University of Nebraska Kearney

In Brief Online - February 6, 2009 

• New JSTOR Collections
  The library has purchased two new JSTOR collections:  Arts & Sciences V and Arts & Sciences VI. With this acquisition the library owns all eight of JSTOR’s interdisciplinary collections with over 880 titles.  Once the two new collections are finished, our JSTOR collections will include between 1,100 and 1,200 titles. JSTOR is one of the library’s most heavily used resources.  In 2007 there were 138,665 pages viewed from 61,988 articles.  Last year 141,210 pages from 63,622 articles were viewed. JSTOR is linked on the “General Indexes to all Subjects,” “Humanities Indexes,” “Natural Sciences and Technology,” and “Social Sciences Indexes” menus under  “Articles and Research Information” on the library home page.
  
  JSTOR is a top-quality archive of leading academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.   The cover-to-cover content always begins with volume 1, issue 1.  Although JSTOR, being an archive, does not contain the most recently published issues (past 2 to 5 years), the full-text of current issues for many titles is available in other databases such as Project Muse and Academic Search Premier.  To obtain information about individual titles, use the “e-Journals” link on the “Articles and Research Information” menu.
  
  
• Finding UNK Master’s Theses at the Library
  Two print versions of UNK theses are available through the library. One copy is kept in our circulating collection and the other is in the University Archives. Did you know that recent theses are also available digitally and in full-text through the library’s catalog?  The library has an agreement with ProQuest to make them available online. To find all of the theses held in the library, do a title search in the catalog for Theses:  University of Nebraska at Kearney (this is the title for the series). If the record has a Digital Media icon associated with it, the content is available digitally. Click on the Digital Media icon to get to a summary page which includes indexing information related to the thesis, including an abstract. To see the full-text, click on the Full Text – PDF icon on the far right of the summary page.
  
  
• New Location for the Library’s Special Collection 
  The Calvin T. Ryan Library’s Special Collection is a collection of about 2,400 cataloged items, primarily books, about the history of Nebraska, the Plains, and the West. Many of the items are rare and some of them are irreplaceable.  Unfortunately, due to a number of recent thefts, it has become necessary to provide protection for this collection by removing it from the public alcove on the library’s second floor and placing it inside the library’s Alice Paine Room.  The Paine Room is a secure storage facility with no public hours, and the move means that the Special Collection is no longer a “browsing” collection open to the public.
  
  These items can still be used, of course.  Materials in this collection are identified in the library’s catalog by the words “Special Collection” in the item’s location field.  Someone using the catalog can also limit the results of a subject search to items located in the Special Collection.  
  Once you have identified a Special Collection item that you wish to view, note the item’s call number and take it to the person at the reference desk. That library staff member will retrieve the item for you from the Alice Paine Room and see that it is checked out to you for two hours to use within the library.  Use of these items is limited to the library because of their rarity and, often, their delicate physical condition.
  
  
• Income Tax Forms
  Federal and Nebraska income tax forms and instructions are available on display racks on the second floor of the library near the atrium.  Federal forms include the 1040EZ, 1040A, 1040, various schedules, and numbered forms.  Copies of Publication 17, “Your Federal Income Tax for Individuals” are also available. Nebraska tax booklets for individuals are part of the display. Forms and instructions are online:  This link has the option of going to the IRS site or a site which has forms from every state.

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