Sunday, March 25, 2007

New York TimesSelect

The New York Times is offering a new online service and it’s FREE for students and faculty of colleges and universities with academic email addresses (.edu). If you already subscribe to NYTimes.com for daily news and features, reviews, and classifieds, the new complimentary TimesSelect provides access to these and more. TimesSelect includes daily columns from Op-Ed writers, features and analysis from sports, business, New York/region and International Herald Tribune columnists, email alerts, and access to The New York Times archives back to 1851. For more information or to sign up for this service, follow this link: http://www.nytimes.com/membercenter/faq/timesselect_university.html.

Of course, The New York Times features, analysis, and columns (from 1980 to present) are available to students and faculty of University of Redlands through the Armacost Library’s subscription database Lexis Nexis. From the library’s homepage (http://www.redlands.edu/library.xml), follow the link for Databases by Title and scroll down to L for Lexis Nexis Academic Universe. For assistance using this newspaper/periodical database, please contact a librarian in-person at the Reference Desk, by phone at 748-4724, by IM to askurlib, or by emailing a specific librarian.

Reference Hours—
Monday-Thursday: 9 a.m.-9 p.m.
Friday: 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sunday: 1-9 p.m.

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Research Guides

Need articles from the Harvard Business Review but don’t know how to access this publication? Need to find historical articles on business and industry for your Business 126 course but don’t know what database to use? Is your professor requiring you to use scholarly journal articles for your research project but you don’t know what a scholarly journal article looks like or where to find one? Your professor says you can use a reputable website/webpage for your research project but you don’t know how to determine reputability? The Armacost Library has answers to these questions. The librarians at Armacost Library are making available research guides to address common research dilemmas. To access the tutorials, start at the library’s homepage (http://www.redlands.edu/library.xml) and follow the link for Library Services.



Then choose Research Guides.

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Citation Finder

Did you find the perfect article and want a quick and easy way to see if the library has the full text to this article in an online database or in print without searching in multiple places? The Citation Finder can help! You can take any citation found in a book or article bibliography or in an online database and easily check to see if the library subscribes to the full text. First, go to the library's website (http://www.redlands.edu/library.xml) and click on the link for Citation Finder.

Next, simply fill out as much of the Citation Finder form as possible. At the very least, you will need to include the title of the journal and the date.
For example:

Article: Ancient voices of children: A psychoanalytic interpretation
Journal: Current Musicology
Volume: Issue: Page: 7-21 Date: 1965
Author: Spitz

The Citation Finder will search in through the library's subscription databases to find the full text of your article. If the full text is available, it should take you directly to the database login page.



If the full text is not available through a library database, a link will be provided to automatically search the library's print holdings.



With Citation Finder, you can easily and efficiently find the full text to all of your citations!