July 24, 2009
Enhancements to EBSCOhost Databases
New Enhancements to EBSCOhost Databases (Academic Search Premier)
Digital Archives and EBSCOhost® Content Viewer with Notetaking
Navigate historical content online in a more interactive and intuitive way. The new browser-based EBSCOhost® Content Viewer was designed to enable researchers to navigate historical content in a manner that is fast, natural and allows for the serendipitous discovery valued by historians.
Check out these features:
Single and Facing-Page Image views which users can Pan, Rotate, Zoom-on,double-click
Search within entire documents with distinctive highlighting styles for exact and approximate word-matches
Image Quick View previews of visual content
Periodical issue browse menus which mimic “shelf-browsing”
A collapsible Document Map providing hover previews of each page and indicators of word-matches and illustrations
Custom PDF-generation from historical page images, with embedded citation information and persistent links to source
Integration with EBSCOhost folders
Persistent links to pages
Notetaking – users can annotate pages and articles, and save their notes to their EBSCOhost folder
Section 508 Compliant – machine-generated full text of historical documents accessible to screenreading software
COUNTER Statistics Reporting Compliant
June 25, 2009
Oxford Art Online
New Features of Oxford Art Online (Grove Art Online)
The Spring update to Oxford Art Online is now available. This update brings you renewed and enhanced Oxford coverage of both Classical art and materials and techniques in art.
Oxford introduces 28 new articles relating to Classical art including the Collection and display of Classical art, Roman Spain, and a biography of Dioskourides. New content on materials and techniques in art include enlightening articles on Motion picture film and Magnetic tape.
With this update are included nearly 50 beautiful new images from across the globe depicting the materials and techniques that artists and craftspeople use to create objects.
While all of these images are accessible via search and browse, here are a few highlights:
· Mukudj mask of the Punu people
· Tapestry-woven (kesi) rank badge showing a lion
· Olmec jadeite celt with incised profile of a deity
· Limoges portrait by Léonard Limosin showing Henri II
· Bamboo brushpot by Gu Jue showing a landscape genre scene
We are also introducing the first half of the content created in collaboration with New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology to include Fashion in Oxford Art Online. This month you’ll see biographies of designers such as Lucien Lelong, Lucile, Rudi Gernreich, and Rei Kawakubo, with more than 75 stunning accompanying images including a Madame Grès Turandot evening dress, a ! classic design by Givenchy, and a Robert Piguet design drawing.
About Oxford Art Online Oxford Art Online (listed as Grove Art Online on the Grace Doherty Library website) is an innovative new gateway that offers users the ability to access and search the vast content of Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference in one location. With the 2008 complete redesign of Grove Art Online, as well as the addition of substantial new Oxford reference content, Oxford Art Online offers the most extensive and easily searchable online art resource available today, a virtual art reference library of unparalleled scope and depth.
Oxford Art Online has been created with the latest in online technology to give users a robust and unique research experience. Precise search and browse capabilities allow users to refine their results by source and subject categories. Users can also choose to view biographies, subject entries, or images when searching or browsing. This functionality allows users greater access to the more than 23,000 subject entries, 21,000 biographies, 500,000 bibliographic citations, 40,000 image links and 5,000 images contained within Grove Art Online. Thematic timelines and learning resources also provide users with powerful tools for navigating the content, and context-sensitive help pages are available throughout the site to guide users through the features and functionality. Oxford Art Online is the most extensive, authoritative and easily searchable online art resource available today.
June 17, 2009
ATLA Religion Database
EBSCO Publishing, in collaboration with the ATLA, has enhanced the Scripture Authority File functionality available on ATLA Religion Database, ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials and ATLASerials Religion Collection via EBSCOhost.
Previously, ATLA Religion Database, ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials and ATLASerials Religion Collection via EBSCOhost included a flat scripture authority file that displayed scripture references in alphabetical order and required users to search for exact scripture references indexed in a given citation.
With the new authority file, users can browse the books of the bible in canonical order and drill down to the chapter, then verse level. Selecting an entry at the book, chapter, or verse level will execute a search for all records indexed with that book, chapter or verse.
With the new scripture authority file, EBSCO has added an expanded scripture reference searching for records indexed with a scripture range. For example, if a user selects Acts in the new scripture authority and drills down through Chapter 1 and elects to search Verse 5, they will return records indexed with Acts 1:5, as well as records indexed with Acts 1:1-11 or Acts 1:1-15:35. For more information, check here: http://www.centre.edu/web/library/db/atla.html.