Zach's News

March is Women’s History Month, and GALILEO offers several resources to help you find the stories of women throughout history along with advice on how to find those resources.

Start by looking for a woman in the Discover@Georgia Southern search box. Try finding Susan B. Anthony, Marie Curie, Helen Keller, Sally Ride, Coretta Scott King, Sonia Sotomayor, Jane Goodall, and others. For some major events in women’s history, look for women’s rights, women suffrage, women work*, feminism, or other topics of interest. Tip: If you are getting a lot of book reviews in the results, use Limit by Type to remove Reviews (click Show More to see all types, click Check all, then uncheck Reviews).

NoveList and NoveList K-8 offer book recommendations for all ages. Here is a tip to find fiction books by women. Go the Advanced Search, leave the search box blank (or type in a topic of your choice), and choose Female in the Author’s Gender field to see a list of books.

Interested in important women in Georgia? Take a look at the Women of Distinction in Georgia feature in the New Georgia Encyclopedia. You can read about interesting women like Mary Musgrove, Hazel Raines, Rosalyn Carter, Alice Walker, and many more fascinating women. The Digital Library of Georgia offers many historical images and documents related to women, and it also includes two collections focused on women’s history, For Our Mutual Benefit: The Athens Woman’s Club and Social Reform, 1899-1920 and Georgia Women’s Movement Oral History Project Collection.

As you may have read in The George-Anne, COBA (the College of Business Administration) has ceased offering the hard copy of The Wall Street Journal each day.  However, the Zach S. Henderson Library offers access to the electronic version of The Wall Street Journal from ProQuest.  Issues from 1984 to the present are available.  You can access this content with this link.

Henderson Library is sponsoring a trial and evaluation of Early European Books Online through March 24th.  Early European Books Online traces the history of printing in Europe from its origins through to the close of the seventeenth century, offering full-colour, high-resolution facsimile images of rare and hard-to-access printed sources.

You can access Early European Books Online via GALILEO or directly with this link.

Please let us know what you think of this resource by e-mailing jminihan@georgiasouthern.edu or posting a comment here on Zach’s News.  You can also leave feedback by responding to this survey.  Thanks!

We are pleased to announce that Oxford Islamic Studies Online is now available via GALILEO. Funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the American Library Association (ALA), Oxford Islamic Studies Online is an authoritative, dynamic resource that brings together the best current scholarship to foster a more accurate and informed understanding of the Islamic world.

You can access Oxford Islamic Studies Online via GALILEO or directly with this link.

Henderson Library is sponsoring a trial and evaluation of L’Année Philologique Online through March 4th.  L’Année Philologique is a specialized bibliographic database of scholarly works relating to all aspects of ancient Greek and Roman civilizations.

You can access L’Année Philologique via GALILEO or directly with this link.

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We are pleased to announce that Bepress’s Digital Commons Network is now freely available.  This new database of open access scholarship (600,000+ articles) is curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions and represents thousands of disciplines and subject areas from Architecture to Zoology. This resource for researchers includes scholarship from hundreds of universities and colleges, including peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.

You can access the Digital Commons Network via GALILEO or directly with this link.

Henderson Library is sponsoring an extended trial and evaluation of PsycCRITIQUES and PsycEXTRA through June 30, 2013.
Both of these databases are produced by the American Psychological Association (APA).  PsycCRITIQUES provides full text book reviews featuring current scholarly and professional books in psychology.  PsycEXTRA, a bibliographic and full text companion to the scholarly PsycINFO database, contains technical, annual, and government reports, conference papers, newsletters, magazines, newspapers, consumer brochures, and more.

You can access PsycCRITIQUES directly with this link and PsycEXTRA directly with this link.

Please let us know what you think of this resource by e-mailing jminihan@georgiasouthern.edu or posting a comment here on Zach’s News.   Thanks!

The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the expansion of the South Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive:

The South Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive now provides access to fifteen newspaper titles published in nine south Georgia cities (Albany, Americus, Bainbridge, Brunswick, Cuthbert, Thomasville, Tifton, Valdosta, and Waycross) from 1845 to 1922. Consisting of over 141,000 newspaper pages, the archive provides historical images that are both full-text searchable and can be browsed by date.

The archive now includes the following Athens newspaper titles: Albany Herald (1892-1893, 1900-1901, 1906), Albany News (1867-1892), Bainbridge Democrat (1872-1909), Bainbridge Search Light/Post-Search Light (1901-1922), Brunswick Advertiser/Advertiser and Appeal (1875-1889), Cuthbert Appeal (1866-1886), Tifton Gazette (1892-1919), Waycross Headlight (1884-1887), Waycross Herald (1892-1914), and Waycross Journal (1901-1914) in addition to the titles previously included in the archive: Albany Patriot (1845-1866), Americus Times Recorder (1881-1921), Sumter Republican (1870-1885), Thomasville Times Enterprise (1873-1922), Valdosta Times (1908-1912).

The South Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive is a project of the Digital Library of Georgia as part of the Georgia HomePLACE initiative. The project is supported with federal LSTA funds administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Georgia Public Library Service, a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.

Other newspaper archives available through the Digital Library of Georgia include the Atlanta Historic Newspapers Archive (1847-1922), the Macon Telegraph Archive (1826-1908), the Athens Historic Newspapers Archive (1827-1928), the Columbus Enquirer Archive (1828-1890), the Milledgeville Historic Newspapers Archive (1808-1920), the Southern Israelite Archive (1929-1986), the Red and Black Archive (1893-2006), and the Mercer Cluster Archive (1920-1970). These archives can be accessed at http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/MediaTypes/Newspapers.html

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Donnie Summerlin, C.A.

Digital Projects Archivist

Digital Library of Georgia

University of Georgia

Athens, GA 30602-1641

706-583-0212

donsum@uga.edu

Henderson Library is sponsoring a trial and evaluation of Policy Map through November 14th.
Policy Map is a fully web-based Geographic Information System that captures data in visually powerful ways through custom demographic maps, tables, reports and analysis tools.
You can access Policy Map via GALILEO or directly with this link.

Please let us know what you think of this resource by e-mailing jminihan@georgiasouthern.edu or posting a comment here on Zach’s News.  You can also leave feedback by responding to this survey.  Thanks!

Henderson Library is sponsoring trials for two new databases:  the Oxford Reference Shelf and Faculty of 1000.

The Oxford Reference Shelf is the home of Oxford’s quality reference publishing, bringing together over 2 million entries, many of which are illustrated, into a single cross-searchable resource.  Georgia Southern University library users will have access to this database until October 31, 2012.

You can access the Oxford Reference Shelf via GALILEO or directly with this link.  You can also leave feedback by responding to this survey.

Faculty of 1000 is an in-depth directory to the top articles in biology and medicine, as recommended by our Faculty of over 5,000 expert scientists and clinical researchers, assisted by 5,000 associates.  Georgia Southern University library users will have access to this database until October 19, 2012.

You can access the Faculty of 1000 database via GALILEO or directly with this link.  You can also leave feedback by responding to this survey.

Please let us know what you think of these resources by e-mailing jminihan@georgiasouthern.edu or posting a comment here on Zach’s News.    Thanks!