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IBIS World now available @ your library

Monday, March 10th, 2008

IBIS World contains in-depth, regularly updated industry reports for over 700 United States industries. Each report contains:

  • Key statistics,
  • Segmentation,
  • Market characteristics,
  • Industry conditions,
  • Key factors,
  • Key competitors,
  • Industry performance,
  • and Outlook.

Zanesville Campus Library only subscribes to the Industry Market Research and Company Research components. All other components of the database are not included in the library’s subscription. http://www.zanesville.ohiou.edu/zcl/index.htm

Art and Architecture resources available @ your library

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

On-line resources for art and architecture include collections of images, indexes to research articles (some to full text articles), and on-line reference dictionaries and encyclopedias.

 

Image resources:

Art and Architecture images from the following sources:

  • The ART Collection from AMICO: images from museums and other art collections around the world.
  • The Saskia– a collection of digital art images with a special emphasis on the core images required for teaching the history of Western Art.
  • Images from the Akron Art Museum
  • Art and architecture from the University of Cincinnati
  • WPA prints by Cleveland artists, from the Special Collections, Case Western Reserve University Library.

The ART Collection

 

  • Provides high-quality, digital images of works of art from museums around the world.
  • Focuses on the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times, and covers the complete range of expressive forms.
  • Genres included: painting, sculpture, photography, print, drawing, ceramic, textiles, metalwork, furniture, books and scrolls, architecture, and archeological finds.
  • Cultures and time periods represented range from contemporary art, Native American and Inuit art, to ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian works, along with Japanese and Chinese works.

Great Buildings Online

  • Images of great buildings from around the world.
  • Searchable by place, name of architec, or type of architecture.
  • Includes:
    • Photographs,
    • Information on architects,
    • Architectural drawings,
    • Discussion,
    • Bibliography,
    • Architect information,
    • Live 3D walkthrough computer models.

     

     

     

     

    Journal articles:

    Art Full Text

    • Indexes over 400 international art publications, including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins.
    • Entries in the database also cite any art reproductions used to illustrate articles and advertisements, under the artists’ names and covers titles published in European languages, as well as English-language sources.

    Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

     

    • A comprehensive index of journal articles published worldwide on architecture and design, archaeology, city planning, interior design and historic preservation.
    • Offers access to 2,500 international journals, most of which are not indexed elsewhere, and nearly 600,000 citations dating to the mid-18th century.
    • Indexes the international scholarly and popular periodical literature as well as the publications of professional associations, US state and regional periodicals, and the major serial publications on architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America and Australia.

    On-line reference books:

Art and Architecture (Oxford Reference On-line)

  • Full text access to some of the essential reference works in Art and Architecture, published by the Oxford University Press.
  • Titles include:
    • A Dictionary of Architecture
    • The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
    • The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
    • The Oxford Dictionary of Art
    • A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art

    Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture

    • Contains over 1000 entries, featuring “an abundance of in-depth articles on this field of enduring importance–from biographies to thematic entries on architecture, ceramics, metalwork, mosaics, painting and sculpture.”


Anthropology research databases available @ your library

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Anthropology Plus

  • A database of bibliographic materials from the late 1800’s to today in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and interdisciplinary studies, which combines in one source Harvard University’s Anthropological Literature database and the United Kingdom’s Anthropological Index (Royal Anthropological Institute).
  • Includes materials in all languages, particularly English, Germanic, Slavic, Romance, and selected Scandinavian languages. Citations include journal articles, reports, commentaries, and obituaries from over 2,500 journals and edited works.
  • Please note most entries are citation only; full text access is limited.

Anthropology Journals from JSTOR

  • Full text

 

  • Searchable full-text journals, from their first year until about 5 years ago. The most recent issues are not available because of licensing restrictions.
  • The link goes to a browseable list of available anthropology journals. You can also use JSTOR Search feature to do keyword searching of their contents.

Anthropology Journals (from the OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center)

  • Full text
  • Searchable full-text journals covering various years from the 1990s to the present.

 

  • The link goes to a browseable list of available journals. You can also use the Search feature to do keyword searching of their contents.

Electronic Journals for Anthropology available via ALICE

  • Link is to a listing in ALICE for electronic journals in the field of Anthropology. Please note that access to most of these is limited to Ohio University only; some to the Athens campus only and others to all campuses.

Encyclopedia of Religion and Society

 

  • Contains hundreds of articles which provide a “summary of the insights gained by the principal social sciences of religion: anthropology, psychology, and sociology. “
  • Produced by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research, Hartford Seminary.

Public Anthropology: Anthropology Journal Archive Project

  • Article database with abstracts.Contains e-journal, book series, writings by distinguished anthropologists, and a photo gallery that depicts arresting images of people from a variety of cultures.
  • An interesting feature of the site is the inclusion of written summaries of journal articles by graduate and undergraduate students from North America. The summaries allow for comparision of historical and theoretical perspectives within anthropology, in addition to providing information on the particular article covered. The articles are also rated for their clarity. Summaries of articles in the American Anthropologist (1888-2000) are available and Current Anthropology and Human Organization are in progress.
  • The journal archive can be searched by keyword to pull up pertinent articles.
  • Provided by Robert Borofsky.

Political Science research databases available from ZCL

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

International Political Science Abstracts (some full text available)

  • Database provides current indexing and abstracts of the world’s leading journals in political science, covering around 900 journals from 1989 to the present

Political Science Journals (JSTOR)

  • Database of full-text journals from their first year until about 5 years ago. The most recent issues are not available because of licensing restrictions. Titles in database: (ending dates as of 1/08)
  • American Journal of International Law, 1907-2007.
  • American Journal of Political Science, 1973-2006.
  • American Political Science Review, 1906-2004.
  • Midwest Journal of Political Science, 1957-1972.
  • International Organization, 1947-2004.
  • Journal of Politics, 1939-2004.
  • Political Science Quarterly, 1886-2003.
  • Proceedings of the American Political Science Association, 1904-1913.
  • Public Opinion Quarterly, 1937-2002.
  • World Politics, 1948-1995 (plus links to recent content 1995-2005).

Politics, Political Science, and Law Journals (OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center)

  • Link is to browsable list of full text journals covering politics, political science and law. Access to the publishers’ and sites and full text is provided via the OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

  • Subscription to this database ended June, 2006. For most current citations in political science, use International Political Science Abstracts.
  • Database covers 1975-2006 and provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields including international relations, law, and public administration and policy.

Get educated

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

Education Research Complete (ERC)
Did you know?
* ERC replaces Education Abstracts for articles in education
* Limit searches in ERC to peer reviewed scholarly journals
* Email full text articles to yourself
Try it out on our library homepage at http://www.zanesville.ohiou.edu/zcl
OhioLINK (under “Quick Links�)
Find articles and more with OhioLINK Databases
Listed by name
D-E
Education Research Complete

JSTOR for Social Science articles

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Did you know?
JSTOR is a Zanesville “exclusive� database
JSTOR has full text articles
Your can browse JSTOR by topic
Try it out on our library homepage at http://www.zanesville.ohiou.edu/zcl
Choose Zanesville exclusive databases (Under “Quick Links�)
Choose JSTOR

New titles agree to be JSTOR Current Issues Linking partners

Monday, November 13th, 2006

The following journals are new Current Issues Linking partners:

Current Anthropology (Arts & Sciences I Collection)
Release Content: Vols. 40 (Issue 5) – 46 (Issue 5), 1999-2005
Print Wall fixed at Vol. 40 (Issue 5)
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
E-ISSN: 1537-5382

Mind (Arts & Sciences I Collection)
Release Content: New Series: Vols. 108 (Issue 429) – 114 (Issue 455), 1999-2005
Moving Wall: 7 years
Publisher: Oxford University Press on behalf of the Mind Association
E-ISSN: 1460-2113

Noûs (Arts & Sciences I Collection)
Release Content: Vols. 34 – 40 (Issue 2), 2000-2006
Moving Wall: 10 years
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
E-ISSN: 1468-0068

Vote Gongwer!

Monday, November 13th, 2006

Did you know?
Gongwer News Service covers Ohio political news including our State government and legislature.
Gongwer replaces Ohio Capital Connection (formerly Hannah Online).
Try it out on our library homepage at:
http://www.zanesville.ohiou.edu/zcl/

  • OhioLINK (under “Quick Linksâ€?)
  • Find articles and more with OhioLINK Databases.
  • Listed by name.
  • F-G.
  • Gongwer News Service.

New Titles from the ACLS History E-Book Project

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

The ACLS History E-Book Project (HEB) and Rutgers University Press are pleased to announce the cooperative publication of two new electronic titles that bring sound and video into the electronic monograph. Through HEB the Press has issued e-versions of Fred Nadis, “Wonder Shows: Science, Religion, and Magic on the American Stage” (http://ets.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=acls;cc=acls;idno=heb90024.0001.001;view=toc), and Krystyn Moon, “Yellowface: Creating the Chinese in American Popular Music, 1850s-1920s” (http://ets.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=acls;cc=acls;idno=heb90023.0001.001;view=toc). The first incorporates several short films that document the American fascination with the wonders of science and technology. The second uses a series of complete musical performances that accompany the sheet music and analysis. Both titles include standard HEB features such as complete cross-searchability, robust XML text and annotation,enhanced image handling, related historiography and online reviews that create an interoperable network of scholarship and its analysis.

For a list of HEB’s open-source XML tools and features see
http://www.historyebook.org/xml-features.html
Subscribers to HEB may access these complete e-books along with 1300 other titles currently in the collection.

According to HEB project directors Eileen Gardiner and Ron Musto, “Rutgers’achievement in this regard demonstrates how a university press, working collaboratively, can incorporate even the most robust electronic features into a standard and predictable workflow. ACLS congratulates Press Director Marlie Wasserman and her staff for this breakthrough. We also thank the Scholarly Publishing Office at the University of Michigan Library for its collaboration on the R&D for these titles.”

According to Wasserman, “Thanks to hard work by authors, the Press staff, and ACLS, as well as innovative technology, readers can now experience our books with imaginative and captivating enhancements we once never thought possible.”

RefWorks–Save that citation!

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

Did you know?…
RefWorks can store your citation information .
RefWorks can format citations in APA format.
You can create a password and login to access RefWorks.
Try it out on our library homepage at http://www.zanesville.ohiou.edu/zcl
1. RefWorks under “Class Resources� (or Off-campus access for RefWorks).
2. In RefWorks, choose “User Login.�
3. Then choose “Sign up for an individual account.�