SCELCapalooza 2016

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

• The System-wide board is available for general conversation among your community. Easily add the button to your homepage in the Admin > Look & Feel > Page Layout > Homepage area. If you have a custom guide as your homepage, you can add the link there (or anywhere) by adding /discussions.php to the end of your LibGuides CMS URL. (For example, http://testdrive.libguidescms.com/discussions.php)
• Guide boards are added like any other page in your guide. Add a new page and choose Discussion from the “Type” dropdown – boom! Discussion board! Like all other pages, you can reorder it / place it anywhere and set the visibility of the page. There are also a couple of Board Management options:
  • Notification Options – anything from manual addition of notifications discussion-by-discussion to “follow everything!”. Guide owners & editors set these notifications separately.
  • Guide Owners & Guide Editors can invite Patron-level users with the Invite Patron Users link.
• Tags for Internal and Public boards are separate. 

• one system-level board that all account holders have access to, so you can have those internal discussions, and
• one guide-level board for each guide in your system, where folks who have access to the guide can talk about things relating to that guide!

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!

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.

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. 

• Explore the transformative collections of the Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive 1 & 2 covering all aspects of the “Music, Radio and the Stage” and “Film and Television”
• Discover the rich collections of Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar from their first editions to the present.  Fully indexed and Searchable.
• Learn about the newly created ProQuest Screen Studies Collection which will act as a powerful means of cross-searching American Film Institute Catalog (AFI), Film Index International (FII) and FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database
• Peruse the Arts and Humanities Full Text which complements the ProQuest Arts and Humanities portfolio, providing Full Text access to approximately 400 contemporary specialist arts titles combined with journals.

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.

• Includes more than 1000 books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos by world-leading academics from across the social sciences, including the largest collection of qualitative methods books available online from any scholarly publisher
• Helps researchers through every step of the research process, from coming up with a research question, doing a literature review, planning a project, collecting and analyzing data, and writing up a report, dissertation or thesis
• A Methods Map feature helps identify the best technique to use in research

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. 

• Presents the realities of research that are missing from journal articles and textbooks
• Peer-reviewed and accompanied by pedagogical tools including learning objectives and discussion questions
• Demonstrates particular methods and how they are applied in real research
• Provides inspiration to students who are preparing for their own research project

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.  

• Indexed by method and data type
• Optimized to use in classroom exercises or in exam papers
• Saves faculty members hours spent sourcing and cleaning data themselves

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:

• Thousands of demographic, business, health, and marketing data variables, including premium marketing and business data variables from Mediamark Research, Life-Stage Clusters, Historical data,  and over 33 million D&B business listings.
• Robust exporting capabilities - output high-resolution vector images as well as shapefiles for use in GIS software
• The ability to generate large reports and export them into statistical analysis software such as SAS or SPSS for additional research capabilities 
• Quick Business Reports for generating lists of businesses that meet your criteria
• Identify target areas and custom locations using SimplyMap’s powerful data filters 

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.