Go Mobile!

On the go but need to search for articles? Try EBSCOhost’s new EBSCOhost Mobile feature. Currently available to use with Academic Search Premier and Business Source Premier. Basic searching is available as is (when avaialble) view full text. You can also email citations from the databases.

EBSCOhost Mobile has been tested on the following devices:

• BlackBerry
• Dell Axiom
• iPhone
• Palm 750

RefWorks also comes in a mobile version: RefMobile.  You can search the references in your account, view folders, rearrange folders, create new one, add notes and comments and more.  Accessing RefMobile requires ISU’s group code. Login here to get the code.

eBooks?

Heads up! New interfaces coming

Two of Milner’s resources will look different by the start of the spring semester.

LexisNexis has announced a new, streamlined interface. Hopefully it will make more sense to end users than the current version. From information received from the vendor, it seems like it will be more intuitive.

RefWorks is also redesigning its interface. Not much information yet on what the changes will look like.

Streaming Video

 

Milner has added streaming video resources to our collection.

Our Psychology Librarian has purchased a one year subscription to Alexander Street Press’ Counseling and Therapy in Video product. Available videos cover topics ranging from counseling different ethnicities to examples of different styles of psychotherapies.

• Transcripts that follow along are available for every video
• Create short clips of videos for personal or classroom use
• Embed videos into Blackboard

The second set of streaming video is a selection of 6 films from New Day Films, an award winning independent producer of social issue films.

• Barbie Nation
• Holding Ground: the rebirth of Dudley Street
• In Whose Honor?
• State of Fear
• It’s Elementary
• Wet Dreams and False Images

Back from Internet Librarian

Highlights from Internet Librarian:

• Lots of things to think about cloud computing
• Checking web site traffic using Google Analytics and other web statistics software
• Justifying new technology to library (and municipal, corporate and more) administration
• Check out the Internet Librarian blog

And of course, lots of good food and good weather, too!

ScienceDirect outage November 2, 2008

To support scheduled maintenance, ScienceDirect will be unavailable from 1 a.m. UTC/GMT on Sunday, 2 November (9 p.m. EDT on Saturday, 1 November) until 1 p.m. UTC/GMT on Sunday, 2 November (8 a.m. EST on Sunday, 2 November).

RefWorks Workshops

There is still time to sign up for a RefWorks Workshop. If you want to make your research life easier, RefWorks can help. More details on the workshop here: Sign Up