What's New

Interlibrary Loan Adds Pickup Locations

In addition to Olin Library and West Campus, the Gaylord Music Library (6500 Forsyth Blvd) is now a pickup location for interlibrary loan (ILL) materials. When you place an ILL request in ILLiad, you now have a choice between Olin Library, West Campus, and Music Library on the request form. You may also drop the item(s) off in the return bins or at the help desk in any of these locations after you’re done. We’ll take care of the rest!

"Interlibrary Loan is continually seeking ways to make our services more convenient and customer-focused," says ILL/Reserves Librarian Deb Ehrstein. "We’re excited to offer more pickup and return locations, especially for students and faculty who rely heavily on their departmental library."

Stay tuned as ILL services continue to extend beyond Olin. The Kranzberg Art & Architecture Library is slated to become a new ILL pickup location this summer. Comments, suggestions, or questions are always welcome (see the ILL FAQ).

ProQuest Outage Saturday, May 5

ProQuest® will be performing infrastructure maintenance from 9pm this Saturday, May 5, 2012 until 9am the next morning (a 12-hour window).  During this time none of the following databases will be available:

    Accounting & Tax
    American Film Institute Catalog
    American Periodical Series Online
    ARTBibliographies Modern
    ASSIA
    Avery Index
    Chicago Tribune, Historical (1849-1988)
    Design and Applied Arts Index
    Digital Sanborn Maps
    Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker
    Dissertations & Theses (ProQuest)
    Early English Books Online (EEBO)
    Ethnic NewsWatch
    Film Index International
    GenderWatch
    GeoRef
    Gerritsen Collection - Women's History Online
    Index Islamicus
    International Bibliography of Art
    International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
    International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text
    International Index to Performing Arts Full Text
    Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
    Literature Online (LION)
    New York Times, Historical (1851-2008)
    PAIS Iinternational and Archive
    PILOTS
    Social Services Abstracts
    Wall Street Journal, Historical (1889-1994)
    Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

We apologize for any inconvenience this outage causes.

Scopus now available to all of WUSTL

Exciting news! The entire campus now has access to Scopus, a multidisciplinary database, the "world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature." It contains over 46 million records, 70% with abstracts, and also includes over 4.6 million conference papers. Although strongest in science and technology, there is significant coverage in arts & humanities and social sciences. Scopus includes all of Medline, 1949 to present. It offers sophisticated tools to track, analyze and visualize research. (For many years, this has been a database only available to medical campus users and Danforth campus users who trek down to the medical campus.)

Scopus is probably most similar to Web of Science. It includes cited and citing references, h-factor calculations and several other analysis tools. For some disciplines, source documents may go back to 1960; in Web of Science we have 1970+. Of course older articles can be found in both tools when they are cited by newer articles. Scopus may be better than Web of Science for author searching because it is better (though not perfect!) at disambiguation of authors with similar names. Author name disambiguation is a difficult problem, especially important when you analyze impact, etc. Scopus includes SciImago Journal Rank and SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) for its sources. There are many tutorials available, for Sciverse (which includes ScienceDirect, Scopus and web searching) and for Scopus.

Contact your subject librarian if you have questions or comments about this database.