3 EBSCO Trial Databases

We have a trial to 3 EBSCOhost databases:

• Nursing Reference Center - more info
• SPORTDiscus with Full Text - more info
• Associates Programs Source Plus - more info

These database trials will be available until April 28, 2009. Please take a look at them and let us know what you think. We're evaluating these databases to see if they would be a valuable addition to our online collections.

- Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

Library Database Errors

The library is currently experiencing intermitent errors with off-campus access to a number of the databases. The databases that are affected are:

• Gale
• EBSCO
• ValueLine
• Health Reference Center
• World Atlas

These databases should be working properly if you're researching on campus at one of the campus libraries, computer labs, or campus wi fi. If you experience any database errors, please let us know.

Thank you for your patence while we sort out these problems.

- Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

Searching: one step easier!

Searching EBSCO, Gale, or ProQuest databases is now one step easier. You can search multiple EBSCO, Gale, or ProQuest databases all at once and all from this library databases page!

Would you like to cross-search databases from EBSCO, Gale, or ProQuest? You can search many library databases, regardless of vendor, by searching 360 Search!


All library databases are available from any internet connection. All you need to do is log in with the same information you use for your school email. Contact the HelpDesk with log in errors.


If you have any quesitons about these library databases or any other research, please be sure to ask your librarian.
- Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

EBSCO Gets a Facelift!

EBSCO database has changed its interface! You'll get the same great information with a new look!

Here are some ways you can become acquainted with the new look:

• Try it out yourself. Go in to EBSCO MegaFILE (or your favorite EBSCO database) and do some sample searches. Contact your librarian with questions.
• Join me (Elaine, the Online Librarian) in a live webinar about the new EBSCO look. There are 3 dates available. You don't need to sign up. Just click the link 5-10 minutes before the session. Enter your full name. No password is necessary. (Before the webinar: check your system requirements here: http://www.elluminate.com/support/)

Researching with EBSCO: 7/25/08 @ 10a.m. CST http://elm.elluminate.com/HOSTEDMSOB/join_meeting.html?meetingId=1216311597863

Researching with EBSCO: 7/29/08 @ 7p.m. CST http://elm.elluminate.com/HOSTEDMSOB/join_meeting.html?meetingId=1216311741914

Researching with EBSCO: 8/13/08 @ 4p.m. CST http://elm.elluminate.com/HOSTEDMSOB/join_meeting.html?meetingId=1216311862958

Happy researching!

-Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

Linked full text in EBSCO

If you see this "linked full text" button in an EBSCOhost database, you can click it to get to the full text. This is a new feature for us. This button indicates that the full text is available in a different EBSCO database, but you don't need to go search a different database. Just click the "linked full text" button. Click here to search EBSCOhost now!

Please ask your librarian if you have any other questions about finding full text articles.

- Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

New Environmental Database!!!

The library's added a new database to the collection! It's called EBSCO GreenFile. GreenFile is a collection about the human impact to the environment: everything from "global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more." This database includes abstracts for 295,000 records and full text for 4,600 individual articles.

The library also has a subscription to EBSCO's Environment Complete database. This database is more broad, covering topics such as: "agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. " Environment Complete includes abstracts for 1,772,000 records. Enviromental Complete also has more full text than GreenFile. It has full text for 100 books and 600 journal titles!

You can search EBSCO GreenFile and Environment Complete at the same time!

1. Start at the library homepage: http://library.msbcollege.edu/
2. Click on "subscription databases"
3. Click on EBSCO
4. Log on (if you're off campus) with the same username and password that you use for your GU/MSB email
5. Click on "select multiple databases to search"

If you have questions, please contact your librarian!

- Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

Visual Search!

EBSCOhost Database has recently updated its Visual Searching capabilities!

Try it out!

1. From the Subscription Databases library page, click on EBSCOhost
2. If you're off-campus, log in using the same info you use to log in to your school email
3. Click on the Visual Search tab at the top of the page
4. Enter your search tems

Here are some of the features according to Library Journal:

• Two visual search interfaces for EBSCOhost
• Boon for visual search learners
• Results returned as colored blocks or columns

Learn more about EBSCO visual search.

Contact a librarian if you'd like more information or if you have questions about using EBSCO and EBSCO's Visual Search.

Happy Searching!

-Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

New Nursing Database!

Introducing CINAHL Plus with Full Text! The library now has a subscription to this world-class nursing database. According to EBSCO: "CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive nursing & allied health research database."

CINAHL Plus includes 620 full-text nursing journals, full-text of 218 books, clinical trials, nursing dissertations, selected conference precedings, drug records, clinical innovations, legal cases, and more.

CINAHL is part of the EBSCOhost family of databases. Click on EBSCO from the library's database page to access CINAHL. You can learn more about CINAHL by accessing this in-depth tutorial. Or you can ask your librarian for more info!

-Elaine Settergren