Open Access eBooks on JSTOR!

Over 600+ Open Access eBooks, from esteemed presses such as University of California Press and University of Michigan Press, are available on JSTOR!

The content is available to anyone for use and there are no limits on PDF downloads or printing!

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.

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.

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.

New EBSCO eBook Viewer

 

We are pleased to introduce the new EBSCO eBook Viewer!! When you discover and download EBSCO eBooks, the new viewer provides features:

• Support for scrolling through the entire eBook to find relevant information
• Collapsible side panel that brings content front and center
• Support for your needs with cite, note, export and dictionary tools
• Email and save tools that enable you to take chapters or pages directly to the viewer
• Quick access to download the entire eBook for further reading
• Growing number of titles available in both PDF and EPUB formats.

 



EBSCO Discovery Full Text Finder

The College Library is pleased to introduce EBSCO Discovery Full Text Finder!!

 

Full Text Finder, replacing the A-Z List, is a highest level of publication search service to deliver the full text to you. For an easy and time-saving navigation to publications, Full Text Finder provides new features like a responsive auto-complete function and a simplified subject browser. You can also directly find out the full text within a publication title or narrow down search results using limiters.

User Guides 

• Basic Search
• Browsing Library Publications
• Viewing Results

Tutorial

Associated Press Video Collection Coming Soon!!

 

 

The College Library is pleased to introduce Associated Press(AP) Video Collection!! The collection of 60,000 videos from the AP, the world's leading news agency, includes primary source footage from 1930 through the present and editorially produced videos. The collection is updated monthly with 300 new videos and covers a variety of topics studied in schools and colleges. Users can find videos about current and historical events, famous people(political leaders, celebrities and athletes), art, music, literature, science, and technology.

The AP videos will begin appearing in the search results on or after August 1, 2015. When a search is conducted in Explora, EBSCOhost or EBSCO Discovery Service, a search results list will display with related articles, books, e-books, etc. If videos related to the search terms are available, a video carousel will also show between the second and third search results.

User Guides

• Associated Press Video Colletion - FAQs
• Associated Press Video Colletion - How to browse and view AP videos

New & Available Now - STAT!Ref


The College Library is pleased to introduce a new e-resource called STAT!Ref. STAT!Ref enables you to cross-search full-text titles, journals and evidence-based point-of-care authoritative resources. With 400+ and growing resources within over 50 healthcare disciplines, STAT!Ref provides the latest healthcare information in a customizable and convenient format. STAT!Ref is accesible by desktop, laptop and wireless or web-enabled mobile devices.

The FREE STAT!Ref Mobile App takes your healthcare e-sources on the go with powerful interactive functionality. This app is available for iPhone/iPad, Android, and BlackBerry. Click HERE for an instructional video, handouts and links.

Tutorials

• What is STAT!Ref?
• STAT!Ref Demo
• STAT!Ref Mobile

Quick Guides

• STAT!Ref Quick Guide 

How to get to it

• Log into Portal
• Click the icon labled "Connect to Library Databases" (blue cylinder in Launch Pad)
• Choose "STAT!Ref - for Point of Care" under E-Reference

Database Access Change

As of March 30th, the electronic resources - specifically the databases for finding academic journal articles - are now only available through the Portal.

To access the databases, log in through the Portal (same as you do for Moodle) and you'll see an area to the left called the dashboard.  In this icon clump there will be an icon with mouseover text that reads: “Connect to Library Databases.”  The icon looks like three blue stacked disks.  Click there to gain access to the library databases.  It no longer matters if you are on or off campus for database access, the way to get on is the same.

If you are having trouble accessing your Portal account for any reason, please contact IT by emailing portal@ololcollege.edu or by calling 225-768-1720.

Good luck on exams!  And have a great spring break next week. :)

Nursing Education in Video Now Available

Nursing Education in Video is now available on a trial basis from computers on campus. It would be extra helpful if students and faculty could take a peek at these video offerings and let the library know what you think about them.

From the Nursing Education in Video website:

Nursing Education in Video is a unique online collection of videos created specifically for the education and training of nurses, nursing assistants, and other healthcare workers. All of the videos in the collection have been created with the guidance of the Medcom-Trainex advisory board, and are regularly reviewed for accuracy, currency, and compliance with US Federal regulations from agencies such as OSHA and CMS.

This trial of the new resource will expire on March 9th, 2012, so be sure to give it a look before then.  Remember, these videos will only be available on campus computers, so you'll have to visit campus to access the trial.

The videos can also be viewed on a mobile device such as a smartphone, but you still have to come to campus to access the site to get the video link.  More information about viewing the videos on a mobile device is available here: http://ediv.alexanderstreet.com/help/view/using_your_mobile_device.

Social Safety

The New England Journal of Medicine recently published an article, "Integrating Social Media into Emergency-Preparedness Efforts," which describes ways in which social media can be and already is helpful in the event of a disaster.

Here at OLOL there is a handy emergency text messaging system already in place that will provide information and safety directions should something terrible happen on campus.  To get these alerts you'll need to sign up for LYNX Emergency Messaging Service through Web Services.  You'll find directions for doing this on the college web page here.

Here in Louisiana you really have to be aware of hurricane season.  The state government has a useful website, Emergency.LA.gov, that has useful information on both preparing before a disaster, warnings for when one is anticipated, and relief information after it has passed.  The web site currently has information about the flood, and previously had information about the oil spill.

The CDC produced this little frequently updated web image to help spread information about disaster preparedness and response.

Emergency Preparedness and Response Widget

For Fiction Fans!

There's a really unique new way to search for new authors to read.  If you check out this spiffy new link you'll find a map of literary similarities.  Searching for an author on the Literature-Map will bring up a diagram showing links to other authors.  How close they are to the author in the center will show you how likely it is for someone who likes the center author to also like the linked author.

It's simple, fun, and a handy way to find new fun things to read.  :)

Free Books!

Just a quick post to let everyone know about a free test study book promotion going on right now.  Through Barnes and Noble, Kaplan is temporarily releasing electronic versions of their GRE, NCLEX and other study guides for free.  Here's the link!

Have a great new semester and good luck with all your studies. :)

Searching Tips

The Medical Library Association published a helpful table with links to places where you will be able to find the best directory information on government health care services.

While keyword searching is helpful, using these services will help you get more accurate results.  They are web services sponsored by the government that will provide current and accurate information.  The chart that the Medical Library Association published includes a description of the directory, where they get the information for it, how frequently it updates, and what kind of information it contains.

This information is useful for anyone who needs to find current information about where to find government health care services.  Local information may also be available from the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals.  Emergency information for our state is always available at the state emergency web portal.

National Novel Writing Month

November is National Novel Writing Month, the month long challenge to write your very own 50,000 word novel.
The library here has multiple useful resources for the dedicated novel writer.  Beyond mere unabridged dictionaries, we have style guides for grammar and both general and subject specific encyclopedias for that all important background information.  Both can be found in the reference room of the main library building.  To see what's available before making the trek over in weather like we're having today, you can peruse the library catalog in advance.

More resources are available online through NetLibrary.  If you haven't done so already, you can contact the library to set up an account to be able to access NetLibrary resources from home.  The resourceful novelist will find these sources extremely handy when trying to make their spaceships sound scientifically viable or their illiterate peasants period correct.

Most student researchers will already know how very useful it is to search in EBSCO to find current research for academic papers, but what you might not have realized is that we have a whole other resource for searching newspaper articles from across the globe.  If you're looking to base your court drama or tale of ciminal activity on real events, searching LexisNexis will help find the stories you can rip straight from the headlines.

Don't forget, while you're doing all this research for your novel, that you should still be avoiding plagiarism.  A novelist may not be citing works they use as inspiration, but they're not paraphrasing a source and calling it a novel.  Be aware of where your words end and theirs begin.  It's also a good habit to be in for the rest of your writing.  Try to keep a record of what resources you use and thank their authors when you're finished.

Good luck to anyone making the attempt.  I hope you'll all share your novel writing success stories in December. :)