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Collection Development News

February 2003

Databases and Indexes

JSTOR

Today more and more journals are available full-text in electronic format, but many of the back files of these same journals are available only in paper format.  It is not only expensive to digitize the back issues of these journals, but maintaining, storing, and providing access to the digitized files presents numerous problems. One attempt to solve these problems is JSTOR (Journal Storage). JSTOR  is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to building a central and trusted repository of back issues of journal literature.  It is a cooperative effort of publishers, libraries, and scholars around the globe.  The Chesnutt Library is one of more than 1,500 institutions in 71 countries participating in JSTOR.  With the recent acquisition of JSTOR journal back files in business (46 titles) and language and literature (47 titles), in addition to four previous collections (Arts & Sciences I and II, Ecology & Botany, and General Science), the library is able to offer online the back files of 322 key journals, totaling 83,296 issues and 12,330,049 pages. Click here on JSTOR to use the database, or access it from Database Finder on the library web site. Click here for a complete listing of disciplines and journal titles currently available through JSTOR.  The Chesnutt Library is able to offer JSTOR through funding from the Higher Education Act, Title III 2(b), awarded by the United States Department of Education.

North Carolina Live (NC LIVE)

North Carolina Libraries for Virtual Education (NC LIVE) offers the citizens of North Carolina online access to complete articles from over 5,500 newspapers, journals (Full-Text Journal Title List (Microsoft Excel) | Full-Text Journal Title List -- Printer-friendly version (PDF)), magazines, and encyclopedias, indexing for over 15,000 periodical titles, and access to over 22,000 electronic books. NC LIVE is available free of charge for library patrons, researchers, and educators from four communities of interest -- public libraries, community colleges, the state's university system, and members of the North Carolina Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. NC LIVE can be accessed from the Chesnutt Library web site via Database Finder. Funding for NC LIVE depends on the NC General Assembly.  For a complete listing of databases available in NC Live listed by subject, click here. 

Black History

A number of databases that the library offers may be helpful to you in the classroom for the celebration of Black History Month.  African American Poetry, published by Chadwyck-Healey, includes nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The poems are indexed from 1750 to 1900. Twentieth Century African-American Poetry, also published by Chadwyck-Healey, is a collection of poetry written by the most important and influential African American poets of the twentieth century. The collection presently includes over 6,000 poems from over 100 complete editions by 46 poets. The collection is indexed from 1901 to 1998.  American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography, published by Alexander Street Press, is a searchable collection and analysis of the life histories of former slaves in the United States, compiled through nearly 4,000 interviews with ex-slaves. The narratives were collected from 1936 to 1938 by writers and journalists working for the Federal Writers' Project of the Work Progress Administration. Ethnic News Watch provides news, culture and history from 200+ publications of the Ethnic, Minority, and Native Press (On Campus Access Only). 

ISI Web of Science

ISI Web of Science is powered by ISI Web of Knowledge, a Web platform for searching citation indexes.  ISI citation indexes included in Web of Science are Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index . Through ISI Web of Science, you can access these individual indexes, or you can search multiple products simultaneously through CrossSearch. The Science Citation Index Expanded is a multidisciplinary index, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes more than 5,700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines, covering approximately 2,100 more journals than its SCI print and CD-ROM counterparts, with all cited references captured. The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.

Current Database Trials

• The World Bank's Global Development Finance database, GDF Online offers external debt and financial flow data for the 138 countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System. The time series for 219 indicators run from 1970 to 2001, with contractual obligations data until 2011. The indicators include external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates, and key debt ratios as well as average terms of new commitments, currency composition of long-term debt, debt restructurings, and scheduled debt service projections.
  
  The GDF Online database is released in January each year and updated in April, to include the latest-year estimates prepared for the print editions.
  
  The GDF Online subscription also includes topical country data and regional aggregates showing time series in table and chart form. The topics are: external debt, aggregate net resource flows (long term), net flows and transfers on debt, net financial flows from multilateral institutions (for 2001), and international bond issues (new and outstanding).

  Login Instructions:

  Please go to the WDI landing page: http://publications.worldbank.org/WDI/
  Click the red button (ENTER WDI ONLINE) on the right-hand side of the page.  A new page will open and you will be prompted to log in.
  
   Please fill in the box on the right with the following information:
  
  Username: tryme@worldbank.org
  Password: snowboard [case sensitive]

   

• The World Bank's World Development Indicators database, WDI Online offers the World Bank's comprehensive database on development data, covering 550 indicators, 207 countries, and 18 regional and income groups. The extensive collection of development data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators for more than forty years (1960 to 2000, where data are available).

  The easy-to-use data system allows you to retrieve the data, definitions, sources, and footnotes, with several ways of displaying the data--indexed, as percentage change, and in graphs--and standard export formats.

  You can explore a sample data system. Data Query gives you free access to 54 of the indicators, five years (1996 to 2000), and the same 207 countries and 18 country groups as WDI Online.

  Login Instructions:

  Please go to the WDI landing page: http://publications.worldbank.org/GDF/
  Click the red button (ENTER GDF ONLINE) on the right-hand side of the page.  A new page will open and you will be prompted to log in.
  
   Please fill in the box on the right with the following information:
  
  Username: tryme@worldbank.org
  Password: snowboard [case sensitive]

Please forward your comments on these databases to Duane Bogenschneider, ext. 1520.

Journals

In each issue of Collection Development News we will list Chesnutt Library journal subscriptions in specific subject areas to help faculty in identifying journal resources available in their subject area.  In this issue we are listing journal subscriptions for Education.  These are just the paper subscriptions and do not include the many electronic titles we may have in the subject area.

Material Recommendations

We encourage faculty members to recommend materials to the Office of Collection Development for library acquisition. To better support you in your classroom efforts, we need to know what books, journals, AV materials, databases, etc. you need in the library.  You can stop by the Office of Collection Development in Room 321 of the library, send an e-mail to Duane Bogenschneider or Anna Sumerour, or use our online recommendation form on the library web site (Suggest a Purchase).  Thank you for your continuing support.

Collection Development News is a monthly publication of the Office of Collection Development, Charles W. Chesnutt Library, Fayetteville State University, 1200 Murchison Road, Fayetteville, NC 28301-4298.  Please forward your comments and recommendations to Duane Bogenschneider, Associate Director for Collection Development (910-672-1520; dbogenschneider@uncfsu.edu; Room 321, Chesnutt Library.  The Office of Collection Development is funded by the Higher Education Act, Title III 2(b), awarded by the United States Department of Education.