Datamonitor 360 – December Database of the Month

360 Datamonitor (formerly Marketline Business Information Centre) provides profiles on industries, countries, and private and public companies in multiple formats, including interactive reports. The reports cover a wide range of in-depth content such as market overviews, market trends analyses, and company and industry case studies. Users can find analyses of over 30,000 companies, with SWOT analyses for the largest 2,500, and over 3,000 industry profiles across more than 200 markets, or read expert opinions by the Datamonitor Group analysts on major industry events.

360 Datamonitor also includes a country statistics database providing macro/socio-economic and demographic data for 215 countries and the Market Data Analytics database, including data from across the global food, drinks, personal care, household products, pet care, news and magazine, and tobacco markets.

CINAHL Training – 11/17 & 11/18

With full text coverage dating back to 1937, CINAHL Plus is a comprehensive research tool for all areas of nursing, allied health, and complementary and alternative therapies literature.

The FAU Libraries are offering training sessions by a professional CINAHL trainer:

Boca Campus
Friday, November 18th
2:00 – 3:30
S.E. Wimberly Library Instruction Lab, Room 136
RSVP: Jane Strudwick , 561-297-0492

Treasure Coast Campus
Thursday, November 17th
2:00 – 3:30
JU 134/Library Computer Lab (TCC JU Library)
RSVP: Pam Alderman, 772.873.3311

Filmakers Library Online – November Database of the Month

For more than 40 years, Filmakers Library has delivered high-quality, issue-based documentaries and independent films from around the world. You can now access more than 1,000 of these titles at Filmakers Library Online, a multidisciplinary collection of streaming video designed specifically for researchers. Internationally known producers such as the National Film Board of Canada and KCTS/Seattle are represented. Also included are the works of hundreds of notable independent film makers worldwide, including Christine Choy, Roger Weisberg, Josh Aronson, David Bradbury, Judith Gleason, Jeremy Levine & Landon Van Soest, Aaron Matthews, Jeffrey O’Connor, Tana Ross, and Taggart Siegel.

Filmakers Library Online includes documentaries that are already heavily used in humanities and social science classrooms—films such as Who Killed Vincent Chin?; Aging Out: Teens Leaving Foster Care; Critical Condition; Dax’s Case: Who Should Decide?; Sound and Fury: The Communication Wars of the Deaf; and Waging a Living.

You can watch any video on your mobile device by clicking on the “send to mobile” icon. Continue reading

RefWorks Training, 11/1 & 11/2

The FAU Libraries are offering four training sessions by a professional RefWorks trainer:
November 1st and November 2nd.

RefWorks allows you to create a personal database that can be used to manage, store, and share your research. Learn how to quickly and easily import references from online databases, automatically insert references into papers and generate formatted bibliographies and manuscripts in seconds. RefMobile and the in-text citation tool Write-N-Cite will also be covered.

Boca Campus
RefWorks Best Practices (See description below)
Tuesday, November 1st
9:00 and 11:00
S.E. Wimberly Library Instruction Lab, Room 136
RSVP or contact Jane Strudwick for more information

Treasure Coast Campus
Wednesday, November 2nd
9:30 – Using RefWorks to Quickly Import Citations and Write a Paper (See description below)
11:00 – Beyond Direct Export (See description below)
JU 134/Library Computer Lab (TCC JU Library)
RSVP: Pam Alderman or Deb Fink

For ongoing RefWorks Workshops, see the FAU Libraries Workshop Schedule: http://www.library.fau.edu/depts/ref/instsrv/mainwksh.htm, or contact Instructional Services at LYILIS@fau.edu.

GEOBASE – October Database of the Month

GEOBASE is a multidisciplinary database of indexed research literature on the earth sciences, including geology, human and physical geography, environmental sciences, oceanography, geomechanics, alternative energy sources, pollution, waste management and nature conservation. The 2.2 million earth sciences abstracts provide information needed for comprehensive evaluation of a region, including geographical structure and relation to natural resources. Thousands of peer-reviewed journals, trade publications, book series and conference proceedings are indexed. Continue reading

Ethnographic Video Online – September Database of the Month

Ethnographic Video Online provides a comprehensive resource for the study of human culture and behavior, and will contain 1,000 streaming videos at completion (this release includes 687 videos). The collection includes footage from every continent and hundreds of unique cultures, and is particularly rich in its coverage of the developing world. The work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century is featured, as are hundreds of the most frequently assigned films in anthropology and other social science courses (browse titles). Continue reading

NetLibrary is now eBooks on EBSCOhost

All NetLibrary ebooks are now on the ESBCOhost platform, allowing for a comprehensive search experience for ebooks and EBSCO databases.

Key New Features:

Browsing by subject, genre, language, & more.
Enhanced viewer for examining documents.
Table of Contents viewing from the Result List and Detail Record.
“Search-within” functionality to find specific terms within a book.
Searching across eBooks and other EBSCOhost content for integrated results.

Please note that your old NetLibrary folder will not be available on the new platform, you will need to create a new folder. For a tutorial on searching for ebooks, click here.

Preview RefWorks 2.0

Preview the redesigned Refworks interface by clicking the Refworks 2.0 link from the toolbar of the login page, or from your account (see below). Your personal database will carry over to the new interface and no information will be lost. You can also toggle between the “classic” interface and RefWorks 2.0.

Access RefWorks 2.0 from your account

The preview will be available until the fall semester, when the FAU account will default to RefWorks 2.0. Don’t panic, you will still be able to enjoy the retro offerings of the classic view for the rest of the year by clicking the “RefWorks Classic” link.

The new interface is clean and intuitive, and brings frequently used features to the forefront. New features include tabbed functions, improved menu navigation and a quick access toolbar. For more information view the RefWorks 2.0 Preview video. Note that Write-N-Cite, RefShare, and RefGrab will work the same, but for now the look of these tools will remain the same.

The new Refworks 2.0

HBOI Lecture, July 20: Oyster Restoration Efforts on the Treasure Coast

FAU’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute (HBOI) presents “Oyster Restoration Efforts on the Treasure Coast,” as part of its Ocean Science Lecture Series. The discourse will be led by research scientist Dr. Vincent Encomio, head of the Oyster Restoration Research Project at the Florida Oceanographic Society.

A delicacy, oysters are also critical to the health and quality of coastal waterways by filtering estuarine water, such as the Indian River Lagoon, and providing habitat and food for estuarine species. Dr. Encomio’s lecture will be held at HBOI’s Johnson Education Center.

Location: 5600 US 1 North, Fort Pierce, FL
Time: July 20, 2011 at 7 p.m.
Phone: 772-242-2506

Explore the HBOI Collection of faculty papers in the FAU Digital Library repository. HBOI is a research institute of Florida Atlantic University that works to expand opportunities in ocean technology, coastal and deep sea exploration and research, marine biotechnology, aquaculture, ocean and human health, and marine science education.

Rare American Civil War Etchings @ FAU Digital Library

FAU Digital Library presents the American Civil War Collection in tribute to the 150th anniversary of the war between the States.

Originally characterized as “scarce and very interesting,” FAU Libraries’ featured Conferederate War etchings in the Elliot Cross and James A. Cross Civil War Collection are satirical sketches sympathetic to the Confederacy. The etchings were produced by German born artist Adalbert John Volck (1828–1912), a lifelong Balitmore resident, under the pseudonym V. Blada, an anagram for Adalbert. Volck’s etchings were published in Sketches from the Civil War in North America, 1861, ’62, ’63.

The Cross Collection is named for the late Elliot Cross and son James Cross. James Cross donated to the FAU Libraries his father’s collection of purchased papers, lithographs and prints, currency, letters and memorabilia.

The etchings depict caricatures and cartoons that summarize the mood of one of America’s bloodiest conflicts. Daily witness to the American Civil War is accounted in rare, original materials held at FAU Libraries’ Special Collections & Archives.

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