University Libraries

Past announcements: Academic Year 2007-2008

• Friday, April 25: Olin Library and Whispers Café will close at 6:00pm due to WILD. The Arc will close at 5:30pm. Olin Library and Whispers Café will reopen at 9am Saturday, April 26. 4/21/2008

• ILLiad outage: On Tuesday, April 8, we will be performing maintenance on the servers that run the ILLiad (Interlibrary Loan) software. We expect the service will be unavailable from 7am until about noon that day. We apologize for any inconvenience. 4/2/2008

• Focus Groups: Reconfigure space use in Olin; accommodate changing technology

  WU Libraries will host focus groups in April on how to reconfigure Olin Library and better meet student needs for space and for technology. Undergraduate and graduate students are invited to give feedback about how they currently use and would like to use Olin space. Do you need more quiet study space? More group study space? What are your software and hardware needs? Let us know what you think!

  Undergraduate groups (start at 5pm): Wed., April 2 or Tues., April 8
  Graduate Students groups (start at 4pm): Thurs., April 3 or Wed., April 9

  Attendees receive a $10 gift card to the WU campus bookstore. All sessions are one hour, meet in Olin Library, and food is provided.

  Register online to help us plan for food, chairs, & space (!). However, if you're unsure of your schedule, show up at the start time in Olin's lobby and we'll fit in as many participants as we can.

  Questions: dkatz@wustl.edu (Debbie Katz) 314-935-4822

  3/28/2008
• The Libraries have purchased more ebooks from Oxford University Press: Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance, Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, and Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation. All are fully searchable. 3/6/2008
• New database: The Libraries have converted our subscriptions to the publications of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) from paper to online, and now provide access to them via SourceOECD, which contains books, periodicals, and quite a few statistical databases. More info. 3/4/2008
• New database: Thanks to a subscription by both the Social Work and Medical Libraries, we now have campus-wide access to The Cochrane Library, which provides Cochrane evidence-based reviews for interventions, therapies, and rehabilitation in the healthcare field. More info. 3/4/2008
• New ebook: The Libraries have purchased Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography, which 'provides information on the history of science through articles on the professional lives of scientists. All periods of science from classical antiquity to modern times are represented.' (from database homepage) More info. 2/12/2008
• Film and Media Archive Essay Contests: there are two contests underway in honor of Henry Hampton, which are co-sponsored by the African and African American Studies Program. There is one for undergraduate students and the other for graduate students. Each will award a $500 prize, and the deadline is April 1, 2008. 2/7/2008
• New database: The Libraries have subscribed to World Competitiveness Online, which includes all the information from the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook, the leading annual report on the competitiveness of nations, published since 1989. NOTE: not available from off-campus; publisher recommends using Internet Explorer. More info. 2/7/2008
• Exhibition: America at the Racial Crossroads, 1965-1985, an exhibition in celebration of the re-release of Eyes on the Prize II, is currently on display in the Grand Staircase lobby and Ginkgo Reading Room in Olin Library, until March 7, 2008. 2/6/2008
• Do you collect books? Announcing the 21st Annual Student Book Collecting Competition! Cash awards for graduate and undergraduate students! 2/5/2008
• The Libraries have purchased these ebooks from Oxford University Press: Dictionary of American Family Names, Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States, and Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures. All are fully-searchable. 2/5/2008
• Database change: For the first time, SciFinder is available via the web! SciFinder provides access to Chemical Abstracts and other databases, covering journals in chemistry and related fields. Individual logon required. More info. 2/4/2008
• New database: All of Washington University has access to CINAHL Plus due to a subscription of the Becker Medical Library. It covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. More info. 2/1/2008
• New database: The Libraries have purchased 17th & 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers, which provides access to the 'newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) [which] represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. The present digital collection ...totals almost 1 million pages and contains approximately 1,270 titles.' More info. 1/29/2008
• Database change: The Libraries have expanded our subscription to Safari Tech Books Online, to the full file (rather than three most recent years) and 8 concurrent users rather than 5. We now have access to over 5,000 books from the mid-1990's to the present, including content from all top four technology publishers (Pearson, Wiley, O'Reilly Media and Microsoft Press), that represent more than 85% of the computer books sold at retail in the U.S. Please logout when finished using it. More info. 1/24/2008
• New database: The Libraries have subscribed to AccessScience, which contains McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 10th edition, in a fully-searchable format. More info. 1/24/2008
• New database: The Libraries have purchased online access to Testaments to the Holocaust, which contains 'Documents and Rare Printed Materials from the Wiener Library, London. This digital resource offers the unique resources of the World’s oldest Holocaust museum.' More info. 1/24/2008
• New ebooks: The Libraries have subscribed to Encyclopaedia of Islam, Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE, and Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures, all fully searchable and browsable, together or independently, from the same site. See the descriptions on the Databases: E page in the Library website for more information. 1/22/2008
• New database: The Libraries have subscribed to Current Index to Statistics, which indexes publications in statistics, probability, and related fields. More info. 1/16/2008
• New database: The Libraries have subscribed to Book Review Index for one concurrent user. This is a comprehensive online guide to book reviews with over five million review citations from thousands of publications. More info. 1/14/2008
• Images and more in the Catalog: The Libraries have subscribed to a service that provides full-color cover images and links to author notes, fiction and biography profiles, Publishers Weekly reviews, summaries and annotations, and tables of contents. This added info comes from servers at the vendor of the service, linked by the ISBNs on the catalog records. Not all records will have the added info, based on what's available on the vendor's servers. Check it out by doing any search in the online catalog, and see what you get! 1/7/2008
• New database: The Libraries have subscribed to Oxford Islamic Studies Online for three concurrent users. This full-text source "...brings together the best current scholarship in the field and promotes accurate and informed understanding of the Islamic world. This fully integrated resource features reference content and commentary by renowned scholars in areas such as global Islamic history, concepts, people, practices, politics, and culture,..." More info. 1/4/2008
• New database: The Libraries have purchased 19th Century U.S. Newspapers, which provides access to approximately 1.7 million pages (over 28 million articles) of primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. More info. 1/3/2008
• New ebook collection: The Libraries have purchased 2005-2007 and 2008 books in the Springer Math & Statistics EBooks collections. More info. 1/3/2008
• New ejournal collections: The Libraries have subscribed to two additional series of China Academic Journals: Economics/Politics/Law, and Education/Social Science are now available, 1994 to present, along with the Literature/History/Philosophy series we'd had before. The database now covers more than 3,300 major periodicals currently published in China. More info. 12/18/2007
• New database: The Social Work Library has subscribed to the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences for all of Washington University. It provides indexing, abstracts and some full text in the social sciences, and includes broad coverage of international material from over 100 languages and countries. More info. 12/18/2007
• New database: The Libraries have subscribed to Biography and Genealogy Master Index, which indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most important retrospective works that cover individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world; more than 16.9 million biographical sketches. More info. 12/14/2007
• New databases: The Libraries have subscribed to two companion databases: Mental Measurements Yearbook and Tests in Print. MMY is a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments, covering psychology, education, business, leadership, and more. TIP is a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language - and has links into MMY for the tests reviewed there. One concurrent user in each database. More info on MMY. More info on TIP. 12/13/2007
• New ebook collection: The Libraries have subscribed to Oxford Language Dictionaries Online for 3 concurrent users. Fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries, and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languages. More info. 12/12/2007
• New ebook: Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is now available on the web to WU users. 12/11/2007
• New database: The Libraries have subscribed to American National Biography, which contains profiles of more than 17,400 American men and women from all eras and walks of life. More info. 12/11/2007
• New database: The Libraries have subscribed to Nichigai WHO II, which contains biographical information on scholars, authors, writers, critics, and journalists (primarily Japanese). In Japanese. More info. 12/11/2007
• Try out the new LibX Library Toolbar! It provides quick access to many library resources, from a toolbar you install in your web browser. 12/4/2007
• The Get it! windows have changed! Here's why. 11/6/2007, 12/4/2007
• Famed novelist Joyce Carol Oates will keynote "Celebrating Our Books, Recognizing Our Authors." The Center for the Humanities and University Libraries present the Sixth Annual Faculty Book Colloquium at 5:00 p.m., December 3, 2007, Holmes Lounge, Danforth Campus. Call (314) 935-5576 to RSVP. More info. 11/30/2007
• Exhibition: Highlights from the Modern Graphic History Library, featuring selections from some of the many collections that are part of the Modern Graphic History Library. It will run from November 16 until January 13, 2008, and is currently on display in the Grand Staircase lobby and Ginkgo Reading Room in Olin Library. More info. 11/16/2007
• New database: The Libraries have subscribed to Bibliographic Index Plus, a cumulative bibliography of bibliographies for convenient answers to a variety of research questions in all areas. Contains selected full-text bibliographies. More info. 11/16/2007
• New database: The Libraries have subscribed to The Bibliography of the Hebrew Book, a 'rich and comprehensive bibliography of approximately 90% of books printed in the Hebrew Language between 1470 and 1960.' More info. 11/14/2007
• New database: The Libraries have subscribed to The Responsa Project, which contains the world's largest electronic collection of Jewish texts in Hebrew. The database includes: rabbinic case-law rulings; the Bible and the Talmud with their principal commentaries; the major codes of Jewish law, i.e., Maimonides' Mishneh Torah and other significant primary texts of Jewish law and life. More info. 11/14/2007
• New database: The Libraries have subscribed to American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES), which provides information on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union, from 1939-present. More info. 11/12/2007
• New database: The Libraries have subscribed to Index to Jewish Periodicals, a comprehensive guide to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 160 journals devoted to Jewish affairs, from 1988-present. More info. 11/12/2007
• New full-text collection: The Libraries have purchased the current releases, 2007 and forward, of the Gale Literature Criticism series, now available at Literature Criticism Online. The 10 individual Thomson Gale series that comprise Literature Criticism Online represent a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. More info. 11/8/2007
• New databases: The Libraries have subscribed to both Human Relations Area Files databases: HRAF World Cultures and HRAF Archaeology. Both are full-text; World Cultures provides in-depth information on all aspects of cultural and social life, and Archaeology information on prehistory of the world. More info on HRAF World Cultures. More info on HRAF Archaeology. 11/7/2007
• New database: The Libraries have subscribed to WDI Online (World Development Indicators), the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development, now searchable online. More info. 11/6/2007
• New database: The Libraries have subscribed to Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, which '...indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences.' More info. 11/5/2007
• You told us, we listened: here are the results of the Spring 2007 Library Service Quality Survey. We've made some changes already! 11/1/2007
• New database: The Libraries have subscribed to HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index), which provides article citations about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States, from 1970 to the present. More info. 11/1/2007
• New database: The Libraries have subscribed to RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals, a journal index providing international coverage of the music periodical literature published from the late 18th- to mid-20th- centuries in Europe and the United States. One concurrent user; please log off when finished. More info. 11/1/2007
• The Libraries are once again co-sponsoring ITeach with The Teaching Center and Arts & Sciences Computing. ITeach 2008: Student Learning, Teaching and Technology will be held January 10, 2008. Please see the ITeach 2008 website for more information and to register. 11/1/2007
• The Annual Neureuther Lecture will be given by author and activist Frances Moore Lappé on Tuesday, November 6, at 4 p.pm in Graham Chapel. Please see this announcement for more information and to reserve seating. 11/1/2007
• New database: The Libraries have subscribed to Digital National Security Archive, a full-text database that includes more than 63,000 of the most important declassified documents regarding critical U.S. policy decisions published since 1945. More info. 10/31/2007
• New full-text collection: The Libraries have purchased Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker, which contains a wide array of classic German literature, from early German texts to the major German writers of the 19th century. More info. 10/30/2007
• New database: The Libraries have subscribed to Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (MEMSO), which is a searchable, full-text database of medieval and early modern sources online. More info. 10/29/2007
• New database: The Libraries have subscribed to The Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive, which includes the full-text of TLS from 1902 - 1990. More info. 10/24/2007
• New database: The Libraries have subscribed to DemographicsNow, which allows you to analyze demographic and market potential of any geography in the U.S., using Census and other data. More info. 10/24/2007
• New ebook: Historical Dictionary of Iraq, 2004 edition, is now available on the web to WU users. More info. 10/23/2007
• The Social Work Library has stopped subscribing to Sociological Abstracts, and has subscribed instead to SocINDEX with Full Text, available to all WU campuses. Access to Sociological Abstracts has ceased. More info. 10/3/2007
• AP Multimedia Archive has changed its name to AP Images, and has a new look and feel to its interface. Give it a try! The Libraries have also upgraded the subscription from one concurrent user to 5 users at a time. More info. 10/2/2007
• Database changes: OCLC and RLG have merged, and the RLG Eureka search interface is being discontinued. The two databases the Libraries subscribed to on Eureka have been moved to OCLC FirstSearch: History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, and Anthropology Plus. More info on HSTM. More info on Anthro Plus. 9/27/2007
• Saturday, September 29: Olin Library and Whispers Café will close at 6:00pm due to WILD. The Arc will close at 4:30pm. Olin Library and Whispers Café will reopen at 10am Sunday, September 30. 9/27/2007
• Database change: The Libraries have subscribed to EconLit with Full Text, replacing EconLit on the FirstSearch interface, which will cease as of August 31. Please note that while this database is searchable within Find it!, it is not yet retrieving the full text into Find it! search results; please click on the database name in Find it! to search it in the EBSCO interface to retrieve the full text. More info. 8/27/2007
• ILLiad logon changed. 8/23/2007
• New off-campus access service will make access much easier. 8/23/2007
• Academic year 2007-2008 hours are available. 8/23/2007
• New database: The Making of the Modern World: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature presents more than 61,000 books from the period 1460-1850, and 466 pre-1906 serials. In almost 12 million pages, it focuses on economics interpreted in the widest sense, including political science, history, sociology, and special collections on banking, finance, transportation, and manufacturing. More info. 7/5/2007
• New database: African American Studies Center. Full-text. Provides more than 7,500 articles by top scholars in the field, and includes the Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895, Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present, and additional reference works. One concurrent user; please log out when finished. More info. 7/2/2007