Georgia Tech Library News

GALILEO’s CollegeSource Online features over 9,800 College Catalogs in complete cover-to-cover, original page format representing 2-year, 4-year, graduate and professional schools along with institutional profiles for all accredited colleges in the United States. The database may be searched by college name, major, enrollment, tuition, degrees, state, or affiliation. There are links to: college home pages, career information, and financial aid information.GALILEO’s Grove’s Dictionary of Art is a “comprehensive art reference work covering all forms of the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic and decorative arts, and photography, from prehistory to the 1990s. An alliance with Bridgeman Art Library now offers access to 30,000 searchable images, which will increase to 100,000 by the end of 1999.

Project Muse journal titles may be accessed on the Library’s Electronic Journals page.
Full-text journal titles include:

American Imago The Lion and the Unicorn
American Jewish History Literature and Medicine
American Journal of Mathematics Milton Quarterly
American Journal of Philology Modern Fiction Studies
American Quarterly Modern Judaism
Arethusa MLN
Bulletin of the History of Medicine Modernism/Modernity
Callaloo New Literary History
Configurations PAJ (formerly Performing Arts Journal)
Diacritics Philosophy and Literature
Emily Dickinson Journal Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology
Eighteenth-Century Life Postmodern Culture
Eighteenth-Century Studies Reviews in American History
ELH (English Literary History) SAIS Review
The Henry James Review Studies in English Literature
Human Rights Quarterly Technology and Culture
Imagine The Review of Higher Education
Journal of Asian American Studies Theatre Journal
Journal of Democracy Theatre Topics
Journal of Early Christian Studies Theory & Event
Journal of the History of Ideas Wide Angle
Journal of Modern Greek Studies World Politics
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal The Yale Journal of Criticism
Late Imperial China

The Internet & Library Research Clinic. Tuesdays, Thursdays, & Fridays 11am - 1pm, Homer Rice Center (Library, 1st floor West)
Digital Reference Service - Ask a Librarian Electronic Reference and Real Time Reference.

The Internet & Library Research Clinic is a drop-in clinic that will be staffed by Reference Librarians who can use their expertise to assist students in the information-seeking and research process. This is an opportunity for students to discuss their information needs in an in-depth consultation with a Reference Librarian, who can offer suggestions on how to proceed and can point students to print resources, electronic databases, web sites and much more. The Clinic will be staffed during the Fall Semester through Friday, Dec. 3rd, and will then reopen in the Spring Semester.

A link to Ebsco Online Journal Search is included as an access option for titles the library has on subscription, which are also available from this service. Ebsco Online Journal Search allows users to link to the full-text of electronic journals. Users can also do an ArticleSearch in Ebsco Online to find articles by keywords or phrases in titles, abstracts and full-text. Additional search options include searching by publisher keywords, author, journal publisher, year or a range of years, and journal volume and number. Users can do a JournalSearch in Ebsco Online to find electronic journals by keywords in titles, ISSNs, or publisher names. A journal homepage is also available which contains a description of the journal and lists editors, editorial guidelines for manuscript submission and links of related interest. Users can also use the Browse feature to see a list of current subscriptions for the library, which are available on Ebsco Online Journal Search.

The Library offers hour-long classes on a variety of topics, including Library Essentials, Intro to Electronic Information Resources, Advanced Electronic Information Resources, Business Resources, and Engineering Resources. Consult the class schedule and choose a convenient time. Preregistration is not neccessary. Classes are held in the Homer Rice Center on the 1st floor West of the Library, except for Library Essentials, which is held in the Kaiser Room (Room 521) on the 5th floor East. Class schedules and descriptions are available at the Information Services Desk, 1st floor East, and on the Library web page.Library tours will be held Monday - Friday, Aug. 30 - Sept.3. The tours last half an hour, and meet in the Library Rotunda at 11:00 am.

Online exhibits include:Trailblazers & Torchbearers: The History of Women at Georgia Tech
Witness to the Holocaust
George C. Griffin Photograph Collection
Exhibits located in the Library include:

Film Noir - 1st floor East
Banned Books in Georgia - 1st floor West
Trademarks: Made Locally, Known Globally - 2nd floor East
Georgia Tech Alumni Invent - 2nd floor East
The Conquest of Longitude - 3rd floor East
NASA - 3rd floor East

USA Trade CD-ROM is a publication of the National Trade Data Bank. The CD-ROM allows the user to create multi-dimensional tables of import and export statistics. Tables can be manipulated interactively to present data from a variety of perspectives, and individual data items as well as ranges of data items can be selected or de-selected. Data can be exported n a variety of formats (text, dBase, etc.) and is easily cut and pasted into Microsoft Office applications such as Excel.

The Library now offers access to Congressional Universe, Statistical Universe, and Journal Citation Reports - Science Edition. Web of Science now has an additional 5 years of coverage.Congressional Universe is a database and index from Congressional Information Service (CIS), which contains indexing to, and the full text of many publications from Congress. Congressional Universe encompasses topics in public policy, history, sociology, political science, technology and society, and more. Congressional Universe provides access to more than 25 years of congressional information, including the full text of congressional working papers and legislation, the Congressional Record; and key regulatory and statutory resources. Included are Congressional publications, Congressional bills, laws, a legislative tracking feature, federal regulations, news about Congress, and information about issues Congress is considering. In addition, other information about Congress is provided, including member biographical and committee assignment information, voting records, and financial data. Congressional Universe is only available on the Georgia Tech campus.

Statistical Universe is a database and index from Congressional Information Service (CIS), which provides all statistics issued by the U.S. government back to 1973 through CIS’ American Statistics Index, some 1,000 of the best statistical publications of private and state government sources from 1980 forward through CIS’ Statistical Reference Index, and approximately 2,000 indispensable titles from some 100 international intergovernmental organizations, all published annually since 1983 through CIS’ Index to International Statistics.Statistical Universe is only available on the Georgia Tech campus.

Journal Citation Reports - Science Edition is a comprehensive and unique resource for journal evaluation, showing the relationship between citing and cited journals in a clear, easy-to-use framework. It includes virtually all specialties in the areas of science, technology, and the social sciences.

Web of Science, which includes:

Science Citation Index Expanded
Art and Humanities Citation Index
Social Sciences Citation Index

Now covers 1987-1999. Web of Science allows access to research literature through author, title, subject and to cited references (footnotes, bibliography) published with a scholarly paper.

Congressional Universe is a database and index from Congressional Information Service (CIS), which contains indexing to, and the full text of many publications from Congress. Congressional Universe encompasses topics in public policy, history, sociology, political science, technology and society, and more. Congressional Universe provides access to more than 25 years of congressional information, including the full text of congressional working papers and legislation, the Congressional Record; and key regulatory and statutory resources. Included are Congressional publications, Congressional bills, laws, a legislative tracking feature, federal regulations, news about Congress, and information about issues Congress is considering. In addition, other information about Congress is provided, including member biographical and committee assignment information, voting records, and financial data. Congressional Universe is only available on the Georgia Tech campus.Statistical Universe is a database and index from Congressional Information Service (CIS), which provides all statistics issued by the U.S. government back to 1973 through CIS’ American Statistics Index, some 1,000 of the best statistical publications of private and state government sources from 1980 forward through CIS’ Statistical Reference Index, and approximately 2,000 indispensable titles from some 100 international intergovernmental organizations, all published annually since 1983 through CIS’ Index to International Statistics.Statistical Universe is only available on the Georgia Tech campus.

The Internet & Library Research Clinic is a drop-in clinic that will be staffed by Reference Librarians who can use their expertise to assist students in the information-seeking and research process. This is an opportunity for students to discuss their information needs in an in-depth consultation with a Reference Librarian, who can offer suggestions on how to proceed and can point students to print resources, electronic databases, web sites and much more. The Clinic will be staffed during the Summer Quarter through Thursday, July 29th, and will then reopen in the Fall Semester.