Lura Sanborn October 29th, 2008
Lura Sanborn – Reference Librarian
ProQuest offers access to English-language versions of several major international newspapers. Follow the steps below to find the information you need:
Step 1: From the Ohrstrom Website – Select ProQuest Periodicals
Step 2: Click on “Databases Selected” to limit searching
Step 3: Select: International Newspapers
*Tip: Click the “View Titles” option to browse by title.
Step 4: Select your paper and browse by date or search by keyword.
Helpful for: Humanities III, Humanities in general, Newspaper readers
Tags: Humanities, Humanities III, newspapers, Proquest
Lisa Laughy October 21st, 2008
Lisa Laughy - Archives Assistant
The sidebar of Ohrstrom Blog now features feeds from all of the daily newspapers that we subscribe to with the exception of The Wall Street Journal. If you are interested in a quick headline fix take a moment to check out today’s feeds, or add these feeds to your own feed reader using the links at the end of the post.
The Wall Street Journal doesn’t offer your average RSS feed, but instead has this overly clever flashy widget / gadget. I can’t seem to format it to fit the width of the blog sidebar, so I have put it on this post page where it can spin and whirl in all its glory. You can change news categories by clicking on “Edit” in the upper right hand corner of the widget, which makes it whiz around like a slot machine. You can then use the up and down arrows on the bottom to scroll through the headlines. I have included a permalink to this post in the sidebar with the rest of the RSS newspaper feeds.
Add these feeds to your reader and stay in touch with world beyond Millville:
Boston Globe Feeds
Concord Monitor Feed (local news feed – others available at www.concordmonitor.com by clicking the orange RSS feed buttons in the news category headings)
New York Times Feeds
Union Leader Feed
Wall Street Journal Newsreel Widget Add it to Facebook, Google, as a Vista desktop widget, and many other applications.
Tags: Boston Globe, Concord Monitor, Feeds, gadget, New York Times, newspapers, Periodical Picks, Periodicals, RSS, Union Leader, Wall Street Journal, widget
Lisa Laughy October 1st, 2008
Lisa Laughy - Archives Assistant
Above is a very groovy tag cloud featuring the most frequently used tags on Ohrstrom Blog. Your everyday tag cloud looks like THIS (in the right sidebar), but this WordPress plugin created by Roy Tanck organizes Ohrstrom Blog’s tags into a 3D whirling cloud of tag related fun (requires Flash Player 9 or better and JavaScript enabled). It is a dynamic list so it will update as new tags are added. Take some time to explore the tag cloud by clicking on the floating words: the larger the type face the more posts that use the tag.
One of the ways we tag posts here is to use the name of academic classes as tags when a particular bit of information might be helpful to students in the class. For example, if you click on the Humanities III tag – either in the tag cloud or in the list located at the bottom of a post – it will take you to two posts about new reference books that are good resources for subjects studied in that class. Any time we add a new blog post with some information pertinent to the Humanities III curriculum, that post will be added to the tag list.
There is a mini version of the 3D tag cloud in the sidebar, and a permalink back to this post for fun and easy tag browsing.
Tags: Ohrstrom Blog, tag, tag cloud, WP Cumulus
Lisa Laughy September 26th, 2008
Lisa Laughy - Archives Assistant
Our third RSS feed related post this week is about using your feed reader to keep track of search results from the ProQuest database. It is very simple to set up a RSS feed for your searches and then receive automatic updates whenever new items are added to the search results. Here’s how it is done:
Once you have narrowed down your search in ProQuest, scroll to the bottom of the search list and locate the little RSS icon (see the image below).
Click on the “Create RSS Feed” link and a window will pop up with your customized feed address. Click on the feed address located in the yellow box in the new window (shown below).
This will open up a browser window that takes you to the feed address. You can now either select your feed reader from the drop-down list at the top of the page (I am using Bloglines – see picture below), or copy and paste the feed address from your browser’s navigation bar into your feed reader and follow the steps to subscribe.
Now that you have subscribed to your search feed in ProQuest, you can keep track of updates to your custom search without having to go back to the ProQuest website. It will save you time and ensure that you have the most current periodical resources for your research topic.
Tags: Bloglines, Databases, feed readers, Feeds, Periodicals, Proquest, RSS, searches, Web Resources
Lisa Laughy September 24th, 2008
Lisa Laughy - Archives Assistant
Oxford English Dictionary Online is a subscription service available to students, faculty and staff through the Ohstrom Library website. You can use this service to check meanings of words, find the first recorded use of a word, or for inspiration in solving word puzzles, among other things. One of the services they now offer is the Word of the Day RSS feed. Now that you have read the earlier post introducing feed readers, you are ready to add OED to your daily feed.
The Word of the Day feed address is: http://www.oed.com/rss.xml Cut and paste the address into your feed reader, or click on the link to add it through your browser.
You can read more about the feed service HERE including ways to add Word of the Day to your Google and Yahoo homepages.
Tags: OED, Oxford English Dictionary, RSS, Word of the Day
