Library Collections

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

The Collections and Technical Services Department continues to explore options for making more of our collections online. We have recently completed one-time purchases of journal archives from two major publishers, DeGruyter and Wiley. Collectively these collections will add retrospective coverage to several hundred additional online journals. This greatly expands access to these materials and at the same time will enable space to be freed up in Newman Library for other needs.

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.