Author Archives: Connie Foster

We are pleased to add Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 as our newest database and our first from Alexander Street Press. As stated by the publisher, “this database brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies that document the multiplicity of women’s activism in American public life. Thousands of pages of materials provide scholars and students with in-depth access to the published histories and records of women’s organizations throughout the United States. It also has documented projects on a broad range of topics of interest to today’s students, each including footnotes to introductory material, annotations of primary documents, a bibliography, and a list of related Web links. This database has a powerful full-text search engine that provides in-depth access to its content.” Link to it today! Search TOPCAT for the linked resource or our database pages.

The database should prove valuable to many disciplines and researchers. Let us know!
Connie Foster
Head, Library Technical Services
July 2007

This week TDNet, WKU Libraries’ e-journal management system, will add 1,744 journal links from EBSCO’s EJS database. Users will enjoy additional linking options for titles available on EJS and now linked through TDNet. For example, Library Journal or Research in Social Work Practice will have an EBSCO EJS link as another option for full-text access. From the WKU home page, go to Libraries and click on TDNet on the left side of the menu for complete e-journal access, or go directly to http://www.wku.edu/library/ejrnloff.htm. You can still go to the EJS database and enter that way.

Don’t forget the functionality for group profiles in TDNet when special projects come along and you want classes to track articles on specific topics throughout the semester or for your own personal e-alerts from favorite journals. TDNet is a powerful tool that does not require safety glasses!

Connie Foster, Head
Department of Library Technical Services
April 2, 2007

You can search TOPCAT by series title “Early American Imprints, First Series” and get all 36,305 or, if you know a specific title or want to limit to a subject category, you can also search in that way and limit to microform. Below is an example of one title now in TOPCAT.

Connie Foster, Head
Library Technical Services
February 1, 2007

WKU Libraries has 1,311 e-books available through the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) E-book project. From African History to Science and Technology, these books offer wonderfully rich research material for classes and projects. Recently, 138 new bibliographic records were added. Click on databases and ACLS for a complete title listing. Select a title and watch history unfold electronically; do a word or phrase search through a book with the powerful functionality of this database.

From its web site: “The ACLS History E-Book Project is a collaboration of eight learned societies, nearly 75 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in history, recommended and reviewed by historians and featuring unlimited multi-user access and free, downloadable MARC records. The Project is available 24/7 on- and off-campus through standard web browsers. The ACLS History E-Book Project was initially funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.”

If you would like to recommend a book of high quality and lasting merit in the field of history for this Project, please e-mail info@hebook.org with the title, author, publisher, and publication date, as well as your name, position, and affiliation. All recommendations will be added to our list for the next round of review.

Connie Foster, Head
Library Technical Services
October 25, 2006