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

Collection Management has added over 100 new electronic resources to the collection this academic year. And, as we reach the end of the 2016 fiscal year it is worth noting the many new journals, databases, and e-book collections that were added in the past year. Below is a list of our new resources by category.

Journals

1. Access World News: Research Collection [international and American newspapers]
2. ACSESS  Digital Library [agriculture journals and e-books]
3. AIP Complete
4. Annual Reviews Economics Collection
5. Applied Environmental Education & Communication
6. Celebrity Studies
7. Critical Studies on Terrorism
8. Experimental Techniques
9. Flipster editions of popular magazines:
   1. Consumer Reports
   2. Discover
   3. Fine Home Building
   4. Popular Science
   5. Wired
10. Focus on Autism and other Developmental Disabilities
11. Journal of Climate
12. Mindfulness
13. Mortality
14. MRS Advances
15. OnePetro [petroleum journals]
16. Sociology of Islam
17. Sociology of Race & Ethnicity
18. Technometrics
19. Transgender Studies Quarterly
20. Uniworld Online
21. Voluntary Sector Review
22. Wood Design Focus

Journal Archives and Backfiles

1. Oxford Journals Archives
2. ACSESS Digital Library backfiles (books & journals)
3. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology
4. De Gruyter Journal Archive
5. EIU Country Reports Archive Perpetual (1952 – 1995)
6. Elsevier Urban & Fischer Archives for Biochemistry, Immunology & Microbiology, Medicine
7. ICE Complete Engineering Journals – Archive (1836 – 2002)
8. IEEE Journals Archive Complete Set (1884 – 1999)
9. IEEE Conference Proceedings Archive (1951 – 1999)
10. JSTOR Arts & Sciences XV
11. Karger Journal Archive Full Collection
12. LWW Medical Journals Archive
13. Nutrition Science Legacy Archive
14. PAO Foundation Collections 1-10 (Periodicals Archive Online Foundation)
15. Physics Today Digital Archive
16. SAGE History and Social Sciences and STM Backfiles upgrade
17. Synlett Archive
18. Synthesis Archive
19. Veterinary Clinics of North America. Small Animal Practice
20. National Review Archive (perpetual access)
21. Wiley-Blackwell Backfiles – additional collections

Databases

1. Archives of Human Sexuality and Identity Part I: LGBTQ History and Culture since 1940
2. Artstor w/Shared Shelf
3. Building Types Online
4. Gale databases
   1. 19th Century British Newspapers
   2. American Fiction, 1774-1920
   3. Archives of Human Sexuality and Identity
   4. Associated Press Collections Online
   5. Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture
   6. Financial Times Historical Archive
   7. Nineteenth Century Newspapers
   8. Smithsonian Collections Online
   9. Sunday Times Digital Archive 1822-2006
   10. Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive 1902-2011
5. Early European Books
6. Index Islamicus Online
7. Investext Snapshot
8. LatAm-Studies [LatAm-Estudios Texto Completo]
9. Latin American News Digest
10. Mintel Trends
11. Pidgeon Digital [videos]
12. ProQuest Historical Newspapers
    1. Atlanta Constitution (1868 – 1984)
    2. Atlanta Daily World (1931 – 2003)
    3. Baltimore African American  (1893 – 1988)
    4. Christian Science Monitor (1908 – 2002)
    5. Los Angeles Times  (1881 – 1991)
    6. Norfolk Journal & Guide (1916 – 2003)
    7. Wall Street Journal (1889 – 1998)
    8. Washington Post (1877-1999)
13. ProQuest SciTech Collection [10 databases plus ejournal packages]
14. SAGE Research Methods with Cases and Datasets 2016-2021
15. Social Explorer
16. Statistical Abstracts of the United States (1878-2012)
17. Reference USA
18. Routledge Performance Archive [videos]
19. Web of Science databases
    1. Emerging Sources Citation Index
    2. Russian Citation Index
20. Facts & Comparisons® eAnswers
21. ASTM Compass

Ebook Collections

1. ACM Digital Library Morgan & Claypool ebooks
2. ASCE ebook and standards collection
3. ASME International (e-book collection)
4. Birkhauser Construction (English-language e-books)
5. Early European Books – Collections 1-10
6. Elsevier Reference Works (perpetual access)
   1. International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences
   2. Encyclopedia of Agriculture and Food Systems
   3. Encyclopedia of Cell Biology
   4. Encyclopedia of Food Microbiology
   5. Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition
   6. Encyclopedia of Mental Health
   7. Encyclopedia of Neurological Sciences
   8. Encyclopedia of Toxicology
   9. Encyclopedia of Food Grains (second edition)
   10. Treatise on Geophysics
   11. Comprehensive Materials Finishing
   12. Encyclopedia of Applied Plant Sciences
   13. Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology
   14. Encyclopedia of Immunobiology
   15. Encyclopedia of Spectroscopy and Spectrometry
   16. Evolution of Nervous Systems
   17. Hormones, Brain and Behavior
   18. International Encyclopedia of Public Health
7. Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception
8. IEEE-Wiley Ebooks Library Frontlist 2017
9. Le Corbusier Online
10. Oxford University Press Scholarship Online ebook archive (16,000+ titles)
11. SEG Digital Library
12. SPIE eBooks Collection 1989—2016
13. Springer Ebooks Archives
    1. Behavioral Science
    2. Business and Economics
    3. Chemistry and Materials Science
    4. Computer Science (Including Apress)
    5. Earth and Environmental Science
    6. Engineering
    7. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    8. Mathematics and Statistics
    9. Medicine
    10. Physics and Astronomy
    11. Biomedical & Life Sciences
14. SpringerLINK Ebooks (Business & Management)
15. SpringerLINK Ebooks (Economics and Finance)
16. SpringerLINK Ebooks (Social Science)
17. Birkhauser Construction (34 English-language ebooks from De Gruyter)

Streaming Media

1. Gnomon Workshop
2. Henry Stewart Talks
3. JoVE  Neuroscience and JoVE Immunology and Infection
4. Psychotherapy.net

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)

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

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

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

Through a special bundle purchase we now have greatly expanded our online coverage on the Web of Knowledge platform.  This acquisition brings significant new STEM-H content in the areas of the life sciences, medicine, chemistry, and patents.  It also adds interdisciplinary databases in key areas including  conference proceedings, book citation data, and a data citation index.  In addition to a one-time archive purchase, an active subscription component to the deal will ensure that all of the resources below are kept fully up to date for our users. Links for each resource are still in the process of being added to our library web pages but these databases are all currently active on the Web of Knowledge site.

BIOSIS Citation Index: 1926-present
Data Citation Index: 1900-present
Derwent Innovations Index: 1963-present
Medline: 1950–present
Zoological Records: 1864-present

Web of Science (added content):
Book Citation Index: 2005-present
Conference Proceedings Citation Index: 1990-present
Current Chemical Reactions
Index Chemicus

Not everyone subscribes to the VIVA listserve, so I’ll share some information that was posted by Kathy Perry yesterday.  The DDA RFP committee has completed negotiations with EBL to provide Demand Driven Acquisitions for ebooks in Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine, & Health (STEM-H).  EBL is currently negotiating with publishers to participate in the program.  The VIVA plan will take precedence over our own DDA plan.  It will include short term loans, just as our plan does.  E-reserves and coursepacks will be available upon special request.  The addition of VIVA’s plan should only affect Collections and Technical Services:  we’ll work with YBP to eliminate EBL STEM-H DDA selections from our consideration pool, and load discovery records for the new EBL collections to Summon.  Ladd and Ed will attend the VIVA ‘training fair” in March, so more information about ebooks will be forthcoming.

CASH!

(Now that I have your attention…)

The Collections Access Strategies Hub (CASH) is meeting this coming Wednesday to discuss the first two of many key articles to be tackled by the group (citations and links provided below).  Each hub meeting will also include a Lightning Round Report where representatives from various units relay ongoing work and upcoming changes within respective units.  The purpose of the reports include filling communication gaps between units, departments, and other groups so that we might all better anticipate problems and plan for changes in workflows.  If you don’t have a rep in CASH and you’d like to pass along information to our group, please get in touch with me.

Hub Readings

Strategic Direction: Transforming Research Libraries: Outcomes & Strategies http://www.arl.org/arl/governance/strat-plan/trl.shtml

2012 Top Ten Trends in Academic Libraries: A Review of the Trends and Issues affecting Academic Libraries.  C & RL News June 2012. http://crln.acrl.org/content/73/6/311.full

Approval Plan

As of January 30^th, consider the new policy of e-preferred approvals to be in full swing.  Ladd and Ed are working out details and getting answers to questions.  More information to follow soon.

VIVA

To quote directly from VIVA’s Kathy Perry, “VIVA’s hard work exploring STEM-H e-books has resulted in awarding contracts to Elsevier and Springer for 2013 frontlist e-books… As you know, VIVA received special funding from the General Assembly for the 2012-14 Biennium for e-books in the STEM-H subject areas.  VIVA can now confirm contracts for the Elsevier and Springer 2013 frontlist e-book packages and that all participating institutions have been activated for both Elsevier and Springer.”  At the local level we have made the necessary changes in our approval and DDA plans to reflect these new deals.

*WHO GETS WHAT THROUGH CENTRAL FUNDS?*

*PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS*:  All of the VIVA public institutions will have access to the following packages:

Elsevier – The entire SciVerse ScienceDirect eBooks Collection  2013

Frontlist:  http://www.info.sciverse.com/sciencedirect/books/ebooks

   Springer – 4 collections for the 2013 frontlist

http://www.springer.com/librarians/e-content/ebooks?SGWID=0-40791-0-0-0

– Behavioral Sciences

– Biomedical and Life Science

– Computer Science

– Earth and Environmental Science

Cooperative Collections
You’ve no doubt heard many mentions of the ASERL Print Journal Cooperative.  Now we have an additional partner:  the WRLC or Washington Research Library Consortia.  To understand how this partnership will work, ASERL will be holding a webinar next week.  Constance Malpas and Brian Lavoie of OCLC Research will provide an overview of how holdings at our member libraries would contribute to a mega-regional approach.  During the webinar, Constance and Brian will discuss an initial analysis of holdings at ASERL and WRLC libraries and how this could contribute to a mega-regional vision for national library print collections.  If you’d like to attend the webinar, it is listed on the library’s training events page.

Vet Med Library Collection

In case you haven’t heard, The College of Veterinary Medicine may be renovating spaces this summer and renovations will affect allotted space for the Vet Med Library. We’ll be looking at print and electronic journal overlap in this case, too, in order to help reduce the collections footprint from 25,000 volumes to between 15,000-18,000 volumes.  Expect more news as Brian, Leslie, and Vicki work with the architects and as we take a close look at the collection.

Journal Overlap Analysis

Analysis of overlap between print and electronic journals is moving along.  Most recently, we finished looking at the Oxford backfiles, and we are just one collection away from completing our overlap analysis for all the Taylor and Francis archives.

More next week… and until then, STAY WARM!

Connie

We now have nearly 9,000 discovery records in Addison and Summon for EBL e-books.   Patrons are browsing the titles, reading them online, and downloading portions of the books.  The title that was downloaded most often is: Completing college : rethinking institutional action (LC148 .T568 2012)

The 10 most-read titles are:

• Diagnosing and changing organizational culture (HD58.8.C32 2011)
• Parking cars in America, 1910-1945: a history (TL175.S44 2012)
• Reframing organizations: artistry, choice, and leadership (HD31,B6135 2008)
• Organizational network fieldbook: best practices, techniques, and exercises to drive organizational innovation and performance (HD69.S8O74 2010)
• Sex for sale: prostitution, pornography, and the sex industry (HQ115 .S49 2009)
• Conducting educational research design: what, why, and how (LB1028.38 M35 2012)
• Prostitution and sex work (HQ144.D58 2010)
• Handbook of college reading and study strategy research (LB2395.3.H36 2008)
• Architectural photography: composition, capture, and digital image processing (TR659)
• Forest products and wood science (TA419.S423 2011)

The next phase of the pilot will expand DDA to more vendors and more subject areas.  VIVA will be contracting for DDA services in spring 2013.