We are currently experiencing problems with our RefWorks connection. UI&U Computer Services is aware of this issue and is quickly working to remedy the problem. We expect this issue to be solved by the end of the week. Thank you for your patience!
As always, if you have any comments/questions regarding our website and library services, please do not hesitate to contact us.
We will be offering a database trial of EBSCOhost’s SocINDEX with Full Text to faculty, staff, and registered students till February 15, 2009.
SocINDEX with Full Text is the “world’s most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. Its extensive scope and content provide users with a wealth of extremely useful information encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study. The database features more than 1,986,000 records with subject headings from a 19,600+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. This product also contains informative abstracts for more than 1,130 “core” coverage journals dating as far back as 1895. In addition, this file provides data mined from more than 430 “priority” coverage journals as well as over 2,800 “selective” coverage journals.”
We encourage users to utilize SocINDEX during the trial and to provide us with feedback! Your thoughts/comments help us to better serve you!
We are pleased to welcome Susan Whitehead as our new Reference Librarian and the newest member of the Gary Library team. If you have any reference inquiries, please direct them to Susan via email or phone, (802) 828-8758.
And if you are a local student, stop by sometime and welcome Susan to the UI&U community!
Annenberg Media offers a great online instructional video resource at Learner.org for teachers and students. And it’s free! Designed for the professional development of K-12 teachers, Learner provides multimedia resources organized by subject area and broken down by the appropriate grade level. These short video clips and interactive tools can provide a visual/audio context to your research.
You can access Learner.org directly or via the Gary Library Subject Guides wiki.
If you have any questions on how to navigate Learner.org, please do not hesitate to contact us at (802) 828-8747.
*Important Notice to All Gary Library Users*
Effective immediately, our mailing address has been changed. Our new mailing address is:
Union Institute & University Library
62 Ridge Street, Suite 2
Montpelier, VT 05602
Please use this new address whenever you are writing to us or sending library circulating materials back to us. All other library contact information, including email, website, telephone, and fax, remains unchanged. Please call us at (802) 828-8747 or email us at library@tui.edu if you have any questions. Thank you.
Posted August 12th, 2008 in Library NewsGary Library now has a trial to Early English Books Online (EEBO), which contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work from the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare. This incomparable collection contains about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave’s Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing’s Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement.
Your feedback is important to us and will help the library make subscription decisions. Please try these resources and let us know what you think.
Posted August 5th, 2008 in Library NewsThe Gary Library currently has a database trial for Electronic Enlightenment (Oxford), which offers access to the correspondences of the greatest thinkers and writers of the 18th century. EE features 53,000+ primary source letters from more than 6,000 writers.
Within EE you can search or browse:
* nearly 6,000 correspondents;
* over 53,000 letters and documents;
* over 80,000 document sources including both manuscripts and early editions;
* nearly 230,000 critical annotations.
Log in information for accessing this trial database:
User name: GaryLibrary
Password: vacation
Your feedback is important to us and will help the library make subscription decisions. Please try this resource and let us know what you think.
Posted July 2nd, 2008 in Library News, Databases and resource toolsThe Oxford English Dictionary is now available online through the Gary Library.
The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
And now, you can search the OED online with the greatest of ease. You can even add the OED Online to your browser. With this feature, you can highlight a word in any web site, click the Search OED Online button on your browser toolbar, and your browser window will display the results of a Find Word search having been performed in OED Online on the selected text.
For more cool OED tools, and to learn how to effectively search the OED, please view this tutorial.
Posted June 24th, 2008 in Library News and DatabasesWe are pleased to let you know that we now subscribe to ACLS Humanities E-Books.
This electronic resource includes over 1700 full-text, cross-searchable books in the humanities selected by scholars for their continuing importance for research and teaching. Areas include: African, American, Asian, Latin American, European (Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern), Middle Eastern, World/Comparative, Byzantine/Mediterranean and Australasian/Oceanian history, plus women’s history, history of the Native Peoples of the Americas and of Science and Technology. Plus archeology, art history, folklore, religion, musicology, and political science. Lists of titles can be found online at: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/titlelist.html
The project includes both in-print and out-of print books and adds 500 titles a year. It is a collaboration of the American Council of Learned Societies, various constituent member learned societies of the ACLS and over 90 publishers.
Access ACLS Humanities E-Books by clicking on the link, going to our Databases A-Z Directory under A, or on our Databases by Subject pages. A cataloging record for each book in the collection will soon appear in our online catalog with a link to the online text.
Posted June 20th, 2008 in Library News and resource toolsJuly is a busy month for UI&U. Get a jump start on your classes and research, by getting to know the library now! Take our library research tutorial and learn everything you need to know about starting research, finding resources, and using the library. See you in July!
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