Category Archives: Databases & Tips

Earth & Environmental Sciences — Springer ebooks now available!

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cda_displayimage.jpgPrinceton University Library now has a subscription to Springer’s collection of titles for the Earth and Environmental Sciences, from 2005-2010. This link will take you directly to the collection as a database:

http://www.springerlink.com/earth-and-environmental-science/?sortorder=asc&cb=2005&ce=2009

We have access to all the titles with the “green light”.

SpringerLink offers free access to search, tables of content, abstracts, and alerting services. Now Princeton has full-text access to the articles published in the journals and the book chapters…in selected subject areas. We will have access soon to the Physics and Astronomy collection from Springer.

Environment Research Funders’ Forum (ERFF) Research Database

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From Knowledgespeak Newsletter, Sept. 15, 2009

ERFF adds research database to WorldWideScience Alliance science gateway

"The British Library has announced that the UK has made its first major independent contribution of data to the WorldWideScience Alliance project (www.worldwidescience.org) with the upload of the Environment Research Funders’ Forum (ERFF) Research Database. The database holds information on some 20,000 publicly funded environmental research projects and programmes that have been funded by ERFF’s member organisations since 2005. Although data is being continually added to the ERFF’s collections, anyone using WorldWideScience.org will be able to access information through the federated search function."

[The] "project currently makes available over 357 million pages of scientific information covering energy, medicine, agriculture and the environment. It continues to seek new partners to expand the resource and help stimulate revolutionary advances in science."

BioOne has a new platform

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“BioOne is home to 113 not-for-profit society and institutional publishers from around the world.”

“Bringing together a wide range of work on the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences from scientific societies, libraries, academe, and the private sector, the new platform had to be capable of supporting multiple product types. The BioOne site hosts full-text HTML journal and book content fully integrated on the one site. This benefits the user by providing a consistent user experience and single sign on irrespective of the content they are seeking. BioOne benefits by being able to deliver book and journal content together, or separately, from a single platform, and being able to manage the site using a single administration tool from the desktop.”
Source: Knowledgespeak Newsletter

Princeton University has supported BioOne from its inception. You can see what journals are availble though this consortium from the e-journals page, under “Collections” or here: http://libweb5.princeton.edu/ejournals/browsezd.asp?index=Project&key=BioOne

LexisNexis Academic — more transparent, enhanced

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LexisNexis Academic the daily-updated, major news and legal resource now has a friendlier design. The layout and tabs are redesigned for easier navigation, and some terminology is clarified. One may eliminate sources in a “Source Selection tray”.

All of the searching techniques and parameters remain the same — Boolean logic, truncation, wild cards, proximity, or connecting, operators, etc. Under the “Power search”, button, searching hints are readily available; more, of course are explained under “Help”, and there are several tutorials.

LexisNexis Academic — more transparent, enhanced

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LexisNexis Academic the daily-updated, major news and legal resource now has a friendlier design. The layout and tabs are redesigned for easier navigation, and some terminology is clarified. One may eliminate sources in a “Source Selection tray”.

All of the searching techniques and parameters remain the same — Boolean logic, truncation, wild cards, proximity, or connecting, operators, etc. Under the “Power search”, button, searching hints are readily available; more, of course are explained under “Help”, and there are several tutorials.

GreenFILE, a new database from EBSCO

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The new database, GreenFILE, produced by EBSCO, concentrates on human interactions with the environment. It is a small database, which indexes many different types of documents, from scholarly journal articles to recipes from popular journals. About 6% of the articles have links to full text. The searching is transparent and flexible, including limiting by scholarly titles.

For research in depth, you mustn’t neglect the larger, more comprehensive databases in environmental sciences/studies and the subject database(s) most related to your topic.
For more information from the announcement in Knowledgespeak Newsletter of April 2, 2008, read on…

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Knovel additions in Geosciences

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K-News Winter 2008 – Knovel Adds 173 New Engineering Titles

“Our new Earth Sciences subject area enables subscribers in infrastructure construction, oil and gas, civil engineering and many other fields to rely on Knovel as a single place for finding reliable answers quickly. The Earth Sciences collection currently contains 53 titles covering the following topics:

Geochemistry,
Geology,
Geophysics, Geodesy & Seismology,
Geotechnical Engineering,
Hydrology, Oceanography & Glaciology,
Paleontology & Stratigraphy”

The Merck Index has also been added, and 34 new oil and gas titles.

TOXNET has CARCINOGENIC POTENCY Database

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More details are reported here, in the NLM Technical Bulletin, No. 360, dated January/February 2008. This information was also disseminated via NLM-Tox-Enviro-Health-L…with an invitation to subscribe.

Among the entries under Articles and Databases from the Library’s homepage you will find TOXLINE which is specific, bibliographic database in the TOXNET group of databases.
ToxSeek is also listed which is a “meta” & clustering search engine for many governmental resources on environmental health and toxicology .

Improvements to the Princeton University Library catalog

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There has been further developments — improvements — in the utility of our Main Catalog: Finding the location of a specific book, and finding related material.
Look up a title in the catalog, and you will note, toward the bottom of the record:

1a. Item details: Where to find this item This link gives you a picture of the library building and a map to help you locate the site on campus.

1b. Location details: More information about this location This link gives you specifics of the whereabouts of the particular copy you are seeking. For Firestone books, a picture of Firestone shows while the floor plan loads. Then, from the central elevators & stairs, “anttracks” may take you to the approximate location of the book. In addition, locations may be highlighted and annotated.

2. Notice that there is an additional button just at the top of the record reading: more like this.

This terminology may be more familiar from other database searching, but here it mainly condenses the key links from the long view.

Environmental Impact Statements records added to transportation database

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Northwestern University has added ~19,000 bibliographic records for environmental impact statements and drafts, to the TRIS database. “The Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database is the world’s largest and most comprehensive bibliographic resource on transportation information. TRIS is produced and maintained by the Transportation Research Board at the National Academy of Sciences.” This is a free web-based database.

The Library has recently subscribed to the Environmental Impact Statements database from CSA: Environmental Impact Statements: Full-Text & Digests

The collections do not appear to overlap, so there must be at least some unique EISs in each. Both these databases are listed in the “Articles and Databases” groupings.