Counseling and Therapy in Video provides the largest and richest online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling—400 hours and more than 330 videos on completion. The collection’s wealth of video and multiplicity of perspectives allow students and scholars to see, experience, and study counseling in ways never before possible. The videos in this collection, drawn from the catalogs of Microtraining Associates, Psychotherapy.net, and the University of Manchester Department of Psychiatry, have been created by a variety of organizations and individuals dedicated to the advancement of education and training in counseling and therapy. This current release includes 284 videos totaling roughly 314 hours.
E-Resources
LexisNexis Academic Made Easier (& a Little Prettier)
This year LexisNexis Academic (a database with access to full-text news, business and legal publications) rolled out its much anticipated redesigned interface, including improved navigation and search features. FAU Libraries lists links to both interfaces on the Indexes/Database pages. Access to the old interface will be phased out by Summer 2010 when users will be redirected to the new interface.
Besides the blue and white color scheme, the most dramatic change is the Easy Search Form. The big blank search box has been replaced by three search categories: “Search for News,” “Look up a Legal Case,” and “Get Company Info.” For detailed explanations of important search form changes, new forms, and other features see Academic Help Overview.
ARTstor has Improved Functionality
ARTstor, a collection of hundreds and thousands of digital images, has improved the functionality of and corrected errors related to several features in the Digital Library.
• URL links to images and groups will open the image viewer consistently, whether a user clicks the link on a web page, in an email or document, or pastes the URL into a browser address bar.
• URL links to image groups will allow ARTstor users (on-campus or accessing through a user account) to open the group, regardless of the access rights on the image group’s folder.
• Changes made to the order of image groups within folders can now be saved successfully, and changes will persist in future sessions.
• Folders created and edited through the Folder Manager window can be assigned ‘Public’ access, and saved successfully without receiving an error message.
• Folders assigned ‘Private’ access with no password will no longer display as ‘Public’ in the Folder Manager window.
If you have further questions about using these features, please consult the ARTstor Help pages (http://help.artstor.org) or contact User Services at 888-278-0079 / userservices@artstor.org.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports – January Database of the Month
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports (1974-1996) contains comprehensive media reports from around the globe which have been translated into English from more than 50 languages. The reports, collected by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), include news, interviews, and speeches transcripted from radio broadcasts and official news services.
The Daily Reports are key primary source materials which are useful for a better understanding of world history. They can be searched easily by date, keywords, countries/regions, or events and are organized around eight world regions – Africa, Asia, Australia/Oceania, Caribbean, Europe, Middle East /Near East, North America, and South America. Continue reading
Compendex – December Database of the Month
Compendex (1970 to present) is the most comprehensive bibliographic database of engineering research available today. Coverage includes nuclear technology, bioengineering, transportation, chemical and process engineering, light and optical technology, agricultural engineering and food technology, computers and data processing, applied physics, electronics and communications, control, civil, mechanical, materials, petroleum, aerospace and automotive engineering as well as narrower subtopics within all these and other major engineering fields.
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Digital Collection of the Month: Department of Music
The Digital Library celebrates November with a brand new digital collection from the Department of Music. All of the Department’s 2008 performances, concerts and recitals are available online for your listening pleasure.
November is a notable music month with the births of legendary composers Aaron Copland, Scott Joplin, and Manuel de Falla.
To access the collection, please click here.
Dance in Video – November Database of the Month
Dance in Video features more than 200 videos on 20th century dance productions and documentaries, and covers genres such as ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance. Users can browse video selections by character role, choreographer, ensemble name, and venue, or utilize the “Quick” or “Advanced” search options. They can also create playlists that contain whole videos, tracks, or segments (clips). Playlists have their own unique static URL and can be shared with others. Dance in Video is periodically updated by the publisher and will eventually feature more than 500 hours of video material.
ScienceDirect – October Database of the Month
Elsevier’s ScienceDirect is a leading full-text scientific database offering high impact journals in the fields of Science, Engineering, Humanities and the Social Sciences. Florida Atlantic University has access to over 1,000 of these titles, including archival collections in Business and Management, Biochemistry and Genetics, Economics, and the complete Cell Press backfiles.
The platform offers sophisticated search and retrieval functionality and new tools that allow efficient downloading of content that can be shared, stored and passed to colleagues. One can search by authors, titles, topics and utilize all your favorite boolean operators, or search on one or more disciplines. This system also produces alerts for new articles online and when a new journal issue hits the “stands.”
Features that allow for a customizable research experience, include: Continue reading
Classical Scores & Music References Online
Classical Scores Library contains hundreds of thousands of pages of the most important classical music scores, manuscripts, and previously unpublished material, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 8,000 musical scores. Many items have associated audio tracks in Classical Music Library, so that subscribers to both collections can listen to a recording online while following along with the full score.
Classical Scores Library allows users to access multiple types of scores across various composers, genres, and time periods. Within seconds, beginning music students can explore Beethoven’s entire compositional output, or music experts can compare different musical settings of the Magnificat from the 15th century to the 21st century-without the need to find and carry heavy scores and multiple CDs. Click here for a full description. Continue reading
JSTOR – September Database of the Month
Update (09/07/10): JSTOR has undergone a major platform change and has a new look, see JSTOR Platform Highlights for more information. Also, if you are looking for a list of FAU Libraries’ subscription databases, go directly to Indexes/Databases.
Start your research with JSTOR
JSTOR offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary digital archive to support scholarship and teaching. FAU has JSTOR access to almost one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire database is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images (including search results from ArtStor), and is interlinked by millions of citations and references.
Journals are always included from volume 1, issue 1 and include previous and related titles, but the most recently published issues (past 3-5 years) are not generally available. However, several publishers provide links to the recent content on their own website, and you can include these article citations in your JSTOR search by checking the “Search for links to articles outside of JSTOR.” If FAU has access to these articles, you can click the “Find it at FAU” button to access the full text.