Annual Reviews Online Now Available to VIVA Libraries
VIVA
The Virtual Library of Virginia
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release: Fairfax, Virginia 7/31/00
Through the efforts of VIVA, The Virtual Library of Virginia, students and faculty across
the Commonwealth are now able to search through the online contents of Annual
Reviews in a multitude of disciplines. The Annual Reviews provide state-of-the-art
reports by experts on the current scholarship in many fields, and are an invaluable
support to faculty, graduate, and undergraduate inquiry. In addition to containing the full
text of review essays published since 1996, tables of contents are included for 1984 to
1995, as well as previews of topics for upcoming annual issues.
What’s hot in Biochemistry? A student can easily browse online the Annual Review of
Biochemistry for 1999, and find an essay article by Monty Krieger entitled “Charting the
Fate of the ‘Good Cholesterol’” which critically reviews current research on this topic,
providing a comprehensive bibliography (over 250 works) for additional reading. The
article, in Adobe PDF format, contains all the original color graphics from the print
version. In addition, direct links allow the researcher to jump to:
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abstracts of the cited articles in other services such as Medline and ISI’s Web of
Science
similar articles in Annual Reviews in Biochemistry
a list of recent articles that have cited the Krieger article.
In addition to browsing entire volumes, students may conduct searches for authors or
subjects. A search on “organizational behavior” in Annual Review of Sociology retrieves
75 articles, covering such diverse topics as “The Legal Environments of Organizations,”
“A Retrospective on the Civil Rights Movement,” and “Sexuality in the Workplace.”
Faculty and graduate students may wish to be notified when new content is available
online. They may easily register for this service, called eTOCs. A message containing
the table of contents of the newest issue will arrive in their email inbox when that issue is
available online, providing a convenient way to stay abreast of new developments.
Annual Reviews Online may be searched by going to the Annual Reviews website at
http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/arsearch.dtl.
This new VIVA subscription covers all of the Annual Reviews:
Anthropology
Astronomy and
Astrophysics
Biochemistry
Biomedical Engineering
Biophysics and
Biomolecular
Structure
Cell and Developmental
Biology
Earth and Planetary
Sciences
Ecology and Systematics
Energy and the
Environment
Entomology
Fluid Mechanics
Genetics
Immunology
Materials Science
Medicine
Microbiology
Neuroscience
Nuclear and Particle
Science
Nutrition
Pharmacology and
Toxicology
Physical Chemistry
Physiology
Phytopathology
Plant Physiology and
Plant Molecular
Biology
Political Science
Psychology
Public Health
Sociology
VIVA, The Virtual Library of Virginia, is the consortium of the libraries of the 39 stateassisted colleges and universities (at 52 campuses) within the Commonwealth of
Virginia. In addition, 32 independent (private, non-profit) institutions and The Library of
Virginia participate where possible. VIVA’s mission is to provide, in a equitable,
cooperative, and cost-effective manner, enhanced access to library and information
resources for Virginia’s academic libraries serving the higher education community.
VIVA is sponsored by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV).
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For additional information contact:
Katherine A. Perry
VIVA Director
B222 Fenwick Library
George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia 22030-4444
Tel: (703) 993-4652
E-Mail: kperry@gmu.edu