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Several new TexShare databases were added during the summer and consist mainly of STEM, legal, and educational assistance.   STEM Databases There are two new STEM (acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) databases, one from Gale and the other from ProQuest plus a STEM collection for ebrary. Science in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics. The solution merges Gale's authoritative and continuously updated reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.  The SciTech Premium Collection includes the Natural Science Collection and the Technology Collection and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, ...

Starting a research paper can appear to be a daunting task to many students, especially when you don’t know what to write about! Here are two databases that may help you pick topics that will interest you and, in turn, help you earn the grade you desire -- CQ Researcher and Credo Reference both offer considerable support to students in search of an excellent research topic.    “ Credo promotes knowledge building, problem solving and critical thinking to give people the information skills necessary for success throughout their academic, professional and personal lives.”  Credo Reference , found by under the   “C” tab in Databases A-Z , is not only an excellent database for basic informative searches but also for picking a research topic . Credo’s "Mind Map" and " Find Topic" Pages tabs are great tools to use when finding a topic is becoming a chore and a headache. By using the "Mind Map" tab students are able to connect concept...

Welcome to all our new students and welcome back to all our returning students. We hope you had a healthy and productive summer! Big news for the coming year. Beginning on Sunday, August 29th, the hours of Jarrett Library will be extended to midnight, Sunday-Thursday nights! We hope you'll take advantage of this time! Other news - recent graduate Jeremy Closs will be joining the regular staff as our weekend circulation supervisor, working the front desks Saturdays and Sundays. We're grateful to have Jeremy helping us out this year! No other major changes in the library though several of our electronic resources have undergone extensive "remodeling" of their interfaces. You'll see the biggest changes in the EBSCOhost databases - if you have any questions please ask for help at the reference desk, by phone, by email, via online chat (see the library home page) or through LibAnswers.

Welcome back to our returning students and a special welcome to all new students to ETBU! This year in the library you'll find a few changes and we hope that you will like them. First of all - one extra hour added to Sundays! Yes, the library will now stay open on Sunday nights until 11 PM instead of closing at 10 PM. The library will still continue to open at 4 PM on those days. Second - for the first month of school the Heritage Room will be closed as we clear out all the shelves and bells! This room is being prepared for use during President Oliver's inaugural festivities and after that this area will be converted into a group study area. It will also double as library instruction classroom when necessary, and also as a meeting place for library meetings such as the Mary K. Armstrong Society or meetings of librarians. For instance - in November of 2010 we will host the other Baptist Academic Librarians for a day of meetings. For the time being all computers have been m...

The library is pleased to announce the addition of the following electronic resources: Cambridge Histories Online - "This unique historical reference compendium allows instant access to the renowned texts of the Cambridge Histories series. With access to the most up to date and authoritative scholarly content, Cambridge Histories Online is an invaluable resource, for undergraduates, graduates, lecturers and researchers alike. All the available volumes are grouped into topics, making it quick and easy to search and browse through an array of historical subject areas. The extensive bibliographic referencing and other leading functionality, enhances usability and makes this resource ideal for any type of historical research." Environment Complete - "Offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental ...

We are pleased to announce the addition of MEDLINE with Full Text and CountryWatch to our list of databases. MEDLINE with Full Text adds nearly 500 unique full text journal titles to our burgeoning list. CountryWatch gives good information about the countries of the world and although some of the information is duplicated in Global Road Warrior for the most part the information is complementary to that database, and not competitive. You may access these databases through the electronic resources title lists or in the appropriate subject lists. Links to these lists are found on the Jarrett Library home page at http://www.etbu.edu/library/

The library is pleased to announce three new databases that were recently added. Naxos Music Library contains almost the entire catalog of recordings of the Naxos Recording Company. Listen to a variety of classical works through your computer. CQ Global Researcher is a companion to CQResearcher and takes a decidedly international flavor. Reports come out monthly (as opposed to the weekly reports of CQResearcher) and deal with a broad topic such as climate change, or deal with a specific country, such as Turkey or India. Links to related reports found in CQResearcher are also available (and vice versa). Almost all disciplines will find useful reports in this database. EBSCOhost now offers a free database called GreenFILE . GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Drawing on the connection between the environment and dis...

The Library is pleased to announce the addition of two new databases from Alexander Street Press - The Classical Music Library and Theatre in Video with BBC Content . The Classical Music Library is a fully searchable classical music resource—a comprehensive database of distinguished classical recordings. It includes tens of thousands of licensed recordings that users can listen to over the Internet. Users browse, search, click, and then listen to the music. Theatre in Video with BBC Content contains more than 250 of the world’s most important plays, together with more than 100 video documentaries, online in streaming video—more than 500 hours in all. These definitive performances, by leading actors and directors, have been painstakingly licensed from a wide range of copyright holders. They are now delivered to you over the Internet, in a revolutionary new format developed specifically for drama. For the first time, students, instructors, and researchers can bookmark specific scenes,...

For the next thirty days you may take advantage of the Points of View Reference Center and/or the Nursing Reference Center . Points of View Reference Center is similar to both Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center and TOPICSearch in that it is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides 200 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument),counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide. Topics covered include: affirmative action, cloning, DNA profiling, HIV/AIDS status disclosure, immigration, Iraq, Israel & the Palestinians, Katrina and FEMA response, nuclear proliferation, separation of church and state, standardized testing, stem cell research, tax cuts, voting machines, and many more.. As with the other two, scholarly and academic journals are used, as well as electronic versions of important circulating and reference books. Fres...

You know who you are. You're reading a newspaper, or a magazine, and there it is. A grid with some of the squares blackened out, some of the others with tiny numbers. Then there are the definitions. 1 Across. 37 Down. You grab for the nearest pencil (or maybe you're adventurous and it's a pen) and a compulsion guides you to begin filling in those squares with letters that become words. Yes. You. Are. A. Crossword. Addict. Go ahead. Say it. Remember, the first step is admitting you have the problem. If you are like millions of other people around the world you take great pleasure in filling in those grids with the right letters. Word overlaps word and you sometimes wonder how in the world do these people come up with these puzzles? Along with the pleasure comes not some measure of frustration when you are missing just one or two letters and neither the definition for 46 down or 52 across helps you. Of course, there are all sorts of crossword dictionaries out t...

This week we've had two University chapels devoted to the subject of illegal immigration. On Monday we heard from our U.S. Representative regarding the government position and on Wednesday we heard from a Baptist General Convention of Texas representative and how to minister to illegal immigrants within the law. The library has many resources on this and related topics and for good basic pro-con information we suggest you look at CQResearcher , Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center , and TOPICsearch . Additional information will be found in almost all of the other electronic resources listed on the library's web site. From CQResearcher you'll find several reports, including the recent "Immigration Debate" (2/1/2008). You can also track this and related topics back to 1992 including "Real ID" (5/4/2007); "Illegal Immigration" (5/6/2005); "Debate Over Immigration" (7/14/2000); "The New Immigrants" (1/24/1997); "Cracking...

FAITS is an electronic resource that offers reports, vendor directories and a glossary related to the study of Information Technology (IT). Although students majoring in Management of Information Systems (MIS) might have the more obvious need for FAITS it's actually a useful tool for a variety of disciplines. All business students will find the product and company profiles of use in many of their classes. Education students will find interesting reports related to technology and the classroom. Perhaps you are researching technology in area of healthcare - FAITS is one place to get information on this very topic as it relates to healthcare facilities security, patient monitoring, and the pharmacy industry, and more. Other students might be researching privacy versus governmental identification via iris scan, RFID technology and smart ID cards - FAITS can help you! If you would like some comparison information on products you can also find that information in FAITS, as well a profile...

The library's electronic resources are valuable and necessary for your academic career, but there is a restriction on usage based on the campus network IP addresses. So what do you do when you use Go Zoe, or if you are off-campus and trying to access a database from the ISP you have at home? The answer is remote access through the library's proxy server. The proxy server was set up several years ago to assist students, faculty and staff who wished to use databases even when off-campus. And now Go Zoe users have the same access. Previously you had to go to the remote access link and login. You were then given a list of databases or database vendors (such as EBSCOhost) but you had to know which database was where. Fortunately, this past Fall you no longer have to go to that menu - simply find the electronic resource you wish to use from either the title or subject lists, then click on the resource that you wish to use and a login screen will pop up. Login the same way you ...