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Kim Kelley
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Databases- What's New!
Hot
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From
Kim Kelley
Associate Provost,
Information and Library Services
In the spirit of our continuing commitment to make the library
more accessible to you, Information and Library Services has some
exciting innovations to announce this summer.
Database Changes for Seamless Access to Full Text!
A new redesigned Web interface has replaced MdUSA for accessing
the databases and e-journals. This improved access system features
- seamless access to full text articles through SFX
- fewer access problems
- in some databases, the ability to limit searches to scholarly
(peer-reviewed) journals only
- in many databases, longer search sessions without timing out
- a citation linker to assist you in locating full text articles
For more information about the changes, see the following:
24/7 Service
Later this summer ILS will begin to offer 24/7 chat and e-mail
reference service. Not only will you continue to be able to get
assistance from ILS staff during scheduled library hours, but you
will also be able to get answers to most of your questions during
the hours when the library is not staffed. ILS has contracted with
Tutor.com to provide these virtual reference services to UMUC patrons
so that library assistance will be available to you when and where
you need it. Look for an announcement on the ILS
Web page when this service begins.
Online
Databases
New Databases
This spring ILS added a business database that will increase your
access to information about companies.
- Hoover's Company Information
Brief information on 15,000 companies: summary financials, key
officers, and top competitors. In-depth information on 5,000 companies:
company overview and history, key people, products, and subsidiaries.
In addition to searching Hoover's as a separate database, you
can search it within ABI/Inform, where you will find hot links
to Hoover's company information in the articles you retrieve.
The following database will become available this summer. Look
for it later this summer on the newly redesigned library and e-journals
access page in the list of databases.
- ISI Web of Science, Social Sciences Citation Index
The Social Sciences Citation Index of the ISI Web of Science will
allow you to conduct cited reference searching for articles that
have had the most impact in a wide variety of disciplines, including
business and management, psychology, public health, history, sociology,
anthropology, and women's studies.
Web of Science indexes articles, bibliographies, book reviews,
editorials, and review papers from about 2,100 journals. Social
Sciences Citation Index allows you to
- search backward in time to find the research that influenced
a work. Initially you will be able to access articles with
some full text from 2000 to the present.
- search forward in time to see the effect an article has
on current research.
- find articles that have one or more citations in common
New E-Journals and E-Books
- New e-journals in the Electronic Collections Online (ECO)
database!
There are a number of new e-journal titles available in the Electronic
Collections Online (ECO) database for 2003, and even better, most
provide access to previous years, back to 1997. The subject areas
include business, computer science, education, environmental science,
fire science, gerontology, information technology, mathematics,
psychology, and statistics.
- New e-books for you!
Read a good e-book lately? Have we got the collection for you!
netLibrary is the database that contains our growing e-book collection.
We recently purchased new e-book titles in administration, communication,
economics, human resources, information technology, leadership,
and management. Take a look at the virtual side of the book world.
Hot
Sites...Legal Resources for the Layperson!!!
Need to find a legal professional in your area, check the law in
your state or locate legal research resources? Here are a few sites
to get you started!
- FindLaw
A comprehensive guide to legal resources. Locate a legal professional,
review business sources organized by topic and geographic location,
read legal news, and access articles and forms on a variety of
topics of public and consumer interest.
- Legal Information Institute
A nonprofit activity of the Cornell University Law School, this
Web site is fully searchable and organizes legal information alphabetically
by topic as well as by type (constitutions and codes, court opinions,
source or jusridiction). Includes a directory of legal journals
and links to current awareness resources.
- Maryland State Law
Library
Links to MOLLIE,
the Maryland Online Law Library Information Exchange, which includes
citations and some full text of journal and newspaper articles
covering Maryland legal subjects, in addition to being a catalog
of the holdings of the State Law Library. The Web site also includes
links to Maryland
legal information.
For
Your Information...
Database Searching Tips: Phrase Searching
This month we'd like to discuss the use of phrase searching to
limit your searches to more relevant articles. You can use phrase
searching in many databases as well as the library catalog.
Many databases allow you to search for an exact phrase by enclosing
your search terms in quotation marks. With phrase searching you
are more apt to find information directly related to your topic.
Example: Searching with "affirmative action" would retrieve
results with the exact phrase--affirmative action, and you might
read sentences like the following: Affirmative action has
made it possible for many people to advance in their careers.
If you do not use the phrase search option, your search may retrieve
articles that include the terms affirmative and action anywhere
in the article but not necessarily the concept, affirmative action.
For example: Since Mr. Jones did not receive an affirmative
response from John to his job offer, he decided on a different course
of action. Both words, affirmative and action, are in the
article, but the article is not about affirmative action.
To find out whether a database supports phrase searching, read
the database help screen.
You can also use two word phrase searching to find books
in the library catalog. Thus, if you search for "information
literacy" as a phrase you will retrieve a list of books specifically
related to information literacy. If you search for information literacy
without quotation marks, you will retrieve books on information,
information technology, computer literacy, reading problems, adult
education, etc., as well as those on information literacy. Using
phrase searching will yield a much more manageable set of results.
Faculty
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New Acquisitions
View a list of some of our recent acquisitions
in distance education, higher education, instructional design, information
literacy, adult learning, and copyright and plagiarism. If
you're in Adelphi, come in to ILS at SFSC 2255 and browse through
our collection. Or send us an e-mail if you're interested in borrowing
one of them.
Enhancements to Turnitin.com
An updated enhanced version of Turnitin.com will be released in
July 2003. This revised version with a new interface and increased
functionality will feature:
- a much larger collection of sources for checking papers. In
addition to billions of free Web sources, papers submitted to
Turnitin, and Gutenberg's literary classics, Turnitin.com will
compare papers to the full text materials indexed in Proquest
databases.
- much faster originality report generation
- the ability to delete and move papers
Refer to the ILS Plagiarism and
Turnitin.com FAQ in July for more information about these enhancements.
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