New Content and A New Look for eHRAF World Cultures

The electronic Human Relations Area Files (eHRAF) database of full-text ethnographic field research, eHRAF World Cultures, is one of the best sources for the comparative study of cultures, and it continues to get better with expanding coverage of human cultures and new content.

The database now includes over 4,000 documents - many of them book-length studies - in full-text, representing almost 500,000 pages and covering 191 different human cultures across the globe. The database supports cross-cultural searching and browsing by a multitude of topics, and because each paragraph is indexed it is easy to zoom in to relevant passages, even in documents that are several hundred pages in length.

eHRAF's support team has developed a number of useful aids to help you learn how to use the database for efficient and effective searching. These include:

• A series of video tutorials covering all aspects of searching and browsing the collection
• A 12-page "Quick User's Guide" (in PDF) containing screen shots and illustrated examples
• A "visual tutorial" (PowerPoint converted to PDF) to provide you with an orientation to the database
• Free training webinars that can be scheduled with eHRAF staff (but please schedule a training class with Cheng Library staff first!)

The database is also rolling out a new and improved search interface, now available in beta at eHRAF World Cultures Beta. This new search interface will be refined over the next year and will replace the current version of eHRAF World Cultures in the summer of 2013, so try it now and let us know what you think. We will pass along any suggestions or recommendations you have to eHRAF staff.

If you have questions or would like more information about eHRAF World Cultures, please contact Kurt Wagner (Library Liaison to the Anthropology Department) at wagnerk at wpunj dot edu, ext, 2285; or Richard Kearney (Electronic Resources Librarian) at kearneyr at wpunj dot edu, ext. 2165.

Trial Access to 10,000 Palgrave Macmillan Ebooks Through November 9

From now through November 9, students and faculty have access to Palgrave Macmillan's complete ebook monograph collections on the PalgraveConnect platform.

Palgrave Macmillan currently offers some 10,000 scholarly ebooks in several subject areas, with a particular emphasis on fields in the humanities, social sciences, and business. The ebooks are compatible with most e-reader technology and citation software, with both PDF and EPUB formats available for downloading, and all titles are provided with permissive DRM (allowing for full title downloads, saving and printing).

The collection is especially strong in the follow subject areas (title lists in Excel format):

• Business and Management (title list)
• Economics and Finance (title list)
• History (title list)
• Language and Linguistics (title list)
• Literature and Performing Arts (title list)
• Political and International Studies (title list)
• Religion and Philosophy (title list)
• Social and Cultural Studies (title list)

Because this trial runs for only two months, we are not adding bibliographic records to the Cheng Library Catalog, but you can access all of the ebooks by going directly to PlagraveConnect and we will also include a link on our databases directory during the trial.

If you have questions or would like more information about Palgrave Macmillan's ebooks, please contact Richard Kearney (kearneyr at wpunj dot edu, or 973-720-2165).

Try the CEIC Database for Macroeconomic Data in Global Markets Through September 21

Trial access to the CEIC Database portal is now available through September 21. The fourteen CEIC databases available during the trial offer extensive developing and developed markets macroeconomic data, with over a million time series covering economies from the U.S. and China to Vietnam, Bulgaria and Chile. CEIC Data has been helping economists and analysts make sense of the world economy since 1992. The online portal supports easy selection and downloading of time series data to Excel, The interface also offers a graphing tool, quick views of data, and essential mathematical functions.

The CEIC portal offers:

• Country-specific databases focused on five of the top emerging economies (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and Indonesia);
• A WorldTrend database offering time series data for economists and analysts seeking worldwide benchmark and reference macroeconomic data. This database contains data on a broad range of hot topics concerning the global economy. Data is sourced from leading global data agencies;
• Highly detailed and organized regional data, including:
• A city database: 287 prefecture level cities covering benchmark indicators such as domestic output, loans, deposits, investment, government finance, employment, income & expenditures, retail sales, property market and utility, etc.;
• A Prefecture Level Region database: 53 prefecture level regions covering benchmark indicators such as domestic output, loans, deposits, investments, government finance, employment, income & expenditure, retails sales, property market and utilities, etc.;
• A county database: 2,000 counties covering benchmark indicators, such as industrial output, loans, deposits, investment, government finance, employment, income & expenditures and retail sales, etc.

• Standardized and detailed industry data, including:
• Value-added organization of data with relevancy to ISIC which enables sector analysts to perform sector analysis while easily referencing to international standards;
• Strong coverage of industry sectors such as machinery, metal, precious metal, pharmaceutical, petrochemical, textile, energy, real estate, auto, insurance, and tourism;
• Detailed data for industrial products output covering over 400 monthly outputs;
• Precise manufacturing industry operating data covering over 600 industries, based on China’s Division Standard of Industrial Enterprises Classification;
  Systematically organized Chain Retail and Chain Catering operational data covering different retail formats and breakdowns by 31 provinces and cities;
• Logically organized real estate developers’ financial data covering 31 provinces and cities.
• Daily housing transaction data covering 60 cities.
• Production, process, consumption, imports and exports, and inventory data covering 31 provinces and cities each systematically organized by energy type.
• Detailed insurance operating data covering 36 provinces and cities.

 If you have questions or would like more information about the CEIC databases, please contact Richard Kearney (kearneyr at wpunj dot edu, or 973-720-2165).

Have You Tried Scopus for Science?

The Scopus database provides wide access to peer-reviewed research in the sciences and social sciences, indexing over 18,500 journals, 400 trade publications, 340 book series, and 4.9 million conference proceedings. The database presently contains over 47 million records going as far back as 1823 and as up-to-the-minute as "articles-in-press" from over 3,800 journals. Every subject discipline in the College of Science and Health is extensively represented in Scopus, and the database's broad coverage provides in-depth, cross-disciplinary reach.

But Scopus offers much more than citations. For example:

• Links in citation records provide direct access to articles from the Library's subscription and open access collections where available.
• With a free personal account you can create search or citation alerts to be delivered to you via email or RSS feed.
• You can track citations forward and backward in the database.
• You can view detailed profiles of authors based on their publications.
• You can evaluate the impact of individual journals using a set of statistical indices accessible through Scopus.
• You can export citation records to our RefWorks bibliographic management software to create your own customized bibliographies.

Scopus is a powerful tool for research, teaching, and learning, and we urge you and your students to take advantage of what it offers. To help you get acquainted with Scopus, we are offering the following:

• Orientation/training workshops for Scopus from 4:00 to 5:00 pm on Tuesday, September 18 or Wednesday, October 24 in the Cheng Library's Paterson Room (Room 213)

• Try these short video tutorials:
• Introduction to SciVerse Scopus: Getting Started
• Registration and its Benefits
• Creating and Managing Alerts

• Printed guides you can download for personal reference:
• Scopus Quick Reference Guide (8 pages)
• Scopus User Guide (24 pages)

Cheng Library staff are also happy to provide training to your class upon request. If you have questions or would like more information about Scopus, please contact Richard Kearney (kearneyr at wpunj dot edu, or 973-720-2165)..

Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature Retrospective (1890-1982) Brings the Past into the Future of Research

The Cheng Library is pleased to announce it has acquired the online version of the "Retrospective" edition of the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, covering the years 1890 through 1982, and provided on the EBSCOhost search platform. First published in 1901 by the H.W. Wilson Company, the Readers' Guide served for over a century as the major subject index to popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States, and as such it offers broad access to a wide variety of subjects, with coverage of decades in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries that few other databases offer. Spanning 92 years, the database contains indexing for over three million articles from more than 550 leading magazines, and it supports searching by subject, publication, dates, journal, author, or article title, with links to full-text articles where these are available.

The Wilson Company was a pioneer of high-quality subject indexing for periodical literature, and the range of subjects accessible through the Readers' Guide is vast, including aeronautics, African-Americans, aging, astronomy, automobiles, biography, business, Canada, children, computers, consumer education, current events, education, environment, fashion, film, fine arts, food, foreign affairs, health, history, hobbies, home, journalism, leisure activities, medicine, music, news, nutrition, photography, politics, religion, science, sports, and television. Students and faculty conducting research on almost any historical topic from the period covered by the Readers' Guide will find the database a most valuable resource. So we bid goodbye to the stacks of "green books" that have served us well for so many years! Researchers who would still like to view the old printed can see digital scans of the volumes for the years 1904 through 1922 via the Hathi Trust.

Please contact Richard Kearney (x 2165) if you have questions about the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature Retrospective database.

The Gift That Kept Giving: SGA Gift Funds JSTOR Arts and Sciences IX Journal Collection

Last year's generous gift from the Student Government Association (SGA) supported the refurbishment of Instruction and Research Technology's Preview Room in the Library's Media Services Department, the creation of the new Nexus news center space, and the purchase of three archival journal collection from the popular and highly respected JSTOR service. Following completion of these projects, the Library discovered it still had leftover funds.

With approval from the SGA, the Library has now used these funds to purchase a fourth archival journal collection from JSTOR, the Arts and Sciences IX Collection. Featuring approximately 150 active titles, the Arts and Sciences IX Collection includes journals from over 25 countries, with significant strengths in archaeology, anthropology, business and economics, political science, history, area studies, and demography, along with several other subject areas (a complete title list is available here).

With the addition of Arts and Sciences IX, the Cheng Library is now offering a total of eight JSTOR journal collections which represent over 1,700 titles. We thank the SGA once again for its generosity in supporting student access to important Library resources!

Please contact Richard Kearney (x 2165) if you have questions about JSTOR.

Try the Journal of Visualized Experiments - Trial Access through April 15

The Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the publication of biological, medical, chemical and physical research in a video format. It was established in 2006 as a new tool in life science publication and communication, with participation of scientists from leading research institutions. JoVE takes advantage of video technology to capture and transmit the multiple facets and intricacies of life science research. The journal is designed to facilitate the understanding and efficient reproduction of both basic and complex experimental techniques, so as to address two of the biggest challenges faced by today's life science research community: (a) the low transparency and poor reproducibility of biological experiments, and (b) the time and labor-intensive nature of learning new experimental techniques.

JoVE allows researchers to publish experiments in all their dimensions, overcoming the inherent limitations of traditional, static print journals, thereby adding an entirely new parameter to the communication of experimental data and research results. The journal currently offers over 1,500 video demonstrations of biological experiments ("video-protocols"), with approximately 50 new videos added each month. JoVE is organized into six major sections, including:

• General (techniques and protocols from biological, medical, chemical and physical research)
• Neuroscience (techniques from a wide variety of fields, focusing on those intended to lend insight into the structure, function, physiology and pathophysiology of the central and peripheral nervous systems)
• Immunology and Infection (video articles demonstrating seminal and novel techniques in the fields of immunology and infectious diseases)
• Clinical and Translational Medicine (articles in this section typically document medical procedures, case reports, clinical trials and translational medicine with direct bedside application)
• Bioengineering (techniques in which the principles of engineering, mathematics and physics are applied to problems associated with the life sciences)
• Basic Protocols (a section compiled from the other JoVE sections that contains basic laboratory protocols)

Trial access to JoVE is available through April 15. Please contact Richard Kearney (x 2165) if you have any questions about the Journal of Visualized Experiments during the trial.