April 2009   

What's New!

New Books Display

A selection of recently received and cataloged books is on display in the Library entrance area -- an amazing array of subjects. You can see them online here.

You can also see if one of the new books is on your topic of interest by doing a search in the catalog, selecting "General Collection" and then "New Books" from the facet on the left.
Or, you can simply narrow the "new books" set by selecting a subject from the facet on the left.

OAIster -- A Union Catalog of Digital Resources

Digital resources can range from an old-time advertisement of electric refrigerators from the Library of Congress American Memory project to Harriet Beecher Stowe's memoirs from the University of Michigan's Digital Library Making of America collection.

Access is provided by the State Library of Florida and is available through FirstSearch on the list of history databases or the A - Z Database list.
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Database Spotlights

• Standard and Poor’s Net Advantage and Value Line
  These two databases provide industry surveys, stock reports, company descriptions and financials, mutual fund research and more. 
  
  
• Biography Resource Center
  Biographical information on everyone from Shakespeare to Darwin to A-Rod.
  
  
• BioOne
  A collaboration among scientific societies, libraries, academe and the private sector, BioOne provides the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals, most published by small societies and non-commercial publishers.
  
  

Did you know?

• You can use Google Scholar to see who has cited your work.
  The Library also subscribes to Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
  
  
• You can link to full text articles in library databases with no copyright issues – in Blackboard and through RefWorks.
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• You can set Google Scholar to link to full text in library databases – and export to RefWorks.
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• You can use UNF’s special PubMed URL to activate Article Linker in PubMed results.
  
  
• There is a page of information just for faculty.
  
  
• Your students can set up an appointment with a librarian for help with research. Call 620-2616 or email libhelp@unf.edu.

As a Matter of Fact...

In April 2008, 17,632 items were either checked out or renewed. This is an almost 2,000 item increase from April 2007. People are still using libraries!