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Monthly Archives: October 2009
SAGE Journals and Social Bookmarking
Twitter 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 … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Bookmarking, Databases, Journals, Twitter
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Medline Plus: Diets
MedlinePlus: 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 … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Medical
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The Nook
Barnes & 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 … Continue reading
Posted in E-Reader, Electronic books
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Archive of Japanese American Relocation
Online Archive of the Japanese American Relocation during World War II http://departments.oxy.edu/digitalarch/web/index.htm From 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 … Continue reading
MathVids
MathVids 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 … Continue reading
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Yale Environment 360
Yale 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 … Continue reading
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Library Google Calendars
One 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 … Continue reading
Current Protocols
Our newest trial database: Current Protocols Current Protocols is the largest collection of authoritative and regularly-updated step-by-step research techniques and procedures available.
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Cloud of Terms and Phrases
Google Book Search has added a new section in the overview page of some books called “Common Terms and Phrases”. To view the overview page click on the “About this book” link below the title. You will be able to … Continue reading
Miniature Book Collection
University of North Texas Digital Collections: Miniature Book Collection http://digital.library.unt.edu/browse/department/rarebooks/mnbc/ Is it a recipe for moon tea you seek? Perhaps you’d like to learn more about the century that only had 99 years. It’s all here in the delightful Miniature … Continue reading
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