{"title":"O’Reilly for Higher Education","authors":"Christina L. Hennessey","doi":"10.5260/chara.24.3.45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5260/chara.24.3.45","url":null,"abstract":"O’Reilly for Higher Education is a new online learning platform and branding on the topics of information technology and business, with a focus on academic materials. Books (e-books and audiobooks), videos, courses (live and on-demand), and online conference access are available\u0000 not only from O’Reilly but also from 250 other top publishers. With quality content that is easily searchable, readable, watchable, and listenable, and an intuitive and accessible interface on both a regular computer browser and mobile devices, this is an excellent choice for supporting\u0000 higher education students and faculty in their technology learning and research.","PeriodicalId":22397,"journal":{"name":"The Charleston Advisor","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76204770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gale Business: Insights","authors":"Jennifer A DeVito","doi":"10.5260/chara.24.3.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5260/chara.24.3.28","url":null,"abstract":"Gale Business: Insights is a comprehensive tool for business researchers looking for company, industry, and country information, supplemented by news, trade journals, academic articles, and reports. Company profiles include chronologies, brands, SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities,\u0000 and threats) reports, and financial performance data that can be analyzed using the database’s comparison and visualization tools.The interface promotes discoverability with multiple ways to access in-depth information about public and private companies, industries, and countries.\u0000 Academic researchers will benefit from the formatted citations and the ability to share and download content as well as highlight text and take notes. The product offers accessibility options such as text to speech, display formatting, and adjustable text.","PeriodicalId":22397,"journal":{"name":"The Charleston Advisor","volume":"78 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91498162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wiley Digital Archives Royal College of Physicians","authors":"Chana Kraus-Friedberg","doi":"10.5260/chara.24.3.58","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5260/chara.24.3.58","url":null,"abstract":"The Wiley Digital Archives Royal College of Physicians is a rich collection of primary sources for those interested in history of science or history of medicine. The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) was founded in 1518 and is the oldest medical college in England. Items in the collection\u0000 date from the fourteenth to twentieth centuries and include such sources as monographs on health research, public health reports, and doctors’ case books. Particularly useful and unique features of this product include the ability to download tabulated data from collection items as Excel\u0000 and CSV files and maps as TIFFs or GeoTIFFs, which can then be imported into GIS software. Documents are transcribed via ATR/OCR technology and can be downloaded in their original languages or translated into several others. The major weaknesses of the product are a glitchy interface and confusing\u0000 terminology/categories for the different document types. The search filters are also somewhat confusing. For those who are willing to deal with an interface and search engine that are less than ideal, the collection’s range and diversity may make it a good acquisition.","PeriodicalId":22397,"journal":{"name":"The Charleston Advisor","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90423293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CINAHL Ultimate","authors":"Dawn Behrend","doi":"10.5260/chara.24.3.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5260/chara.24.3.14","url":null,"abstract":"The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) Ultimate is a subscription aggregate health and allied health sciences database available exclusively from EBSCO. CINAHL Ultimate is the premier product in a lineup of five tiered versions, including CINAHL, CINAHL\u0000 with Full Text, CINAHL Plus with Full Text, and CINAHL Complete. The database is widely used by educators, students, researchers, and practitioners. CINAHL Ultimate is valued for its substantial indexing of publications core to the nursing and allied health field, use of the MeSH structure\u0000 for subject headings, and numerous options for advanced searching specific to the needs of the health sciences. The collection indexes more than 3,800 journals beginning in 1937, with 925 being offered full text from non‐open access journals and with a substantial number with no embargo.\u0000 In particular, the number of full-text, peer-reviewed journals with no embargo available from non‐open access sources is a significant upgrade from CINAHL Complete, and one that may very likely justify the additional investment. Value-added features include accredited continuing education\u0000 modules, evidence-based care sheets, and quick lessons. With contributing publishers from 73 countries, the majority hail from the United States and the United Kingdom. Some potential drawbacks for those considering CINAHL Ultimate may be the lack of video-based continuing education content\u0000 and source material beyond academic journals, as well as the limited emphasis on international perspectives; such perspectives may be more evident in competitors such as ProQuest’s Nursing & Allied Health Premium and MEDLINE Ultimate.","PeriodicalId":22397,"journal":{"name":"The Charleston Advisor","volume":"1997 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88186832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Explore Census Data","authors":"Peter Rogers","doi":"10.5260/chara.24.2.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5260/chara.24.2.18","url":null,"abstract":"Explore Census Data is the US Census Bureau's intended starting point for discovery of the data it collects through the decennial census and various other programs. It strives to be as user-friendly as possible and accessible to novice researchers and the general public. The sheer variety\u0000 of data sets, geographic scales, and variables resists the use of a simple Google-like interface and can be daunting to users without data experience. However, the quantity and quality of data available from the Census Bureau make spending some extra time or seeking assistance worthwhile.","PeriodicalId":22397,"journal":{"name":"The Charleston Advisor","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74626068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women's Studies Archives: Female Forerunners Worldwide","authors":"Erica L. England","doi":"10.5260/chara.24.2.60","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5260/chara.24.2.60","url":null,"abstract":"Women's Studies Archive: Female Forerunners Worldwide (hereafter FFW) contains primary sources that offer an examination of the social, political, and professional aspects of women's lives and their impact on society through social reform movements and organizations, popular culture,\u0000 and health care. The archive contains 21 collections comprising more than 680,000 pages; has a date range from 1741 to 2016; and includes international content from Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, as well as content from the United States. It is easily navigable and has the familiar layout\u0000 of Gale Primary Sources databases.","PeriodicalId":22397,"journal":{"name":"The Charleston Advisor","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87162005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The British Union of Fascists: Newspapers and Secret Files, 1933‐1951","authors":"Alison Ridgway","doi":"10.5260/chara.24.2.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5260/chara.24.2.5","url":null,"abstract":"The British Union of Fascists: Newspapers and Secret Files, 1933‐1951 is a collection of primary source resources relating to the British Union of Fascists (BUF), an infamous fascist and anti-Semitic political party formed by Sir Oswald Mosley in 1932. The collection includes\u0000 full runs of four BUF official publications (Action, The Blackshirt, The East London Pioneer, and Fascist Week), hundreds of scanned government and MI5 documents relating to the surveillance and eventual internment of Mosley and his wife, and personal writings by the Mosleys\u0000 and other prominent BUF members. Scanned from the original documents housed in the National Archives and digitized into high-quality images, these documents offer important insights into the rise of fascism in Britain during and after World War II for scholars of political history and propaganda.\u0000 Created by the British Online Archives (a primary source database owned by Microform Academic Publishers), the collection is well organized and easily navigable, with full-text search capabilities.","PeriodicalId":22397,"journal":{"name":"The Charleston Advisor","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74535106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hispanic Life in America Series 1: 1704‐1942","authors":"Lucy Rosenbloom","doi":"10.5260/chara.24.2.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5260/chara.24.2.28","url":null,"abstract":"Hispanic Life in America is a digital newspaper collection from Readex. Series 1 of the collection contains content published from 1704 to 1942 in US newspapers and covering the experience and impact of Hispanic Americans. A robust Suggested Searches tool groups content thematically\u0000 on the homepage and guides users through important events covered in the news.","PeriodicalId":22397,"journal":{"name":"The Charleston Advisor","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73215777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Global Plants","authors":"Jennifer A. King","doi":"10.5860/choice.51-0882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.51-0882","url":null,"abstract":"Access high-resolution plant-type specimen images from all over the world via JSTOR's Global Plants. The Advanced Search function will enable users to find the herbarium specimens they need. Current plant family synonyms and revisions need to be incorporated into this resource to make\u0000 it easier to search. Pricing is based on the Carnegie Classification.","PeriodicalId":22397,"journal":{"name":"The Charleston Advisor","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81455205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}