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Major Changes for Sage Journals Online Collections

Unfortunately, we no longer have current access to most of our ejournals from Sage which were in collections by broad area such as education, management, psychology and so on.  We do, however, have access to our backfile collections as follows:

• Education Full-Text Collection: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, first half of 2009
• Psychology Full-Text Collection: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, first half of 2009
• Health Science Full-Text Collection: 2006, 2007, 2008, first half of 2009
• Management & Organization Studies Full-Text Collection: 2006, 2007, 2008, first half of 2009
• Political Science Full-Text Collection: 2006, 2007, 2008, first half of 2009
• Sociology Full-Text Collection: 2006, 2007, 2008, first half of 2009

We now subscribe to our most heavily used individual Sage ejournals. Access usually is back to 1999. The ejournals can be found in our ejournals portal and are:

Clinical Nursing Research

Cornell Hospitality Quarterly

Cornell hotel and restaurant administration quarterly

Evaluation & the Health Professions

Home Health Care Management & Practice

International Journal of Behavioral Development

Journal of Family Issues

Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research

Journal of Transcultural Nursing Journal of travel research

Medical Care Research and Review

Qualitative Health Research

Research on Aging Trauma, Violence, & Abuse

Western Journal of Nursing Research

Thousands of Open Access Journals Added

We updated our ejournals holdings to include tens of thousands of new open access scholarly journal collections as well as open access historical newspapers and other freely available resources. These titles will eventually be cataloged in CUNY+ but for now, they can be found by title on our ejournals portal.

Here is a full list of the new open access journal collections:

Archive of African Journals (added May 21)

Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) Journals

Britannica and Earthwatch no more

As of today, we no longer have access to Encyclopedia Britannica and Earthwatch.

New Features in Google Books

Lots of interface changes to Google Books.

New in the Library! American History in Video

American History in Video

Thousands of videos of events and figures from American history. Includes documentaries from PBS, the History Channel and others as well as newsreels and other archival footage. Instructors: you can save and edit pieces of the videos to create custom clips and *save* them for classroom use.

Access off-campus coming soon.

Library Closed Fridays Through August 7th

Starting this week through August 7th, the library will be closed on Fridays. We’re open Monday through Thursday, 9am – 8pm. Stop by to grab a book, use a computer, study or read!

Click here for more details on the library’s hours.

Data.gov: Unlocking the Federal Filing Cabinets

Faculty using raw data may find this article in yesterday’s New York
Times of interest.

Summer Technology Workshops for Faculty and Students

ALL WORKSHOPS WILL BE HELD IN G-604
(Back classroom in the General building, behind the 6th floor open lab)

Blackboard workshops for faculty:
Monday June 1st: 2:00-3:30pm
Wednesday June 3rd: 4:00-5:30pm
Thursday June 4th: 1:00-2:30pm
Tuesday June 9th: 1-2:30pm
Thursday July 9th: 1-2:30pm

Grade Center workshops for faculty:
Monday June 8th: 1-2pm
Tuesday June 9th: 5-6pm

Wimba workhsops for faculty:
Tuesday June 2nd: 3-4pm
Wednesday June 10th: 12-1pm

Blackboard workshops for Students:
Tuesday June 2nd: 1-2pm
Wednesday June 3rd: 1-2pm
Wednesday June 10th: 5-6pm
Thursday June 11th: 1-2pm
Thursday July 2nd: 1-2pm
Wednesday July 8th: 5-6pm

Extended hours this week!

We’re extending our hours this week during finals:

Tuesday May 19 through Thursday May 21 the library will be open from 9:00am-10:30pm.

Friday May 22 the library will be open from 9:00am-8:00pm.

Good luck to all!