The University at Buffalo Libraries welcomes and utilizes the free trial offers vendors will occasionally give to UB. These trials are time sensitive lasting, on average, up to 30 days. We encourage the UB community to utilize these free trials and respond back to us with your comments on the products. Please note that most trial databases are available from on campus only.
Free Database Trials
http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/infotree/trials.asp
Keep up with all the news in higher education through the UB Libraries’ subscription to The Chronicle of Higher Education online.
The Chronicle is published every weekday and is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe. Thesite features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; articles published since September 1989; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more.
The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries, University at Buffalo, presents:
The Victor E. Reichert Robert Frost Collection
An exhibition featuring selections from the Reichert Frost Collection
January 31 through March 29, 2013
Monday through Friday 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
The Kaveeshwar Gallery
501 Capen Hall
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260
Victor E. Reichert (1897-1990) was rabbi of the Rockdale Avenue Temple in Cincinnati, Ohio, from 1938 to 1962 and shared a long friendship with the American poet Robert Frost (1874-1963). In 1946 Reichert invited Frost to present a sermon, and in 1960 he was instrumental in awarding Frost an honorary Doctorate at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Victor Reichert was an avid Frost collector, and his collection passed to his son Dr. Jonathan Reichert, Professor Emeritus from the UB Department of Physics, who donated it to the Poetry Collection. The Reichert Frost Collection features many signed and inscribed publications by Frost, a Frost manuscript, letters, photographs, audio recordings, and ephemera, as well as many Frost-related items from other critics.
A digital collection and select images from the Reichert Frost Collection are available through the Poetry Collection and the UB Libraries store: library.buffalo.edu/robertfrost.
The University Libraries are pleased offer Delivery+, a document delivery service available to current UB faculty and staff. This new service enables faculty and staff to request materials from any UB library on any UB campus, including our electronic collections.
Need a journal article or a book chapter? With Delivery+, a current UB faculty or staff member can simply log on to his/her ILLiad account and submit a request for materials found in any of the UB libraries.
Scanned articles and book chapters are delivered electronically to faculty/staff desktops, while circulating books and media are available for pickup at a UB library circulation desk of the faculty or staff member’s choice. The 24-hour turnaround time from receipt of request (excluding weekends and holidays) ensures that research materials owned by the UB Libraries will be delivered quickly.
For more information, contact Cynthia Bertuca, Associate Director of Access Services for Document Delivery (829-5738) or Anne Bouvier, Manager, Document Delivery/ILL Borrowing Services (645-2812).
The staff at the PBS program POV asked their fans to suggest films they would include in the greatest documentaries of all time. They received more than 1,000 titles of “the most influential, illuminating, impactful, form-defining and otherwise beloved films from around the world and from the history of cinema.” They published the list of 100 films this week – just in time for viewing over the holiday break. What are some of your favorite documentaries?
POV’s Greatest Documentaries of All Time
UB Faculty are invited to submit a proposal to create a SUNY Open Textbook. The goal of this initiative is to assist faculty with the production of high-quality, customized, open-access textbooks, while helping reduce the cost of higher education.
If selected, you will be provided you with a monetary award, an online platform (Open Monograph Press) on which to publish the textbook, plus copy-editing and design support. While the textbooks will be open-access (freely available on the Internet), support can be provided for getting the textbooks available via print-on-demand, from which authors will be eligible to earn royalties. An additional award will be paid to authors who include and assess student involvement in the design and development of the textbook.
More information, including proposal submission guidelines and award details, is available here: http://opensuny.org/omp/index.php/SUNYOpenTextbooks/about/submissions
This opportunity is made possible thanks to a SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grant and the support of SUNY Libraries & SUNY Press.
For more information, please contact Charles Lyons (cflyons@buffalo.edu, 645-7703).
In 2004, Dr. Gary D. Byrd, along with Kay Wagner, authored a paper that was published in the Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA), v.92 (1):14-33, January 2004. The most recent JMLA issue, v.100 Commemorative Supplement to Number 4, October 2012, has reprinted 10 articles, each chosen as an “Article of the Decade” in honor of the 100th volume of JMLA. Dr. Byrd’s article was not only selected, but in his recounting of the worthiness of each recommended choice, T. Scott Plutchak, M.A, AHIP, writes:
“There were many recommendations for the first decade of the 21st century, all quite worthy. There was, however, one clear standout, “Evaluating the Effectiveness of Clinical Medical Librarian Programs: A Systematic Review of the Literature,” by Kay Cimpl Wagner and Gary D. Byrd, AHIP, FMLA. This article is noteworthy in two ways: First, it documents the long history of writing about clinical librarian programs, going back into the 1970s and as such, it stands in for quite a number of other articles that might have been included. Second, it applies a highly analytic systematic review technique to try to determine what we have actually learned from all of those articles.”
Congratulations Gary!
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The University at Buffalo Libraries have been selected as a 2012 Federal Depository Library of the Year by the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO). Acting Public Printer Davita Vance-Cooke made the announcement on Oct. 15 at the Federal Depository Library Conference in Washington, D.C.
The prestigious award recognizes libraries for outstanding promotion of their government document collections and their commitment to the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP), a program established by Congress to provide government information to designated depository libraries throughout the country.
The award commends the UB Libraries for sharing their federal government documents expertise with other libraries in the region and across the nation, and applauds the UB Libraries’ efforts to provide services that assist other depository libraries in processing U.S. government publications received through the FDLP.
As a selective federal depository, the UB Libraries collect, organize, maintain, preserve and provide access to federal government information. UB’s Lockwood Memorial Library, which joined the FDLP in 1963, was the first library to partner with the GPO in creating and maintaining the Enhanced Shipping List Service, an application used by depository library staffs nationwide to process incoming depository shipments.
“One of the reasons we were selected for this award is our commitment to the FDLP through this partnership,” says Mary Ellen Donathen, depository coordinator for the UB Libraries. “For over 13 years, the UB Libraries have assisted other depository libraries by hosting and running this service that makes processing shipments of government publications a little easier.”
According to Ed Herman, UB government documents librarian, the Enhanced Shipping List Service is a trusted and important tool used by many federal depository library personnel on a daily basis. He credits Donathen and his colleagues Ann Mongiovi and Tim McCarthy for the success of the UB Libraries’ partnership with GPO. “This award would not be possible without their expertise and the outstanding quality of their work,” he said.
Lockwood Library makes FDLP content available for free use by the general public. To learn more about the University at Buffalo Libraries’ Government Documents Collection, visit library.buffalo.edu/gov.
EndNote version X6 is now available for downloading from the UB Endnote Software website. EndNote is available to authorized University at Buffalo faculty, students and staff only.
What’s New in EndNote X6
Visit the EndNote website for more details.
Open Access Week – October 22 – 26, 2012The University at Buffalo Libraries have a series of events planned that are designed to raise awareness and create conversation about how the open access movement impacts your teaching, scholarship and career.
Monday, October 22, 10 a.m. – 11 a.m.
UBIR: Submitting Items into the Institutional Repository
Presenter: Mark Ludwig
Location: 212 Capen Hall, North Campus
Register to attend
The UBIR is an online catalog of UB Scholarship. It can be used to preserve and publish documents and digital objects. It can also archive research data collections to fulfill NSF requirements. This hands-on workshop will demonstrate the Repository’s role in ensuring long term preservation and access. Participants will have an opportunity to test drive the item submission process and the repository’s search engine.
Tuesday, October 23, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m.
Textbook Affordability: Making Sense of the Options
Presenter: Charles Lyons
Location: 212 Capen Hall, North Campus
Register to attend
The cost of textbooks is of concern not only to students, but also to instructors, administrators, publishers, authors, librarians, bookstores, and parents. Escalating prices threaten the affordability and accessibility of higher education at UB and across the country. The goal of this session is to increase awareness of the rapidly evolving dynamics of today’s textbook market. In addition to the cost of textbooks, a wide array of other factors can now be taken into account when making decisions about textbooks: format (print or electronic), access (rent or buy), condition (new or used), pricing model (traditional or open access), and more. This session will clarify the available options, while focusing on the issue of textbook affordability.
Wednesday, October 24, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m.
How Publishing Decisions Affect Your Research Impact
Presenter: Ben Wagner
Location: 212 Capen Hall, North Campus
Register to attend
This hands-on workshop will showcase how tools such as Web of Science and Google Scholar influence the visibility, readership, and citation impact of one’s scholarship within the scientific literature. Participants will learn how to find specific metrics like the h-index and journal impact factors.
Thursday, October 25, 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Reading Goes Electric: The Rise, Evolution, and Significance of the eBook
Presenter: Charles D’Aniello
Location: 212 Capen Hall, North Campus
Register to attend
Can ebooks (especially free ones) make us more human? What would Thomas Jefferson say about ebooks? How powerful can artificial intelligence be if it grows on a low protein diet? What if Google (or something like it) “ruled” the world? How did IBM’s Watson (computer) get so smart anyway? Look at the present — it hints boldly at a possible future, for ebooks and digital texts in general. What would a world corpus of recorded (textually remembered) knowledge make possible?
Friday, October 26, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m.
Authors’ Rights: A Brief Introduction
Presenter: Beth Adelman
Location: 212 Capen Hall, North Campus
Register to attend
This session will introduce authors to the concept of authors’ rights. The presentation is intended to provide a self-evaluative framework for authors to question whether these rights are important. It will also introduce skills to assess and to modify a publisher’s boilerplate author agreement.
