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Magazine Archive within Google Books

Lura Sanborn — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:00:24 +0000

Google Books contains a collection of magazines embedded within its larger Google Books tool. Titles range from American Woodworker, Current Organic Chemistry to Texas Monthly with many title in between. Date range varies widely by title.

This brief video describes how to extract and search Life from within Google Books. The same technique can be applied to any magazine within this Google collection.

Helpful for: Humanities, History, Science, Art, Popular Culture

eBooks in Project Muse Beta Site

Lura Sanborn — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:00:39 +0000

We already love Project Muse for recent journal content, but very soon we will also have the opportunity to fall in love with Project Muse all over again – this time with eBooks! Earlier this year Project Muse announced it would be adding an eBook component to its database. Expected to launch in early 2012, the eBook content is projected to exceed 12,000 unique eBook titles, all searchable simultaneously within the existing journal content.

Project Muse has a beta site, currently containing 300 scholarly eBooks, available now at: http://beta.muse.jhu.edu/

Look for an announcement in 2012 regarding access to Project Muse eBook collections via Ohrstrom Library.

If you have questions about accessing Ohrstrom Library’s eBook or digital journal collections, please contact Ms. Sanborn (lsanborn at sps dot edu).

eReference @ Ohrstrom

Lura Sanborn — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:00:31 +0000

Teacher says no Wikipedia allowed? Concerned about author credibility? Try searching Ohrstrom Library’s digital reference collections, available from the library’s eReference page.

These eReference collections will quickly provide essential background information, written by known experts and backed by an academic publishing house.

The Credo Reference product provides access to 500+ digital reference titles, all searchable simultaneously.

The Gale Reference product is being built title-by-title, and includes such classics as The Encyclopedia of Religion.

Please feel free to contact Ms. Sanborn (lsanborn at sps dot edu) to discuss or review the library’s eReference products.

New Research Guide: Latin I

Lura Sanborn — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:00:32 +0000

A new Latin I research guide is available for those working on the Latin I research project. Use this guide to identify and review: useful eReference sources, recommended library catalog searches, ArtStor (image source) and Noodlebib citation tutorials.

Please feel free to contact Ms. Sanborn (lsanborn at sps dot edu) for a research consultation and/or to discuss any of the items in this guide.

New Research Guide: Artificial Intelligence

Lura Sanborn — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:00:41 +0000

A new Artificial Intelligence research guide is available for those working on the Artificial Intelligence research project. Use this guide to identify useful eReference sources, recommended library catalog searches, newspaper, magazine and journal articles, as well as online sources.

Please feel free to contact Ms. Sanborn (lsanborn at sps dot edu) for a research consultation and/or to discuss any of the items in this guide.

ebrary offers open access to 9/11 ebooks through September

Lura Sanborn — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:00:54 +0000

Throughout the month of September, ebrary, an eBook vendor that Ohrstrom Library currently contracts with, is offering free access to its collection related to 9/11. Fifteen searchable, full-text ebooks are available as part of this collection.

In support of the 10th anniversary of 9/11, ebrary is offering open access to a collection of relevant e-books through September. We hope that this collection provides a valuable resource to anyone seeking to learn or understand more about this tragic event, or reflect on its world impact.

Thank you ebrary.

New Research Guide: Literature of Witness

Lura Sanborn — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:00:38 +0000

A new Literature of Witness research guide is available for those writing the accompanying research paper. Use this guide to identify reference materials, recommended catalog searches to retrieve physical and ebooks, as well as contemporary and historical journal, magazine and newspaper articles.

Please feel free to contact Ms. Sanborn (lsanborn at sps dot edu) for a research consultation and /or to discuss any of the items in this guide.

New Research Guide: Humanities IV

Lura Sanborn — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:00:09 +0000

A new Humanities IV research guide is available for those writing the Humanities IV research paper. Use this guide to identify chronologies, recommended catalog searches, historical newspaper articles, newsreel footage and online primary source collections.

Please feel free to contact Ms. Sanborn (lsanborn at sps dot edu)for a research consultation and/or to discuss any of the items in this guide.

3,000 Plus (More!) eBooks: NetLibrary

Lura Sanborn — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:00:52 +0000

Ohrstrom Library recently purchased 3,000+ eBooks from Netlibrary.

To search the full-text of these eBooks, simply visit Netlibrary HERE.

Records for all of Ohrstrom’s eBooks are included in the library’s online catalog, located HERE.

Tip: Searching the catalog will search the author, title, and subject(s) of any book (print or e) owned by the library. To search within the full-text of an eBook, please search via the eBook collection available at the library’s website.

Please note: If you are off the SPS grounds please log in at vpn.sps.edu to access the library’s eBooks.

The Primary Source Hunt: OAIster

Lura Sanborn — Thu, 20 May 2010 12:00:00 +0000

Are you too looking for primary sources? Most Humanities V teachers are requiring at least two for completion of a successful research paper. If you’ve looked in all the usual places (such as those listed here in our primary source round-up), yet still aren’t finding quite what you want, consider OAIster.

What is it? OAIster is an online catalog of digitized sources. It is made available by OCLC, a company that provides many library-related services.

It might help to compare this to Ohrstrom Library’s catalog. The Ohrstrom Library catalog searches through the records of our 70,000 print titles. OAIster searches through the records of 23 Million digitized sources from over 1,000 contributors.

What might you find?

A copy of Redon’s journal, contributed by the Bibliotheque Nationale de France.
Correspondence from Sigmund Freud to Albert Einstein regarding war contributed by I-Revues.
Sanitary Statistics of Native Colonial Schools and Hospitals by Florence Nightingale contributed by University of California Libraries.
An image of an Alice in Wonderland Float, from Mardi Gra 1938 contributed by the Indiana University Digital Library Program (see image above).
An abstract of a report from the National Program for Inspection of Non-Federal Dams regarding the St. Pauls School Dam contributed by the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) Repository.

Is it hard to use? The search function is very straightforward, offering a basic search or advanced search. As always, if you would like a little help using this resource please be in touch!