Have you seen Ben Stein's new documentary about the violation of scientist's intellectual and academic freedom when they question the theory of evolution? In his typical dry style, so famously immortalized in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Stein interviews scientists who have lost their jobs for entertaining the idea of intelligent design...Hear also from evolutionists who try to explain how life began.
Here's the 'Official Website.' You can watch the preview.
PluggedInOnline's review: here.
The New York Times sees it from another side: "Resentment Over Darwin Evolves Into a Documentary."
Use Fandango to find in a theater near you.
Friday, May 02, 2008
Expelled: No Intellligence Allowed (documentary)
Friday, April 04, 2008
Are there REALLY alligators in the sewers of NYC?
Have you heard? You are going to need to register your cell phone in the 'do not call' list or telemarketers are going to eat up your 250 mins/mo really fast.
Have you recieved this or a similar email? All in a panic...you scramble.
But wait, have you been the victim of another circulating urban legend? Does eating carrots improve your vision, click here to find out!
When in doubt, go to Snopes.com the urban legends reference pages.
Friday, March 28, 2008
NEW! Free Business Search Engine
One of the first search engines for business professionals (started in 1996), Northern Lights (http://www.northernlights.com/) is about to launch a new (beta) site (http://www.nlsearch.com/) sometime in April. Northern Lights' CEO says that the new search engine "allows small firms and individual researchers to use tools previously available only to Fortune 50 companies."
Read the Information Today article to learn more: Northern Light Readies New Free Business Search Engine by Paula J. Hane.
Read the Information Today article to learn more: Northern Light Readies New Free Business Search Engine by Paula J. Hane.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Information Trapping (Part 2)
As I discussed in Information Trapping (Part 1), you can keep up with news and blogs by subscribing to pages using RSS and a reader like iGoogle.
Not to be left behind, the EBSCO Research Databases also allow you to subscribe to content through Search Alerts & Journal Alerts. ProQuest has similar alerts (search and publication/journal) through emails.
How does this help me?
If you are doing an extended research project, say for your Senior Project, you will be working on the topic for several months (not weeks, days or hours like typical papers). If you performed a killer search that retrieved really good results, you might want to save that search and run it again later to see if more information was added to the database. Similarly, a journal alert lets you know when new articles for a particular title have been updated in the database.
Setting up a Search Alert.Once you have performed a search, on the result screen, click on "Create alert for this search" A popup window gives you the syndication feed link which you can then cut and paste into your RSS reader (according to that aggregator's instructions).
Journal Alerts.
For a journal alert (new content added), you need search for the journal title under Publications or click on the title in a citation. In Publications details screen, click on Journal Alert (upper right). You'll need to log in to your EBSCOhost account, then you can select your preferred method of delivery: email or RSS.
Personalize your Library Databases in Blackboard
Are you confused about which databases have information on your topic? Does the list of 60 databases seem overwhelming? Well, we've finally figured out a solution.
Now you can choose the databases you use the most.
Login to Blackboard & click on the Library Tab. Click on the pencil icon on the upper right corner of the Library Resources box to select the Databases by subject/discipline.
Login to Blackboard & click on the Library Tab. Click on the pencil icon on the upper right corner of the Library Resources box to select the Databases by subject/discipline.
The first four sections are books--ebooks, ereference, ejournals & multidisciplinary databases (these databases have information covering many subjects). The other sections to choose from are...
Art & Humanities,
Business,
Education,
History & Social Sciences,
Psychology,
Religion,
Sciences, OR if you liked the old list--
All Databases.
Click on Submit to save changes.
Friday, February 29, 2008
Information Trapping (Part 1)
In this age of information overload, how do you keep up? Do you visit a half-dozen blogs and news sites to gather your daily fix? Wouldn't it be nice to have all that stuff delivered to your front door each morning like the slap of the daily paper on your front step? Try RSS feeds.
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds allow you to 'subscribe' to your favorite sites through a reader of your choice. If you have a personal computer, an easy way to keep track is using the Feeds filter -- part the Favorites menu in IE (Internet Explorer) -- so all your favorite blogs are gathered into one list. However, if you normally use a public computer for Internet access, you might want to use a reader attached to your personal online accounts like myYahoo, iGoogle or GoogleReader.
You can also subscribe to this blog. Scroll down to the bottom of this page. You will see... Subscribe to: Posts (Atom) <- click here ...and you are on your way OR you can click on the link to the right.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Electronic Journals Service (EJS)
Under FIND ARTICLES on the library webpage you might have seen a link for Electronic Journals Service. EJS helps the library manage the single passwords to online subscriptions that come with having print subscriptions to certain journals.
Currently, there are 57 journals (from SDCC & SCS) that include an online subscription (usually through the publisher’s website).
You will need to log in to EJS using your Student Network Account. When you select a journal & you click your way to the publisher’s website, the username & password will be on a banner on the top of the screen. Use this to log in to the website and access the full text.
Please note: the 57 journals full text availability is not listed in the e-journals list at this time. There are still some technical issues that we have to resolve.
Currently, there are 57 journals (from SDCC & SCS) that include an online subscription (usually through the publisher’s website).
You will need to log in to EJS using your Student Network Account. When you select a journal & you click your way to the publisher’s website, the username & password will be on a banner on the top of the screen. Use this to log in to the website and access the full text.
Please note: the 57 journals full text availability is not listed in the e-journals list at this time. There are still some technical issues that we have to resolve.
If you have any questions or need assistance please contact the library 619-441-2200 x1227 or library@sdcc.edu
Thursday, February 14, 2008
The HEART of the Library -- Reference
Need a topic for a research paper? Browse through an encyclopedia. Need to know more or refresh your memory about a subject? That’s right, look it up in a reference book. Which is a more efficient use of your time? Scanning a 300 page book or reading a one page entry? You decide.
Efficient. Authoritative. And now---Remotely Accessible.
Introducing 24/7 reference at your finger tips.
Introducing 24/7 reference at your finger tips.
One-click Access
Log into Blackboard, select the Library tab, and review your e-Reference options. The library offers twelve (12) e-reference databases: encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, companions, yearbooks and almanacs.
AccessScience -- The McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology online
Over 8,500 online articles, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology, 110,000+ definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 15,000 illustrations and graphics, and bibliographies containing more than 28,000 literature citations, Content contributed by more than 5000 researchers, including 36 Nobel Prize winners, and Biographies of more than 2,000 well-known scientists from the Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography®.
Biography Resource Center (Gale)
Combines over 435,000 biographies on more than 340,000 people from over 1,000 volumes of more than 135 respected Gale sources such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Newsmakers, Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television, Contemporary Musicians, Historic World Leaders, Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists, Contemporary Black Biography, Religious Leaders of America, International Dictionary of Art and Artists, and Writers Directory, with over 538,000 full-text articles from nearly 300 magazines including American History, The Christian Century, Saturday Night, and U.S. News & World Report.
Encyclopædia Britannica online (academic edition)
Over 73,000 articles, the Encyclopædia Britannica is one of the most complete and accurate information sources in the world, containing both short and book-length articles on every subject. The database also includes: thousands of photographs, illustrations, and sound files, thousands of reviewed Web sites, hundreds of video clips, selected magazine and journal articles, the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus (thousands of entries with definitions, pronunciation guides, word histories, synonyms, and antonyms), comparative charts and tables using in-depth information about the countries of the world, more than 4000 quotations from both historical and contemporary men and women, and a selection of 225 works by 140 authors introduces you to the great writing and ideas of the Western world.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia -- Over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics.
Gale Virtual Reference Library -- A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Arts and Humanities Through the Eras, 5v, 2005
Dictionary of American History, 3rd ed., 10v, 2003
History Behind the Headlines: The Origins of Conflicts Worldwide, 6v, 2003
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, 5v, 2000
Countries and Their Cultures, 4v, 2001
Contemporary American Religion, 2v, 2000
Encyclopedia of American Religions, 7th ed., 2003
Encyclopedia of Buddhism, 2v, 2004
Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd ed., 15v, 2005
Encyclopedia of Science and Religion, 2v, 2003
New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd ed., 15v, 2003
Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, 4v, 2005
Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 3rd ed., 5v, 2004
Encyclopedia of World Cultures, 10v, 1996
Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology, 2nd ed., 2001
Literature Resource Center (Gale)
A complete literature reference database containing Contemporary Authors Online, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, and also includes selected full-text, excerpted, and commissioned critical material from Gale's respected Literature Criticism and For Students Series: Children's Literature Review, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Drama Criticism, Drama for Students, Literature from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Literature of Developing Nations for Students, Literature and Its Times, Novels for Students, Poetry Criticism, Poetry for Students, Shakespearean Criticism, Shakespeare for Students, Short Story Criticism, Short Stories for Students, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. In addition, there are current, full-text critical essays on major authors from than 260 prominent literary journals.
Mental Measurements Yearbook
Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments.
Oxford English Dictionary online
The accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean. It also offers the best in etymological analysis and in listing of variant spellings, and it shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Oxford Reference Online (Premium)
Over 175 fully-indexed, cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, including detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series.
Oxford Encyclopedia of Psychology (in PsyBOOKS)
The product of a unique collaboration between the American Psychological Association and Oxford University Press, the Encyclopedia of Psychology is a state-of-the-art synthesis of classic and contemporary knowledge. In more than 1,500 original articles written by distinguished scholars, the Encyclopedia gives shape to a richly diverse science. International in scope and written for a wide range of readers, the Encyclopedia of Psychology is the first place to turn to for authoritative information on every area of the field—and for answers to literally thousands of questions about concepts, methods, theories, findings, major figures, schools of thought, and emerging areas of interest.
Statesman's Yearbook (on campus only)
Fully updated 2008 edition, containing information and analysis on every country in the world, including biographical profiles of current leaders, government histories, extended economic overviews and historical economic statistics, and half-page line maps.
World Almanacs
A fundamental reference source for students and scholars alike, including biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts, statistics. Titles include: Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac of the U.S.A., The World Almanac of U.S. Politics, and The World Almanac for Kids.
Log into Blackboard, select the Library tab, and review your e-Reference options. The library offers twelve (12) e-reference databases: encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, companions, yearbooks and almanacs.
AccessScience -- The McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology online
Over 8,500 online articles, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology, 110,000+ definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 15,000 illustrations and graphics, and bibliographies containing more than 28,000 literature citations, Content contributed by more than 5000 researchers, including 36 Nobel Prize winners, and Biographies of more than 2,000 well-known scientists from the Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography®.
Biography Resource Center (Gale)
Combines over 435,000 biographies on more than 340,000 people from over 1,000 volumes of more than 135 respected Gale sources such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Newsmakers, Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television, Contemporary Musicians, Historic World Leaders, Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists, Contemporary Black Biography, Religious Leaders of America, International Dictionary of Art and Artists, and Writers Directory, with over 538,000 full-text articles from nearly 300 magazines including American History, The Christian Century, Saturday Night, and U.S. News & World Report.
Encyclopædia Britannica online (academic edition)
Over 73,000 articles, the Encyclopædia Britannica is one of the most complete and accurate information sources in the world, containing both short and book-length articles on every subject. The database also includes: thousands of photographs, illustrations, and sound files, thousands of reviewed Web sites, hundreds of video clips, selected magazine and journal articles, the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus (thousands of entries with definitions, pronunciation guides, word histories, synonyms, and antonyms), comparative charts and tables using in-depth information about the countries of the world, more than 4000 quotations from both historical and contemporary men and women, and a selection of 225 works by 140 authors introduces you to the great writing and ideas of the Western world.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia -- Over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics.
Gale Virtual Reference Library -- A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Arts and Humanities Through the Eras, 5v, 2005
Dictionary of American History, 3rd ed., 10v, 2003
History Behind the Headlines: The Origins of Conflicts Worldwide, 6v, 2003
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, 5v, 2000
Countries and Their Cultures, 4v, 2001
Contemporary American Religion, 2v, 2000
Encyclopedia of American Religions, 7th ed., 2003
Encyclopedia of Buddhism, 2v, 2004
Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd ed., 15v, 2005
Encyclopedia of Science and Religion, 2v, 2003
New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd ed., 15v, 2003
Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, 4v, 2005
Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 3rd ed., 5v, 2004
Encyclopedia of World Cultures, 10v, 1996
Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology, 2nd ed., 2001
Literature Resource Center (Gale)
A complete literature reference database containing Contemporary Authors Online, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, and also includes selected full-text, excerpted, and commissioned critical material from Gale's respected Literature Criticism and For Students Series: Children's Literature Review, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Drama Criticism, Drama for Students, Literature from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Literature of Developing Nations for Students, Literature and Its Times, Novels for Students, Poetry Criticism, Poetry for Students, Shakespearean Criticism, Shakespeare for Students, Short Story Criticism, Short Stories for Students, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. In addition, there are current, full-text critical essays on major authors from than 260 prominent literary journals.
Mental Measurements Yearbook
Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments.
Oxford English Dictionary online
The accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean. It also offers the best in etymological analysis and in listing of variant spellings, and it shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Oxford Reference Online (Premium)
Over 175 fully-indexed, cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, including detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series.
Oxford Encyclopedia of Psychology (in PsyBOOKS)
The product of a unique collaboration between the American Psychological Association and Oxford University Press, the Encyclopedia of Psychology is a state-of-the-art synthesis of classic and contemporary knowledge. In more than 1,500 original articles written by distinguished scholars, the Encyclopedia gives shape to a richly diverse science. International in scope and written for a wide range of readers, the Encyclopedia of Psychology is the first place to turn to for authoritative information on every area of the field—and for answers to literally thousands of questions about concepts, methods, theories, findings, major figures, schools of thought, and emerging areas of interest.
Statesman's Yearbook (on campus only)
Fully updated 2008 edition, containing information and analysis on every country in the world, including biographical profiles of current leaders, government histories, extended economic overviews and historical economic statistics, and half-page line maps.
World Almanacs
A fundamental reference source for students and scholars alike, including biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts, statistics. Titles include: Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac of the U.S.A., The World Almanac of U.S. Politics, and The World Almanac for Kids.
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