Hi,
Starting July 1, 2008, UMBC library switches from Applied Science and Technology Abstract (EBSCO) to Computers and Applied Science Complete (EBSCO). They are identical databases, but CASC has over 500 journals that are full-text.
Please let us know what you think. Thanks!
Hi,
The library no longer subscribes to Credo Reference (used to be "Xrefer Plus"). Oxford Reference Online ( http://www.oxfordreference.com/) is now the replacement.
Any feedback is welcome.
Thanks,
June
Starting July 1, 2008, UMBC library users can now have access to Oxford Reference Online (ORO)
It includes full text of over 100 dictionaries, general reference, language reference, and subject reference works. You can access it either from the Database Search option on the library home page or via the Research Port. Also about 20 Oxford Online Encyclopedias library previously purchased are cross-searchable in ORO.
Please check it out and let us know what you think.
The Special Collections department is currently testing out a new way to gather information on unidentified photographs and expose our alums and the greater university community to our historical holdings. Using the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery's newly established Flickr page, we have added University Archives photographs that feature UMBC students in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. Anyone is encouraged to leave a note or comment with information or reflections on the people, places, and events shown in the photographs.
This tool is still being tested but other institutions have had success with similar interactive projects, including:
Enoch Pratt Free Library/State Library Resource Center: Most Wanted
Library of Congress on Flickr
The Polar Bear Expedition Digital Collections at the University of Michigan (features EAD finding aids, commenting capabilities, user profiles and saved bookmarks)
Hi,
We just recently added the HFES Digital Library to our collection. It includes the following five titles:
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting Proceedings
Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making
Ergonomics in Design: The Quarterly of Human Factors Applications
Reviews of Human Factors and Ergonomics
Coverage may go back to as early as 1980s. You can access it either via Journal Finder or Research Port. For remote access, please check information on this page.
August 14, 2008 12-1 pm (LIB 259)
This workshop, part of the Library Tech Talks series, will introduce participants to a range of features included in this free web-accessible citation manager.
This workshop will focus on setting up an EndNote Web account, importing database citations, web-based citations or searching and importing resources through EndNote Web, using the Cite While You Write for Microsoft Word plug-in and setting up and/or sharing project folders.
Register at the OIT training page.
July 29, 2008 12-1 pm (LIB 259)
This workshop, part of the Library Tech Talks series, will introduce faculty and staff to this multidisciplinary database that provides literature access to the highest-quality journals across the arts, humanities, sciences and social sciences.
This hands-on workshop will focus on cited and citing reference searching, filtering and analyzing search results and setting up search alert emails or RSS feeds.
Register at the OIT training page.
Users of Project MUSE articles may have noticed an additional feature - "clickable" subject headings for each article, allowing fast and easyconnections to related content in Project MUSE. Built upon the rich controlled vocabulary classification of all MUSE articles and reviews with
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) , this new functionality quickly connects scholars to
additional relevant content to enhance their research.
The old, blue Course Reserves binders that have been used to look-up reserves for courses have gone the way of the Dodo bird. They have been replaced by a dedicated, Course Reserves Look-up workstation. That's all this workstation does; allow you to look-up course reserves. In the case of hardcopy reserves, you can then write the Reserve Number on the slips provided so that the Circulation desk person can pull them from the Reserves shelfs. They are similar in function to the dedicated, Catalog workstations except this one only permits Course Reserves look-up.
If you have any comments or suggestions about this workstation, please contact Michael Dick (michaed@umbc.edu).
A variety of help guides are now available to assist UMBC faculty, staff, and students in setting up and using an EndNote Web account. Learn how to:
* Set up an Endnote Web Account
* Transfer references from Endnote Desktop to Endnote Web
* Use Endnote Web with Library databases and catalogusmai
* Install and Use Cite While You WriteTM in Microsoft Word
These help guides are available at EndNote Web at UMBC.
Contact Katy Sullivan or Uta Hussong with any questions.
