IBISWorld Subscription Active

IBISWorld is now available as part of the electronic resources collection at Owens Library. "IBISWorld provides thoroughly researched, accurate and current economic, demographic and government data on businesses in over 700 industries."

Upcoming Cancellation - Readers' Guide

The subscription to Readers' Guide Retrospective will conclude on November 30, 2010.

Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context

Select Gale Resource Centers are being upgraded to the revolutionary new In Context experience, including our current subscription to Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center has undergone a name change and is now Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. The url has not changed.

Articles of interest on patron-driven acquisition

In light of our recent discussions on patron-driven acquisition, these articles came across my desktop this morning:

What Al spoke so well to in our TS meeting on Thursday (needing a combo of approval plans, the opening statement is misleading): Problematizing Patron-Driven Acquisitions

YPB/EBL Demand-Driven Approval Announcement

Anyone interested in posting fundraising ideas here?

For example, check this one out!

Upcoming Alexander Street Press Downtime

Alexander Street Press resources (listed below) will be experiencing sporadic outages on Sunday, October 17, 2010 between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. Central time.

• Classical Music Library
• Classical Scores Library
• In the First Person

Also, be prepared for slow service on October 19, 20, and 21, as additional maintenance is scheduled.

Mental Measurements Yearbook WITH Tests in Print

"To alleviate these conditions, EBSCO Publishing, in collaboration with the Buros Institute, has agreed to re-engineer these products into a single database. Furthermore, we will combine the Tests in Print citations with the Mental Measurements Yearbook full-text reviews, into a single, more comprehensive record. There are several advantages to this approach, including:

• Full access to all search options will be provided for these products
• All information for a given test will be available in one concise record
• Direct access to MMY full text will be available through a single TIP/MMY citation
• Users will no longer see two results for the same test

In addition to these search and display improvements, EBSCO will also release new backfile volumes of Mental Measurements Yearbook. Mental Measurements Yearbook currently includes Yearbooks 9 through the current Yearbook. The Buros Institute has recently digitized yearbooks 1-8. This important content will be added to EBSCOhost with this release."