Research Matters

E-Books from Yale University Press

More than 750 titles from Yale University Press are now available to the Yale community in digital form through the Library's subscription to NetLibrary.  Robert Orsi's The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950, Robert Dahl's Democracy and its Critics, and Opera in America: A Cultural History by John Dizikes are just a few of the books available online.

Records for each one of these titles will soon be available in Orbis, the Library's online catalog; in the meantime, Yale affiliates can see a complete list by visiting the Library's website, clicking on Databases & Article Searching and on the letter "N", then scrolling down to NetLibrary.  Once in the database, click on "Advanced Search" and look for Yale University Press.  The full text of the book is searchable.

YUP and The Library plan to make some 2,000 books available digitally over the next few years.

Questions and comments can go to smlref <at> yale.edu.

Medical Library: Auteurs Wanted

Yale's Cushing/Whitney Medical Library is sponsoring a contest for students.  Submit a short video describing what you like about Yale Links:

Then submit it to the Yale Links Group on Youtube.  The contest runs through December.  The winner will receive an iPod Touch.

What is Yale Links?  This page will tell you.  For more information about the contest, see this page.  Questions can be directed to Lynn Sette.

Cross Campus Intensive-Use Collection

    The CCL intensive-use collection is a high-use, browsing collection of approximately 150,000 items in support of most disciplines taught in Yale College. The collection contains:

         - Reserve material (We retain these items for 5 years after their last semester on reserve.);
         - Works identified by subject specialist librarians or our approval plan as potentially high-use;
         - Definitive or standard works of a discipline or literature related to the Yale College curriculum, past and present;
         - Works offering a broad and sometimes popular presentation of a discipline;
         - Works by an author who is a current faculty member of Yale College; and
         - Heavily used works as verified by the Library's Collection Analysis Tool or Voyager circulation module.

    The collection will be weeded on a regular basis in order to keep it around 150-160,000 items.  In most cases, titles will be removed because they are infrequently used with the exception of the authorized editions of writings by significant authors.  These works, mostly in English, will be kept in the intensive-use collection as a body of reference material for faculty and students.
    If you have any comments about the CCL intensive-use collection or would like to suggest the addition of specific works, please post to this blog or contact  Alan Solomon at alan.solomon@yale.edu.