Friday 26 August 2005
University Library news + Resources
Web of Science citations now link to full text
News from Patricia Killiard, Head of Electronic Services and Systems, Cambridge University Library:
I am pleased to announce that ISI have set up links from all Web of Science citation indexes - Science, Social Science, and Arts & Humanities - to full-text articles where a subscription to the electronic version is known to exist in the University (ie. where the e-journal is listed in ejournals@cambridge).
Where a citation links to full text a button marked VIEW FULL TEXT will appear in results lists below the title or on the right-hand side of the screen under ‘Additional Links’ when viewing the full citation.
This initiative was only made possible by the recent compilation of a comprehensive list of university-wide holdings. Any titles to which libraries have set up access but which have not yet been submitted for inclusion in ejournals@cambridge will necessarily have been excluded from linking. [Any omissions will, hopefully, be added in due course.]
Background: The Web of Science provides seamless access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,700 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. Web of Science also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching. With it, users can navigate forward, backward, and through the literature, searching all disciplines and time spans to uncover all the information relevant to their research. Users can also navigate to electronic full-text journal articles.
Thursday 25 August 2005
Literary
Guardian First Book Award longlist announced
This year’s longlist of titles picked for the Guardian First Book Award is ‘the most diverse yet in ethnic origin and theme’. The longlist comprises the following ten books:
Fiction (4 titles)
- The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw (Harper Perennial)
- 26A by Diana Evans (Chatto and Windus)
- Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap (Atlantic)
- Misfortune by Wesley Stace (Cape)
Non-fiction (5 titles)
- No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam by Reza Aslan (Heinemann)
- The Farm by Richard Benson (Hamish Hamilton)
- The Ice Museum by Joanna Kavenna (Viking)
- Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters (Fourth Estate)
- Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta (Headline/Review)
Poetry (1 title)
- To a Fault by Nick Laird (Faber)
Five of the titles are already featured in other book awards: 26A won the Orange Award for New Writers, both Stuart: A Life Backwards and Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found were shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction, The Harmony Silk Factory is on the current Man Booker longlist, and To a Fault is shortlisted for a Forward Prize.
The Guardian’s site has reviews and extracts of the longlisted books.
Key dates:
Shortlist announcement: Thursday November 3
Winner announcement: during week beginning Monday December 5
The winner of last year’s Guardian First Book Award was a non-fiction title Mutants: On the Form, Varieties and Errors of the Human Body by Armand Marie Leroi (Harper Collins).
BACKGROUND
The Guardian First Book Award was launched in 1999, replacing the Guardian Fiction Prize which ran for 33 years. The award aims to recognize and reward new writing across fiction and non-fiction. The winner receives £10,000. Uniquely among book awards, it is open to writing across all genres and judged by both a celebrity panel and members of the public who participate through reading groups run by Waterstone’s stores. The award is open to first books including fiction, poetry, biography, memoir, history, politics, science and current affairs. The role readers’ groups play in judging is a unique aspect of the Guardian award.
This year’s judges include the novelist Julie Myerson, the poet Owen Sheers, the biographer Michael Holroyd, the cultural commentator Naseem Khan, the broadcaster Clive Anderson and the Guardian’s deputy editor, Georgina Henry.
Tuesday 16 August 2005
University Library news + Resources
Patrologia Latina now online
News from Patricia Killiard, Head of Electronic Services and Systems, Cambridge University Library (UL):
The Patrologia Latina Database (PLD), previously available only on CD-Rom in the University Library, is now accessible online within the university following an upgrade to the University Library licence. No passwords are required. Off-campus access is not yet available but will be set up shortly.
The Patrologia Latina collects the works of latin Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to Pope Innocent III (who died in 1216). The Database contains a complete full text electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne’s Patrologia Latina. In all, the database comprises 221 volumes: 217 volumes of the Patrologiae Latinae Cursus Completus, in two series (published 1844-1855) plus four volumes of indexes (1862-1865).
Wednesday 10 August 2005
Literary
Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2005 longlist announced
The 2005 Man Booker Prize for Fiction longlist of books for this year has been issued. It comprises 17 books chosen from 109 entries (of which eight titles were ‘called in’ by the judges). ‘The Booker’ is generally regarded as the UK’s most prestigious fiction award.
The longlist for the 2005 Man Booker Prize for Fiction is as follows:
- The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw (Fourth Estate)
- The Sea by John Banville (Picador)
- Arthur & George by Julian Barnes (Jonathan Cape)
- A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry (Faber & Faber)
- Slow Man by JM Coetzee (Secker & Warburg)
- In the Fold by Rachel Cusk (Faber & Faber)
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber & Faber)
- All For Love by Dan Jacobson (Hamish Hamilton)
- A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka (Viking)
- Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel (Fourth Estate)
- Saturday by Ian McEwan (Jonathan Cape)
- The People’s Act of Love by James Meek (Canongate)
- Shalimar The Clown by Salman Rushdie (Jonathan Cape)
- The Accidental by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton)
- On Beauty by Zadie Smith (Hamish Hamilton)
- This Thing Of Darkness by Harry Thompson (Headline Review)
- This Is The Country by William Wall (Sceptre)
The Guardian’s reaction, Literary heavyweights dominate Booker longlist, states that this year’s longlist is ’short’ and concentrated in good writing:
‘On a list lacking any great surprises, shoo-ins such as Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro, both previous winners, whose novels Saturday and Never Let Me Go were hotly tipped as Booker contenders from the moment of their publication - were joined by two-time Booker-winner and 2003 Nobel laureate JM Coetzee. Salman Rushdie, who has also picked up the £50,000 cheque once before, in 1981 for Midnight’s Children, made the list for his as-yet-unpublished Shalimar the Clown. Zadie Smith also features with an unpublished novel; her third book, On Beauty, is due out in early September’.
The Guardian also
lists all the books with links to reviews. Also see
The Times’ reaction:
Terror novel earns Rushdie tilt at Booker Prize.
Timetable:
- 2005 shortlist of six announced: Thursday 8th September.
- The 2005 winner announced: Monday 10th October at an awards ceremony at Guildhall, London broadcast live on BBC TWO and BBC FOUR.
The judging panel for the 2005 Man Booker Prize for Fiction is: John Sutherland (Chair); fiction editor of the Times Literary Supplement, Lindsay Duguid; writer and antiquarian book dealer, Rick Gekoski; novelist, Josephine Hart; and literary editor of The Evening Standard, David Sexton.
The winner of the Man Booker Prize receives £50,000. The six shortlisted authors each receive a cheque for £2,500, bringing the total prize value to £65,000. A full history of the prize including previous winners, shortlisted authors and judges is available on the Man Booker Prize site. Last year’s winner was The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (Picador).
Computer
Computing newsletter
Computing Service Newsletter July 2005 is now available online. It includes information about collecting your Raven password - available to everyone in the University who has a CRSid (Central Registration System identifier, as used in University email addresses), including all staff. Raven is becoming increasingly important for accessing University-hosted online resources (ie. non-Athens stuff). The Library keeps hard copies of the newsletter, including back issues.
Monday 8 August 2005
University Library news + Resources
JSTOR music e-journals available
Electronic journal news issued today by Patricia Killiard, Head of Electronic Services and Systems at Cambridge University Library (UL).
The UL has added JSTOR music e-journals to its collections, making it possible to consult the backfiles of 7 major titles in music online from the first issue up to 3-5 years ago, depending on the publisher. For titles no longer published, the full backfile is provided.
The service is available without password on campus and via Athens password off-campus. (Athens passwords can be obtained at the library enquiry desk.)
The complete title list is as follows (’+’ indicates availability of earlier issues published under a different title as indicated):
19th-Century Music 1977-2002
Acta Musicologica 1931-1998 (+ Mitteilungen der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Musikwissenschaft / Bulletin de la Société internationale de musicologie 1928-1930)
American Music 1983-2002
Archiv für Musikwissenschaft 1918-2000 (+ Sammelbände der Internationalen Musikgesellschaft 1899-1914)
Asian Music 1968-2000
Black Music Research Journal 1980-2001
British Journal of Ethnomusicology 1992-1999
Cambridge Opera Journal 1989-1999
Early Music 1973-1999
Early Music History 1981-1999
Ethnomusicology 1953-2000
Galpin Society Journal 1948-1999
International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music 1971-1999 (+ International Review of Music Aesthetics and Sociology 1970)
Journal of Music Theory 1957-1999
Journal of Musicology 1982-2001
Journal of the American Musicological Society 1948-2001 (+ Bulletin of the American Musicological Society 1936-1948)
Journal of the Royal Musical Association 1986-1999 (+ Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association 1944-1985 + Proceedings of the Musical Association 1874-1944)
Latin American Music Review / Revista de Música Latinoamericana 1980-2001 (+ Anuario Interamericano de Investigacion Musical 1970-1975 + Anuario 1965-1969)
Lied und populäre Kultur / Song and Popular Culture 2000 (+ Jahrbuch für Volksliedforschung 1928-1999)
Music & Letters 1920-1999
Music Analysis 1982-1999
Music Theory Spectrum 1979-2001
Musical Quarterly 1915-1999
Musical Times 1903-2001
Notes 1934-1999
Perspectives of New Music 1962-1997
Popular Music 1981-1999
Revue de musicologie 1922-1997 (+ Bulletin de la Société française de musicologie 1917-1921)
Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 1961-1999
Tempo 1939-1999
Tijdschrift van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis 1995-1999
Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis 1960-1994
Tijdschrift der Vereeniging voor Noord-Nederlands Muziekgeschiedenis 1882-1959 (+ Bouwsteenen 1869-1881)
Yearbook for Traditional Music 1981-2000
Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council 1969-1980 (+ Journal of the International Folk Music Council 1949-1968)
Monday 1 August 2005
University Library news + Resources
Encyclopaedia of Islam and Encyclopédie Diderot online
News from Patricia Killiard, Head of Electronic Services and Systems, Cambridge University Library (UL):
Encyclopaedia of Islam
is now available within the University domain only (at present) - no password required. The Encyclopaedia of Islam contains articles on the Islamic World from religion and history to politics and culture. Its geographical and historical scope encompasses the old Arabo-Islamic empire, the Islamic countries of Iran, Central Asia, the Indian sub-continent and Indonesia, the Ottoman Empire and all modern Islamic states.
Encyclopédie Diderot
is now available within the University domain only (at present) - no password required. The Encyclopédie was published under the direction of Diderot and d’Alembert, with 17 volumes of text and 11 volumes of plates between 1751 and 1772. Containing 72,000 articles written by more than 140 contributors, the Encyclopédie is an extensive reference work for the arts and sciences. NB: this is in French (obviously).
