What’s New at Schaffer Library

The Ireland Collection, developed in cooperation with Queen’s University Belfast, is an interdisciplinary collection of journals and other materials. At its expected completion in 2009, it will contain a minimum of 75 currently publishing journals, with moving walls between 1 and 5 years, and 200 monographs. It will also include ceased journals and 2,500 manuscript pages. Complementing JSTOR’s existing collections, the Ireland Collection adds titles and resources across the arts, humanities, and sciences in disciplines such as music, art, history, literature, archaeology, mathematics, and biology. Materials span from the 1780s to the present. The content is international in scope, while also providing a rich focus on Ireland. The Ireland Collection was created with funding from the JISC Digitisation Programme.

Highlights include:

• The Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, which date back to 1787, and the Academy’s other valuable publications Ériu, Irish Journal of Earth Sciences, and Irish Studies International Affairs
• Significant portions of Queen’s rare Bunting Collection, composed of melodies and Irish music collected by Edward Bunting in the early 19th century
• Irish Historical Studies, Ireland’s prominent history journal
• History Ireland and Archaeology Ireland
• Irish Arts Review and Circa, both long-standing art publications
• The ISI-ranked Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research
• Fortnight and Magill, political and cultural monthly magazines (in Northern Ireland and Ireland respectively)
• Linen Hall Review, the publication of Northern Ireland’s prominent Linen Hall Library

See Current and Upcoming Title List for Ireland Collection.

Arts & Sciences VI (completed by end of 2010) View Title List

With a minimum of one hundred twenty (120) titles, the Arts & Sciences VI Collection will extend JSTOR’s coverage in disciplines across the social sciences, with clusters focused in economics, education, linguistics, political science, and area studies.

Every two weeks, the Homeland Security Digital Library identifies “Critical Releases in Homeland Security,” a targeted collection of recently-released documents of particular interest or potential importance.

DHS’ Role in State and Local Fusion Centers Is Evolving
United States. Dept. of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General

Freedom in the World 2009: Setbacks and Resilience
Freedom House

Nuclear Challenges and Policy Options for the Next U.S. Administration
Monterey Institute of International Studies. James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies

Strategic Implications of Global Health
United States. National Intelligence Council

The Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics publishes original contributions and review articles covering human and animal data relevant to the process of in vitro fertilization and embryo replacement.

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics
ISSN: 1058-0468 (print)
URL:
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/tocrender.fcgi?journal=595&action=archive
Archive: v. 25(2008). Current content is forthcoming with a 12-month embargo.

The ACS Publications website is currently experiencing technical difficulties in providing IP-authenticated access for some of their web subscribers. Schaffer Library’s access may have been affected. They are working diligently to restore full access for all affected customers and apologize for this inconvenience and will provide updated information as it becomes available.

ARTstor is partnering with the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum to share approximately 1,200 images of works by Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986). The images will include all of the museum’s works by O’Keeffe — paintings, drawings, and sculpture dating from 1901 to 1984. The collection in ARTstor will present the entire range of O’Keeffe’s oeuvre, from her early experiments with abstraction to mature works. Subjects range from the artist’s iconic flowers and bleached desert skulls to nudes, landscapes, cityscapes, still lifes, as well as her highly innovative abstractions.
For more detailed information about this collection, visit the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum collection page.

Related collections:

• Carnegie Arts of the United States
• The Phillips Collection
• George Eastman House Collection
• Terra Foundation for American Art
• Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
• Exhibition Installation Photograph Collection (The Museum of Modern Art Archives)

Every two weeks, the Homeland Security Digital Library identifies “Critical Releases in Homeland Security,” a targeted collection of recently-released documents of particular interest or potential importance.

2008 Report to Congress: Data Mining: Technology and Policy
United States. Dept. of Homeland Security. Privacy Office

Homeland Security in an Obama Administration
Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington, D.C.)

Marrying Prevention and Resiliency: Balancing Approaches to an Uncertain Terrorist Threat
RAND Corporation

Project on National Security Reform: Forging a New Shield
Center for the Study of the Presidency. Project on National Security Reform

Report on Hate Crimes and Discrimination against Arab Americans: 2003-2007
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.

Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency
Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington, D.C.)

Did you know we had access to Library PressDisplay with instant access to 650 newspapers from 76 countries in 38 countries? Just like reading the familiar print edition, you can browse articles and other key content, such as pictures, advertisements, classifieds, and notices.

The service also provides up to a 60-day backfile and the ability to perform keyword searches across all titles and the entire backfile. Multilingual Interface - the interface is available in English, French, Russian, Italian, German, and Arabic.

and over 41,000 trees saved! (Check it Out)

Most Schaffer Library online resources are available to the Union College Community only. In order to access on-campus resources from off-campus, you need to have either a VPN account or a proxy account available from ITS. You can download the form from their website to apply for an off-campus account and return it to the ITS office located in Steinmetz Hall. ITS is open Monday - Friday 8:30am - 4:54pm.

If you are already home - call 388-6293 during business hours for further instructions.

Free Download: Berlioz’s Overture to Benvenuto Cellini

For Berlioz, success in opera was the surest route to financial reward and artistic reputation. Berlioz embarked on a search for a suitable subject, finally settling on Benvenuto Cellini’s memoirs. Initially cast for the Opera-Comique in 1834, Berlioz elevated the tone of the work and offered it to the Paris Opera.

This recording is performed by the Orchestre national de Montpellier, Lionel Arnaud, conductor.

Download this work now through December 8th, 2008.

The library is undergoing a long term trial of WebFeat - a federated search engine, which allows for searching across several of the Library’s electronic subscriptions simultaneously.

“Any Topic” searches databases across disciplinary boundaries (i.e., JSTOR, Proquest, etc.) Other categories are available from the pull-down menu. Please note that Webfeat does not search every database that we have access to. That list can be found via our Databases & Indexes page.

After submitting your search you will be presented with the first ten results from multiple databases. Results are displayed in the order that they are returned from the source, the best databases are not necessarily listed first.