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Check out the Project MUSE vodcast, "Research MUSEings Vodcasts: Discovering Linked Subject Headings," at http://muse.jhu.edu/about/resources/vodcasts.html. The vodcast is a is a quick tutorial about the benefits of using MUSE's linked subject headings in your research. Users can learn, on their own, what subject headings are, where to find them in MUSE, and how they help locate articles specific to a research topic.

CAS is hosting an e-Seminar on July 9, 2008 It's live, it's interactive, and it's focused on:

SciFinder: Structure Drawing: Raising the Bar

Wednesday, July 9, 2008 2:00 – 3:00 PM (14:00–15:00) U.S. Eastern Daylight Time (19:00-20:00 GMT)

Rebroadcast date and times for the seminar will be: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at 6:00 AM EDT (11:00 GMT), 9:00 AM EDT (14:00 GMT), and 9:00 PM EDT (1:00 GMT)

To register, visit: http://casevents.webex.com After you register, you will receive an e-mail confirmation containing the teleconference phone numbers. Consider registering for other SciFinder training sessions.

About the Webex session: Structure Drawing: Raising the Bar: Structure drawing is an essential tool when searching for substances, reactions, and related information in the web version of SciFinder. In this session, CAS will:

• Provide a detailed overview of structure and reaction drawing options
• Illustrate how to apply minor drawing changes to significantly impact search results, including how to cast a wider net and how to focus an unwieldy answer set
• Share examples and specific tips from SciFinder structure drawing experts

Learn from your desktop or gather your colleagues and share the e-Seminar demonstration in an auditorium or meeting room. You can submit questions at any time during the e-Seminar. For system and other technical requirements needed to participate in this event, please contact WebEx: Phone: 866-229-3239 (North America) or 916-463-8262 (worldwide) E-mail: support@webex.com If you have general questions about SciFinder, please contact CAS Customer Care: Phone: 800-753-4227 (North America) or 614-447-3700 (worldwide) E-mail: help@cas.org Web page: http://www.cas.org/support/custcare.html

July 10, 2006 Collaboration between the Artists Rights Society (ARS), the Société des auteurs dans les arts graphiques et plastiques (ADAGP) and ARTstor

Collaboration between the Artists Rights Society (ARS), the Société des auteurs dans les arts graphiques et plastiques (ADAGP) and ARTstor The French artists’ rights society (the Société des auteurs dans les arts graphiques et plastiques (“ADAGP”)), The Artists Rights Society of the United States (ARS), and ARTstor are pleased to announce that they have recently reached a collaborative agreement. Under the agreement, ARTstor will make available through the ARTstor Digital Library the digital images of art works by thousands of ADAGP artists and estates for teaching, research and study. The agreement builds upon and extends the agreement reached in August 2005 between ARS and ARTstor under which ARTstor is making available images of works by ARS artists.

Under this agreement, ARTstor expects to make available shortly to ARTstor participating institutions worldwide images of modern and contemporary art works by ADAGP artists. ADAGP, the preeminent European rights society, represents such artists as (to name a few): Joan Miro, Pierre Bonnard, Constantin Brancusi, Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Andre Derain, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Wassily Kandinsky, Le Corbusier, Fernand Leger, Rene Magritte, and Edouard Vuillard. ADAGP is the French collective society for the rights of authors in the visual arts (such as painters, sculptors, photographers, architects, and others) ARS is the preeminent organization for visual artists in the United States. Founded in 1987, ARS represents the intellectual property rights interests of over 40,000 visual artists and estates of visual artists.

Enhanced search options are being introduced to EBSCOhost databases. New features include a visual search system (using Grokker software), database grouping by subjects, RSS alerts, and clustering result options.

Click on this link to test the new features on Academic Search Premiere.

Special Note: Using the Grokker visual search software requires the installation of the Java web application manager. You may have to contact your local computer technical team to have this done.

Beginning in the month of February users will be able to "visually search" EBSCOhost databases. A new "Visual Search" tab will appear to complement basic and advanced search options. This 30 second flash movie previews the new.

Library acquisition consortia can negotiate much better pricing for electronic resource licenses. The Library is a particpating member of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN), a national Library consortium. CRKN supercedes the Canadian National Site Licensing Project (CNSLP), a CFI, University, and provincial jointly funded project that launched several of the Library's important science, technology and medicine (STM) electronic resource products back in 2001. CRKN has announced a new equally important list of titles, this time in the social sciences and humanites (SSH). The following list of HSS products will be rolled out over the next few weeks (existing institutional licenses will migrate to the CRKN consortial licence & pricing):

• ARTstor Digital Library - Access to over 400,000 art images from leading galleries and museums. Additional product information
• Early Canadiana Online
- The Library has a current license to this digitized collection of early Canadian printed publications (books, pamphlets, annuals, and periodicals). Additional product information
• SAGE Journals and SAGE Full-Text Collections Hosted on CSA & HighWire Press Onlline platform:
  • SAGE Journals Online
  List of journals. Access to the titles marked with an E.
• SAGE Full-Text Collections:
• Communication Studies
• Criminology
• Education
• Health Sciences
• Management & Organization Studies
• Materials Science
• Political Scinece
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Urban Studies & Planning

Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) - Additional product information:

• Country Reports - In-depth economic, political and business analysis and short-term market outlooks for almost 200 countries
• ViewsWire - Daily briefings on economic, political, business, finance and regulatory developments around the world. Additional product info

Alexander Street Press Collections:

• Classical Music Library - Sreaming audio collection...the Library currently has a restricted use license. The CRKN license will permit 12 simultaneous users and will be listed in the databases A-Z list.
• American Film Scripts
• Asian American Drama
• Black Drama
• Black Thought and Culture
• British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
• Early Encounters in North America - The Library has a current subscription.
• Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama and Literature
• North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
• North American Indian Biographical Database
• North American Theatre Online
• North American Women's Drama
• North American Women's Letters and Diaries
• Oral History Online
• Twentieth Century North American Drama
• Women and Social Movements in the U.S.

The Globe and Mail: Canada's Heritabe from 1844 - Digital images from 1844 to 2002 of the contents of the G&M and The Globe. The Library has a current license.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) - Full text of English-language and foreign-language titles published in the UK from 1701 to 1800. The Library has a current license.

All databases using the Ovid platform/interface are now enabled to export selected results into the bibliographic management tools: RefWorks or EndNote, ProCite and Reference Manager.

• Select citations you would like to export by checkining the adjacent box in your search results list.
• Click on Results Manager
• Select Direct Export
• Click on Save
• Select either RefWorks or EndNote, ProCite and Reference Manager option

Note that the RefWorks selection currently links to the RefWorks default page rather than the Library's tailored page...the vendor has been asked to change this and to make this process a smoother.

Canada ranks in top 10 of 22 science and social sciences categories in an ongoing 10 year citation and paper survey assembled by ISI: http://www.in-cites.com/countries/canada_2005.html

Citation Linker, part of the Library's Findit! (SFX) OpenURL linking service, was temporarily disabled due to a software upgrade. It is now working again. A Citation Linker form appears on each electronic journal page selected from the Library's Electronic Journals database and is used to find Library full text or other holdings for a specific citation.