Odum Library just purchased JSTOR Arts & Sciences Collection V. This collection includes a wide variety of full-text journal content, including journals in the humanities, fine arts, sciences, and social sciences. You can view the full list of journals, or just log into JSTOR to search for yourself!
GALILEO Find It! Article Requests
Starting in January 2009, the Find It! Button now has the ability to request articles directly via interlibrary loan if we do not have them full-text.
VSU now has online access to The Chronicle of Higher Education!  Just follow the links available in our newly updated Education and News Subject Guides to have full-text access to The Chronicle Online!
Here at VSU we’re very proud of our MLIS program. Librarians have a long and distinguished history, and now up-and-coming librarians can find out all about it through Library Literature and Information Science Retrospective. This new database purchase adds to our already impressive collection of LIS databases. Check it out!
For the month of April only, you have a chance to try out CQ Researcher Plus Archive and CQ Global Researcher.
You can access them from our Political Science Subject Guide. The trial lasts through the end of April and is only available on campus.
Let us know what you think of these databases–leave a comment below!
“The Georgia Official and Statistical Register was published from 1923-1990 by the Georgia Archives. Considered an important reference work for historical research, the Register covers Georgia’s executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government, providing biographical sketches of elected and other state officials. Georgia members of U.S. Congress and federal judges are included, as are county officials and regents of the university system. The Register contains election returns, provides basic reference data on Georgia counties, and covers Georgia miscellany, such as the state flag, state flower, state song, rosters of Georgia governors, and legal holidays” (from Georgia Official and Statistical Register).
Odum Library is pleased to add the Theatre in Video database to its collection of 280+ databases:
Theatre in Video contains more than 250 of the world’s most important plays, together with more than 100 video documentaries, online in streaming video—more than 500 hours in all. These definitive performances, by leading actors and directors, have been painstakingly licensed from a wide range of copyright holders. They are now delivered to you over the Internet, in a revolutionary new format developed specifically for drama.
From the most important productions of Shakespeare to rare, in-depth footage focusing on the work of Samuel Beckett, Theatre in Video offers more than 500 hours of online streaming video, available electronically for the first time. With live television broadcasts of New York productions in the 50s, contemporary revivals of classic works and experimental performances from the 60s and 70s, and other performances, Theatre in Video covers a wide range of 20th century theatre history. Unlike Hollywood adaptations, these are the actual original productions, captured and recorded while performed for a live theatre audience. (Excerpt from Alexander Street Press web site)
You can get help with this database or just jump right in to searching Theatre in Video!
Odum Library is pleased to add Zoological Record to the 280+ databases already provided:
Zoological Record (ZR) is the world’s oldest continuing database of animal biology. More than 140 years of experience has made ZR a respected resource for:
information from every field in animal biology projects in academic, government, and commercial organizations reliable and in-depth information searches Because ZR’s coverage extends back to 1864, it has long acted as the world’s unofficial register of animal names. But this is only one aspect, as its scope of coverage represents every area of animal biology, from biodiversity and the environment to taxonomy and veterinary sciences.
Covers 5,000 serials, plus many other sources of information including books, reports, and meetings 72,000 indexed records added every year 3.4 million records available
To learn more about Zoological Record, watch the training videos, or just dive in to searching Zoological Record!
ebrary will be performing monthly system maintenance on the first Tuesday of each month, from 11:00PM to 1:00AM US Eastern Time. During this period, the ebrary electronic books may be unavailable.
Want to read our our ebrary electronic books collection? Download the software now!
We’ve recently added several electronic books on designing and programming video games. You can read them online through our catalog. Take a look at The Indie Game Development Survival Guide, Beginning Illustration and Storyboarding for Games, Beginning Game Graphics, Game Scripting Mastery, Game Character Design Complete, or The Dark Side of Game Texturing. In ebook and hard copy versions we have Ed Byrne’s Game Level Design. We also have ebooks specifically about working in Quake, 3DS Max 8, Maya, or ActionScript. If you’re interested in these or similar titles, just Ask a Librarian.
If you’re setting a game during the Cuban Missile Crisis, look through a library. Find out what people were wearing, what other issues were in the news, how houses were furnished, what cars were being driven. Especially include things which now seem foreign. –Graham Nelson
