Online access to the world’s most trusted reference collection (Oxford Reference Online) Tuesday, 9 May 2006 5:40 pm
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The library has purchased a collection of 14 online encyclopedias, the Oxford Digital Reference Shelf (http://www.oup.com/online/digitalreference/). This online collection of reference books is added to the existing Oxford Reference Online from Oxford University Press.
The Oxford Reference Online collection contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works.
If you go to the library's Web site (http://www.cofc.edu/~library), click on Database, then click on the letter "O", you'll see a link to the collection. (Remote access is same as other databases, you'll use your webmail username and password to bypass the proxy server).
It's really a remarkable collection. Just to list a few, it contains bilingual dictionaries (e.g. The Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary (English-Latin), The Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary (English-Spanish)); World Flags, World Maps; Timeslines (e.g. For the Science Technology, and Medicine theme, there are Timelines for Inventions, Medicine, Scientists, there are also specific timelines for countries, there's also the timeline for 20th century); encyclopedias (e.g.A-Z of Countries of the World).
There are also many subject specific references: for science alone, there are 26 reference works. You can search these 26 books altogether, or search within more specific subjects (Biological Sciences, Computing, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Medicine, Physical Sciences & Mathematics). You can browse these subject areas too. Or you can choose to search within one specific reference work.
One nice feature of this database is that you can highlight any term in your search results page, click on cross-reference, and it will automatically search that term for you, and the results are broken down by subjects as well. There are also different search strategies that you can use on the "advanced search" interface, such as "Standard search", "Pattern search" besides the usual "Boolean search". Courious about what reference works are included in a specific subject area? click here to find out.
additional 5 years added to Web of Science Friday, 5 May 2006 11:33 am
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I'm sure the science folks will be thrilled, we've just added additional 5 years of back archive to our Web of Science subscription, so we now have coverage from 1990 to current.
In detail, this means:
Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) – 1990-present
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) – 1990-present
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) — 1990-present
For non-science folks (arts, humanities, social sciences), the name of Web of Science is quite misleading, there are lots of quality scholarly journals covered for arts & humanities, social sciences as well.
There are 1876 journals covered for social sciences, 1148 for arts and humanities. Although these are small numbers compared to 6509 journals covered for science.
