Potential Additions to the Collections to Explore, February 2018
Syracuse University Libraries welcomes feedback about the following resources for which we currently have trial access during February 2018. Faculty, staff, and student feedback is an important part of our evaluation process and we welcome your comments, particularly about how a specific resource would support your research and/or the curriculum of your school or college. Send feedback to the collections team at colls@syr.edu. Please be aware that we are exploring these resources for future consideration, and there is no guarantee that we will be able to subscribe, especially within a specific timeframe.
GeoRef on the Engineering Village platform is available through March 16th. This is an index to the geoscience literature of the world containing references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses. Syracuse University Libraries currently subscribes to GeoRef on the ProQuest platform, please send any feedback you may have comparing the two resources.
Geofacets is available through March 16th. It offers over 1.5 million ready-to-use maps, figures and tables sourced from esteemed scientific publications, covering a wide spectrum of geoscience disciplines from general geology to specialized subject areas like organic geochemistry and sequence stratigraphy. Content types include maps, stratigraphic columns, seismic sections, cross-sections, well data and more.
A representative for GeoRef and Geofacets will be visiting Bird Library on Tuesday, February 20th at 1pm in Room 002 to demonstrate GeoRef and Geofacets. Please join us to explore these tools further!
Agricultural & Environmental Science Database is available from ProQuest through March 2nd. This database includes AGRICOLA, TOXLINE, Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management (ESPM), and Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) databases and provides full-text titles from around the world. It includes scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications and covers such topics as the effects of pollution on people and animals and environmental action and policy responses.
Environment Complete from EBSCO is available through March 1st. This full-text database offers coverage in the areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, and affiliated areas of study and includes full text and indexing for journals, books and monographs.
IGI Global Teaching Cases is available through March 30th. These cases include an executive summary, background information, project description, current status of the case/project, epilogue and lessons learned, additional resources for further research covering real-life examples of global implementation, utilization, and management of Information Science and Technology.
Please note: Limited on-campus access to these resources are provided by the vendors for the purpose of evaluating their usefulness and potential value to the SU community. Please see the SU Libraries policy on access to licensed resources.