Using ARTstor for Teaching: A Faculty Training Session on Thursday, February 10

The ARTstor digital library, available through the Cheng Library, is a large and ever-growing database that currently contains over one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for teaching and research. Today the database features over 150 collections with contributions from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates [see this complete list of collection contributors].

Whether you teach in a classroom or online (or both!), ARTstor is an exceptional resource for teaching and student learning in a wide variety of subject disciplines. To provide faculty with an overview of ARTstor's contents and features, along with some practical training in using the database for teaching, the Art Department and the Cheng Library are bringing a trainer from ARTstor to campus on Thursday, February 10 during Common Hour (12:30 - 1:45 pm) for a training session in Ben Shahn Hall, Room B20. We invite you to participate in this session and learn more about the many ways you can use ARTstor for teaching.

The following list of guides to ARTstor highlight collections of special interest for particular subject areas. The guides are all downloadable in PDF format. If your teaching includes any of these subjects, the training session will be of interest to you:

• Africana-World Studies [ Guide to ARTstor Collections ]


• American Studies [ Guide to ARTstor Collections ]


• Anthropology [ Guide to ARTstor Collections ]


• Architecture and the Built Environment [ Guide to ARTstor Collections ]


• Asian Studies [ Guide to ARTstor Collections ]


• Classical Studies [ Guide to ARTstor Collections ]


• Design [ Guide to ARTstor Collections ]


• Decorative Arts [ Guide to ARTstor Collections ]


• Fashion and Costume [ Guide to ARTstor Collections ]


• History of Medicine and Natural Science [ Guide to ARTstor Collections ]


• Geography [ Guide to ARTstor Collections ]


• Languages and Literature [ Guide to ARTstor Collections ]


• Latin American Studies [ Guide to ARTstor Collections ]


• Medieval Studies [ Guide to ARTstor Collections ]


• Middle Eastern Studies [ Guide to ARTstor Collections ]


• Music History [ Guide to ARTstor Collections ]


• Native American Studies [ Guide to ARTstor Collections ]


• Photography [ Guide to ARTstor Collections ]


• Religious Studies [ Guide to ARTstor Collections ]


• Renaissance Studies [ Guide to ARTstor Collections ]


• Theatre and Dance [ Guide to ARTstor Collections ]


• Women's Studies [ Guide to ARTstor Collections ]

We hope your schedule will permit you to join us in Ben Shahn Hall (Room B20) on Thursday, February 10, at 12:30 pm. Please RSVP to Richard Kearney ( x 2165 / kearneyr@wpunj.edu ) if you can join us. Library staff are also available to answer questions and provide support with ARTstor throughout the year.

Library Adds Over 260 Titles to Its E-Book Collection and Provides Enhanced Features with Ebrary

The Cheng Library is pleased to announce the acquisition of over 260 new electronic books in a variety of subject areas though the Ebrary E-Book service. These books, when added to the 4,182 already in our collection from netLibrary, increase the Library's e-book collection to over 4,400 titles.

The new titles, which include academic monographs and reference titles from several different publishers, are all accessible through the Cheng Library's online catalog. A clearly marked link within each catalog record will "open" the book in Ebrary's e-book reader on the web. The Ebrary screen provides easy access to each book's table of contents and supports full-text searching of a book. Students and faculty can easily navigate within a book by moving through individual pages or jumping to matching instances of search terms, copy selected text for notes, print pages, and save citations to RefWorks.

Ebrary's web platform, however, includes several additional features that are accessible when a user creates a personal account on the site. With a personal Ebrary account, one can:

• Highlight and annotate books
• Create links to other online resources within books
• Create a personal "bookshelf" within an account and save books and annotations to it
• Create folders on the bookshelf to organize research
• Make use of linked online resources

Personal account holders can also use their Ebrary ebooks with Java-based reader software that can be installed on Windows or Linux machines. In addition to supporting the personalized features listed above, the reader software also offers text-to-speech functionality and other options for greater accessibility.

A Quick Start Guide (in PDF format) is available to get you up and running with Ebrary e-books, and Cheng Library staff are happy to answer any questions you have about e-books. Faculty interested in ordering books in e-book format should contact their departmental liaison in the Library - please see this list of Library liaisons to find the contact for your department.

Trial Access to Sharpe Online Reference through November 6

M.E. Sharpe, a publisher of books and journals in the social sciences and humanities, is currently offering trial access to 18 major reference titles through its online portal Sharpe Online Reference. The titles cover a variety of topics in U.S. and global history and culture. All titles can be browsed and searched (individually or across all titles). The site also includes an image gallery, an archive of primary source documents, useful web links, and teacher resources. The titles in the collection are as follows:

• Colonial America (1492-1783)
• Early Republic and Antebellum America (1783-1861)
• Gilded Age and Progressive Era (1877-1919)
• Jazz Age (1919-1929)
• The Great Depression and New Deal (1929-1941)
• Postwar America (1945 -Present)
• American Presidential Campaigns and Elections (1788-2008)
• Social Issues in America
• American Social Movements
• American Countercultures
• American Folklife
• Latino History and Culture
• Asian American History and Culture
• America in World History
• Global History: Cultural Encounters
• World Trade: From Ancient Times to the Present
• Conflicts Since World War II
• Booms and Busts: An Economic History (1630s-Present)

Trial access to Sharpe Online Reference is available through November 6 by visiting the Cheng Library's databases directory. If you have any questions or comments about this resource, please contact Richard Kearney (x 2165).

Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys Now Available Online

Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys is a leading source of professional industry analysis used by investment advisors, corporations, consulting firms, government agencies, and law offices. Over 50 of the largest North American and global industries are covered by the reports available in the database, along with a larger number of sub-industry reviews.

Each report is authored by a Standard & Poor's industry research analyst and includes the following sections:

• Current Environment
• Industry Trends
• How the Industry Operates
• Key Industry Ratios and Statistics
• How to Analyze a Company
• Glossary of Industry Terms
• Additional Industry Information References
• Comparative Company Financial Analysis

The database archive currently extends to 2001, although the reports are periodically updated and the majority have been updated this year.

A four-page guide (in PDF format) to using the database for industry analysis is also available online.

EBSCO's Humanities International Complete Database Now Available

Humanities International Complete provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Produced by Whitston Publishing, the database includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,200 journals and 2.8 million records) plus unique full-text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database is especially strong in the subjects of area studies, cultural studies, film studies, history, world languages and literature, philosophy, religion, and women's studies.

Humanities International Complete currently includes:

• Over 1,020 full-text academic journals (with citations and abstracts for articles in over 600 additional journals)
• Over 720 full-text books and monographs
• Over 180 full-text magazines (with citations and abstracts for articles in over 450 additional magazines)

A useful resource for students and faculty interested in all aspects of the humanities, Humanities International Complete will be available to the WPUNJ community throughout the 2010-2011 academic year. Full-text titles will be accessible through direct searching in the database and through links in other Library databases. Please contact Richard Kearney (x 2165) if you have any questions about Humanities International Complete.

EBSCO's Education Research Complete Database Now Available

Education Research Complete is a bibliographic and full-text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues.

The database currently provides indexing and abstracts for over 2,300 periodicals, including more than 1,800 academic journals, over 440 magazines, and over 40 trade publications. Full-text is available for over 1,300 of these titles. The database also includes full text for more than 550 books and monographs, government and research organization reports, and numerous education-related conference papers. [See complete title list.]

Education Research Complete will be available to the WPUNJ community throughout the 2010-2011 academic year. Full-text titles will be accessible through direct searching in the database and through links in other Library databases. Please contact Richard Kearney (x 2165) if you have any questions about Education Research Complete.

Academic Search Database Goes From "Premier" To "Complete"

The Cheng Library is pleased to announce a major upgrade to its interdisciplinary full-text database from EBSCO. Effective immediately and throughout the 2010-2011 academic year, the WPUNJ community will have access to Academic Search Complete. The database is significantly larger than Academic Search Premier, containing over 2,900 more full-text publications - for a total of over 7,600 titles - and offers broad subject coverage for a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, area studies, biology, chemistry, ethnic and multicultural studies, food science and technology, general science, geography, law, mathematics, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion and theology, women's studies, and many other fields.

Academic Search Complete currently includes:

• Over 7,000 full-text academic journals (with citations and abstracts for over 3,600 additional journals)
• Over 930 full-text magazines (with citations and abstracts for over 330 additional magazines)
• Over 370 full-text books and monographs
• Over 200 full-text trade publications

The database also includes conference papers and proceedings, public domain educational reports and more. While the majority of full-text content dates from 2000 and forward, many publications are available with more extensive full-text backfiles, including 170 publications with backfiles extending beyond 1980. Full-text titles in Academic Search Complete will be accessible through direct searching in the database and through links in other Library databases. Please contact Richard Kearney (x 2165) if you have any questions about Academic Search Complete.