Cite & Byte Spring 1999 (Vol. 9, No. 2)

<CENTER> <STRONG><FONT SIZE=+4>Cite & Byte</FONT></STRONG><BR> <IMG SRC = "red_line.gif" WIDTH=100% HEIGHT=2></IMG> </CENTER> <TABLE WIDTH=100%> <TR> <TD COLSPAN=2 ALIGN=CENTER><FONT SIZE=-1>A Newsletter of the Reference Services Division, Olin·Kroch·Uris Libraries, Cornell University</FONT></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD ALIGN=LEFT><FONT SIZE=-1>Vol. 9, No. 2</FONT></TD> <TD ALIGN=RIGHT><FONT SIZE=-1>Spring 1999</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <CENTER><IMG SRC = "red_line.gif" WIDTH=100% HEIGHT=2></IMG></CENTER><P> <CENTER> <A TARGET="text" HREF = "#oxford">Oxford English Dictionary Now Available Campus-Wide!</A><P> <A TARGET="text" HREF = "#philo">Philosopher's Index on the Library Gateway</A><P> <A TARGET="text" HREF = "#endnote">EndNote Workshops</A><P> </CENTER> <CENTER><IMG SRC = "red_line.gif" WIDTH=100% HEIGHT=2></IMG></CENTER><P> <A HREF = "cb92only.htm" TARGET="_top">[text only version]</A><P> <A NAME = "oxford"></A><STRONG><FONT SIZE=+2>Oxford English Dictionary Now Available Campus-Wide!</FONT></STRONG><P> The second edition of the <I>Oxford English Dictionary (OED)</I>, the premier dictionary of the English language, is now available online to the Cornell community through the <A HREF="http://www.library.cornell.edu">Library Gateway</A>and the <A HREF="http://etext.library.cornell.edu/">Electronic Text Center Web site</A>. The <I>OED</I> contains over 500,000 definitions illustrated with 2.5 million quotations, an extensive source of information about the use and development of the language.<P> All 59 million words comprising the headwords, definitions, and quotations in the <I>OED</I>are fully searchable in this networked version. The text of the dictionary is encoded in Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) and searched using OpenText software recently acquired by the Cornell University Library. The software allows very rapid searching and retrieval of information. The bibliography of all the historical quotations, as well as the complete information in the etymologies and the text of definitions, is available for searching. It is possible to find a list of all definitions illustrated by quotations from the work of a particular writer, such as Chaucer.<P> The <I>OED</I> joins two other major collections -- the <A HREF="http://campusgw.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/connect.cgi?id=2100">Patrologia Latina</A> and <A HREF="http://campusgw.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/connect.cgi?id=2115">Goethes Werke</A> -- which were made available at Cornell in September 1998 by the Electronic Text Center with the assistance of the Library Technology Department, the University Librarian, and the SGML Server Program at the University of Michigan. The <I>Patrologia Latina</I> is a 221-volume collection of Latin documents. <I>Goethes Werke</I> is a complete collection of Goethe's writing in the Weimar edition.<P> The Electronic Text Center opened in October 1996 in Olin Library. The center contains hundreds of full-text titles of interest to scholars and students in the humanities and social sciences. The center is located in room 106G, Olin Library. For further information, contact Michael Engle, the Electronic Text Coordinator, at 255-1884 or <A HREF = "mailto:moe1@cornell.edu">moe1@cornell.edu</A>.<P> <EM U>Michael Engle, Electronic Text Coordinator<BR> <A HREF = "mailto:moe1@cornell.edu">moe1@cornell.edu</A></EM><P> <CENTER><IMG SRC = "red_line.gif" WIDTH=100% HEIGHT=2></IMG></CENTER><P> <A NAME = "philo"></A><STRONG><FONT SIZE=+2>Philosopher's Index on the Library Gateway</FONT></STRONG><P> For more than thirty years, <A HREF="http://campusgw.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/connect.cgi?id=2239">Philosopher's Index</A> has been the major print resource for secondary literature in philosophy and related interdisciplinary fields. Published by the Philosophy Documentation Center at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, <I>Philosopher's Index</I> provides indexing and abstracts from books and over 300 journals published in the U.S. and internationally. In the late 1970s, retrospective sets were issued which provided indexing back to 1940. And in the early 1990s, the retrospective and current indexes were released on one CD-ROM.<P> This rich resource is now available on the Library Gateway, allowing for networked access in the libraries as well as remote access for Cornell users in their offices or homes. Simply go to the <A HREF="http://www.library.cornell.edu">Library Gateway</A> networked resources page and type "philosopher's index" where it says "Enter keyword or database name." Students and researchers will find <I>Philosopher's Index</I> useful for the major areas of philosophy -- aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, and metaphysics -- as well as for material on the philosophy of various disciplines such as education, history, law, religion, and science. More specific areas of coverage include: metaphilosophy, philosophical anthropology, philosophy of language, political philosophy, and social philosophy.<P> The networked version of <I>Philosopher's Index</I> now includes nearly 220,000 records from the complete file dating back to 1940, with approximately 2,000 records added with each quarterly update. The only significant omission in the electronic version is the lack of book reviews, which remain only in the print edition.<P> The online index allows for both simple and more complex searching, as well as for limiting by language, the most recently added records, publisher, or document type (book or journal article). The sample record below, from a search on "physician assisted suicide," illustrates a typical result. When searching in <I>Philosopher's Index</I>, please remember that you will need to check the Cornell Library Catalog to determine if we own the item.<P> <EM U>Suzy Szasz Palmer, Reference Librarian<BR> <A HREF = "mailto:sms5@cornell.edu">sms5@cornell.edu</A></EM><P> <CENTER><IMG SRC = "red_line.gif" WIDTH=100% HEIGHT=2></IMG></CENTER><P> <A NAME = "endnote"></A><STRONG><FONT SIZE=+2>EndNote Workshops</FONT></STRONG><P> Everyone at Cornell has a large research project to do, don't they? If you do, you should consider the usefulness of a bibliographic management package such as EndNote.<P> A bibliographic management package allows a researcher to build a database of references for books, journal articles, and other materials related to their research. The software then allows for the easy use of this bibliographic information. The database can be quickly searched to find that exact article you want to tell a colleague about or a book citation for your student. A very powerful feature of bibliographic management packages is the generation of bibliographies from the database.<P> There are many competing programs in the area of bibliographic management, but EndNote is the emerging leader due to numerous enhancements in version 3.0. This version has the ability to connect directly to a number of databases, making it easy for researchers to build a database of relevant material for their research. EndNote also works well with many standard word processing programs. This makes it very easy to incorporate citations from your EndNote library into your dissertation or other academic writing. EndNote has over 300 citation styles included so you can choose among MLA, Chicago, Turabian, APA, and many more.<P> The Olin Kroch Uris Libraries Reference Services Division is currently offering workshops on how to manage bibliographic references using EndNote. These workshops are held in the Uris Library Electronic Classroom. In this hands-on setting, participants will learn how to build a database of bibliographic references from a variety of resources including library catalogs and periodical indexes. They will also explore EndNote's newest features which provide direct connections to resources, making it easy to import references and incorporate them in their writing by interfacing with a word processing program.<P> Workshops are offered on Thursday, April 22, from 2:30-4:30 p.m. and on Monday, May 10, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. For more information about these and other workshops or to register for one of the sessions please visit our Web site at <A HREF="http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/workshop.html"> http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/workshop.html</A>.<P> <EM U>Tony Cosgrave, Instruction Coordinator<BR> <A HREF = "mailto:ajc5@cornell.edu">ajc5@cornell.edu</A></EM><P> <CENTER><IMG SRC = "red_line.gif" WIDTH=100% HEIGHT=2></IMG></CENTER><P> <TABLE WIDTH="100%" > <TR> <TD ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT="50%"> <LI><A HREF="http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/" TARGET="_top">Reference Home Page</A></LI> </TD> <TD ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT="50%"> <LI><A HREF="http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/citebyte/citebyte.html" TARGET="_top">Cite and Byte home page</A></LI> </TD> <TD ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP ROWSPAN="2"><FONT SIZE=-2>URL:http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/citebyte/cb92.htm<BR> Martha Walker, editor, Cite & Byte [rev. 4/10/99]<BR> Amy Blumenthal and Ashley Lin, editorial assistants<BR> Olin·Kroch·Uris Libraries Reference Services Division </FONT></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT="50%"> <LI><A HREF="http://www.library.cornell.edu/" TARGET="_top">Library Home Page</A></LI> </TD> <TD ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT="50%"> <LI><A HREF="mailto:maw6@cornell.edu">E-mail the Editor</A></LI> </TD> </TR> </TABLE>