2005 Faculty Honors Conference Registration

REGISTRATIONS ARE NOW BEING ACCEPTED for “Undergraduate Research and Scholarship: Fostering Engagement and Creativity,” the 2005 Faculty Honors Conference.

The conference will occur on Thursday, January 13, 2005
8:00 A.M. to 1:30 P.M.
Rome Ballroom

This exciting event – sponsored by the Honors Program, in collaboration with the Vice Provost for Research and Dean of the Graduate School and the University Libraries – will be free and open to all UConn faculty and staff members on a first-come, first-served basis. To learn more and to register on-line, please go to:
http://honors.uconn.edu/honorsconf.htm

White Boards in Group Study Rooms

White boards have been added to all of the group study rooms at the Jeremy Richard Library. So all you creative types can sketch clever illustrations or get your ideas across to your study group by showing them what something should look like.

Markers and brushes can be borrowed from the Library’s Circulation Desk with a UConn Student ID card.

Latin American News in LexisNexis Academic

LexisNexis Academic has added feeds of the UPI Chile and UPI Latin America wires in Spanish. Go to the Guided News Search Tab Step one select:>Non-English Language News> Step two:>Spanish Language News.

There is also a new “Latin America News Digest” source in step one: select>World News>North> step two: select> South America News. The product summarizes local business and economic news in English.

LexisNexis Academic

State of the Library 2004-2005

To the UConn Library Staff:


A conference call will be set up on Monday November 15, 2005 at 2:30 PM with our Director of University Libraries Brinley Franklin discussing the Libraries Academic Year 2005.

An email with the conference call phone number and login instructions will be sent soon.

Remember, this is your one (and only) opportunity this year to ask Brinley any
question you want and get an honest answer! Or forever hold your peace 🙂

2005 Graduate Student Paper Competition

The Family Division announces its 2005 Graduate Student Paper Competition. Papers should be of professional quality, and may relate to any aspect of sociology of the family. Authors should be currently enrolled as graduate students, or individuals who received their Ph.D.s in May 2004 or later. To be eligible, a paper may not be published, accepted, or under review for publication. Papers that have been presented at a professional meeting or submitted for presentation at a professional conference are eligible. Papers must be student-authored; they can be authored by one or more students, but may not be co-authored with a faculty member or non-student. Papers should be no more than 35 pages in length, including all notes, references, and tables. Send papers and a cover letter specifying that the paper is to be considered for the Family Division Graduate Student Paper Competition to:

Nancy Mezey
Department of Political Science/Sociology
400 Cedar Avenue
Monmouth University
West Long Branch, NJ 07764-1898.

Alternatively, papers may be sent electronically to Dr. Mezey at: nmezey@verizon.net
Papers are due no later than JANUARY 15, 2005. The winner and any runners-up will be announced in Spring 2005. The winner(s) will receive a modest cash stipend, registration fees, and an opportunity to present her/his paper at the SSSP conference, held in August 2005 in Philadelphia.

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.