Library Collections

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

In early 2013 VIVA launched a pilot program for Demand Driven Acquisitions of books in STEM-H disciplines.  No new funding was provided in the state budget so the VIVA Collections Committee recommended the program be discontinued.  Records for these items have now been removed from Summon. We have title-level usage data for the program and this has been shared with subject liaisons in the affected areas to help identify titles of potential value to our users.   We are also working to implement a new DDA program locally for these call number ranges.

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

We have added 8 new subject collections from Wiley that bring us additional journal backfile coverage in several key areas. These include analytical sciences, civil engineering, communications technology, genetics, infectious diseases, mathematics, microbiology, and numerical engineering.  In addition, we have added 13 new online reference works covering a broad range of topics including several in the humanities and social sciences.  All of these resources are one-time purchases and expand our scope of online reference sources.

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

As part of our regular collection analysis, we are also incorporating more interlibrary loan data into the mix.  In addition to looking at the serials usage and cost data for current subscriptions, Mary Lucado and I are looking at the journals most often requested through ILL.  The list contains over 400 titles that have had articles requested more than 5 times from July 2010 through November 2013. (Below is a list of the Top 50 most requested titles, some of which we have already recently subscribed).   With the help of intern Brooke Williams, we’ll then look up current subscription costs, publisher names, and determine if and when we have ever had a subscription to that particular journal.  From that point, we will determine whether it’s less expensive to continue to borrow the journal through ILL versus subscribing to the journal. We’ll also determine whether a significant portion of the most requested titles are coming from the same publisher, and, if so, perhaps a package should be considered. Other factors will be considered as data becomes available.

Example: Let’s consider the journal “International Journal of Remote Sensing,” which was borrowed 21 times since July 2010. A rough average cost to borrow an article is about $25.

Computing the ILL cost:  21 (article requests, or use)   X $25 (average cost to borrow)  = $525 (for 3 year period)

This might sound like a good candidate for  a current subscription, but further investigation reveals that this Taylor & Francis titles costs $10,490 for an annual subscription.

Computing 3 year subscription cost: $10,490 + 11,015* + 11,565* = $33,070

*Adjusted for 5% inflation

How long does it take to get an article through ILL?  November’s statistics tell us that 87% of article requests are filled within minutes to 1 week, and nearly 60% of those are filled within 24 hours.

TOP 50 REQUESTED JOURNALS THROUGH INTERLIBRARY LOAN

University Libraries will be acquiring the Cambridge Journals Digital Archive, an archive containing both STEM, and Humanities-Social Sciences journals.  In total, our users will enjoy 255 titles from this package.  A title list can be downloaded from the Cambridge Journals Digital Archive.  Additionally, we will be reviewing recommendations from the Sci-Tech and BHSS teams and hope to add purchases from these lists.  Once both teams complete their reviews, we will provide a list of all new acquisitions since July 1, 2013.

ASERL has just completed its first year with an EBL ebook deal where all ASERL institutions receive a 2% discount for any EBL purchases or short-term loans.  To continue the deal in the future, ASERL members needed to spend collectively $1,000,000 in ebooks or short-term loans for the 2013 calendar year, and we have confirmation that we have surpassed the goal.  Total savings for all schools combined equals roughly $27,000. Not too shabby!

At the Charleston Conference, Ed and I gave a presentation on the performance of DDA (Demand Driven Acquisitions) since we first started the pilot project in May 2012.  For FY 2013, we added a total of 12,805 DDA records to Summon, excluding any VIVA DDA titles.  With those 12,805 titles discoverable, patrons triggered 1204 short-term loans, and almost 70% of those titles were unique, or just experienced 1 short-term loan.  Only 31 titles saw enough short-term loan activity to be purchased outright.  DDA activity has remained steady since FY14 began and we hope to have mid-year report out soon.  Not surprisingly, business, education, and technology titles triggered the biggest share of the usage.

Amongst all this activity, collections staff have also been gathering ebooks usage and cost data in order to understand better the performance and print overlap of ebook packages.  Additionally, just like last January, our team will begin downloading COUNTER journal usage reports so that we can analyze our journal subscriptions.   In other words, more analysis to come in the New Year!

Every year the Center for Research Libraries lets member libraries vote on new resources to be acquired by the center.  This helps continue to build the value of our institutional membership by adding to the already rich collections offered through CRL.  The results of the purchase proposal program for 2014 were just announced.  Eight new collections will be added and details on each are available at http://www.crl.edu/news/10165