Library Collections

This month Collection Highlights featured the streaming media collection.

Virginia Tech Libraries provides access to over 60,000 streaming videos. Documentaries, foreign films, kids films, historical footage, classics, animated, and instructional videos can all be streamed and watched anytime, anywhere. No special equipment or software is required, only an up to date browser. Most of our streaming platforms allow our users to extract clips from their videos and create playlists of multiple videos. Search for a specific title using Summon, our primary search interface.

Share information about the streaming collection with students and faculty in your departments.

Below is a comprehensive list of new resources added to our collections in FY15

Journals

1. Applied Environmental Education & Communication
2. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal
3. Cancer Gene Therapy
4. Cancer Research
5. Cancer Reviews
6. Childhood Obesity
7. Clinical Cancer Research
8. Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
9. Current Medicinal Chemistry
10. Endocrine Reviews
11. Feminist Studies
12. Genes and Immunity
13. Health Affairs
14. Hypertension research
15. Immunology and Cell Biology
16. International journal for vitamin and nutrition research
17. International shipbuilding progress
18. Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
19. ISME Journal
20. Journal of algebraic geometry
21. Journal of Clinical Investigation
22. Journal of clinical oncology. Legacy Archives (1983-2003)
23. Journal of Family & Consumer Sciences
24. Journal of Human Genetics
25. Journal of Reproductive Medicine
26. Journal of visualized experiments. Clinical and translational medicine
27. Journal of Web Librarianship
28. Landscape research
29. Leibniz review
30. Leukemia
31. Middle East Development Journal
32. Military Balance
33. Nature Reviews Cardiology
34. Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology
35. Nature Reviews Endocrinology
36. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America
37. Resources for American Literary Study
38. Stem Cells Translational Medicine
39. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics
40. Viral Immunology
41. Voprosy istorii
42. Washington Business Journal
43. Zeitschrift fur Philosophische Forschung

Journal Archives and Backfiles

1. Wiley Journal Backfile Collections:
   1. Chemistry Societies
   2. Computer Science
   3. History & Archeology
   4. Physics & Astronomy
   5. Surgery
2. Oxford University Press archive (3 subject areas):
   1. Medicine
   2. Science
   3. Social Science
3. Royal Society of Chemistry archive (2005-2007)

Databases

1. Ancestry Library Edition
2. L’Annee Philologique
3. Loeb Classical Library
4. Metropolitan Opera on Demand
5. OnArchitecture
6. PsycTESTS
7. PsycTHERAPY
8. SAGE research methods cases
9. SpringerLINK ebooks – Earth and Environmental Science (2015)
10. Turfgrass Information Center
11. U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection (Proquest)

In February 2015, Collections added Ancestry Library Edition, ProQuest’s version of the consumer product Ancestry.com.  Library Edition contains billions of records from census data, vital records, directories, photographs, and multimedia.  There are 7,000 databases within Ancestry, making it very robust but also challenging to master.

It’s important to understand that not all features of Ancestry.com are included in the Library Edition.  Much of the personalized functionality is only available to individual subscribers.  Some of the features not available to Library Edition users are:

• connecting with other members
• publishing family history photo books
• building family trees
• recent obituaries
• historical newspaper collections
• databases from third party providers (such as Gale)

Despite these restrictions, Library Edition is a valuable addition to our historical collections. ProQuest has many resources available to help researchers including:

• Ancestry:YouTube Channel Playlist
• Regular webinars
• LibGuide

Marc Brodsky is a resource person for this database.  Collections will arrange specialized training upon request and troubleshoot access problems.

Many new resources have been added to the collection just in time to for the 2015 spring semester. Listed below are the newly acquired journals, databases, and journal titles that have recently been made available online.

Journals

• Cancer Gene Therapy
• Childhood Obesity
• Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
• Current Medicinal Chemistry
• Endocrine Reviews
• Genes and Immunity
• Health Affairs
• Hypertension research
• Immunology and Cell Biology
• Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
• International shipbuilding progress
• ISME Journal
• Journal of Clinical Investigation
• Journal of Human Genetics
• Journal of visualized experiments. Clinical and translational medicine
• Journal of web Librarianship
• Landscape research
• Leibniz review
• Leukemia
• Nature Reviews Cardiology
• Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology
• Nature Reviews Endocrinology
• Perspectives of New Music
• Stem Cells Translational Medicine
• Viral Immunology
• Washington Business Journal

Journal Archives

• Royal Society of Chemistry archive (2005-2007)

 Databases

• L’Annee Philologique
• OnArchitecture
• PsycTESTS
• PsycTHERAPY
• SAGE research methods cases
• SpringerLINK ebooks – Earth and Environmental Science (2015)

Now available online

• Journal of Asian History
• Journal of Environmental Horticulture
• Perspectives of New Music
• Literary Market Place

The University Libraries now subscribes to BrowZine. What’s BrowZine? It’s a new application for browsing, reading, and managing articles from scholarly journals on your iPad, Android, or Kindle tablet.

BrowZine makes it easy for you to:

• Organize articles by subject
• Read and annotate articles in PDF format
• Save articles to a bibliographic manager like Zotero or Mendeley
• Receive notification when new journal issues are published

Access articles from the University Libraries’ journals on your tablet. You can download BrowZine today, simply search for it in the App Store, Google Play, or Amazon appstore and start browsing.  For more information watch the video.

Fiscal year 2014 was a great year for University Libraries and the additions made to the Libraries collections reflect that. We are now primed and ready to take on the new academic year with a collection stocked with new electronic journals and journal archives, databases, and e-books all searchable and discoverable in Summon. View the list below and discover what’s new and available now.

Journals

• Annual Perspectives in Mathematics Education
• Art Bulletin & Art Journal & CAA. Reviews
• B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy
• B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics
• B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics
• Biofuels, Bioproducts & Biorefining
• CAB Reviews
• Communications in Computational Physics
• Congress and the Nation
• Educational Assessment
• Environmental Education Research
• Gut
• IIE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors
• International Journal of Vehicle Autonomous Systems
• Journal of Forestry
• Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning
• Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
• Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs
• Journal of the Learning Sciences
• Journal of Urban Cultural Studies
• Journal of Visualized Experiments
• Methods in Ecology and Evolution
• National Geographic magazine online (1995-current)
• Nature Climate Change
• Nature Communications
• Serials Review
• Smithsonian Magazine (2011-current)

Journal Archives

• American Institute of Physics (Volume 1-1998)
• CAB Reviews (1930 – 2003)
• Cambridge Journals Digital Archive Full Collection
• Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry (1979 – 1999)
• Current Digest of Russian Press (1949 – 2012)
• Izvestiia (1917 – 2013)
• JSTOR Arts and Sciences XI and XIII
• Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology (1964 – 1998)
• Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society (1950-2012)
• National Geographic (1888-1994)
• Nature backfiles
  • Nature Chemical Biology (2007-2012)
  • Nature Chemistry (2009-2012)
  • Nature Climate Change (2011-2012)
  • Nature Communications (2007-2010)
  • Nature Geoscience (2008-2010)
  • Nature Neuroscience (2007-2010)
  • Nature Physics (2007-2010)
  • Nature Protocols (2007-2010)
  • Nature Reviews. Neuroscience (2007-2010)
• Pravda (1912–2013)
• SAGE Scientific, Technical & Medical Journal Package
• ScienceDirect backfiles
  • ScienceDirect Inorganic Chemistry & Suppl 1
  • ScienceDirect Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics Backfile & Suppl 1
  • ScienceDirect Physics General & Suppl 1
• Smithsonian Magazine (1970-2010)
• The Times (London) 1785-2006
• Wiley-Blacwell backfiles
  • Wiley-Blackwell Analytical Sciences Backfiles
  • Wiley-Blackwell Civil Engineering Backfiles
  • Wiley-Blackwell Communications Technology, Electrical & Systems Engineering Backfiles
  • Wiley-Blackwell Genetics and Evolution Backfiles
  • Wiley-Blackwell Infectious Diseases & Clinical Microbiology Backfiles
  • Wiley-Blackwell Mathematics Backfiles
  • Wiley-Blackwell Microbiology Backfiles
  • Wiley-Blackwell Numerical Engineering Backfiles

Databases

• Morningstar Advisor Workstation
• Black Studies Center
• Engineering case studies online
• Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Literature Index
• Media Intelligence Center
• SimplyMap
• Sports Nutrition Care Manual

E book Packages

• Elsevier Chemistry Book Series
• Elsevier Handbooks in Economics Series
• Knowledge Unlatched Open Access Ebooks

CTS will be hosting a series of webinars on the advanced functionality of the Gale resources.  Please join us in the CTS meeting room (6170A) for any of these sessions.  If you can’t attend one of these, or prefer to watch on your own, please go to the calendar on the Gale website to view more options.

• Tuesday, July 15 11:00-12:00 Biography in Context
  Monday, July 21 1:00-2:00 Artemis Library Sources
  Friday, July 25 9:00-10:00 Gale Virtual Reference Library
  Monday, July 28 11:00-12:00 Opposing Viewpoints in Context
  Tuesday, July 29 12:00-1:00 Powersearch

GALE has made significant improvements to their online reference products with the introduction of Gale PowerSearch, a suite of enhancements that includes new search functionality such as Search Assist and features such as Read Speaker.

Enhanced features and functionality are available in Academic OneFile, Opposing Viewpoints, an Biography in Context. Below are Gale resources available and accessible through Summon:

• Gale Academic OneFile – Infotrac: Gale’s largest periodical database. Provides indexes citations, abstracts, and full text.

• Gale Biography in Context: Provides access to biographies from reference works, news reports, magazines, and academic journals.

• Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context: Offers pro/con viewpoint essays on controversial topics and current events.

• Gale Virtual Reference Library:  a database of searchable eBook reference works including encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference.

• Gale Virtual Reference Library – Usage-Driven Acquisition (UDA) Model: A new user-driven eBook platform which provides access to more than 2,000 Gale titles. Additional 3rd party publishers will become available in the near future.

As we draw the curtain on fiscal year 2014, it is worth noting many of the new electronic resources that were added to the collection this year. All resources are  listed by journal, eBook package, or database title and are discoverable in Summon.

• AIP Digital Archive
• Art Bulletin & Art Journal & Caa. Reviews
• B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy
• B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics
• B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics
• Biofuels, Bioproducts, and Biorefining
• Black Studies Center Database
• CAB Reviews
• CAB Reviews Archive
• Cambridge Journals Digital Archive Full Content
• Chemistry PACKAGE Book Series
• Communications in Computational Physics
• Educational Assessment
• Handbooks in Economics (backfiles pre-2000)
• Environmental Education Research
• Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index
• Gut
• Handbooks in Economics Series
• International Journal of Vehicle Autonomous Systems
• Journal of Library & Information Services in distance learning
• Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs
• Journal of the Learning Sciences
• Journal of Urban Cultural Studies
• Journal of Visualized Experiments. General
• JSTOR XIII
• Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society 1950 – 2012
• Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society 2013 –
• Methods in Ecology and Evolution
• Nature Chemical Biology
• Nature Climate Change
• Nature Communications
• Nature Journals backfiles
• Pravda & Izvestiia daily
• Isvestiia Digital Archive (1917 – 2013)
• Pravda Digital Archive (1912 – 2013)
• Qualitative Research
• Sage STM backfile amendment
• Serials Review
• SimplyMap
• Smithsonian + Air and Space 2011 –
• Smithsonian + Air and Space archive
• Sports Nutrition Care Manual
• Wiley-Blackwell backfiles (8 collections):
  • Analytical Sciences
  • Civil Engineering
  • Communications Technology
  • Electrical & Systems Engineering
  • Genetics and Evolution
  • Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology
  • Mathematics
  • Numerical Engineering

Interlibrary Loan’s ILLiad request system will begin using the university’s Central Authentication Service.

In preparation for the conversion, ILLiad will be down on Friday, May 16, 2014, and may have limited access over the weekend. Full service restoration is planned for Monday, May 19, 2014.

Central Authentication Service (CAS) is a central logon service that enables you to access multiple applications by typing your PID and password credentials one time. Once logged into CAS, you can visit any web application that uses CAS authentication without having to log on again. CAS is available to web applications that use the Virginia Tech PID for authentication.

After the changeover, users will login to their ILLiad account using their Virginia Tech PID and password.  A separate ILLiad account and password is no longer needed.

CAS authentication has been requested by users for a long time and Interlibrary Loan is happy to finally implement the feature.

If you have any questions, please contact the Interlibrary Loan office at ill@vt.edu or 540-231-6344

Collection Management has continued to expand our available eBook collections and options in the first quarter of 2014. New eBook resources and packages are now available through YBP and Gale. New title lists for renewed Springer and Elsevier eBook packages are also available. All eBook titles are discoverable in Summon. Read below for more details.

GOBI – New publisher direct options for firm ordered eBooks are now available in GOBI. The Oxford UPSO platform, Elsevier, World Scientific Publishing, IGI Global, and Palgrave Macmillan are among the new YBP partners.

UDA – Collections has signed on to a new eBook program with Gale/Cengage. The Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) has a new platform called User Driven Acquisitions, UDA. More than 2,000 Gale titles are included in this collection. UDA allows us to purchase e-books based on our actual usage. We deposit funds upfront, use the platform for one year, and at the end of the term can select titles to purchase from among those with high usage.

Springer – VIVA has continued four statewide packages for 2014: Behavioral Science, Biomedical and Life Science, Computer Science, and Earth and Environmental Science. The Lecture Notes are included in the Computer Science package. And, the 2005 Archives are available for all four subject areas. To view the title lists refer to:http://www.vivalib.org/licensed/collect/titlelists/Springer/Springer_FY14_titlelist.xlsx.

Elsevier – VIVA has also continued with the frontlist package from Elsevier which encompasses a broad range of subjects. To view the Frontlist of eBooks for 2014 refer to: http://www.elsevier.com/online-tools/sciencedirect/books/titles