Archive for 2007
Thursday, December 13th, 2007
Please see below for information about this weekend’s ProQuest database outage.
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Dear GALILEO users,
ProQuest has scheduled a twelve-hour system maintenance window beginning Saturday, December 15, 2007, at 10:00 PM to Sunday, December 16, 2007 at 10:00 AM. During this maintenance window, access to ProQuest databases available through GALILEO will be unavailable. These include:
-ProQuest Platform
(ABI INFORM, Research Library, ProQuest Newspapers, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses or Dissertation Abstracts, ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health, and Hoover’s Company Capsules)
-SIRS Platform
(SIRS Researcher and Discoverer, Discoverer WebFind, SKS WebSelect, and SIRS Interactive Citizenship)
-Chadwyck-Healy Platform
(African American Biographical Database, African American Poetry 1760-1900, American Poetry 1 and 2, Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, Archives USA, The Bible in English, English Poetry 600-1900, LION [Literature Online], Literature Online Reference Edition)
ProQuest has scheduled this maintenance to install enhancements to their interfaces and products, which are described in the announcement from ProQuest below.
If you have any questions or need more information, please use GALILEO’s Contact Us feature or contact OIIT Customer Services at helpdesk@usg.edu.
Karen Minton
GALILEO Support ServicesÂ
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Dear ProQuest Customer,
The next ProQuest platform enhancement release will be on December 15, 2007. A twelve (12) hour maintenance window will take place to install these exciting new enhancements. The window will begin Saturday, December 15, 2007, at 22:00 EDT to Sunday, December 16, 2007 at 10:00 EDT. See below for a more complete list of times and time zones.
Enhancements include:
* ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Multimedia Support release—ProQuest has seen an increase in dissertations and theses that include supplementary digital materials - audio, video, spreadsheets, etc. To properly support scholarly access to these materials, ProQuest is now making them available online in the Full Text version of the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) database.
* ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source Study Paths—Study Paths allows a user to quickly view full text articles recommended by a board of experienced nurse educators on topics relevant to their curriculum. This exciting new enhancement makes it easier for users to complete their assignments, research a topic, or prepare for examinations. A new splash page will appear when users log into the product. The Study Paths feature is for the ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source database only and does not impact other ProQuest products.
The following products will be unavailable during this window:
* ProQuest interface products, ProQuest Historical Newspapers (traditional and graphical K12 interface), American Periodicals Series
* Third-party databases such as ERIC® PlusText
* ProQuest Archiverâ„¢
* eLibrary®, SIRS®, and CultureGrams™
* Chadwyck-Healey products housed in the US (all products with domain names ending with chadwyck.com)
* “Digital Vault” products, including ProQuest Dissertations & Theses and Digital Sanborn Maps
We welcome customer feedback. Please email your comments to platform feedback or visit www.proquest.com/suggestions.
Thank you for continuing to support ProQuest and the products we provide.
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Please congratulate Abhishek Gupta on his winning entry for the “Flash in the Pan” animation contest..
Flash in the Pan challenged students interested in multi-media tools and applications to create a short incorporating Flash.
The winner won a Wacom Tablet.
Abhishek is a Digital Media Masters student in the LCC department, at Georgia Tech. His interests include human computer interaction technologies, sketching, animation, film critiquing, playing soccer and creating digital art.
Also working with Abishek on the project, Paul Tuhin, whose interests involve sketching, 3D and 2D animation and exploring different visual mediums of expression like graphic novels and computer games.
Please check out the winning short,
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Please see the message below from AIAA.
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 The AIAA website including the E-Library will be shutdown Tuesday, December 4, 6am to 9am EST, US. We apologize for the inconvenience. Regards,
– Dug Greevy Business Development-Electronic Information American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics (AIAA)
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
A specialized electronic reference database, Referex Engineering draws on hundreds of premium engineering books to serve as a pool of answers to your reference questions. Referex Engineering is comprised of six editorially crafted collections of professionally focused e-books which bring together key sources of reference material. Referex is fully searchable and instantly delivers Full-text content of over 1,600 e-book titles.
Each collection includes:
-Handbooks of engineering fundamentals
-Situational reference
-Titles focused on technique and practice
-“How to†guides
-Highly specialized professional information
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
The AIAA access problem has been resolved.
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Please see the message below from AIAA. This may be affecting access to AIAA journals.
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Users who search and attempt to download journal articles are receiving an error message. Our IT Department is working on this problem now, and I will notify you when the fix is made. Sorry for the inconvenience. Regards,
– Dug Greevy
Business Development-Electronic Information
American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics (AIAA)
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
FYI, this may affect access to Taylor & Francis journals from 8:30-10:30 am on Saturday, 11/3.
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Please be advised that there will be a period of scheduled maintenance on the informaworld website on Saturday 3rd November. Between 12:30 and 14:30 GMT the site will be unavailable. We hope this does not cause you inconvenience.
Yours faithfully,
informaworld support
support@informaworld.com
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
It has been necessary for Campus Facilities to arrange on short notice a power outage that will affect all electrical circuits (not just lighting) in both buildings of the Library - Sunday, Nov. 4th. The outage is necessary so that urgently needed electrical repairs can be completed.
Unfortunately, this power outage will affect the Library’s previously published hours of operation on Sunday, Nov. 4th.
The Library will open to the public at 4PM and will remain open according to normal schedule thereafter.
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
Want to know more about it before you get there? Check out the Library’s subject guide on International Affairs! From the Library’s top page click on Resource Guides, then on International Affairs, and then on “Country Information, Multinationalâ€. Nationmaster (http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php) is one of the listed sites, and gives statistics on nations of the world. Some of the most popular statistics include richest, most murderous, most educated, most generous, and more.
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
After following the antics of your favorite teams, do you want to find articles on Sport Psychology? We know just the database for you: PsycInfo. The PsycInfo database indexes articles, books, and more on all areas of psychology and related disciplines. Searching “basketball†gives almost 1100 results. The oldest article is from 1926, called “Community differences in play behaviorâ€, by H. C. Lehman, published in Pedagogical Seminary, v. 33, p. 477-490.
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
Project Muse and Film Studies
Project Muse is one of the over 270 databases provided by the Georgia Tech Library. It provides the full text of articles from approximately 250 journals in many subject areas, and includes journals in the areas of film, theater, and the performing arts. Titles include Film History, The Moving Image, and the interestingly named The Velvet Light Trap.
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