Memorial Library Blog

Ebsco, the publishers of most of the Memorial Library databases, have introduced a new interface.

With this new look, you will find:

• Ability to preview the abstract when you mouseover the title.
• Additional search options.
• Improved results list.
• Enhanced visuals including charts, graphs, photos, etc.

They have provided a flash demonstration of the new features. Additional help can be found on the support site or by contacting the library.

Jennifer Hoover

Electronic Resources Librarian

SUNY Cortland Memorial Library

PO Box 2000

Cortland, NY 13045

(607) 753-2528

From 05:30 EDT on Saturday August 2, to 01:30 EDT on Sunday August 3 (09:30 UTC to August 3, 05:30 UTC), ScienceDirect and Scopus will be unavailable due to an upgrade of the administrative system that will improve the access and entitlements process to both platforms.
As a consequence, Email alerts and RSS feeds for ScienceDirect and Scopus will not be sent from 11:30 EDT on August 1 (15:30 UTC) until the downtime has finished. Email alerts and RSS feeds can still be created until 05:30 EDT on August 2 (09:30 UTC), but they will not be sent until after the upgrade is completed.

Access to library databases off campus are experiencing connectivity issues.   You may time out before reaching the databases.    We are working to resolve the issue.

update 6/11/08 -  Access to library databases from off campus has been restored

GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 295,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,600 records.  

Jennifer Hoover
Electronic Resources Librarian
SUNY Cortland Memorial Library

Off campus access to the library databases has changed. You will now be prompted to enter a user name and password. These are the same as your NetID and password.

Jennifer Hoover
Electronic Resources Librarian

Our interlibrary loan system, Illiad is back online today. If you have trouble logging into Illiad, please call the interlibrary loan department at 607-753-2491 or let us know via our troubleshooting page at http://library.cortland.edu/forms/illiad_problem.asp.

Anthrosource

Developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), AnthroSource brings 100 years of anthropological material online to scholars and the public, including:

• Current issues for 15 of the AAA’s most critical peer-reviewed publications through the end of 2006, including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly.
• An electronic archive of all AAA journals.
• Seamless access to archival content housed at JSTOR for key AAA publications including American Anthropologist.

http://www.anthrosource.net

Anthrosoure is available until 04/20/07

ScienceDirect (but not Scopus) will be unavailable for a planned period of downtime on Sunday, March 11, 2007 for approximately 7 hours starting at 01:00 AM EST

Birds of North America Online

http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/BNA/

Birds of North America Online (BNA Online) is a continually updated, comprehensive reference for life history information on over 700 different bird species that breed in the United States and Canada. In addition to the text, figures, and illustrations included in the original hard copy version, BNA Online includes photo galleries, vocalizations, updated text and video for many species. This reference resource is maintained by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Available until May 10, 2007

Saskia art images are now available to the SUNY Cortland community for search and download!

Earlier this year we purchased 6,093 high resolution digital art images from Saskia, Ltd. along with some metadata describing the images and providing the title, artist’s name, and other basic information about the artwork depicted in the images. The collection consists of photos of artworks, taken by professional photographers employed by Saskia Ltd or Davis Art Images. The art was chosen based on subjects depicted in plates of standard art history and architecture textbooks. We are working to make these images available to our users in two ways: through ARTstor - which is still in process - and through the SUNY Dspace server. Dspace access to these images is now available to any computer on the SUNY Cortland network. Off-campus access is theoretically available to those who register with SUNY Dspace using a cortland.edu email address, but this has not been tested yet.

You can search the images by keywords or specific fields, or you can browse the contents of the collection by title or by “author” (creator). A thumbnail of the image is shown; select an image to display a brief or full record of the information about the image. Clicking on View/Open at the bottom of the brief or full display opens a full-size .jpg file of the image, which can then be downloaded and copied by our users for their academic use. Our license allows faculty, staff, and students to use these images for any teaching or research (educational) use.

Address for our Saskia Art Images collection:

http://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/handle/1951/6640

Address for the SUNY Dspace:

http://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/

Because SUNY Binghamton has made its images available to all of SUNY through Dspace, our users can search all of Dspace and will find art images in both our Saskia collection and the Binghamton Visual Resources Collection.