About the Faculty Scholarship Database
The Faculty Scholarship Database is designed for those on and off campus who would like a quick means of reviewing faculty research and scholarship at the College. The database is searchable in several ways and may eventually link to texts or excerpts of publications when available.
Coverage of Database
The database, as first made public in 2007, includes works from 2003 to 2006. As time allows, records of earlier faculty scholarship will be added. Faculty may add references to their earlier scholarship if they wish to do so.
Who May Enter Work Into the Database
The database has been designed so that faculty may enter their own works into the database or records may be added by library staff. Formats used in the database are based on Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 6th ed. Categories of works correspond to categories in Turabian style in RefWorks. Lists of citations can be exported to RefWorks and then formatted in any desired citation style. For more information, contact Debra Bucher, debucher@vassar.edu.
Some Types of Works Entered in the Database
- Books, book chapters, anthologized works, edited works, translations
- Book reviews
- Articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers
- Essays published in conference proceedings, festschriften, anthologies, and other collective works
- Novels, plays, poems, stories, short works in collections
- Contributions to reference works
- Exhibitions of art works and exhibition catalogues
- Musical works published or recorded
- Musical performances and performance notes
- Choreography
- Websites with substantial scholarly content
- Documentary film
- DVDs
Book reviews are entered as journal or magazine articles as are poems, plays, and short stories which appeared in journals or magazines. Contributions to reference books are entered as book sections. Conference proceedings may be entered as books or as journal articles, depending on their mode of publication. Exhibition catalogues are entered as books.
Faculty Included in the Database
Initially (as of academic year 2006/7), items have been submitted for inclusion in the database by full-time faculty, lecturers, adjunct faculty and librarians.
Acknowledgements
The Library would like to acknowledge the following individuals for their work on creating the database:
- Shay Foley, Assistant Director for Technology
- Kathy Kurosman, Head of Library Instruction
- Andrea Listenberger, Media Cloisters student
- Marisa Goudy, Assistant to the Director
- Jaime Stevens, Library Assistant, Director's Office