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Ron Renchler
Director, Library Communications
ronr@darkwing.uoregon.edu
Several new and expanded technology-related services will be available at the UO Libraries this fall. Updates on new library services are posted frequently in the News section of the library's website at http://libweb.uoregon.edu/news/whatsnew/ Here's a short list of what's on tap for fall:
The UO Libraries Interactive Media Group recently launched a new web resource (http://itdirectory.uoregon.edu/) that matches educational technology users with relevant services. Targeted primarily at instructors, the Instructional Technology (IT) Directory project is a direct response to faculty requests for a comprehensive, user-friendly guide to the many educational technology service providers scattered across the UO campus. The design emphasizes nontechnical terms and carefully developed category searching, so users can find the help they need even if they aren't familiar with the latest ed tech jargon and organizational labels. If you'd like to have your technology service included in the directory, contact project manager Kirstin Hierholzer (346-1995, kirstinh@uoregon.edu ).
UO faculty members are encouraged to use the newly developed Scholars' Bank at http://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/ Scholar's Bank is an institutional archive for UO research in digital form, including preprints, technical reports, working papers, student terminal projects, datasets, and more. It's a tool for collecting, disseminating, and preserving the intellectual output of the UO community. Built around the concept of research communities, Scholars' Bank gives users easy remote access and the ability to read and search items generated at the UO from one location: the World Wide Web. The service offers standardized digital preservation presentation, and distribution of many forms of data, including text, audio, video, images, datasets, and more. Interested faculty should contact the coordinator of the project, Carol Hixson (chixson@uoregon.edu, 346-3064), for information on how to establish a community for their research.
The Metadata and Digital Library Services department in the UO Libraries has been hard at work during the past year expanding the library's ever-growing digital collections. Several new collections have recently been made publicly available, including Picturing the Cayuse, Historical Photographs, Western Waters, and the aforementioned Scholars' Bank. Several others will be coming online soon. All public digital collections can be accessed at http://libweb.uoregon.edu/catdept/digcol/index.html
The library continues to add powerful new databases and other electronic research aids to its collections. Many new databases are being acquired through the library's collaborative efforts with other Oregon libraries to license databases for statewide use through a single vendor, EBSCO Publishing. The new program, administered by the State Library in Salem, saves the state nearly $10 million annually in database licensing fees.
In the past year, the following databases were added to the library's collections as a result of its participation in the program: Alt HealthWatch, Computer Source, Legal Collection, Military and Government Collection, Professional Development Collection, Psychology and Behavioral Science Collection, Religion and Philosophy Collection, and Vocational and Career Collection. These databases typically provide full-text content for several hundred journals in each discipline.
Other databases or upgrades acquired individually by the UO Libraries in the past year include All Academic, Chicano Database, FIAF--International Film Archive, SourceOECD, and Web of Science. More information on the library's databases is available at http://libweb.uoregon.edu/dbs/indexes.php
If you're looking for full-text articles in psychology and related fields, you'll be happy to know that the library has added full-text online access to the contents of 53 journals (http://www.apa.org/psycarticles/covlist.html) published by the American Psychological Association and its affiliates. To access the full text of an article of interest from these journals, click the FindText button on the library's home page at http://libweb.uoregon.edu/ and conduct a FindText search for the article. The results will provide links to full-text versions.
Researching labor history using materials in the UO Special Collections and University Archives became much easier with the launch of The Labor Project, a new web resource that includes a searchable online catalog of major holdings in the labor history collection. To use the new resource, visit http://libweb.uoregon.edu/speccoll/exhibits/labor/index.html