How much do you know about Mandarin Chinese, the world’s most widely-spoken language? Oxford Dictionaries‘ infographic (below) offers an overview to the Chinese language family, introducing you to key elements such as the number of native speakers worldwide, where different Chinese-speaking populations are located, the names of the major dialects, and the different types of … Continue reading 中文: The World’s Most Widely-Spoken Language
The Japan Film Festival of San Francisco and J-POP Summit begin this weekend (that’s tomorrow!), so we thought you might want to get in the mood by watching some Japanese films courtesy of Gleeson Library. Supplement your festival viewing pleasures with streaming Japanese independent films straight from the library’s web site in our new database Asian Films Online: … Continue reading Japanese Films & Festival
On Saturday, August 1, access to ScienceDirect and Scopus will be unavailable due to the vendor’s scheduled maintenance for approximately 4.5 hours starting at 3:00 PM. Continue reading ScienceDirect and Scopus scheduled downtime, 8/1
Edit 7/24, 2:45 pm: Off-campus database access, my library record, and Link+ requesting has been restored. If you find this to not be the case, please let us know. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A variety of library services requiring authentication are currently unavailable due to an ITS system upgrade that occurred last night. You will not be able to: • … Continue reading Access Restored Re: Error with Off-Campus Database Access
Suppose you have to write a paper for school and you’re ready to start doing your research. The obvious place to start is Google, right? But here’s a question for you: When you use a search engine like Google, Yahoo, or Bing, are you searching the entire web? If not, then, are you at least searching … Continue reading The Hidden Web
Last semester Bachelor of Science in Nursing students taking Nursing 322, Evidence Based Inquiry and Informatics, used library resources such as CINAHL, PubMed, Scopus and DynaMed to search for and collect evidence on a clinical question. After identifying research relevant to their topics, they critically appraised the studies and made recommendations for practice change based on the … Continue reading Evidence Based Infographics from USF Nursing Students
I bet you don’t love new databases as much as the Head of Reference, Randy Souther, does, but here’s hoping you can find some of Gleeson’s new databases useful in your research! First, head over to Artemis: Primary Sources to search two new additions, The Times (of London) Digital Archive 1785-2008 and Sabin Americana: 1500-1926, … Continue reading New Databases @ Gleeson
Congratulations December 2014 Graduates! The Gleeson Library would like to offer you a FREE Gleeson Alumni Library card. Complete the application by March 31st 2015 at: http://www.usfca.edu/library/gradalumnicard/ These Alumni accounts will be valid through December 31, 2015. After which you are welcome to renew at standard Gleeson Alumni rate. Full description of privileges and rates at: http://www.usfca.edu/Library/gateways/Alumni_and_Visitors/ Continue reading Alumni Library Card for 2014 USF Graduates
There will be no power in the library on March 9th. As a result, the library’s research databases will be unavailable. Facilities Management will cut off power to all of lower campus on Sunday, March 9th from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. to complete important work on the co-generation plant. Gleeson Library | Geschke Center … Continue reading No Power in the Library March 9
Have you ever found the perfect article in one of the library databases, only to discover there’s no PDF attached? Or maybe you were looking over a reference list or bibliography and want to know how to find an article that’s cited there. In either case, we’ve got you covered! Check out this tutorial by … Continue reading Finding Full Text Articles
