Science Direct Maintenence
ScienceDirect will be unavailable due to scheduled upgrade maintenance for approximately 12 hours between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, January 23, 2010.
This upgrade is designed to allow the following:
- Redesigning the pages for easier reading.
- Adding graphical features to RSS and e-mail alerts.
- Improved book search by adding volume information to browse and quick search options.
- Added search refinements by adding a topics option–drawn from the keywords one selects–to one’s current search.
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318 New eBooks from the Ethel K. Smith Library
The Ethel K. Smith Library is happy to announce that it will be offering 318 MyiLibrary eBooks made available through NCLive with a Library Services and Technology Act grant from the State Library of North Carolina.
The new eBooks, with subjects focusing primarily on classic literature, history, biography, language learning, health, and medicine, are available to library patrons both from the Wingate Campus, and remotely via any Internet connection. Checkout the new myLibrary offerings from Databases, Articles, etc. link of the Library homepage.
NCLive, North Carolina’s statewide online library, purchased the eBooks through Ingram Digital and will make the books available through their MyiLibrary® platform. MyiLibrary® is the Ingram Content Group’s industry-leading e-content aggregation platform for public, academic and professional libraries around the world.
Readers can view the books online without downloading any material and no proprietary eBook reader is needed to view the books.
Additional Databases Now Feature MLA 7
Academic OneFile and Gale Virtual Reference Library, both brought to you by the EKS Library, now feature MLA 7. The most visible changes found in MLA 7 include:
• No more underlining — publication titles and the name of the online product accessed are now italicized
• No more URLs — MLA no longer requires URLs, but encourages writers to provide a URL if the citation information does not easily lead readers to the source
• Continuous pagination — this is no longer an issue for scholarly journal citations; both volume and issue numbers are required, regardless of pagination
• Publication medium — since documents accessed from Academic OneFile and Gale Virtual Reference Library are Gale resources, the citation will always include the medium “Web.” In addition, MLA has eliminated the requirement to include the name of the service (“Gale”) and the name of the subscribing institution
• New abbreviations — when certain metadata is missing, such as publisher or page numbers, suggested abbreviations are displayed denoting that fact
For help using these Gale resources or other Library databases, please visit the Reference Desk in the Ethel K. Smith Library, or dial campus extention 8097 to speak with a Librarian.
Significant Changes in 7th Edition of The MLA Handbook
The Modern Language Association has recently published the 7th edition of The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. This new edition contains significant changes to MLA documentation style including a requirement to indicate the medium of all sources (i.e., Web, Print, etc.), a switch to italicizing instead of underlining text such as book and journal titles, and more. The Ethel K. Smith Library has two copies of the 7th edition: one at the Reference Desk available for consultation with a Librarian, and one at the Circulation Desk available for check-out as a reserve item (3-hour time limit; in-building use only).
For those of you who rely on the citations generated by the Library’s databases, please be aware that not all have updated their MLA documentation style to the 7th edition. For example, all EBSCOhost databases and CQ Researcher Online are now providing citations in accordance with the 7th edition of The MLA Handbook, while Academic OneFile is still generating citations based on the 6th edition. Please be aware that The Little, Brown Compact Handbook (7th ed.) used in English 110 was published prior to the 7th edition of The MLA Handbook, so you may see some discrepancies in citations.
If you have any questions about citation methods, please visit the Library’s page on Citing Sources for links to online citation help for various citation styles, or contact the Reference Desk at x8097 or by using Ask Ethel.
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EBSCO Animals now Encyclopedia of Animals
EBSCO Animals has been removed as a stand alone product and its contents placed in a new product called Encyclopedia of Animals. Content from the newly created Encyclopedia of Animals is now included in three EBSCO databases and can be searched through the Science Reference Center, Middle Search, and Primary Search interfaces. Articles within the Encyclopedia of Animals include improved citation features and added subject headings. In addition, new images and maps have been included into the “Related Item” section of the full text. Visit the Science Reference Center and begin searching today!
Changes to Greenwood Digital Collection
On September 17th, the Greenwood Digital Collection will become part of ABC-CLIO’s Digital History Collection. When that happens, you will see the collection listed as ABC-CLIO E-book Collection. Content in this collection includes,
- American Slavery
- Daily Life Through History
- Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Authors
- Historic Events of the 20th Century
- Literature in Context
Although the content will remain the same, the appearance will be different and there will be some minor changes in features and navigation.
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New Journal Titles Available
Additional journals are now available in ScienceDirect. To search within the new titles, visit the Databases, Articles, etc. link from the Library homepage.
- Arabian Journal of Chemistry
- Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning
- Forensic Science International Supplement Series
- Italian Journal of Medicine
- Journal of Dental Sciences
- Journal of King Saud University- Science
- Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering
- Journal of Saudi Chemical Society
- Journal of the Saudi Heart Association
- Journal of the Pharmaceutical Society
- Journal of Theoretical & Philosophical Psychology
- Osteopathic Family Physician
- Precedia Engineering
- Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences
- Saudi Journal of Ophthalmology
- Scandinavian Journal of Pain
- The Saudi Dental Journal
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Database Passwords Back On
Because of continued reports from the Residence Halls that the proxy server that handles access to the library databases is being bypassed, I am reinstating the password requirement.
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New Business Source Premier Interface
Business Source Premier, one of the subscription databases available through the Ethel K. Smith Library, now opens to the Business Searching Interface screen by default. There is no change to the content, it is just an interface geared toward organizing and presenting business information better with quicker access to Company and Industry Profiles, Country Reports, and Market Research Reports.
To access the familiar expanded EBSCOhost search screen with multiple search boxes and limiter options such as Peer Reviewed, simply click the Advanced Search tab at the top of the page.
Happy Searching!
Easier Access to The Cochrane Library
Always available as a subset of the Wiley InterScience database, the Ethel K. Smith Library has made access to The Cochrane Library even easier with a direct link on the library’s Databases, Articles, Etc. page.
The Cochrane Library contains high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. It includes reliable evidence from Cochrane and other systematic reviews, clinical trials, and more. Cochrane reviews bring you the combined results of the world’s best medical research studies, and are recognized as the gold standard in evidence-based health care.
If you have any questions on how to access this resource, please visit our Tips for Logging onto Databases page.
