Tip of the Week
Many databases off a folder option — a free, personalized account for storing articles, searches, etc. Folders are perfect for organizing research!
Ask us how to create an account.
Questions? Ask us!
Periodicals by Title Maintenance
EBSCO will be performing scheduled maintenance between Friday, February 22nd at 11:00 p.m. and Saturday, February 23rd at 3:00 a.m. on its e-journal full-text access servers.
Direct access to articles from EBSCO’s linking services will be unavailable for the following list of publishers:
- National League for Nursing
- American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP)
- Intellect Ltd
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press)
- College of Business and Public Affairs
- e-Med
- IUPAC
- NRC Research Press
Only articles from these eight publishers accessed via Periodicals by Title will be affected. These publishers account for only 80 of EBSCO’s more than 15,000 journals handled by it’s linking services, so the overall impact should be minimal. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Visual Literacy: Seeing the Big Picture
In today’s highly visual culture, “information literacy” no longer simply refers to text-based information. Students are now presented with a wealth of visual material that can be used to enhance — not merely supplement — scholarly work. In this session, learn how to help students locate, evaluate, and incorporate credible visual resources into reports, presentations, and other assignments. Tips for citing visual resources will also be discussed.
- Wednesday, February 13 at noon in LaVerne Dining Hall
- This session will most benefit the following Departments:
- Art
- Business
- Education
- History and Political Science
- Sciences (all areas – undergraduate & graduate)
- Sport Sciences
- All are Welcome
- Feel free to post questions here in advance
Tags: Lunch and Learn, Visual Literacy
Ethel’s Database of the Month
Highlights:
- Comprehensive, full-text database
- Includes
- Plot summaries
- Synopses
- Literary criticism articles
- Book reviews
- Citation tools
- Literary glossary
- A guide to literary research
- and more
- Hundreds of classic works available full-text
A great resource for:
- Finding Literary Criticism on a specific author or work
- Finding full-text articles
- Conducting Literary research
- Understanding the meanings of poems, stories, and novels
- Literature classes! (GPS 210, English, et cetera)
Tip of the Week
Struggling with that Works Cited page?
Consider EasyBib: a free, online citation tool.
Questions? Ask us!
Tags: EasyBib
LexisNexis: More Than Legalities
The focus will be on accessing and employing the 9,000+ full-text news, business, medical, and legal publications found in the database.
- Tuesday, February 5 at 11am in the EKS Reference Computer Commons
- This session will most benefit the following Departments:
- Business
- Communications
- Education (undergraduate & graduate)
- Modern Languages
- History & Political Science
- Sciences (all areas – undergraduate & graduate)
- Sport Sciences
- All are Welcome
- Feel free to post questions here
Tags: LexisNexis, Library Workshop
JSTOR and MLA: Moving Past the “Moving Wall”
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JSTOR and MLA provide access to citations, full-text scholarly articles, primary documents, and more. Learn how to get the most out of each resource in conjunction with tools such as EKS Periodicals by Title, EKS A-to-Z, and Google Scholar™ and see how you can use these interdisciplinary databases for discipline-specific assignments.
- Wednesday, January 23 at noon in LaVerne Dining Hall
- This session will most benefit the following Departments:
- Humanities Disciplines
- All are Welcome
- Feel free to post questions here in advance
Periodicals by Title Maintenance
EBSCO will be performing scheduled maintenance on Periodicals by Title between Friday, January 18th 11:00 p.m. and Saturday, January 19th 3:00 a.m.
Direct access to articles from EBSCO’s linking services will be unavailable for the following list of publishers:
- National League for Nursing
- American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP)
- Intellect Ltd
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press)
- College of Business and Public Affairs
- e-Med
- IUPAC
- NRC Research Press
Only articles from these eight publishers accessed via Periodicals by Title Table of Contents Browse, EJS, or SmartLinks+ will be affected. These publishers account for only 80 of EBSCO’s more than 15,000 journals handled by our linking services, so the overall impact should be minimal.
Ethel’s Database of the Month
Camio
Highlights:
- Content from 3000 BCE to the present
- About 100,000 works of art
- High-resolution images
- All image rights cleared for educational use
A Good Resource for:
- Art History research
- GPS research
- Historical Photographs
- Primary Sources!
Tags: Camio
EBSCOhost Maintenance
EBSCO has announced that that for about eight hours beginning at 7:00 a.m. on Saturday, January 5th 2013, certain EBSCOhost functionality, will be unavailable due to planned maintenance. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Database Maintenance, EBSCOhost
