Posted in Databases on Nov 18th, 2009 No Comments »
ebrary® has created a publicly available research center featuring a highly interactive, searchable database of documents pertaining to the H1N1 influenza pandemic. Available at http://h1n1.ebrary.com, the new site contains a growing selection of reports, papers, newsletters, posters, and other important materials from government agencies and other trusted sources.
Posted in Databases on Jan 7th, 2009 2 Comments »
Click on the images below to see full screen versions: Proquest Translation Feature – Example 1 Proquest Translation Feature – Example 2
Posted in Citing Sources, Databases on Mar 6th, 2008 No Comments »
Have you seen our new and improved sheet for APA citations? There have been some very recent changes that will make citing those pesky articles from ProQuest and EBSCOHost much easier. Now you can use the DOI instead of that long, long string of information that included the date retrieved and the database name. Come [...]
Posted in ARTstor, Databases, images, Resources on Feb 14th, 2008 No Comments »
ARTstor images are available for use in presentations for educational or other noncommercial uses in the software environment of your choice. High quality digital images — large sized JPEG files — can be projected either in the ARTstor online environment or in a variety of offline environments such as OIV, PowerPoint and Keynote. Users can [...]
Posted in Databases, e-books, Resources on Feb 8th, 2008 1 Comment »
Cannell has access to over 6000 up-to-date, technical books through the database: IT PRO: Books 24×7. Do you need info on topics like: Desktop & Office Applications, Graphic Design, Networks, Operating Systems, Programming languages, Security, Software engineering, Web programming? Latest titles include: MindManager for Dummies PHP Programming Solutions Serial Port Complete Visualizing Information with Microsoft [...]
Posted in Databases, Instruction, Resources on Nov 20th, 2007 No Comments »
Lexis-Nexis is a powerful database that most people associate with legal materials and news, but there’s so much more to explore. One of the features is the deep collection of major world newspapers. To see the complete list, click the “I” as shown below. Lexis-Nexis is a robust database with some pretty sophisticated searching features, [...]
Posted in Databases, Resources on Oct 30th, 2007 No Comments »
Keep up-to-date with the latest news in higher education by setting up an alert to the Chronicle of Higher Education. With Chronicle Alerts, you can get a digest of events delivered to your email in a daily or weekly summary. You can choose from a smorgasbord of choices, including Academe Today (morning or afternoon), Job [...]
Posted in Databases, Resources on May 30th, 2007 No Comments »
Cannell Library now has access to LexisNexis, a powerful database that provides access to a wide range of authoritative sources, including world-wide news, business, financial, and legal research tools (such as Shepards Citations, law reviews, Codes for all 50 states, and more). To learn how to use LexisNexis, visit the Knowledge Base, download one of [...]
Posted in Databases, Instruction, Resources on May 7th, 2007 2 Comments »
Next time you need an article, try the Visual Search feature available in the EBSCOhost databases. Instead of a list of articles, you’ll get a “grokked” set, like the one shown below. Give it a try and see for yourself how it works!
Posted in Databases, Science on Apr 19th, 2007 1 Comment »
A recent addition to our library is Science Online. This database offers access to full text articles ranging from commentary to news to peer-reviewed research from 1997 to the present. Articles from 1880, (yes, you read that right, 1880!) to 1996 can be searched, but only the abstract is available. You can access this database [...]
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