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ARTSTOR: Offline Image Viewer 4.0
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…
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BioOne Maintenance
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…
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Featured Databases: GreenFILE
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.…
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Featured database: Films on Demand
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:…
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BioOne maintenance
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…
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Featured Database: Credo Reference
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,…
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Featured Database: Historical Abstracts
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…
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Featured Database: Environment Complete
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…
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Featured Database: LGBT Life with Full Text
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…
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Featured Database: MLA International Bibliography
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…