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Open Access Week
October 19-23 will mark the first international Open Access Week.
Open Access Week is an opportunity to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access to research, including access policies from all types of research funders, within the international higher education community and the general public. The now-annual event has been expanded from a single day to accommodate widespread global interest in the movement toward open, public access to scholarly research results.
What is open access?
Open Access generally refers to free online access to scholarly materials without restrictions. Free access is usually possible because authors self-archive their scholarly material or provide access to them through an institutional repository. Some high-impact journals such as the Public Library of Science titles (i.e., PLoS Biology, PloS Medicine, etc.) provide articles free of charge while others offer articles free of charge after an embargo period.
Want to know more? You can read about open access initiatives at organizations such as the Association of Research Libraries' SPARC, the National Institutes of Health, and Britain's JISC or visit directories of open access materials such as the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
Or, you can watch a two-minute video:
Open Access 101, from SPARC from Karen Rustad on Vimeo.
Commonwealth College Fortnightly, now Online
Thanks to a gift from Professor Stephen A. Smith, the Special Collections department has digitized a nearly complete run of the college newspaper for Commonwealth College. The Commonwealth College Fortnightly was issued at Commonwealth College in Mena, Arkansas from Volume 2, -Number 1 January 1, 1926 through Volume 14, Number 5 March 15,1938.
Commonwealth College was established in 1923 at the Newllano Cooperative Colony (near Leesville, Louisiana) to promote labor education and especially to educate leaders for the labor movement. Due to clashes among strong personalities and conflicting priorities, the college was soon looking for a new home. Commonwealth College moved to a temporary location in Mena, Polk County, Arkansas, in December 1924. On April 19, 1925, the school moved to a permanent location thirteen miles west of Mena.
You can read more about the history of the college, and find links to published and manuscript resources for more information, on the Special Collections web site.
Index Arkansas Expansion
The Happy Hollow Foundation,of Fayetteville, awarded a $58,500 grant to expand the Index Arkansas coverage from 1986-2008, adding 14,000 citations, raising the total to 105,000!
Indexing for several journals now extends through 2009; these include:
- Benton County Pioneer
- Flashback (Washington County Historical Society)
- Jefferson County Historical Quarterly
- Historical Bulletin (Grand Prairie Historical Society)
- Pope County Historical Association Quarterly
- Pulaski County Historical Review
Index Arkansas evolved from an old-fashioned card file started in the 1930s to an online index available through the Libraries’ web site. It contains almost 95,000 citations from Arkansas-related biographical and historical books, Arkansas periodicals, county historical journals, as well as statewide and regional newspapers.
Get Scared @ Your Library
Looking for some Halloween treats? Something spine-tingling to get you in the mood? Check out some of these library resources:
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First stop? Try the library catalog, InfoLinks, for works by the masters of horror such as Edgar Allen Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, or Shirley Jackson. Or, read up on your Halloween history with books on the Salem Witch Trials, the Halloween holiday, or ghosts. You'll also find chapters on Halloween customs in some of our reference dictionaries and encyclopedias, such as A Dictionary of Days, The Folklore of American Holidays, or A Dictionary of Superstitions. |
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Halloween and the paranormal show up in a surprising number of journal article databases. Both JSTOR and Project Muse feature a number of folklore journals, where you might find articles such as "Trick or Treat? Halloween Lore, Passive Consumerism, and the Candy Industry," or "Tam Lin, Fair Janet, and the Sexual Revolution: Traditional Ballads, Fairy Tales, and Twentieth-Century Children's Literature."
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For the skeptics, PsycINFO indexes research on topics such as belief in extraterrestrials, the subconscious and the paranormal. Try subject headings or keywords such as "Parapsychology," "Witchcraft," or "Vampires." The MLA International Bibliography is well-known for its coverage of literature, but it also indexes articles and dissertations on film and folklore studies. Search here for scholarly articles on the horror film, vampires in literature, or Halloween folklore. Web Of Science indexes top journals in a variety of disciplines. A quick search for Halloween locates "Lead contamination of inexpensive seasonal and holiday products" and "Pediatric nasal foreign body." Ewwww. Now, that's scary! |
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Want to go back... way back? Visit Early English Books Online (EEBO) for early modern works on witchcraft, magic, ghosts, and poltergeists. This amazing collection features every book, pamphlet, and broadside printed in England up until 1700. Or, just return to your childhood with juvenile books from our Learning Resources for Children (LRC) collection. Located on Level 3 east of Mullins Library, the LRC collection offers a selection of ghoulish goodies, including Bunnicula, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, and In the Witch's Kitchen: Poems for Halloween. |
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Finally, join us on October 29th for a real-life Fayetteville ghost story. October is American Archives Month, and the University Libraries’ Special Collections department is commemorating the month by hosting an open house in Special Collections, Mullins Library room 130, on October 29, from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. At 3:30 pm, Stephen J. Chism will offer a talk, “How a Library Newsletter Changed My Life: Special Collections and My Research for The Afterlife of Leslie Stringfellow.” Chism, local author and a reference librarian at the University of Arkansas Libraries, describes his re-publication of a little known book of local history contained in Special Collections that recounts a family’s experiences in talking with the dead. |
Old News: Collection News Archive
Collection News for September 2009: One Book One Community | Hispanic Studies Resources | Proxify your Links | INSPEC-O-RAMA | Literature Resource Center Enhancements
Collection News for July - August 2009: Communication and Mass Media Complete | SciFinder Moves to the Web | GreenFILE Aids Sustainability Research | Bing vs. Google | New Project Muse Titles
Collection News for May-June 2009: Latin American Newspapers Collection | Music from Many Lands | Billy James Hargis Collection | World Digital Library is Opened
Collection News for April 2009: Celebrate Earth Day | Fay Jones Collection | New Oxford Reference Online Titles
Collection News for March 2009: Women's History Month: Special Collections for Women's History | Mandala: Watch, Learn, Research | ASCE Adds Back Volumes | Classical Music Library Update | Oxford Classical Dictionary
Collection News for February 2009: African American Studies: Keneth Kinnamon Collection | Online Resources for Black History Month | Arkansas Academy of Science Archive | New Journals from Science Direct | New Collections at the Center for Research Libraries
Collection News for December 2008 - January 2009: CRL Commemorates Human Rights Declaration | Biological Abstracts and Zoological Record on Web of Knowledge | CINAHL adds Full Text | Jerry Russell Civil War Collection
Collection News for November 2008: Celebrating American Indian Heritage Month | Library Resources for Native American Studies | Columbus Day / Indigenous Peoples Day 2008
Collection News for October 2008: Boo! Fred Isaac Mystery Collection | Got Data? ICPSR Delivers! | Knovel University Challenge | WorldCat Links to Google Books | Music moves to Ebsco | SciFinder for Mac Update
Collection News for August - September 2008: Ebsco's New Look | Research Wizard to the Rescue | Project Muse Update | Beilstein Structure Draw Plugin
Collection News for June - July 2008: Scitopia: Search Across the Sciences | Mintel: Marketing Data Galore | Art and Music Online | History Databases Move to Ebsco | Sample Civil War Databases
Collection News for April 2008: April is Jazz Appreciation Month | April is Poetry Month | April has National Library Week
Collection News for March 2008 Index Arkansas adds Newspaper Coverage | Search the Catalog from Facebook | Ebsco Enhancements | Encyclopedia of Life Debuts
Collection News for February 2008 Celebrating Black History Month | Oxford African American Studies Center | Civil Rights in Arkansas | Alexander Street Databases | Carter G. Woodson Works | Additional Web Resources
Collection News for January 2008 Politics and Primaries | Chicago Manual of Style Online | Novel Knovel Subjects | Universities around the Globe
Collection News for December 2007 Journals Review Project | Paperback Exchange
Collection News for November 2007 Libraries Go to the Movies | InfoLinks Updates | New York Times Archive | Get Lost in Space
Collection News for September - October 2007 Access Science | New Social Sciences Databases | Eureka Databases move to Firstsearch | Scifinder Scholar 2007 | New AgEcon Search Features
Collection News for July - August 2007 InfoLinks Redesign | Lexis Nexis Redesign | Design on Trial
Collection News for June 2007 Center for Research Libraries Purchases | Serials Costs
Collection News for April - May 2007 Upcoming Changes in Remote Access | 19th Century Newspapers Collection | New PILOTS Database from CSA | ERIC database now links to Find it!
Collection News for February - March 2007 Find it! | Celebrate Black History Month
Collection News for January 2007 Ebsco Visual Search | RefGrab-It | ISI Web of Science Citation Report Tool | Art Museum Image Gallery Grows
Collection News for December 2006: Nonviolent Peacemaking and Victims of Violence and Wars | Newly Processed Manuscript Collections
Collection News for November 2006 Celebrating American Indian Heritage Month | SciFinder Scholar 2006 for Mac| Rule, Britannica | New Journals in JSTOR, Project Muse
Collection News for October 2006 Worldwide Political Science Abstracts | Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month | New Look for Science Direct E-Journals | Google Scholar Direct Export to RefWorks
Collection News for August - September 2006 New Look, Features for ISI Web of Knowledge | Social Sciences on CSA | Chronicle of Higher Education Site License | Google Video Collects Clips
Collection News for June-July 2006 Chronicle of Higher Education Site License | Black Women Writers Debuts | MLA International Bibliography Archive | New CSA, Gale Databases to Try Out
Collection News for April-May 2006 Encyclopedia of Arkansas Debuts | Handbook of Chemistry and Physics Online | Referex Engineering EBooks | Time Travel to Ancient and Medieval Scholarship | Your Comments, Reviews in WorldCat
Collection News for March 2006 Rice is Nice: The UA AgNIC Site is Unveiled | UA System Libraries Expand ScienceDirect Titles | Find Book Reviews, Find Fiction | New Titles, Features in JSTOR
Collection News for February 2006 Celebrate Black History Month with a Song | More Music to your Ears: Naxos and Classical | Additional Resources for African American Studies
Collection News for January 2006: American National Biography | Oxford Reference Online | History Databases Redesigned | New Look for Lexis Nexis Congressional
Collection News for November/December 2005: American Indian Heritage Resources | ASCE Research Library | ProQuest Update | SciFinder Scholar for Mac OS X
Collection News for October 2005: Arkansas in the Civil War | Art Museum Image Gallery | Google Scholar and Scirus | Morningstar.com | WilsonWeb adds Search Alerts
Collection News for September 2005: Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month | Mental Measurements Yearbook & International Political Science Abstracts - now on Ebsco | GWLA Bioengineering Gateway | New SciFinder Scholar Software | CAB Abstracts Backfiles
Collection News for August 2005: Knovel Library | GeoScienceWorld and GeoRef | Patrologiae Graecae | UALR Joins ScienceDirect Group | New SilverPlatter / WebSPIRS Features | Remote Access Down August 17
Collection News for July 2005: Wiley E-Books Arrive | Computo Ergo Sum: Philosopher's Index Online | AMICO is now CAMIO | PAIS Kaput
Collection News for May - June 2005: Open WorldCat and RedLightGreen | New ILLiad Links to Databases | API: Arkansas Publications Index
Collection News for April 2005: API: Arkansas Publications Index | Life and Times of Jorge Luis Borges | Plant Management Network | Lexis Nexis Company Dossier and Country Analysis | IEEEXplore version 2.0 Launched | GeoScienceWorld Trial
Collection News for March 2005: Early English Books: Text Creation Partnership | GeoScienceWorld Trial | Inside Higher Ed | Peeved by PDFs?
Collection News for February 2005: Celebrate Black History Month | Economist Intelligence Unit | Knovel Trial and Demos | Ovid Nursing Journals
Collection News for January 2005: Knovel Trial | ProQuest Dissertations and Theses | New Center for Research Libraries Purchases | INSPEC Archive now Available | Cochrane Library now on Wiley
Collection News for December 2004: Books in Print with Reviews | Google Scholar and OpenWorldCat Projects | Patrologia Latina and Acta Sanctorum | New SciFinder Software
Collection News for November 2004: Search Alerts!
Collection News for October 2004: ERIC and E*Subscribe Changes | Beilstein CrossFire Software Update | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | Gale Virtual Reference Titles
Collection News for September 2004: Black Thought and Culture | Classical Music Library | "My Library" on InfoLinks | PAIS Archive | New RefWorks Interface | MLA Now on Ebsco | INSPEC and Compendex | Electronic Reserves and Article Linking
Collection News for July / August 2004: Congressional Serial Set Online | New Web of Knowledge Interface | Electronic Reserves and Article Linking | British Theses Index
Collection News for May / June 2004: JSTOR Arts and Sciences III | Annual Reviews Backfiles | Compendex Links to ILLiad
Collection News for April 2004: Merck Index Online | INSPEC | Alexander Street Press
Collection News for March 2004: U.S. Congressional Serial Set Trial | Evans Early American Imprints | Naxos Music Library | AMICO Image Library Update | Learn More about Alexander Street Databases
Collection News for February 2004: ScienceDirect Journals Add Years, Titles | RefWorks Step-by-Steps | History Databases Now Link to ILLiad | INSPEC Now on Ebsco
Collection News for January 2004: Compendex Engineering Index Backfiles | Communication & Mass Media | SciFinder Scholar 2004 | MathSciNet Enhancements | Grove Art and Music Databases
Collection News for December 2003: Reader's Guide Retrospective | Oxford University Press Databases | New Look for Early English Books Online
Collection News for November 2003: Mental Measurements Yearbook | Public Library of Science | Spanish Periodical Indexes | Ebsco Resources for Children | BioOne Indexing Database | Classical.com Trial
Collection News for October 2003: Encyclopedia Americana Online | Communication Abstracts Trial | RefWorks Tutorials Online | Web of Knowledge Training | ILLiad Database Links | ProQuest Links to Library Catalog
Collection News for September 2003: Web of Science: Citation Indexes at your Fingertips! Current Contents Connect | Lexis Nexis Training | RefWorks Workshops
Collection News for July / August 2003: ZMATH Database | Sociological Abstracts Migrates | SilverLinker Now Available | ProQuest Redesign | RefWorks Enhancements
Collection News for May/June 2003: Black Drama Expands Contents | Reference Universe Trial | Europa World Year Book | Take our Electronic Resources Survey
Collection News for April 2003: Art Full-Text | Grove Jazz joins Grove Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians | CHEMnetBASE and ENGNetBASE Trials | ACLS History E-Book Project Trial | FirstSearch Now Exports to RefWorks
Collection News for March 2003: Beilstein CrossFire Now Available | Sage Full-Text Journal Collections Trial | RLG Cultural Materials Database | Pennsylvania Gazette Online | ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
Collection News for February 2003: Project MUSE Electronic Journals | Conference Board's Research Database | The Nineteenth Century Goes Digital | Moody's FIS is New Mergent Online
Collection News for January 2003: AMICO ART Image Library | EHRAF Ethnography and Archaeology Collections | JSTOR adds Arts & Sciences II and General Science Collections | CINAHL Moves to Ebsco | FirstSearch adds Alternative Press Index Archive | New Oxford English Dictionary Features | New RefWorks Features | New Compendex Interface
Collection News for November - December 2002: Digital Dissertations: Dissertation Abstracts + Full Text | Polling the Nations Trial | SciFinder Scholar 2002 | CINAHL Trials | ERIC Database now on FirstSearch | MLA International Bibliography adds Thesaurus | PUBScience is Discontinued by Dept. of Energy
Collection News for October 2002: JSTOR Ecology & Botany Collection | Science Next Wave | Physical Education Index | American Chemical Society E-Journal Archives | HarpWeek
Collection News for September 2002: RefWorks: Bibliographic Citation Manager | Center for Research Libraries | Current Protocols Online | Lexis-Nexis Databases Redesigned
Collection News for July/August 2002: InfoLinks gets a New Look | Market Research Monitor | ATLA Religion Index | Eureka Interface Changes
Collection News for June 2002: Early English Books Online: Centuries of Primary Sources at Your Desktop! Bibliography of Asian Studies | Ebsco now Links to JSTOR | FirstSearch Removes Acxiom Telephone Book Files
Collection News for May 2002: IEL: Full IEEE / IEE Database Now Available! Current Index to Statistics Online | Trial of Safari Computer Books Online | Enhanced FirstSearch Features
