News and information from the George Fox University libraries
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 scientists, journalists, academics, environmentalists. You can browse by topic or region, use the site specific [...]
Who made one of the biggest mistakes in publishing history? Read about this and more in Britain’s Literary Review.
Happy Friday!
The library offers subject guides for all major disciplines. You can find them by going to the library homepage and clicking on the “Resources by Subject” tab at the top. From there you will be able to select the subject that you want. Our subject guides will show you the best databases to use to [...]
Not sure if the periodical is popular or scholarly? Here are the typical characteristics of scholarly periodicals/journals:
• Often have an ABSTRACT before the article
• Always cite their sources with FOOTNOTES or BIBLIOGRAPHIES
• Have a SERIOUS/SOBER look without glossy pages or exciting photos
• Are written by a SCHOLAR or researcher in the field not an editor [...]
Tweet from Robin Ashford, GFU Reference and Distance Services Librarian:
Beyond the Kindle: Talking eBooks and eReaders with iRex http://tinyurl.com/lc5tup (nice device, insane price).
All of our incoming freshman have received an iTouch and many others of you already have an iTouch or an iPhone. GFU has a helpful web page for iTouch and iPhone users. Even if you are old pro you will probably find some helpful information.
Use TechXtra to search the deep web for articles, books, technical reports, technical data, full text eprints, the latest research, thesis & dissertations and more, in engineering, mathematics and computing. This is a free search tool from the UK that cross searches 31 collections. Full text is freely available from many of the collections.
Kansas University is the first public university to offer free online public access to their institutions’ scholarly research. They join several private universities in using a new online system that makes this possible. Read more at LJWorld.
Search Tip:
There is a new “Search by Author” feature available on Google News. If you spot an article with a reporter’s byline, click the name to bring up other articles by that person. Another way to find news articles by a specific author is to type “author:” followed by their name in the Google News [...]
The fourth annual World Ebook Fair begins July 4th and runs through August 4th. What does this mean for you? Free ebooks, about 2 million free ebooks. That’s right, you can download them to your computer and in some cases to mobile devices. Find a list of participating book resources at the Resource Shelf Blog.
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