The Global Market Information Database (GMID) is now called Passport Reference.  Passport Reference contains the same information you’re used to locating in GMID:  in-depth industry profiles, market reports, and statistics for over 200 countries. Company profiles, product sector informaion, industry performance analysis, operating environments and economic outlook, consumer demographics, global and national perspectives. Includes 17,000 full-text reports.

Both titles will remain accessible on the Pollak Library’s Databases A-Z list until March 1, 2009.  After then it will be available only as Passport Reference.

The Greening of U.S. Corporations
Economic incentives for U.S. corporations to develop green technologies are examined. Initiatives undertaken by major companies–General Electric, Wal-Mart, Apple, Dupont–illustrate efforts to reduce impact on the environment through environmentally friendly ways of doing business. This report is from the U.S. Department of State and the Bureau of International Information Programs.

Classical Scores Library has just released 3,607 additional scores. Included in this release are works by 84 new composers, including Berlioz, Chopin, Cornelius, Glinka, Gretry, Loewe, Marenzio, de Lassus, Palestrina, Rameau, Rossini, Schein, Schubert, Schuetz, Sweelinck, Victoria, among others.  Classical Scores Library is a fully searchable database of online scores available to all CSUF people for download. This database is growing so keep checking for your favorite items. The collection includes works spanning time periods from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Coverage of score types is comprehensive, with full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and piano reductions. For more information see http://shmu.alexanderstreet.com/help/view/about_classical_scores_library.

Books checked out at the beginning of the year are becoming due about now. If you don’t know the due dates and want to find out or just want to keep them longer you can:
1. Bring them to the Circulation desk (where you checked them out) and they can renew them for you. You do remember where you checked them out right? First Floor South of the library.
2. Go online to the library home page and click “Renew Books” on the left side, type in your info and it will show you what you have checked out. Check the boxes of the books you want to keep and click the renew button. If you get a new date then they are renewed! If not you should bring them in to the library.
3. Call the Circulation desk at (714) 278-2721 and one of our Circulation staff will help.
Renewing books will keep you from paying any overdue fines on them and save your cash for mid-semester caffeine desperation.

Teachers and administrators are apparently drowning in data, according to the Dec 2008/Jan 2009 issue of Educational Leadership, leading most decision-makers to rely on a narrow set of metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of their schools, (Scherer, 2008).  Read this issue online in the Omnifile Full Text Mega database.

• Read Cherokee accounts of their experiences on the Trail of Tears.
• Study rare historical photographs of medicine ceremonies or ghost dances.
• Compare narrative styles using the actual audio recordings of Native American storytellers.
  

Primary source research into cultural, anthropological, and historical Native American topics now becomes a reality for Cal State Fullerton students through an amazing digital collection of autobiographies, biographies, Indian publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and audio files. The collections have been chosen for their ability give insight into the native point of view in the United States and Canada from the time of the earliest European settlers to the late 20^th century.

This new addition to the Pollak Library’s collection of primary source databases shares the powerful searching capabilities of other Alexander Street Press databases, ranging from the ability to locate information on specific individuals, eyewitness accounts of raids, battles, and other historical events, to mentions of specific species of wildlife, geographic formations, or natural phenomena, and drawings of huts, tools and other items of daily life.

North American Indian Thought and Culture was added in Summer 2008 and  is listed under Databases A-Z on the library homepage.

Faculty of 1000 Biology is a next-generation literature awareness tool that systematically highlights and reviews the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences field. Leading researchers select and evaluate any primary research paper, in any journal from any date. About 15% of the papers are from Nature, Cell and Science ; an additional 1,000 science journals are represented. Links to full text are provided for articles published by open access publishers and for journals available through CSUF subscription databases. FAQ’s.