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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 !

 

 

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.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses is now available at UHD. With its coverage of 2.4 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses, this database is an essential repository of scholarship in almost every field of study. For older documents, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses provides a short absract. For more than 930,000 documents from 1997 to present, it offers access to the full text in PDF format.

Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia

The Gale Virtual Reference Library database now includes the 17-volume ebook collection Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. This set offers substantial biographies of more than 10,000  women from around 3100 BCE to the modern age. Biographies cover women from every walk of life and every corner of the world. Each biography has a list of related books, videos, and archival collections. Look for the Gale Virtual Reference Library in the Find Articles (Databases) section of the library website.

Oxford Reference Online

Oxford Reference Online has been added to the UHD Library's online collections.  This database offers English language dictionaries and thesauruses, bilingual dictionaries, and quotation dictionaries, plus specialized subject dictionaries in art, biology, literature, and many other fields.

Look for Oxford Reference Online on our Dictionaries page and on a variety of subject pages.

EBSCOhost 2.0

EBSCOhost has released a new version of its popular database system.  EBSCOhost 2.0 introduces a new look to databases such as Academic Search Complete,  America: History & Life, Communication & Mass Media Complete, ERIC, MEDLINE, MLA International Bibliography, PsycINFO, and SocINDEX. At first, the changes will be cosmetic -- a simplified search screen, a different way of displaying search results, and easy access to the popular "How to Cite" feature. Later in 2008, EBSCOhost will use Google search technology to rank search results by relevance.

If you have questions or concerns about EBSCOhost 2.0, please share them with us by commenting on this blog or by sending an e-mail message to Ask a Librarian. We will share your comments with EBSCOhost and work with them to resolve any problems that may arise from this significant update.

New ScienceDirect Journals

We are pleased to announce the UHD debut of 42 electronic journals from ScienceDirect. The journals are drawn from the fields of accounting, biology, business, computer science, criminal justice, education, history, and mathematics. Each one is available with archives starting in 1995.

In the future, we hope add more electronic journals and electronic books from the ScienceDirect collections. If you would like to suggest the purchase of a particular title, we would love to hear from you. Please add your feedback as a comment to this message or use our Ask a Librarian link.

Here is a list of the new titles recently added to our ScienceDirect collection:

• Advances in Applied Mathematics
• Assessing Writing
• Behaviour Research and Therapy
• Chemistry & Biology
• Child Abuse & Neglect
• Computer Aided Geometric Design
• Current Opinion in Cell Biology
• Current Opinion in Genetics & Development
• Current Opinion in Immunology
• Decision Support Systems
• Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
• Industrial Marketing Management
• Information & Management
• Information and Organization
• International Journal of Accounting
• International Journal of Information Management
• International Journal of Intercultural Relations
• Journal of Accounting Education
• Journal of Algorithms
• Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
• Journal of Criminal Justice
• Journal of Medieval History
• Journal of Research in Personality
• Journal of Retailing
• Journal of School Psychology
• Journal of World Business
• Lancet
• Molecular Cell
• Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
• Organizational Dynamics
• Quarterly Review of Economics & Finance
• Review of Financial Economics
• Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
• Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B
• Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C
• Trends in Biochemical Sciences
• Trends in Cell Biology
• Trends in Ecology & Evolution
• Trends in Immunology

Web of Science Training

What: Web of Science® Seminar (1.5 hours)
When: Wednesday, March 12, 2008, 1:30PM-3PM
Where: Library Instruction Room 1

Are you interested in discovering who is citing your work or the work of others? Learn how to use the Web of Science (Science Citation Index ExpandedTM, Social Sciences Citation Index®, Arts & Humanities Citation Index®) to utilize your research time more efficiently. This seminar covers:

• The publication selection process
  
• Using the search interfaces for topic, author, source title, and address searching, as well as more advanced set and field combination searching
  
• How to expand your literature search using the unique Related Records® search
  
• How to use cited reference searching to navigate the literature and discover who is citing your research and the research of others
  
• E-mailing, saving, printing, or exporting your results
  
• Saving a search history so you can use it later to find new information
  
• Saving alerts to automatically run your profile against database updates.

InfoSci Journals Online

The library has just purchased access to InfoSci Journals Online, a collection of 30 electronic journals on computer applications in business, information technology, knowledge management, electronic commerce, and other topics. The collection includes current and past issues of the Journal of Cases on Information Technology, the Journal of Database Management, the Journal of End User Computing, and other leading publications in this field. Look for InfoSci Journals Online in the Find Articles (Databases) section of the library web site.

Web of Science Now Available

We are pleased to announce the purchase of Web of Science, the well-known index of high impact research journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Web of Science is the online version of the Science Citation Index, the Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. It covers 8,700 journals in almost every field of study. In addition to its wide breadth of coverage, Web of Science is known for its unique search options, such as the Cited Reference Search, which can be used to find sources that cite a particular author or work. Web of Science is available now in Find Articles (Databases).