LexisNexis Academic Library Database Errors

LexisNexis Academic is continuing to have some errors when you try to access it from off campus. I'm working with them to try to fix the problem.

In the meantime, try this solution:

Go back to the library databases page (using the back button in the same browser window) and click on the LexisNexis link again.

I hope this problem was not too frustrating for you. I know it's not working correctly, but I hope to have it working well soon.
Thank you for your patience.

-Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

Health Information Online

I came across this article today. It has a wonderful summary of useful websites for free health information. The categories are: General interest sites, Medical research sites, Patient sites, Disease specific sites, and Web tools.

I'd like to add to that list. The GU/MSB library offers additional online health information to you for free (the library buys it for you). Here are some highlights:

• Interactive Functional Anatomy - Images and animations of the human muscular system in motion.


• Health Reference Center - online encyclopedia of disease, wellness, body systems and more


• EBSCO's AltHealth Watch - Alternative medicine information


• Gale's Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Collection - articles about treatment techniques


• EBSCO's CINAHL - definitive index for nurses/ nursing students


• ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health - scholarly and trade articles for health professionals


• Gale's Health Reference Center Academic - reference books and articles for health professionals


• Gale's Nursing and Allied Health Collection - articles about specialized care, treatment and management.

Click here to search these database collections!

Please contact your librarian with any quesions about these databases.

- Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

Gale database trials

There are 27 trial databases available from Gale. We're evaluating these databases to decide if we should add them to the library's collection.

Search them now!

We'd love to hear what you think. Please leave a comment!
- Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

NEW Gale Small Business Resource Center

The library has just purchased Gale's Small Business Resource Center database. If you do any business planning, entrepreneurship, or industry research, you are going to love this database!

Use the browsing buttons on the right (in the red box below) to speed up your research. For example, if you're researching "coffeehouses"

1. Click "business types"
2. Click "coffeehouses"
3. You'll get tabbed results of sample business plans, articles, industry overviews, and business directories - all specific to coffeehouses!

Here’s how you get to it:
1. Start at the library’s website: http://library.msbcollege.edu
2. Click on subscription databases
3. Click on Gale
4. If you’re off-campus, log in with your standard email login. If it’s not working contact the HelpDesk – helpdesk@msbcollege.edu
5. Scroll all the way down to the bottom and click on Small Business Resource Center

If you have any questions about how to access or use this (or other databases), please ask a librarian!

- 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

Question of the Week

Q: How do I find "Don't Shoot the Cannons: Maintining The Appearance of Propriety Standard by Margaret McKeown"?

A: If you're searching for this article by title, you'll have a problem because there's a typo in the title. "Canons" is the correct spelling. One way you could have gotten around this is by searching for the author.

In any case, here's the full citation. That should help you find it. You can see by the citation that you need to search Gale's LegalTrac database.

McKeown, M. M. (Spring 2005). Don't shoot the Canons: maintaining the appearance of propriety standard. Journal of Appellate Practice and Process, 7, 1. p.45(14). Retrieved April 01, 2008, from LegalTrac via Gale database.

-Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

Use a citation to find the full text!

You can use the information in a citation to find the full text of an article, book, or website. This 6 minute tutorial will help you learn how!

The tutorial will show you:

• library tools to use
• techniques and tips

This is useful to know when:

• your instructor gives you a citation and tells you to read the article, book, or webiste
• you find an abstract in a database or on the web with no linked full text
• your instructor refers to research or research literature in a lecture and you want to read up on it
• you're doing citation chaining/citation chasing - this is where you use the bibliography of a source to find more related sources.

It's a common problem - to have a citation and no link to full text. I've blogged about it before. I hope you'll find the solutions in this short tutorial to be useful!

-Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

Trial databases available

The library has a trial to three Facts on File databases:
· World News Digest: 1940-Present
· Issues & Controversies: today’s top issues
· Issues & Controversies in American History

Log in and details here.

Please let us know what you think. Trial access is available to help us decide if we'd like to purchase these databases or not.


-Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

E-Journal Portal Improvement

The library has just improved the E-Journal Portal! You can now search the E-Journal Portal for the library's print periodicals too!



In the E-Journal Portal, when you find a magazine that's got a link to the "print periodicals in the Campus Libraries," click on the link. You'll be redirected to the Online Catalog which will tell you if the magazine is available in your campus library.

Give the E-Journal Portal a try! We hope you'll find it useful. Let us know what you think.

-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

Question of the Week!

Q: I found the abstract for the article I want. How do I find the full text? It looks like there's a delay on the article in the database...

A: Sometimes publishers put a delay on periodicals in databases to encourage individuals and libraries to purchase the print version of the periodical.

Here are your options:

• The library does have some print periodicals. You can search for them by journal title in the catalog or see this list.
  
• It is possible that a different database has the full text. Check the E-journal Portal. Need more info about using the E-journal Portal?
  
• If you have time, there is also the option of interlibrary loan.

Don't forget, you can also ask your librarian!

Question of the Week

Q: How do I find an article? I know the author, title, and magazine.

A: If you have a citation, but you're not sure which database to use, then try the E-Journal Portal.

1. You can search for the magazine/journal/periodical title.

2. Click on the database name.

3. A pop-up window will appear. You can now find your article by searching for the article title or keywords. I clicked on "search within this publication" to get to the search screen. The database automatically entered JN "consumer reports." I added the "cell phone" search terms.

If you're not able to find what you're looking for in the e-journal portal or have other questions, be sure to ask your librarian!

- by Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

InfoTrac is now Gale

There has been a change in the library databases. InfoTrac is now called Gale. The content is the same, but the company has changed their branding.

So if you have used InfoTrac in the past, all the great content is still there, just under a different name. If you have not used InfoTrac or Gale before, there are lots of great databases you can explore, like Biography Resource Center, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center, and the Gale Virtual Reference Library. You can access Gale thorough the library homepage by clicking on the Databases link.

Remember you can always ask the librarians for help!

-by Erica

Health Reference Center - Redesigned!

The library database: Health Reference Center from Facts on File has been redesigned! The database has a new look and more content than ever before.



The new features include:

• new homepage with a basic search bar on the top and browsable categories below.
• better search results page
• new image and video gallery - over 560 new videos!!!
• new content
  
  • addiction
  • learning disabilities
  • sports medicine
  • stress-related diseases
  • more!!!
• page tools
  
  • citation help
  • permanent URLs (bottom of the page)
  • search terms are highlighted
  • related links - including videos!
  • suggested searches
  • in-text linking
  • ablilty to change the text size
• comprehensive Subject and Health Center guides

- by Elaine Settergren