Recent Significant Acquisitions
E-books
Library Questions
Laptop Check-outs
Recent Digitization Project
Serials Cancellations
Top Campus E-Journals
MICROFILM:
Sir Winston Churchill papers (in process)
Testaments to the Holocaust
NAACP Papers (new releases)
ELECTRONIC (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/indexes/):
Alt_Press Watch (Web, full-text independent press coverage)
BioOne (Web, biology e-journals)
ComAbstracts (Web, communication)
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (Web)
DYABOLA (CD-ROM, antiquity)
ebrary (Web, general e-books)
Engineering Sciences Data Unit Service (Web)
International Index to Black Periodicals (Web, includes some full-text)
ISI Emerging Markets for Central and Eastern Europe (Web, finance)
Kirk-Othmer encyclopedia of Chemical Technology (Web, coming in May)
Palmer's Index to the Times (Web, London Times full-text to 1870)
Reuter's Business Insight (Web, industry reports)
Safari Tech Books Online (Web)
SourceOECD (Web, statistics, journals, books)
Stat!Ref (Web, online drug info)
Statistical Universe (Web, statistics of all kinds, coming in May)
World Shakespeare Bibliography (Web)
GIFTS (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/about/news/):
Zaptista march materials
O'Neil Ford Architectural Drawings
George Jackson "Essence of Mexico" Photographs
Appleby Brazilian Music Collection
The library currently has over 47,000 web accessible e-books. These
books may
be found through UTNetCAT or via the netlibrary site at (http://www.netlibrary.com/).
Through consortial efforts the library purchased these titles for less than
the cost of their print equivalents. Use of these e-books is several times
greater
than that of the library's printed books.
THE MOST USED UT-AUSTIN E-BOOKS OVER
THE LAST TWO WEEKS WERE:
Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Access - 18 circulations
The Mind's Past - 14 circulations
Techniques for Pollination Biologists -13 circulations
The Roots of Dependency - 13 circulations
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics - 12 circulations
The library is planning a ten question faculty survey in the Fall that will focus on library collections. If you have any comments about what you would like to see on this survey, e-mail them to (collections@lib.utexas.edu).
Laptops are now available for checkout in the Undergraduate Library. These computers are for use within the building. Laptops are also available for check-out in PCL.
The "Dumble Survey" is now on the World Wide Wide and accessible to the general public. "It paints a picture," said Dennis Trombatore, Head of the Walter Geology Library at UT Austin, "of Texas a century ago, facing many of the same challenges we do today, and before half of the state was even fully explored." Mandated in 1888 by an act of the Texas Legislature and conducted by E. T. Dumble, the State Geologist, the most complete printed copies of the Dumble Survey publications are located in the Walter Geology Library at UT Austin. The original documents, totaling some 2,700 pages and 35 fold-out plates, were printed on minimal quality paper and were in danger of crumbling away before this TexShare-funded digitization project saved the survey for future generations.
For the third year in a row, the library will conduct a minor serials cancellation project. These reductions will affect approximately $100,000 of the General Libraries $6 million worth of serials subscriptions, and will take effect beginning in January 2003. In addition to allowing the library to stay within its budget, the focus of this project is to reduce unnecessary overlap and duplication. As a result of this reduction you may notice less duplication of print subscriptions, fewer microfilm back-ups of print subscriptions, the dropping of a few print journals in favor of their more inexpensive e-journal clones, and the loss of a handful of low-use databases whose coverage is duplicated elsewhere. Library bibliographers will be reviewing all subscriptions between now and July 1st. If you have any questions please contact your library bibliographer.
UT-AUSTIN E-JOURNAL USAGE OVER THE LAST 12 MONTHS.
Nature 31,809
Science 12,026
Journal of Democracy 7,184
Cell 5,760
Tetrahedron Letters 3,057
World Politics 2,960
Theatre Journal 2,880
Technology and Culture 1,944
Wide Angle 1,676
Molecular Cell 1,656
Human Rights Quarterly 1,612
Tetrahedron 1,604
American Economic Review 1,512
Social Science and Medicine 1,236
Journal of Political Economy 1,269
Diacritics 1,208
American Political Science Review 1,182
American Quarterly 1,124
UT-AUSTIN TOP TEN PERIODICALS USED ANNUALLY IN THE
ACADEMIC
SEARCH PREMIER DATABASE.
Harvard Business Review 17,448
Folio 5,696
Advertising Age 5,268
Economist 4,780
Journal of Marketing Research 4,604
Christian Science Monitor 4504
Newsweek 3,960
Library Journal 3,792
Direct Marketing 3,548
Business Week 3,180
UT-AUSTIN TOP TEN PERIODICALS USED ANNUALLY IN THE EXPANDED
ACADEMIC ASAP DATABASE.
Economist 4,614
Time 4,446
Journal of the AMA 2,790
U.S. News & World Report 2,724
New York Times 2,424
Business Week 2,004
Newsweek 1,693
New Republic 1,548
Forbes 1,524
Advertising Age 1,500
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