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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.

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.

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.

New Books & Videos - January 2008

The New Books and Videos lists have been updated for January:

• Arts & Humanities
• Business & Economics
• Criminal Justice
• Education
• Engineering Technology
• English
• Higher Education
• History & Political Science
• Juvenile Literature
• Natural Sciences
• Philosophy & Religion
• Psychology
• Security Management
• Sociology & Anthropology
• Videos & DVDs

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).

New Books on University Teaching

The University recently purchased more than 200 books on college teaching as part of the Quality Enhancement Plan. With its focus on teaching methods for active learning, this collection is designed to help faculty find innovative ways to promote student engagement and to assess learning outcomes. All of the QEP books are listed in the Library Catalog. You can also find a regularly updated list of these resources on our Higher Education guide.

New Books & Videos (October 2007)

The New Books and Videos lists have been updated for October:

• Arts & Humanities
• Business & Economics
• Computer Science & Math
• Criminal Justice
• Education
• Engineering Technology
• English
• Higher Education
• History & Political Science
• Juvenile Literature
• Natural Sciences
• Philosophy & Religion
• Psychology
• Security Management
• Sociology & Anthropology
• Spanish
• Videos & DVDs

New Books & Videos - April 2007

The New Books and Videos lists have been updated with items received in April:

• Arts & Humanities
• Business & Economics
• Criminal Justice
• Education
• Engineering Technology
• English
• Higher Education
• History & Political Science
• Natural Sciences
• Philosophy & Religion
• Psychology
• Security Management
• Sociology & Anthropology
• Spanish