Back to school Quiz with WilsonWeb and Cinema Image Gallery

Get the new school year off to the best possible start by signing up to WilsonWeb Mobile and get a range of WilsonWeb content and functionality with all the convenience of your iPhone, Blackberry, Android phone, or other handheld device.

To mark the start of the new school year, today's Friday quiz is all about schools and education. All the answers can be found in Cinema Image Gallery (where all images are rights-cleared for use in educational settings), or you can wait until we tweet them later on today.

H. W. Wilson continues to be COUNTER compliant

WilsonWeb has yet again been certified as compliant with the Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources (COUNTER) Code of Practice for Journal and Database Reports. According to a recent annual audit by media auditing firm BPA Worldwide, WilsonWeb's usage reports meet the latest standards in both content and format, so librarians and administrators can be confident that they are getting the highest quality statistical information when they consult WilsonWeb reports.

In addition to Wilson’s selection of “standard” International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) compliant usage reports, the online COUNTER usage reports listed below are also provided to its customers, including Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) capability.

DB1 = Database Report 1: Total Searches and Sessions by Month and Database

DB2 = Database Report 2: Turnaways by Month and Database

DB3 = Database Report 3: Total Searches and Sessions by Month and Service

JR1 = Journal Report 1: Number of Successful Full-Text Article Requests by Month and Journal

CR1 = Consortium Report 1: Number of Successful Full-Text Journal Article or Book Chapter Requests by

                Month (XML only)

CR2 = Consortium Report 2: Total Searches by Month and Database (XML only)

SUSHI

The SUSHI protocol standard (ANSI/NISO Z39.93-2007) defines an automated request and response model for the harvesting of electronic resource usage data utilizing a Web services framework.  It is intended to ease the collection of various vendor usage reports for libraries, through the defined formatting of usage data reports.  WilsonWeb’s Usage Statistics Module now includes a “SUSHI Settings” page, giving libraries the ability to access their WilsonWeb Usage Statistics using the SUSHI protocol.  Also on that Settings page, administrators will enter a Single IP or range of IP addresses for connecting to WilsonWeb SUSHI service.

Miniaturization Quiz with Cinema Image Gallery

To mark the forthcoming launch of WilsonWeb Mobile--which gives library patrons all the search power and content of WilsonWeb in the palm of their hand--our Friday quiz this week is all about putting good things in small packages. See if you can identify these films that feature miniaturization.

All images come from Cinema Image Gallery, a repository of thousands of images from film and television, all rights-cleared for educational use. You can find the answers to the quiz there, or you can wait until later today, when we will tweet them.

More news on WilsonWeb Mobile

For WilsonWeb subscribers who access the Internet using an iPhone, an Android phone, a Blackberry, an iPad or some other mobile device, we have developed WilsonWeb Mobile as a way of accessing trusted information on the go. Although this new interface is not a replacement for the traditional desktop version, it will certainly duplicate the quality search results that librarians and patrons have come to expect from their WilsonWeb databases.

The WilsonWeb Mobile application will include the following features:

• A separate database selection screen
• Basic and Advanced Search screens
• Cross-database searching (search multiple databases at the same time)
• Wilson's renowned All-Smart Search
• Relevancy ranking of results
• Record indicators/icons, including Full Text, Peer-Reviewed, Non-Peer Reviewed, WilsonLink (link resolver), holdings, and InterLibrary Loan
• ReadSpeaker text-to-speech converter (HTML Full Text Audio)
• Language translations of both the interface and articles
• Images from Biography databases, Art Museum Image Gallery, Cinema Image Gallery, and more
• Email
• Record navigation and linkable fields
• Co-branding icons or graphics for libraries
• Customization in the Adminstrator's Module
• Referring page authentication (created by each library)
• Searching results included in library's usage statistics (COUNTER and WilsonWeb's "Standard" statistic reports)

This service will be launching very soon. For more information, check out our website, or follow us on Twitter for updates.

People on the Phone Quiz with Cinema Image Gallery

Wilson will soon be launching WilsonWeb Mobile, bringing you fast and flexible access to library resources in the palm of your hand. To mark the launch, we look back over the life of the phone with Cinema Image Gallery. See if you can name the people in the photos below.

You can find the answers in the database, or you can wait until we tweet the answers later today.

Astronomers Quiz with Biography Reference Bank

In honor of this week's Perseids peak viewing, our Friday quiz is all about astronomers.

1) Named British Astronomer Royal in 1835, I calculated the density of the Earth, the mass of the planet Jupiter, and the orbits of comets. Who am I?

a) Lancelot Hogben
b) William Albrecht
c) George Biddell Airy

2) A Dutch astronomer who worked at Harvard University in the early 20th century, I initiated radioastronomy at the university and became known for my work on the small dark nebulae which bear my name. Who am I?

a) Bart Jan Bok
b) Andreas Cellarius
c) Vesto Melvin Slipher

3) Born in Co. Cork, Ireland, in 1842, I wrote the book Popular History of Astronomy, a standard work for many years, and in 1903 became one of the few women to be made a member of the Royal Astronomical Society. Who am I?

a) Sandra M. Faber
b) Agnes Mary Clerke
c) Maria Geha

4) My book, The Starry Messenger, caused a sensation on publication and made me famous, but my Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems saw me on trial for the ideas it expressed. Who am I?

a) Copernicus
b) Galileo
c) Kepler

5) An American astronomer, I developed a now-standard classification system for galaxy types, and the law that is named for me shows that galaxies are moving away from us with a speed proportional to their distance. Who am I?

a) Andrew E. Douglas
b) Fred Hoyle
c) Edwin P. Hubble

All the answers are available by searching in Biography Reference Bank. Just enter astronomer in the search text box and choose Profession/Activity from the dropdown list. Or you can wait till we tweet the answers later today.

Outstanding content with 200 new full-text journals

H. W. Wilson has added 200 new full-text journals to its databases since January 2009, making your library an even more useful research center for your patrons without adding any more paper to your shelves.

These substantial additions have been made to the following full-text databases: Art, Applied Science & Technology, Biological & Agricultural Index Plus, Wilson Business, Education, General Science, Humanities, Index to Legal Periodicals, Library Literature & Information Science, Readers' Guide, and Social Sciences.

Subscribers to either of our Omnifile Full Text databases benefit from every one of these updates.

Click here for the full list of new journals, (in PDF format) or you can click here for our Journal Directory, which gives you a complete list of journals covered by every database.