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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.

JSTOR - 19th Century British Pamphlets

The 19th Century British Pamphlets collection adds a wealth of primary sources to the JSTOR database of scholarly journals. With more than 20,000 pamphlets from the unique holdings of UK research libraries, the pamphlet collection offers unprecedented access to these rare artifacts. The pamphlets reflect a wide range of interests, with particular focus on the great political, economic, and social issues of that time. For more information, see About this Collection.

Highlights include:

• "A vindication of the rights of men, in a letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke; occasioned by his reflections on the revolution in France" by Mary Wollstonecraft.
   
• "Comparison between Mr. Bentham’s views on punishment, and those advocated in connexion with the mark system" by Maconochie Alexander.
  
  
• "England, the United States, and the Southern Confederacy" by Fitzwilliam Sargant.
  
  
• Slavery by William Ellery Channing

To connect to JSTOR and its pamphlet collection, see Databases & Articles.

Picture book anyone?

The UHD Library has a growing collection of notable children’s books.

In addition to supporting students’ families, this collection is a resource for the English and Urban Education Programs. The courses supported by the Juvenile Collection include Children’s Literature, Young Adult Literature, Folklore, Bilingual Education, Early Childhood and Elementary Education, Teaching Children’s Literature in Spanish, English as a Second language, Teaching Reading in a Multicultural Classroom, and Reading Curriculum.

 

To find a book in the juvenile collection by subject:

 

1. Go to the UHD Library Catalog Advanced Keyword Search page

2. Enter keyword search terms, such as: first day of school

3. Limit search by location: Limit by UHD

4. Limit by Subcollection: Juvenile

5. Click the Submit button.

 

After steps 1-4 above, your search should look like this:

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!

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.

National Council of Teachers of English Journals

The library now has a comprehensive subscription to electronic journals and magazines from the National Council of Teachers of English. These publications cover research and news about English education for students in kindergarten up to college. Look for these titles in the Library Catalog or the List of Journals: 

• Classroom Notes Plus
• College Composition and Communication
• College English
• English Education
• English Leadership Quarterly
• Language Arts
• Research in the Teaching of English
• School Talk
• Talking Points
• Teaching English in the Two-Year College
• Voices from the Middle

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.

CQ Researcher

We are pleased to introduce CQ Researcher, one of the best sources for undergraduate research on public policy issues. With an archive of reports dating back to 1923, this collection has broad analysis of contemporary and historical issues. Topics range from perennial controversies like abortion and capital punishment to recent events such as the current financial crisis.  Each report has analysis of the background, current situation, and future outlook for a topic, plus pro and con viewpoints, a chronology of events, maps and statistics, and a useful bibliography. Look for CQ Researcher under Find Articles (Databases).