EBSCOhost eBook Collection (Preview)

Last year, the NetLibrary e-book service was obtained by EBSCOhost. EBSCOhost is in the process of moving the NetLibrary books from the NetLibrary platform, into the EBSCOhost platform, and adding more functionality through that platform. This is preview access to this new NetLibrary interface.

Some notes about the use of this preview:

• Any changes to Baylor’s current netLibrary collection will not be reflected within the preview environment.
• To make use of the personalization options available, you have to create a new and unique account in the EBSCOhost eBook Collection during the preview period. Information stored, including username, password and eBook information, will be deleted once the preview ends (around June 15, 2011).
• Activity in this preview environment will not impact/affect our current live NetLibrary account, e.g., checkouts in the preview environment will not count as checkouts in the live NetLibrary environment.

Trial expires: Thursday, July 31, 2011

HathiTrust Digital Library

As a digital repository for the nation’s great research libraries, HathiTrust brings together the immense collections of partner institutions. It was initially conceived as a collaboration of the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the University of California system, and the University of Virginia to establish a repository for those universities to archive and share their digitized collections, and quickly expanded to include additional partners with fast growing treasure of digitized collections.

Baylor University joined the HathiTrust in fall 2010.  Consequently, those faculty, students, and staff with active Bear IDs will be able to authenticate their access in HathiTrust and download the full text of public domain materials and create permanent collections of resources of interest to them.  For detailed information on HathiTrust, see the HathiTrust LibGuide.

LexisNexis Congressional. Serial Set Maps

An additional, specialized search module for the U.S. Congressional serial set, Serial set maps allows users to focus searches on the maps themselves – the geographic areas they depict, the subjects they represent, their titles, and the names associated with the maps either as cartographers, explorers, or in some other capacity. Covers 1789-present.

At the end of November 2010, ProQuest and LexisNexis announce that ProQuest had purchased several LexisNexis resources.  The resources available from the Baylor University Libraries that are moving to ProQuest from LexisNexis include:

• LexisNexis Congressional (to be renamed ProQuest Congressional)
• LexisNexis Congressional Hearings Digital Collection
• LexisNexis Congressional Record Permanent Digital Collection
• LexisNexis Congressional Research Digital Collection

• LexisNexis DataSets (now called ProQuest DataSets)
• LexisNexis Statistical Insight (now called ProQuest Statistical Insight)

• LexisNexis US Serial Set Digital Collection
• LexisNexis US Serial Set Maps Collection

There should be no (or little) change int he search interface, just a different vendor branding.

Ebrary

Includes current e-books from leading publishers. It spans all subjects, including: agriculture; auxiliary sciences of history; bibliography, library science, information resources (general); education; fine arts; general works; geography, anthropology, recreation; history (general) and history of Europe; history: America; language and literature; law medicine; military science; music and books of music; philosophy, psychology, religion; political science; science; social sciences; and technology.

HathiTrust Digital Library

As a digital repository for the nation’s great research libraries, HathiTrust brings together the immense collections of partner institutions. It was initially conceived as a collaboration of the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the University of California system, and the University of Virginia to establish a repository for those universities to archive and share their digitized collections, and quickly expanded to include additional partners with fast growing treasure of digitized collections.

Since Baylor is now a full partner in HathiTrust, enhanced access is available for Baylor students, faculty, and staff through their Bear ID and password, using Shibboleth, an Internet2 technology for inter-institutional identification. Although this level of access isn’t required to search HathiTrust or view the full text of public domain materials, additional functionality is available to users from partner libraries:

• The complete PDF of items no longer protected by copyright can be downloaded (non-partners can only download a single page at a time); and
• Collections of items in HathiTrust can be created and saved (non-partners can create collections, but they cannot save them).

More information on Baylor’s partnership with HathiTrust is available here.

Criminal Justice Abstracts

This resource is now available from EBSCOhost and will be discontinued from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts in early 2011.

Provides comprehensive coverage of essential areas related to criminal justice and criminology. Topics include criminology, probation and parole, substance abuse and addiction , history of crime, forensic sciences and investigation, criminal investigation, police and policing, corrections and prisons, criminal law and procedure, and criminal justice.

LexisNexis Academic

Effective on or about August 7, 2010, LexisNexis Academic will launch a new search interface, which will be accessible from a new URL.   If you want to familiarize yourself with the new interface prior to the change, you may do so by using this URL:  http://www.lexisnexis.com/hottopics/lnacademic.

LexisNexis Academic — Beta Version
Access to the new LexisNexis Academic interface which will replace the current interface in summer 2010.

Criminal Justice Abstracts

Covers international journals, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines.