Wash-U Bibliophiles Win Book Collecting Essay Competition
The Washington University Libraries are delighted to announce the 2008 undergraduate and graduate winners of the annual Neureuther Student Book Collection Essay Competition.
The Washington University Libraries are delighted to announce the 2008 undergraduate and graduate winners of the annual Neureuther Student Book Collection Essay Competition.
EBSCO has made available a free database called GreenFILE, which covers all aspects of human impact on the environment and indexes scholarly, government and general-interest titles. We've added it to our EBSCO profile so that citations will have Get it! buttons to full-text where available. More info.
Grove Art Online is now part of Oxford Art Online, a comprehensive and authoritative guide with extensive surveys and in-depth articles on the history of art; provides links to museums, galleries, and art collections around the world, as well as images. More info.
Grove Music Online is now part of Oxford Music Online, covering all aspects of music. It includes the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, the Oxford Dictionary of Music, and the Oxford Companion to Music. More info.
The Libraries have subscribed to the (New) Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, which contains over 1,850 articles by more than 1,500 of the world's leading economists. More info.
The revised NIH Public Access Policy is effective today. It requires NIH-funded investigators to submit (or have submitted for them) their final, peer reviewed manuscript to PubMed Central upon acceptance of publication to be made publicly available within 12 months of publication. This policy applies to manuscripts accepted for publication on or after April 7, 2008. The University Libraries stand ready to help you with questions you may have about compliance, copyright policies of journals where you may want to publish, etc. Save Your Time! Ask Us: Subject Librarians for NIH Public Policy Compliance & Journal Policy Concerns.
On Tuesday, April 8, we will be performing maintenance on the servers that run the ILLiad (Interlibrary Loan) software. We expect the service will be unavailable from 7am until about noon that day. We apologize for any inconvenience.
The Libraries have subscribed to Archäologische Bibliographie (via Projekt Dyabola). Based on the catalog of the German Archaeological Institute, this is the major bibliographical database for classical archaeology. More info.
Back in January we announced that the Libraries had subscribed to a service that provides full-color cover images and links to author notes, fiction and biography profiles (see this announcement). Now we've added more features: through a service called LibraryThing for Libraries some records have these additional fields:
About 38% of the records for books in the catalog now have this added content. LibraryThing continues to add features; in the future you may be able to add your own tags to catalog records, contribute your own reviews, and add ratings to books.
