the Olive Tree
Summer 2004  Volume 12 Number 1

Exciting new Online Resources
In this issue: Fogler Library has recently added subscriptions to two major online journal resources to its collections.
JSTOR is an important full-text archive of 360 core humanities, social sciences, and science journals, most going back to their inception. The William and Mary Quarterly, for instance, is available back to 1892; Botanical Bulletin goes back to 1875. Most titles in JSTOR are embargoed for 3 to 5 years back from the present in order "to avoid jeopardizing publishers' subscriptions and revenue opportunities from current and recent material." This means that the library continues to subscribe to many of the journals in JSTOR so that we will have the most recent research available to our users. 
   Project MUSE is another large-scale full-text project, with over 200 current journals from 37 scholarly publishers. It includes content in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and economics. Titles such as The Chaucer Review, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, and Journal of Women's History typically have an archive from 4 or 5 years back to present. 

Each collection has its own search engine so that a researcher may type in a subject and get a results list linking to full-text articles. Both can be used from within the library or from remote locations at any hour of the day. For instance, students may connect from a campus dormitory, or faculty may log on from home. In cases where the same journal title appears in both JSTOR and Project MUSE, each repository provides transitional links to the other. Records for all of the Project MUSE journals have been added to URSUS, and JSTOR title links will be added soon. 
Professor Kathleen March (Spanish) has been "really pleased" to find information on service-learning, as well as a wealth of material in both collections on Honduras and Central America to pass along to her students. She says, "These are turning out to be two very helpful sources for me to have, both for student reading material and for research."
Project MUSE and JSTOR are exciting examples of the new "digital library" that the University of Maine is building. We expect that they will be heavily used by students and faculty on campus, and we look forward to providing more valuable collections like these in support of the research and learning environment that are at the core of the University's mission.
Project MUSE and JSTOR are available to validated patrons via the Library home page, http://www.library.umaine.edu/, by linking to "Databases."

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