New Library Databases

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This Spring, the library has several new databases:


1. Gale Virtual Reference Library
http://www.lib.uconn.edu/online/databases/DatabaseInfo.cfm?ID=1484

2. Frost and Sullivan Marketing Data
http://www.lib.uconn.edu/online/databases/DatabaseInfo.cfm?ID=1472

3. World Bank Global Development Finance (GDF) Online
http://www.lib.uconn.edu/online/databases/DatabaseInfo.cfm?ID=1486

4. World Bank World Development Indicators (WDI) Online http://www.lib.uconn.edu/online/databases/DatabaseInfo.cfm?ID=1488

New Library Database: TableBase

TableBase is a database comprised of tabular information of a strategic nature. Many of the table records also have textual content which supports the data in the tables.

The tables provide information such as: market share, market size, capacity, production, imports, exports, sales, product and brand rankings, forecasts, healthcare statistics and demographics.

Tables are drawn from the more than 1000 sources that go into the Business & Industry database and from statistical annuals, brokerage reports, trade associations reports, and governmental reports. The contents of the table is indexed– not the text that may accompany the table.

Search by keyword at the top of the search screen or use categories from menus, or both. Categories include about 100 industry terms; marketing terms, such as “loyalty” and “brand equity;” concept terms; SIC and geographic regions.

UCONN DATABASE: TableBase

AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive down

The libraries database access to AP is down at the moment; it is prompting users for a username and password. The vendor has been contacted and we hope the problem will be resolved shortly.

The AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive is an electronic library containing the Associated Press’s current photos and a selection of pictures from their 50 million image print and negative library.

UConn Databases

New Databases available!

The UConn Libraries has 5 new databases available from our homepage, www.lib.uconn.edu. Click on the Most Databases link on the left. They are:

JCR, or “Journal Citation Reports.”
Provides quantitative measures for ranking, evaluating, categorizing, and comparing journals- including the impact factor, a bibliometric measurement of a journal’s importance to a field.

ArtSTOR
The ARTstor Charter Collection currently contains approximately 300,000 images; by 2006 it is expected to contain 500,000. The Charter Collection documents artistic traditions across many times and cultures and embraces architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture.

EUROMONITOR World Marketing Data and Statistics
World Marketing Data & Statistics includes country-level data on demographic, economic, and other marketing indicators. Easy and fun to use!! Key macro data for 205 countries, over one million data types are covered ranging from GDP trends to media expenditure across 25 years. over 1,000 data types: Advertising and Media, Agricultural Resources, Automotives, Banking and Finance, Communications, Consumer Expenditure, Consumer Market Sizes, Consumer Prices and Costs, Cultural Indicators, Economic Indicators, Energy Resources and Output, Environmental Data, External Trade, Health and Living Standards, Household Characteristics, Income and Earnings, Industrial Resources and Output, Labour Force Indicators, Literacy and Education, Population, Retail Distribution, Transport, Travel and Tourisms. Easy cross-country comparisons Full range of manipulation tools available * Latest statistics instantly available.

American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900
Contains digitized images of the pages of American magazines
and journals that originated between 1741, when Andrew Bradford’s American Magazine and Benjamin Franklin’s General Magazine were launched, and 1900. Deriving from the American Periodicals Series microform collection, APS Online features over 1,100 periodicals spanning nearly 200 years-from colonial times to the advent of American involvement in World War II. Titles range from America’s first scientific journal, Medical Repository, to popular magazines like
Vanity Fair and Ladies’ Home Journal.

Child Development & Adolescent Studies
Source for references to the current and historical literature related to the growth and development of children through the age of 21. Included are book reviews and abstracts from hundreds of journals, and a bibliography of thousands of technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations that cover the biomedical and social sciences worldwide. Over 10,000 new records added each year.

Full Text Documents from ERIC

Message from Dave Bretthauer, Network Services Librarian, University of Connecticut Libraries

With E*Subscribe documents now freely available via the US Dept of Ed (and the E*Subscribe site all but gone), I’ve spent a large part of today trying to figure out the easiest
way to get users to ED and EJ documents when they have the numbers.

I just learned we can search CSA’s ERIC using Accession number, and using the full ED or EJ number–for example, ED481744 or EJ677870.

The problem with using the Dept of Ed’s version of ERIC is while it links to EDs directly, EJs may be in subscription journals, and the eric.ed.gov doesn’t appear to support OpenURL linking (though I am doublechecking to be sure). So the advantage of using CSA ERIC is users should be able to link directly from the citation to either an ED or and EJ.