Improved Access to Education Literature with ProQuest Education Journals

As part of its subscription to ProQuest Central, the Cheng Library is now offering the specialized database ProQuest Education Journals. The database provides indexing to over 820 periodical titles in education, including over 630 scholarly journals, 120 trade publications, and over 50 magazines. Citations and abstracts are available back to 1971 for several titles, and full-text access is available for over 650 titles, with current full-text content provided for over 460 of these. Over 110 of the full-text titles in ProQuest Education Journals are unique to the database. A complete title list is available.

ProQuest Education Journals covers not only the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education but also special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics.

Please contact Richard Kearney (973-720-2165 / kearneyr@wpunj.edu) if you have any questions about ProQuest Education Journals.

Improved Access to Computing Literature with ProQuest Computing

As part of its subscription to ProQuest Central, the Cheng Library is now offering the specialized database ProQuest Computing. The database provides indexing to over 500 periodical titles, including over 250 trade publications, over 180 scholarly journals, and over 50 magazines. Citations and abstracts are available back to 1971 for several titles, and full-text access is available for over 400 titles, with current full-text content provided for over 200 of these. A complete title list is available.

The database includes product reviews, database design and management, software, hardware, e-commerce, Web site development, intranets and extranets, and technology management. Topics covered in the database include artificial intelligence, games, graphics, networks, programming, security, systems, management, data processing, hardware, information science and information theory, and software.

Please contact Richard Kearney (973-720-2165 / kearneyr@wpunj.edu) if you have any questions about ProQuest Computing.

Trial Access to NewsBank's Access World News: Research Collection Until May 30

The Access World News: Research Collection from NewsBank provides full-text and video content from an extensive number of global and U.S. news sources. Among the source types available in the database are:

• 3,538 Newspapers
• 440 Newswires
• 219 Broadcast Media Transcript Sources
• 210 Business and Legal Journals
• 183 Blogs
• 145 Broadcast Media Video Sources
• 110 Magazines
• 58 Web-Based News Sources
• 55 College and University Newspapers
• 38 Business and Industry Newsletters

Updated daily, the database currently contains over 200 million articles. Approximately half of the 3,000+ newspaper sources in the database contain archival backfiles extending beyond five years. The interface provides easy-to-use search and browse functionality, including an ability to restrict searches to specific geographical areas, source types, and sources. NewsBank is providing the Cheng Library with trial access to the database from now until May 30. Please contact Richard Kearney (kearneyr@wpunj.edu / 973-720-2165) if you have any comments or questions about the Access World News: Research Collection.

JSTOR E-Journal Archive Gets a Major Upgrade with Addition of the Arts and Sciences VII Collection

The Cheng Library is pleased to announce the addition of JSTOR's Arts and Sciences VII collection to its JSTOR archive of electronic journals. The Arts and Sciences VII collection contains over 180 titles across thirty-five disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, art and art history, business and economics, Classical studies, health policy, history, language and literature, linguistics, philosophy, political science, sociology, and statistics. The collection builds on the strengths of the three JSTOR journal collections already acquired by the Library, adding over 100 titles not previously available at WPUNJ in any format.

As with the other JSTOR journal collections, the purpose of Arts and Sciences VII is to provide a permanent electronic archive of major journals rather than current issues. For most titles, issues are added to the collection on a regular schedule following a time lag of between one and ten years while current content is often available through other databases. With the addition of the Arts and Sciences VII collection, the Cheng Library's JSTOR archive now includes a total of 527 titles for which new content will be added each year.

Please contact Richard Kearney (973-720-2165 / kearneyr@wpunj.edu) if you have any questions about JSTOR's Arts and Sciences VII collection.

Trial Access to Four Full-Text Databases from EBSCO Until March 5

The Cheng Library is offering trial access to four full-text databases on the EBSCOhost search platform from now until March 5. During the trial period, students and faculty will have access to the following databases:

Art and Architecture Complete

Art and Architecture Complete provides full-text coverage of more than 330 periodicals and 215 books. It also offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for nearly 730 academic journals, magazines and trade publications, plus selective coverage for more than 70 additional publications and an image collection of over 64,000 images provided by Picture Desk and others. This database covers a wide variety of pertinent subjects, including antiques, art and art history, interior and landscape design, and much more. [See complete title list]

Education Research Complete

Education Research Complete offers a large collection of full-text education journals 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 provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,100 journals. This database also includes full text for nearly 500 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers. [See complete title list]

Political Science Complete

Political Science Complete contains full text for over 400 journals, and indexing and abstracts for more than 2,000 titles, including top-ranked scholarly journals, many of which are unique to the product. The database also features more than 180 full-text reference books and monographs, and over 27,000 full-text conference papers, including those of the International Political Science Association. [See complete title list]

SocINDEX with Full Text

SocINDEX offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. These include abortion, criminology and criminal justice, demography, ethnic and racial studies, gender studies, marriage and family, political sociology, religion, rural and urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse and other addictions, violence and many others. The database features more than two million records with citations drawn from over 3,400 journals. [See complete title list]

Please contact Richard Kearney (973-720-2165 / kearneyr@wpunj.edu) with any questions or other feedback about these databases either during or after the trial period.

Over 550 Additional Journals Added to SpringerLink E-Journals Collection

The Cheng Library is pleased to announce that our SpringerLink E-Journals Collection has been enhanced with the addition of over 550 new journals, bringing the total collection size to over 1,940 titles. Springer titles cover a wide variety of disciplines, including behavioral sciences, biomedical and life sciences, business and economics, chemistry and materials science, computer science, earth and environmental science, engineering, humanities, social sciences and law, mathematics, medicine, physics and astronomy. The additional journals will provide substantially improved access to published research literature for many programs on campus.

A complete list of the new titles is available here (in PDF format).

Please contact Richard Kearney (973-720-2165 / kearneyr@wpunj.edu) if you have any questions about the SpringerLink E-Journals Collection.

"askcheng" Text Messaging Service Now Available from the Cheng Library

Starting September 1 the Cheng Library will be participating in a year-long text reference pilot project sponsored by the statewide QandANJ virtual reference service. The Library will be using Mosio’s Text a Librarian software to administer the service, which - like our local chat reference service - will be staffed 89 hours per week during most weeks of the semester, although messages may be sent at any time.

To send the Library a text message from a phone or other mobile device, students, faculty and staff should use the following simple steps:

1) Dial 66746
2) Start the body of your text message with the keyword askcheng
3) Enter the rest of your text message/question

Patron info is private and anonymous. Library staff will answer your questions at the earliest opportunity.

Please contact Richard Kearney (973-720-2165 / kearneyr@wpunj.edu) if you have any questions about the service. Please give text reference a try this year, and get librarian expertise wherever you are!