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

Award winning database: Gale Small Business Resource Center

Are you doing small business research? You're in luck!

The library subscribes to Gale Small Business Resource Center - a two-time, award-winning database. Gale Small Business Resource Center has made the "best of reference" list for two years in a row. You can read more about the award from Gale's Blog.

Gale Small Business Resource Center offers:

• example business plans
• "how to" documents
• videos related to small business development and management
• articles from trade publications and business journals

- 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

New Small Business Videos Added

Gale Small Business Resource Center database has recently added new video content. You can find the video content in the "websites" tab of your search results.

To browse through over 100 videos, search for "SBTV.com".
Here's an example: If you click on the image below, the link will take you to the databases page, where you can select Gale, scroll all the way down and select Small Busines Resource Center. Then, you can search for this or other videos such as:

• women in small business
• marketing
• money
• management
• legal issues
• and more!!!

  

28 Gale Databases Added!!!

WOW! What a great new addition to our library collections!

Here are the 28 new databases added. Please ask your librarian if you’d like more information about these or other article databases.
· Criminal Justice
· General Science (different than Gale’s Science Resource Center)
· Religion & Philosophy
· Military & Intelligence
· Pop Culture
· War & Terrorism
· Small Business Collection (different than Gale’s Small Business Resource Center)
· World History
· U.S. History
· Vocations, Careers, & Technical Education
· Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Issues
· Information Science & Library Issues
· Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine
· Diversity Studies
· Insurance & Liability
· Educator’s Reference Complete
· Student Resource Center – Gold
· Agriculture
· Business Economics & Theory
· Culinary Arts
· Communications & Mass Media
· Environmental Studies & Policy
· Fine Arts & Music
· Gardening, Landscape, & Horticulture
· Home Improvement
· Nursing & Allied Health (different than ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health database)
· Psychology
· Hospitality, tourism, & Leisure

Search them now!

- Happy researching!
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

E-Book of the Month! Shirmer Encyclopedia of Film

July: E-book of the Month
Shirmer Encyclopedia of Film

This book is available through Gale Virtual Reference Library (searchable in the Online Catalog).
Please contact your librarian if you have questions about how to use e-books.

Financial Enhancements!

Gale's Business and Company Resource Center database has made enhancements to their financial information. When you find a company, click on the "financials" tab. A pop-up will appear with financial information.



You can:

• analyze financial data on demand


• view income statements, balance sheets, and cash flows


• compare data to major competitors


• export to Excel


• and more!

To view a demonstration of this new feature, click here.

Search it today! If you have any questions, please contact your librarian.

-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

Gale Database Maintenance

The Gale family of databases will be down intermittently tonight from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Please plan your research accordingly.

- Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

Researching Controversial Issues

Are you researching controversial issues?

Watch this 3 minute video!

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

GVRL Trial Database

We have trial access to the entire collection of Gale Virtual Reference Library books until Feb. 13.

Feel free to browse or search this collection. Let us know what you think! Leave a comment or contact your librarian.

We want to add books to our collection that support your classes. If you know of a book that you think the library should own, let us know!

The Library already has many e-books including about 40 from Gale Virtual Reference Library. You can search for them in the Online Catalog or the Gale database.

- 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