This database contains almost 150 million records on the holdings of over 71,000 libraries in 112 countries representing 400 languages. WorldCat describes items on thousands of subjects and published in any year since about 1000 BC. It includes records for a range of materials including books, archival materials, many primary sources (manuscripts, early editions, and reproductions such as reprints, facsimiles, and microfilm), bibliographies, computer files, films, musical scores, newspapers, slides, sound recordings, and videotapes. WorldCat does not generally include individual articles, stories in journals, magazines, newspapers, or book chapters. Interlibrary Loan requests can also be made.

WorldCat is located in the list of databases alphabetical by title on the librarytab in myRedDragon.

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.