Kornhauser New Resources
The University Libraries have an online subscription to the Chicago Manual of Style which includes a searchable version of the manual as well as the Chicago Style Q&A.
UofL Libraries continues to add primary source materials to its Digital Collections website at http://digital.library.louisville.edu. The latest additions are:
Images of Kentucky and Environs (http://digital.library.louisville.edu/collections/kyimages/ ) will assemble images relating to Louisville, Kentucky, and environs from various small collections in the University of Louisville Libraries' special collections and archives. It currently features the A.W.
The African American Oral History Collection (http://digital.library.louisville.edu/collections/afamoh/ ), from the Oral History Center at the University Archives and Records Center, currently includes nineteen interviews (available as audio files and transcriptions), mostly conducted in the late 1970s, that document the many aspects of life in Louisville, particularly as experienced by African Americans.
The Kentucky Maps Collection (http://digital.library.louisville.edu/collections/maps ) currently features three atlases of Louisville and Jefferson County, Kentucky, from 1876, 1884, and 1913. These maps show inter-city and commuter rail lines, waterway crossings, and private and public properties, from a time before interstate highways crisscrossed the region and the metropolitan area expanded throughout the county.
The Dietary Supplements Labels Database dietarysupplements.nlm.nih.gov includes information from the labels of over 2,000 brands of dietary supplements in the marketplace, including vitamins, minerals, herbs or other botanicals, amino acids, and other specialty supplements.
The University Libraries are excited to bring news, events, classes, exhibits and new resources to a feed reader near you. To see a list of the feeds available, go to http://library.louisville.edu/news/feeds.html.
The 2006 journal impact factors are now available. Click on the "impact factors" link under the databases heading on the Kornhauser Library home page: http://library.louisville.edu/kornhauser/
Journal impact factors are a means to rank journals within a subject area based on how often articles within the journal is cited. Authors often use this ranking to determine where to publish manuscripts.
