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 2005 and a new semester that we hope will prove
successful for you in your academic endeavors. To help you fulfill
all your information needs, 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. This fall we've added an audiovisual tour of the library
and additional staff to help you find the resources you need
to become a competent and skillful researcher.
Try Navigating
UMUC's Virtual Library, a new, five-minute, audiovisual
presentation, designed to familiarize you with the resources
and services ILS offers. The presentation highlights how to
find and access full text articles through UMUC's library databases
or document delivery, locate books and online journals, and
obtain round-the-clock reference assistance. To view the animated
presentation click on the link to the tour in the left-hand
sidebar of the ILS Web page. A text version
is also available by clicking on the link at the bottom of each
presentation screen.
If you contact the library, you'll notice some new staff to
assist you. This fall we hired two additional reference and
instruction librarians and a course manager for UCSP 611, the
new faculty-mediated graduate library skills course that will
be launched next fall. We also replaced some staff who moved
on to different places. Meet the new library staff:
- Julie Arnold is the UCSP611 Coordinator. Her focus will
be overseeing all aspects of UCSP610 and developing a faculty
mediated equivalent.
- Elizabeth Roberts has assumed responsibility for 24/7 after-hours
reference service via chat, e-mail, and phone.
- Joe Rawson and Caroline Gillespie have recently joined the
staff as reference and instruction librarians.
- Genita Joyner obtains and processes electronic reserves
requests.
- Malea Young and Christina Lehman serve UMUC faculty and
students evenings and weekends at 6259 McKeldin Library, College
Park.
Remember you can contact ILS whenever and wherever you need
assistance 24 hours a day; just click on Ask
a Question for timely reference assistance.
Online Databases
Database Enhancements
- Country Profiles Are Now in Business Source Premier!
Often it is difficult to find information about market
trends, industry growth, and the current economic situation
of foreign countries, and other international topics. Now
you can find detailed country reports in Business Source Premier.
To retrieve a list of country reports in Business Source Premier:
- Go to the Library Databases
and E-Journals page.
- Under Databases and E-Journals by Title, click on B
and then on Business Source Premier
- Once you are in Business Source Premier click on the
Publications tab at the top of the screen
- Enter the name of the country you are researching, select
match any words, and then click on Browse:
- You can retrieve country reports from EIU Viewswire
(with a six months embargo on full text due to publisher
restrictions), Data Monitor, Global Insight, ICON Group
International.
- White Papers in EIU Executive Briefing
EIU Executive Briefing now includes an extensive archive of
over 100 surveys, white papers, and research papers that it
has published or coordinated. Sample papers include: "Global
Survey on Organic Growth," "Assessing the Value of Enterprise
Risk Management," " Harnessing Innovation: R&D in a Global
Growth Economy." To access the collection in the database
click on the Research tab on the navigational bar at the top
of the page. The papers are listed in reverse chronological
order and date back to September 2002. Eventually files dating
back to January 1996 will be added.
- Subscription to Communication and Mass Media Complete
ILS has purchased a subscription to Communication and Mass
Media Complete, which UMUC had on a free trial basis this
year. With citation coverage of several hundred resources
and full text coverage of 200 titles, Communications and Mass
Media Complete is a valuable database for quality research
in areas related to media, public relations, and all other
aspects of communication.
- New Name and Search Engine for Digital Dissertations
Digital Dissertations has a new name: ProQuest Dissertations
and Theses. You'll find it on the Library Databases and E-Journals
page by clicking on D and then on Dissertations and Theses
(ProQuest). Now you can search for doctoral disserations and
master's theses in the familiar ProQuest search interface
(as in ABI/Inform). You will also be able to do a multiple
database search with ABI/Inform, ProQuest Computing, and other
ProQuest databases by clicking on the Select multiple databases
link next to the search box. It is much easier to access the
full PDF file of dissertations after 1997. Just click on the
Page image - PDF link for quick access to full text of the
dissertation or thesis.
- Backfiles in the ISI Web of Knowledge Citation Indexes
ILS has made a one-time purchase of backfiles in the two Web
of Knowledge citation indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded
and Social Sciences Citation Index. Now when you are examining
the number of times an article has been cited to research
the history of an idea, track scholarly links of experts in
a field, locate current research based on earlier works or
findings, or track the influence of an article, you will retrieve
live links to articles back to 1945 in the Science Citation
Index and back to 1956 in the Social Sciences Citation Index
and greatly expand your capability to trace a cited reference
(a work cited by another author in his/her article).
- New York Times and Wall Street Journal Historical Archives
Do you need an eyewitness account or first-hand report of
an event that took place in the late 1900's? Now you can search
New York Times Historical and Wall Street Journal Historical
and get a full page image of both newspapers in their entire
run (the New York Times from 1851 on and the Wall Street Journal,
beginning in 1889. Not only will you retrieve news articles,
but you will be able to view classified ads, cartoons, and
photos and graphics. Because of the full-page imaging, you
cannot search the historical archives with the current New
York Times and Wall Street Journal (available full text in
Proquest Newspapers. To access both historical newspapers,
click on the letter with which they begin under Databases
and E-Journals by Title on the Library Databases and E-Journals
page.
New E-Journals in Distance Education
ILS has added a list of distance education e-journals to the
E-Journals page,
to the Distance Education Subject Guide on the Library Databases
and E-Journals page and under Subject Guides on the ILS
Web page.
Hot Sites... Finding Company Information
Finding information about a company, whether a Fortune 500
company or a local small business, can be challenging. Listed
below are some Web sites that can help to get you started with
this type of research.
- UMUC Information
and Libary Services Business Tutorial
The company
module of this tutorial introduces you to where to find
information on a particular company in UMUC's online databases.
The company module explains the steps of searching for company
information in the Business and Company Resource Center database,
how to select a company to research, and finding a company
using NAICS codes. Activities are included in the tutorial
to practice what you've learned.
- Using the
Web for Research: Company Web Sites
This library tutorial explains the types of information
you can find on a company Web page, how to find them using
Web search tools, and issues to consider when evaluating information
you find on a company Web site.
- SEC Filings &
Forms (EDGAR)
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission requires all public
companies to file statements, reports and forms in the EDGAR
(Electronic Data Gathering and Retrieval) database. Review
the tutorial
to learn about searching EDGAR for real-time filings and
other company information by company name, geographic region
or all recent filings received by the SEC.
- IRIN
The Investor Relations Information Network (IRIN) provides
free access to more than 11,600 current and historical electronic
annual reports and offers keywrod searching of their contents.
For Your Information...
Updated Subject Guides
ILS librarians are currently reviewing and updating all the
subject guides. New features include ILS librarian-selected
top three databases for beginning your research in each subject
and added e-journals and e-books.
Creating a Personal Account in EBSCOHOST Databases
When you are searching in most library databases, it is wise
to print or save the articles as you find them, since a computer
glitch or network breakdown could cause you to lose your research
results because those search results exist only for your current
session.
EBSCOHOST databases,
however, have a personal account feature that allows you to
create a folder that is saved from one session to another. To
create one of these accounts, please follow the directions in
Creating a Personal Account in
EBSCOHOST databases.
Faculty Corner
LIBS 150 Faculty Course--Spring 2005
Join your colleagues for an online discussion about conducting
and teaching research in an online environment and perfect your
own research skills by registering for the ILS online course:
Information Literacy and Research Methods: A Faculty's View
of LIBS 150. Taught by a librarian, the workshop is offered
through the Center for Teaching and Learning's (CTL) Spring
2005 Workshop Series and runs from April 4 through April 22.
Participants can earn 2 Continuing Education Units (CEU's).
For more details please see CTL's Online
Workshops.
UMUC-Asia and UMUC-Europe Library Web Pages
If you click to the links to the UMUC-Asia and UMUC-Europe
library Web pages on the ILS Web page,
you'll notice recently updated Web pages. These Web pages point
faculty in Asia and Europe to resources beyond all the resources
and services they can access from the ILS Web page.
In addition to the ILS Web page where faculty can access over
125 databases, document delivery, e-books, resources for faculty,
and reference and research assistance, UMUC-Asia's
page directs faculty to instructions for finding Yokota holdings
in the catalog of the University System of Maryland and Affiliated
Institutions and a listing of videos faculty in Asia can borrow.
The Faculty
Loan Library in Europe has a completely redesigned Web page
that includes information on its print collection and finding
aids, loan periods, library databases and e-journals, links
to libraries in Europe not affiliated with UMUC, and contact
information for the Faculty Loan Library.
New Acquisitions
View a list of some of our recent acquisitions
in distance education, adult learning, assessment, and research
methodology. If you are in Adelphi, visit ILS in SFSC
2255 and browse through our collection. If you would like to
borrow any of the books from the ILS collection, you can request
them in the library
catalog. Books can be picked up at one of the libraries
of the University System of Maryland and Affiliated Institutions,
if you live in Maryland, or delivered 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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