Libraries Switching from ProQuest to EBSCO Databases

The Washington Cooperative Library Project (CLP) provides access to a suite of journal and newspaper article databases from ProQuest to the University of Washington and the other public universities in Washington State. This summer, the CLP will be migrating from the ProQuest collection of databases to alternative journal and magazine article databases from EBSCO, and to NewsBank Access World News for newspaper article coverage. The EBSCO/NewsBank collection of databases will provide access to significantly more magazine, journal and newspaper titles, including a great deal of new and unique content.

Where can I find more information?
More information about the database migration including the lists of old and new databases can be found on the Libraries web site at: http://www.lib.washington.edu/cms/clp/

When will this change happen?
We currently have access to all of the new databases from EBSCO and NewsBank. Access to the affected ProQuest databases will cease on July 1, 2008.

What do I have to do?
Any links you have created on our individual or course web pages to articles in ProQuest will need to be checked after July 1 to see if they are affected by this change. Affected links will need to be updated to point to the same article available in either EBSCO or NewsBank, if available through them. If not, please let us know and we will try to determine whether they might be available through another source.

If you have a search alert set up in ProQuest that send you emails with updated search results or tables of contents, you may need to recreate that search alert in either EBSCO or NewsBank. An email was sent out earlier by the Libraries to individuals that we have been able to identify with ProQuest search alerts with additional information about migrating search alerts. If you did not receive an email but believe you have an alert set up please feel free to contact us for more information and assistance.

We expect much of this migration process will be smooth and painless and will result in access to a great deal more magazine, journal and newspaper articles. However, because of our long history with ProQuest, we know that there will be a few speed bumps along the way and we want to do everything we can to help you navigate past them. If you have any additional questions or concerns about this database migration please do not hesitate to contact us.

April 2008 New Books

Title: Climate Change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : contribution of Working Group II to the fourth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Pub. Info: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Location: Available Online
Location: Bothell/CCC Circ Desk
Call Number: QC981.8.C5 C5113452 2007.
Location: Bothell/CCC Reference
Call Number: QC981.8.C5 C5113452 2007.

Title: Climate change as a security risk
Pub. Info: London : Earthscan, 2008.
Location: Tacoma Stacks
Call Number: QC981.8.C5 C51138255 2008.

Title: Evaluating progress of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program : methods and preliminary results
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Strategic Advice on the
Pub. Info: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2007.
Location: Available Online
Location: Natural Sciences Stacks
Call Number: QC981.8.C5 N357 2007.

Title: Sacred ecology
Author: Berkes, Fikret.
Pub. Info: New York : Routledge, 2008.
Location: Natural Sciences Stacks
Call Number: GE40 .B45 2008.

Title: Atmospheric acoustic remote sensing
Author: Bradley, Stuart.
Pub. Info: Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2008.
Location: Natural Sciences Stacks
Call Number: QC871 .B73 2008.

Title: Use of high performance computing in meteorology : proceedings of the Twelfth ECMWF Workshop, Reading, UK, 30 October - 3 November 2006
Author: ECMWF Workshop on the Use of High Performance Computing in Meteorology
Pub. Info: Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2007.
Location: Natural Sciences Stacks
Call Number: QC874.3 .E23 2006.


Title: High resolution numerical modelling of the atmosphere and ocean
Pub. Info: New York ; London : Springer, c2008.
Location: Natural Sciences Stacks
Call Number: QC880.4.A8 H54 2008.

Title: Mesoscale dynamics
Author: Lin, Yuh-Lang.
Pub. Info: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Location: Natural Sciences Stacks
Call Number: QC883.5 .L56 2007.

Title: Deep-time perspectives on climate change : marrying the signal from computer models and biological proxies
Pub. Info: London : published for the Micropalaeontological Society by the
Location: Natural Sciences Stacks
Call Number: QC884 .D44 2007.

Title: Integrating climate change actions into local development
Pub. Info: London : Earthscan, 2008.
Location: Natural Sciences Stacks
Call Number: QC981.8.C5 I367 2007.

Title: Atmospheric justice : a political theory of climate change
Author: Vanderheiden, Steve.
Pub. Info: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Location: Natural Sciences Stacks
Call Number: QC981.8.C5 V355 2008.

Title: Forest guardians, forest destroyers : the politics of environmental knowledge in northern Thailand
Author: Forsyth, Tim.
Pub. Info: Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2008.
Location: Natural Sciences Stacks
Call Number: SD235.T5 F68 2008.

Title: Radioactive aerosols
Pub. Info: Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier, 2008.
Location: Natural Sciences Stacks
Call Number: TD196.R3 R33 2008.

March New Books

Title: Nature and power : a global history of the environment
Author: Radkau, Joachim, 1943-
Pub. Info: Washington, D.C. : German Historical Institute ; Cambridge ; New
Location: Natural Sciences Stacks
Call Number: GF13 .R3413 2008.

February 2008 New Books

Title: A history of the science and politics of climate change : the role of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Author: Bolin, Bert, 1925-2007.
Pub. Info: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Location: Natural Sciences Stacks
Call Number: QC981.8.C5 B65 2007.

Title: Surviving climate change : the struggle to avert global catastrophe
Pub. Info: London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto Press : In association with Crisis
Location: Natural Sciences Stacks
Call Number: QC981.8.C5 S94 2007.

Title: Saving forests, protecting people? : environmental conservation in Central America
Author: Schelhas, John.
Pub. Info: Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, c2008.
Location: Natural Sciences Stacks
Call Number: SD414.C8 S34 2008.

Title: Wildfire risk : human perceptions and management implications
Pub. Info: Washington, DC : Resources for the Future, c2008.
Location: Natural Sciences Stacks
Call Number: SD421 .W535 2008.

January 2008 New Books

Title: Strategic sustainability : the state of the art in corporate environmental management systems
Pub. Info: Sheffield, UK : Greenleaf Pub., 2007.
Location: Natural Sciences Stacks
Call Number: GE300 .S783 2007.

Title: Climate change 2007 : mitigation of climate change : contribution of Working Group III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Pub. Info: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Location: Natural Sciences Stacks
Call Number: QC981.8.C5 C5457 2007.

Title: Analysis of global change assessments : lessons learned
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Analysis of Global
Pub. Info: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2007.
Location: Natural Sciences Stacks
Call Number: QC981.8.C5 N352 2007.

Title: Climate, environment and society in the Pacific during the last
millennium
Author: Nunn, Patrick D., 1955-
Pub. Info: Amsterdam ; London : Elsevier, 2007.
Location: Natural Sciences Stacks
Call Number: QC981.8.C5 N86 2007.

Title: Climate change and economic development : SEA regional modelling and analysis
Author: Sanderson, Jamie.
Pub. Info: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Location: Natural Sciences Stacks
Call Number: QC981.8.C5 S25 2007.

Title: Six degrees : our future on a hotter planet
Author: Lynas, Mark, 1973-
Pub. Info: Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, 2008.
Location: Natural Sciences Stacks
Call Number: QC981.8.G56 L983 2008.

Title: Unstoppable global warming : every 1,500 years
Author: Singer, S. Fred (Siegfried Fred), 1924-
Pub. Info: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2008.
Location: Natural Sciences Stacks
Call Number: QC981.8.G56 S553 2008.

New Resources

A couple new resources popped up on my radar.

In late 2006, in recognition of the International Polar Year, the Exploratorium in San Francisco began hosting webcasts on their website related to work being done by research scientists at the North and South Poles. Well now they're receiving regular dispatches from researchers at five field sites at the poles and have blog posts, photographs and video clips from those research stations at their site called "Ice Stories:Dispatches From Polar Scientists". Fascinating stuff.

Secondly, Dr. Daniel Jacob from Harvard University has made several of his curriculum materials for atmospheric chemistry available on his website. From the Scout Report:

Visitors can click through sections that contain resources such as Power Point presentations on halogen chemistry, aerosols, and global biogeochemical cycles. Professor Jacob has also been kind enough to include several versions of his 1999 textbook titled "Introduction to Atmosphere Chemistry" for general consideration and use.

December 2007 New Books

Somehow these fell through the cracks. A couple more months worth to follow.

Title: Borehole climatology a new method on how to reconstruct climate
Author: Bodri, Louise.
Pub. Info: Oxford : Elsevier, 2007.
Online access

Title: Global warming and global cooling evolution of climate on Earth
Author: Sorokhtin, O. G.
Pub. Info: Oxford : Elsevier, 2007.
Online access

Title: The global circulation of the atmosphere
Pub. Info: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.
Location: Natural Sciences Stacks
Call Number: QC880.4.A8 G572 2007.

Title: Radiation and climate
Author: Vardavas, Ilias M.
Pub. Info: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Location: Natural Sciences Stacks
Call Number: QC912.3 .V37 2007.

Title: Climate Change 2007 : the physical science basis : contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Pub. Info: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Location: Natural Sciences Stacks
Call Number: QC981.8.C5 C546 2007.
Online access

Title: Human-induced climate change : an interdisciplinary assessment
Pub. Info: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Location: Natural Sciences Stacks
Call Number: QC981.8.C5 H86 2007.

Title: The social construction of climate change : power, knowledge, norms, discourses
Pub. Info: Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.
Location: Natural Sciences Stacks
Call Number: QC981.8.C5 S626 2007.