This database provides full-text access to over 100 reference titles and Oxford Companion series titles published by Oxford University Press in 19 disciplines from Art and Architecture to Physical Sciences and Mathematics to Science. It is possible to search or browse individual titles or to perform cross-searching through all of the titles available in this database at once. Selected individual titles from Oxford Reference Online will be profiled in future editions of What’s New .

Karni R. Perez will be present to sign copies of her recently published book, Fishing for Gold: The Story of Alabama’s Catfish Industry, on Wednesday, March 22 at 4 p.m. in the Special Collections and Archives Department located on the Ground Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library.

Perez, an independent researcher living in Auburn, compiled the material at the request of faculty in the Auburn University Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures and catfish industry representatives, who wanted to record an oral history of the industry.

This project was funded by Southern Pride Processing Company, the Alabama Catfish Producers, and the AU Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures Department. The book signing is being co-sponsored by the Auburn University Libraries, the Alabama Center for the Book, and the AU College of Agriculture.

This event is open to the public. For more information, contact Katie Jackson at 844-5887 or smithcl@auburn.edu .

The Auburn University Libraries are preparing to conduct a user study where library patrons will be given a series of questions by an AU Libraries staff member, asking them to find certain materials through the library web site. The goal of this study is to test the usability of our web site, and your participation will help us improve its quality and usefulness.

A $10.00 campus cash card will be given to those who participate. Participation is open to any student, graduate student, faculty member, or staff member of Auburn University.

If you would like to be involved in this informal user study, please send an e-mail message to the Library webmaster .

Library, Information Science, and Technology Abstracts (LISTA)

This database indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports, and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960’s.

Published by Grey House in 2005 and edited by Scott Derks and Tony Smith, this statistical reference source is located in the Reference Collection, located on the Second Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library, under call number HB 235 .U6 V349 2005. It is similar to Value of a Dollar: Prices and Incomes in the United States, 1860 – 2000 but with different coverage. The latter title is also located in the Reference Collection, on the Second Floor of the RBD Library, under call number HB 235 .U6 V35 2004.

As of March 31 the Chemical Abstracts Service will not support older versions of SciFinder Scholar. If you are not using SciFinder Scholar 2006, please go to this link and follow the links for the “SciFinder Scholar Download Page.”

You do not have to uninstall older versions of SciFinder Scholar, but if you do, then make sure you download the site preference file to the folder that contains SciFinder Scholar.

There are a few new features in the 2006 version:

1) Easier to look up specific references from journal name, author, title, year, and more
2) New structure and reaction search tools: repeating group, variable attachment
3) Structure similarity searching
4) Search sb-structures in structures and reactions are highlighted.

Please direct inquiries about SciFinder Scholar, including installation problems, to Bob Buchanan, Physical Sciences Librarian, at 844-1292 or buchara@auburn.edu .

Ingenta has upgraded the Ingenta Library gateway page located under the Document Delivery link located in the middle of the Auburn University Libraries homepage. Existing account information has not been altered, but the appearance of the gateway page has been changed.

Ingenta is a document delivery database making available over 11 million articles from more than 20,000 journals from Fall 1988 onward.

If you have any further questions about Ingenta, please contact the head of the Document Delivery Services Department, Pam King, at 844-1745 or kingpam@auburn.edu .

A subset of the Books in Print database, Fiction Connection is a reader’s advisory database that helps users find titles similar to fiction and biographical books they already enjoy. Search by genre, topic, location, setting, and character.

A subset of the Books in Print database, Patron Books in Print is an interactive database that provides a reader’s advisory service ( Fiction Connection ) as well as title searching by topic, lists of award winners, and a file management system for your favorite book titles.

This general periodical database has been redesigned. The search results display now offers a list of subject heading links in the left hand column, a “How to Cite” link that allows the researcher to create bibliographic citations to articles in both the MLA (Modern Language Association) and APA (American Psychological Association) styles, and a link titled “About this Publication” that provides brief information about the periodical being cited including dates of coverage in Expanded Academic ASAP (Infotrac)

This database indexes over 1500 journal titles in a variety of subject areas including astronomy, religion, law, history, psychology, humanities, current events, sociology, communications, and the general sciences. Articles in over 500 journals are available as full text.