Blume Library expands its JSTOR offerings

As we continue to transition from primarily print to mostly digital formats for our periodicals and scholarly journals, the Blume Library is pleased to announce that we recently have purchased access to two additional JSTOR collections: Arts & Sciences Collection II and Arts & Sciences Collection III. Since 2009, the Blume Library has been purchasing access to JSTOR’s Arts & Sciences Collection I. JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that enables discovery, access, and preservation of scholarly content.

Articles from historical issues of more than 190 scholarly journals are included in Arts & Sciences Collection II. Selected journals and publications include African Affairs (1944-1999),  American Anthropologist (1888-2004), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (1970-2011), The Classical Review (1887-2006), The English Historical Review (1886-2001), Hesperia (1932-2008), The Hispanic American Historical Review (1918-1999), The Journal of Hellenic Studies (1880-2008), Journal of Peace Research (1964-2008), Political Theory (1973-2008), and Theory and Society (1974-2008).

Articles from historical issues of more than 220 scholarly journals are included in Arts & Sciences Collection III. Selected journals include American Art Journal (1969-2003), American Speech (1925-1999), Buddhist-Christian Studies (1981-2008), College Composition and Communication (1950-2008), Ethnomusicology (1953-2012), Folklore (1890-2006), The Jewish Quarterly Review (1888-2006), The New England Quarterly (1828-2008), Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 (1961-2006), South Atlantic Review (1981-2008), and Western Folklore (1947-2006), to name a few.

Explore the JSTOR collections and search or browse our complete journal collections at Locating Journals.

Find items in libraries near you

WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. WorldCat libraries are dedicated to providing access to their resources on the Web, where most people start their search for information. You can quickly determine whether the Blume Library or another local library has a particular book, DVD, or other item that you are seeking.

• Search many libraries at once for an item and then locate it in a library nearby
• Find books, music, and videos to check out
• Post your review of an item, or contribute factual information about it

Also, if you have a mobile device (smartphone or tablet) and the Red Laser app, using the WorldCat Search API, you can scan a bar code of a book and quickly find out if your local library has that book in their collection. Watch the video on the WorldCat site to learn more about this nifty feature!

Download netLibrary books to your eBook reader

Did you get an eBook reader recently? If so, did you know that you may be able to download selections from the library’s collection of 50,000+ NetLibrary eBooks onto your eReader?


All you have to do is connect to the Louis J. Blume Library’s website and click on Databases Listed Alphabetically. When you do, you will be able to click on NetLibrary. This will take to the NetLibrary website where you will be able to establish a free account with NetLibrary.

NOTE #1: Initially, you need to do this through the library’s website because Netlibrary uses our IP addresses to authenticate that you are connecting from a library that has purchased the collection. You may also do this from off campus by using EZ Proxy, the server that let’s all of our faculty and students log on to and check the library’s databases from off campus.

Procedure:
From the NetLibrary website, go to "Advanced Search."
Key in your search (by author/title/subject/keyword) and,
Before clicking on the search button, select "Downloadable eBooks."

You will be shown a list of downloadable eBooks that matches your search criteria.
When you get a list of books, click on "Show Details"
and then click on "Check Out & Download this eBook."

NOTE #2: Do have your eReader connected to your computer when you do this. The book will be downloaded into your "reader software" on your computer so you can transfer it to your hand-held device.

NOTE #3: NetLibrary checks books out to you and they will be unreadable on your eReader after 7 days. So, don’t download a whole bunch at one time.

NOTE # 4: NetLibrary is a scholarly collection of eBooks, so don’t look for bestsellers or works of fiction. Get those from the Sony store, Amazon, B+N.com, or other eBook vendors.

Since all of the downloadable eBooks are pdf files, they ought to work on a variety of eBook readers.

NOTE #5: Just another service provided by the Louis J. Blume Library.

Happy Techie New Year!

information provided by Dr. H. Palmer Hall, Director, Louis J. Blume Library, St. Mary’s University

Credo Reference

The Blume Library recently started a subscription to the Credo Reference database. This rapidly growing resource currently encompasses 446 full-text reference titles with over 3 million entries from 70 highly-respected publishers integrated in a robust search engine.

Credo Reference includes many unique interactive features such as dynamic table functionality for world, state, and county statistics, an interactive world atlas, flash animations, videos, poetry/literature readings, over 700 music files, and a critically-acclaimed concept map. It also contains more than 200,000 images from all subject areas, over 200,000 audio pronunciations, and a citation formatter in APA, MLA, and Chicago formats for all articles.

Library Journal included Credo Reference as one of two general reference resources selected among its 2008 Best Reference List.

Search Credo Reference for authoritative background information as you begin researching your topic!

Gale Virtual Reference Library

The Blume Library now provides access to the Gale Virtual Reference Library. Titles currently available include:

New Catholic Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia of Religion

Encyclopedia of Bioethics
Gale Encyclopedia of Science

American Women Writers
Feminism in Literature: A Gale Critical Companion
International Directory of Film and Filmmakers

Encyclopedia of World Biography
Encyclopedia of World Cultures
Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations

These fulltext reference works are now accessible 24/7 and via remote access to you wherever you and your computer are located. Articles can be emailed or printed.

All Gale Virtual Library titles can be searched at the same time or you can restrict your search to individual titles. The online format provides expanded search capabilities for difficult-to-find material.

Links to the Gale Virtual Library are available in the Blume Library's Catalog and on the library's website.