Philobiblion

New Faculty & Graduate Student Orientation and Reception

New faculty and graduate students are encouraged to attend this year’s orientation and reception on Monday, August 30th from 3-5pm at John M. Olin Library.  At the orientation you will  have the opportunity to meet your subject librarian(s); learn about services, resources, and technology available to you; tour the library; and enjoy refreshments with your new colleagues and classmates.  If you have questions about the event please contact Melissa Vetter at mvetter@wustl.edu

JSTOR Update

JSTOR has join the long list of platforms that have introduced new and somewhat improved interfaces recently. You'll also find in JSTOR a significant amount of new journals, the result of the purchase of the Arts and Sciences V collection .

Note: There is still a significant amount of JSTOR content that the Library has been unable to purchase. The new JSTOR interfaces includes this material, currently inaccessible to Wash U through JSTOR, in search results. In some cases this material may be available through other providers.

New Archived Journals in Philosophy:

American Journal of Philosophy (University of Illinois Press)
Erkenntnis (1975-) and its predecessors (Springer)
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (Springer)
Frontiers of Philosophy in China (Springer)
Human Studies (Springer)
Hypatia (Wiley-Blackwell)
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion (Springer)
Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie
The Journal of Ethics (Springer)
Linguistics and Philosophy (Springer)
Philosophical Studies (Springer)
Review of Metaphysics (Philosophy Education Society)
Synthese (Springer)
Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung (Klosterman)

in Classics:

The Annual of the British School at Athens
Arion (Boston University)
Classical Antiquity (and its predecessors)
Gnomon (Beck)
Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome (University of Michigan Press)Supplementary Volumes
Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica (Fabrizio Serra)
Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (Habelt)

Updated Interface for Philosopher's Index

If you've used Philosopher's Index or PsycINFO this month you may have noticed some changes, cosmetic and otherwise, to the EBSCOHost interface. Two important changes to be aware are (1) search results are now displayed according to EBSCOHost's relevancy ranking rather than by descending date and (2) search terms entered in the same box are no longer treated as a phrase--as if the terms were enclosed in quotes in Google search. Instead, search results will include occurrences of both terms within five words of each other--a "W5 proximity search." Additional improvements include an enhanced PDF viewer and enhanced capabilities for refining results.

Readers access online journals from Blackwell-Wiley and Springer will also noticed new interfaces. Publishers have been busy this summer: http://wulibraries.typepad.com/whatsnew/2010/08/wiley-and-springer-outages-aug-78.html