GHOULISH GROUNDS
Did you know that Alderman Library has not one, but two ghosts? To get you in the Halloween spirit and to learn more about paranormal activities around Grounds, including Alderman’s ghosts, take a look at the “Ghoulish Grounds” article from the University of Virginia Magazine.
AND THE ANSWER IS…
Ever wonder what questions the CLIC librarians are asked to field? Here is a one from this week.
Question: I’m trying to access the Chronicle of Higher Education full text, but when I go to the site, it asks me to pay for the article that I want. Don’t U.Va. affiliates have free access to the Chronicle?
ANSWER: The Library subscribes to the Chronicle of Higher Education along with many other journals and magazines. However, if you are trying to access the full text from off Grounds, you must authenticate through NetBadge in order read the articles. Not all ways of accessing the Chronicle of Higher Education or other journals will trigger a NetBadge request. What can you do to make sure you are using the correct access point? There are several ways to find specific journal titles that will automatically initialize the NetBadge login.
1. Use the Journal Finder to search for a journal title.
2. Conduct a journal title search in VIRGO.
3. Conduct a journal title search in a database.
With the Journal Finder and VIRGO, you can conduct your search without logging into NetBadge, but once you try to link to the journal, you will be asked to authenticate yourself via NetBadge. In the case of a database search, you will be asked to authenticate with NetBadge when you first try to access the database.
Once NetBadge authenticates your session, you will have one hour if you are off Ground before your NetBadge session will expire. If your time expires, you will need to authenticate yourself again. Should you close out your computer session before your time expires, your NetBadge authentication will end and you will again need to login to NetBadge when you start new session.
ONLINE EXHIBIT AND APP
Social studies teachers and history buffs will be interested in a new exhibit at the National Archives that looks back at the Cuban Missile Crisis. “To the Brink: JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis” shows President Kennedy and his advisers in the throes of deliberation during 13 agonizing days in October 1962, as the United States and the then-Soviet Union stood on the brink of nuclear war.
AT&T, in collaboration with others, created an app and a website of the exhibit, bringing it to online audiences around the world. The app for iPad is available for free download in the App Store. Android, smartphone, other tablet and laptop users can experience the exhibit at the website.
ORPHAN WORKS COMMENTS SOLICITED
“An ‘orphan work’ is an original work of authorship for which a good faith, prospective user cannot readily identify and/or locate the copyright owner(s) in a situation where permission from the copyright owner(s) is necessary as a matter of law.” (http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/orphan-report.pdf) By not having appropriate permission, “orphan works” may not be made available digitally, which is problematic for researchers wanting to access and use such materials in a digital environment.
“The Copyright Office seeks comments regarding the current state of play for orphan works. It is interested in what has changed in the legal and business environments during the past few years that might be relevant to a resolution of the problem and what additional legislative, regulatory, or voluntary solutions deserve deliberation.” The request, where to send your comments, and plenty of background on this issue (including sections about ongoing litigation the recent HathiTrust decision, and mass digitization) can be found in the PDF, Orphan Works and Mass Digitization (Notice of Inquiry). The comment period ends January 4, 2013.
FREE IBOOKS FROM THE NYPL
“Part magazine, part digital exhibition, Point gives readers a taste of New York Public Library’s unparalleled collections by showcasing photos, prints, maps, multimedia and more within a gorgeously designed iBook. Each free edition also contains a guide that invites you to learn more using related Library resources. Point is currently available as an iBook, viewable in iBooks 2 on an iPad running iOS5. It will soon be released in PDF and ePub formats.” (text from NYPL website)
Hoos take note. The September edition of Point recreates an exhibit of the astronomical drawings of French artist, E. L Trouvelot (1827-1895). One of the telescopes Trouvelot used to create his drawings was located at the University of Virginia!
FREE SEARCH AND ALERT SERVICE
“JournalTOCs is a freely available collection of scholarly journal Tables of Contents (TOCs), and is for anyone looking for the latest and most current papers published in the scholarly literature. Its coverage is international, and includes journals from over 1,200 different publishers. Of the over 20,394 journals, more than 4,400 are Open Access. JournalTOCs has been online since 2009.”
“You can search for journals by title or ISSN, or for articles by keyword, and you can browse for journals by subject or publisher. Free registration enables you to create a personalised collection of journal titles. You can elect to receive email alerts when new journal issues are published. You can also save and export the content of TOCs. Developers can use the free API to directly access the database of articles, journals and publishers to embed TOCs in library catalogues, portals, widgets and web pages.” (Text retrieved from Roddy McLeod's Blog)
NEW SEARCH FEATURE
PubMed has a search feature that allows you to a search for articles with structured abstracts. “A structured abstract is an abstract with distinct, labeled sections (e.g., Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion) that allow for rapid comprehension” of the contents of an article by the searcher.
If you only want to view search results that have structured abstracts, you would type your topic search terms in the appropriate PubMed search boxes. In another PubMed search box, type: hasstructuredabstract. The results you obtain should all include structured abstracts.
For more information and training on using the PubMed database, you can use the PubMed Online Training resources or the PubMed Tutorials.
HOOS YOUR
Throughout the semester, we will be highlighting information about finding, organizing, analyzing, managing, displaying, and preserving your research data. See this week’s featured data information below.
GIS WORKSHOP
TOPIC: Online GIS (same workshop as below)
TIME: 1:00pm – 2:00pm
DATE: Wednesday, October 31
LOCATION: Campbell Hall, Room 105
DESCRIPTION: There are many great online resources for accessing and analyzing spatial data and making maps. This session will discuss the use and pros and cons of several leading online map making tools including GeoCommons, Social Explorer and ArcGIS Online.
GIS WORKSHOP
TOPIC: Online GIS (same workshop as above)
TIME: 3:00pm – 4:00pm
DATE: Thursday, November 1
LOCATION: Alderman Library, Room 421
DESCRIPTION: There are many great online resources for accessing and analyzing spatial data and making maps. This session will discuss the use and pros and cons of several leading online map making tools including GeoCommons, Social Explorer and ArcGIS Online.
NEW DATABASE LAUNCHED
The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA), a non-profit membership association representing U.S. state and territorial educational technology leaders, recently launched the database, the State Education Policy Center (SEPC). SEPC is intended to provide up-to-date information regarding select technology-related education policies and practices to inform school reform and improvement efforts. The database provides background information for each state and focuses on three topics:
- K-12 broadband policy and practice
- Online student assessment (formative and summative) policy and practice
- Instructional materials policy and practice (with an emphasis on digital and open content).
STATS AVAILABLE THROUGH GOOGLE PUBLIC DATA EXPLORER
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies – ICTs.
ITU’s telecommunication and information and communication technology statistics are now available through the Google Public Data Explorer (PDE) at http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/statistics/explorer/index.html. Additional statistical information is available via ITUEye.
