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LIBRARY NEWS, February 1999

LIBRARY NEWS, number 4, February 1999. An electronic newsletter published by The University of Texas at Austin General Libraries to share news about library collections and services.

THIS ISSUE:

SCIENCE ONLINE
Access to the online version of Science Magazine, the world's preeminent scientific journal, has been added to the UT Library Online Electronic Journals page. It includes full-text from October 1995 and is updated daily. The online journal also includes special features like Science Now (covering recent and breaking science stories), Science Jobs, and links to other science-related web sites. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/ejour/

ETHNIC NEWSWATCH
Ethnic NewsWatch provides full text coverage of newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press in America. It has news, culture and history from a broad diversity of perspectives and viewpoints and includes more than 400,000 full text articles from 200 publications. Since it is a full text database, we expect that it will fill some gaps in our collection for ethnic and international studies. The database covers 1985 to the present and is updated monthly. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/indexes/Online.html

1998 LIBRARY STATISTICS

Use of the physical library is down slightly -- Reference decreased by 10%, Circulation by 13%, use of the digital library doubles each year.

SPARC - THE SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING & ACADEMIC RESOURCES COALITION
You may have read about the efforts of SPARC in the New York Times, Nature, Science, Chronicle of Higher Education, and other journals. SPARC is a group of research libraries and other educational and research organizations trying to counter the soaring prices of scientific journals by stimulating competition and serving as a catalyst for change. SPARC promotes academic values of access to information for research and teaching, and encourages innovative uses of technology to improve scholarly communication. The General Libraries participates in SPARC hoping to reduce the campus dependence on high-cost, high-inflation, commercial journals.

DIGITAL LIBRARY FEDERATION
The General Libraries has accepted an invitation to join the Digital Library Federation, a group of research libraries at the forefront of organizing, providing access to, and preserving knowledge in digital form. The DLF is a leadership organization composed of participants who manage and operate digital libraries. Charter members are: Yale, Harvard, Library of Congress, Michigan, Stanford, Tennessee, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, and the New York Public Library.

THE HANDBOOK OF TEXAS ONLINE
This web version of The Handbook of Texas is a joint project of The General Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas State Historical Association. A multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture, it comprises more than 23,000 articles on people, places, events, historical themes, and institutions, and may be found at: http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/

SELECTED NEW RESEARCH PURCHASES FROM THE ACADEMIC LIBRARY COLLECTION ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM

NEW SCHOLARLY DATABASES

SCIENCE ONLINE-
a web version of Science Magazine available from the UT Library Online Electronic Journals link.
GEOREF -
contains over 1.8 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses. It covers the geology of North America from 1785 to present, and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present. Access upgraded from local to web access.
LLBA -
LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE BEHAVIOR ABSTRACTS - contains more than 244,000 citations with abstracts, to the world's published literature on the nature, use and teaching of language, as well as to linguistics, speech, communication and related topics. Access upgraded from local to web access.
ETHNIC NEWSWATCH -
provides full-text coverage of newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press in America. It has news, culture and history from a broad diversity of perspectives and viewpoints and includes more than 400,000 full text articles. Covers 1985 - to present.
HISTORICAL ABSTRACTS -
contains citations and abstracts of worldwide literature (excluding the United States and Canada) from approximately 2,100 journals and since 1980, books and dissertations on political, diplomatic, economic, social, cultural and intellectual history. Indexes 1969 to present. Access upgraded from local to web access.
CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS -
a bio-bibliographical database covering more than 100,000 modern authors from a wide range of media whose works continue to influence contemporary literature. Access upgraded from local to web access.
AMERICA HISTORY AND LIFE -
contains citations with abstracts to social sciences and humanities literature on all aspects of U.S. and Canadian history, culture and current affairs from prehistoric times to the present. Indexes 1964 to present. Access upgraded from local to web access.
EARLY ENGLISH BOOKS ONLINE -
a project to provide web access to images and text of 96,000 English language titles published from 1475 - 1700 (all English language material published anywhere in the world during the early years after the invention of the printing press). This database is currently located on the library's test pages at: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/indexes/tests.html
HANDBOOK OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES -
scholarly evaluations of books and book chapters as well as conference papers and articles from more than 1,350 social science and 550 humanities journals published worldwide in the field of Latin American Studies.
HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY -
describes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science and technology and allied historical fields. Covers 1975 to the present.
ASSOCIATIONS UNLIMITED -
Information on 444,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local non-profit membership organizations.
INDEX TO 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN ART PERIODICALS -
indexes 42 art journals published in the U.S. during the 19th century.
INDEX TO FOREIGN LEGAL PERIODICALS -
indexes articles and book reviews from more than 450 legal periodicals, including journals, essay collections, festschrifts, and congress reports.
CONTEMPORARY LITERARY CRITICISM -
presents significant published criticism on the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, and other creative writers now living or who died after 1960. The focus is on criticism of established authors who appear on the syllabi of college literature courses.
RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE BIBLIOGRAPHIES -
describes material on the social sciences and humanities published in the Commonwealth of Independent States and Eastern Europe and other countries. It includes books, manuscripts, dissertations, and articles from more than 10,000 periodicals.
WORLD LAW INDEX -
describes the national laws, decrees and regulations of the Spanish-speaking nations of Latin America plus Haiti, Brazil, the Philippines, Portugal, Spain, and the Portuguese-African nations.
DICTIONARY OF LITERARY BIOGRAPHY -
outlines the lives and careers of authors from all eras and genres and summarizes the critical response to their work.
INSIDE INFORMATION PLUS -
indexes articles appearing in 21,000 of the most requested journals in the British Library. Includes 4 million records on all subjects. Updated weekly.
LITERARY RESOURCE CENTER -
provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors.

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