http://www.apstylebook.com/cairo/
Contains more than 5,000 entries laying out the Associated Press' rules on grammar, spelling, punctuation, and usage for news writing.
*Note: included is a local version where JRMC professors can add examples and local rules to the AP Stylebook. This feature is not yet implemented (most likely next semester).
On-Campus Use Only
May 14, 2006 in New Resources | Permalink
For more than forty years, L'Esprit Créateur has published studies on French and Francophone literature, film, criticism, and culture. The journal features articles representing a variety of methodologies and critical approaches. Exploring all periods of French literature and thought, L'Esprit Créateur focuses on topics that define French and Francophone Studies today.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Journal of the American Academy of Religion is published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Academy of Religion. This international quarterly journal publishes top scholarly articles that cover the full range of world religious traditions together with provocative studies of the methodologies by which these traditions are explored. Each issue also contains a large and valuable book review section.
May 14, 2006 in Content Updates | Permalink
Science Direct contains the full text of more than 1,000 Elsevier Science journals mainly in the fields of science, technology, and medicine.
The AUC Library is actively seeking membership of the Consortium of Egyptian University Libraries, which has already granted AUC full text access to the entire Science Direct database until December 31 this year. This is an outstanding opportunity while it lasts.
Starting January 2007, full text access to Science Direct will be limited to a selection of titles which have shown heaviest overall use by the Consortium members. We will keep the AUC community informed of the details as they emerge.
Science Direct is available On-Campus Only.
May 07, 2006 in New Resources | Permalink
CIAO Focus, May 2006: Iran
Tensions between Iran and the United States continue to escalate over the former’s controversial nuclear activities. On April 28, the International Atomic Energy Agency cited Iran for noncompliance with a UN deadline to halt its uranium enrichment program. The permanent members of the Security Council are divided over what to do next...
What's New? More new content this month...
New Contributors:
NATO Defense College
May 07, 2006 in Content Updates | Permalink | Comments (0)
During the month of May we will be running a trial of Ebsco's LinkSource OpenURL link resolver service. LinkSource allows item level (individual record) linking between library databases and services presenting full-text options as available. The service provides links to full-text resources in other databases as well as direct links to the library catalog and document delivery service, providing the patron with all available options for obtaining the full-text of the item.
For the trial, we've set-up LinkSource with databases from three of our major vendors – Ebsco, OCLC and Proquest. You'll notice some slight differences in how the different vendors present LinkSource options and how it displays results based on the source (the database searched) and the target (the database or service linked to). Below please find sample searches that show a few different types of results and links.
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1) Database: Academic Search Premier (Ebsco)
Step #1: Locate the record for an article titled "QMSs and EMSs Support Financial Management Systems" from the March 2006 issue of Quality Progress.
Step #2: View the record for the article and click on "Check LinkSource for Full-text". If your browser will not allow pop-up windows, you will need to hold done the <CTRL> key while clicking the link.
Step #3: In the pop-up window, click on "Check ProQuest for Full-text" to access the full-text of the article. Again, you may need to hold down the <CTRL> key in order to allow the pop-up window.
For another example with this database, find any article from the Journal of Heredity or the Wall Street Journal in Academic Search Premier and use LinkSource to obtain the full-text. Do some general subject searching on your own as well and let us know what you think.
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2) Database: Biology Digest (OCLC)
Step #1: Locate the record for an article titled "March of the Superbugs" by Alison George from the July 19, 2003 issue of New Scientist.
Step #2: View the record for the article and click on "Check LinkSource for Full-text" option.
Step #3: In the pop-up window, notice the first three options and try each one.
Notice that the ProQuest option will take you directly to the full-text of the item. Lexis/Nexis, on the other hand, will take you to a search screen for that publication and require the user to perform another search to retrieve the item. This is due to the different ways that ProQuest and Lexis/Nexis deal with the OpenURL standard and is not something we can fix within LinkSource. We can, however, modify the text displayed for Lexis/Nexis links to help explain the extra steps for the end-user.
Try the AUC library search as well to see how LinkSource connects to our catalog and displays results based on an ISSN search.
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3) Database: ABI/Inform (ProQuest)
Step #1: Locate the record for an article titled "Wal-Mart's Family Firm" from the February 2006 issue of Strategic Direction.
Step #2: View the record for the article and click on "Check LinkSource for Full-text".
Step #3: In the pop-up window, click on "Check Emerald for Full-text" to access the full-text of the article.
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The three examples from above are intended to give you an idea of how LinkSource works in a few different types of situations ---admittedly, the best case scenario for each tool used in the examples. There are several options that can be changed both at the database and LinkSource level, so please let us know if you had trouble with one aspect or another as it might be an issue in the set-up of the service rather than with the software itself.
Two additional things to keep in mind for the evaluation of LinkSource:
1) For the document delivery linking, LinkSource will automatically fill in the required bibliographic data from the database. This will take some extra work on our end if we decide to purchase LinkSource. If implemented, this should prevent data entry errors as the student will only have to enter their personal information in the form.
2) This tool would allow us to list our holdings in tools like Google Scholar and automatically forward our users to the appropriate AUC owned copies of full-text articles from searches within those types of tools. That decision is for another time but we wanted to make sure you were aware of the possibility with the implementation of LinkSource.
Thank you for taking the time to help us evaluate this tool. Any thoughts, comments, or suggestions are welcome and please let us know if you have any questions. The Electronic Resources Committee will make a decision on LinkSource at the end of the month, so please
forward any feedback by May 18th to cgrimmer@aucegypt.edu.
May 07, 2006 in Trials | Permalink | Comments (0)
CIAO Focus, April 2006: Post-War Reconstruction in Liberia
Liberia is attempting to rebuild its
shattered infrastructure and social fabric in the wake of two consecutive
civil wars that left a quarter of a million people dead and displaced
another 500,000...
What's New? More new content this month...
New Contributors:
Oxfam Publishing
April 11, 2006 in Content Updates | Permalink
Chicago Online Encyclopedia of Mamluk Studies
The Chicago Online Encyclopedia of Mamluk Studies is a project of the Middle East Documentation Center at the University of Chicago, and is a key component of the MEDOC Cluster of Mamluk Studies Resources. NOTE: Not all features are enabled yet, but searching and viewing are functional.
From the website: "As with any publically available resource, there will be aspects of this that will only become apparent through sustained use, despite our testing. Our primary goal is the creation of a genuinely useful resource for scholarship, and we welcome your input. Please be aware that there are features still in development and there are many articles that have been assigned but not yet completed. To be notified when new features or content are added to the Encyclopedia, join the Mamluk Listserv."
This resource is freely available on the Internet.
March 20, 2006 in New Resources | Permalink
ALL Global Newsbank sources are available in E-Journal Finder.
NOTE: It is listed as "Access World News", NOT "Global Newsbank".
March 15, 2006 in Tips & Tricks | Permalink
We've re-subscribed to Global Newsbank!
http://0-infoweb.newsbank.com.lib.aucegypt.edu
Articles cover politics, economics, culture, business, science, technology, and the environment from Africa, Asia, Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Pacific Rim, Central and South America, and the Middle East. All articles are in English and are from translated broadcasts, news agency transmissions, wire services, newspapers, magazines, and government documents.
Global Newsbank is accessible off-campus for authorized AUC users via the library's proxy server.
March 13, 2006 in Content Updates | Permalink
Grove Music Online comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (London, 2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (London, 1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (London, 2002). Articles that have been updated since their appearance in print are date-stamped in the upper right corner of the screen. Also, the Grove Online Dictionary of Music and Musicians is linked from the composer biographies in Classical Music Library. These links are situated in the blue "Take me to..." box at top right of each composer biography.
Grove Music Online is accessible off-campus for authorized AUC users via the library's proxy server .
March 12, 2006 in New Resources | Permalink
