Lex­is­Nexis Sta­tis­ti­cal (aka Sta­tis­ti­cal Uni­verse) is a pow­er­ful tool for explor­ing sta­tis­tics from fed­eral and state gov­ern­ment, pri­vate groups (like the Rand Cor­po­ra­tion) and inter­gov­ern­ment groups(like the World Trade Orga­ni­za­tion). The resource is being rebranded as Lex­is­Nexis Sta­tis­ti­cal Insight with a com­pletely new search interface.

Join Lex­is­Nexis trainer and long­time doc­u­ments librar­ian Andrea Sevet­son (for­merly of UC-Berkeley and the U.S. Cen­sus Bureau) as she demon­strates the bells and whis­tles of the new system.

What: Lex­is­Nexis Sta­tis­ti­cal — new inter­face
When: Fri­day, Jan­u­ary 29, 9:00 — 10:30 a.m.
Where: Suz­za­llo Instruc­tion Lab (Room 104)

On Feb­ru­ary 1, 2010, the newest ver­sion of iPOLL will be released. Until then, try the Beta ver­sion from within the cur­rent service.

Enhance­ments include:

• Email login is no longer required to use iPOLL
• Every search gen­er­ates a sum­mary of ques­tion counts and datasets by decade
• Graph­i­cal dis­play of ques­tion results
• Within the Search for Datasets cat­a­log, there are now links to ques­tions in iPOLL, per­mit­ting researchers to view topline results from the datasets they’ve iden­ti­fied for sec­ondary analysis.

Reg­is­tered Users will enjoy addi­tional benefits—

• Select the way you want the sum­mary of results to display
• Down­load full search results
• Down­load datasets (Reg­is­tra­tion is optional within iPOLL, but required to down­load datasets.)
• Book­mark searches and questions

While the new ver­sions of these data­bases will become the default on Feb­ru­ary 1^st, Tra­di­tional iPOLL will be avail­able through spring 2010.

Visit iPoll at: http://roperweb.ropercenter.uconn.edu/iPOLL/login/ipoll_login.html

Last week the Libraries began to offer sub­stan­tially increased access to jour­nal con­tent from Else­vier as a result of a lengthy, com­plex and suc­cess­ful rene­go­ti­a­tion process that took place over sev­eral months. The new agree­ment includes a com­mit­ment by the Libraries to pur­chase Elsevier’s com­plete 1500 title back-file col­lec­tion over 5 years at a sub­stan­tially reduced price, and access with­out charge for 2010 to all cur­rent jour­nals within its “Free­dom Col­lec­tion.” The back-file pur­chase is part of the Libraries’ long­stand­ing strate­gic pur­suit of the Any­time Any­place Library con­cept and helps address a need that many UW fac­ulty have expressed in recent sur­veys. The Free­dom Col­lec­tion increases the num­ber of cur­rent Else­vier jour­nals avail­able to UW users from roughly 1,000 to 2,000 and pro­vides an oppor­tu­nity to assess its over­all value and demand for spe­cific titles. Cat­a­log and e-journal list entries for Free­dom Col­lec­tion titles have been added, while back-file entries will be avail­able some­time in February.