Posted on January 29th, 2009 by janestrudwick
Familiarize yourself with the Nursing and Allied Health database, CINAHL, and discover new teaching tools. A special section of EBSCO’s Support Site (http://support.ebscohost.com/cinahl) is dedicated to a “wide variety of support and training tools designed to help you learn how to get the most from EBSCO’s CINAHL database.”
Some of these tools include:
Frequently Asked Questions [...]
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Posted on January 26th, 2009 by MarisHayashi
Week of January 26, 2009
News Item: The movie awards season is well underway in Hollywood with the Oscars traditionally serving as the culminating event. One day before the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hands out its 81st Best Picture statue in February, the industry will celebrate the best in independent cinema at the [...]
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Posted on January 23rd, 2009 by janestrudwick
Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s). This bibliography can also serve [...]
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Posted on January 20th, 2009 by MarisHayashi
Week of January 20, 2009
News Item: Barack Obama will become the 44th President of the United States on January 20, at which time he and his family will take up residence in the White House. The titles listed here provide various insights into the building located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC. (As an aside: [...]
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Posted on January 14th, 2009 by janestrudwick
On January 30th, CAS will discontinue access to SciFinder Scholar 2006.
If you have not already made the switch to SCIFINDER SCHOLAR 2007, do so now. For Instructions on updating to 2007 see
http://www.library.fau.edu/ecollect/sfs/scifin.htm.
Visit SciFinder Scholar Support & Training to find tutorials, search strategies, instruction materials, and technical support.
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Posted on January 12th, 2009 by MarisHayashi
Week of January 12, 2009
News Item: President-elect Barack Obama has presented his American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan which, he has said, would resuscitate the economy. This stimulus package could cost around $775 billion and would be used, in part, for tax cuts and to create 3.5 million new jobs. Could this be the makings of [...]
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Posted on January 8th, 2009 by janestrudwick
In addition to a new interface, the latest release of Classical Music Library includes new features and updates. (Click here to connect off campus.)
Album Browse: Browse all classical works by album and find associated recordings.
Updated Playlists: Individual items in a playlist can be annotated, and links to any item (whether available in Classical Music Library or on the [...]
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Posted on January 4th, 2009 by janestrudwick
America’s Historical Newspapers allows users to search more than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states. Created by Readex through partnerships with the American Antiquarian Society, Library of Congress, Wisconsin Historical Society and others, America’s Historical Newspapers enables researchers to explore virtually every aspect of America during [...]
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