Contents
- From Kim Kelley
Online Databases- What's New!
Hot Sites
For Your Information...
Faculty Corner
- ILS Hours and Locations
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From Kim Kelley
Associate
Provost, Information and Library Services
Welcome to 2004 and a new semester that we hope will prove successful
for you in your academic endeavors. To help you find answers to
all your research questions, Information and Library Services (ILS)
continues to create and implement ways to make our online resources
and services more accessible to you and easier to use.
New Look for the Library Databases and E-Journals Page
The Library and E-Journals page
from which you access UMUC's subscription databases has a new
look. We have moved many of the "help" links (how
to search the databases, find e-books, use "find it"
[formerly SFX], and get technical help) to the left-hand frame
to make it easier for you to get assistance. If you use the
Resources by Topic links to select the database you want to
search, you will notice significant changes. Many more topics
will be listed and categorized. If you click on a link to one
of these topics, you will find an extensive guide with live
links to the library databases and e-books in netLibrary as
well as a list of Web sites that may be useful for research
on that topic. You will also find a list of reference print
books on that subject. If you are near a library, you may want
to consult one of these books in your research.
These topic guides can also be accessed under Subject
Guides on the Information and Library Service (ILS) home
page. The most recent guides cover energy, terrorism, and information
assurance.
24-Hour Chat and E-Mail Reference Are a Success!
We'd also like to remind you that ILS has been offering chat and
e-mail reference service 24 hours a day since September 2003.
Click on Ask a Question
on the ILS Web page to try out one of these expanded services.
In most cases when you use the online chat service, you will
be able to view Web pages with a librarian who will guide you
through a search on your topic. Reaction to this new chat service
has been enthusiastic and positive. On the very first day after
a librarian showed a student how to use the database WorldCat,
the student commented, "Thanks. This is a very helpful
service." A student who was having difficulty finding a
legal case said, "This is great…it absolutely does
[help me]. I appreciate it." Another student whom a librarian
helped navigate through the databases said, "Wow thank
you this is terrific- I never would have gotten here on my own--thank
you."
In This Issue
Please read the sections below to find out about our new
databases, e-journals, and e-books, "hot"
management Web sites, the online workshops
we'll be offering this spring in the Peck Virtual Library Classroom
to help you become better researchers, the tutorials we've created
to help you navigate the research process successfully, and hints
about developing effective keywords to make it easier to search
in the library databases. There will also be an e-book
workshop for faculty in the Adelphi area and a list of new acquisitions
on the topics of distance education, adult learning, and plagiarism.
Online Databases
New Databases
ILS announces six new databases that will significantly increase
your access to research in management, communications, the humanities,
education, and psychology:
- EIU (Economist Intelligence Unit) Executive Briefing
A significant new database for international management and marketing,
EIU Executive Briefing provides industry forecasts for 60 countries
with five-year, country-by-country outlooks for eight key industries
and analysis of critical issues, such as leadership, performance,
innovation, and strategy, faced by global executives.
- Communications and Mass Media Complete
With citation coverage of several hundred resources and full text
coverage of 200 titles, Communications and Mass Media Complete
is a valuable new database for quality research in areas related
to communications and mass media. Coverage includes journals,
major journalism reviews, and recent encyclopedias and handbooks
in the communications field.
- American Humanities Index
Citation information for articles, reviews, essays, and creative
works, such as poems, fiction, paintings, and photographs for
1,000 literary, scholarly, and creative journals not indexed in
other humanities databases. Links to full text articles in other
UMUC databases through "find it."
- Professional Development Collection
This comprehensive collection of educational journals, containing
more than 500 full text journals and more than 800 citations and
abstracts, is a significant research resource for educational
professionals. Links to full text articles in other UMUC databases
are provided through "find it."
- Teacher Reference Center
Citations and abstracts from more than 200 professional teacher
and administrator journals with links to full text articles in
other UMUC databases through "find it."
- Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
With more than 550 full text articles from 500 peer-reviewed journals,
this database covers emotional and behavioral characteristics,
psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and
observational and experimental methods. Most of the full text
publications are also indexed in PsycINFO.
New E-Journal Collection:
Scholarly Web Journals Now Available through "Find
It"
ILS introduces the Directory of Open Access Journals, available
through our "find it" service. This collection contains
free, full text, quality-controlled, scholarly e-journals in
a variety of topics from the arts, business, education, humanities,
sciences, and social sciences. You can search these journals
from the Directory of Open Access
Journals Web site, or you can access the articles in the
collection using the 
link when you search in the library's databases.
New E-Book Collection
In addition to the 3,000 e-books in netLibrary, UMUC faculty,
students, and staff now have browsing access to more than 10,000
online books in the ebrary collection in the Books in Print
with Reviews database. The collection covers a wide range
of subjects. You can view the books online at no cost for up
to two hours without timing out. If you want to print or copy
pages of the books, there is a slight charge. Click for instructions
on how to access this e-book collection.
Hot Sites...Leading Thinkers in Management
Are you looking for information about significant thinkers in the
management field? Here's a few sites to get you started.
Drucker
Archives
A searchable online archive of the works of Peter Drucker, a leading
thinker in the area of management.
Philip
Kotler
A leader in the area of marketing management, the Kotler Marketing
Group Web site includes interviews with Kotler and a selection of
white
papers on marketing issues.
The Thinkers 50 2003
A global ranking of business leaders that seeks to answer the question
"Who is the most important living management thinker?"
For Your Information...
Online Student Workshops
This semester librarians will offer two interactive online student
workshops in the Peck Virtual Library Classroom, VLIB 101:
- Business Research 101: Searching ABI/Inform
Learn strategies for getting results more relevant
to your topic in this widely-used, multidisciplinary business
database.
- Using the Library Databases Effectively and Efficiently
Learn how to develop good keywords and search statements
to improve your search results and how to search multiple
databases at one time.
Send an e-mail if you're
interested in one of the workshops. We'll pre-register you and notify
you by e-mail once the date and time have been established. Since
space is limited, you 'll have a better chance to reserve a place
in the class.
For information about VLIB 101, which is a free online resource
in WebTycho, to help you master library skills and increase
your information literacy, see The
Peck Virtual Library Classroom.
New and Updated Tutorials
Information and Library Services has developed two new tutorials
and updated one to help you with various aspects of your research:
- Legal Resources Tutorial
This tutorial familiarizes students with basic legal resources
for use in a broad range of academic disciplines and is designed
to help non-legal studies students get started with legal research.
- MLA Citation Style Simplified
Learn when to cite, how to cite within a text, how to find bibliographic
information in different materials, and how create a works-cited
page. Do the exercises to test your mastery of this citation style
that is widely used in the study of literature and the humanities.
- Citation Explained
The HTML version of this popular APA citation tutorial has been
updated to include a printer friendly format.
Click on the Tutorials link
under General Resources on the Information and Library Services
home page to access the tutorials.
Good Keywords and Boolean Operators: Necessary Ingredients
for Successful Database Searches
Your professor has required you to use the library databases
for your research because the materials in those databases are
much more authoritative and reliable than what you find using
Google, Yahoo, or any other Web search engine. However, you
can't seem to find any articles related to your topic. Good
keywords and Boolean operators will help you conduct a successful
search. Find out more about how
to develop search strategies to find articles relevant to
your topic.
Faculty Corner
Read a Good E-Book This Year?
The ILS e-book collection is growing and has now reached almost
3,000 books with more books on order this year. The collection includes
books in just about every discipline UMUC offers and can be an excellent
resource for both you and your students. To discover how to make
the most effective use of these online books, plan to attend the
ILS faculty face-to-face workshop "Read a Good E-Book This
Year?" in Room 2255 of the Faculty and Student Services Building
in Adelphi this spring. Topics covered will include how to search
effectively for e-books, create an account, and browse or borrow
e-books. Send an e-mail to
ILS if you are interested in attending. We will notify you by e-mail
of the exact date and time for the workshop. ILS has plans to offer
the workshop online sometime later this year, perhaps in the fall.
New Acquisitions
View a list of some of our recent acquisitions
in distance education, adult learning, and plagiarism. If
you're in Adelphi, come in to ILS at SFSC 2255 and browse through
our collection. If you'd like to borrow any of the books, you can
request them in the library catalog for pickup at one of the libraries
of the University System of Maryland and Affiliated Institutions,
if you live in Maryland, or for delivery by mail if you live outside
Maryland within the continental United States. If you live abroad,
send us an e-mail for information
about borrowing them.
ILS Hours and Locations
 Need to find us? Please visit Locations
and Hours for more information.
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