Artstor announced the release of the Offline Image Viewer 4.0. This new release includes the following new features and a bug fix:

New Features:

• Compatible with Mac OS X 10.9 and Windows 8.
• Link to image viewer – clicking the link to image viewer icon on an image will open that image in the image viewer within the Digital Library.
• Embedded hyperlinks – you can now embed hyperlinks in your OIV slides.
• Saving to legacy format – this version of OIV allows presentations to be saved in OIV 2.6 format so that they can be opened by OIV version 2.6 and above (without image viewer linking functionality). This version can also open OIV 2.6 and 3.X files.

Bug Fix:

• Dual-screen presentations – when using two screens in presentation mode, images will advance in pairs, e.g. screen 1 will show odd-numbered images, screen 2 will show even-numbered images.

To access this new version, uninstall any previous versions of OIV, log into your account, and install OIV 4.0 by following these directions:  http://help.artstor.org/wiki/index.php/OIV_Installing

Please contact Artstor User Services if you have any questions or comments.

The Artstor image database is located in the list of databases alphabetical by title on the librarytab in myRedDragon.

BioOne informed us that maintenance activities are planned for their database (bioone.org) on Friday, October 24. Beginning at 6 p.m. Eastern Time (UTC-5), content and services may be intermittently unavailable for up to four hours.

BioOne provides access to research journals focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences provided by scientific societies in collaboration with libraries, academe and the commercial sector. So check it out on Saturday! You can find in on the LibraryTab databases box alphabetical by title.

EBSCO’s GreenFILE offers well-researched information  covering all aspects of human impact to the environment.  This collection of scholarly, government, and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. GreenFILE provides indexing and abstracts for more than 612,000 records, as well as full-text coverage for more than 9,100 records.

Check out GreenFILE on the LibraryTab in myRedDragon. Choose Databases by Title and click on GreenFILE.

The library provides access to Films on Demand, a streaming educational video collection containing over 20,203 full-length videos and 233,239 video clips. These videos cover all subjects from the hard sciences to the humanities and are from producers such as Films for the Humanities, the History Channel, National Geographic and the BBC.

Collections within Films on Demand:

You can find the Films on Demand database @ the LibraryTab in myRedDragon. Select the Library Databases tab in the search box; choose databases by title F and you will find it!

Enjoy!

The database BioOne (Access to research journals focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences) will be undergoing maintenance starting Saturday, 1 March 2014. Scheduled downtime will begin at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time (UTC-5) and may last up to 16 hours. During this time content and services on bioone.org will be unavailable.

Most scheduled maintenance on BioOne is completed within four hours. However, they will be performing upgrades to network equipment that require more time than the typical 4-hour window.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any questions please contact the library.

We do have other databases you can use! Check out the Biology databases!

There is one resource you should keep in mind whenever you are starting a research paper of whenever you just want to find a credible overview of a topic: Credo Reference, a full-text online reference collection of more than 360 titles from over 60 publishers. It features over three million entries from atlases, dictionaries, encyclopedias, guides, and other reference books on a wide range of subjects covering the humanities, sciences, social sciences, and technology. Credo Reference includes more than 10,000 topic pages presenting background information, images, links to articles and suggestions for further reading. Included are images, audio files, maps, video clips, Flash animation, and a dynamic table creation/export feature. The Concept Map helps you develop your research topic by exploring related concepts.

The tools in Credo Reference are designed to help you get started on a research assignment, saving your time by delivering authoritative definitions and steering you to book and journal sources for further reading. Give it a try!

You can find Credo Reference in the Databases by title box on the Librarytab in myRedDragon.

Historical Abstracts is a great database to find scholarly articles for your research papers on the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the presents, including world history, military history, women’s history, history of education and much more. This database provides selective indexing of historical articles from thousands of journals in a wide variety of languages from more than 90 countries and database includes book citations, dissertations and theses, and coverage extends to related disciplines such as archeology, anthropology and sociology.

In addition to standard search features, Historical Abstracts with Full Text allows for searching by time period, a major advantage given the extensive range of its coverage.

You can find Historical Abstracts on the Library tab in myRedDragon in the box Databases by Title. Also check out the History Research Guide for additional resources on your topic!

Environment Complete is an EBSCOhost database that specializes in journal articles and monographs from the subject areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution and waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, and urban planning.  Environment Complete provides full text for over 600 of the most heavily-used journals in these disciplines, and contains over 1,772,000 records total.  The database’s holdings go back to the 1940s, and include articles from over 1500 domestic and international titles.  Monograph coverage includes full text from sources like the Encyclopedia of World Environmental History.

You can find Environment Complete on the Library tab in myRedDragon in the box: Databases by title.

LGBT Life Full Text provides full text of content related to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender studies for hundreds of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers including The Advocate, Gay Parent Magazine, Girlfriends, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies, James White Review, ISNA News, Ladder, Lesbian Tide, New York Blade, ONE, Tangents, and many more.

LGBT Life with Full Text also contains many full-text monographs and books including Classics in Lesbian Studies, Gay Science: The Ethics of Sexual Orientation Research, Handbook of Research with Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Populations, Queer Theory & Social Change, and more. Additionally, all relevant bibliographic data from NISC’s Sexual Diversity Studies is also included.

You can find the LGBT Life with Full Text on the Library tab in myRedDragon in the box: Databases by title.  For more resources try the Gender Studies Library Guide!

Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains millions of citations from journals & series, as well as book publishers.

The MLA International Bibliography provides a subject index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. Coverage includes literature from all over the world–Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America. Folklore is represented by folk literature, music, art, rituals, and belief systems. Linguistics and language materials range from history and theory of linguistics, comparative linguistics, semantics, stylistics, and syntax to translation. Other topics include literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts (film, radio, television, theater), and history of printing and publishing.

You can find the MLA International Bibliography on the Library tab in myRedDragon in the box: Databases by title.  For more resources on modern languages try the Modern Languages Library guide!