A c t i o n f o r L i b r a r i e s — A u g u s t 2 0 0 3

In Reference

Edited by Brandie Baumann

BCR Libraries Eligible for Emerald Discount
BCR libraries are eligible to receive substantial discounts on the Emerald Fulltext database. You can expand your library's management resources collection instantly with Emerald Fulltext, one of the leading management research databases. Access more than 40,000 full-text articles from more than 140 Emerald publications using the improved new Search and Browse functionality. Benefit from additional Emerald features such as the User Toolkits, Emerald Communities, a sophisticated usage statistics package and e-mail alerts.

Emerald Fulltext subjects include management, human resources, marketing, library science, mechanical engineering, electronic and electrical engineering. BCR members pay a maximum purchase price of only $3,000, saving thousands over the 2003 price of $22,919.

For further details on adding Emerald value to your institution, contact the Emerald North America Sales representative, Hilary Olson, directly. Her e-mail address is holson@emeraldinsight.com.

OCLC FirstSearch Service Enhancements
The OCLC FirstSearch User Interface has a new, updated appearance that improves navigation, provides more customization options and gives FirstSearch a similar look to other OCLC products and services. The FirstSearch administrative module screen for Your Library Settings —>Your Library has expanded to allow libraries to display two logos or images and text names of their choice on the search interface. Administrators also can select from one of four pre-defined color palettes or designate their own custom colors in the new User Interface Colors screen.

OCLC recently added the Media Review Digest database to its FirstSearch service. Media Review Digest provides extensive review coverage of educational media, along with strong supplemental coverage of entertainment resources from 1989 to the present. In addition to providing citations to reviews of media resources in several leading print publications, the Media Review Digest database also contains links to more than 300,000 full-text reviews and related resources accessible on the Internet. It includes more than 100,000 media resources with more than 375,000 reviews, evaluations, awards and prizes and covers most media forms including educational and feature films, videocassettes, videodiscs, educational and spoken- word records, tapes and compact discs, CD-ROMs, DVDs, slides, transparencies, etc. The database is available via per-search and by subscription. Contact BCR's Karen Graham (kgraham@bcr.org) for more information.

The ATLA Religion database on OCLC FirstSearch has been expanded with the addition of more than 50,000 new indexing records from the Retrospective Indexing Project (RIP) 1843-1948, Andover Review (1884-1893) and the Methodist Reviews Index (MRI) 1818-1985. These additional records provide substantial retrospective coverage of 100-plus journal titles in the ATLA Religion database. Three new product codes — RIP, MRI and Andover — were added to the Product Code Limit on the advanced and expert screens in the ATLA Religion database on FirstSearch to help users identify these new groups of records.

In addition, the American Theological Library Association (ATLA) has informed OCLC that ATLA updated its image server to include thousands of new ATLA Serials (ATLAS) images. The new IP address for the updated ATLAS image server is 66.77.30.29. Users of the ATLA database should add this new IP address information to any firewalls, routers or proxy server configurations that restrict access to specific IP addresses to make sure that systems continue to allow access to the ATLAS servers. The IP for currently used ATLAS IP addresses are 66.77.30.29 and 63.136.1.23. The ATLAS IP address (66.77.43.9) is no longer in use. For questions or concerns, contact Karen Graham (kgraham@bcr.org) at BCR.

Users of WorldCat on FirstSearch can now see a "Hot Topics" link at the top of the WorldCat search screen that they can select to view a pull-down menu of search topics. This new tool provides library users with pre-formed searches on current and popular topics. Selecting any of the topics in the pull-down menu will generate a search on that topic. Complete terms and search structure are displayed with the search results.

OCLC Discontinues WilsonSelect Database on FirstSearch
Effective August 15, the WilsonSelect Database on OCLC FirstSearch is no longer available. No new subscription or monthly bill accounts are being accepted. Monthly bill and subscription users of this database may wish to subscribe instead to WilsonSelectPlus (added to FirstSearch in Spring 2000), which offers a more comprehensive and growing array of journals and full-text articles for users. In addition, WilsonSelectPlus has the added advantage of per-search as an access option. Contact Karen Graham at BCR (kgraham@bcr.org) for additional information and options available to current subscribers to the WilsonSelect database.

H. W. Wilson Offers Bibliographic Index Database
The bibliography of bibliographies, Bibliographic Index, is now searchable for the first time electronically on WilsonWeb. Available for more than 60 years as a standard reference tool in libraries, the Bibliographic Index on WilsonWeb offers fast digital searching by subject headings, keyword, source publication, author, date and more. The index has upwards of 272,000 bibliographies published in more than 13 languages in the Roman alphabet. A full-text version of the database, Bibliographic Index Plus, is also planned. For more information, contact Karen Graham (kgraham@bcr.org).

For questions or to subscribe to any reference database, contact BCR's Rosario Garza (rgarza@bcr.org), Karen Graham (kgraham@bcr.org) or Laura Chittivej (lchittiv@bcr.org).

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