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From
Kim Kelley
Associate Provost,
Information and Library Services
Announcing the New Library Catalog
On Monday, January 6, 2003 the University System of Maryland and
Affiliated Institutions (USMAI) introduced a new and improved online
catalog to access the USM libraries' collections: catalogUSMAI.
The new Web-based online catalog replaces VICTORWeb and provides
more advanced features than the previous automated library system
used by the libraries since the early 1990s. (VICTORWeb and VICTOR
telnet access are no longer available.) Some of the new capabilities
include:
- an enhanced Basic Search, with on-screen tips to guide users
in searching and the ability to do keyword searches in specific
areas of the catalog records, such as words in the title area
- the ability to refine a list of search results to show only
the available items, screening out items that are checked out,
lost, or otherwise unavailable
- a powerful Advanced Search capability
Right now catalogUSMAI provides access to the library catalogs
formerly available in VICTORWeb. Access to the library catalogs
of St. Mary's College of Maryland Library and the University of
Maryland Health Sciences and Human Services Library will be added
to catalogUSMAI later in 2003.
For assistance in searching catalogUSMAI, see Using
the Library Catalog.
Database Changes
This semester some databases will be taking on a new look in order
to allow linking between databases to full text articles. Although
these databases must now be searched individually, and the search
screens look different from the familiar MdUSA screens, many more
citations will link to full text. This new feature will save you
time when you are searching.
To access the full text, click on the 
button next to or under the article citation. For articles that
are not available in full text online, the SFX screen will allow
you to request the article in full text through the UMUC Information
and Library Services interlibrary loan service. In addition, you
will have the option to check the University of Maryland Libraries
new catalog to see if any USM libraries convenient to you own the
print journal. To find out more, check the SFX
Frequently Asked Questions page or contact ILS.
TEACH Act:
On November 2, 2002 President Bush signed the Technology, Education,
and Copyright Harmonization Act (TEACH) Act into law. The TEACH
Act expands instructors' rights to use copyrighted works without
prior permission. If a faculty member is at an accredited, nonprofit
educational institution and is teaching via interactive digital
networks on campus or at a distance, s/he may use:
- Entire non-dramatic literary or musical works; and
- Reasonable and limited portions of all other performances, including
those incorporated into any type of audio-visual work, such as
videotapes and films, and any dramatic musical work.
As the new law does not allow the use of entire works or performances
without permission, faculty members who desire to use an entire
work of this type must obtain permission from the copyright owner.
Information and Library Services (ILS) can assist faculty to obtain
the necessary permissions. See http://www.umuc.edu/library/ereserve/resfaq.html
for further information on how to obtain the necessary permissions.
TEACH also requires that institutions take precautions to prevent
unauthorized or downstream copying of the works used by faculty
in their teaching. As a result, there are several limitations and
restrictions in the TEACH Act that must be understood prior to transmitting
materials via digital networks.
For more information about the TEACH Act, please see:
Online
Databases
New Databases
This fall ILS added four art-related databases:
- Avery Index to Architectural Periodical
Citations from more than 2,500 US and foreign journals covering
archaeology, architecture, interior design, and urban planning
- Design and Applied Arts Index
Approximately 120,000 citations and annotations of articles from
over 450 design and craft journals. Covers all areas of design
and crafts and includes information on designers
- Index to Christian Art
Over 20,000 art records with more than 60,000 digitized images
covering early and medieval iconography from the days of the early
apostles to 1400 AD
- Bibliography of the History of Art
A comprehensive art bibliography of European and American fine
arts and decorative and applied arts with citations and abstracts
of articles from more than 4,300 journals, conference proceedings,
and art-related books
Currently you can access these databases by clicking on the link
to them under NEW DATABASES next to
the MdUSA logo on the
MdUSA login page. Later you will be able to access them in MdUSA.
Hot
Sites...Citation Styles!!!
Proper citation of sources in a research paper is important to
direct your reader to the original source of your information as
well as to give appropriate credit to an original author's ideas.
The following Web sites can help you to learn the rules for various
style guidelines and provide a quick source to check formatting.
- Online!
Citation Styles
This site from the publisher Bedford/ St. Martin's covers the
styles for APA, MLA, Chicago, CBE, as well as a few other styles.
There is also an FAQ
available.
- Citing
Electronic Sources - APA and MLA Styles
Information and Library Services' guides for APA and MLA styles
provide specific examples to follow for citations of electronic
sources, including those from the UMUC library databases.
For
Your Information...
Subject Guides
ILS has also developed new subject guides this fall to help you
become an effective researcher. There are now more than 35 guides
in a variety of disciplines under Subject Guides on the ILS
Home page and in the Library Handbook in the Peck Virtual Library
Classroom in Web Tycho.
New guides include:
Database Searching Tips: Finding Scholarly Journals
This month we'd like to discuss the distinction between popular
and scholarly journals and give some suggestions about how to locate
scholarly journals in MdUSA.
Getting Started
Your professor may ask you to use scholarly (peer reviewed, refereed--these
all refer to the same type of journal) journals in your research
paper, and you are not certain about how to find them. A good place
to start your research is the ILS guide, Identifying
Periodical Literature: Popular, Professional and Scholarly,
which explains the difference between these types of journals.
Locating a Scholarly Journal
Once you understand what a scholarly journal is, where should you
search for them? You can find some full text scholarly journals
on the public access Web. However, since using a Web search engine
can produce many thousands of results that need to be evaluated,
it is better to try a search in the MdUSA databases. Some databases
in MdUSA allow limiting your search to scholarly journals. These
include:
- ABI Inform. To limit your search for scholarly journals,
select Show articles from peer reviewed
journals only under the search box(es).
- Gale databases: Health Reference Center, General Business
File ASAP, and PROMT. Click on the link to any of these databases.
Once you are in the database select Limit
the search to: refereed publications to limit your
search to scholarly journals.
- EBSCO databases (only using the EBSCOHOST
interface): Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier,
and Health Source Nursing/Academic Edition. Click on the link
to any one of the above databases. Once you are in the database,
under Limit your results select
Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals
to limit your search to scholarly journals.
- PsycARTICLES. Since the journals in this database are
all publications of the American Psychological Association and
the Education Publishing Foundation, you can assume that the articles
are scholarly.
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
If you find a journal article and are not certain whether or not
it is scholarly, you can check in Ulrich's database (under
U in MdUSA). In this database enter the title of the
journal in the search box. You will retrieve a link to information
about the journal. Click on the link and then look at the document
type field. You will see the words "academic/scholarly"
if the journal is scholarly.
Staff Notes
At the end of June ILS reluctantly said farewell and best wishes
to Miriam Matteson, liaison to the Graduate School, who left to
pursue a doctorate.
This fall ILS welcomed several new staff members:
- Stephen Miller, Assistant Director, Electronic Services, manages
the ILS Access team.
- Marissa Cachero, Reference and Instruction Librarian, serves
as the ILS liaison to the Graduate School and coordinates graduate
library instructional programs.
- Bettina Phifer, Reference and Instruction Librarian, oversees
interlibrary loans.
- Crystal Pretola, library technician, assists with interlibrary
loans, e-reserves, and the print book collection.
Faculty
Corner
New Acquisitions
View a list of some of our recent acquisitions
in distance education, instructional design, information literacy,
higher education, and copyright. If you're in Adelphi, come
in to ILS at SFSC 2255 and browse through our collection.
ILS
Hours and Locations
Need to find us? Please visit Hours
and Locations for more information.
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