Good news for researchers from JSTOR this week: On September 6, 2011, we announced that we are making journal content in JSTOR published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world. This “Early Journal Content” includes discourse and
On Tuesday April 12th from 12:40-2:00 in the Poetry Center, Professor Douglas Pfeiffer shall hold an informal seminar on how to make practical use of two databases available from University Libraries on a trial basis — Early English Books Online (EEBO) and Literature Online (LION). All are invited. If you
Zotero now offers 100 mb of cloud-based storage for PDFs, images, screenshots, and other files free of charge. Additional storage space can be purchased if needed. For more information check Zotero’s storage faq. If you are not already familiar with it, Zotero is a free bibliographic management tool for researchers.
The University Libraries heartily congratulates Hélène Volat, our Head of Reference and Information Services, on the recent publication of her book Les Ecrits de Marguerite Duras. Bibliographie des oeuvres et de la critique 1940-2006 which she co-authored with Robert Harvey and Bernard Alazet. This is the first monograph published in
Oxford Reference Online has added four in-depth and scholarly titles. Coverage of the sciences is enhanced with the new Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, containing over 21,000 entries, and The New Encyclopedia of Reptiles and Amphibians, which includes over 200 color illustrations and photographs. Also new are the
The library is making it easier for students, faculty and staff to ask for help! We are in the process of adding a widget to pages within the library website and catalog that allows you to IM a librarian without having to navigate to another page. You can preview the
250 reference titles are now available online via the Gale Virtual Reference Collection. The entire collection can be searched as a whole or titles within a subject area or even single titles. The complete texts of these titles are searchable. Catalog entries for all the titles are included in the
Melville Library currently subscribes to sets of multidisciplinary reference books in electronic format via the Gale Virtual Reference Library and Oxford Reference Online. Through April 30th we have trial access to XreferPlus – a competing set of online reference ebooks – in order to compare Xrefer‘s product with Gale‘s and
