UHD Library Blog

Oxford Scholarship Online Now Available to UHD

The UHD Library now provides access to Oxford Scholarship Online! Currently, OSO includes access to over 2,700 full-text e-books from Oxford University Press. Top areas include Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, Biology, Business and Management, Classical Studies, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Neuroscience, Physics, Psychology and Social Work.

Special features include:

• At least 400 books added per year
• Advanced searching of the full text of included books
• Link directly to individual books and chapters

Take a look at a sampling of included books published in 2009.

• Evolutionary Conservation Genetics
• The Molecular Organography of Plants
• Poverty Dynamics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
• Between Medieval Men: Male Friendship and Desire in Early Medieval English Literature
• Take Me Home: Protecting America's Vulnerable Children and Families
• Family Newspapers? Sex, Private Life, and the British Popular Press 1918-1978
• Race and the Politics of Solidarity

Oxford Scholarship Online is available to current UHD students, faculty, and staff from anywhere with Web access. Check it out today!

UHD Library's on Twitter and Facebook

UHD Library now has a Twitter feed and a Facebook page. Follow library updates on new databases and more! Even more important, provide us with your feedback.

• Facebook -- Become a fan and help us reach 100!
• Twitter -- Send us a message or find local resources and libraries to follow.

Let us know what's on your mind.

Films on Demand: Digital Educational Video

UHD library users now have instant access to over 5000 streaming educational videos with Films on Demand: Digital Educational Video.

This web-based video delivery system provides a wide range of streaming video titles in four collections: Business and Economics; Health; Humanities and Social Sciences; and Science, from companies such as Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Shopware, Meridian Education, and several major television networks.

With Films on Demand, you can:

• View videos from any computer with a high-speed Internet connection
• Search for videos by keyword, subject, producer, territory, textbook or K-12 standards
• Create a customized playlist with a stable URL for easy sharing
• Incorporate film segments into presentations, lesson plans, etc., etc.

You can find Films on Demand, along with other streaming media resources, on our Audio & Video page.

"A Reader's Guide to Econoblogs" in WSJ

Do you wonder what the experts are currently saying about that all-important issue, the economy? Wall Street Journal has the low-down for you.

In last week's article, "A Reader's Guide to Econoblogs," WSJ selected the 25 best blogs on the economy, with 5 more given an honorable mention. They rated each one on originality, geekiness, and readability.

Current UHD students, faculty, and staff can access this article through the link above, because the Library subscribes to the Wall Street Journal database. (The Library also subscribes to the entire historical digital file of the Wall Street Journal, which began in 1889.)

So take a look, and find out which economy blogs are right for you!

Music Online

We are pleased to announce the addition of Music Online, a database of streaming audio and video, scores, and full-text reference content for dance, classical, jazz, world music, African American music, and American folk music.  This comprehensive resource allows users to cross-search all of our Alexander Street Press music databases (see the “Go to:” drop-down list at the bottom of any page for a complete listing).

Users can create their own “playlists” of themed collections of materials, incorporating any content from Music Online – audio and video recordings, scores, or text – as well as content from other websites.  Playlists can be used as personal favorites lists, class assignments, or in-class teaching resources.  There is also a clip-making tool for isolating a user-defined section of a video, useful for locating a specific scene for study or sharing comments on a particular element or technique.  Clips and playlists can be annotated, edited, and shared. 

You can find Music Online on our Music Databases page.

Periodicals Archive Online

The library has added backfiles of 550 journals from the social sciences and the humanities in Periodicals Archive Online. The collection offers well-known journals in literature, history, philosophy, religion, and Spanish-language scholarship, as well as general-interest magazines. Noteworthy titles include Bentley's Miscellany (1837-1868), the original publisher of novels by Charles Dickens and stories by Edgar Allen Poe; Commentary (1945-2000); Harper's (1850-1995); Sight and Sound (1932-1995); and The Spectator (1828-2000).