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Grove/Oxford Art and Music Databases available until 3/13/09

andre08 — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:57:03 +0000

Take advantage of these world-class art and music databases!

Test-drive these databases until March 13.

Click on the following link to connect or go to our library home-page and check out our News and Events section.

Grove Art Online and Grove Music Online are now available through the Oxford Art Online and Oxford Music Online portals.

Try out the new Wilson Library Google Gadget!

egratz — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:37:46 +0000

What is the Wilson Library Google Gadget?

It allows you to search some of the top library resources, including the library catalog, article databases, specific journal titles, and Google Scholar. You can add the gadget to your personalized Google homepage, Blackboard, or any other Web page.

The hope is to bring the Library’s web services to you. To allow you to access the library through websites you visit everyday and make researching a little easier. Want more information about the gadget or Google homepage? Visit the Wilson Library website.

Get the gadget for your Google homepage.

Get the gadget for Blackboard or other website.

Ebsco Updates

egratz — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:13:01 +0000

Now when you are searching in EbscoHost, your results will be sorted by “Relevance”. This means that articles that have more of the keywords you searched will come to the top of the result list. You can identify the date range you want to search by using the slide bar on the right side of the results.

Have you ever found the articles and gotten ready to either export them to RefWorks or email them, and the email doesn’t go through or the export fails and you loose all the articles? This is a stress inducing situation, to say in the least! The articles were removed from the folder due to a default setting. This has now been changed! Items will no longer be removed automatically upon exporting or emailing. You will have to indicate that you want them removed by checking the box (see example to the left).

Research while in Blackboard

egratz — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:12:05 +0000

You may have already noticed there is now a library tab in Blackboard!

From the library tab you can: search for books and scholarly articles by subject, request a research appointment with a librarian, and get 24/7 chat help from a librarian. Stay tuned for more subject specific Blackboard library modules!

RefWorks is also available through Blackboard. If you have never used RefWorks before, it is a very nifty (but does have a bit of a learning curve) reference tool. You can export citations from databases, the library catalog, LINK+, and there is even a download that will create citations from webpages! RefWorks is available through the internet so you can access your citations from any computer with internet access. You can also quickly create bibliographies in your favorite citation format (APA, MLA, ASA, AAA, etc.). View how to export citations from ProQuest into RefWorks.