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Ebrary has created a publicly available research center featuring a highly interactive, searchable database of documents pertaining to the H1N1 influenza pandemic.  This resource is available at http://h1n1.ebrary.com and contains reports, papers, newsletters, posters, and other important materials from government agencies and other trusted sources.

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Go to ALA Library Fact Sheet 22 to view information about the 100 largest libraries in the U.S.  U of O is #99.

If you go to Google Scholar you will notice that it is now sporting a new button below the search box titled “Legal opinions and journals”.  Google has made full text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts available on Google Scholar.  Select the button to search for a specific legal case or for cases by keyword.  Once you run your search three advanced search or limiters appear at the top of the page in the form of drop down menus which allow you some other options such as focusing the time period or narrowing your search to a federal case.  If you click on the advanced menu option in the first drop down or use the “Advanced Scholar Search” link that is next to the main search box you can narrow your search to court opinions from any of the fifty states.  Of course, you can also use the “Advanced Scholar Search” to further specify the terms of your search as well just like you would with a typical search in Google Scholar.

If legal research is what you need, remember that GFU Libraries subscribe to:

LegalTrac
Provides indexing for hundreds of titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals. Each title included in LegalTrac™ is selected on the basis of criteria provided by a special advisory committee of the American Association of Law Libraries. LegalTrac™ also contains law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles.

LexisNexis Academic
Comprehensive news, business, and legal information, entirely full-text.

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New database:

Political Science Complete

Contains full text for over 400 journals, and cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 800 journals, (including top-ranked scholarly journals), many of which are unique to the product, such as British Politics, Ethnopolitics and the Journal of Women, Politics & Policy. PSC has a worldwide focus, reflecting the globalization of contemporary political discourse.

Business Source Complete now includes a business video collection with 55 videos from the Harvard Business School Faculty Seminar Series.  The series features video lectures from renowned professors and experts at the Business School.  All lectures are captured from executive education programs, and offer groundbreaking ideas, insightful research, and practical advice on management issues.  The videos contain a table of content allowing the selection of a specific topic.  Most lectures provide a transcript in PDF format.

Tip #1: To search for a video in BSC, hover over “More” at the top of the screen and then select “Business Videos/Images”.  You can now enter your search terms in the search box.

Tip #2: To view all 55 videos, follow the above directions and then enter “Harvard” in the search box and click “Search”.

We have trial access to StahlOnline for the next 30 days.  This electronic resource contains Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology, The Prescriber’s Guide, Stahl’s Illustrated, and more.  You can always find the databases and other electronic resources that we have on trial at http://www.georgefox.edu/offices/murdock/trialdatabases.html

Use GFU library’s subscription database, Credo Reference, to find:

Encyclopedias

Dictionaries

Biographies

Bilingual dictionaries

HotMap is a search engine that allows you to visualize and interact with your search results.  Once you have run a search, HotMap shows you the top 30 words from your top 100 search results in a “WordBar” on the left-hand side of the page.  You can add, delete or re-sort terms and you can also see how often the terms are used in the search results.  Like many other search engines that are no longer giving us merely a list-view of our search results, HotMap is applying new research to help users refine searches, select terms, and find better matches for our information needs.

Recently I was performing a search in Google and I felt that it would help if I had the ability to exclude specific websites from my results and so I checked into it.  I already knew that I could use the minus sign “-” to exclude terms from my search query and I also knew that I could search within specific websites or a class of websites using the “site:” operator.  What I learned was that Google allows you to use “-” and “site:” together to exclude specific websites from your results.

Example: white house history -site:www.whitehouse.gov

Do you have a favorite Google Search Tip?  We’d like to hear about it so post a response to this and share your tip.

Media College
http://www.mediacollege.com/

A multimedia production company in New Zealand has website that offers free tutorials, references, resources, and forums on electronic media production. There are lessons on “Video”, “Audio”, “Photography”, “Graphics”, “Computer”, “Internet”, a “Glossary”, and “Equipment” that offer operating manuals from 18 different brands of equipment. There are a number of free downloads, including a “Talent Release Form”, “TV Production Application with Budget Summary”, and “US Copyright Application Form PA” under Forms, in the “Downloads” link at the top of the page. In the “Misc” at the top of the page are various tutorials, such as “Journalism” and “Employment”, which cover various job-hunting skills for film and television, as well as tips on writing press releases, interviewing, and the newsworthiness of stories. Visitors with questions for other electronic media production workers can go to “Forums”, at the top of the page, to become involved with a community of like-minded individuals. Almost all of the dozen or so categories have current posts in them, so it appears to be a fairly active forum.

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