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ProQuest Dissertations and Theses

UHD Library — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:50:17 -0600

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

UHD Library — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:29:52 -0500

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

UHD Library — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:35:26 -0600

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

UHD Library — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:49:28 -0600

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

Web of Science Now Available

UHD Library — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:54:00 -0600

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).