Library Collections

Several VIVA databases changes were announced in July.  VIVA’s subscription to one of these resources,  the OVID Total Access LWW Collection just end on August 31st.  This collection contained many medical and nursing journals.  We had access to several years worth of usage data and have now picked up local subscriptions to 22 of the most heavily used titles from the collection here at Virginia Tech.

At least two universities in Virginia opted to maintain the full package so we should still be able to fill any remaining needs via Interlibrary Loan.

VIVA is making several important changes to its mix of databases. These are based in large part on the result of a recent RFP process.  Some content is merely switching platforms while other changes may have more impact.  Where necessary we are adding local subscriptions to replace heavily used resources.

Being Added – CINAHL full text, EconLit Full Text, Political Science Complete, and SocIndex. All of these are from EBSCO and are now active on our web site.

Cancellations with effective dates – EconLit via Proquest (8/1/15), PAIS (8/1/15), OVID Total Access LWW Collection (8/31/15), ProQuest Congressional (9/30/15), and Sociological Abstracts (12/31/15).

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)

The Web of Science Core Collection has long been an important resource for researchers at Virginia Tech.  This database will become even more valuable with the library’s recent addition of 75 more years of data.  Retrospective coverage now extends back to 1900.  The ability to search and discover earlier papers makes it easier to trace the history of scientific ideas from their inception to the present.  All of this new content is integrated into the same search platform with which users are familiar.  The full file (1900 to present) contains over 32 million citations, with links out to full text sources for most content.

The past two years have involved extensive shifting of our physical collections. In fact, with the removal this week of the last of the regular stacks from second floor, every volume in the circulating collection has now moved! In the process we were able to substantially reduce the physical footprint of the collection. Much of this was done through acquiring digital archives of key journal and book collections along with the move of some low-use material offsite. Lots of people deserve credit for the hard work involved in this effort – from identifying titles, to acquiring or digitizing content, to physically moving and processing the materials.

All this new space has many benefits, both now and in the future. The fifth floor is still very stack intensive, which suits its purpose as a quiet floor. On fourth floor we opened up prime space for student study areas as well as several new offices. On third floor there is a now a spacious area directly below the graduate study room for a possible faculty lounge or for other uses. Changes on the second floor are the most dramatic, with the old wing of the building now open in addition to the new wing we had cleared previously. This again frees up space for students as well as partner groups with which the library is working. Finally moves on the first floor created space for the SCALE-UP Classroom and the new ICAT labs.

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

We now have access to more than 700 ebooks via the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.  The majority are from 2000 to present but coverage extends back to 1974. About 40 new titles are added annually.  Subjects include circuits, communications, computing, electromagnetics, networking, photonics, robotics, signal processing and much more.  The new ebooks are fully integrated into the IEEE Xplore platform and may be accessed from searches there.

We have just added a subscription to the full collection of online SPEC Kits from the Association of Research Libraries.  These gather information from member libraries on a wide range of policies and practices in research libraries.  Examples of topics covered this year include support for faculty publishing, next-generation learning spaces, digital collections assessment, and open source software.  Many of the kits include practical, real-world examples of the materials and approaches used at other libraries.   All kits from #292 onward (2006 to present) are available on the ARL site.  Older ones are available through the HathiTrust.

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.