TRIAL: Paley Center for Media: iCollection

Trial avail­able Sep­tem­ber 27-October 27, 2011

http://www.paleyicollection.org/Library.aspx#/Register/3BFE08E6-D3F6-4E0A-8F58-0FF071DBBAC5

Each user must reg­is­ter for access.

The Center’s media archive is the largest of its kind, with over 140,000 tele­vi­sion and radio pro­grams and com­mer­cials span­ning almost 100 years and over 70 coun­tries. The col­lec­tion has been curated to cap­ture the most artis­ti­cally and cul­tur­ally sig­nif­i­cant exam­ples in each pro­gram genre, includ­ing news, pub­lic affairs, doc­u­men­taries, per­form­ing arts, children’s pro­gram­ming, sports, com­edy and vari­ety shows, and com­mer­cial adver­tis­ing. The Cen­ter adds thou­sands of new pro­grams to its archive each year

Send com­ments to Jes­sica Albano

Vogue archive trial

Trial avail­able until Octo­ber 28, 2011

https://www.proquest.com/trials/trialSummary.action?view=subject&trialBean.token;=RWEYBMTUXK8KRH1V48BA

The Vogue Archive con­tains the entire run of Amer­i­can Vogue mag­a­zine from 1892 to the present day – more than 400,000 pages in total repro­duced in high-resolution color page images. This fully search­able data­base con­sti­tutes a trea­sure trove of the work of the great­est design­ers, pho­tog­ra­phers, styl­ists and illus­tra­tors of the 20th and 21st cen­turies. The Vogue Archive is both an essen­tial pri­mary source for the study of fash­ion and a unique record of Amer­i­can and inter­na­tional pop­u­lar culture.

Send com­ments to Theresa Mudrock

FirstSearch Downtime 9/17–9/18/11

First­Search will be down for main­te­nance from 10 p.m. Sat­ur­day, 9/17 to 5 a.m. Sun­day, 9/18. From the notice sent by OCLC:
“On Sun­day, Sep­tem­ber 18 there will be a sched­uled ser­vice down­time for First­Search from 1:00 a.m. until at least 8:00 a.m. East­ern time (-4 GMT). This tem­po­rary ser­vice inter­rup­tion is required so we can upgrade soft­ware that sup­ports FirstSearch.”

Web of Knowledge: access url changes

the Web of Knowl­edge data­bases have migrated to a new plat­form. Dur­ing Interim, we will make the changes to the access urls. If you main­tain a sub­ject page, please change your access urls as follows:

Web of Sci­ence
OLD: http://isiknowledge.com/?DestApp=WOS
NEW: http://webofknowledge.com/WOS

Bio­sis Cita­tion Index
NEW: already imple­mented
http://www.webofknowledge.com/BCI

Bio­sis Pre­views
OLD: http://isiknowledge.com/?DestApp=BIOSIS
NEW: http://webofknowledge.com/BIOSIS

Jour­nal cita­tion reports
OLD: http://isiknowledge.com/jcr
NEW: http://webofknowledge.com/JCR

Zoo­log­i­cal record
OLD: http://isiknowledge.com/zoorec
NEW: http://webofknowledge.com/ZOOREC

JSTOR maintenance September 9–10

On Fri­day, Sep­tem­ber 9 and Sat­ur­day, Sep­tem­ber 10, JSTOR will be per­form­ing site main­te­nance that requires a “read-only” period for these two days. Dur­ing this sched­uled main­te­nance, users will be able to search, browse, and access and down­load PDF files for con­tent in JSTOR. They will not be able to save cita­tions, reset pass­words, cre­ate or update MyJS­TOR accounts, or pur­chase articles.

We apol­o­gize for any incon­ve­nience this may cause, and appre­ci­ate your patience as we work to improve JSTOR.