Library Collections

Collection additions in FY17

Collection Management works to build unique and dynamic collections of national significance to support all areas of scholarship at Virginia Tech. We regularly assess usage of our resources as we seek to maximize the value of our subscriptions and reflect emerging areas of research at the university. Through prudent management of our budget we replace declining resources with new and requested resources. And, with one-time or end-of-year money we purchase archives to fill-in collection gaps. We do this to improve access and expand the breadth and depth of the collection, and to save space by replacing and supplementing print resources with online.  During the 2017 fiscal year, Collection Management added over 100 new e-resources to the collection, review the list of linked titles below to explore.

Journals

1. Arboricultural Journal
2. Dix-Neuf
3. Economics and Philosophy
4. Interiors : Design, Architecture and Culture
5. International Journal of Forest Engineering
6. International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education
7. International Review of Qualitative Research
8. Journal of Arts Management Law and Society
9. Journal of child and adolescent psychopharmacology
10. Journal of Linguistic Geography
11. Journal of the Royal Musical Association
12. Journal of Veterinary Dentistry
13. Language in Society
14. Material Religion
15. Mathematical Research Letters
16. Mathematical Thinking and Learning
17. Nature Microbiology
18. Polar Geography
19. Science & Global Security
20. Social Currents
21. Social Philosophy & Policy
22. Statistical Journal of the IAOS
23. Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes
24. Utilitas

Journal Archives and Backfiles

1. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Science Backfile (1921-1956)
2. Annual Review of Statistics and Its Applications Backfile (2014-2016)
3. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Backfile (1901-1979)
4. Chemical & Engineering News archive (1923-2015)
5. CQ Researcher Plus Archive (1923-present)
6. Institution of Engineering and Technology – Journal Archive Complete Collection Plus (1872–2006)
7. Journal of women and minorities in science and engineering archive (1994-present)
8. JSTOR Sustainability Collection (112 journals & 342 ebooks)
9. LWW (Ovid) Comprehensive Archive Collection 2016
10. Mergent Historical Bond Record Collection
11. Mergent Hoovers Archives (1994-present)
12. Mergent SEC Historical Collection (1960-present)
13. Optical Society of America Digital Archive 2 (2006-2015)
14. Publishers Weekly Digital Archive (1872-2013)
15. Society of Automotive Engineers Technical Papers Archive 1906-2005
16. SAGE HSS and STM Backfiles upgrade 2017
17. Springer Journal Archives Supplement (thru 1996) 2011-2017
18. Springer/Nature 2017 (all Springer, Palgrave Macmillan, & Nature Academic journals)
19. Oxford Journals Archive 2017 supplement
20. Wiley Journal backfiles (1865-1996)

Databases

1. Academic OneFile from Gale
2. Archivision Digital Research Library (modules 10-11)
3. Biography and Genealogy Master Index from Gale
4. Book Review Index Plus from Gale
5. Business Insights: Global from Gale
6. Chilton Library from Gale
7. Computer Database from Gale
8. Contemporary Women’s Issues from Gale
9. Drama Online
10. Educator’s Reference Complete from Gale
11. Fastcase
12. General OneFile from Gale
13. Geopolitical Monitor
14. Global Issues in Context from Gale
15. GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources) from Gale
16. Health and Wellness Resource Center with Alternative Health Module from Gale
17. Health Reference Center Academic from Gale
18. Independent Voices from Reveal Digital
19. Informe Académico from Gale
20. InfoTrac Newsstand from Gale
21. LegalTrac from Gale
22. LitFinder from Gale
23. Military and Intelligence Database from Gale
24. PolicyMap
25. Society of Automotive Engineers Ground Vehicle Standards
26. Science in Context from Gale
27. STAPP Car Crash Technical Papers Historical Full Collection (1966-2016)
28. Student Resources in Context from Gale
29. U.S. History in Context from Gale
30. Voxgov
31. World History In Context from Gale
32. World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean Portal from Gale

Ebook Collections

1. CRC Computer Science netBASE (2014 & prior content)
2. De Gruyter and Princeton Mathematical Book Series
3. De Gruyter Asian Studies Art/Arch EBooks 2017
4. De Gruyter Architecture Basics Online Pkg 2017 (35 titles)
5. DeGruyter Fine Arts EBooks 2017 (22 selected titles)
6. Institution of Engineering & Technology Ultimate ebook Collection (1979-2017) 515 titles
7. Oxford University Press Scholarship Online backfile
8. Royal Society of Chemistry Historical Collection
9. SAGE / CQ Press Online Editions Gap Analysis purchase 2017
   1. America Votes 32
   2. CQ Almanac 2016
   3. Historic Documents of 2005, 2015, 2016
   4. Political Handbook of the World (2005-2017)
   5. Politics in America (2004-2018)
   6. Supreme Court Yearbook (1989-2017)
   7. Vital Statistics on American Politics (2005, 2009, 2017-2018)
10. SAGE Business Cases
11. Solid State Physics ebook series backfile (Elsevier)
12. Thieme Chemistry eBooks (selected)
13. Wiley Reference Works Online

Streaming Media

1. Alexander Street Press DDA
2. Films on Demand
3. IEEE eLearning Library Course Series
4. Journal of Visualized Experiments: Bioengineering
5. Kanopy DDA
6. Meet the Press Archive
7. SAGE Research Methods Video
8. Skillsoft IT & Desktop videos

From Print to Online

1. Photogrammetric engineering and remote sensing
2. Current Protocols in Molecular Biology
3. Facts & Comparisons® eAnswers

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