Archives for January 2012

Have you ever wondered if there is an easier way to keep up with your research items, such as ebooks and articles, without having to download or print them? Wonder no more, as EBSCO has a perfect tool for researchers who don’t have time (or hard-drive space) to keep up with all those research items. And it’s perfectly free!
Once you are in an EBSCO database, click on the link a the top right that reads “Sign In”.

When you click on the Sign In link, look for a link to the right that reads “Create a New Account”.

Once you’ve created your account, begin your research and select items for your folder.

You can create multiple folders to house items for specific research projects.

You can also share your folders with additional EBSCO users.

Items placed in your folder will remain there for at least 6 months.

Keep in mind that once you select items to be put in folders, you must use the direction links EBSCO provides to go back to your results. If you use the browser back and forward buttons to navigate you may risk losing items placed in your folder.

Also remember to sign-in to your account before you place items in a folder!

Enjoy your new EBSCO account. And Ask a Librarian if you have any questions.

Fintel Library is pleased to announce that we are undergoing a trial of North American Women’s Drama from Alexander Street press

Whether in awards, production, or publication, plays by women have rarely received the attention they deserve. Of the seventy-eight Pulitzer prizes for drama awarded since the inception of the prize in 1901, only eight have gone to women. From 1958 to 1981, not one woman received this prize.
North American Women’s Drama aims to bring these writings the attention they deserve, by publishing the full text of 1,500 plays written from colonial times to the present by more than 100 women from the United States and Canada. Many of the works are rare, hard to find, or out of print. Almost a quarter of the collection consists of previously unpublished plays.

North American Women’s Drama

http://wodr.alexanderstreet.com

Our access is activated effective today and will expire on 12 February, 2012.

Additional help for this product is available from Alexander Street or contact your favorite librarian for more information.

Fintel Library is pleased to announce that we are undergoing a trial of Music Online from Alexander Street press
With Music Online, Alexander Street Press aims to provide the most comprehensive database in streaming audio, video, reference, and scores on the web. Music Online allows users cross search all of the music databases published by Alexander Street Press. Music Online brings together on a single cross-searchable platform the entire suite of Alexander Street Press music products that your institution subscribes to. Music Online can potentially cross-search any combination of these databases:
• African American Music Reference
• American Song
• Classical Music Library
• Classical Music Reference Library
• Classical Scores Library
• Contemporary World Music
• Dance in Video
• The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
• Jazz Music Library
• Opera in Video
• Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
Music Online offers hundreds of thousands of audio recordings, growing monthly, plus 400,000 pages of scores, 100,000 pages of music reference, and over 500 hours of video. Every object in the collection is indexed for subjects, historical events, genres, people, cultural groups, places, time periods, ensembles. As a result, students and scholars can combine keyword and fielded search capabilities to frame creative and highly targeted queries. You can also select to view a single database by using the dropdown menu at the bottom of the homepage of Music Online.

Music Online: Listening: http://music.alexanderstreet.com

American Song: http://amso.alexanderstreet.com
Classical Music Library: http://clmu.alexanderstreet.com
Contemporary World Music: http://womu.alexanderstreet.com
Jazz Music Library: http://jazz.alexanderstreet.com
Smithsonian Global Sound: http://glmu.alexanderstreet.com
Our access is activated effective today and will expire on 12 February, 2012.

Additional help for this product is available from http://muco.alexanderstreet.com/help or contact your favorite librarian for more information.

Fintel Library now has a subscription to Choice Reviews Online. We have an unlimited number of users, but we still encourage users to get in the habit of logging out. Simply closing out of the browser does not do it for this version. Our timeout is now set for 15 minutes. So if there is no activity for 15 minutes, it will end that session and you will need to log back in. However, if a user does not log out, then the time has to run its course (15 minutes) for him to be out of the site.

This is the URL you need to access CRO:

www.cro2.org

We have campus wide access. You can use both Quick and Advanced Search and email reviews to colleagues. Users can search the database as far back as 1988! By visiting Current Issue, you can click on the Bibliographic Essay. Those that want to reap the benefits of customization, can Create their own Passwords by clicking where it says “Register here to Create a Profile”! They can then click on My Monthly Reviews and see what has been reviewed that is connected to their Profile. This is extremely beneficial to faculty.

By creating a password/profile, you have the option to receive the Monthly Newsletter. The newsletter displays the bib record of the titles that were reviewed matching your subject areas. A password also allows one to Save Searches and Make and Save Lists. You can change your Profile at any time by clicking on My Profile, selecting what you like, and clicking on the UPDATE My Profile button at the bottom of the page.

We now have login/logout links. Please look on the right side of the page for these links. If the Login to CRO link appears, you must click on it to use the site. If it does not appear, it means you’re able to go right on!

It is very important that you use the log out links. You need to click on the log out from my password link if you are in using a password AND the log out from CRO link. So, you need to log out two times if you are logged in with a username and password. If you are not using a password, you only need to click on the log out from CRO link. Simply closing out of the browser does not log you out.

We also suggest that each user read the “Top Tips for Using Choice Reviews Online”. In the “top tips” we recommend IE for your browser and explain that you must have your pop up blockers disabled to email, download, or print reviews! We have an FAQ which is located on the left panel of the page that may answer some of your questions. Also, check out Publisher’s Choice Online (PCO). You can read about it on our Home Page. PCO gives you the opportunity to browse through the full text of titles that have been reviewed by Choice.