ALTA Religion Database with ALTASerials

We are pleased to announce that ALTA Religion Database with ATLASerials is now available!!Produced by the American Theological Library Association (ALTA), this database provides coverage dating back to 1908 with indexing for some journal titles extending back into the 19th century. Full-text journal articles and reviews are selected for inclusion by leading religion scholars.

Content includes:

• Full-text articles and reviews from more than 300 journals
• More than 1.8 million records
• Indexing of more than 1,800 journals, over 640 of which are currently being indexed
• More than 667,400 journal article records, 267,400 essay records, 607,500 review records, and 300,500 book records.

ALTA Religion Database with ATLASerials can be accessed through the EBSCO All Databases list or searched through EBSCO Discovery.

DynaMed Plus

We are pleased to announce that DynaMed was upgraded to DynaMed Plus!! DynaMed Plus provides instant access to the most current clinical evidence and gives answers to the clinical questions quickly and easily. For precise search results, they offer auto-suggest, direct-to-section search results, summary display, and access to relevant images and calculators. DynaMed Plus includes specialty content in the 22 areas such as allergy, cardiology, critical care, etc. DynaMed Plus is also available on tablets or smartphone (iPhone, iPad or Android devices).


Data USA

 

Have you heard about Data USA? Data USA provides you visualized information about issues across the United States; places in America-towns, cities, and states; occupations-teachers, welders, or Web developers; industries-where they are thriving, declining and their interconnectedness to each other, and education and skills-where is the best place to live with your job or what skill is needed for the job. The information is based on public US government data, benefiting citizen, business and government.

Celebrate National Library Week!!

NPR's Book Concierge

Have you heard about NPR's Book Concierge?? It is a book list that you can explore 260 titles recommended by NPR staff and critics. There are 29 filters to narrow down the categories you're interested in, such as Staff Picks, Cookbooks & Food, Eye-Opening Reads, It's All Geek To Me, Ladies First, Tales From Around The World, etc. Yes, the filters sound very funny, but don't worry, there are familiar names like Mysteries & Thrillers, Nonficition, and Science Fiction & Fantasy!! And they can be combined.

R2 Digital Library

We are pleased to introduce a new eBook platform---R2 Digital Library!! The R2 Digital Library offers comprehensive health science collections of medical, nursing and allied health eBooks from key health science publishers.

Open Source Textbooks Resources

Have you heard about Open source textbooks? They are textbooks licensed under an open copyright license and made available online to be freely used by students, teachers, and everyone. Many open textbooks are distributed in either print, e-book, or audio formats that may be downloaded or purchased at little or no cost (wiki).

Library Curriculum Builder for Moodle

We are pleased to introduce Library Curriculum Builder!! It is a new plugin tool for Moodle that allows instructors to provide access to assigned class readings while maintaining copyright compliance by linking directly from a Moodle course to journal articles, ebooks, and other online resources in our library's databases.

College Library & Library Commons Hours

2016 Spring Semester Hours

Mon -Thu: 8:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Fri: 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Sat & Sun CLOSED
(Effective January 19, 2016)

 

A New Journal Package Arrived!!

We are pleased to announce that the College Library has access to a new journal package; LWW (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins) Nursing and Health Professions Premier Collection. The collection can be searched in EBSCO Discovery or browsed and searched through the "Ovid/Lippincott Journals" link in the Portal (Library Resources - Research).

The collection of top nursing journals used by nurses, nursing students and health professionals, includes the following titles.