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Reserves
at the Click of a Mouse
New for this semester is E-Reserve. Williams Library will scan journal
articles in PDF format for professors and make them accessible to
students through the library catalog. Problems such as students needing
a reserve at the same time or a reserve not coming back to the
circulation desk in the same condition it left can be alleviated with
E-Reserve.
To access an article held on E-Reserve, go to the library catalog at
http://www.northern.edu/library/ and click on Course Reserves, etc.
Click on Northern State University -
Course Reserves. You will be
taken to a login screen where you will need to fill in the password
given to you by your professor. Search for the article you need to read,
click on the link, and voila! You have the article.
Professors Rave about Databases
At last count, Williams Library subscribes to 106 databases. Which one
would you choose for your area of interest or for that paper that's due
by Thanksgiving? Professors have their favorites and they are not shy to
tell which ones they like the best.
Anne Holmquest recommends
CQ Researcher for providing models on how to
state both sides of an issue.
WorldCat has made research much easier for
Virginia Lewis. Instead of searching multiple hard copy catalogs for
books in libraries around the world, WorldCat is her one stop source.
David Grettler uses
Ancestry Plus to trace Aberdeen area Civil War
Veterans (there are ninety eight buried in Riverside Cemetery).
LexisNexis Academic has proved to be very user-friendly for legal
research according to Alan Neville.
Robert Vodnoy raves about the
Naxos Music Library. It has a huge
number of classical music recordings as well as jazz, opera, and new
age. Several times a week, Lysbeth Benkert-Rasmussen uses the
Oxford
English Dictionary which is constantly updated.
Ken Blanchard's favorite is
JSTOR because it contains all his
favorite journals. And, if he can't find one of his favorites, he uses
the
Online Journals List to see if it is located anywhere in our
online collection.
With all the databases
we subscribe to,
searching for sources has become much easier than ever before.
Your source
for population, housing, economic,
and geographic data
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New Databases Join the Lineup
Four new or enhanced databases are debuting this fall. SPORTDiscus,
which we’ve had for many years, now has full-text.
Covering sport,
fitness and related disciplines,
SPORTDiscus with Full Text
contains over 650,000 records with journal and monograph coverage going
back to 1800; over 20,000 dissertations and theses and reference to
articles in 60 different languages.
Communication & Mass Media Complete
provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to
communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates the content of
CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index along with numerous
other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related
fields of study to create a research and reference resource of
unprecedented scope and depth encompassing the breadth of the
communication discipline.
The
Women & Social Movements database is organized around the
history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1700 and 2000.
Included are more than 26,000 pages of documents pertaining to women and
social movements.
SciFinder Scholar provides quick and easy access to a wide
diversity of research from many scientific disciplines. The CAS
(Chemical Abstract Services) database is included as well as references
from over 9,500 currently published journals and patent information from
more than 50 active patent issuing authorities. Important discoveries
that span back to 1900 and the latest scientific breakthroughs can be
found along with complete coverage of chemistry and the life sciences.
This database requires software that needs to be downloaded on
individual computers. For assistance, contact Robert Russell at ext.
7773.
New Design for Library Web Site
In order to conform to the style of the Northern State University
homepage, we have changed our library homepage.
When you click on the library link at the top of the NSU homepage, you
will come to a page that is similar in color and style. Hopefully, it
will alleviate any feelings of having left the campus some people might
have felt.
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