What’s New

New Look for the DMC

In what single virtual space can you browse artworks by Kandinsky, Renoir and Warhol, test your language skills in Swahili, download Satellite images of Ohio and be soothed by the sounds of the nightingale wren? If you guessed the OhioLINK Digital Media Center, you get a gold star.

Now the virtual treasures housed in the Digital Media Center are more prominent thanks to a new interface. The new DMC design offers:

• A prominent area for featured collections, which allows us to highlight new additions and showcase current items
• One-click, front-page access to both individual collections and entire subject areas (i.e. Art & Architecture)
• A cleaner, updated look

Please update those bookmarks
Old bookmarks to Digital Media Center collections will be redirected to their new locations, however we encourage you to update those bookmarks to the new URLs. In addition, you can now link to a single collection. Want to point your class directly to the Reproductive Physiology Animations collection instead of the entire Science area? No problem.

You will also need to update your bookmarks to individual items from the old DMC (e.g. a bookmark to an individual artwork). Persistent URLs (those that begin with http://rave.ohiolink.edu) for videos in the Educational Films & Documentaries collection do not need to updated.

If you have any questions about the Digital Media Center, or problems to report with the new interface, please use this form to contact the OhioLINK staff, or contact your local library for assistance.

A sample of some of the items you can find in the DMC: artworks, educational videos and satellite images

Eight Millionth Article Added to Electronic Journal Center

The eight millionth scholarly research article was recently added to OhioLINK's award-winning Electronic Journal Center. The EJC provides students, faculty and staff at participating OhioLINK institutions with instantaneous online access to more than 7,100 journals from 101 publishers. OhioLINK users downloaded 4.9 million articles from the EJC in 2006. A total of 25 million articles have been downloaded from the EJC since its inception in April 1998. New journal issues are added to the EJC daily. To stay current, OhioLINK users have the option of receiving updates of new issues via e-mail alerts or RSS feeds. You can also save searches and have the results sent to you. Find instructions for these features here. Want to find out if OhioLINK has a particular journal? Try the E-Journal Finder. The E-Journal Finder searches the EJC and several other databases to help find desired journals. If you don't find the journal in question using the E-Journal Finder, check with your librarian as your library may provide other means of accessing the journal online.

Take a Peek at the New Digital Media Center

OhioLINK's new and improved Digital Media Center interface is now available for preview

The new DMC offers:

• A prominent area for featured collections, which allows us to highlight new additions and showcase current items
• One-click, front-page access to both individual collections and entire subject areas (i.e. Art & Architecture)
• A cleaner, updated look

The new DMC is scheduled to go live on March 26. Once it is live, the URL for the new DMC will be the same as the current URL: http://dmc.ohiolink.edu.

Bookmarks to individual items from the old DMC (e.g. a bookmark to an individual artwork) will not carry over to the new DMC. You will need to update these bookmarks after March 26. Persistent URLs (those that begin with http://rave.ohiolink.edu) for videos in the Digital Video Collection will carry over to the new system, so you will not need to update those bookmarks.

If you have any questions about the Digital Media Center, or problems to report with the new interface, please use this form to contact the OhioLINK staff, or contact your local library for assistance.

Library Careers Night - You're Invited

Have you ever considered a library career? Are you currently in library school? Then Library Careers Night is for you!

Library Careers Night will be held on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in Dublin, Ohio. No reservations are required, and the event is free and open to the public.

Sponsored by Kent State University's School of Library and Information Science and OCLC, Library Careers Night will provide an opportunity for students, library and information specialists, and current library specialists to explore a wide array of career possibilities in this dynamic and growing field as well as offer professionals the opportunity to showcase their libraries and services to future and current librarians.

Over 30 exhibitors will be on hand, represented by professionals in academic, public, law, medical, historical and school librarianship, and experts from industry organizations including the Ohio Library Council, the Academic Library Association of Ohio, and the Ohio Educational Library Media Association. Be sure to stop by the OhioLINK display if you attend!

The event will begin at 5:30 pm with a panel discussion, moderated by Richard Rubin, director, Kent State School of Library and Information Science. Members of the panel will represent diverse areas of the information profession and will discuss current trends, career opportunities, and answer questions from the audience. Exhibits will be from 6:30 pm until 8:00 pm in the Smith Building Conference Center on the OCLC campus, 6565 Kilgour Place, Dublin, OH 43017-3395.

For further information on Library Careers Night please contact Ruth Smith, Public Relations Coordinator, Kent State University School of Library and Information Science, 330-672-0003 or rsmith9(at)kent(dot)edu.

Free Lecture: Scholarly Communication, Strategies for Change on March 21

Attend Scholarly Communication, Strategies for Change, a lecture by Ray English, Azariah Smith Root Director of Libraries, Oberlin College, on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 at 7:00 p.m. at John Carroll University. English's lecture will address questions such as:

• Why is it important for the academic community to exercise greater control of its scholarship?
• How does the current system of scholarly publishing erode authors' rights?
• What are the alternatives for dissemination and preservation of scholarship?
• How can we ensure the retention of rights to the intellectual property created on our campuses?

In addition to being Director of Libraries at Oberlin College, Ray English chairs both the Association of College and Research Libraries' Scholarly Communications Committee and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resource Coalition Steering Committee. He was named Academic/Research Librarian of 2006 by the Association of College and Research Libraries.

Scholarly Communication, Strategies for Change is a free event that is open to the public. No reservations are necessary. The lecture will be held in the Muer Room of John Carroll University's Grasselli Library, 20700 North Park Blvd., University Heights, OH, 44118. For directions to JCU and Grasselli Library, follow this link. For additional information about the lecture, contact Jeanne Somers, Director, Grasselli Library and Breen Learning Center at 216-397-3053 or jsomers (at) jcu (dot) edu.

More information about the crisis in scholarly publishing is available from OhioLINK's Web site, the Challenge for Ohio Higher Education -- Providing Access to Scholarly Publishing.