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Using Library Resources in Blackboard

Hey Faculty!  Looking for ways to spice up your Blackboard content?  Have you thought about adding videos from Films on Demand or American History in Video?  Or maybe sharing a playlist from Music Online?  Did you know the library has over 83,000 E-books that you can share with your classes?  Not sure where to start?  Well check out the Library’s new guides to using library resources in Blackboard!  Blackboard-Database Guides

If you have any questions always feel free to Ask-a-Librarian !

 

 

Raw List of Major New Library Online Resources: 2008-09

Hi! This is Pat Ensor, your friendly Library Director. I was just putting together a list of the major new online resources the Library subscribed to in the last year for a report I'm writing, and I was so excited to see it all together that I had to share it. And if I waited till I had a chance to clean it all up, I'd never get to it.

So here it is, and if you're a UHD student, faculty, or staff member, this is all yours.

• Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text 
• Publishing Opportunities Database
  
• Films On Demand 
• American History in Video             
• JSTOR 19^th Century British Pamphlets + 3 JSTOR journal collections 
• GeoRef 
• Social Work Abstracts 
• Periodical Archives Online (backfiles) – 250+ titles, including Harpers 
• Texas Historical Newspapers Archive, 1829-1922 
• Oxford Scholarship Online 
• Wiley and Blackwell journal backfiles 
• American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection, part 1     
• Taylor & Francis Social Sciences & Humanities Collection 
• Music Online
• Oxford African American Studies Center 
• Taylor & Francis SS&H - Backfiles 1-Behavioral Science Online Archive 2-Media, Cultural & Communication Studies Archive – 1915-1996 
• PsycBooks
• Biography Resource Center 
• Dictionary of National Biography Online 
• Safari Tech Current & Business Books Current (already had some tech books – expanded that, plus added business and more users) 
• Journal Citation Reports
  
• Proquest Dissertations & Theses 
• Annual Reviews – all subjects, all years, online 
• ABI/Inform 
• Biological Abstracts 
• Art Full Text 
• Environment Complete 
• Newspaper archives for major newspapers in Atlanta, Baltimore, Washington, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Hartford, San Francisco, Dallas, Wall Street Journal 
• Pop Culture Universe 
• National Fire Protection Association Codes
  
• Congressional Quarterly Publications
  
• Hoover’s (Companies) 
• FirstResearch (Industries)
  
• Cell Press journals (4)
• International Security & Counterterrorism Reference Center
• ArtSTOR
  

Most of these resources can be found by going to the Library's list of databases. To check and see if we have your favorite journal now, you can check our list of journals.

And we are going to continue adding materials, so suggest purchases for the new school year now.

Faculty Want More Video? UHD Library Has It

A recent study concluded that "The educational use of video on campus is accelerating rapidly in departments across all disciplines," and that "Faculty, librarians, and administrators expect their use of video in education to grow significantly over the next five years." At the same time, legal barriers are impeding this use.

The UHD Library is aware of these issues, and actively seeks out online sources of streaming audio and video to subscribe to. UHD current faculty, students, and staff now have access to several sources of video in a wide variety of disciplines via Library subscriptions.

• Films on Demand covers the humanities, sciences, business, health and social sciences.
• American History in Video has material of interest not only to history, but also sociology, psychology, political science, and more.
• Music Online has almost 5,000 performance videos.

Such resources generally allow you to make playlists and provide access to specific segments of videos, allowing for more convenient uses in online courses.

Their use in online courses is legal since the Library has subscribed to the databases, as long as the usage is for educational purposes via the type of controlled access provided by Blackboard.

And if you need some help with incorporating these and other Library resources into your online course, contact Dauna Campbell, the Online Instruction and Outreach Librarian. She'll be glad to hear from you!

Library Now Has "American History in Video"

The UHD Library recently made a new digital source of streaming videos available by subscribing to the American History in Video database. The collection:

• Provides historical coverage up to 2000
• Contains commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries
• Currently provides 1479 titles, equaling approximately 465 hours of film
• Includes documentaries from the History Channel, A&E Networks, Biography, and PBS
• Allows the creation of playlists for linking from online courses

You'll also find a link to American History in Video on the Library's Audio & Video page.

Sample clip (may only be visible on UHD Campus)

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!

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.

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).

Texas Historical Newspapers: 1836-1985

Students of Texas history now have access to Texas Historical Newspapers with full-text articles from 41 Texas newspapers published between 1836 and 1985. The collection includes newspapers from major cities, such as Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Galveston, Houston, and San Antonio, as well as smaller towns like Clarksville, Huntsville, Nacogdoches, and Palestine. It even includes one issue of the early Spanish-language newspaper, Gaceta de Texas (1813). Coverage of the Dallas Morning News extends from 1885 to 1985. Overall, Texas Historical Newspapers has strong coverage of newspapers from the periods of the Texas Republic, early statehood, Reconstruction, and the early twentieth century.

Look for Texas Historical Newspapers under History Databases or News Databases on the UHD Library website.

American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals: 1691-1820

We are pleased to introduce the American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection: 1691-1820, a new EBSCOHost database with full-text magazines from this early period of American history. The collection includes 550 publications imported by the colonists or published on American soil. The full text of each document is presented with a unique viewer that makes it easy to navigate across a page or zoom-in on hard-to-read passages. For more information, see the EBSCOhost AAS Collection website.

The AAS Historical Periodicals Collection is part of a new product line from EBSCOhost that will focus on historical publications. The next release in this product line, the Arte Publico Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 1, will be available here at UHD in September 2009. Here is a Sales Demonstration.