Library Collections Department

Scholarly Communication News Highlight — Income models for Open Access: An overview of current practice from SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition).

New Library Resources — Check These Out!

Europa World Yearbook Plus is the online version of the Europa World Year Book and the nine-volume Regional Surveys of the World. This source is well known for its accuracy, consistency, and reliability in providing detailed country surveys containing the analytical, statistical, and directory information for over 250 countries and territories.

Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center (DISCUS) is a career research database of jobs, skills and resources including:

• Information on more than 3,300 jobs and 94 industries, organized by the 16 career clusters created by the U.S. Department of Education
• Articles and videos providing advice on job applications, the interview process, professional behavior, career skills, and more
• Sample resumes and cover letters
• Searchable entries on scholarships, internships, fellowships, and more

LearningExpress Library (DISCUS) is a comprehensive collection of test-preparation tools, skill-building materials, and other career and life skills resources including:

• Practice tests for GED preparation, job and career goals, undergraduate and graduate school admission, and U.S. citizenship
• Focus on workplace skills such as resume building, interviewing, job search and assessment, business writing, and core computer skills
• Tools for improving proficiency levels in reading, writing, and math for elementary school learners through adults
• Interactive skill-building tutorials and 130+ e-book titles
• Features include timed tests, instant scoring and feedback, and individual user accounts for saving works-in-progress and completed tasks

Dissertations and Theses (ProQuest) is the world’s most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. The official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research. PQDT — Full Text includes 2.4 million dissertation and theses citations from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works.

American History in Video (Alexander Street Press) is a rich collection of videos available online for the study of American history which will include 2,000 hours of footage and more than 5,000 titles on completion of the collection. The collection includes commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.

Trial Databases

Please give these resources a try and send your comments to the Library Collections Coordinator, Natalia Taylor Poppeliers (nataliap@usca.edu)!

Springer Protocols is a comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed life sciences protocols with over 18,000 molecular biology and biomedical protocols, many from the classic series Methods in Molecular Biology. Trial ends October 30.

Requesting Library Purchases

The Library Collections Department relies heavily on faculty to aid in development of our library’s collection. We encourage all faculty members to make the library aware of book, periodical, and database titles that support the curriculum.

Each academic department has a departmental library liaison who distributes publication catalogs and reviews from Choice magazine to aid you in your selections.

Purchase requests can be submitted in the following ways:

• Send requests directly to the Library Collections Coordinator, Natalia Taylor Poppeliers (nataliap@usca.edu ; 803–641–3492 ; Box 37)
• Give requests to your departmental library liaison
• Complete the online book request form at http://library.usca.edu/index.php/Forms/BookOrderForm
• Print out and complete a book order form (pdf) and send to the Library Collections Coordinator (Box 37)

Note: Journal or database requests may require approval of your departmental chair due to the nature of the ongoing financial commitments associated with these items.

Thank you for helping us build a strong collection for USCA!

Donating to the Library Collection

The Library Collections Department is happy to receive donations of books and some academic journals. Please read the terms and conditions covered in the Deed of Gift Form (pdf) and fill out the form before donating your items. Materials that are not selected for addition to the collection will be offered to other USC campuses or donated to either the American Association of University Women for their annual book sale or to Better World Books. Both organizations use the proceeds from the sale of the books to further education and literacy in the U.S. and abroad. Contact the Library Collections Department before bringing your materials to the library so we may help you unload your donations.

Library Collections Team

Mattie Bennett Library Technical Assistant 803–641–3283 mattiebe@usca.edu Willie Mae Dumas Periodicals Supervisor 803–641–3284 WillieMaeD@usca.edu

Gertrude McRay Library Technical Assistant 803–641–3245 GertruM@usca.edu Natalia Taylor Poppeliers Library Collections Coordinator 803–641–3492 nataliap@usca.edu

Last modified on: November 18, 2009, at 08:38 AM