October 2009 Archives

Librarians across the country have expressed concern and even outrage at the impending increase in subscription price of the popular journal Scientific American. While a personal subscription will remain $39 per year, the cost for just one print subscription for college and university libraries will rise from $39 to $300 on January 1. The increase was announced shortly after Scientific American was bought by the Nature Publishing Group.

Many librarians and faculty see this as an egregious example of predatory pricing strategies adopted by for-profit publishers who re-sell research results generated by colleges and universities. In this case, NPG is attempting to raise the price of a rather slim general interest magazine to the level of more scholarly journals publishing original research. Libraries from Penn State to Oberlin College to the University of Maryland Baltimore County are canceling their print subscriptions in protest of NPG’s effort and to save precious subscription dollars.

Across all Temple University Libraries we have had five (5) print subscriptions to Scientific American as well as a university wide electronic subscription, but like other institutions we plan now to drop most existing print subscriptions in protest and to spare our subscription budget the impact of such an increase. We will retain -– at least for a year -- the print subscription in Paley Library although it appears to have been read less than a dozen times last year according to our reshelving data.

Those concerned at such predatory pricing might consider emailing the editors of Scientific American.

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ARTstor has announced the following:

Now available: Medieval stained glass images from Madeline Caviness
ARTstor has collaborated with Madeline Caviness to digitize approximately 1,400 images of medieval stained glass windows from the 12th through 16th centuries, now available in the Digital Library.

Now available: South Asian and Cuban art and architecture from Alka Patel
Approximately 7,200 images of works of South Asian and Cuban art and architecture from Alka Patel are now available in the Digital Library.

Now available: Additional images from Magnum Photos
The final images of the Magnum Photos collection are now available in ARTstor. This second release brings the collection total to approximately 80,000 high-quality photographs of major world events and personalities by this world-renowned group of documentary photographers.

Paley Library has 125 computers on its three floors, but up to now has had only two black & white printers on the first floor to receive all the printing requests. As a result, lines often form as students wait to print their materials. And for those on the upper levels, printing was an inconvenience. To help improve the quality of printing services in Paley Library an additional printer was added on the east side of the second floor. The printer is located near the existing photocopier and stand-up computers.

Although the printer is on the second floor, any computer in Paley Library can print to any printer. So if a student finds a line for the printer on the first floor, he or she can go to the second floor to print their job. Every card swipe can release any job to a printer no matter what computer it originates from. The only exceptions are for the color printer and for those who need to pay for their printing. Color printing and paid printing may only be done on the first floor.

We hope the addition of this printer will help to improve the ease of using Paley Library. If you have any concerns, complaints or suggestions about the printers please contact Steven Bell, Associate University Library for Research and Instructional Services.

Credo Reference recently added the following new titles:

• Encyclopedia of Emapcipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World, from M.E. Sharpe
• Encyclopedia of World Trade from Ancient Times to the Present, from M.E. Sharpe
• First Ladies of the United States, from Lynne Rienner Publishers
• Great Irish Lives: An Era in Obituaries, from Collins
• Great Lives: A Century in Obituaries, from Collins
• Great Military Lives: Leadership and Courage - from Waterloo to the Falklands in Obituaries, from Collins
• Great Thinkers A-Z, from Continuum
• Great Victorian Lives: An Era in Obituaries, from Collins
• Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language, from Edinburgh University Press
• Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language, from Edinburgh University Press
• Philosophy of Science A-Z, from Edinburgh University Press
• The Underground Railroad: An Encyclopedia of People, Places and Operations, from M.E. Sharpe

Temple University Libraries offer thousands of online resources, plus personalized services. From using eBooks, streaming videos, and databases to requesting, receiving, and sharing online resources, learn how to make the library come to you!

Location: TECH Center 205-A

Time: 1-2 PM

Dates: 10/22, 10/28

For more information and to register...

The following journals have been added to JSTOR.

Asian Affairs [1973- ]
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=asianaffairs
Previous Title: Southeast Asian Perspectives [1971-1973] (0042-577X)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=soutasiapers
Previous Title: Vietnam Perspectives [1965-1967] (0506-9823)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=vietpers
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (August, 1965) – Vol. 3, No. 2 (November, 1967);
Nos. 2-9 (1971-1973);
Vol. 1, No. 1 (September/October, 1973) – Vol. 30, No. 3 (Fall, 2003)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Heldref Publications
ISSN: 0092-7678
Note: The content for No. 1 (1971) and No. 10 (1973) will be released as soon as the issues become available to JSTOR.

Russian Linguistics
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=russling
Release Content: Vol. 1, No. 1 (July, 1974) – Vol. 29, No. 3 (2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Springer
ISSN: 0304-3487

The University of Miami Inter-American Law Review [1984- ]
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=umiaintlawrev
Previous Title: Lawyer of the Americas [1969-1984] (0023-9445)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=lawyeramericas
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (February, 1969) – Vol. 15, No. 3 (Winter, 1984);
Vol. 16, No. 1 (Spring, 1984) – Vol. 38, No. 2 (Winter, 2006/2007)
Moving Wall: 2 years
Publisher: Joe Christensen, Inc.
ISSN: 0884-1756

The following content was recently added to:

America's Historical Newspapers

Latin American Newspapers

Media Services has launched a blog and a Twitter feed to highlight new video acquisitions and arrivals in the department.

If you want to know "What new DVDs do you have?" then check these out:

Find the blog at http://blog.library.temple.edu/media_services/.

Find the Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/tulmedia.

For both of these you can either bookmark the page, or, subscribe to the page's RSS feed.

Media Services is located on the Ground Floor of Paley Library. Send your questions and comments to tulmedia@temple.edu.

Happy viewing!

ARTstor has announced the following:

Now available: Photographs of American Architecture by Dov Friedman
Approximately 560 new photographs depicting historic and contemporary architecture in the United States are now available in the ARTstor Digital Library.

Additional art and architecture images from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design Slide Library now available
An additional 695 images selected from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) Visual Resources Collection and depicting works of art and architecture are now available in ARTstor.

Additional Plans of Ancient and Medieval Buildings and Archaeological Sites from Bryn Mawr College now in ARTstor
An additional 1,569 images of archaeological sites and architectural monuments from Bryn Mawr College are now available in the Digital Library.

American History in Video is available through Nov 15, 2009.  It includes streaming videos from PBS (the Civil War, Jazz, etc.), the History Channel, and Bullfrog Films, as well as old movie house newsreels.  Feedback is welcomed.

Two new titles have recently been added to Cambridge Companions Online:

• Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism
• Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought

African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 is available thru 10/31/09.  Feedback is welcome. [More info]

Black Abolitionist Papers is available thru 11/5/09.  Use welcome when asked for a password. [Feedback] [More info]

Paley Center Seminars is available thru 10/22/09.  Use welcome when asked for a password. [Feedback] [More info]

We have a new trial of ebrary, an online collection of more than 40,000 eBooks from scores of publishers.  The trial runs until the end of October and is only available from on campus. A 2 page Quick Start guide is available to orient you to the service. We are very interested in your feedback.

Temple University Libraries is proud to present an informative session designed to assist researchers with managing their citations. It's "Citations Without Tears".

Save time on your papers, and throw out all those long citation guides. Learn to use RefWorks, a web based application (free to Temple students!) that allows you to easily and quickly gather your citations and organize them for the creation of bibliographies and in- text citations in almost any format APA, MLA, Chicago, and more.

Note: This session will include hands-on learning in the use of RefWorks.

Location: TECH Center 205-A

Time: 1-2 PM

Dates: 10/8, 10/14, 11/5, 11/11, 11/12

For more information and to register...

HeinOnline now includes a new module covering the history of taxation and economic reform in the U.S.  [More info]

A collection of Handbooks in Sage eReference are available for trial thru the end of October.

New Titles in Oxford Reference Online:

• The Oxford Book of Health Foods
• The Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age,
• A Dictionary of Creation Myths
• The New Oxford Companion to Law

New Editions/Revisions:

• The Oxford Companion to English Literature
• The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
• A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art (formerly A Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art)