Web of Science includes sections on science, social sciences, and even arts & humanities. Also available is the Current Contents Connect database, a current awareness tool with latest journal tables of contents, and the Data Citation Index, which provides access to quality research data from repositories across disciplines and around the world.

The major content growth for SpringerMaterials in 2015 was accomplished with a substantial update to the Inorganic Solid Phases Database (Linus Pauling Files). By adding 15,000 data sheets with crystallographic data (+7%), 1,500 phase diagrams (+4%), and 23,000 data points (+9%) to the physical properties data sheets, the Linus Pauling Files now contain 225,000 crystallographic data sheets (210,000 interactive structures), 36,000 phase diagrams (29,000 interactive diagrams) and 287,000 data points in physical properties data sheets.

NBC Learn has a variety of collections such as Changing Planet and Sustainability: Water that can supplement classroom readings and stimulate discussion. For example, the Changing Planet series, produced in partnership with the National Science Foundation, covers headline issues from the future of California’s water supply to how butterflies are adapting to warmer temperatures. 

The Libraries provide free access to the BrowZine app and web-based tool so that our users can more easily browse academic journals in their disciplines.  With BrowZine (www.browzine.com) users can create their own shelf of journals to regularly browse, browse preselected journals by subject, or search for articles on interest by keyword. Articles can be downloaded for reading later.

In addition to journal articles and papers, we now have electronic access to SAE Aerospace Standards from 1942-present, and Ground Vehicle Standards from 1952-present in the SAE database!  This database contains much information on fuel, combustion, emissions, and more.

Colonial America (Adam Matthew)
Original documents exchanged between the governors of British colonies in North America and the Caribbean and the Colonial Office in Britain. Among the correspondence are diaries, maps, broadsides, laws, public notices, newspaper clippings, and more covering all aspects of seventeenth and eighteenth-century American history. Many of the documents are handwritten and are not keyword searchable. They can be searched by date, name, region and topics including; early settlements, Native Americans, Trade, Wars, Slavery and the slave trade. Penn State has access to Module 1: Early Settlement, Expansion and Rivalries and Module 2: Towards Revolution

Music Magazine Archive
Music Magazine Archive is a series of digital collections focused on 20th and 21st century genres such as Rock, Folk, and Hip-Hop & Rap. Each genre-based collection unites every page and every issue of a diverse and influential group of magazines. These publications uniquely capture the social and historical context of each genre, and together support scholarly research areas such as race, class, gender, American studies, youth culture, and more across some of the most progressive decades of the 20th and 21st centuries. Researchers will find all material represented in the original publications, preserved in its original context, fully searchable and in high-resolution full color.
(From the publisher -“The Music Magazine Archive’s collection is in a pre-publication state. Rock is completed. Folk is 25% completed and Rap/Hip Hop is projected to release late 2017.”)

In a recent press release, the HathiTrust announced that the fulltext of the works in the HathiTrust Digital Library (HTDL) is available for analysis via the Extracted Features Data Set. This open access data set provides quantitative information about word and line counts, parts of speech, and other details within each page of every volume in the HTDL. In addition to these larger-scale investigations, the EF Dataset also allows researchers to closely analyze the contents of a given volume or subset of volumes.  The HTDL comprises over 13 million volumes, over 5 billion pages, and over 2 trillion words.

“The Extracted Features Dataset creates opportunities for scholarship and teaching that were previously impossible,” said J. Stephen Downie, co-director of HathiTrust Research Center and Associate Dean for Research and Professor at the School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “We look forward to seeing how the scholarly community takes advantage of the EF dataset in their research, labs, and classrooms.”

For more information about the Extracted Features Dataset and access to it, go to https://analytics.hathitrust.org/datasets. The HTRC EF Dataset is released under a Creative Commons CC-BY license. Download information can be found at the DOI in the formal dataset citation below:

Boris Capitanu; Ted Underwood; Peter Organisciak; Timothy Cole; M. Janina Sarol; J. Stephen Downie (2016): The HathiTrust Research Center Extracted Features Dataset. 1.0 [Dataset]. HathiTrust Research Center. Dataset. http://dx.doi.org/10.13012/J8X63JT3

Contact info: htrc-help@hathitrust.org

For all who continue to study…

As Americans celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday, it seems appropriate to share this portion of the Haudenosaunee prayer of thanks. In Native American tradition, all peoples should be embraced as family and diversity is to be celebrated. The prayer acknowledges various aspects of the natural world – the sun, stars, plants, animals, etc.  The portion below is a celebration of the winds.

We are all thankful to the powers we know as the Four Winds. We hear their voices in the moving air as they refresh us and purify the air we breathe. They help us to bring the change of seasons. From the four directions they come, bringing us messages and giving us strength. With one mind, we send our greetings and our thanks to the Four Winds.

Related URLs:

Click to access 01_02_Thanksgiving_Address.pdf

http://www.indigenousvalues.org/

We have acquired some ebooks in engineering fields from CRC as follows:

ENGnetBASE 2014-2015 (38 records)
ENGnetBASE 2016 (121 records)
ChemicalENGINEERINGnetBASE (We purchased 2016 titles in this collection)