Interested in current research on issues such as global warming, the environment, or renewable energy? Try Environment Complete—it’s a new database that covers all these subjects, plus related ones such as agriculture, environmental law, and urban planning. It provides access to the full text of articles from more than 600 journals such as Environment, Ecologist, … Continue reading Featured database: Environment Complete
Looking for voter information guides for the upcoming elections? Find them here: San Francisco Voter Information Pamphlet California Official Voter Information Guide Continue reading Voter Information Guides
We’ve gotten rid of our 4-year-old computers in the Reference and Periodicals Rooms, replacing 17 Dells and 12 Apples all with new iMacs like the ones pictured above. These computers have been specially configured to run Windows XP in addition to Mac OS X. At startup, you can choose which operating system you would like … Continue reading New Computers
PolicyArchive, an online archive of public-policy research was recently launched by Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis University Library and the Center for Governmental Studies, a nonprofit group that encourages civic engagement. PolicyArchive now holds more than 12,000 policy documents from about 220 think tanks and research groups. The archive’s developers say it will house up … Continue reading New archive of open access public-policy research at IUPUI
Finding the fulltext of government funded research and news just got a lot easier! That’s because Gleeson Library|Geschke Center just added 438 U.S. government periodicals to Journal Finder. Just go to Journal Finder on the library’s homepage, type in the name of the government periodical (e.g., “Peace Watch”), and you’ll get a link to the … Continue reading Government Periodicals – Online!
Now available is the Oxford African American Studies Center from Oxford University Press. Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the OAASC is a collection of reference works providing more than 8000 articles on the people and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. Check it out! Continue reading Oxford African American Studies Center
We have a new database available from EBSCOhost called Environment Complete. This replaces the LexisNexis Environmental database (which contained the venerable Environment Abstracts). We believe the journal coverage of Environment Complete is broader and deeper (back to the 1940s in some cases), and unlike the LexisNexis product, offers more than 600 journal titles in full-text. … Continue reading Environment Complete: Yes, please!
ARTstor is a digital library of approximately 700,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. Now available from the Library to all USF students, faculty, and staff! Continue reading Picture This: ARTstor Now Available
From the Chronicle of Higher Education Feb 15, 2008: David Parry, an assistant professor of emerging media and communications at the university, writes that students need to become familiar with new and non-static forms of communication. He encourages his students to read Wikipedia’s “history” and “discussion” pages, saying they explain how articles were produced. And … Continue reading Professor Praises Wikipedia
Recently we had a faculty member who was looking for an attribution to a quote of Kierkegaard. We could find the quote in many places on the web, but couldn’t verify where it was coming from. The quote was “There are two ways to be fooled: one is to believe what isn’t true, the other … Continue reading Finding Kierkegaard