VIVA Announcements » Collections http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva The Virtual Library of Virginia Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:46:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 Product announcement for the DDA pilot is available http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?p=1916 http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?p=1916#comments Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:46:08 +0000 admin http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?p=1916 A new product announcement about the VIVA DDA pilot program is now available on the product announcement web page: http://www.vivalib.org/outreach/releases/index.html. Please feel free to adapt this for use on your campus.

]]> http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?feed=rss2&p=1916 Agenda set for Vendor Fair regarding VIVA's DDA for ebooks. http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?p=1781 http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?p=1781#comments Fri, 02 Nov 2012 20:09:37 +0000 admin http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?p=1781 The agenda has been set for VIVA’s Vendor Fair coming up on November 13th at VCU.  Registration is required and open, so please do so HERE if interested.   Details are also available on VENDOR FAIR page on the viva website.

VIVA
Vendor Demo Day for the Demand Driven Acquisitions RFP
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Virginia Room C/D of the University Student Commons Building
Virginia Commonwealth University
907 Floyd Avenue, Richmond, Virginia 23284

AGENDA

8:30 AM: Coffee
9:00 AM: Welcome and Introductions
9:15 AM: YBP (40 minutes for presentation, 30 minutes for Q&A)
10:25 AM: Break
10:40 AM: Ingram/Coutts (40 minutes for presentation, 30 minutes for Q&A)
11:50 – 12:35 Lunch
12:35 PM EBSCO (40 minutes for presentation, 30 minutes for Q&A)
1:45 PM Break
2:00 PM EBL (40 minutes for presentation, 30 minutes for Q&A)
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PM Wrap-Up
3:45 PM ADJOURN

]]> http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?feed=rss2&p=1781 VIVA Subscription Cancellation - American Journal of Psychiatry http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?p=1759 http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?p=1759#comments Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:53:59 +0000 admin http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?p=1759 VIVA will cancel the subscription to the American Journal of Psychiatry as of Dec. 31, 2012.

Legacy use data will remain available for this title on the VIVA statistics page, but no further statistics will be gathered after the subscriptions cancellation.

]]> http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?feed=rss2&p=1759 New Interface - Oxford Reference Online http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?p=1743 http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?p=1743#comments Mon, 24 Sep 2012 20:59:26 +0000 admin http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?p=1743 There’s a new look to Oxford Reference Online as of September 19th, 2012.

Users who prefer the old interface are given an option at the top of their site to revert back to their old site, which will remain available until December 12, 2012.

Further details on the rel-launch can be found here.

http://www.oxfordreference.com/newsitem/23/oxford-reference-has-relaunched

]]> http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?feed=rss2&p=1743 VIVA Request For Proposal (RFP) - Demand Driven Acquisitions for e-books http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?p=1712 http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?p=1712#comments Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:43:23 +0000 admin http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?p=1712 VIVA Procurement has issued and released our Request for Proposal on Demand Driven Acquisitions for e-books.
Responses are due back to JMU Procurement at 3pm on September 27th, 2012. All communication regarding this RFP is to be directed to JMU Procurement.

Schedule and contact information can be found on the VIVA 2012 RFP web page.

]]> http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?feed=rss2&p=1712 RUC Minutes posted http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?p=1679 http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?p=1679#comments Fri, 20 Jul 2012 14:47:06 +0000 admin http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?p=1679 The minutes for the May 30, 2012 Resources for Users Committee meeting have been posted: http://www.vivalib.org/ruc/index.php#minutes

The next RUC meeting, and the first of the 2012-2013 year, is scheduled for August 10th, 2012.

]]> http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?feed=rss2&p=1679 Titles added to PsycBooks, June 2012 http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?p=1668 http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?p=1668#comments Tue, 03 Jul 2012 18:47:23 +0000 admin http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?p=1668 A list of titles added to PsycBooks in June 2012 is available here: http://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/psycbooks/new-releases.aspx. This page is updated monthly with new titles.

]]> http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?feed=rss2&p=1668 Year-end statistics availability http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?p=1655 http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?p=1655#comments Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:58:14 +0000 admin http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?p=1655 Our vendors take up to a month, and occasionally longer, to provide us with use data. Given this lag time, we anticipate that the FY12 use data will be available by mid-August at the earliest. We will make an announcement when it is available.

Your institution’s use data can be downloaded at http://library.gmu.edu/vivasafe/stats.php. Data through March 2012 is currently available for download. We anticipate having data through May available by late next week.

Should you have any questions, please let us know.

]]> http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?feed=rss2&p=1655 Titles added to PsycBOOKs in May 2012 http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?p=1645 http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?p=1645#comments Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:47:43 +0000 admin http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?p=1645 PsycBOOKS added the following titles to its coverage list in May 2012.

MARC records can be downloaded in the APA admin module.

APA Books

  1. Bilingualism and cognition: Informing research, pedagogy, and policy, ©2011, by García, Eugene C.; Náñez, José. ISBN: 1-4338-0879-X
  2. Malpractice in psychology: A practical resource for clinicians, © 2011, by Shapiro, David L.; Smith, Steven R. ISBN: 1-4338-0895-1
  3. Self-regulation: Brain, cognition, and development, © 2011, by Berger, Andrea. ISBN: 1-4338-0971-0

Classic Books

  1. The anatomy and philosophy of expression, as connected with the fine arts (4th ed.), © 1847, by Bell, Charles
  2. The anthropological treatises of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, © 1865, by Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich; Bendyshe, Thomas (Trans.)
  3. Bockshammer on the freedom of the human will, © 1835, by Bockshammer, Gustave Ferdinand; Kaufman, A., Jr. (Cont.)
  4. Child psychology, © 1937, by Brooks, Fowler D.; Shaffer, Laurance F. (Col.)
  5. Cooperation and competition among primitive peoples, © 1937, by Mead, Margaret (Ed.)
  6. Critical and miscellaneous essays: To which are added a few poems ©1845, by Everett, Alexander H.
  7. De l’esprit: or, Essays on the mind and its several faculties, © 1759, by Helvetius
  8. A discourse upon the nature and faculties of man, in several essays: With some considerations upon the occurrences of humane life, © 1697, by Nurse, Tim
  9. Dissertation concerning liberty and necessity; containing remarks on the essays of Dr. Samuel West, and on the writings of several other authors on those subjects, © 1797, by Edwards, Jonathan
  10. Doctrine of the will determined by an appeal to consciousness, © 1840, by Tappan, Henry P.
  11. Elements of logick; or a summary of the general principles and different modes of reasoning © 1816, by Hedge, Levi
  12. The elements of moral science, © 1856, by Wayland, Francis
  13. Essay on instinct and its physical and moral relations, © 1824, by Hancock, Thomas
  14. An examination of the advantages of solitude; and of its operations on the heart and mind; with an enquiry into its prejudicial influence on the imagination and passions, Vol. 1 (transl. from German), © 1805, by Zimmerman, John George
  15. An examination of the late Reverend President Edwards’s ‘Enquiry on freedom of will’ © 1770, by Dana, James
  16. Experiments on the principle of life, and particularly on the principle of the motions of the heart, and on the seat of this principle, © 1813, by Le Gallois, M.; Nancrede, N. C. (Trans.); Nancrede, J. G.(Trans.)
  17. Father Malebranche, his treatise concerning the search after truth; to which is added the author’s treatise of nature and grace: Being a consequence of the principles contained in the search, together with his answer to the animadversions upon the first volume: His defence against the accusations of monsieur De la Ville, etc, relating to the same subject (2nd ed. corr.), © 1700, by Malebranche, Nicolas; Taylor, T. (Trans.)
  18. How to counsel students: A manual of techniques for clinical counselors, © 1939, Williamson, E. G.
  19. An inquiry into the self-determining power of the will; or, contingent volition, © 1838, by Day, Jeremiah
  20. Letters on the elementary principles of education, Vol. 1 (6th ed.), © 1818, by Hamilton, Elizabeth
  21. Miscellaneous reflections occasion’d by the comet which appear’d in December 1680: Chiefly tending to explode popular superstitions, written to a doctor of the Sorbon, Vol 1, © 1708, by Bayle, Pierre
  22. The moral characters of Theophrastus: To which is prefix’d A critical essay on characteristic-writings, © 1725, by Gally, Henry
  23. Of wisdome: Three bookes written in French, © 1658, by Charro, Peter; Lennard, Sampson (Trans.)
  24. Philosophical inquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful (4th ed.) [and] A vindication of natural society: or, A view of the miseries and evils arising to mankind from every species of society (3rd ed.), © 1766, by Burke, Edmund
  25. Principals of psychological examining: A systematic textbook of applied integrative psychology, © 1955, by Thorne, Frederick C.
  26. Pseudodoxia epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received tenents and commonly presumed truths (6th and last ed., corr. and enl.), © 1672, by Knight, Thomas Brown
  27. Sylva sylvarum, or, A natural history in ten centuries: Whereunto is newly added, The history natural and experimental of life and death, or of the prolongation of life (9th ed.), © 1670, by Bacon, Francis; Rawley, William (Ed.)
  28. A treatise of the hypochondriack and hysterick diseases: In three dialogues (2nd ed., corr. and enl.), © 1730, by Mandeville, Bernard
  29. The vanity of arts and sciences, © 1694, by Agrippa, Henry Cornelius
  30. The works of Charles Follen, with a memoir of his life, in 5 volumes, Vol. 3, © 1841, by Follen, Charles
]]> http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?feed=rss2&p=1645 VIVA Request for Information - Academic eBooks http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?p=1474 http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?p=1474#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:13:43 +0000 admin http://timesync.gmu.edu/viva/?p=1474 The Academic eBooks for the Virtual Library of Virginia RFI : RFI# 11-12-01-AME has been posted.

It can be found on the Resources for Users Committee page, or a direct link here.

Please note that ALL VIVA Communication between vendors and VIVA about this RFI must be handled through the JMU Procurement Office.

Responses are due at the JMU Procurement Office no later than 3pm February 22, 2012.

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