In the Spotlight

EndNote bibliographic software now available to Northwestern users

Managing the bibliographic minutiae of the scholarly process—book titles, author names, abstracts, page numbers, URLs, and even reading notes, graphs, and images—will now be easier for members of the Northwestern community. University Library, in collaboration with Galter Health Sciences Library, Pritzker Legal Resources Center, and the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, has acquired a sitewide license for EndNote, the popular bibliographic management program already familiar to hundreds of Northwestern students and faculty. Faculty, students, and staff on the Evanston and Chicago campuses can download EndNote and Northwestern’s EndNote Toolkit free of charge for home or office use. The software will also be available on hundreds of publicly accessible workstations across both NU campuses.

EndNote is software that resides on individual PCs and serves as a personal search tool, citation manager, and footnote, endnote, and bibliography formatter. It works closely with library databases such as WorldCat, Web of Science, MLA International Bibliography, and Historical Abstracts to gather and store citations in a personal library of information. It also allows a seamless and structured transfer of bibliographic information from hundreds of library catalogs worldwide, including NUcat, the Library of Congress, Harvard’s HOLLIS, and the University of California’s MELVYL.

When the user downloads citation information, EndNote recognizes and distinguishes all constituent parts, such as titles, personal names, and publication data, so that the structure of bibliographic information is not lost. This information can be inserted into footnotes in the proper format, used to create bibliographies on the fly, and even to provide a searchable database of abstracts, article excerpts, and reading notes, always tied directly to complete and accurate source citations. Northwestern’s EndNote Toolkit contains login and password scripts for restricted-access databases and the style sheets necessary to format bibliographies and footnotes. Both EndNote and the EndNote Toolkit can be downloaded at https://elms.e-academy.com/northwestern/.

“EndNote gives everyone in the Northwestern community a powerful tool to find, store, and output bibliographic information in many useful ways,” says David Bishop, University Librarian. “By making it easier to save and reuse bibliographic information, this software adds value to the Library’s resources and frees our user community to concentrate on what is really important: getting the most out of information sources of all kinds.”

University Library is now providing EndNote workshops open to students, faculty, and staff. Sessions will be held at both beginning and advanced levels to show how the software works and how it can be used with RefWorks, a web-based bibliography manager. The fall quarter workshop schedule is available at http://www.library.northwestern.edu/reference/workshops/index.html

For more information, please contact Jeffrey Garrett, Assistant University Librarian for Collection Management, at 7-5675 or jgarrett@northwestern.edu.

Making of Modern Law

The Pritzker Legal Research Center is pleased to announce its purchase of Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926. This resource "provides digital images of every page of 22,000 legal treatises on U.S. and British law published from 1800 through 1926." Full-text searching of the more than 10 million pages in the database is available. In addition to the database itself, we plan to make available within NUcat (the Library's online catalog) catalog records for all 22,000 titles.

Making of Modern Law is a complement to two other databases that have been purchased by the University Library in Evanston in recent years: Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (which provides "full-text searchable facsimile page displays of approximately 24,000 books published in Britain and its colonies during the 18th century" on a variety of subjects) and Evans Digital Edition, 1639-1800 (which provides "page images and searchable ASCII text from the ... Early American Imprints, Series I, based on Charles Evans' American Bibliography"). Together these 3 databases are making available on scholars' desktops a wealth of historical materials in law and law-related subject areas.

Announcing ARTstor

Northwestern subscribes to ARTstor Digital Library

Northwestern faculty, researchers, and students now have access to an art image database which combines the content of several highly respected collections, including the Mellon International Dunhuang Collection directed and assembled by Sarah E. Fraser, associate professor and chair of Northwestern’s Art History Department. The ARTstor Digital Library provides access to Fraser’s high-resolution images of Buddhist wall paintings and sculpture from Dunhuang, China, as well as to 300,000 digital images of world art, architecture, design, and other forms of visual culture.

Founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and available through University Library, ARTstor documents the artistic traditions of many time periods and cultures, providing images of important paintings, architecture, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design. ARTstor combines images and related data from the following collections:

· The Image Gallery. A collection of more than 200,000 images of world art and culture, created in response to representative teaching needs.

· The Art History Survey Collection. An art history survey collection comprised of 4,000 images from 10 standard art history texts.

· The Carnegie Arts of the United States Collection. A widely used collection of images documenting the history of American art, architecture, visual and material culture.

· The Huntington Archive of Asian Art. A broad photographic overview of Asian art from 3000 B.C. to present.

· The Illustrated Bartsch. A collection derived from a standard, multivolume reference source, The Illustrated Bartsch, which contains Old Master European prints from the 15th to the 19th centuries.

· The Mellon International Dunhuang Archive. A complete source of images documenting the architecture and wall paintings of the Buddhist cave shrines in Dunhuang, a key site on China’s ancient Silk Route. Working in collaboration with NUIT Academic Technologies, Professor Fraser used interactive photography, laser technology, and metadata to build this extensive image collection.

· The MoMA Architecture and Design Collection. A comprehensive collection of digital images representing the collections of the Department of Architecture and Design of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.

In addition, ARTstor recently reached an agreement with the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University, to distribute 30,000 high quality digital images from the Black in Western Art Research Project and Photo Archive. This research initiative is dedicated to investigating how people of African descent have been perceived and represented in art. The archive includes images from a prize-winning, four-volume series titled The Image of the Black in Western Art.

“We’re excited to join ARTstor as a charter member and to offer ARTstor’s comprehensive and specialized collections to the University community,” says Russ Clement, head of the Library’s Art Collection. “As the service develops and collections expand, ARTstor will become an indispensable image database for the study of visual resources.”

ARTstor is designed with software tools that allow users to zoom in on images, view two images side-by-side for comparison purposes, save groups of images online, add personal notes, and create presentations. “ARTstor has something for everyone,” says Clement. “Undergraduates can select, examine in minute detail, save, and download hundreds of thousands of digital reproductions of the world’s greatest art, designs, and architecture. Graduate students and faculty can customize image groups for presentations, research, and exams.”

Northwestern students and faculty can access ARTstor at http://www.artstor.org. To enter the digital library, users must click on the “Search and Browse for Images” link at the left side of the screen. One-time registration is required for full access to the database’s many features. For a Quick Start Guide and FAQs, click on “Help” at the top of the ARTstor page.

For more information on the ARTstor Digital Library, contact Russ Clement at 847-467-6471 or r-clement@northwestern.edu.

Fall Quarter 2004 Workshops

All sessions take place in the 2nd floor Reference Classroom (room 2699A in 2East) unless otherwise noted.

Comments or questions about the workshops? Please contact the Reference Department at refdept@northwestern.edu or 847-491-7656.

Monday, October 11 at 2:30 p.m.
RefWorks

Tuesday, October 12 at 3 p.m.
EndNote, Basic

Thursday, October 14 at 3 p.m.
Online Reference Bookshelf

Monday, October 18 at 3 p.m.
Effective Online Research

Tuesday, October 19 at 3 p.m.
International Statistical Resources

Wednesday, October 20 at 3 p.m.
Researching Companies and Organizations

Monday, October 25 at 3 p.m.
RefWorks

Tuesday, October 26 at 3 p.m.
Searching the Invisible Web

Wednesday, October 27 at 3 p.m.
EndNote, Basic

Thursday, October 28 at 3 p.m.
Beyond Northwestern