Extension Update: UNH Library Archives
The UNH Library went “live” with a Virtual Catalog this week. The Catalog provides a single, searchable catalog of books owned by participating libraries of the Boston Library Consortium. Current students/faculty/staff may directly request material for delivery to their library.
Students, faculty and staff can access the catalogs of Boston University, Brown University, Northeastern University, Marine Bio Lab-Woods Hole Ocean Institute, Tufts University, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, University of Massachusetts-Boston, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, University of Massachusetts-Worcester, Wellesley and Williams Colleges.
Patrons may borrow circulating items from these institutions for up to 28 days. It takes four to five days for delivery to the Dimond Library’s Loan Desk. For more information, see http://www.library.unh.edu/virtualcat/
Cooperative Extension educators and specialists have full access to online journals and other resources as well as interlibrary loans at UNH’s Dimond Library. If journal articles aren’t available online, library staff will copy journal articles and send them to staff. Books need to be picked up on campus or acquired through interlibrary loan at your local library. The library staff will help you out through Debbie Watson, one of the reference librarians at 862-1544.
This Biweekly Update feature describes resources available through the UNH Library including a wide variety of databases and electronic journals directly related to our programs. You can access the online resources featured below:
http://www.library.unh.edu/tools/ (master list of all databases)
http://www.library.unh.edu/onlinejournals/ (master list of online journals)
http://grinnell.unh.edu/digibio.html (list of COLSA oriented resources)
http://library.unh.edu/ (online catalog for UNH Dimond Library and branches)
This final installment focuses, by request, on steps to take in finding full text articles in electronic journals. First, search for the journal title in the online library catalog (address above) by title. Look for a listing that has "online" after the title: Nature online, for example. In the record for that entry, click on the underlined blue link to the publisher's or vendor's website. Follow the directions from there.
Each journal publisher seems to be at a different stage in the evolution of electronic journals. Many require the Library sign a site license setting the price of online access to full text and stating the arrangements made by the Library to limit access to authorized users. The availability of electronic journals changes every day.
Since the library only subscribes to a limited number of electronic journals and, sometimes, has access as part of a large database, or collection, of full text from a vendor, you can also check the journal title in the "master list" given above. A third option includes searching for the title using Google to find the publisher's or learned society's website. In some cases, full text is available free, or as part of the open source movement. Please send questions, comments and suggestions to David Lane, Biological Sciences Librarian, Biological Sciences Library, Kendall Hall, UNH or send email to david.lane@unh.edu.
This Biweekly Update feature describes resources available through the UNH Library including a wide variety of databases and electronic journals directly related to our programs. You can access the on-line resources featured below:
http://www.library.unh.edu/tools/ (master list of all databases)
http://www.library.unh.edu/onlinejournals/ (master list of online journals)
http://grinnell.unh.edu/digibio.html (list of COLSA oriented resources)
http://library.unh.edu/ (online catalog for UNH Dimond Library and branches)
This installment focuses on other databases you might be interested in that don't cover the specific subjects of agriculture and the sciences. Examples are ERIC, which covers the educational literature at all grade levels, PsycINFO (formerly PsycLit,) which covers the literature of psychology, CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature,) which covers management of health services organizations and nursing, Clinical Pharmacology, which covers prescription drugs and various supplements, and Sociological Abstracts (formerly Sociofile,) which covers sociology. All these databases and several others are in a collection with some full text articles provided by EBSCO, a vendor of online services, and called collectively EBSCOHost. You'll find them listed individually and collectively. In the next and final installment, by request I will list the steps to take in finding full text articles in electronic journals.
Please send questions, comments and suggestions to David Lane, Biological Sciences Librarian, Biological Sciences Library, Kendall Hall, UNH or send email to david.lane@unh.edu .
This Biweekly Update feature describes resources available through the UNH Library including a wide variety of databases and electronic journals directly related to our programs. You can access the on-line resources featured below at:
http://www.library.unh.edu/tools/ (master list of all databases)
http://www.library.unh.edu/onlinejournals/ (master list of online journals)
http://grinnell.unh.edu/digibio.html (list of COLSA oriented resources)
http://library.unh.edu/ (online catalog for UNH Dimond Library and branches)
This installment focuses on a library 'database' that provides online access to 29 different Annual Reviews titles. The titles aren't listed in the master list of databases, but individually in the master list of online journals and in the online catalog.
Annual Reviews are collections of review articles in one of 29 fields in the social science, biomedical, and physical science subject areas. Collections are published once a year. Most titles, like Annual Review of Nutrition for example, are among the most cited titles in their fields. Online access starts, for most titles, in the mid to late nineties and extends beyond the current year's articles to include future or forthcoming articles. All review articles back to 1984 or so are searchable.
Please send questions, comments and suggestions to David Lane, Biological Sciences Librarian, Biological Sciences Library, Kendall Hall, UNH or send email to david.lane@unh.edu.
This Biweekly Update feature describes resources available through the UNH Library including a wide variety of databases and electronic journals directly related to our programs. You can access the on-line resources featured below at:
http://www.library.unh.edu/tools/ (master list of all databases)
http://www.library.unh.edu/onlinejournals/ (master list of online journals)
http://grinnell.unh.edu/digibio.html (list of COLSA oriented resources)
http://library.unh.edu/ (online catalog for UNH Dimond Library and branches)
This installment focuses on a library database providing online access to digitized versions of older volumes of journals. JSTOR is an archival collection of full-image, full-run academic journals divided into six categories: Arts and Sciences I + II, General Science Collection, Ecology and Botany Collection, Business Collection, and Language & Literature Collection. The coverage of each journal begins with the first issue and continues to JSTOR's "Moving Wall," which is a fixed period of time ranging, in most cases, from two to five years prior to the current year.
For example, every issue of Science is available from 1880 on. Many other well known titles, such as Ecology, are also available. It is important to note every word in these titles is searchable, which allows for historical searches that cover many more years than subject-oriented index databases usually cover. The longest run digitized so far is Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, where every issue from 1665 is available online.
Please send questions, comments and suggestions to David Lane, Biological Sciences Librarian, Biological Sciences Library, Kendall Hall, UNH or send email to david.lane@unh.edu
This Biweekly Update feature describes resources available through the UNH Library including a wide variety of databases and electronic journals directly related to our programs. You can access the on-line resources featured below at:
http://www.library.unh.edu/tools/ (master list of all databases)
http://www.library.unh.edu/onlinejournals/ (master list of online journals)
http://grinnell.unh.edu/digibio.html (list of COLSA oriented resources)
http://library.unh.edu/ (online catalog for UNH Dimond Library and branches)
This installment focuses on a couple of library databases with cryptic names used to find more information about journals.
Ulrichsweb is a comprehensive worldwide bibliographic database including information on over 250,000 periodicals. ("Periodicals" is the collective word librarians use for magazines, journals, etc.) Users can pinpoint specific journals or conduct broad-based subject or publisher surveys. Ulrichs, by the way, was named after Carolyn Ulrich, chief of the Periodicals Division of the New York Public Library from 1922 to 1946. She edited the first five editions of the printed directory.
Journal Citation Reports (JCR) provides easy access to data that helps you evaluate and compare scholarly journals using citation data drawn from over 8,400 journals from over 3,000 publishers worldwide. JCR includes virtually all specialties in the areas of science, technology, and social sciences. The JCR can show you the highest impact journals and the most frequently cited journals. It has been used with some controversy to evaluate the journals an author has published in when the author is considered for promotion and tenure.
Please send questions, comments, and suggestions to David Lane, Biological Sciences Librarian, Biological Sciences Library, Kendall Hall, UNH or send email to david.lane@unh.edu.
This Biweekly Update feature describes resources available through the UNH Library including a wide variety of databases and electronic journals directly related to our programs. You can access the on-line resources featured below at:
http://www.library.unh.edu/tools/ (master list of all databases)
http://www.library.unh.edu/onlinejournals/ (master list of online journals)
http://grinnell.unh.edu/digibio.html (list of COLSA oriented resources)
http://library.unh.edu/ (online catalog for UNH Dimond Library and branches)
This installment focuses on a couple of library databases that are used to find more information about books, primarily. Of course, you can use commercial web sites such as Amazon or Barnes & Noble to find out about current books that are available for purchase, and BookFinder to search for books that are out-of-print but still available from rare and out of print book dealers.
WorldCat searches the OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide. It contains all the records cataloged by OCLC member libraries (generally academic, special, large public libraries, and library consortia) for a total of over 48 million records covering the last 4000 years. It can be searched by subject, title, author, keyword, or a variety of other access points. Materials found via WorldCat (and not in the UNH Library collection) can be ordered through Interlibrary Loan through the WorldCat interface.
Books in Print includes citations for over 3.5 million books currently in print with more than 600,000 full-text reviews from 11 leading sources. It also includes video and audio listings, as well as out of print titles, titles by award, best-sellers, biographies, and publisher directory information.
Please send questions, comments, and suggestions to David Lane, Biological Sciences Librarian, Biological Sciences Library, Kendall Hall, UNH or send email to david.lane@unh.edu.
The following resources are available through the UNH Library including a wide variety of databases and electronic journals directly related to our programs. You can access the on-line resources featured below at:
* http://www.library.unh.edu/tools/ (master list of all databases)
* http://www.library.unh.edu/onlinejournals/ (master list of online journals)
* http://grinnell.unh.edu/digibio.html (list of COLSA oriented resources)
* http://library.unh.edu/ (online catalog for UNH Dimond Library and branches)
This Update issue focuses on a couple of medical databases listed on the UNH Library's web pages above, but are also freely available to the general public.
PubMed is produced by the National Library of Medicine and indexes articles in medical research journals from 1966 on. Updated daily, PubMed (a version of MEDLINE) covers about 4,000 sources of biomedical literature in the broadest sense. The indexing, which uses standardized medical subject headings (MeSH), and searchable lists of journal titles as well as links to full text, if available, are important features. The public address is: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/
TOXLINE is also produced by the National Library of Medicine and indexes articles in medical research journals from 1966 on. Updated quarterly, TOXLINE indexes about 4,000 sources of biomedical literature that cover toxic effects of drugs and other chemicals. The Library uses a CSA version of the database. It is also available to the public as part of TOXNET web site which includes other searchable databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas. The address is: http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/
Please send questions, comments, and suggestions to David Lane, Biological Sciences Librarian, Biological Sciences Library, Kendall Hall, UNH or send email to david.lane@unh.edu.
This feature describes resources available through the UNH Library, including a wide variety of databases and electronic journals directly related to our programs. You can access the on-line resources featured below at:
http://www.library.unh.edu/tools/ (master list of all databases)
http://www.library.unh.edu/onlinejournals/ (master list of online journals)
http://grinnell.unh.edu/digibio.html (list of COLSA oriented resources)
http://library.unh.edu/ (online catalog for UNH Dimond Library and branches)
This installment focuses on a set of databases that have a somewhat misleading name, which the database producers admit may be their biggest marketing mistake. The Web of Science accesses ISI citation databases, multi-disciplinary databases covering thousands of scholarly journals from the Sciences, Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities from 1977 to the present. After you perform a search, a list of the titles of the articles are returned. Click an article title to view the full record, which includes the title, author, bibliographic information, abstract and more.
From a full record, you can view lists of the article's references, articles that cite the article, or articles that are related. The three databases allow you to search forward in time to find articles that cite an article long after the article was published. Authors can use this unique searching capability to find out who is reading and citing the papers they have published. These databases are part of a larger suite of online services provided by ISI called the Web of Knowledge.
Please send questions, comments, and suggestions to David Lane, Biological Sciences Librarian, Biological Sciences Library, Kendall Hall, UNH or send email to david.lane@unh.edu.
Resources available through the UNH Library include a wide variety of databases and electronic journals directly related to our programs. You can access the on-line resources featured below at:
http://www.library.unh.edu/tools/ (master list of all databases)
http://www.library.unh.edu/onlinejournals/ (master list of online journals)
http://grinnell.unh.edu/digibio.html (list of COLSA oriented resources)
http://library.unh.edu/ (online catalog for UNH Dimond Library and branches)
Today we feature two databases particularly useful for finding information about organisms by their scientific names.
Biological Abstracts
This Silver Platter database is produced by Biological Abstracts (BIOSIS) Inc. and indexes articles in research journals from 1985 on. Updated quarterly, Biological Abstracts covers about 5,200 sources of biological and biomedical literature in the broadest sense. The long abstracts and indexing of scientific names and systematic categories are important features. This database is also a good source for biochemistry articles. UNH's license limits searching to a maximum of five concurrent users.
Wildlife Worldwide (Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide)
This database is produced by NISC and indexes articles from six international databases from 1935 on that cover wildlife and wildlife management. Updated monthly, Wildlife Worldwide indexing uses scientific names of reptiles, amphibians, birds and mammals. The database is the best source for governmental publications, especially state publications, concerning wildlife issue.
Please send questions, comments, and suggestions to David Lane, Biological Sciences Librarian, Biological Sciences Library, Kendall Hall, UNH or send email to david.lane@unh.edu.
This new Biweekly Update feature describes resources available through the UNH Library, including a wide variety of databases and electronic journals directly related to our programs. You can access the on-line resources featured below at:
* http//www.library.unh.edu/tools/ (master list of all databases)
* http//www.library.unh.edu/onlinejournals/(master list of online journals)
* http//grinnell.unh.edu/digibio.html (list of COLSA oriented resources)
* http//library.unh.edu/ (online catalog for UNH Dimond Library and branches)
This installment focuses on three interdisciplinary databases that cover the subject areas of a number of the current research projects at UNH. All three have links to the online catalog at UNH.
Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA)
This database is produced by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA), NOAA, several UN agencies, and a number of regional centers. The database indexes freshwater, estuarine and marine publications of all kinds from 1978 on. Updated monthly, ASFA is the best source for literature on the aquatic environment and related biological, oceanographic, policy, pollution and aquaculture issues. Indexing includes scientific names of organisms and geographic names.
Biotechnology and Bioengineering Abstracts (BBA)
Another CSA index with abstracts for over 600 journals. Covers research, applications, regulatory developments and new patents for all areas of biotechnology and bioengineering, including medical, pharmaceutical, agricultural, environmental fields and marine biology from 1982 to the present. Corresponds to the printed indexes: Agricultural & Environmental Biotechnology Abstracts, ASFA Marine Biotechnology Abstracts, Bioengineering Abstracts, Biotechnology Research Abstracts (archive), Genetics Abstracts, Medical & Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Abstracts, Microbiology Abstracts Section A: Industrial & Applied Microbiology.
Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management (ESPM)
This multidisciplinary CSA database offers abstracts of articles spanning the environmental sciences. From 1981 and updated monthly, it covers over 4,000 scientific journals and thousands of other sources including conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications. Individual subfiles (indexes) can be selected for more precise results. Subjects covered include agricultural and environmental biotechnology, ecology, energy and water resources, environmental engineering, environmental impact statements, pollution (air, land, water, noise), related microbiology, risk and safety, toxicology, hazardous waste, and waste management. Please send questions, comments, and suggestions to David Lane, Biological Sciences Librarian, Biological Sciences Library, Kendall Hall, UNH or send email to david.lane@unh.edu.
This new Biweekly Update feature will describe resources available through the UNH Library including a wide variety of databases and electronic journals directly related to our programs. You can access the on-line resources featured below at:
http://www.library.unh.edu/tools/ (master list of all databases)
http://www.library.unh.edu/onlinejournals/ (master list of online journals) http://grinnell.unh.edu/digibio.html (list of COLSA oriented resources)
http://library.unh.edu/(online catalog for UNH Dimond Library and branches)
The online catalog covers electronic resources, printed materials such as books and periodicals, government documents, and other resources. This installment focuses on three agriculture related databases:
AGRICOLA - This database is produced by the National Agricultural Library and indexes agricultural publications of all kinds from 1970 on. Updated monthly, AGRICOLA is the best source for U.S. government and state government publications as well as state agricultural experiment station publications. Early records may not have abstracts. It was preceded by the Bibliography of Agriculture.
CABDirect - This Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau International (CABI) database indexes agricultural and applied science publications of all kinds from many countries from 1973 on. Updated weekly, CABDirect, also available as CAB Abstracts and CAB Health, combines over 40 printed indexes, and covers agricultural subjects more broadly than AGRICOLA. Subjects covered include environmental degradation and bioremediation (E-CD), nutrition, tourism, and rural sociology.
AGRIS – This United Nations database is produced by the Food and Agriculture Organization and indexes international agricultural publications from 1975 on in two files. AGRIS complements AGRICOLA, but is more narrowly focused to food and nutrition. The multilingual database is free to all. Please send questions, comments, and suggestions to David Lane, Biological Sciences Librarian, Biological Sciences Library, Kendall Hall, UNH or send email to david.lane@unh.edu.