Database Trial: Historic Seattle Times

Looking for local news stories and advertisements about Jimi Hendrix, the famous guitarist born in Seattle? Try the digitized version of the Seattle Times that currently covers from 1896 through 1969. You can search for specific articles (see search example below) or browse through the newspaper page by page.

This digitized version of the Seattle Times is currently on trial until April 1st. Given the current budget situation it is not known if the libraries will be able to purchase this database so use it while you can. Please email your comments to me at jalbano@u.washington.edu


**Note: Off-campus access is restricted to current UW students, faculty, and staff. To access this trial database from off campus, follow these steps:

1. go to www.lib.washington.edu
2. click the "off campus access log in" button near the top right corner of the screen and log in using your UW NetID
   
3. under Find it, select E-Newspapers
4. go down to the list of news databases and select Early American Newspapers Series II
5. follow the search example above to limit your search to the Seattle Times
   

Database Trial: American History in Video

Do you know that these events happened on January 25, 1960?

DEMOCRATIC DINNER: spotlighting the four front-running Presidential hopefuls, Kennedy, Johnson, Humphrey and Symington; 20 DIE IN ALGERIA RIOTS; COAL MINE DISASTER: At Coalbrock, South Africa; NETHERLANDS FLOODS; 25 YEARS AGO: the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby.

View footage of these events and thousands of other rare newsreels that aired from 1929 through the 1960s; including the entire series of both Universal and United. You'll also find the historic Longine Chronoscope broadcasts and hundreds of hours of documentaries from leading producers such as The History Channel®.

This American History in Video collection is on trial through April 1, 2010. Given the current budget situation it is not known if the libraries will be able to purchase this collection so use it while you can.

Please email me at jalbano@u.washington.edu with any comments before March 1, 2010 as a proposal for funding will be submitted in mid-March. Your comments could be used in the proposal.

Publishing and Authors' Rights Discussion

Tuesday, February 23
10:30am to 12 noon
Odegaard Undergraduate Library (OUGL), room 220

Whether you are starting out as a new author or already have a long list of publications you should find our panel on publication and author's rights of interest. Panelists will discuss questions about publication practices, copyright transfer agreements and how authors can ensure that they keep appropriate rights to their work. Other possible topics are public access mandates for research that is federally funded and the UW Faculty Senate resolution on publishing alternatives and authors' rights. Bring your questions and learn how trends in scholarly communication are likely to affect your research and publication.

Participants: Dave Eaton, Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences & Associate Vice Provost for Research Clark Shores, Assistant Attorney General, Attorney General's Office

Inaugural Words: 1789 to the Present

The New York Times presents "Inaugural Words: 1789 to the Present," an interactive chart that looks at the "most-used words" in each inaugural address. The words appear in the chart, sized by number of uses.

Blackwell International Encyclopedia of Communication

Online access is now available to the Blackwell International Encyclopedia of Communication. A special thanks goes to the librarians at the UW Tacoma Library for purchasing the e-encyclopedia for researchers at all three UW campuses. Thanks to librarians in OUGL and Suzzallo Reference for paying the annual access fee.

*Be sure to use the Off-campus proxy bookmarklet before using this database from home.

12 titles added to Oxford Digital Reference Shelf

12 encyclopedias were added to our subscription to Oxford Digital Reference Shelf. Some titles may be of interest to students and faculty in Communication:

Oxford encyclopedia of rhetoric
Oxford encyclopedia of women in world history
Oxford encyclopedia of the modern world
Black women in America
Grove encyclopedia of materials and technology in art

Access will be available over the next few months. Until then, most of these are available in paper in a UW Library.

*Be sure to use the Off-campus proxy bookmarklet before using this database from home.

Spotlight: ProQuest Dissertations

ProQuest dissertations & theses full text (formerly Dissertation Abstracts, ProQuest Dissertations) provides citations to 2.4 million dissertations and theses written at U.S. universities from 1861 to the present. More than 1 million full text dissertations are NOW available to download in PDF format.

*Be sure to use the Off-campus proxy bookmarklet before using this database from home.