The CLIC Librarians' Newsletter
July 19, 2012 Volume 6, No. 2
This newsletter is produced by the CLIC librarians, Kay Buchanan and Carole Lohman for the Curry School of Education to support digital scholarship and research.
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NEW KINESIOLOGY STUDENTS AT CURRY
We want to welcome the new kinesiology first year students to Curry! We invite you to take advantage of all the U.Va. Libraries have to offer from resources such as books, videos, journals, to services such as printers, scanners, copiers, interlibrary loan, study spaces, room reservations, equipment reservations, and digital labs the U.Va. Libraries have to offer.

To help you with your kinesiology papers and research, The CLIC librarians developed this Kinesiology Research Subject Guide. Questions? The guide has contact information for the CLIC librarians via email, telephone, chat, and phone. And you can always come to our offices in the CLIC to discuss your research needs in person.

 NEW HANDBOOK
Title: Routledge Handbook of Applied Sport Psychology
Location: The CLIC
Call Number: GV706.4 R68 2010
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 NEW HANDBOOK
Title: Routledge International Handbook of Teacher and School Development
Location: The CLIC
Call Number: LB1025.3 .R68 2012
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  NEW HANDBOOK
Title: Handbook Of College and University Teaching: A Global Perspective
Location: The CLIC
Call Number: LB2331 .H3148 2012
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The American Periodicals Online database features special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals published between 1740 and 1940. The articles are about education, history, religion, politics and more and, as such, is a great resource for discovering information for your research papers on those topics.

 PUBLISH!
The Association for the Advancement of Computing In Education (AACE) is now taking submissions for all of their publications. Click here for author guidelines.

JOURNAL IMPACT FACTORS
Journal authors are often encouraged to submit their manuscripts to a journal with a high impact factor. The impact factor is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field, with journals with higher impact factors deemed to be more important than those with lower ones. Where are impact factors reported? The most well known impact factor is provided by the database, Journal Citation Reports, published by Thomson Reuters. SCImago is another resource for impact factors. It is based on the Elsevier Publishing Company's Scopus database. Yet another resource is the Eigenfactor Project™ which is a non-commercial academic research project sponsored by the Bergstrom Lab in the Department of Biology at the University of Washington. You can find a journal's Eigenfactor from the Eigenfactor web site or through the Journal Citation Reports which also gives the Thomson Reuter impact factor.

  SWEET!
TED Books are short original electronic books produced every two weeks by TED Conferences. Like the best TEDTalks, they're personal and provocative, and designed to spread great ideas. TED Books are typically under 20,000 words — long enough to unleash a powerful narrative, but short enough to be read in a single sitting. Download the TedBOOKs app!

NeatLine is a new digital humanities tool that lets scholars merge maps, timelines, archives and artifacts to create online narratives that debuted this week at the University of Virginia.

Neatline is online software created by the Scholars' Lab in the U.Va. Library, and its creators hope it'll be a valuable new publishing and teaching tool for humanities scholars across disciplines. Neatline is available as a free download.

  OPEN ACCESS GUIDE
Are you considering publishing an article in an Open Access journal? Have you been asked to be the editor of an Open Access journal? Not sure how to evaluate your options? The Science-Technology division of the Special Libraries Association has developed an open access guide, to assist researchers in making informed decisions about their open access options.

HOOS YOUR  
Throughout the semester, we will be highlighting information about finding, organizing, analyzing, managing, displaying, and preserving your research data. See this week's featured data information below.

FREE eTEXTBOOK ON DATA SCIENCE
An introduction to an emerging professional specialty in the information field, data science, is the crux of a new open source e-book, Introduction to Data Science by Jeffrey M. Stanton. Download a copy! The iTunes version (with interactive features, including quizzes readers can use to assess their knowledge, is located on Apple’s iTunes store [free].

  NEW DATA REPORT
NCES released the report, Postsecondary Institutions and Price of Attendance in 2011-12; Degrees and Other Awards Conferred: 2010-11; and 12-Month Enrollment: 2010-11. It reports the average tuition and required fees at 4-year public institutions (after adjusting for inflation) increased more for in-state students (9 percent increase) than for out-of-state students (6 %increase).... more.

TumbleBooks is an online collection of animated, talking picture books. They can be enjoyed on any computer. Some titles are now available for iPads.

The Jefferson Madison Regional Library contracts with Tumblebooks to provide access to the collection for its patrons. Click here to access the Tumblebooks which the Jefferson Madison Regional Library. NOTE: Once you are connected, click on the KIDS and TEENS link in the left column and then, select TUMBLEBOOKS. You may need to login with your JRML library card registration number if you are off-Grounds. Click here to access information about how to register for a JMRL library card.

The TumbleBook Library is a collection of licensed titles from children's book publishers such as Simon & Schuster, Chronicle Books, Candlewick Press, Charlesbridge Press, Harcourt, Little Brown, Walker & Company, Lerner Books, and HarperCollins Publishers, amongst other.