Tuesday, January 13, 2009

More new electronic resources!

The electronic resource activation faeries have been a-busy, and we have much new exciting additions to the UHM Library Electronic Resources Gateway to announce! Let's start with the biggie.

ARTstor
ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. Become a free registered user of ARTstor and enjoy additional privileges, such as creating image groups, adding personal notes, and downloading the image presentation software.

Ed/ITLib Digital Library
The Ed/IT Lib Education & Information Technology Library provides electronic access to journals published by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). The digital library includes international journal articles and conference papers on the latest research, developments, and applications related to all aspects of Educational Technology and E-Learning.

International Medieval Bibliography (IMB)
The International Medieval Bibliography was founded in 1967 with the aim of providing a comprehensive, current bibliography of articles. This multidisciplinary bibliography of Europe, North Africa and the Near East (300 - 1500) contains more than 350,000 records and offers a wide range of search possibilities.

World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
The World Shakespeare Bibliography Online is a searchable electronic database consisting of the most comprehensive record of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide between 1961 and 2009. Containing over 119,044 annotated entries, this collected information is an essential tool for anyone engaged in research on Shakespeare or early modern England.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

ScienceDirect outage this weekend

ScienceDirect, the online platform for Elsevier journals, will be down for scheduled maintenance this Saturday, Jan. 10, starting at 9:30 a.m. Hawaii time. The outage is scheduled to last until 5:30 p.m. of the same day.

The University of Hawaii at Manoa currently has access to approximately 2,000 journals via ScienceDirect.

Friday, January 2, 2009

New electronic resources!

Happy 2009! With the turning of the year comes electronic resource activations! We have a bunch of new items in the Electronic Resources Gateway, with more to come soon.

New databases

The Library had been trialing these three databases in late 2008, but we now officially have subscriptions to them.

University of Chicago Press Journals

We have gone Internet-only with our subscriptions to journals from the University of Chicago Press. Please note that our subscription type for these journals only allows one person to access the title at a time.

Karger Journals

We have also gone Internet-only with our Karger subscriptions, most of them beginning with 2009. Note: Karger only allows electronic access to full-text articles for years that you pay for an electronic subscription.