Over the years, ProQuest has acquired the companies, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) and Chadwyck Healey.  For the past year, ProQuest has been developing a new search interface which they want to apply to all of their databases as well as those acquired from CSA and Chadwyck Healey.  The migration to the new interface has been in place for several months, and the Baylor University Libraries have now switched to the new ProQuest interface for the following resources:

• ABI/INFORM Complete
• American Periodicals
• BioOne Abstracts & Indexes
• British Periodicals
• ComDisDome
• Current research@ Baylor University Library
• Ecology Abstracts — Not renewed, July 1, 2011
• ERIC
• Ethnic Newswatch
• International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text
• International Index to the Performing Arts
• Latin American Newsstand
• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database
• Physical Education Index
• PILOTS
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
• ProQuest Entrepreneurship
• ProQuest Historical Annual Reports
• Proquest Historical Newspapers the New York Times
• Social Services Abstracts
• Sociological Abstracts
• Wall Street Journal

As ProQuest continues to migrate their family of resources into the new interface, we will make the appropriate changes.

OmniFile Full Text Select

This resource is being considered as a replacement for the FirstSearch database, WilsonSelect. The content indexed in this resource represents the full-text only articles index in 11 Wilson databases (Applied Science & Technology; Art Index; Biological & Agricultural Index; Education Index; General Science Index; Humanities Index; Index to Legal Periodicals; Library Literature & Information Science Index; Readers’ Guide; Social Sciences Index, and Wilson Business Index). This resource is convenient for users with inquiries in areas that cross disciplines, such as ethnic studies, women’s studies, history, etc.

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Trial expires: Tuesday, May 31, 2011

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.

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.

EThOS

EThOS makes UK theses (e and paper based) available via a ‘one-stop-shop’ by harvesting e-theses from institutional repositories and digitising paper theses on-demand from researchers. The British Library, in collaboration with many UK universities and other associations, aims to provide over 250,000 theses produced by the UK higher education system on an open access model to all researchers and others requiring information. Some theses are available for immediate download, while others can be requested from a participating institution which then sends the thesis to the British Library for digitisation.

Australasian Digital Thesis Program

A collaborative distributed database of theses produced at Australian and New Zealand universities. The searchable database links back to complete digitized versions of the theses.

Springer Images

SpringerImages is a growing collection of scientific (and some non-scientific) images, including high-quality clinical images from images.MD. The continually updated collection – currently over 1.6 million images – gathers photos, graphs, histograms, figures, and tables, and places them in a searchable database. Users can search through captions, keywords, context and more, even jumping from the image to the source article. Users can also create personalized image “sets,” and can easily export images for use in their own presentations or lectures. Details on using Springer Images can be found in this user guide.

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Trial expires: Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Publishing Opportunities Database

Publishing Opportunities Database, provides an extensive listing of opportunities for professors, post-doctorates and other students interested in presenting and publishing their research papers. Information from three distinct sources is combined and presented: Journal Call for Papers; Conference Call for Papers; and Special Issue Call for Papers.

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Trial expires: Friday, October 30, 2009