Brown University Library News

The Library recently added 23,000+ ebooks to its collections. Subjects include business, economics, computers, technology, humanities, life and physical sciences, social and behavioral sciences, travel, and fiction. All books are cataloged in Josiah, the Library Catalog, and may also be found on the Library Web ebook collections page . More books will be added in the future. SAVE THE DATE: Library Eresources Fair at Faunce House on November 3. You could win an iPod! Please go ahead and start exploring these ebooks, and send any feedback you may have to Anne_Nolan@brown.edu. … Library Adds Thousands of E-Books

The Library has purchased a site license for the online full text of the Chronicle of Higher Education. With our new direct subscription, the Brown community has access to the full text of the Chronicle back to 1995, including the most recent issue.
The Chronicle is available through Josiah (Library Online Catalog), the Journals A-Z list on the Library Web. Off-campus users must log in via the VPN client or EZproxy.
The Library will continue to have a print copy of the Chronicle.
For more information contact: Anne Nolan

Electronic publications from the U.S. Government Printing Office are now available, fully cataloged and linked, in Josiah: 42,000 electronic books, 8,000 serials, and over 1,000 databases linking an additional 225,000 electronic publications. This is a growing collection, currently adding about 1,500 titles per month.
Access is available via author, title, subject, series number, etc., and, yes, the traditional Superintendent of Documents Number search works marvelously well. Interested in the wildfires that seem to plague our forests during the dry summer months? A quick subject search turned up over one hundred instantly available books and periodicals on the subject.
Long known as the world’s largest publisher, the U.S. G.P.O. is quickly becoming one of the foremost electronic publishers as well. To link this electronic content from our catalog, Brown partnered with Marcive, Inc. to acquire bibliographic and authority records for all U.S. government e-publications.
For more information contact: Samuel_Mizer@brown.edu