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What's New - January 2006

Library Events & Displays
Periodicals Staff Change
Library Materials Recently Made Available Online
New Databases
Google Scholar

 

Library Events & Displays

Displays

  • Winter Holidays Around the World (lobby, 2nd floor)
  • (Coming to the lobby case later:) Olympics
  • Children's literature displays (first floor, in front of the Media Center, and flat cases in the Library lobby) are provided by students in the College of Education's Children's Literature course taught by Professor O'Brien.

sponsored by the Friends of the Library.
Buying and Selling on eBay
January 20, 2006 (Friday), 1:30-3 p.m. (repeat from December)
Location: University Library Bibliographic Instruction Laboratory (Andersen Library building L2211)

Back by popular demand, Martha Stephenson, Reference & Instruction Librarian, will talk about eBay, the major Internet marketplace, where individuals and companies buy and sell all manners of merchandise from hot sauces to hydrangeas, and Russ trolls to Rolls Royces. If you are interested in garage saling, antiquing or bargain hunting without leaving the comfort of your home (or library), this workshop is for you! Issues such as registering, comparison pricing, bidding, making and receiving payment, shipping, feedback, security, and fraud will be covered. RSVP optional, but will guarantee your seat. (262-472-1032 or refdesk@uww.edu)

Women's Fair 2006
March 8, 2006 (Wednesday) 11:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Location: Hamilton Center, James R. Connor University Center

Please visit with us at the University Library's table at this event!

sponsored by the Friends of the Library.
Juvenile Delinquent Adolescent Girls
March 17, 2006 (Friday), 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Location: International Education Conference Room (Andersen Library building L2254)

Patricia Ogren from the Southern Oaks Girls School (SOGS), will present an overview of their demographics and needs, and a range of ways to meet these needs. If needs are met through treatment, education, structure, leisure time activates, and family the girls at Southern Oaks do not return to choices that include violations of the law. Communities can also work with girls in a variety of ways that will change their paths so they are productive citizens.

sponsored by the Friends of the Library.
Library Book Sale
April 3-6, 2006 (Monday-Thursday)
Location: University Library Lobby
April 3: 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. (pre-sale - UWW faculty, staff, students, & Friends only)
April 4-5: 8 a.m. – 8 p.m.
April 6: 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.

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Periodicals Staff Change

Lara Monk, Periodicals LTE, got married and left Andersen Library for wedded bliss in New Mexico. Her last day was December 29th.

Kate Hooper, formerly a student worker in Periodicals, joined the Library staff as an LTE in Periodicals (working mornings) on January 3rd. Welcome (back)!

Library Materials Recently Made Available Online

The digitized 1857 Walworth County plat map is online at http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.Walworth1857, as part of the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections. The original is kept in the Archives/Area Research Center.

The Library's Area Research Center/Special Collections has created a couple of new webpages to assist its patrons:

The University Library has become a community as part of MINDS@UW, a digital repository. See the Library's page at http://minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/143. So far there is one collection with content: eight online master's theses from UW-Whitewater, dated 2003-2005.

New Databases

American Humanities Index, an Ebsco database, has been discontinued and replaced with:
Humanities International Index (EBSCOhost) - Off-Campus access requires UW-W login.

The new database is comprehensive covering journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities. Produced by Whitston Publishing, it provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 journals and contains more than 1.5 million records.

ChoiceReviews Online - Off-Campus access requires UW-W login

Note: Restricted to 1 user at a time. ChoiceReviewsOnline provides online access to the entire database of CHOICE reviews published since September 1988. CHOICE reviews significant current books and electronic resources of interest to those in higher education. Each year it publishes more than 6,500 reviews by subject experts. The database is updated monthly, generally at mid-month, with reviews that will be printed in the next monthly issue of CHOICE. Following a successful trial of this online product last fall, it was decided to discontinue receiving the monthly Choice print periodical issues as well as the accompanying set of cards that had been circulated to UW-W faculty library representatives in each academic department as one resource to use when selecting titles to be added to the Library's collection. Library acquisitions staff will work with academic departments to provide notification of new reviews in relevant subject areas. The online version allows searching for reviews of particular book titles and authors, or searching for books on a topic by either browsing subject areas or searching for keywords.

CINAHL PLUS with Full Text (EBSCOhost) - Off-Campus access requires UW-W login

CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides indexing for 3,001 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL Plus with Full Text covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.  CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides full text for 336 journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. PDF backfiles to 1937 are also included. This database is not really new for UW System libraries, but it used to be provided by ProQuest and now is being provided by EBSCOhost, which alters the interface.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) (EBSCOhost)

Provided free by EBSCO publishing, this world-class bibliographic database provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings. With coverage dating back to the mid-1960s, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.

New York Times Historical Newspapers (1851-2002) (ProQuest) - Off-Campus access requires UW-W login

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times is a unique full-image archive that brings you the entire historical run of The New York Times. It offers complete coverage from 1851-2001. The database delivers every page of every issue from cover to cover, with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF. And the database just keeps growing, with a new year added annually.

ProQuest Nursing Journals has been discontinued.

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Google Scholar logo

The UW-Whitewater University Library is participating in Google Scholar's Library Links program, which means search results from Google Scholar will be annotated with links indicating whether a book is available from our Library’s collections or whether you have access to the full text of articles via our online subscription resources. Access to subscription resources from off campus will require a login with a campus net-ID or campus e-mail account.

To make these links appear, simply access Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com) from an on-campus location, or from an off-campus location follow these steps:

  • Click on Scholar Preferences
  • Type whitewater in the Library Links search box and then check the box alongside UW-Whitewater when it appears
  • Click on the “Save preferences” button.

Not familiar with Google Scholar? Basically, it is a way of using the Google search engine to search specifically for scholarly information on the Internet, including theses, books, peer-reviewed papers, scholarly publishers and universities. More information about Google Scholar is available at http://scholar.google.com/scholar/about.html and http://scholar.google.com/scholar/help.html. One thing it cannot do is search the contents of library subscription databases.

Examples

Google Scholar article citation example Search for advertising layout; Article citation example with full text available either via a Library subscription database or in the Library's periodical collections. Clicking on the link Available from UW-W displays the Find It menu with links to databases from which the full text article is available and/or a link to the Library Catalog to check the Library's holdings for the needed issue.

 

Google Scholar book citation example Book citation example - The Find It menu (excerpted below) displays when you click on Find It (UW-Whitewater).

 

Google Scholar find it link to library catalog search for book example Clicking on the University Library Catalog link displays the location and call number for the book in the University Library. If there is no link to the catalog, the book is not available locally.

 

 

Find in a Library displays when you click on "Library Search." It checks the WorldCat database for cataloging holdings of libraries worldwide and displays first those that are closest to the zip code or state you provide in the "Enter Location Information" box. Google Scholar Library Search example for book

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