Showing posts with label Databases. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Databases. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

AccessScience Database Wins Major Award!

 


AccessScience, McGraw-Hill Professional's innovative next-generation online general science reference, was honored as the Best Multidisciplinary Platform/eProduct at the 2013 Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence – the PROSE Awards – in another year of record entries to the competition. Established by the Association of American Publishers, the PROSE Awards are judged by peer publishers, academics, and librarians and recognize the very best in professional and scholarly publishing by bringing attention to distinguished and groundbreaking books, journals, and electronic products in more than 40 categories.  


The database includes the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, the Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science and Technology, 15,000 illustrations and graphics, biographies of more than 2,000 scientist, news stories from Science News, and ScienCentral videos. Features include RSS feeds, Flash animations, image galleries, podcasts, videos, and more.

Click AccessScience to go to the database. If you get a login prompt, go to the Off Campus Access link to log in to the Library's proxy server.

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

New Books and Databases at University Libraries!


We've been busy in the past year finding resources that will help YOU become a successful college student. We've listed most of them below:


Backfiles and Archival Content
Archival journals in the arts and sciences were added through the purchase of JSTOR X and
JSTOR XI.
The Ovid Nursing Journal Archive which includes 3,174 journals was acquired in support of nursing programs.
IEEE Proceedings were restored to the IEEE Xplore subscription. The proceedings were cancelled in 2007 due to limited funds and the subscription reduced to solely the journal package.

Books/E-Books
Over 18,000 books covering subjects pertinent to all academic areas were acquired, including 8,451 e-books.  
Nursing e-books were acquired and made accessible through the Books@Ovid e-book database. The database provides full text, references, updates, and graphics from 307 of the most respected sources in nursing.

Journal Articles
Two full text article databases were added, Cab Abstracts and PsycARTICLES.
Cab Abstracts is a full text bibliographic database covering research and literature in the fields of agriculture, forestry, human health and nutrition, animal health, and the management and conservation of natural resources. Cab Abstracts was on the wish list for more than five years.
PsycARTICLES provides access to the full text of more than 80 landmark journals in behavioral science and related fields ranging from education, to nursing, to business, to neuroscience.


Multimedia and Images





Masks Greets Guest in the Village
Christopher Roy: African Art and Field Photography
from the ARTstor Collection
ARTstor and Naxos, multimedia databases that had each been on the wish list five years or more were purchased. These databases support art and architecture and music respectively.
Springer Images which provides access to over 400,000 biomedical images was also purchased to  support the health science disciplines.


  • ARTstor provides over 1.5 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences.
  • Naxos Music Library offers streaming access to more than 78,760 CDs with more than 1,132,100   classical music tracks, standard and rare
    repertoire. Over 800 new CDs are added to the library every month.
  • Springer Images provides access to over five million scientific, technical, and medical images.


Reference
In continued efforts to migrate reference materials from print to electronic, three reference databases were added, Access Medicine which had been on the wish list for a while, AP Stylebook, requested by the School of Journalism and Graphic Communication, and the Oxford English Dictionary which was funded by FLVC.
  • AP Stylebook is a writing style guide for journalists.
  • Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. OED is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.
Several music scores in support of the Music Department were also purchased.