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Films-on-Demand proves popular at UHD in Fall 2009

UHD's W.I. Dykes Library introduced the new Films-on-Demand movie and documentary video database during the summer of 2009, just in time for fall classes. 

The database has proved popular. From September 1 to November 30, UHD students and faculty have viewed over 2,400 videos on a variety of topics. The top 10 videos viewed during this same time frame are:

Title	Views
Frida Kahlo: Portrait of an Artist	192
Elder Abuse: America's Growing Crime	168
Diego Rivera: Art and Revolution	118
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon	116
Inside Folsom	89
E-mail Is Ruining My Life!	72
Marcel Duchamp, Iconoclast	65
Backstage	60
Peter Jennings Reporting-LAPD	58
Prison Gangs and Racism Behind Bars	53

The content in Films on Demand covers subjects in Business, the Humanities, Science, and Social Sciences. New films are added periodically. Some recently added titles include:

• A Leaf Blown on the Winds of History: China's Last Emperor
• Angola: The Curse of Oil
• Behavior and Development: Two Baby on Board Case Studies
• Bill Moyers Journal: Expectations of the Obama Administration
• Black/White & Brown: Brown vs. The Board of Education of Topeka
• Cinema Asia: Iran

Any UHD student, faculty or staff member can access Films-on-Demand through the Library's web site. In addition, faculty can embed links to specific films or film segments in Blackboard Vista.

 

 

 

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!

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.

JSTOR - New Journal Collections

The library has just purchased three new journal collections from JSTOR. As with all JSTOR collections, each one provides backfiles of top scholarly journals beginning with the earliest published issue but excluding current issues published in the past 3-5 years. Arts & Sciences V and Arts & Sciences VIhave 240 journals in the humanities and social sciences, with empahsis on art history, business and finance, economics, education, history, literature, linguistics, philosophy, and political science. The Life Sciences collection has 160 journals in biology, health, and general sciences. Journal titles include:

• Africa Today (1954-2003)
• American Philosophical Quarterly (1964-2003)
• Antioch Review (1941-2005)
• Chaucer Review (1966-2003)
• Contemporary European History (1992-2003)
• Early American Literature (1968-2005)
• Environmental History (1966-2005)
• Film History (1987-2003)
• Financial Analysts Journal (1960-2005)
• Financial Management (1972-2005)
• Journal of Advertising (1972-2003)
• Journal of American Ethnic History (1981-2003)
• Journal of Mammology (1919-2003)
• Journal of Parasitology (1914-2005)
• Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (1970-2003)
• Middle East Journal (1947-2005)
• Oikos (1948-2001)
• PALAIOS (1986-2003)
• Plant Cell (1989-2006)
• Policy Sciences (1970-2005)
• Risk Management (1999-2005)
• Journal of Modern Literature (1970-2003)
• Kenyon Review (1939-2005)
• Latin American Literary Review (1972-2005)
• Science Fiction Studies (1973-2005)
• Wildlife Monographs (1958-2006)

Annual Reviews Journals Online

The Annual Reviews collection of journals is now available at UHD through a cooperative arrangement with the Greater Western Library Alliance. Journals from Annual Reviews are widely recognized for their authoritative summaries and assessments of current research topics in the biomedical, life, physical, and social sciences. Many are among the most frequently cited sources in their fields. Online access to the complete collection from 1930 to present is available in Databases & Articles and in the List of Journals. 

Here are some of the journals available in the Annual Reviews collection:

• Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry
• Annual Review of Anthropology
• Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics
• Annual Review of Biochemistry
• Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology
• Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
• Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics
• Annual Review of Economics
• Annual Review of Entomology
• Annual Review of Environment and Resources
• Annual Review of Genetics
• Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics
• Annual Review of Immunology
• Annual Review of Law and Social Sciences
• Annual Review of Medicine
• Annual Review of Microbiology
• Annual Review of Neuroscience
• Annual Review of Nutrition
• Annual Review of Plant Biology
• Annual Review of Political Sciences
• Annual Review of Psychology
• Annual Review of Public Health
• Annual Review of Sociology

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.

Biological Abstracts

Biological Abstracts is now available to UHD students, faculty, and staff as part of the ISI Web of Knowledge suite of databases. With its specialized indexing of 4,200 journals in biology, biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, pharmacology, zoology, agriculture, and veterinary science, Biological Abstracts is a good place to begin any search for scholarship in the life sciences. Researchers can find relevant publications using keywords, taxonomic data, taxa, medical subject headings, or CAS registry numbers.

The ISI Web of Knowledge suite also offers a tab for "Additional Resources" that may help biology students and faculty. The BiologyBrowser is a useful guide to scholarly websites in Biology. Researchers can search a database of biology links, and browse the collection by organism, subject, or geography. The Index to Organic Names is an incomplete, but growing index of taxonomic names.

Look for Biological Abstracts and its additional resources in Biology Databases.