Database News for October, 2002

The University Libraries have added JSTOR's Ecology & Botany Collection, an online archive of amost 30 core titles in natural history and environmental studies. JSTOR is a collection of core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, digitized in most cases back to the first date of issue. Because every word of text has been digitized, the collection is fully searchable for words or phrases across nearly 10 million article pages.

Titles in the Ecology & Botany Collection include:

Most JSTOR titles are only digitized after an approximate five-year time lag so that journal issues available are not current. JSTOR's agreements with publishers include an updating provision referred to as a "moving wall." The moving wall is a fixed period of time ranging, in most cases, from 2 to 5 years, that defines the gap between the most recently published issue and the date of the most recent issues available in JSTOR. The purpose of the moving wall is to ensure that participants can rely on JSTOR to be the trusted archive for the journal backfiles, while also giving publishers some protection from the threat of lost revenues due to the availability of recent issues in the database.

Funded by the University of Arkansas Graduate School, Science's Next Wave is a weekly online publication that covers scientific training, career development, and the science job market. The Next Wave is published by SCIENCE magazine and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Next Wave publishes features, news items, career columns, and perspectives in these areas:

• Job Market News
• Career Transitions
• Job-Hunting
• Diversity and Worklife
• For Graduate Students
• Science Policy
• Postdoc and Faculty Issues

Many career features are written by scientists; others are written by Next Wave staff, columnists, and writers.

At last, comprehensive coverage of sports and recreation topics! Physical Education Index (PEI) will be an essential source for students and faculty in kinesiology, coaching, health education, recreation, and many other programs. PEI covers more than 300 current peer-reviewed journals as well as report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, articles from the popular press, and many other publications in all fields of physical education and sports science. Topics covered include: physical education curricula, sports medicine, dance, sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, sport sociology and psychology, health education, and physical therapy.

The American Chemical Society (ACS) is building an archive of back issues of their journals online. When complete, the ACS archive will provide access to more than 11,000 ACS journal issues, 500,000 articles, and 2.5 million pages of original chemistry, from 1879 to recent years. Coverage of ACS journals to which the Libraries subscribe include:

• Accounts of chemical research, 1968-
• Analytical chemistry, 1929-
• Bioconjugate chemistry, 1990-
• Biochemistry, 1962-
• Biotechnology progress, 1990-
• Chemical reviews, 1924-
• Energy & fuels, 1987-
• Environmental science & technology, 1967-
• Industrial & engineering chemistry research, 1909-1970
• Inorganic chemistry, 1962-
• Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1879-
• Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, 1953-
• Journal of chemical and engineering data, 1956-
• Journal of medicinal chemistry, 1959-
• Journal of organic chemistry, 1936-
• Journal of physical chemistry. Parts A and B, 1896-
• Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids, 1985-
• Macromolecules, 1968-
• Organometallics, 1982-
• Organic letters, 1999-

HarpWeek provides electronic access to Harper's Weekly, the illustrated 19th century "Journal of Civilization" for a 56-year period: 1857-1912. Harper's Weekly is perhaps the most important primary resource for examining 19th-century America on a cumulative week-to-week basis. HarpWeek's electronic database makes it possible for the user to discover the lively:

that shaped and reflected public opinion in this era. HarpWeek has scanned the pages as facsimile Images, then created both Thesaurus-based Indexing and Searchable Full-text which integrate with those pages to provide the user with pinpoint access to precise information, or with a general overview of the period. Segments currently available include: