Previous Announcements

GENERAL

January 2007

• The Commonwealth's mileage rate has been increased to $0.485/mile as of January 1, 2007. See the VIVA Travel Memo (1/10/07)

October 2006

• The Steering Committee has approved the cost-sharing plan to license Blackwell Journals. Member institutions should fax their intent to participate to the VIVA central office, reconcile their list of 2006 print subscriptions with the Blackwell office, and contact their subscription agents if they intend to cancel print or continue print titles at a discount. We hope to provide participants with a final tally of costs in mid-November. (10/26/06)

September 2006

• Please welcome Tansy Matthews, the new VIVA Associate Director to VIVA, as of 9/11/06.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library Now Available  read more
• Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection Now Available  read more

June 2006

• The Regional RUC Training Sessions information is on the web. (6/16/06)
• Job Search is open for VIVA Associate Director: see job description (position # FA464z). Applications will be reviewed beginning June 15, 2006.

May 2006

• The VIVA RUC Training Subcommittee is planning training on several databases this July. Sessions will be on July 24 at the Roanoke Higher Education Center; July 25 at George Mason University; July 26 at Randolph-Macon College; and July 27 at Hampton University. Please note the location closest to you and plan to attend. Registration and agenda will follow in the next few weeks. (5/12/06)

January 2006

• ILL Community Forum call for suggestions extended to March 3, 2006. Information & Registration. (2/22/06)
• The ILL Community Forum will be held on Friday, July 21, 2006, at Sweet Briar College.  Details will follow.  (1/25/06)
• The VIVA Steering Committee Retreat is scheduled for July 12-13 in Blacksburg, followed by the LAC meeting on July 14, 2006, in Radford (1/25/06)
• New www.vivalib.org design (1/5/06)
• 4 new IOP Journals added (1/1/06)

December 2005

• The VIVA Steering Committee approved the membership of the returning Jefferson College of Health Sciences (formerly the College of Health Sciences), Roanoke, as a private nonprofit college member.  (12/8/05)
• The VIVA Steering Committee recognized the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research as a facility for VIVA members in Danville, and endorsed the work there to support the south side of Virginia. (12/8/05)
• The VIVA Steering Committee approved the following new acquisitions (12/8/05)
  • Gale Reference ebooks (15)
  • 130 Oxford Reference Online Premium
• The VIVA Steering Committee approved the following product renewals (12/8/05):
  • ABC-CLIO
  • Cambridge University Press Journals
  • Encyclopaedia Britannica
  • HighWire Journals
  • Journal of Advanced Nursing (Blackwell)
  • LexisNexis Statistical
  • Oxford University Press Journals
  • Science
• Electronic votes were conducted during the previous quarter and renewals were approved for Project Muse journals and the Institute of Physics current journals.  (12/8/05)
• The VIVA Steering Committee requested further negotiations on the Stat-USA renewal.  (12/8/05)
• Dave Hayes (Radford) will chair the Virginia Heritage Project Task Force and John Jaffe will continue to assist the task force as an ex officio member.  (12/8/05)
• Dan Wilson (UVA-Health) is the new chair of the Resource Sharing Committee's ILL Subcommittee.  (12/8/05)

September 2005

• The VIVA Steering Committee approved the renewals for the following products (9/29/05):
• American Mathematical Journals
• MathSciNet database
• American Chemical Society Journals
• CIAO
• Galenet and LRC
• CRC Handbook & EngNetBase
• LexisNexis Congressional
• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
• Factiva
• Association of Computing Machinery
• Vendor Help Pages for Gale, Factiva, and LexisNexis have been brought up to date. (9/29/05)
• New Committee assignments are posted. Robin Benke was elected to serve a 2-year term (July1, 2005 - June 30, 2007) on the Steering Committee. John Euliano will replace Ruth Kifer for GMU and Cyril Oberlander replaces Jean Cooper for UVA on the Resource Sharing Committee. Frank Moran has replaced Sherle Abramson on the Resources for Users Committee. (9/29/05)
• Electronic votes were held for these products (9/27/05):
• Vote on June 2, 2005: RFP for general databases CINAHL, PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, ERIC, and Medline awarded to EBSCO. Vote on June 30, 2005: New Acquisition of Oxford English Dictionary. Vote on July 15, 2005: Renewal of BioOne journals.
• Updates to the VIVA Contacts Directory are now posted weekly. Please contact Eric if you want to request changes. (9/27/05)
• VIVA has awarded the contract for PAIS and EconLit to CSA. All public institutions and the participating private collegesand universities will have access no later than Thursday, July 7, 2005. Go to CSA's "Create a Login Link" page <http://www.csa.com/ids70/admin_profile.php?tabref=admin_opts&pageref=login_link> to set up access. If you need help with your userid and passwords, pleasecontact support@csa.com or Chris Chandler. (7/16/05)
• EBSCO has been awarded the VIVA contract for CINAHL, PsycINFO, PsycArticles, ERIC, and Medline. (6/23/05)
• Eric Rector will begin as the VIVA Associate Director on July 14, 2005. Eric has worked at the University of Maryland Baltimore County for thepast seven years, most recently as Assistant Head of Reference and the Web Services Librarian. (6/20/05)
• Most VIVA Contracts are loaded on our secure web site. Contact your VIVA user services or collections contacts if you don't know the userid or password. (3/31/05)
• We are searching for an Associate Director to assist with VIVA's ongoing projects and services. See the job description for more information. Please apply online for position #FA 464z at http://jobs.gmu.edu.
• The page on the RFP schedule and all links about the RFP has been posted to the web. (3/16/05)
• The RFP for electronic databases and e-journals has been posted. All questions regarding this proposal must be referred to the VIVA Procurement Officer, Irs Moubrary, email: moubraim@jmu.edu, 540/568-3132. (3/8/05)
• VIVA's Vendor Demonstration for the RFP is set for Wednesday, May 11,2005, at VCU. More details will follow.(2/17/05)
• Both the House and the Senate have introduced bills (HB 2866 and SB 1327) that would exclude higher education's sole source procurements from any transaction fees if the vendor has not registered in the eVAsystem. (2/10/05)
• Ariel Global Upgrade Schedule - Infotrieve has announced that they willhave a single "hot cutover date in the summer. If we are unable to resolve the compatibility issue, we arecommitted to a July 14, 2005 hot cutover date for Ariel 4. This will eliminate a rolling upgrade plan based ongeography".(1/25/05)
• Ariel 4.0 software was mailed a few days ago. Please remember that theResource Sharing Committee recommends that VIVA members NOT install the software immediately. Please watch fornews on the ILL listserv. Further information about Ariel may be found on the VIVA Resource Sharing webpage. No payments are necessary. This software ispaid for with the VIVA central funds -- for all public and all private nonprofit members. (1/21/05)
• The Steering Committee voted to acquire CRC and EngnetBase. (12/13/04)
• The Steering Committee approved the RUC recommendation to acquire IOP Journals through a cost sharing arrangement with the current subscribers for 2005 and 2006. VIVA will pick up thetotal cost in 2007.
• Ralph Alberico's Charleston Conference presentation is on the web. (11/9/04)
• VIVA celebrated The First 10 Years on Thursday, September 30, 2004 withan afternoon conference entitled: "Success has Many Fathers and many Mothers of Invention!" A panel chairedby Charlene Hurt (the First Steering Committee Chairperson) featured some of VIVA's founders: Carol (Pfeiffer)Allen, Donald Finley, Nancy Marshall, and Dennis Robison. Harry Kriz (Va Tech) spoke on "VIVA's First 10 Yearsof Interlibrary Loan". Jim Self (UVA) spoke on "Electronic Resources and VIVA; A Virtual History".Kathy Perry announced the Director's 12 "Unsung Heroes":
  • Peter Blake, Deputy Secretary of Education
  • Robert Lambeth, President, Council of Independent Colleges of Virginia
  • Iris Moubray, JMU Procurement
  • Harry Kriz, Va Tech, for service to ILL
  • Doug Hurd, UVA, for service to ILL
  • Jean Cooper, UVA, for service to ILL
  • Jim Self, UVA, for service on statistics and assessment
  • Sharon Gasser, JMU, for service on the Resources for Users Committee
  • Pat Van Zandt, W&M, for service on RUC and as chair of the Training Subcommittee
  • Curtis Carr, VA Tech, for service managing the VIVA listserv
  • Mack Lundy, W&M, for service managing the VIVA IP addresses
  • John Duke, VCU, for service in a wide range of technical issues, includingserving as VIVA webmaster for 10 years.

  Over 100 people attended the dinner in Williamsburg sponsored by CambridgeScientific Abstracts, R.R. Bowker, Ovid Technologies, Inc., and Thomson Gale. (10/4/04)

• VIVA's new domain name is www.vivalib.org. Many web pages will continue to be managed directly by VIVA members at participating schools and those URLs are unlikely to change in the near future. (7/16/04)
• As of July 1, 2004, the college formerly known as Mary Washington College officially became the University of Mary Washington. See the current and official list of VIVA members.(7/1/04)
• Saint Paul's College is no longer one of the VIVA members. (6/7/04)
• The VIVA Organization Plan was revisedand approved by the LAC on 9/12/2003. (2/23/04)
• The 2002-03 annualized FTE numbersfor VIVA members are posted. (12/18/03)
• VIVAhas just added Mechanical and Transportation Engineering Abstracts (MTEA) to the group of databases available fromCambridge Scientific Abstracts.    MTEA provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the serialsliterature in mechanical and transportation engineering and their complementary fields, including forensic engineering,management and marketing of engineering services, engineering education, theoretical mechanics and dynamics, andmathematics and computation. This database provides in depth, comprehensive coverage of the international engineeringliterature with the monitoring of over 2,600 serial titles as well as numerous non-serial publications.  Datesof coverage are 1966 to the present, with almost 500,000 records currently available.  MTEA continues coverageformerly provided by Mechanical Engineering Abstracts, which ceased in 2002 but is still available through CSA. (12/12/03)
• The VIVA Steering Committee approved the acquisition of a new domainname -- details soon. (12/8/03)
• Effective November 12, 2003, VIVA is no longer exempt from eVA. (12/8/03)
• The VIVA Contacts Directory hasbeen brought up to date for most VIVA members and is available on the web as a WORD document. Directors are askedto please direct any further changes to the Lisa. Please note that our newest mebers, [the Edward Via] Virginia College of OsteopathicMedicine has been added. It is filed as "Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine" and is referred toas VCOM. (10/29/03)
• OVID's new policy allows VIVA members to use OVID journals for e-ILL if we print the article first. See the Resource Sharing Web site for our page on ILL Provisions in VIVA contracts.(10/10/2003)
• VIVA received the Governor's Technology Gold Award for Government Service in Higher Education at the Commonwealth of Virginia Information Technology Symposium (COVITS) on September 22. Innominating VIVA, Dr. Carl Kelly, Chair of the State Council of Higher Education of Virginia stated: "In ouropinion, VIVA represents the single most important technological development in Virginia higher education in thepast decade; moreover, we believe that VIVA is one of the most significant developments of any kind in Virginia government over this period. We are convinced that recognition of VIVA -- for its innovation, its results and itsefficiency -- is not only long overdue, but also very appropriate at this time, as it enters its tenth year ofexistence having recently surpassed $100M in cost avoidance for the Commonwealth." (9/23/2003)
• Due to Hurricane Isabel's disruptions, the MLA Training sessions previously scheduled for ODU have been postponed.The sessions scheduled to be held on Wednesday, September 24, at JMU will proceed as scheduled. Because the Williamand Mary server is down, a revised information page has been posted on the GMU server at this URL: http://www.gmu.edu/library/fen/viva/mlatrpagerev.html. The participants for the MLA Training are listed on the web http://www.gmu.edu/library/fen/viva/mlapar03.html.(9/22/03)
• The Nature contract is signed. All VIVA public institutions now have access to the journal Nature, the Nature Research Journals,and the Nature Review Journals. The private college members are able to participate on an elective basis. The acquisitionof these new journals for VIVA members was made possible by earlier product cancellations. The titles are:

  Nature: http://www.nature.com/nature/
  
  Nature Research Journals (8 journals):
  Nature Biotechnology: http://www.nature.com/nbt/
  Nature Cell Biology: http://www.nature.com/ncb/
  Nature Genetics: http://www.nature.com/ng/
  Nature Immunology: http://www.nature.com/ni/
  Nature Materials: http://www.nature.com/nmat/
  Nature Medicine: http://www.nature.com/nm/
  Nature Neuroscience: http://www.nature.com/neuro/
  Nature Structural Biology: http://www.nature.com/nsb/

  Nature Reviews (6 journals):

Nature Reviews Cancer: http://www.nature.com/nrc/
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery: http://www.nature.com/nrd/
Nature Reviews Genetics: http://www.nature.com/nrg/
Nature Reviews Immunology: http://www.nature.com/nri/
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology:
http://www.nature.com/nrm/
Nature Reviews Neuroscience: http://www.nature.com/nrn/ (8/1/03)

• TheBowker contract is signed. All VIVA public colleges and universities now have access to Global Books in Print with Reviewsand the Ulrich's Web and SerialsAnalysis. The private colleges and universities are able to subscribeon an elective basis to the Gloabal Books in Print with Reviews, the Books in Print with Reviews,or the Ulrich's Web and Serials Analysis System. (8/1/03)
• We have completed the RFP process for the Modern Language Association(MLA) International Bibliography and we have awarded the contract to the Gale Group. The product is available toall public colleges and universities and all private nonprofit VIVA members. The new URL for MLA is http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/?db=MLA. Special thanks are due the VIVA MLA RFP Committee Members for their excellent work in a very tight timeframe:Paul Metz (Virginia Tech) who served as the chairperson, Karen Cary (VCU), John Tombarge (Washington & LeeUniversity), and Iris Moubray (JMU/VIVA Procurement Officer). (7/31/03)
• The WORD Document for the VIVA Contacts Directory is nowlinked from the ABOUT VIVA page, under "Communication". This is a WORD document. Please send correctionsand updates to Kathy Perry or Lisa Wight (ewight@gmu.edu). (7/14/03)
• The Institute of Textile Technology has relocated to the CentennialCampus at North Carolina State's College of Textiles and is no longer a member of VIVA. VIVA's membership currently includes 39 public institutions, 29 non-profit independent institutions, and the Library of Virginia. (7/1/03)
• Media Review Digest added to FirstSearch. See OCLC's Media Review Digest Press Releasefor more information. (6/7/2003)
• Complete information about the MLA RFP is available on theweb. Information about the MLA RFP Trials is available for the 3 vendors (Gale, OCLC, and OVID).Please evaluate the 3 products before June 20, 2003. (5/29/03)
• On May 2, 2003, VIVA received Solinet's Outstanding LibraryProgram Award for exceptional accomplishment in Preservation and Electronic Information for our Virginia Heritage Project. Congratulationsto all Task Force members and all participants. The beautiful [http://www.viva.lib.va.us/viva/collect/va_heritage_award03.html] plaque is hanging in Elsie StephensWeatherington's (the Dean of Libraries at Virginia State University and the former Chair of the Virginia HeritageProject Task Force) office, but you can see it on the web. (5/13/03)
• VIVA has issued a Request for Proposals for the MLA International Bibliiography Database. All inquiries for information and clarification should be directed to: IrisMoubray, C.P.M., VCO, Senior Buyer, (Phone) 540/568-3132 (Fax) 540/568-7935, not later than five business daysbefore the proposal closing date. Sealed responses will be received until 3:00 p.m. EDT on May 13, 2003. (4/10/03)
• The VIVA Virginia Heritage Project has been selected as the Solinet2003 Outstanding Library Programs Award in the area of Preservation and Electronic Information. Dr. Elsie StephensWeatherington, the former chair of the task force, will accept the award for VIVA at the May 1-2, 2003 Solinetannual membership meeting. (4/7/03)
• The excel chart of the private institutions' subscriptionsto VIVA products is posted on the web on the secure server and will be updated as often as necessary. The VIVAuser id and password (the same ones we use to get to the VIVA stats and training information) are required to gainaccess to this chart. (3/20/03)
• The Annualized FTE (Full Time Equivalent) studentsfor all VIVA schools was 292,125 in 2001-2002 (the most recently completed year). (1/22/03)
• In addition to the budget cuts of $126,700 foreach year of the 2002-04 biennium announced in spring 2002, the VIVA budget was cut an additional $458,219 and$69,692 for the 2002-03 year only. (12/20/02)
• The SCHEV Library Advisory Committee unanimously adopted a Resolution on the Impact of VIVA Budget Cuts and this resolution has been conveyedto the SCHEV Council. (9/17/02)
• As of July 1, 2002, Longwood College is Longwood University. (7/8/02)
• VIVA will cancel subscriptions and reduce access to journals and databasesin the coming months to deal with the projected $850,000 shortall over the next biennium. See the VIVA budget update page formore information. A WORD version is also available for distribution locally. (6/21/02)
• The list of VIVA members has changed slightly-- there are now 30 private non-for-profit colleges and universities participating in VIVA. The revised FTE for 2000-01 (the most recently available numbers) for all VIVA members is now 281,311. (4/10/02)
• Sen. Marye and Sen. Houck have submitted amendments (Item 166 #1s andItem 166 # 2s) to restore VIVA's base funding in each year of the next biennium. (2/8/02)
• Del. Phillips has introduced an amendment (Item 166 #2h) in the HouseAppropriations to restore VIVA's base funding in each year of the next biennium. (2/8/02)
• Governor Warner has introduced an amendment (Item 166 #1g) to restoreVIVA's base budget in each of the fiscal years of the 2002-04 biennium. (2/8/02)
• Governor Gilmore's proposed budget cuts VIVA's annual budget by $426,270each year for the 2002-2004 biennium. This cut, along with the possibility of no additional funds for annual priceincreases (due to inflation or increased enrollments), will make severe cuts to VIVA's electronic resources inevitable.(1/3/2002)
• TheOVID PsycArticles database is now available for the 57 participating VIVA subscribers. OVID Jumpstarts for PsychArticleshave been added as a service to our members. (10/12/01)
• 6 Wilson databases on FirstSearch will no longer provide abstracts forper search users as of October 14, 2001. Their names are also changing to reflect this changed content. If youprovide automated access via WebScripts or IP address recognition to the per-search versions of these databases,you will need to adjust your scripts as follows:

  
  Current Name: Applied Science & Technology Abstracts
  New Name:Applied Science & Technology Index
  New ShortName, for scripts: AppSciTechInd
  
  Current Name: Art Abstracts
  New Name: Art Index
  New ShortName, for scripts:ArtIndex
  
  Current Name: Education Abstracts
  New Name: Education Index
  New ShortName, for scripts: EducationIndex
  
  Current Name: General Science Abstracts
  New Name: General Science Index
  New ShortName, for scripts: GenSciIndex
  
  Current Name: Humanities Abstracts
  New Name: Humanities Index
  New ShortName, for scripts: HumanitiesIndex
  
  Current Name: Social Sciences Abstracts
  New Name: Social Sciences Index
  New ShortName, for scripts: SocialSciIndex

• The VIVA FTE for 2000-2001 are posted on the ABOUT VIVA page, under the MEMBERS. (10/10/01)

  	PUBLIC Institutions
  	All 4 Year Schools	154,263
  	All 2 Year Schools (VCCS and Richard Bland College)	83,902
  TOTAL PUBLIC Institutions			238,165
  INDEPENDENT Institutions			44,232
  TOTAL VIVA ANNUALIZED FTE, 2000-2001			282,397

• The Schev Council approved VIVA's proposal for additional funding inthe 2002-04 biennium. (9/13/01)
• The participants list for the VIVA Training Forum is up on the web.Please note that space is limited and this is designed to be a "Train the Trainer" function. Each schoolshould place the names of registrants in a Priority list. We will waitlist all names beyond the first 2 for eachschool. (7/3/01)

  MEETING NAME	Committee	DATE	Further Information	List of Participants	TO REGISTER
  VIVA Across the Curriculum	Outreach Committee	Friday, July 27, 2001	VIVA Across the CurriculumWeb Page Berna Heyman		VIVA Across the CurriculumWeb Page
  VIVA Training Forum	Resources for Users Committee/ Training Subcommittee	Friday, August 3, 2001	VIVA Training ForumWeb Page Pat Hausman	Participants	viva@gmu.edu

• VIVA is hosting 3 major workshops and conferences this summer. Completeinformation is available for all 3 meetings. (6/26/01)

  MEETING NAME	Committee	DATE	Further Information	List of Participants	TO REGISTER
  ILL Community Forum	Resource Sharing/ ILL Subcommittee	Friday, June 29, 2001	ILL Forum Web Site Andy Morton:	Participants	viva@gmu.edu DEADLINE 6/15/01 (registration closed)
  VIVA Across the Curriculum	Outreach Committee	Friday, July 27, 2001	VIVA Across the Curriculum Web Page Berna Heyman		VIVA Across the CurriculumWeb Page
  VIVA Training Forum	Resources for Users Committee/ Training Subcommittee	Friday, August 3, 2001	VIVA Training Forum Web Page Pat Hausman	Participants	viva@gmu.edu

• The Ariel 3.0 software is not yet available so the orders have not yetbeen placed. The software is projected to be available in June, so the software will be paid out of 2001-02 fiscalyear funds. (5/1/01)
• The password for the FirstSearch Training Database has been changed.Please contact Pat Hausman with any questions about training. (4/2/01)
• Orders for the Ariel 3.0 software should be directed to John Jaffe for the private institutionsor to Kathy no later than April 1, 2001. The Ariel 3.0 order status is posted.Information about Ariel 3.0 is available from the RLG 's Ariel Information website. (3/22/01)
• The VIVA Steering Committee has voted to revise the VIVA Mission Statement to clearly state that VIVA serves the non-profit academic community in the Commonwealth. For further information on membership,please see the Memorandum of Understanding. (1/23/01)
• The training database password for FirstSearch has been changed. (1/3/01)
• The VIVA statement in support of the VLA Amendment to UCITA, submitted November 9, 2000 to the JCOTS Advisory Committee #5 is available on the web.The VLA amendment was defeated by a 12-12 tie vote on 11/9/00. (11/10/00)
• The VIVA Memorandum of Understanding was approved by the VIVA SteeringCommittee on 9/14/00 and was approved by the SCHEV Library Advisory Committee on 10/30/00. (11/3/00)
• The VIVA biennial budget for 2000-2002 from all sources is $10,720,619. (10/11/99)
• Annualized FTE for 1998-99 have been added. Where information for thefull year was not available, Fall 1998 numbers were used. (9/19/00)
• All VIVA User Services contacts have been emailed a reminder with theVIVA user id and password for the VIVA secure web area (used for both the statistics and the training databaseinformation). Please contact your local User Services contact if you needinformation. (9/11/00)
• VIVA contacts for all VIVA schools have been updated for the following contact people at each institution: Director, Collection Development, Interlibrary Loan, Cataloging and IntellectualAccess, Special Collections and Archives, Technical Issues, and User Services. (8/30/00)
• 7 VIVA independent institutions (Averett, Hampton U, Liberty, Randolph-MaconCollege, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Sweet Briar College, and the University of Richmond) now have access to Annual Reviews. Their initial bill will be prorated for 11/12 of annual fee for the contractyear ending July 31, 2001. (8/24/00)
• VIVA members are reminded to use the training databases. The Ovid trainingdatabase now includes access to the full text journals. (8/22/00)
• John Duke has revised ]http://www.viva.lib.va.us/viva/collect/access.html] VIVA's Access Instructions and Restrictions.Please contact John is you have any further suggestions. Also, please contact John if your institution's URL foroff-campus authentication has changed. (8/11/00)
• VIVA Public institutions now have access to the 17 OVID Nursing Journals andthe Annual Reviews. (7/17/00)
• The VIVA Travel Memo has been revisedto reflect the changes as of 7/1/00. (7/11/00)
• The Steering Committee approved the acquisition of these new resourcesfor VIVA members for next fiscal year:
  • OVID OpenLinks,
  • 29 Annual Reviews: Titles include: Anthropology; Astronomy & Astrophysics; Biochemistry; BiomedicalEngineering; Biophysics & Bimolecular Structure; Cell & Developmental Biology; Earth & Planetary Sciences;Ecology & Systematics; Energy & the Environment; Entomology; Fluid Mechanics; Genetics; Genomics &Human Genetics; Immunology; Materials Science; Medicine; Microbiology; Neuroscience; Nuclear & Particle Science;Nutrition; Pharmacology & Toxicology; Physical Chemistry; Physiology; Phytopathology; Plant Physiology &Plant Molecular Biology; Political Science; Psychology; Public Health and Sociology; and
  • these 17 Nursing Journals fromOvid Technologies:

    1. American Journal of Nursing
    2. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    3. Anesthesia and Analegesia
    4. Anesthesology
    5. AORN Journal
    6. Cancer Nursing
    7. Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
    8. Computers in Nursing
    9. Geriatric Nursing
    10. Heart and Lung
    11. JOGN Nursing
    12. Journal of Advanced Nursing
    13. Journal of Emergency Nursing
    14. Journal of Nursing Administration
    15. Nurse Educator
    16. Nursing & Health Care Perspectives on Community
    17. Nursing Research.
    We anticipate having these new resources available in early August 2000, if not before. (6/15/00)

• The Appalachian School of Law (Grundy, VA) has joined VIVA as a new independentschool. They are participating in a few of the VIVA contracts, but are not currently eligible to participate inthe state pooled funds program for the independent schools. (6/15/00)
• VIVA has renewed our license for the Gale Group's InfoTrac and OCLC/SolinetFirstSearch. (6/7/00)
• Access to the journal of SCIENCE has been activated forthe participating independent institutions as well as all of the public institutions. (4/10/00)
• Access to the journal of SCIENCE has been activated forall public institutions. (3/29/00)
• VIVA is proceeding with the license agreement for the journal of SCIENCEfor all of the public members using central funds. Interested private institutions need to contact John Jaffe immediatelyto be included in this order. (3/13/00)
• The 1993-95 Backfiles for Academic Press IDEAL are nowavailable to VIVA members on a special agreement basis. AP is still working to correct the listing of IDEAL titlesviewed by our members. We are hopeful that they will be able to show VIVA members only the titles we have in ourlicense agreement. (3/3/00)
• Effective immediately, due to license differences between The NewYork Times and OCLC, the NY Times is no longer available on FirstSearch for VIVA members using the FirstSearchper search. This does not change our access to the New York Times via the Dow Jones Interactive Business Newsstand. (3/3/00)
• The VIVA Spotlight graphic is now available for VIVA members to download and use on their web sites.(2/29/00)
• The list of participants for the 2 VIVA Training Fairs is now on the web. It will be revised periodically. (2/5/00)
• VIVA is convening 2 VIVA Training Fairs -- oneat University of Richmond on Monday, March 6 and the other at Virginia Tech on Tuesday, March 7. Space is limited.To register, send email to viva@gmu.edu with your name, institution's name, your email address, phone number, and thepreferred session by February 18. (2/3/00)
• The presentations from the January 7, 2000 [http://www.viva.lib.va.us/viva/tech/vivatech.html] Forum on Access to Electronic Journals from Aggregator Sources, jointly sponsored by Technical Issues, Cataloging and Intellectual Access, andthe VIVA Steering Committee, are linked from the forum home page. (1/31/00)
• All 10 HighWire Press journals havenow been activated for the public colleges and institutions. See the press release for more information. (1/6/00)
• Information about the Forum on Access to Electronic Journals from Aggregator Sources <formerly available at http://library.jmu.edu/libstaff/ts/er/vivacat/forum2000.html> to be held on January 7, 2000, 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM at VCU is available on theweb. Registration is limited. Contact Linda McGraw at lsouth@vt.edu.
• The instructions and allocations for the ILL Allocations for the publicinstitutions have been mailed to the Directors of the VIVA public institutions. Institutions are to request thefunds from SCHEV using the DBP form 27 (appropriations transfer) no later than January 20, 1999. (11/15/99)
• Invoices for the local institutional payments for the Academic Press IDEAL subscription have been mailed to the 19 public institutions. (11/3/99)
• Enclyclopedia Britannica has extended its contracts with all subscribers(including VIVA) for an additional 4 months. The VIVA contract is valid until May 31, 2000. (10/28/99)
• Poster inserts for 11 recent additions to the VIVA resources have beenmailed to all User Services Contacts (10/19/99)
• The VIVA contract with Ovid Technologies has been mailed to all CollectionDevelopment contacts at all VIVA libraries. (10/8/99)
• The VIVA Fact Sheet has been revised.We now calculate cost avoidance to our public institutions of $30.4 million. (10/7/99)
• Training information is now available for all VIVA databases at this URL: <http://www.viva.lib.va.us/viva/secure/training.html> You can find it from the [http://library.cc.va.us/vivacoll/training.htm] Resources for Users Committee Pageas well as the [http://www.viva.lib.va.us/viva/tech/vivatech.html] TechnicalInformation web site. Our thanks to Jane Schillie (VPI) for pullingthis information together. (9/17/99)
• The Definition of VIVA Associate Membership (approved12/3/98) is now linked to from the ABOUT VIVA page. (8/26/99)
• VIVA's contract with OVID for CINAHL, ERIC, MLA, PsychInfo, and SocAbs is now active for thepublic colleges and universities. (The independent colleges are consolidating their order information and willwork with Keith to activate their part of the contract.) To access the Ovid Online system using IP validation,users should point their browsers to the following URL: http://gateway.ovid.com/autologin.html.(8/14/99)
• Training Registrations for the 2 InfoTrac Web Training Sessions(August 20 at VCU) and the 10 Ovid Sessions (August 23 - September2) are on the web. I will try to keep these up to date (at least every other day) until the sessions are concluded.(8/13/99)
• The form for expressing interest in additional OVID databases (tobe purchased with local institutional dollars) is on the web, in the password protected area and information hasbeen sent directly to the Collection Development contacts at each of the VIVA member libraries. (8/11/99)
• The VIVA FactSheet has been revisedand posted. (8/7/99)
• Collection Development Contacts have been mailed copies of our contractswith ABC-CLIO, ACM, and HarpWeek. (8/5/99)
• VIVAwill award our contract for Abstracting and Indexing services to OVID Technologies, Inc., with servicebeginning August 15 for these 5 major databases: CINAHL, ERIC, MLA, PsychInfo, and SocAbs. Access to the trialswill continue to be available for the VIVA librarians until August 15. John Jaffe (Sweet Briar) is coordinatingthe order for the private insitutions. Training is being scheduled at several sites around the state in late Augustand early September. Many thanks to the RFP Committee: Chair: Sharon Gasser (JMU), Dave Beagle (VPI), Jim Campbell(UVA), and Ruth Stanton (NVCC - Annandale), as well as the ex officio members: Gene Damon (VCCS, CollectionsChair), Iris Moubray (JMU, VIVA Procurement Officer) and Kathy Perry (VIVA Director). (7/21/99)
• The VIVA budget for the 1999-00fiscal year has been revised to include the $200,000 appropriated in the 1999 General Assembly session, as wellas local funds included in the general VIVA budget.
• The VIVA Fact Sheet has been broughtup to date. For the first 5 years of operation, VIVA has realized over$28.5 million in estimated cost avoidance (financial benefits)as calculated by comparing the list price of VIVA purchases to the price we have paid for our VIVA resources forthe public academic institutions alone. (7/12/99)
• One- stop shopping: RFPPAGE -- links to information about the VIVA RFP on Abstractingand Indexing Services for the 5 databases under review (CINAHL, ERIC, MLA, PsychINFO, and SocAbstracts) and informationabout the Vendor Presentations at the University of Richmond, including links to directions and the campus map. (6/14/99)
• The VIVA trials are underway for both OVID and SilverPlatter services(5 databases are under review: CINAHL, ERIC, MLA, PsycInfo, and SocAbstracts). VIVA members are urged to reviewboth finalists' interfaces very carefully. An online evaluation form is nowavailable on the web and the results will be emailed directly to Ruth Stanton (NVCC- Annandale), our RFP Committeemember who will compile the results. Please be sure that you and your institution evaluate the products carefullyand send in your comments. They are an important part of the evaluation process. (6/10/99)
• The Steering Committee has approved the purchase of HarpWeek for allVIVA public members and all participating private colleges and universities. (6/8/99)
• The Steering Committee has approved the license subscription to TheColumbia International Affairs Online (CIAO). (6/8/99)
• The Steering Committee has approved the renewal of the Gale Group'sInfoTrac Web for the 1999-2000 year. (6/8/99)
• Ariel 2.2 software has been mailed to the ILL contacts at all of thepublic institutions and each of the participating independent institutions. (5/24/99)
• Ovid and SilverPlatter are the two finalists for the VIVA RFPon Indexing and Abstracting Databases (CINAHL, ERIC, MLA, PsychInfo, and Sociological Abstracts). Trials are underwayand the Collections contacts and the User Services contacts at each VIVA institution have been emailed the userIDs and password information. These two vendors will make presentations on the afternoon of June 16 at the Universityof Richmond (registration information will be sent separately). (5/20/99)
• Ariel 2.2 has arrived at "VIVA Central". We will pack andship them to individual libraries early next week. (5/19/99)
• The Executive Summary for the Cost Savings and Value Added Survey, 1996-97, has been added to the web and is linked from the ABOUT VIVA page. (4/16/99)
• A mailing to VIVA library directors is in tonight's mail with the followingitems --
  • Survey form for Committee Nominations and ideas for Special Projects.Responses are due back no later than May 8,
  • VIVA Cost Savings and Value Added Survey, 1996-97 (Collections Contactswill be sent a copy separately in the next day or two),
  • Most recent Fact Sheet,
  • Revised Contact Directory pages for 13 schools. (4/15/99)
• The VIVA Fact Sheet has been updated.For the July 1, 1994 - March 1, 1999 period, VIVA calculates cost avoidance of over $27 million. This figure, representingcost avoidance for our public institution members, compares the list price of all VIVA purchases to the pricesVIVA has negotiated for our purchases to date. (4/7/99)
• The VIVARFP for Database Provider is available on the web. Bids are dueback on May 6, 1999 at 3:00 P.M. All questions must be referred to Iris Moubray at JMU. Trialsare to begin for VIVA members on May 20. Vendor Presentation Day is being scheduled for the week of June 16. Wehope to have the service available on or before August 15, 1999. (4/6/99)
• ThePublicity Subcommittee has produced a powerpoint presentation, [http://www.viva.lib.va.us/viva/userserv/21stcentury.html] "Libraries Lead Students into the 21st Century" (5968k),available for downloading. The Introduction to this presentation includes contact information and instructionsabout viewing. Contact Jim Rettig for more information. (4/6/99)
• Since more complete access to Sociological Abstracts is now availablevia Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, VIVA members (public institutions) are to block access to the SociologicalAbstracts available via OCLC's FirstSearch on April 1. If any public institution wishes to continue their FirstSearchaccess to the abridged version of Sociological Abstracts, they should alert John Walsh (jwalsh@gmu.edu)as quickly as possible. (3/31/99)
• VIVA has approved renewal of the STAT-USA license agreement. (3/31/99)
• VIVA'slicense agreement for CIS - Statistical Universe is available to all VIVA public institutions and the participatingindependent schools. (3/5/99)
• VIVA's subscriptions to ABC-CLIO products: Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life are available to all VIVA publicinstitutions. (3/1/99)
• There will be a training session for VIVA members on using the Guidelines for Cataloging VIVA Electronic Collections -- May 7, 1999, at the Piedmont Virginia Community College. Details. (2/23/99)
• The VIVA Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) figures have been updated (Averett College's1998 figure is now current). (2/19/99, 3/23/99)

  Public Institutions (1997-98)	225,329
  Independent Institutions (Fall 1998)	40,340
  TOTAL VIVA FTE	265,669

• Our subscription to the Books in Print (Gale Group/IAC)now includes links to Bowker's FULL TEXT Book Reviews for our industry -- Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, KIRKUS,University Press Book News, The Boston Book Reviews, and more. (2/7/99)
• A page with VIVA members' Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) figures hasbeen added to the ABOUT VIVA page. (2/3/99)
• Paper updates for the VIVA Contacts Directory have been mailed to allVIVA Library Directors. (1/18/99)
• We have a new SEARCH feature for the VIVA Contacts Directory. You can find contact information for any of the VIVA librarians, by name, by committee, or by school. We will continueto work with it, but please be sure to send us corrections or suggestions. Thanks to Wally Grotophorst in the GMU Systems Office for the design. (1/12/99)
• A new web user interface is now available for libraries that subscribeto InfoTrac Searchbank. It is entirely optional,and there is no additional charge for "upgrading" to "InfoTrac WEB". VIVA members are invitedto view the new Info Trac SearchBank interface.For password information, please contact your local user services contact. (12/16/98)
• Invoices for the institutional portions of Academic Press IDEAL servicehave been mailed to the Collections Contacts at the participating public institutions. Copies were sent to theDirectors. (12/7/98)
• The Steering Committee approved a new organizational structure,effective July 1, 1998. More details to follow. (12/7/98)
• Due to insufficient price concessions from OCLC, the Steering Committeevoted unanimously not to pursue the dedicated TCP/IP connection for VIVA, despite the fact that the pilot programwas a success technically. (11/2/98)
• VIVA general listserv (VAVIRTUA-L) continues to grow and now includes418 people (it had 170 in October 1994, 267 in Nov. 95, 333 in Oct 96, and 368 in Oct 97). It is an open and unmoderatedlist and it is still the primary means of communicating with the VIVA community. All VIVA librarians and vendorsare encouraged to subscribe and instructions can be found on the VIVA [http://www.vivalib.org/tech/listservs.html] Listservs page. (10/21/09)
• The Steering Committee and the LAC approved the VIVA ILL allocations for Express Mailand instructions have been mailed to the VIVA Library Directors at the public colleges and universities. (10/9/98)
• Significant portions of the VIVA IAC contract have been mailed to theCollections Contacts at public and all participating independent colleges and universities. (10/9/98)
• VIVA is convening our second annual VIVA USERS' GROUP meeting on Thursday,October 15, 3:30 - 5:00 P.M. at the VEMA/VirginiaLibrary Association Joint Conference in Virginia Beach. The Conferenceis to be held at the Virginia Beach Pavilion, Doubletree Hotel. (10/9/98)
• Updates for the VIVA Directories have been mailed to all VIVA Directors(10/7/98)
• The VIVA Factsheet has been revised.(9/23/98)
• Jack Bales (MWC) has been added to the User Services Committee (9/11/98)
• Doug Hurd has agreed to serve as the Interim Chair of the ILL Enhancements Committee. (9/1/98)
• The Nursing and Allied Health Cooperative Collection Management (CCM)Subcommittee of the Collections Committee has prepared web pages for their Project for the Cooperative Retention of Nursing and Allied Health Journal Titles, including listings of the titles alphabetically by title, by institution, and with instiutionalcontactinformation. Questions about the project should be directed to Chris Millson-Martula (Lynchburg),the Chair of this Subcommittee. (8/26/98)
• The SteeringCommittee members' list has been brought up to date, as of August17, 1998. It includes Roy Strohl as Chair; Frank Moran (Blue Ridge Community College) replacing Theresa Byrd representingthe 2-year schools; Don Samdahl (VMI) replacing Barbara Miller (JMU) representing the comprehensives; and JohnZenelis (GMU) replacing John Walsh for GMU. (8/12/98)
• LeRoy Stohl, Library Director at Mary Washigton College, has been electedVIVA Steering Committee Chair (July 1, 1998 - June 30, 1999), filling the remaining year of Theresa Byrd's term.(7/1/98)
• We have posted VIVA's 1998-2000 Proposal to the VirginiaGeneral Assembly to the ABOUT VIVA site, as well as the revised 1998-2000 Budget. (6/9/98)
• FULL-TEXT RFP AWARD MADE:VIVA has approved the RFP committee's recommendation: "... that VIVA sign a contract with IAC according to the terms negotiatedon March 25 in Harrisonburg to include what is now included in the IAC database plus the reference guide. We furtherrecommend the purchase of at least one database with Ebsco." (kp4/30/98)
• Information about all 3 of VIVA's open listservs is available on the[http://www.vivalib.org/tech/listservs.html] Listservs web page. This includes information about the VAVIRTUA-L listserv (our large,general listserv), the VIVACAT-L listserv (for everyone interested in VIVA cataloging and intellectual access issues),and the VIVAILL-L listerv (for VIVA's ILL issues). This page is maintained by John Duke. There are at least 2 waysto link to this page -- from the ABOUT VIVA page, under "Communication" and also from the "OtherTechnical Resources" section. (kp 4/29/98)
• The VIVA Steering Committee Minutes going back to July 1994are all now available on the VIVA web site. Path:

  -- About VIVA; -- Committees; -- Steering Committee; -- Minutes. (kp 4/27/98)

COMMITTEE ANNOUNCEMENTS

• The VIVA training fair participantsfor the August 3 and August 5 Training Fairs are posted. (7/12/05)
• New committee members announcedfor the Steering and the Resources for Users committees (7/6/05)
• ILL CommunityForum will be held on Friday, July 15, 2005, at Sweet Briar College.(2/17/05)
• The VIVA Resources for Users Committee will hold two refresher sessionsfor the Ulrich's Serials Analysis System, on March 10 at Blue Ridge Community College, and on March 11 at Randolph-MaconCollege in Ashland. Bob Gerace of Bowker (Bob.Gerace@Bowker.com) will conduct the training, which will featureenhancements to the system during the past year and using reports for individual libraries. Following the training,Paul Metz of Virginia Tech will present "VIVA's Findings Using Ulrich's Serials Analysis System for VirginiaLibraries." Registration and refreshments begin at 9:00; the session is from 9:30-12:30. The morning willconclude with lunch on your own. Registration is limited to 40 participants per session. For more information, including how to register, go to http://swem.wm.edu/viva/ulrichs.htm.The list of registrants is available at this URL: http://www.gmu.edu/library/fen/viva/saptr05par.htm
• The Ariel 4.0 software has been received in the VIVA Central officeand will be mailed to VIVA members mid-January. The list of Ariel 4.0 orders is on theweb. (1/5/05)
• The Steering Committee approved the acquisition of Ariel 4.0 for allpublic and participating private nonprofit VIVA members. (12/13/04)
• The Steering Committee approve the renewal of the following licenses:

  a. ABC-CLIO
  b. Institute of Physics Journals ARCHIVES
  c. American Mathematical Society Journals
  d. American Mathematical Society - MathSiNet.
  e. Cambridge University Press Journals.
  f. HarpWeek Maintenance.
  g. AP IDEAL Archives on OCLC/ECO (12/13/04)

• TheVIVA Steering Committee voted unanimously to approve the acquisition of the Thomson Gale Literature Resource Center DigitalArchives and approved the trainingfor Bowker Books in PRint and Ulrich's Periodicals Directoryfor our members.
• Eileen Hitchingham is the new chairperson for the Resource Sharing Committee.10/4/04
• The VIVA Steering Committee approved renewals on the following VIVAproducts at the 9/30/04 meeting:
  • American Chemical Society Journals (including the new title The Journalof Chemical Theory and Computation
  • Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
  • CIAO
  • Congressional Universe
  • Factiva
  • GaleNet
  • HighWire
  • The Journal of Advanced Nursing (will be available directly fromBlackwell rather than from Ovid).
  • Project Muse.
  • The Steering Committee approved the continued negotiations for the renewalof the 18 Duke titles with acquisition driectly from Duke, subject to reasonable pricing.
• The Resource Sharing Committee will investigate whether they shouldrecommend the acquisition of Ariel 4.0, or retain the Ariel 3.4 as long as necessary, or seek another alternative.(10/4/04)
• The Steering Committee thanks Frank Moran (BRCC) and Roy Strohl (UMW)for their long service on the Steering Committee and welcomes Mary Mayer-Hennelly (TCC) and Dave Hayes (Radford)to the Steering Committee for terms beginning July 1, 2004. See the list of all current standing VIVA committees. (7/1/04)
• The VIVA Steering Committee approved renewals on the following VIVAproducts:
  • ACM
  • Bowker BIP, Ulrich's, and Serials Analysis
  • Ovid databases
  • Ovid LWW titles, including 102 new LWW titles in the medical field (6/7/04)
• The VIVA Steering Committee approved the Resources for Users recommendationto acquire BioOne journals. (6/7/04)
• The VIVA Steering Committee approved the revised ILL Guidelines (6/7/04)
• The VIVA Steering Committee approved the Outreach Committee's recommendationregarding branding and strongly encourages the use of the VIVA logo or other means to acknowledge the role of VIVAand the institutution's library in providing the VIVA resources. (6/7/04)
• Information about the 6th Annual ILL Community Forumis available on the web. VIVA will reimburse attendees from both the public and the private non-profit VIVA memberinstitutions for their travel to the meeting. Anyone needing to spend the night should request authorization fromthe VIVA central office. (5/25/04)
• ILL stats from OCLC for the July 2003 - December 2003 periodare posted on the Resource Sharing web page.
• Ariel version3.4 is available for download. (4/6/04)
• The Virginia Heritage Task Force will be meeting Friday April 16th at10 am in Room 210 of the Tompkins-McCaw Library at VCU. We have MOVED the meeting from Charlottesville to Richmondso that we can hold an EAD 2002 Training/Update session in the afternoon and minimize the traveling for all participants.The schedule is: Virginia Heritage Project Meeting 10 am to 12 noon(Tompkins-McCaw Library Room 210) Lunch on your own 12 noon to 1:30 pm EAD 2002 Training/Update 1:30 pm to 4:30pm (Tompkins-McCaw Library Room 212, LIMERC Computer Lab). For directions to the Tompkins-McCaw Library see http://www.library.vcu.edu/tml/information/tmldirections.html
• There is a new web page for the VIVA Serials Audit Project.(3/3/04)
• The RUC Training Subcommittee is offering VIVA members 2 training sesions for our Bowker Ulrich's Serials Analysis Sytem (USAS) Project to be held from 10 am - noon on Tuesday, March 16 (JMU) and Wednesday,March 17 (ODU). Registration deadline is March 12, 2004. The list of current registrants is posted.(3/3/04)
• The Resources for Users Committee has voted not to accept the Wilsonproposal for database subscriptions replacing the OCLC FirstSearch Wilson indexes. (1/29/04)
• The December 4, 2003 Steering Committee meeting minutesare posted. (12/18/03)
• The Steering Committee approved the following renewals:
  • CSA (includes Sociological Abstracts)
  • 5 HighWire journals
  • LexisNexis Statistical Universe
  • Science
  • Stat-USA (12/8/03)
• The Steering Committee approved the following two new acquisitions:
  • META (Mechanical and Transportation Engineering Abstracts) aspart of the CSA subscription. This title replaces the Mechanical Engineering Abstracts which ceased publication.
  • Institute of Physics Historical Archives, a purchase made possiblethrough a cost sharing arrangement with GMU, JMU, ODU, Va Tech, UVA, VCU, VSU and W&M. (12/8/03)
• The Resources for Users Committee is attempting to get pricing proposalsfrom Wilson on the following 5 databases for the Spring 2004 semester: Art Index, Applied Science & Technoloyg,Essay & General Literature Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Technology, and Library Literature.It is not clear at this time if the VIVA collections budget will be able to continue these 5 databases for theSpring 2004 semester. (12/8/03)
• The Resources for Users Committee will conduct a thorough review ofthe Wilson databases and their alternatives for July 1, 2004 and beyond. (12/8/03)
• The Resources for Users Committee will also conduct a review of theFactiva database. (12/8/03)
• VIVA will increase the number of WorldCat ports from 18 to 21 beginningJanuary 1, 2004. (12/8/03)
• Oxford University Press has added 2 new titles (Journal of the ICRUand Radiation Protection Dosimetry) but the Committee has decided not to add these to the 2004 licenseagreement. (12/8/03)
• Wednesday, October 29, is the rescheduled date for the ODU sessionson the MLA InternationalBibliography Training for VIVA librarians. The Modern LanguageAssociation (MLA) International Bibliography is the seminal bibliography in literature and humanities, including1.5 million citations in language, literature, linguistics, folklore, film, etc. Stacey Knibloe of Gale will offertwo sessions (10 - 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 - 3 p.m.). Stacey will demonstrate new features and enhancements of MLAin the Gale InfoTrac resource, including added resources avialable to VIVA members. More information is availableat http://www.swem.wm.edu/VIVA/mla.htm , including registration information. Registration deadline is Monday, October20. (10/3/03)
• The Steering Committee minutes for the September 11, 2003 meeting are posted. (10/3/03)
• The Outreach Committee has prepared a Nature contract press releaseappropriate for campus use at member institutions. The press release is available in WORD and in html and will beposted to the Outreach Committee's web page shortly. (9/8/03)
• The Outreach Committee has prepared a Bowker contract press releaseappropriate for campus use at member institutions. The press release is available in WORD and in html and will beposted to the Outreach Committee's web page shortly. (9/8/03)
• The Training Subcommittee of the Resources for Users Committee is sponsoring4 hands-on sessions for MLAInternational Bibliography Training for VIVA librarians. TheModern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography is the seminal bibliography in literature and humanities,including 1.5 million citations in language, literature, linguistics, folklore, film, etc. Stacey Knibloe of Galewill offer two sessions per day (10 - 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 - 3 p.m.) on Tuesday, September 23 at Old Dominion Universityin Norfolk, and on Wednesday, September 24 at James Madison University in Harrisonburg. Stacey will demonstratenew features and enhancements of MLA in the Gale InfoTrac resource, including added resources avialable to VIVAmembers. More information is available at http://www.swem.wm.edu/VIVA/mla.htm , including registration information. Registration deadline is Tuesday, September16. (9/4/03)
• OCLC will remove all ILL policies fields from the Name Addrees Directoryon Sunday, August 24. OCLC is providing training on the migration to the new ILL Policies Directory. Contact BeckyHawk at becky_hawk@oclc.org for more information and to register. (8/8/03)
• OCLC'sILL transactions report for VIVA members is available for theJuly 2002 - June 2003 year and has been posted to the VIVA Resource Sharing web page.(7/31/03)
• The VIVA Outreach Committee is convening 3 regional workshops entitled:"The 50-MinuteLibrarian: Strategies for Effective Library Instruction",July 25 (Va Tech), August 7 (Hampton U), and August 14 (UVA). See the committee's web page for more information.(7/1/03)
• The Content Linking Task Force Report "[http://www.viva.lib.va.us/viva/tech/cat/link/content_linking_2003_June.pdf] Integrating Access to VIVA Collections "(June 5, 2003) is available in PDF format. (6/23/03)
• At its June 5, 2003 meeting, the Steering Committee voted to
  • License the journal Nature, the Nature Research Journals,and the Nature Review Journals. The Steering Committee also voted to acquire the Bowker Serials Analysisservice for one year. The Resources for Users Committee will review all existing subscriptions to determine howbest to handle paying for these new subscriptions within our fixed budget.
  • Renew the following VIVA products:
    • ACM
    • Annual Reviews
    • Factiva (formerly Dow Jones)
    • FirstSearch
    • HarpWeek maintenance
    • LN Congressional Universe
    • OVID (CINAHL, PsycINFO, ERIC, LWW journals, and 7 of the 8 Nursing Journals)
  • Cancel the VIVA subscription to the OVID Journal of ClinicalParmacology & Therapeutics. (6/8/2003)
• The Resource Sharing Committee and its ILL Subcommittee will convenethe 5thAnnual ILL Community Forum 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on July 11, 2003,at Zehmer Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville. (4/25/03)
• The Content Linking Task Force has scheduled the "[http://www.viva.lib.va.us/viva/tech/cat/link/workshop.html] Workshop on Digital Resources Management, Content Linking, and Federated Searching;Administrative, Public Services, and Technical Issues" forMay 22, 2003, at Sweet Briar College. (4/7/03)
• At its March 6, 2003 meeting, the Steering Committee approved the acquisitionof Bowker Global Books in Print and Ulrich's Web through Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. The contract will be effectiveJuly 1, 2003, but the public institutions will continue their access without interruption. The private institutionsare to contact John Jaffe if they wish to subscribe. (3/18/03)
• At its March 6, 2003 meeting, the Steering Committee approved the Resourcesfor Users Committee's recommendation to renew the following licenses :
  • Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
  • AAAS Science
  • Gale Group InfoTrac
• John Jaffe (Sweet Briar College) will chair the Virginia Heritage ProjectTask Force, effective March 1, 2003. (3/1/03)
• The Steering Committee approved (via an email vote on December 10, 2002)funds to access the AP IDEAL archives via OCLC ECO beginning January 1, 2003. (12/16/02)
• The Steering Committee approved (via an email vote on December 10, 2002)renewals of the following products:
  • ACS Journals (2003)
  • AMS MathSciNet (2003)
  • AMS Journals (2003)
  • Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (2003)
  • Cambridge University Press Journals (2003)
  • HighWire (2003) - 5 titles
    • (American Journal of Psychiatry,
      • Journal of Applied Physiology,
      • Journal of Biological Chemistry,
      • Journal of Cell Biology, and
      • Molecular Biology of the Cell)
  • LexisNexis Statistical (March 1, 2003 - February 29, 2004)
  • Project Muse (2003)
  • Stat-USA (May 1, 2003 - April 30, 2004)
• The Steering Committee approved the extension of the ad hoc Task Forceon Content Linking for Electronic Serials and Other Digital Materials until the end of June 2003. (12/16/02)
• The VIVA Steering Committee meeting scheduled for December 5, 2002,was cancelled due to winter weather. (12/4/02)
• The Steering Committee minutes forthe September 12, 2002 meeting are posted. (9/30/02)
• The VIVA Training Subcommittee is convening 4 regional training workshops,August 12-15, 2002 to address changes in the new Factiva (formerly Dow Jones) product and the Cambridge ScientificAbstracts products, including Sociological Abstracts. Please see the web site for details: The list of registrants is also maintained. Anyone wishing to register should send an email to the VIVA central office with the following information: 1) your name; 2) your email; 3) your institution; 4) your1st preference for training location and 5) your second choice for location. (7/25/02)
• Ariel 3.3 is available at no cost to owners of Ariel 3.01 (includingcopies purchased through VIVA last summer). Link to the RLG website and download theupgrade. If you have questions, contact RLG's Technical Support: E-mail: ariel@notes.rlg.org Phone: 6 am to 5 pmPacific Time, Monday through Friday +1-800-537-7546 (North America)(7/15/02)
• The web page for the [http://www.viva.lib.va.us/viva/tech/cat/link/] Content Linking and E-Serials Management Task Forceis available on the About VIVA page, under Committees. (7/8/02)
• The June 6, 2002 Steering Committee meeting minutesare posted. (6/21/02)
• The Resource Sharing Committee and the ILL Subcommittee are conveningthe fifth ILLCommunity Forum on June 28, 2002, at UVA. See the web site forthe agenda, driving, parking, and registration information. (5/28/02)
• The Virginia Heritage Project is holding their last workshop on theVirginia Heritage Project on Tuesday, May 21, 2002, at the University of Virginia. (4/26/02)
• The Outreach Committee has posted the press releases for both theBritannica Online and the AMS Journals in HTML and Word on their web page. (4/25/02)
• The Resources for Users Committee is convening a Statistics Workshop, entitled"An Informal Introduction to Statistics for VIVA Librarians", to be held on Tuesday, May 14, 2002, atthe University of Virginia. (4/2/02)
• Encyclopaedia Britannica and AMS Journals are available for all VIVApublic institutions. (2/8/02)
• The Outreach Committee has posted the VIVA Across the Curriculum Forum summaryfor the meeting held July 27, 2001 at the College of William and Mary. Linked to that summary is a streaming video version of the"e-literate?" Information Literacy video Dr. Curzon showed during the meeting. This video was preparedby the PacificBell/UCLA Initiative for 21st Century Literacies at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and InformationStudies. To order a free copy of this video, please log onto www.newliteracies.gseis.ucla.edu.Thanks to Jack Bales for the meeting notes and to Jimmy Gaphery for making the video available. (11/1/01)
• The Ariel 3.01 software was mailed to the ILL contacts. (10/9/01)
• RLG is delaying the delivery of the Ariel 3.0 software in order to fixa bug in the software. (8/15/01)
• The Ariel 3.0 software is now available from RLG. VIVA Central is submittingthe purchase order according to orders placed last April. (8/14/01)
• The Resources for Users Committee is hosting a Training Fair on Friday,August 3, 2001 at Blue Ridge Community College. Information on how to register will follow. (5/23/01)
• The Outreach Committee is hosting a major conference on Friday, July27, 2001 at the College of William and Mary. Information on how to register will follow. (5/23/01)
• TheResource Sharing Committee and the ILL Subcommittee are hosting the annual ILL Forum on Friday, June 29,2001 at UVA. Please see the web page for further information about the forum schedule, registration information, anddirections. (5/23/01)
• The Outreach Committee has prepared 3 press releases for VIVA's 3 new products:American Chemical Society Journals; Cambridge University Press, and the Oxford University Press Journals. (4/2/01)
• The Steering Committee meeting minutes for March 8, 2001 have been posted to the web. (3/28/2001)
• VIVA ILL contacts have been sentinformation about the VIVA Ariel 3.0 upgrade software orders. Orders are due in to Kathy by April 1. VIVA willpay for upgrades for all public colleges and universities. Private colleges and universities and the Library ofVirginia will be billed. VIVA funds will pay for all shipping. (3/13/01)
• The Steering Committee has approved new licenses for these 3 full textjournal collections:
  • American Chemical Society
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Oxford University Press

  The trials are currently underway for these 3 resources and we will workto complete the contractual negotiations as quickly as possible so that there will not be any interruption of service.(3/13/01)

• The Steering Committee has approved renewals for the following 5 items:
  • Annual Reviews
  • InfoTrac
  • PCI Web
  • Science
  • Stat-USA

    (3/13/01)

• TheResource Sharing Committee will hold the ILL Community Forum on Friday, June 29, at the University of Virginia.(3/13/01)
• TheOutreach Committee will convene "VIVA across the Curriculum" Forum on Friday, July 27, at the Collegeof William and Mary. (3/13/01)
• The Resource Sharing Committee has received the OCLC Data on VIVA Borrowing and Lendingfor VIVA members for the October-December 2000 period. The report is cumulative for the July - December 2000 periodand has been converted to PDF format. (1/23/01)
• The Steering Committee meeting minutes for November 30, 2000 have been posted to the web. (1/4/2001)
• The Resource Sharing Committee has received the OCLC Data on VIVA Borrowing and Lendingfor VIVA members for the July - September 2000 quarter. The information has been scanned and converted to PDF format.(12/14/00)
• A revised web page for TRAINING INFORMATION for eachVIVA product is available. Please contact PatHausman (W&M) if you discover any changes that need to bemade. In general, please note that all VIVA members must use the training databases for all databases restrictedby the number of simultaneous users. At this time, those include: ABC-Clio, Dow-Jones Interactive, FirstSearch,and the Ovid Nursing Journals. We are posting this information on the secure server and you will be prompted forthe VIVA user id and password. (See your institution's user services rep if you'veforgotten those.) (11/28/00)
• The new [http://www.viva.lib.va.us/viva/tech/illguide.html] ILL Guidelines are posted tothe web and are linked from the [http://viva.lib.virginia.edu/vivaill/vivaill.html] Resource Sharing Committee's web site.The previous guidelines are also available from the RSC's page. (10/23/00)
• We've added a page on ILL provisions in VIVA's contractsfor Full Text resources. Most allow ILL within the CONTU guidelines, although many do require us to print fromthe electronic version first. (10/13/00)
• The VIVA SteeringCommittee Minutes for the 9/14/00 meeting have been posted tothe web site. (10/10/00)
• The August 8, 2000 SteeringCommittee Retreat Summary has been been added to the web site. (9/19/00)
• A DRAFT page on the ILL Provisions in VIVA's contractsfor full text resources is available for review. (8/10/00)
• The VIVA Outreach Committee has prepared the press release about VIVA's recentlicensing of Annual Reviews Online. Please feel free to revise and redistribute the release within your own institutionsas you see appropriate. This subscription is currently available to all of the 39 VIVA member public colleges anduniversities; interested private schools wishing to subscribe should contact John Jaffe at Sweet Briar (jgjaffe@sbc.edu).(8/4/00)
• The press release for the 17 OVIDNursing Journals is available in HTML and Word on the OutreachCommittee's web site. (7/27/00)
• The Resource Sharing Committee has posted the VIVA member OCLC statisticsfor 1999-2000 on their web site. (7/25/00)
• The Steering Committee June 8, 2000 meeting minuteshave been added to the web site. (7/24/00)
• The Resources for Users Committee is evaluating the Academic Press subscription.A very brief survey has been sent to the Collections Contacts at each of the VIVA member schools. Please returnthese surveys by August 4, 2000. Thank you. (7/20/00)
• The Resource Sharing Committee is convening the next ILL Community Forum onJuly 14 at Zehmer Hall, University of Virginia. The list of registered participants is available online.VIVA members (public or private) may register by sending an email to viva@gmu.edu with the followinginformation: your name, your institution, and your email address. Please specify if you are requesting a vegetarianlunch. (posted 6/7/00, updated 6/15/00)
• The Resources for Users Committee has arranged for a trial of the OxfordEnglish Dictionary (OED Online) and the American National Biography (ANB Online). Go to the subscribers only url:http://dictionary.oed.com, click "Sign In". VIVA members are authenticated through their IP addresses.The deadline for subscribing through Solinet is May 12. At this time, VIVA has no plans to subscribe, so each institutionshould make its own decision. (5/1/00)
• The Resource Sharing Committee web site now includes a link to DennisRobison's reporton VIVA ILL in PDF form. (5/1/00)
• We are delighted to announce that our Virginia Heritage Project wassuccessful in winning a 2-year National Endowment for the Humanities grant of $250,000. The VIVA press release is available fromthe Outreach Committee'sweb page. (4/25/00)
• The Resources for Users Committee has arranged for a trial of AccessScience, the online Encyclopedia of Science and Technology for all of our public and private institutionalVIVA http://viva.lib.virginia.edu/vivaill/vivaill.htmlmembers. If you have technical problems connecting, please contact The AccessScienceTeam, 1-877-840-2297 or contact Rebecca Seger at McGraw-Hill (212/904-5438 or rebecca_seger@mcgraw-hill.com). (4/20/00)
• The Outreach Committee's web site has beenmoved to the VIVA web server. (2/29/00)
• The VIVA Spotlight graphic is now available for VIVA members to download and use on their web sites.(2/29/00)
• The [http://www.viva.lib.va.us/viva/tech/cat/] Cataloging and Intellectual Access Web sitehas been revised and is now located on the VIVA web server. (2/28/00)
• The web pages for the Project for Cooperative Retention of Nursing and Allied Health Journal Titles have been brought up to date. Contact Steve Stratton (VCU) for furtherinformation about the project. (2/2/00)
• ]http://catherine.med.virginia.edu/Vivacat/nov99min.htm] Minutesof the VIVA Task Force on Cataloging and Intellectual Accessfor November 5, 1999, are available at: http://catherine.med.virginia.edu/Vivacat/nov99min.htm.
• VIVA's Resources for Users Committee will be sponsoring two regionalTraining Fairs in early March. The Training Fairs will be open to all interested VIVA librarians and will be heldfrom 9-4 on Monday, March 6, at the University of Richmond and Tuesday, March 7 at Virginia Tech. The tentativeagenda features overview sessions highlighting the New FirstSearch and Ovid's OpenLinks, as well as breakout sessionsfocusing on Dow Jones, Congressional Universe/Statistical Universe, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, and STAT-USA.There will also be an opportunity for hands-on practice and one-on-one training on Academic Press, Highwire Press,OVID, ACM Digital Library, Math/Sci Net, ABC-CLIO, Chadwyck-Healey, New FirstSearch, HarpWeek, PCI, Project Museand CIAO. Registration information will be posted on the VIVA listserv soon. Travel expenses for librarians frompublic institutions will be reimbursed and lunch will be provided for all who attend. (1/24/00)
• Jean Cooper (UVA) has compiled the [http://viva.lib.virginia.edu/vivaill/vivariel.htm] Ariel IP Addresses Table andposted it to the web. Please contact her with any changes or corrections. (1/19/00)
• The Steering Committee Meeting Minutesfrom the December 2, 1999 meeting are posted on the web. (12/22/99)
• The VIVA ILL Community Forum willbe held on January 11, 2000, at the University of Virginia. To register, contact Jennifer Wise (email: wisejc@mail.vmi.edu)no later than December 17, 1999.
• VIVA training Fairs will be held on March 6 at the University of Richmondand March 7 at Virginia Tech. More details will follow. (12/10/99)
• The October 8, 1999 minutes forthe Steering Committee meeting have been posted. (11/1/99)
• TheOutreachCommittee's new web site <http://libra.jmu.edu/viva/outreach/>includes the VIVA product press releases and other promotional materials. (10/14/99)
• The Steering Committee Meeting will take place on Friday, October 8,10:30 a.m. at the James Monroe Building, in Richmond.
• The web site for the [http://library.cc.va.us/vivaruc/] Resources for Users Committeehas been revised and it has a new URL: http://library.cc.va.us/vivaruc/. The old URL <http://library.cc.va.us/vivacoll/> will points to the newsite for a limited time. (9/21/99)
• The Steering Committee meeting previously scheduled for Thursday, September16 has been postponed due to Hurricane Floyd. (9/15/99)
• The VIVA Cataloging and Intellectual Access TF meeting scheduled forFriday, September 17 has been cancelled due to Hurricane Floyd. (9/15/99)
• The July 9, 1999 minutes for theSteering Committee meeting have been posted. (8/7/99)
• The Committee Rosters for the Steering Committee, Outreach Committee, Resource Sharing Committee, and Resources for Users Committee have been brought up to date on the ABOUT VIVA page. (7/19/99)
• The Steering Committee has approved the slate of new Committee Membersas follows:
  • Outreach: Chair: Ralph Alberico (JMU); Jack Bales (MWC), PatriciaButler (NVCC - Manassas); Sharon Goad (Hampden-Sydney); Patricia Hardesty (GMU); and Berna Heyman (W&M).
  • Resource Sharing: Chair: Don Samdahl (VMI); Chris Dixon (NVCC- Annandale); Doug Hurd (UVA); Thelma Hutchins (Emory & Henry); Ruth Kifer (GMU); Reba Leiding (JMU); MaryMolineux (W&M); Andrew Morton (VCU); and Pat Murphy (VPI).
  • Resources for Users: Chair: Gene Damon (VCCS); Jacque Dessino(TCC); Sharon Gasser (JMU); Patricia Hausman (W&M); Pamela Morgan (ODU); Susanna Pathak (VCU); James Rettig(U of Richmond); Sylvia Rortvedt (NVCC - Alexandria); Jane Schillie (VPI); Jim Self (UVA); Michael Walker (VSU);and John Walsh (GMU). (7/14/99)
• The Steering Committee June 3, 1999 Minutes have beenadded. (7/7/99)
• The Steering Committee Chairperson, Roy Strohl, has appointed RalphAlberico (JMU) to chair the Outreach Committee, Gene Damon (VCCS) to chair the Resources for Users Committee, andDon Samdahl (VMI) to chair the Resource Sharing Committee.(6/4/99)
• The Steering Committee has elected Roy Strohl as Chair for the July1, 1999 - June 30, 2001. (6/4/99)
• The Steering Committee Meeting previously scheduled for Thursday, June10, at Clinch Valley College, Wise, will be held on Thursday, June 3. The SCHEV LAC will be held on Friday, June4. (4/9/99)
• TheUser Services Committee announces its new web page which includes links to theVIVA in Action as well as their new PowerPoint presentation. (4/6/99)
• The Steering Committee March 11, 1999 meeting minutes have beenadded to the VIVA web site. (3/31/99)
• The Cataloging and Intellectual AccessSubcommittee of the User Services Committee announces its training workshop on VIVA's Guidelines for Cataloging Electronic Resourceson May 7, 1999 at the Piedmont Virginia Community College. The program will combine lecture, discussion, and hands-oncataloging, using current MARC and AACR standards, and related guidelines. The keynote address will be given byWilliam Anderson from the Library of Congress on the study and subsequent recommendations that his AACR reviewgroup has made on electronic serials cataloging rules. Use the online form to register by April9. Contact Joyce Ogburn for more details. (3/23/99)
• The Steering Committee has approved licensing CIS - Statistical Universeand the ABC-CLIO product: Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life. We are working to provideaccess to these new VIVA resources as quickly as possible -- perhaps as early as March 1, 1999. (2/17/99)
• The Steering Committee has approved renewal of PCI - Web. Chadwyck-Healeyis committed to providing VIVA's use statistics within three months. (2/17/99)
• The Collections Workshop and the Cataloging and Intellectual AccessTraining Session on the VIVA Cataloging Guidelines have been postponed. (2/12/99)
• The Collections Committee announces its new http://library.cc.va.us/vivacoll/] web page. This includes alllinks previously found listed under "Collections" on the ABOUT VIVA page as well as additional linksto their 1989-99 meeting minutes and a chart on http://library.cc.va.us/vivacoll/consider.htm] Resources Currently Under Consideration.(2/9/99)
• The Cataloging and Intellectual Access Subcommittee announces a softwarescript which allows VIVA libraries to provide MARC records for individual texts (poems or dramas) in VIVA's fourfull text Chadwyck-Healey databases:
  • African American Poetry,
  • American Poetry,
  • English Poetry, and
  • English Verse Drama Databases.

  Edward Summers (ODU) has written a PERL script that can convert theserecords for electronic texts into the MARC (MARC communication not flat ascii MARC) format. Preliminary testingindicates that it loaded into the Innovative INNOPAC with no problems.

  We need other libraries on other OPAC systems to try it and share theircomments and suggestions with the VIVACAT-L group. For details, be sure you are subscribed to the VIVACAT-L listserv. Special thanks to EdwardSummers (ODU), Jackie Shieh (UVA), Elaine Day (JMU), and DavidSeaman (UVA) for their work on this project. (1/27/99)

• The Nursing and Allied Health CCM Subcommittee will convene a meetingof all participants of the Cooperative Collection Management Journal Project on Thursday, March 5, in Charlottesvilleat the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library Northside Branch, beginning at 10:15 am. Contact Steve Stratton (VCU) for furtherinformation. (1/25/99)
• SCHEV has appointed Carol Pfeiffer to the VIVA SteeringCommittee as one of their ex officio representatives. (1/18/99)
• The SteeringCommittee Minutes for December 3, 1998 have been posted. (1/13/99)
• The Steering Committee approved the purchase of Reviews for Books InPrint through the Gale Group, the addition of Sociological Abstracts, LLBA, and ERIC through CSA, and the renewalof Britannica Online (12/18/98)
• Gay Weeks Neale (Director of Learning Resources at the Southside VirginiaCommunity College) replaced Laurel Reid on the ILL Enhancements Committee. (12/16/98)
• The Steering Committee approved the renewal of Britannica Online aswell as the addition of Sociological Abstracts, ERIC and LLBA on CSA and Book Reviews as part of the IAC Booksin Print contract. (12/7/98)
• The Steering Committee Minutes forNovember 2, 1998 have been posted. (11/11/98)
• The Steering Committee has approved renewals for both Project Muse andMathSciNet (11/2/98)
• The Steering Committee endorsed the ICOLC Statement on Statistics. (11/2/98)
• The contact person for the Nursing and Allied Health Cooperative CollectionManagement Journals Project is now SteveStratton (VCU). (10/22/98)
• The Steering Committee Minutes forSeptember 24, 1998 have been posted. (10/12/98)
• The Committee lists now includelive links for each standing committee member's email. (9/23/98)
• Frank Moran (Blue Ridge Community College) has been named to the Steering Committee. He will remainon the Collections Committee. (8/5/98)
• The Steering Committee has approved the VIVA Cataloging and IntellectualAccess Subcommittee's (VIVACAT) recently revised [http://viva.lib.virginia.edu/~ejs7y/vivacat/guidelines.html] Guidelines for Cataloging VIVA Electronic Collections. These guidelines have been prepared to assist VIVA schools in cataloging their resources,if they choose to do so. The Steering Committee encourages providing intellectual access to our VIVA resources,as a way to encourage use and integration of the VIVA resources into the teaching and learning environment. Pleasenote that the Subcommittee recommends using one record for cataloging titles in print and electronic format. Questionsand comments may be directed to the VIVACAT-L listserv, the subcommittee chair,Joyce Ogburn, or to one of the authors: Jackie Shieh (UVA), Karen Cary (VCU), and Elaine Day (JMU). (7/6/98)
• The ILL Committee has prepared an ILL web site (formerly available at http://viva.lib.virginia.edu/vivaill/vivaill.html, now at http://www.vivalib.org/committees/rsc/illsubcomm.html, 4/21/2008, TM) for items of general interest to VIVA colleagues. Our thanks to the pagemaster, Jean Cooper at UVA (kp5/29/98)
• The Collections Committee is maintaining a page about our Dow Jones Interactive -- Academic service, with special emphasis on the transition from telnet to worldwide web. Many thanks to the CC rep for our Dow Jones Resource Management Team, John Tombarge (WLU) for this. (kp 5/29/98)

 STATISTICS UPDATES

• LexisNexis Congressional & Statistical for June 07 added. (7/20/07)
• OED / ORO stats for June 07 added. (7/20/07)
• HarpWeek stats for Jan - June 07 added. (7/20/07)
• Cambridge University Press stats for June 07 added. (7/20/07)
• Encyclopedia Britannica stats for June 07 added. (7/20/07)
• BioOne stats for June 07 added. (7/20/07)
• OUP stats for June 07 added. (7/20/07)
• Nature stats for June 07 added. (7/20/2007)
• STAT-USA stats for June 07 added. (7/19/07)
• IEEE stats for June 07 added. (7/18/2007)
• Project MUSE stats for June 07 added. (7/18/07)
• Institute of Physics stats for June 07 added. (7/18/07)
• ACS stats for June 07 added. (7/18/07)
• IEEE stats for May 07 added. (7/17/2007)
• Science stats for June 07 added. (7/17/07)
• Highwire Press stats for June 07 added. (7/17/07)
• Duke University Press stats for June 07 added. (7/17/07)
• Gale stats for June 07 added. (7/16/07)
• CIAO stats for June 07 added. (7/16/07)
• Bowker stats for June 07 added. (7/13/07)
• MathSciNet stats for June 07 added. (7/13/07)
• ABC-CLIO stats for June 07 added. (7/13/07)
• OVID stats for June 07 added (7/11/07)
• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) stats for June 07 added. (7/10/07)
• Blackwell stats for June 07 added. (7/10/07)
• FirstSearch stats for June 07 added. (7/10/07)
• Annual Reviews stats for June 07 added. (7/10/07)
• ACM stats for June 07 added. (7/09/07)
• Factiva stats for Jan - June 07 added. (7/06/07)
• EBSCO Database stats for June 07 added. (7/06/07)
• Nature stats for May 07 added. (6/29/2007)
• STAT-USA stats for May 07 added. (6/26/07)
• ACS stats for May 07 added. (6/25/07)
• OED / ORO stats for May 07 added. (6/22/07)
• OUP stats for May 07 added. (6/22/07)
• LexisNexis Congressional & Statistical for May 07 added. (6/22/07)
• Gale stats for May 07 added. (6/19/07)
• Cambridge University Press stats for May 07 added. (6/18/07)
• OVID stats for May 07 added (6/18/07)
• Institute of Physics stats for May 07 added. (6/18/07)
• ABC-CLIO stats for May 2007 added. (6/15/07)
• MathSciNet stats for May 07 added. (6/15/07)
• BioOne stats for May 07 added. (6/15/07)
• Duke University Press stats for May 07 added. (6/14/07)
• Science stats for May 07 added. (6/13/07)
• Highwire Press stats for May 07 added. (6/13/07)
• FirstSearch stats for May 07 added. (6/12/07)
• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) stats for May 07 added. (6/12/07)
• CIAO stats for May 07 added. (6/12/07)
• Blackwell stats for May 07 added. (6/12/07)
• Annual Reviews stats for May 07 added. (6/12/07)
• ACM stats for May 07 added. (6/12/07)
• LexisNexis Congressional & Statistical for April 07 added. (6/07/07)
• EBSCO Database stats for May 07 added. (6/07/07)
• Bowker stats for May 07 added. (6/07/07)
• STAT-USA stats for April 07 added. (6/05/07)
• OUP stats for April 07 added. (6/05/07)
• Encyclopedia Britannica stats for April - May 07 added. (6/05/07)
• BioOne stats for April 07 added. (5/29/07)
• Bowker stats for April 07 added. (5/29/07)
• Institute of Physics stats for April 07 added. (5/29/07)
• OED / ORO stats for April 07 added. (5/17/07)
• MathSciNet stats for April 07 added. (5/17/07)
• Nature stats for April 07 added. (5/16/2007)
• IEEE stats for April 07 added. (5/16/2007)
• Duke University Press stats for April 07 added. (5/16/2007)
• ACS stats for April 07 added. (5/16/2007)
• Science stats for April 07 added. (5/15/07)
• Highwire Press stats for April 07 added. (5/15/07)
• Gale stats for April 07 added. (5/15/07)
• CIAO stats for April 07 added. (5/15/07)
• FirstSearch stats for April 07 added. (5/14/07)
• OVID stats for April 07 added (5/14/07)
• Project MUSE stats for April 07 added. (5/14/07)
• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) stats for April 2007 added. (5/9/2007)
• Cambridge University Press stats for April 2007 added. (5/9/2007)
• Annual Reviews stats for April 2007 added. (5/9/2007)
• ABC-CLIO stats for April 2007 added. (5/9/2007)
• ACM stats forApril 2007 added. (5/9/2007)
• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) stats for February - March 2007 added. (5/08/07)
• EBSCO Database stats for April 07 added. (5/01/07)
• STAT-USA stats for March 07 added. (5/01/07)
• LexisNexis Congressional & Statistical for March 07 added. (5/01/07)
• Bowker stats for March 07 added. (5/01/07)
• MathSciNet stats for March 07 added. (5/01/07)
• Nature stats for March 07 added. (4/26/07)
• OUP stats for March 07 added. (4/25/07)
• CIAO stats for March 07 added. (4/25/07)
• Blackwell stats for March 07 added. (4/20/07)
• Project MUSE stats for March 07 added. (4/19/07)
• ACS stats for March 07 added. (4/18/07)
• Institute of Physics stats for March 07 added. (4/17/07)
• Duke University Press stats for March 07 added. (4/17/07)
• Gale stats for March 07 added. (4/16/07)
• Science stats for March 07 added. (4/16/07)
• Highwire Press stats for March 07 added. (4/16/07)
• BioOne stats for March 07 added. (4/10/07)
• ACM stats for March 07 added. (4/10/07)
• OVID stats for March 07 added (4/10/07)
• Annual Reviews stats for March 07 added. (4/09/07)
• ABC-CLIO stats for March 07 added. (4/09/07)
• OED / ORO stats for March 07 added. (4/09/07)
• FirstSearch stats for March 07 added. (4/05/07)
• IEEE stats for February 07 added. (3/29/07)
• Encyclopedia Britannica stats for February 07 added. (3/29/07)
• MathSciNet stats for February 07 added. (3/29/07)
• STAT-USA stats for February 07 added. (3/29/07)
• BioOne stats for December 06 - February 07 added. (3/23/07)
• ACS stats for February 07 added. (3/22/07)
• IEEE stats for January 07 added. (3/19/07)
• Project MUSE stats for January - February 07 added. (3/15/07)
• Nature stats for February 07 added. (3/15/07)
• Blackwell stats for January - February 07 added. (3/14/07)
• Cambridge University Press stats for February 07 added. (3/14/07)
• Gale stats for February 07 added. (3/14/07)
• Science stats for February 07 added. (3/14/07)
• Highwire Press stats for February 07 added. (3/14/07)
• CIAO stats for February 07 added. (3/9/07)
• Annual Reviews stats for February 07 added. (3/08/07)
• Institute of Physics stats for February 07 added. (3/08/07)
• Bowker stats for February 07 added. (3/07/07)
• FirstSearch stats for January - February 07 added. (3/7/07)
• ABC-CLIO stats for February 07 added. (3/06/07)
• OUP stats for December 06 added. (3/2/07)
• ACS stats for January 07 added. (3/2/07)
• EBSCO Database stats for February 07 added. (3/2/07)
• LexisNexis Congressional & Statistical for January 07 added. (03/2/07)
• OED / ORO stats for January - February 07 added. (3/1/07)
• STAT-USA stats for December 06 - January 07 added. (2/19/07)
• Science stats for December 06 - January 07 added. (2/19/07)
• Nature stats for January 07 added. (2/19/07)
• Highwire Press stats for December 06 - January 07 added. (2/19/07)
• Encyclopedia Britannica stats for December 06 - January 07 added. (2/19/07)
• EBSCO Database stats for January 07 added. (2/19/07)
• Cambridge University Press stats for December 06 - January 07 added. (2/19/07)
• MathSciNet stats for January 07 added. (2/19/07)
• ACM stats for January 07 added. (2/15/07)
• Ulrichs stats for July 06 - December 06 added. (2/13/07)
• CIAO stats for January 07 added. (2/13/07)
• Bowker stats for January 07 added. (2/13/07)
• Gale stats for December 06 - January 07 added. (2/13/07)
• Annual Reviews stats for December 06 - January 07 added. (2/08/07)
• Project MUSE stats for December 06 added. (2/06/07)
• OVID stats for January 2007 added (2/06/07)
• Institute of Physics stats for January 07 added. (2/05/07)
• LexisNexis Congressional & Statistical for December 06 added. (02/01/07)
• Duke University Press stats for December 06 added. (01/23/07)
• CIAO stats for December 06 added. (01/23/07)
• ACS stats for July - December 06 added. (1/23/07)
• Nature stats for December 06 added. (1/23/07)
• OVID stats for December 06 added (1/18/07)
• ACM stats for December 06 added. (1/16/07)
• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) stats for November - December 06 added. (1/16/07)
• OED / ORO stats for November - December 06 added. (1/10/07)
• FirstSearch stats for December 06 added. (1/10/07)
• ABC-CLIO stats for December 06 added. (1/10/07)
• Bowker stats for December 06 added. (1/10/07)
• STAT-USA stats for November 06 added. (1/10/07)
• Highwire Press stats for November 06 added. (1/10/07)
• MathSciNet stats for December 06 added. (1/10/07)
• Project MUSE stats for November 06 added. (12/21/06)
• LexisNexis Congressional & Statistical for November 06 added. (12/20/06)
• FirstSearch stats for November 06 added. (12/20/06)
• CIAO stats for November 06 added. (12/20/06)
• Duke University Press stats for November 06 added. (12/20/06)
• OVID stats for November 06 added (12/19/06)
• Nature stats for November 06 added. (12/18/06)
• MathSciNet stats for November 06 added. (12/18/06)
• Encyclopedia Britannica stats for November 06 added. (12/18/06)
• Science stats for October - November 06 added. (12/18/06)
• BioOne stats for November 06 added. (12/18/06)
• ACM stats for November 06 added. (12/18/06)
• ABC-CLIO stats for November 06 added. (12/18/06)
• Cambridge University Press stats for July - November 06 added. (12/11/06)
• STAT-USA stats for October 06 added. (12/11/06)
• Nature stats for October 06 added. (12/11/06)
• Bowker stats for November 06 added. (12/8/06)
• EBSCO Database stats for November 06 added. (12/8/06)
• Institute of Physics stats for July - Nov 06 added. (12/06/06)
• Annual Reviews stats for Nov 06 added. (12/05/06)
• BioOne stats for October 06 added. (11/30/06)
• Duke University Press stats for October 06 added. (11/30/06)
• Project MUSE stats for October 06 added. (11/27/06)
• OED / ORO stats for October 06 added. (11/27/06)
• LexisNexis Congressional & Statistical for October 06 added. (11/27/06)
• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) stats for Oct 06 added. (11/27/06)