Welcome Remarks & SCELC Update
Presenter: Rick Burke, Executive Director, SCELC; Bob Kieft, Coordinator, SCELC Shared Print Program
An update on SCELC and our many SCELC member services, including our new strategic plan and exploration of new collaborative collection services.
Keynote: The Politics of Online Information: Algorithmic Ethics, Privacy, and the Commodification of Big Data in Higher Education
Dr. Safiya Noble, UCLA
Professor Noble will share her research in socio-cultural informatics. Her keynote will focus on the rise in corporate mediation of computing platforms and software and the implications for discovery, equal access, privacy, and representation. Dr. Noble will provide a critical perspective on the connection of these trends to higher education and the crucial role of academic libraries in defending technology/software in the public interest.
Why would SCELC libraries care about the Digital PUBLIC Library of America (aka DPLA)?
Kathleen Salomon, Associate Director, Getty Research Institute
Laine Farley, Planning Consultant
Greg Lucas, California State Librarian
Kathleen Salomon will talk about why DPLA is important, both to the Getty and to SCELC libraries in California. She will explain why the Getty decided to join, and the potential of DPLA for all of our institutions and our respective communities, as well as for those new ones that we will foster.
Laine Farley will discuss CALDISH (California DPLA Service Hub): the vision for creating a service hub collaborative in California; who is involved at this stage; the approach we have taken; and what happens next.
Greg Lucas will discuss the State Library’s role in this project. The California State Library, in partnership with Califa Group, is embarking on a multi-year initiative to help public libraries preserve the local history of their communities and make those images publicly available online. The State Library will collaborate with public libraries and other cultural heritage groups, such as genealogical or historical societies, archives and museums, to develop regional digital preservation and collections plans. This project will encourage libraries to work with the other cultural heritage groups in their jurisdiction to create a joint list of their holdings and a joint priority list of the top priorities for digitization or digital preservation. The State Library will help successful applicants digitize their priority collections through a number of means, including roving digitization stations, federal dollars permitting.
While still in the planning stage, the goal is also to include creation of a hub to provide digitization, metadata creation, and web delivery services for small and mid-size institutions and also to provide targeted grant opportunities for digitization and digital preservation projects. This project dovetails with ongoing efforts to create a Digital Public Library of America service hub, which will work with all types of libraries, archives and museums in California.
Thomas E. Phillips, Claremont School of Theology
Introducing the Open Library of the Humanities
This talk will inform participants about a contemporary open access project in the humanities. The presentation will briefly explain the origin of the Open Library of the Humanities, including its most important founders, before elaborating on the vision for creating a humanities library on the model of the Public Library of Science (PLOS). The presentation will explain the quality controls and funding mechanisms for the OLH.
Christal Young & Carolyn Caffrey Gardner, University of Southern California
Pop Quiz: Using Viral Marketing Techniques for Library Outreach
Buzzfeed quizzes are engaging - we’ve seen them pop up all over our social news feeds asking the most important questions of our day such as, “Which state do you actually belong in?”. These quizzes quickly draw you in and grab your attention with fun slogans and eye-catching images. Inspired by quizzes we’ve seen and other libraries, we created an online quiz that matches students to library spaces based on their interests and personality. This quiz was promoted through social media, featured on the libraries’ website, and used in orientation programming. Easy to create and promote, we’ll provide tips and tricks for marketing library spaces, collections, or services using quizzes that go viral.
Shilpa Rele, Loyola Marymount University
So … what do librarians really think of our discovery tool?
In Spring 2015, a group of librarians at the LMU Library, as part of their service on the library’s EBSCO Discovery Service Evaluation Task Force surveyed all librarians at LMU to understand their perceptions of OneSearch+ (EBSCO Discovery Tool) and its usefulness in their liaison areas. The goal of the survey was to understand whether they found relevant resources that they were looking for, any challenges they encountered while conducting their searches, to improve our instance of OneSearch+ based on the survey feedback and to identify next steps. This presentation will highlight some of the feedback ranging from librarians being mostly satisfied to not satisfied; uncertainty over how the system actually functions and reservations on using it for reference and instruction; and the need for information literacy skills when using the discovery tool.
Rebecca Davis & Nancy Olmos, University of Southern California
The Beginnings: Measuring Racial Microaggressions in the Medical Library Community
The amount of academic literature published on racial microaggressions has increased dramatically since the early 2000s. However, the majority of the literature published is in the field of psychology. There is a gap in the current library literature regarding racial microaggressions in the medical library community. The speakers will share information about what microaggressions are, the group’s research process, and their work towards developing a tool to measure racial microaggressions among medical librarians and library staff from colleagues and the library’s community of users. The speakers will also share their future plans for the project which include an outreach plan for the tool and a call for participation in the study.
Jeremy Whitt, Pepperdine University
Using Pay-Per-View Access to Supplant the "Big Deal": A Case Study at Pepperdine University
In 2011, Pepperdine University Libraries discontinued a “Big Deal” agreement. To provide ongoing access to content, Pepperdine utilizes pay-per-view tokens and post-cancellation access. This talk will offer a look at the long-term results of implementing the pay-per-view approach in place of a “Big Deal” by evaluating costs and use, and it will also offer lessons learned from implementing the pay-per-view access model to those who might be considering the feasibility of a similar approach.
Amy Jiang, University of La Verne
Makerspace and Library, an Incubator for young makers
This talk will share how a private university library started to bring Maker technologies such as 3D printers scanners into the library. The speaker will share the strategic visioning of the project, the challenges encountered, and faculty and student response."
Sanjeet Mann, University of Redlands
Behind the Scenes With the SCELC Electronic Resources Hackfest
The first SCELC Electronic Resources Hackfest, to be held May 2-3, 2016 at William Jessup University, will give electronic resource librarians an opportunity to build practical e-resource management skills, solve problems, and tap into a network of regional expertise. How was the idea for this event born, and how did 8 librarians from 5 libraries across California come together to develop it? This presentation will share insights from the planning team on leveraging SPIF funding, connecting needs and ideas, and marshaling the resources needed to create a new community of practice serving e-resource librarians.
Caroline Muglia, University of Southern California
Curating Usable ILS Data for Subject Selectors
Like most libraries, USC Libraries has so much data! We have metrics on usage, acquisitions, trial resources, and our patron driven models. For subject selectors, the data deluge can be overwhelming and unhelpful in terms of actionable next step. This lightning talk will introduce the “Content Gains” report, a sortable and highly usable curated monthly report prepared by the Collection Assessment Librarian. The goal of this monthly report is to inform librarians and staff about the collection growth overall to illustrate a comprehensive view of the changes in the collection over time. This report seeks to share the new titles in print and electronic, databases, serials, and other formats including music and audio-visuals and includes a numeric breakdown of our demand-driven acquisition (DDA) program and a report on the lending and borrowing practices of the InterLibrary Loan department. Librarians have applauded the report’s utility in interacting with teaching faculty and determining how ILL and the DDA program can be used to strengthen their subject areas.
Ashley Sanders, Claremont Colleges Library
Designing a Digital Incubator at the Claremont Colleges Library
In less than two years, the Claremont Colleges Library has become the consortial heart of digital humanities and digital scholarship on the Claremont Colleges campus. To further the exciting work already underway, the library is developing two new digital research, teaching, and learning spaces: the Digital Tool Shed (formerly our mono-purpose GIS Lab) and the Digital Research Studio. This project has strengthened the Library’s social capital on campus by including multiple stakeholders in the design phase, listening to expressed wishes and underlying concerns, and synthesizing the feedback into an actionable plan. This presentation will briefly describe the vision and design cycle for the Digital Tool Shed. The Digital Tool Shed is envisioned as an incubator for innovative digital research, teaching, and learning – a space for exploration, practice, engagement, and experiential learning. To refine this vision, the Library planning team partnered with the Sontag Center for Collaborative Creativity to conduct interviews with potential users, identify stakeholders’ needs and interests, and craft solutions.
Jennifer Martinez Wormser, Laguna College of Art + Design
Now at Terminal Near You: A Collaboratively Developed Online Information Literacy Tutorial
In 2014, a group of Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD) library directors proposed to create an online information literacy tutorial targeting art and design students and visual learners and offer it through the online learning company, lynda.com. A small task force of library directors, including three from California representing SCELC institutions, developed the content for the tutorial, tailoring it with art and design-related examples while aligning with ACRL’s Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. Lynda.com produced, taped, and edited the course in their studios in Carpenteria, CA, and it went live in Summer 2015. This lightning talk will provide an overview of the project’s collaborative process, goals, challenges and assessment plans as well as data regarding the tutorial’s first six months of use.
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The SCELC Vendors vs. Librarians Bowling Tournament began early in the 21st century. Vague recollections from the participants are unable to pinpoint the exact year in which it began, and we suspect we are now the world's longest-running vendor vs. librarian sporting event... at least in our neighborhood, if not the greater universe. We also know that the librarians have never won the tournament!
So, we urge you to continue the tradition! Join us for free pizza, wings, cocktails, beer (or other non-alcoholic beverages of your choice), and two hours of bowling fun. Maybe the librarians might surprise the vendors this year... who knows!
APA will be introducing to institutions a new product, that will include all of the APA Style rules and so much more, in a product called, APA Style Central. APA Style® CENTRAL has been developed for academic institutions by the American Psychological Association, the creator of and authority on APA Style®, and features full integration of the APA’s best-selling and widely adopted Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Everyone, including students, faculty, researchers and librarians, who need to learn about, use or teach APA Style® and is engaged in research and writing will reap the benefits of this product.
APA Style® CENTRAL features four integrated but separate centers providing expert resources for every stage of the learning, research, writing, and publishing processes, while promoting optimal habits of scholarship and research.
LEARN CENTER-Provides users and instructors an array of quick guides, tutorials and other learning objects by which to learn and retain APA Style
RESEARCH CENTER-Provides an environment to learn the research process and includes tools for planning and tracking of the research process.
WRITE CENTER-Provides authoritative guidance for all types of scholarly writing in APA Style. Users will have access to templates for any type of APA Style paper and tools to manage and format their references.
PUBLISH CENTER-Users will be able to browse and search over 1800 journals in order to find the best potential journals for publication of their work.
ASC is scheduled for launch in the spring and trials will be available at that time.
Please also take a look at the following links to information and an introductory video on ASC::
http://www.apastyle.org/
http://www.apastyle.org/asc/index.html
The American Council of Learned Societies has historically had a long and cordial relationship with the American Theological Library Association, as part of which ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) has partnered with ATLA to introduce the ATLA Special Series in Religion and Biblical Studies. This carefully selected collection follows the same rigorous process of curation that make up the balance of HEB’s 4700 titles. The difference being, this new offering will have the additional vetting of ATLA’s member scholars.
Humanities E-Book is pleased to announce its participation in the ATLA/SCELC Affiliate Program with an extremely advantageous introductory program. Our participation will enable us to offer an increased discount and additional resources to ATLA members who join the ATLA/SCELC Affiliate Program.
Whether needing to get a broad overview, prepare lecture notes or inform research, your users can rely on Books on ScienceDirect for easy, instant and DRM-free access. Our books offer award-winning content and comprehensive coverage of the full range of scientific disciplines, including those published under the renowned imprints Academic Press, Woodhead Publishing and Gulf Professional Publishing.
ScienceDirect Books include:
What challenges face faculty and students when they use online video in the classroom or for research? What is most important and what would improve their experience? This presentation shares interesting and surprising findings and results from user testing and other market intelligence on the user experience of online video.
About SAGE Video
Including interviews with top academics, tutorials with key authors, practitioners in action and much more, SAGE Video streaming collections can greatly enhance and support teaching and research.
SAGE Video streaming collections are developed in partnership with leading academics, societies, and practitioners, including many of SAGE’s own authors and academic partners, to deliver cutting-edge pedagogical and research-oriented video with the social sciences.
Acquiring EBSCO eBooks continues to evolve with technological advancements that provides a more seamless experience whether you are ordering through YBP using GOBI or through EBSCO using EBSCOhost Collection Manager (ECM). Learn about the enhanced eBook online reader and our new eBook app to discover and read EBSCO eBooks. We will explore what’s trending in the marketplace with the ever-changing acquisition models, including the growth of our subscription offerings and more.
Through the ASME Digital Collection, we are pleased to offer members of SCELC an opportunity to subscribe to our online journal, conference proceedings and eBooks at discounted rates. The ASME Digital Collection has COUNTER-compliant usage statistics, advanced search functionality, and user accounts for alerts. For a complete listing of all our journals, conference proceedings and eBooks please visit our website at www.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org.
The ASME Digital Collection is ASME’s repository of current and archival literature featuring:
1. ASME's Journals from 1960 to present
2. ASME's Conference Proceedings from 2002 to present.
3. ASME Press eBooks, selected from 1993 to present.
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This Session will cover OCLC WorldShare Management Services: Streamlined Management of Electronic and Print Resources
Learn how WorldShare Management Services (WMS)—a complete suite of cloud-based library management applications—help save time with streamlined workflows. Hear how the integrated applications enable libraries to automate e-resource management, set up demand-driven acquisition programs and manage print using the same Web-based interface. WMS is being used today by over 380 libraries including 40 SCELC libraries.This session will cover new and traditional core components of Euromonitor's award winning database, Passport. This cross-disciplinary database can support marketing, entrepreneurship, finance, supply chain, economics, hospitality, and management strategy courses onthe domestic and international level.
The session will cover three sections of the Passport database:
The Digital Consumer:
A new addition to Passport as of February 2016 and included in all standard academic subscriptions.
Help students understand connected commerce by location and device type covering industries like foodservice, travel, and transport. Enable projects that break down markets and consumers by broadband and mobile accessibility and students focus on the 21st century.
Lifestyles:
Euromonitor's traditional Consumer Lifestyle coverage has been rebranded and enhanced with granular consumer survey data capable of breaking down respondent demographic data into over 15 subsections.
In addition to understanding the trends of the markets these tools build on capability to help students understand the why and how of trends that impact global businesses, industries, and economies.
Passport Industries:
A recap of Euromonitor's traditional forte: primary research conducted by industry experts located in 80 countries worldwide.
Our data and analysis enables students to understand consumer industries and companies, ranging from market sizes and brand shares to distribution channels and ingredients with 15 years of historic data and 5 years of projections.
The New RefWorks is the next generation of reference management software empowering both researchers and librarians to do more. It combines powerful citation management functionality including database import, web capture tools and thousands of flexible citation styles, plus a refined user experience, full-text management, collaboration and other features you’d expect from a complete reference management solution. Come learn about development plans, release notes, and best practices for preparing to upgrade your campus and users. If you think you know RefWorks…you’re in for a birthday surprise!
Attendees in this session will have the chance to win a RefWorks birthday prize and will be entered into the ProQuest 2016 SCELCapalooza contest for ------.
This presentation will briefly look at the current state of Open Access and review the 1science solution designed to help libraries in their current struggles and utilizing open access information.
Libraries along with their collections and services need to be where their users are – not just on Web sites, but also directly searchable via search engines. Transforming MARC records to Linked Data is an important step to revealing the remarkable resources of library collections to the Web for students, faculty and researchers, but also potential customers such as prospective students/parents, business community, alumni/donors, campus administration and even as a recruitment tool.
Zepheira is working with librarians and their service providers to build the Library.Link Network, an enterprise level infrastucture that uses Linked Data to give libraries new opportunities to serve "anywhere, any device" users. At this session, we will explore how libraries are expanding access to their resources by publishing structured data about their collections and services to the Web. You will learn how Linked Data can impact workflow planning, management, strategic planning, and the communities you serve.Answer questions such as: "How many households within 1 mile from my potential business earn over $100k a year?” or "What are the largest employers by industry in the region?" or "What cities spend the most on pets?"
In this session, Steven Swartz, VP Sales from Geographic Research, Inc. will lead a live demonstration of SimplyMap, covering everything you need to start creating custom maps, rankings, reports, and business lists, including many tips and tricks to help you find, map, and analyze data like a pro.
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Discover Taylor & Francis Group's extensive books and journals offerings during SCELC Vendor Day! During this session, you will learn more about our leading journal content, including our Social Sciences & Humanities Library, Science & Technology Library and our new Medical Library as well as information about our highly acclaimed eBook content, such as Routledge Handbooks Online and Taylor & Francis eBooks. We'll also share details about Taylor & Francis flexible purchasing options especially for baccalaureate colleges and of course our special pricing for SCELC members.
Join Gillian Howcroft (Journals) and Melissa Mazza (Books) us to find out what T&F has for 2016 and stop by our table for a chance to enter our raffles and win a $25 Starbucks gift card. We look forward to seeing you there.
We will present an update on Books at JSTOR and JSTOR archive journal collections.
Since last year, our books program has grown substantially with dozens of new publishers and thousands of new titles, including unique titles from Latin American presses. Using information from our growing number of participants, we will show the value of adding titles from Books at JSTOR.
We will also provide an overview of what will be new for JSTOR archive journal collections in 2016.
This session focuses on digital journal archives, books, major reference works... services, product updates, and your unique SCELC member/affiliate special savings opportunity.
We look forward to seeing you!
Bring classic and modern theater to your institution digitally with Drama Online! Perfect for both Drama and Literature courses, this online resource features engaging, multi-media content; an easy-to-use interface with no concurrency restrictions; and essential scholarly research tools for both play analysis and production enquiry. Both of our sessions will discuss Drama Online’s various play text, audio play, and video components. We will also briefly go over other Bloomsbury online library products, including the Berg Fashion Library and the Churchill Archive.
Founded in 1949 at Yale University, the Human Relations Area Files, Inc. (HRAF) is an internationally recognized organization in the fields of anthropology, psychology, and sociology. HRAF's mission is to encourage and facilitate the cross-cultural study of human culture, society, and behavior in the past and present. HRAF produces two online databases: eHRAF World Cultures and eHRAF Archaeology, and other resources for teaching and research. The membership-based, annually growing eHRAF databases are organized by cultures, ethnic groups, indigenous people, and/or archaeological traditions. eHRAF is unique in having subject indexing at the page and paragraph level. These subject categories allow for detailed and precise searching for concepts not easily found with keywords.
Join me in exploring our award-winning eHRAF World Cultures & eHRAF Archaeology databases (each voted by Choice Magazine "Top 10 Internet Resources”). We’ll start out by taking a closer look at eHRAF’s truly unique document (e.g., analyzed and subject-indexed books, journal articles, dissertations, etc.) and collection structure (ethnographic documents organized by culture names). We then turn to eHRAF’s powerful search mechanism that automatically filters results by major geographic locations and even subsistence and sample types. We’ll discuss how these and other features make eHRAF a great research tool, especially for cross-cultural and comparative studies. Lastly we’ll explore how Teaching eHRAF, an online portal with 40+ online student exercises, paper assignments, quizzes, can provide new ideas for teaching under- and graduate-level classes in the social sciences and other disciplines with an interest in cultural and ethnic diversity.
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Did you know that SCELC member libraries can save big on document delivery fees by using Reprints Desk? There is NO cost to get started with Reprints Desk, and SCELC members receive a discount on all document delivery transactions. Reprints Desk’s A-Z Academic Document Delivery Service is configurable to your workflow, whether it’s mediated ILL or unmediated patron ordering. Join the growing community of universities who are enjoying Reprints Desk’s seamless, easy to use document delivery solutions.
In this Discussion, learn how you can expedite your article acquisition workflows.
Available through SCELC:
e-Duke Books includes the outright purchase of over 100 new books each year plus term access to over 2,000 e-books in the archive.
e-Duke Journals provides perpetual access to current content from 45 journals plus term access to all available back content.
Euclid Prime is a collection of 27 high-quality titles in mathematics and statistics hosted on Project Euclid, a powerful, not-for-profit platform dedicated to sustainable scholarly publishing.Join Senior Discovery Services Engineer, David Podboy, for a discussion on how new EDS features along with Apps and Cloud Services are making results more relevant than ever, allowing for easier integration of your research guides, and showing how your users are searching and interacting with Discovery. David will also discuss future directions and how user research and data analysis are shaping EDS development.
Get It Now from Copyright Clearance Center complements your interlibrary loan services by providing library patrons with the immediated fulfillment of full-text articles from unsubscribed journals - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week - through a cost-effective and easy-to-use service integrated into your ILL workflow and/or OpenURL link resolver.
As a result of the merger between Macmillan Science and Education and Springer Science+Business Media, Palgrave Macmillan and Springer have decided to align eBook collections. Starting with the 2016 collections, all titles that would have been available on Palgrave Connect are integrated into the Springer eBook collections. As a result, there are now 10 new eBook collections focusing on the humanities, social sciences and business, management and finance disciplines.
Join us for a demo and Q & A about the newest member of our Springy Software Suite – LibWizard. It’s a culmination of our effort to extend the existing LibSurveys tool and add fully interactive tutorials and assessment modules. The Quiz Wizard and Assessments Wizard are available with the full LibWizard platform.
The full LibWizard tool adds two powerful components – The Quiz Wizard and the Tutorials/Assessment Wizard.
Need to test your students and patrons on their understanding of key research concepts? Create a Quiz, embed it in your LibGuides and voila – assessment made easy.
The Quiz Wizard has it all – it’s an easy to use tool with so many great features, including:
Create assessment modules to complement the instruction taught via LibGuides – automatically embed any LibGuide, and turn it into an Assessment tool – check out this brief teaser video.
LibWizard Lite (Including in LibGuides CMS)With LibWizard Lite, you’ll create amazing custom forms and embed them anywhere – in any webpage where you need form-based input from users.
Key features include:
Join us for an interactive exploration of our latest historical collections. Bring your fun or challenging search requests…you may be surprised!
New periodicals archives span numerous disciplines and content types in full-color, full-page, full-print runs. We’ll access back-files of leading women’s and consumer periodicals of the late-19th and 20th centuries, including Ladies’ Home Journal, Better Homes & Gardens, Good Housekeeping, Harper’s Bazaar and more. Explore aspects of history, culture, and society beyond gender/family roles, social history, health, history of consumerism and fashion. New British Periodicals collections focus on key popular but distinguished periodicals of the 20th century, with publications spanning topics such as literature, the arts, politics, leisure, satire, society, and international affairs.
Giving researchers what they need, History Vault provides instant access to millions of primary source, cross-searchable archives on the most widely studied topics in 19th and 20th-century American history. The vast majority of the content in History Vault is not available elsewhere and invaluable for researchers in history, African American studies, Native American studies, women’s studies, political science, international relations, social sciences, sociology and more.
Government information sources provide reports and testimonies from the world’s largest publisher. House, Senate and Executive publications document the transformation of the U.S. from thirteen colonies into a world power, with primary source content on subjects ranging from Indian claims and human rights to nuclear energy, space exploration, health and terrorism.
Learn about the latest Web of Science developments - including the launch of the NEW Emerging Sources Citation Index. Discussion will center around Web of Science enhancements, introduction of ESCI, Citation Connection, and EndNote.
Visit Readex, the leader in American primary sources and a global innovator in content covering the modern world.
Readex products include cornerstones like Early American Imprints (“Evans” and “Shaw-Shoemaker”), World Newspaper Archive, Historical American Newspapers, and many more.
Recent offerings cover a broad spectrum of subjects—for example, African History and Culture, Religious Newspapers, Business History, and single-title offerings like the Rand Daily Mail.
The session will introduce new global thematic products covering Apartheid; Immigrations, Migrations, and Refugees; Civil Rights in America; The Cold War; The Middle East and North Africa; and Race Relations.
The session will introduce Readex’s brand-new “AllSearch” platform, which allows users to explore every Readex collection at the same time and presents results in a highly intuitive interface with rich image-viewing tools designed to promote student success.
Brill and SCELC have negotiated a shared collection offer that will allow interested SCELC libraries to build a shared ebook backfile collection (2007-2014) comprised of one or more of Brill's 12 subject ebook packages from across the Humanities, Social Sciences, Law and Biology. All SCELC libraries that contribute to purchasing a portion of the collection will gain ownership of all of the books in the shared collection. Participants will then have the opportunity to share in the purchase of annual updates to match the resulting collection profile going forward.
See what's new for SCELC members at Cambridge University Press, including updated ebooks offerings & new acquisition models, the 2016 Cambridge Journals Digital Archive, and a sneak peek at our new online platform, coming later in 2016.
You'll have a chance to speak with your California-based rep, Paul Gallagher, about all the current and ongoing offers from Cambridge, including:
-- 20% off Cambridge Histories Online Collections
-- 30% off Cambridge Journals Digital Archives Pre-set Packages
-- 40-50% off Cambridge Books Online Backlist (250-title order)
Data-Planet provides 4.3 billion high-value datasets from over 75 organizations. Coverage spans 16 subject areas, supporting research across the curriculum. The amount of data in Data-Planet has doubled in less than three years with the content and visualization tools librarians have asked for! We invite you to come experience the power of Data-Planet in an exciting 30-minute tour. The focus will be funtionality, new content, and our exciting new Data Hosting Service.
There will be a fun interactive quiz with the opportunity to win prizes!
The IMF eLibrary offers the entire IMF catalog and a comprehensive archive. More than 16,000 publications and 1,000,000+ data series bring depth and breadth to research. The IMF eLibrary provides valuable information for wide array of business and social science topics. From manufacturing and trade, to climate change and inclusion, the IMF delivers detailed, authoritative analysis and data from a truly global perspective. With helpful tools, library support, and simple navigation, the IMF eLibrary helps students, staff and faculty find the information they need.
Please join the IMF for a session on finding resources on labor market reform, using the IMF eLibrary.
Please join us for a presentation of the new Plum Analytics suite of products: PlumX Metrics, PlumX Dashboards, PlumX Benchmarks, PlumX Funding Opportunities, and PlumX Plus-Grants. Learn how these products can add value to the institutional repository, highlight individual researchers, programs, departments and more. See the new ways to measure research impact by using “Modern Metrics” in the Digital Era!
Here are some highlights of the exciting improvements now available:
NEW FEATURES!
✔ Fully responsive design
✔ New video playback controls
✔ More customization options
✔ Enhanced My Films tools
✔ New ways to share content
IMPROVED SEARCHING!
✔ More powerful search engine
✔ Improved relevancy results
✔ New “Did You Mean?” search suggestions
✔ New search filters and Advanced Search options
IMPROVED SPEED!
✔ Upgraded technical infrastructure
✔ Improved overall performance
✔ Faster page load speeds
✔ Find and view the content you need faster than ever!
IMPROVED BROWSING!
✔ Improved Subject and Producer browse pages
✔ New, browsable calendar
NEW ADMIN PORTAL!
This presentation will briefly look at the universal frustrations in academic research and review the solutions that Paratext’s resources can provide to help ease library patrons in their research.
With 19th Century Masterfile 1106-1930, students, scholars and historians no longer need to wade through countless printed indexes or scattered electronic files to explore historical literature. For your government research, U.S. Documents Masterfile 1774-2016 provides single search access to a vast trove of U.S. government publications easing the process of finding documents by aggregating document types into a single search function. Finally, for authoritative introductory research, Reference Universe 1975-2016 is the new way to search Major Reference Works and scholarly compendia in e-reference and print simultaneously, while realizing a return on the sizable investment you’ve made in your library’s reference collection.
ProQuest Ebook Central
Since the beginning of ebooks, ebrary and EBL have partnered with libraries to develop innovative offerings that help meet their needs. By combining forces, ebrary and EBL now offer the industry’s most robust content selection and the most innovative acquisition models. Join Neil Sorensen (Sr. Ebook Specialist, ProQuest) to hear about exciting updates on our all new combined ebook platform and more! We are eager to work with our customers in a consultative way, to help libraries make choices that best fit within current workflows to optimize budget and more efficiently serve end user needs.
ProQuest Ebook Central will integrate the strengths of the EBL and ebrary platforms with new functionality. At the core of Ebook Central is an exhaustive selection of authoritative, scholarly content -- 780,000 titles and 1,350 imprints from more than 650 publishers on one platform. An average of 100,000 newly published titles will be added each year to so that libraries can build dynamic collections that address the unique needs of their community of researchers.
The platform includes:
• Modern, user-centered design for researchers including full-text catalog search at the book and chapter level, an intuitive interface that supports online and offline reading, and bookshelf, spanning the breadth of patron requirements, from discovery to reading to retrieval & sharing.
• End-to-end librarian experience ProQuest LibCentral supports discovery, selection, acquisition, administration, and real-time usage and expenditure analytics.
OASIS (Online Acquisitions and Selection Information System) is ProQuest’s free web-based system for searching, selecting, and ordering print and electronic books for academic libraries. OASIS users not only enjoy access to the broadest title database in the industry but also benefit from powerful search tools that help locate titles quickly and efficiently. Via OASIS users have access to the top eBook platforms in the market- Ebook Central, EBL, MyiLibrary, ebrary & EBSCO ebooks. Print book distribution centers in US and UK have a print partnership with INGRAM to ensure efficient print order fulfillment.
University Libraries are facing significant financial pressures and are increasingly required to maximize their return on investment. Funding bodies like NIH and NSF are setting mandates requiring articles to be placed in open access and institutions are facing difficulties with faculty posting their articles. Availability of Peer-Reviewed articles in open access continues to grow but there is no clear path how to take advantage of this in the library.
This presentation will briefly look at the current state of Open Access and review the 1science solution designed to help libraries in their current struggles and utilizing open access information.
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.
As research becomes increasingly global, interdisciplinary and collaborative, you can make sure that critical research from around the world is not missed when you choose Scopus. Latest developments include extending cited references back to 1970, Conference expansion project, Books expansion project, and more. Special discounts for SCELC members are available.
In this session, Maria Savova (Claremont University Consortium) and Springer Nature representatives will simulate an Account Review presentation – an essential decision-making tool for libraries looking to maximize their return on investment of Springer Nature electronic resources. Attendees will have an opportunity to hear a discussion of Claremont Colleges Library's longitudinal usage data and web analytics for Springer Nature eBooks, journals, and databases. Come learn how Springer Nature’s Analytics and Account Development professionals can help you!
Since last year, our books program has grown substantially with dozens of new publishers and thousands of new titles, including unique titles from Latin American presses. Using information from our growing number of participants, we will show the value of adding titles from Books at JSTOR.
We will also provide an overview of what will be new for JSTOR archive journal collections in 2016.
APA will be introducing to institutions a new product, that will include all of the APA Style rules and so much more, in a product called, APA Style Central. APA Style® CENTRAL has been developed for academic institutions by the American Psychological Association, the creator of and authority on APA Style®, and features full integration of the APA’s best-selling and widely adopted Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Everyone, including students, faculty, researchers and librarians, who need to learn about, use or teach APA Style® and is engaged in research and writing will reap the benefits of this product.
APA Style® CENTRAL features four integrated but separate centers providing expert resources for every stage of the learning, research, writing, and publishing processes, while promoting optimal habits of scholarship and research.
LEARN CENTER-Provides users and instructors an array of quick guides, tutorials and other learning objects by which to learn and retain APA Style
RESEARCH CENTER-Provides an environment to learn the research process and includes tools for planning and tracking of the research process.
WRITE CENTER-Provides authoritative guidance for all types of scholarly writing in APA Style. Users will have access to templates for any type of APA Style paper and tools to manage and format their references.
PUBLISH CENTER-Users will be able to browse and search over 1800 journals in order to find the best potential journals for publication of their work.
ASC is scheduled for launch in the spring and trials will be available at that time.
Please also take a look at the following links to information and an introductory video on ASC::
http://www.apastyle.org/
http://www.apastyle.org/asc/index.html
The American Council of Learned Societies has historically had a long and cordial relationship with the American Theological Library Association, as part of which ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) has partnered with ATLA to introduce the ATLA Special Series in Religion and Biblical Studies. This carefully selected collection follows the same rigorous process of curation that make up the balance of HEB’s 4700 titles. The difference being, this new offering will have the additional vetting of ATLA’s member scholars.
Humanities E-Book is pleased to announce its participation in the ATLA/SCELC Affiliate Program with an extremely advantageous introductory program. Our participation will enable us to offer an increased discount and additional resources to ATLA members who join the ATLA/SCELC Affiliate Program.
Learn about a dynamic online learning platform that can change the lives of students, through academic success and preparation for post-graduate exams and today’s workplace. It includes powerful resources for self-guided skill building, supplemental development materials, as well as vital tools for career preparation and workplace readiness. A demonstration of the platform will be provided.
Did you know that SCELC member libraries can save big on document delivery fees by using Reprints Desk? There is NO cost to get started with Reprints Desk, and SCELC members receive a discount on all document delivery transactions. Reprints Desk’s A-Z Academic Document Delivery Service is configurable to your workflow, whether it’s mediated ILL or unmediated patron ordering. Join the growing community of universities who are enjoying Reprints Desk’s seamless, easy to use document delivery solutions.
In this Discussion, learn how you can expedite your article acquisition workflows.
e-Duke Books includes the outright purchase of over 100 new books each year plus term access to over 2,000 e-books in the archive.
e-Duke Journals provides perpetual access to current content from 45 journals plus term access to all available back content.
Euclid Prime is a collection of 27 high-quality titles in mathematics and statistics hosted on Project Euclid, a powerful, not-for-profit platform dedicated to sustainable scholarly publishing.What challenges face faculty and students when they use online video in the classroom or for research? What is most important and what would improve their experience? This presentation shares interesting and surprising findings and results from user testing and other market intelligence on the user experience of online video.
About SAGE Video
Including interviews with top academics, tutorials with key authors, practitioners in action and much more, SAGE Video streaming collections can greatly enhance and support teaching and research.
SAGE Video streaming collections are developed in partnership with leading academics, societies, and practitioners, including many of SAGE’s own authors and academic partners, to deliver cutting-edge pedagogical and research-oriented video with the social sciences.
Founded in 1949 at Yale University, the Human Relations Area Files, Inc. (HRAF) is an internationally recognized organization in the fields of anthropology, psychology, and sociology. HRAF's mission is to encourage and facilitate the cross-cultural study of human culture, society, and behavior in the past and present. HRAF produces two online databases: eHRAF World Cultures and eHRAF Archaeology, and other resources for teaching and research. The membership-based, annually growing eHRAF databases are organized by cultures, ethnic groups, indigenous people, and/or archaeological traditions. eHRAF is unique in having subject indexing at the page and paragraph level. These subject categories allow for detailed and precise searching for concepts not easily found with keywords.
Join me in exploring our award-winning eHRAF World Cultures & eHRAF Archaeology databases (each voted by Choice Magazine "Top 10 Internet Resources”). We’ll start out by taking a closer look at eHRAF’s truly unique document (e.g., analyzed and subject-indexed books, journal articles, dissertations, etc.) and collection structure (ethnographic documents organized by culture names). We then turn to eHRAF’s powerful search mechanism that automatically filters results by major geographic locations and even subsistence and sample types. We’ll discuss how these and other features make eHRAF a great research tool, especially for cross-cultural and comparative studies. Lastly we’ll explore how Teaching eHRAF, an online portal with 40+ online student exercises, paper assignments, quizzes, can provide new ideas for teaching under- and graduate-level classes in the social sciences and other disciplines with an interest in cultural and ethnic diversity.
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Visit Readex, the leader in American primary sources and a global innovator in content covering the modern world.
Readex products include cornerstones like Early American Imprints (“Evans” and “Shaw-Shoemaker”), World Newspaper Archive, Historical American Newspapers, and many more.
Recent offerings cover a broad spectrum of subjects—for example, African History and Culture, Religious Newspapers, Business History, and single-title offerings like the Rand Daily Mail.
The session will introduce new global thematic products covering Apartheid; Immigrations, Migrations, and Refugees; Civil Rights in America; The Cold War; The Middle East and North Africa; and Race Relations.
The session will introduce Readex’s brand-new “AllSearch” platform, which allows users to explore every Readex collection at the same time and presents results in a highly intuitive interface with rich image-viewing tools designed to promote student success.
Libraries along with their collections and services need to be where their users are – not just on Web sites, but also directly searchable via search engines. Transforming MARC records to Linked Data is an important step to revealing the remarkable resources of library collections to the Web for students, faculty and researchers, but also potential customers such as prospective students/parents, business community, alumni/donors, campus administration and even as a recruitment tool.
Zepheira is working with librarians and their service providers to build the Library.Link Network, an enterprise level infrastucture that uses Linked Data to give libraries new opportunities to serve "anywhere, any device" users. At this session, we will explore how libraries are expanding access to their resources by publishing structured data about their collections and services to the Web. You will learn how Linked Data can impact workflow planning, management, strategic planning, and the communities you serve.Discover Taylor & Francis Group's extensive books and journals offerings during SCELC Vendor Day! During this session, you will learn more about our leading journal content, including our Social Sciences & Humanities Library, Science & Technology Library and our new Medical Library as well as information about our highly acclaimed eBook content, such as Routledge Handbooks Online and Taylor & Francis eBooks. We'll also share details about Taylor & Francis flexible purchasing options especially for baccalaureate colleges and of course our special pricing for SCELC members.
Join Gillian Howcroft (Journals) and Melissa Mazza (Books) us to find out what T&F has for 2016 and stop by our table for a chance to enter our raffles and win a $25 Starbucks gift card. We look forward to seeing you there.
Technology is widely regarded as the great enabler of our time. This session will reveal the new strategic roadmap for ProQuest technology solutions - as developed since the acquisition of Ex Libris - and provide an overview of ProQuest’s Unified Resource Management solution. Learn how the latest advances in technology and processes can help your institution gain efficiencies while delivering on the highest expectations of your patrons.
SIPX
Presenter: Esteban Aguilar - MLIS, SIPX Sales Representative
SIPX delivers to customers and partners across the globe the most complete course materials solution in higher education – the best platform- and content-agnostic service for finding, managing, distributing and analyzing the use of course materials, easily and cost-effectively. We strive every day for the same passions that we’ve always had – supporting the creation of high quality education and learning, and bringing the maximum possible savings to students and schools to make education more affordable.
Current SCELC participants of the Wiley subject-focused and shared online book collection program are encouraged to attend this session.
The user-group discussion will be focused around an evidence-based approach for access to Wiley digital books. Help design your future shared purchase program!
Wiley's Usage Based Collection Management program allows you to present a much larger sets of titles than would otherwise be possible. Key benefits: your library remains in control of purchase decisions; choose books for permanent selection based on patron behavior and without automatic triggers; free MARC records; titles include perpetual rights, unlimited concurrent usage and DRM-free.
How does the evidence-based approach coincide with your library collection building / purchasing cycles? Tell us about your experiences, and what you would find desirable.
Learn how Thomson Reuters' analytics can help support your Library's collection management strategy. We will be discussing the InCites environment for bibliometric assessment and evaluation and revealing the recent release of Local Journal Utilization Report (LJUR) on the InCites platform. LJUR supports evidence based decision making for journal collection development and strategic evaluation of journals.
The InCites platform is home to Journal Citation Reports (JCR), Essential Science Indicators (ESI), Local Journal Utilization Report (LJUR), and InCites benchmarking and analytics.
This session will highlight some of the newest enhancements available as a complement to the database
Passport Nutrition:
A first of its kind database that examines the total amount of nutrients purchased through packaged food and soft drink products worldwide, evaluating eight key nutrients in 54 countries. It is designed to support Business, Marketing, Nutrition, Dietetics, Food Science, Health Science Studies and more. Allowing users to gain an understanding of health and dietary trends in target markets, formulate recipes and develop new offerings by country to better suit dietary differences, local taste preferences and regulations.
The New Economy, Finance & Trade Page, specifically the Macro Model:
Predict economic outcomes of major crisesand events. Using the Macro Model tool, prepare for potential economic crises and create alternative global and individual country scenarios, simulating "what if?" situations and measuring the impact on a particular country.
We will also review the current Monthly/Quarterly economic data highlighting our business confidence and consumer confidence index data to data to determine the likely path of economic growth.
Institutional Channels:
Understand the full global potential for products and services in the private and public business-to-business marketplace.
Analyze 58 institutional channel categories (prisons, secondary education, hospitals, etc) across 24 countries. Utilize reports to help identify factors affecting institutional channels' structures, purchasing behavior, route to market and consumer trends.
Bring classic and modern theater to your institution digitally with Drama Online! Perfect for both Drama and Literature courses, this online resource features engaging, multi-media content; an easy-to-use interface with no concurrency restrictions; and essential scholarly research tools for both play analysis and production enquiry. Both of our sessions will discuss Drama Online’s various play text, audio play, and video components. We will also briefly go over other Bloomsbury online library products, including the Berg Fashion Library and the Churchill Archive.
Brill and SCELC have an ongoing offer for all of Brill’s Reference Works, Primary Sources, Bibliographies and Dictionaries as well as an ongoing Journal Package Offer. This session will introduce our newest additions which are included in the offer.
Brill’s main subject areas are:
- African Studies
- American Studies
- Ancient Near East and Egypt
- Art History
- Asian Studies
- Biblical Studies and Early Christianity
- Book History and Cartography
- Classical Studies
- History
- Jewish Studies
- Language and Linguistics
- Literature and Cultural Studies
- Middle East and Islamic Studies
- Philosophy
- Religious Studies
- Slavic and Eurasian Studies
- Social Sciences
- Theology and World Christianity
- Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
- International Law
- International Relations
- Science
- Biology
See what's new for SCELC members at Cambridge University Press, including updated Cambridge ebooks offerings and new acquisition models, the 2016 Cambridge Journals Digital Archive, and a sneak peek at our new online platform, coming later in 2016.
You'll have a chance to speak with your California-based rep, Paul Gallagher, about all the current and ongoing offers from Cambridge, including:
-- 20% off Cambridge Histories Online Collections
-- 30% off Cambridge Journals Digital Archives Pre-set Packages
-- 40-50% off Cambridge Books Online Backlist (250 Title Order)
Looking for new ways to engage students with library resources? Running out of space in your library? Want to support Text & Data Mining projects for your researchers? Learn about the exciting possibilities of the Flipster digital magazine platform; as well as newly, and yet-to-be released, complete backfile collections of key magazines in the areas of architecture, business, news, politics and entertainment.
Public Discussion Boards
Engage with your community right in your site – both on a system-wide board for general conversation and on individual guides. I
This is fantastic for the Publishing Workflow or for guide convos in general – instead of having to have conversations about the guide via email, you can have it in the guide’s Discussion Board!
Discussions can be marked as Questions, too, so you can ask questions and mark the Best Answer from the replies you receive. On Discussions that aren’t marked as Questions, you can mark a reply as Helpful, making it stand out on the page. Opt-in to emails to follow a Discussion and always be in the know on new replies, even if you don’t comment on the thread itself!
mSite Builder is here!With mSites, you can make any site mobile-friendly using our handy redirect option – this catches anyone viewing the site using a mobile device and redirects them to your uber friendly mobile landing page. Plus, you can integrate widgets from LibCal, LibAnswers, LibSurveys, or any other site that provides widgets. It’s even super easy to add icons to your mSite thanks to the fully integrated Font Awesome icon library.
But why stop at creating mobile menus for your website? Let your imagination run wild! Create info sites / micro sites / interactive sites / app-like sites – whatever you want to call them. For example, create sites for: a self-led tour of exhibits, a self-led orientation / tour for folks to walk around the campus or library, classroom assessment / feedback opportunities, and so much more. We’re sure you all could think of a slew of ideas for learn-as-you-walk (or sit ) tools!
Together we make breakthroughs possible.
This Session will include what is new at OCLC including new services:Here are some highlights of the exciting improvements now available:
NEW FEATURES!
✔ Fully responsive design
✔ New video playback controls
✔ More customization options
✔ Enhanced My Films tools
✔ New ways to share content
IMPROVED SEARCHING!
✔ More powerful search engine
✔ Improved relevancy results
✔ New “Did You Mean?” search suggestions
✔ New search filters and Advanced Search options
IMPROVED SPEED!
✔ Upgraded technical infrastructure
✔ Improved overall performance
✔ Faster page load speeds
✔ Find and view the content you need faster than ever!
IMPROVED BROWSING!
✔ Improved Subject and Producer browse pages
✔ New, browsable calendar
NEW ADMIN PORTAL!
Be part of the STEM to STEAM movement!
Join us to see the latest additions to the ProQuest Arts & Humanities solutions which cover wide-ranging interdisciplinary fields such as gender and women’s studies, fashion, business, marketing, advertising, sociology, material culture, design, and more.
Take a tour of SAGE Research Methods, the ultimate methods library! See how 1,000+ books, reference works, and journal articles, 550+ case studies, and 120 teaching datasets work together to bring research methods, statistics, and evaluation to life. The resources cover every aspect of research skills training and can help you support students and researchers through every step of the research process.
Built on SAGE’s legacy of methods publishing, SAGE Research Methods is the essential online tool for researchers.
SAGE Research Methods Cases are stories of how real research projects were conducted. The collection provides more than 500 case studies, showing the challenges and successes of doing research, written by the researchers themselves.
SAGE Research Methods Datasets is a collection of teaching datasets and instructional guides that give students a chance to learn data analysis by practicing themselves.
Through practicing analysis using real data from SAGE Research Methods Datasets, students can see how analytic decisions are made, helping them to become confident researchers.
Answer questions such as: "How many households within 1 mile from my potential business earn over $100k a year?” or "What are the largest employers by industry in the region?" or "What cities spend the most on pets?"
In this session, Steven Swartz, VP Sales from Geographic Research, Inc. will lead a live demonstration of SimplyMap, covering everything you need to start creating custom maps, rankings, reports, and business lists, including many tips and tricks to help you find, map, and analyze data like a pro.
Features:
Every Springer Nature client is assigned a dedicated Account Development Specialist who you can collaborate with to optimize usage of licensed electronic resources. This session will explore the available services and examples of implementation and discoverability assistance, trainings and campus events, promotion and awareness opportunities, and available usage statistics. Here is an opportunity to see how Springer Nature’s Account Development team can support your library.
APA will be introducing to institutions a new product, that will include all of the APA Style rules and so much more, in a product called, APA Style Central. APA Style® CENTRAL has been developed for academic institutions by the American Psychological Association, the creator of and authority on APA Style®, and features full integration of the APA’s best-selling and widely adopted Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Everyone, including students, faculty, researchers and librarians, who need to learn about, use or teach APA Style® and is engaged in research and writing will reap the benefits of this product.
APA Style® CENTRAL features four integrated but separate centers providing expert resources for every stage of the learning, research, writing, and publishing processes, while promoting optimal habits of scholarship and research.
LEARN CENTER-Provides users and instructors an array of quick guides, tutorials and other learning objects by which to learn and retain APA Style
RESEARCH CENTER-Provides an environment to learn the research process and includes tools for planning and tracking of the research process.
WRITE CENTER-Provides authoritative guidance for all types of scholarly writing in APA Style. Users will have access to templates for any type of APA Style paper and tools to manage and format their references.
PUBLISH CENTER-Users will be able to browse and search over 1800 journals in order to find the best potential journals for publication of their work.
ASC is scheduled for launch in the spring and trials will be available at that time.
Please also take a look at the following links to information and an introductory video on ASC::
http://www.apastyle.org/
http://www.apastyle.org/asc/index.html
Data-Planet provides 4.3 billion high-value datasets from over 75 organizations. Coverage spans 16 subject areas, supporting research across the curriculum. The amount of data in Data-Planet has doubled in less than three years with the content and visualization tools librarians have asked for! We invite you to come experience the power of Data-Planet in an exciting 30-minute tour. The focus will be funtionality, new content, and our exciting new Data Hosting Service.
There will be a fun interactive quiz with the opportunity to win prizes!
Having journal backfiles is more than just having a sustainable archive of classic articles. Pre-1995 journal articles guarantee immediate benefits:
Not only do backfiles afford a huge savings in space, as well as ILL/DDS costs, their pre-1995 journal articles have a sustainable value in terms of citations in the range of 13%-17%. High ROI is guaranteed from an investment in journal backfiles.
This presentation will briefly look at the universal frustrations in academic research and review the solutions that Paratext’s resources can provide to help ease library patrons in their research.
With 19th Century Masterfile 1106-1930, students, scholars and historians no longer need to wade through countless printed indexes or scattered electronic files to explore historical literature. For your government research, U.S. Documents Masterfile 1774-2016 provides single search access to a vast trove of U.S. government publications easing the process of finding documents by aggregating document types into a single search function. Finally, for authoritative introductory research, Reference Universe 1975-2016 is the new way to search Major Reference Works and scholarly compendia in e-reference and print simultaneously, while realizing a return on the sizable investment you’ve made in your library’s reference collection.
ProQuest Central brings together content from 30 of the most utilized ProQuest databases across all major subject areas to provide the largest single academic research content set available, with access to not only scholarly journals, but also to high value market research, country, economic, and industry reports, essential pre-print working papers, and full-text dissertations, as well as a vast number of newspapers, professional journals, and general interest periodicals.
ProQuest Central is unique in that it offers 30 complete, premium databases in Business, Health & Medical, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual arts, History, Religion, Philosophy, and Language and Literature. ProQuest Central includes over 1,100 full-text newspapers from all over the world, which provide context to the extraordinary scholarly content. Students and faculty can search the individual databases for targeted subject research or search altogether to find relevant results and information from other disciplines, using an award-winning, innovative interface suitable for both novices and experienced users.
University Libraries are facing significant financial pressures and are increasingly required to maximize their return on investment. Funding bodies like NIH and NSF are setting mandates requiring articles to be placed in open access and institutions are facing difficulties with faculty posting their articles. Availability of Peer-Reviewed articles in open access continues to grow but there is no clear path how to take advantage of this in the library.
This presentation will briefly look at the current state of Open Access and review the 1science solution designed to help libraries in their current struggles and utilizing open access information.
Hear about the newest and upcoming product releases available on EBSCOhost that brings enhanced coverage of Asian Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Music and Spanish Language materials. If that is not enough, come to hear an exciting announcement on upgrades to some of our most popular full text databases.
The R2 Digital Library is a scientific, technical and medical proprietary eBook database from Rittenhouse Book Distributors. The R2 Digital Library provides access to the leading STM publishers on a platform optimized for the health sciences. The R2 Digital Library eBook database supports the needs of students, faculty, clinicians and professionals. Content is aggregated from more than 70 STM publishers. eBooks purchases work together as a dynamic database. Along with our Patron Driven Acquisition Model will be demonstrating the features of the platform and discussing our SCELC offer.
Since last year, our books program has grown substantially with dozens of new publishers and thousands of new titles, including unique titles from Latin American presses. Using information from our growing number of participants, we will show the value of adding titles from Books at JSTOR.
We will also provide an overview of what will be new for JSTOR archive journal collections in 2016.
This replicates our morning session with focus on digital journal archives, books and major reference works... services, product updates, and your unique SCELC member/affiliate special savings opportunity.
We look forward to seeing you!