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Safari Books
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Safari Books
November 4th, 2009Credo Reference Tip
November 3rd, 2009Credo Reference allows you to seamlessly continue your research in one of our other library resources. On any entry page at the top, you’ll see ‘Continue searching in:’ next to a drop down menu. Simply select Foxtrax, Academic Search Premier, and Oxford Reference and your search will run in that catalog or database.
Primary Docs in American History
November 3rd, 2009SAGE Journals and Social Bookmarking
October 30th, 2009Twitter links were recently added to the list of social bookmarking links available on the SAGE Journals Online platform. You can now tweet links to your favorite articles and to let colleagues and classmates know what you are reading and researching. Twitter links are available at the abstract and full-text article pages on the SAGE Journals Online platform, along with links for CiteULike, Complore, Connotea, Del.i.cio.us, Digg, Reddit, and Technorati.
Medline Plus: Diets
October 29th, 2009MedlinePlus: Diets [pdf]
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/diets.html
In this section of their website, Medline Plus, a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, tackles the subject of diets. The information is divided up into half a dozen labeled boxes near the top of the page, and includes “Basics”, “Research”, “Learn More”, and “Reference Shelf”. Within these sections visitors can find links to information on “Nutrition”, “Specific Conditions”, “Journal Articles”, “Dictionaries/Glossaries”, and more. Many of the topics discussed throughout the categories is the safety of certain diets, such as the link “Nutrition for Weight Loss: What You Need to Know About Fad Diets”, and “Are Detox Diets Safe?” found under the Teenagers category at the bottom of the page. Visitors interested in participating in clinical trials going on throughout the United States, can check out the links “ClinicalTrials.gov: Diet” and “ClinicalTrials.gov: Diet Therapy” under the category Clinical Trials.
From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2009. http://scout.wisc.edu/
The Nook
October 28th, 2009Barnes & Noble has entered into the eReader market with a device that will likely be very competitive with Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s Reader. The Nook is wifi enabled, sports a color touchscreen for scrolling through book titles, and runs on the Android platform (which will support Android apps when connected to wifi). It supports more open file formats than any other eReader thus far. In addition, Barnes & Noble is offering a book lending option that will allow people to loan a book to someone else for 14 days. Any device that uses B&N’s eReader software can borrow a book from a Nook.
Will the Nook overtake the Kindle and change the dynamics in the world of ebooks? What do you think about the book lending option? Is it fair to authors and publishers? How do you think that it will impact book sales?
Read more in The Guardian’s Technology Blog post, “New e-reader to carve out Android ‘nook‘”.
Archive of Japanese American Relocation
October 27th, 2009From 1941 to 1946, Occidental College President Remsen DuBois Bird and College Librarian Elizabeth McCloy made it their mission to preserve articles, newspapers, pamphlets, and other items related to the forced internment of persons of Japanese ancestry along the West Coast. Several years ago, a beneficent grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation’s Archival Grants Program made the digitization of these documents possible. The result is this engaging and important digital collection, which includes close to 300 items. At the heart of this collection are the 275 letters and papers from the correspondence of President Bird. As their website suggests “The correspondence offers a rich resource for learning more about the issues of higher education, civil liberties and actions of individuals during the forced evacuation of the Japanese Americans during World War II.” Users can use the “Search Archive” tab to access the collection, and they will probably want to take a look at the topical headings here or just use the drop-down “Letters” tab to look through select letters.
From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2009. http://scout.wisc.edu/
MathVids
October 27th, 2009MathVids
http://www.mathvids.com/
With a focus on a wide range of students and learning abilities, MathVids provides access to hundreds of instructional videos that relate basic, intermediate, and advanced mathematical concepts. The site contains a number of sample videos, though visitors will need to complete a free registration form to view all of the materials on the site. On the left hand side of the site, visitors will find the videos organized into topics like statistics, linear algebra, discrete math, and differential equations. Further down the site, visitors can look over the most viewed and most popular videos based on ratings from other registered users. The site also has a “Just for Fun” area which contains some number games and a bit of math history. Finally, visitors shouldn’t leave the site without checking out their informative weblog.
From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2009. http://scout.wisc.edu/
Yale Environment 360
October 22nd, 2009Yale Environment 360 is an online magazine published by the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Its purpose is to publish “opinion, analysis, reporting and debate on global environmental issues.” Opinion pieces and scientific research are available at e360 from scientists, journalists, academics, environmentalists. You can browse by topic or region, use the site specific search box to find information, read personal interviews, and review analysis from the experts. Use e360 to keep current on environmental issues by subscribing to an RSS feed, signing up for the email newlsetter, or following on Twitter.
Library Google Calendars
October 22nd, 2009One of the regular questions that we get at the library is, “What are your hours?” GFU libraries now have their hours available on Google Calendar. This gives you the option of subscribing to the calendar for either library. You can find the calendars on the library website’s “Hours” pages.
- Click on a date to see all the information for that day
- Click on a date to copy the information to your own Google Calendar
- Click on the Google Calendar icon at the bottom of the calendar to add it to your own Google Calendar