million journal pages.  Also, portions of 191 different titles, approximately 1.78 million pages, has reworked content.  The rework includes: capturing reference linking data, rescanning of illustration content to allow for image compositing, capturing Unicode characters and transliterations, indexing captions, and rescanning and/or clean-up of low quality bitmap images.

Ovid Databases (e.g.,CINAHL, Medline, PsycINFO) have a new Basic Search feature that performs a natural language search.  To use it, enter the search term(s) in plain English and click the Search button.  Other new features include: the “Find Citation” option that can be used to retrieve a complete article citation when you have incomplete bibliographic information, and a “Similar Article” box in the left side bar that lists related articles when viewing a single record.  Also, users may receive database search updates and electronic tables of contents via RSS feeds.

Periodical Archives Online contains the full text content of 350 periodicals journals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues (some dating back 200 years) to 1995.  Twenty-three new journals have been added to Periodicals Archive Online in December 2007, including, Discourse, Irish Economic and Social History, Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, Journal of Transport History, and Women's Studies Quarterly.

To review all library-licensed electronic databases, see the complete lists, both alphabetical and by 78 academic and general subjects.

For questions about these new additions to the collection, consult the librarian specialist for the discipline, or Jay Kirk (288-5213), Head of Collection Development.