The latest news from Connelly Library. http://www.lasalle.edu/library http://dbproxy.lasalle.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.refworks.com/refworks Never write a bibliography again! Sign up for your RefWorks account here: What is RefWorks? RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic management service. RefWorks allows users to create personal citation databases by importing references from text files or online databases. RefWorks features also facilitate manuscript preparation, allowing for automatic formatting of the paper and the bibliography. RefWorks is similar in function to software products such as EndNote, Reference Manager, and ProCite. It differs in that personal databases are stored on the RefWorks server and can be accessed through the Connelly Library institutional account from wherever the user happens to be. When off-campus you first login as you would any library database. Then you use the username and password you create when you sign up for your RefWORKS account. In addition, there is no charge for use to La Salle University current faculty, staff and students. View and print the getting started guide. http://www.lasalle.edu/library/speccoll The Connelly Library is pleased to announce a new Special Collections website, designed to showcase our unique collections to scholars around the world (www.lasalle.edu/library/speccoll). Here you will find detailed information and mission statements for each of the collections, including the Imaginative Representations of the Vietnam War collection -- the largest of its kind in the world-- and the Susan Dunleavy Collection of Biblical Literature -- which features a wide array of rare illustrated bibles -- among others. The website also features several digitized pieces of correspondence from American author, Owen Wister; these images are just the first examples of what will become, in the near future, an online digital library of the Wister family, the accomplished former residents of the Belfield estate,which sits on La Salle’s grounds. So please stay tuned and check back often, as the website will be updated frequently with new materials and information. http://dbproxy.lasalle.edu:2048/login?url=http://pop.greenwood.com Features:Content: Includes more than 300 volumes of reviewed, published material comprising thousands of articles, fully indexed by a team of librarians and subject specialists.Decades Pages: one-stop, informative, "at a glance" overviews of pop culture from the 1920s to the present, including the movies, TV shows, awards, stars, fads, buzzwords, fashions, and news items that defined each decade.Classroom Resources: lesson plans and professional reading to help teachers use pop culture in the classroom, along with audiovisual how-to guides and "help wizards" that will sharpen students’ research and writing skills.PCU Blog: the opinions and insights of pop culture authors, editors, and students on the hot topics of the day.Þ Images: hundreds of photos illustrating all aspects of pop culture. http://dbproxy.lasalle.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.artstor.org/index.shtml Connelly Library is happy to announce that we have begun a subscription to ARTstor! Here is a description of this wonderful database: ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million 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. The ARTstor Digital Library is used by educators, scholars, and students at a variety of institutions including universities, colleges, museums, public libraries, and K-12 schools. The Digital Library serves users both within the arts and in disciplines outside of the arts. This includes historians of art and architecture and others engaged in the visual arts, as well as individuals in fields as diverse as American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies, Music, Religious Studies, and Renaissance Studies, all of whom find the images in ARTstor to be relevant to their teaching and research.In ARTstor you can:Browse content by collection, classification, or geography Search content by keyword or advanced search terms (e.g., date and geographic origin) Sort search results by date, creator, or title View images and image data Zoom in on and pan images for greater detail Print and save images and related data to other hardware (e.g. CD, memory stick, hard drive) Create groups of images for later retrieval and presentation Organize image groups into shared folders Direct other ARTstor users to images or image groups Upload personal images and sound files to the ARTstor platform Export images and image groups to ARTstor's Offline Image Viewer (OIV) presentation tool Save citations for images or image groups, and email or print these, as well as export them directly into EndNote, ProCite, RefWorks, Reference Manager, or a text file Any La Salle University faculty member or Art Museum employee who wants Instructor privileges should email Eithne Bearden (bearden@lasalle.edu) for the code and password.Check out ARTstor’s video instructions  - http://www.youtube.com/artstorPlease Note: ignore the Legacy videos, they are for the earlier version of ARTstor http://dbproxy.lasalle.edu:2048/login?url=http://lasalle.ativ.alexanderstreet.com The Connelly Library is pleased to offer its first streaming video resource in Alexander Street Press’ Theater in Video database. Theatre in Video contains more than 250 of the world’s most important plays, together with more than 100 video documentaries, online in streaming video—more than 500 hours in all. These definitive performances, by leading actors and directors, have been licensed from a wide range of copyright holders, and are now delivered to you in a revolutionary new format. The database allows 3 concurrent users to access and watch content via the internet. Integrated tools enable students, instructors, and researchers to bookmark specific scenes, monologues, and staging examples and then include those online links in their papers and course reserves. Theatre in Video covers a wide range of 20th century theatre history, from live television broadcasts of New York productions in the 50s, to contemporary revivals of classic works, to experimental performances from the 60s and 70s. These are the actual original productions, captured and recorded while performed for a live theatre audience. Highlights of the collection include many BBC productions of Shakespeare’s works, and rare, in-depth footage focusing on the work of Samuel Beckett. Notable productions include Incident at Vichy by Arthur Miller (1973), The Iceman Cometh, by Eugene O’Neill (1960); Awake and Sing!, by Clifford Odets (1972); Master Builder, by Henrik Ibsen (1960); Six Characters in Search of an Author, by Luigi Pirandello (1976); and many others. http://dbproxy.lasalle.edu:2048/login?url=http://cco.cambridge.org The Connelly Library has added an excellent new online reference source: Cambridge Companions Online: Key features: Taken from the renowned Cambridge Companions series of authoritative guides, written by leading experts in the field and used by students, scholars and non-specialists for twenty years. Covers literature, philosophy, religion, classics and cultural studies, ensuring a complete reference for all those working in the humanities. Currently includes more than 220 titles, from Shakespeare to Hegel, Coleridge to Reformation Theology, Greek & Roman Philosophy to Virgil. Offering 2,000 essays, fully searchable by author, title, topic or theme. Save searches, bookmark your favourite essays and create student-friendly reading lists. PDF format for easy downloading, printing and saving (including PDF hit highlighting). Search by Boolean, proximity, stemming or using the full text. Updated continuously with new essays and bibliographies, taken from the book series as soon as they become available. Supported by reference features including: Chronologies, helping students to place events in their historical and cultural context. Extensive bibliographies, assisting complete essay referencing. Guides to further reading, enabling students to explore key ideas in greater depth. Please note that all the separate titles in this collection will also be in the library's catalog. http://dbproxy.lasalle.edu:2048/login?url=http://gem.greenwood.com/ip.asp?c=O1248 Read how pre-Columbian Native Americans traveled and hunted, what immigrant farmers did during holidays, what it was like to work in a factory during the Industrial Revolution, what a house in Levittown looked like, and much more. The Web site is arranged by topic, region, and period, as spelled out in the National Standards for United States History. This in-depth organization allows students and researchers to compare and contrast what daily life was like, say, on a cotton plantation in the South, a frontier town in the West, and a whaling village on the East Coast during the antebellum period. Special features include a State-by-State Resource Guide, offering in-depth information on each of the states, as well as primary documents, maps, photos, and links to vetted Web sites. http://find.galegroup.com/nrcx/start.do?prodId=NRC&userGroupName=phil31439 This resource brings together in one easy-to-use interface important titles from Gale and Macmillan (such as the Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health, 2nd edition, the Encyclopedia of Aging, the Encyclopedia of Public Health) with excellent, thorough nursing-specific texts from Thomson Delmar (such as Fundamentals of Nursing, Standards, and Practice, Health Assessment and Physical Examination). Additionally, relevant journal results from top publications in the field and animated depictions of the human anatomy complements the core reference texts from Gale and Delmar. The Nursing Resource Center provides authoritative information written in accessible language for students completing research papers and class assignments as they learn how to care for and treat patients. What Makes Gale's Nursing Resource Center different? It is the only product on the market designed around nursing process/workflow. You can search quickly as the searching tools are labeled into tabs of Diseases, Assessments, Diagnostics, Interventions, Drugs, CarePlans, Multi-Media, Journals, and Related Articles. The NursingToolbox gathers key quick-reference documents together in one convenient place. Drug monographs are well-indexed and are easy to find on the front page. Generic and trade drug names are cross-indexed so you always find what you need. Only place to access sample nursing care plans along with drug monographs and disease overviews. MULTIMEDIA: This tab will display short, dynamic videos of various diseases or conditions at work in the human body in three-dimensions. These videos bring anatomy and physiology to life in a way that flat illustrations in books cannot. http://www.psychiatryonline.com/ The Connelly Library is happy to announce that we are now subscribers to PsychiatryOnline - here is a description of this database. (Please note that all the books and journals in this database are linked in our library's catalog and articles from the journals are linked via Article Locator with indexes such as PsycInfo.) PsychiatryOnline is a powerful web-based portal that features DSM-IV-TR®—the most widely used psychiatric reference in the world—and The American Journal of Psychiatry as the cornerstones of an unsurpassed collection of psychiatric references from American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., the most trusted and respected name in psychiatric publishing. You get instant access to classic, must-have resources such as References including DSM-IV-TR®, DSM-IV-TR® Casebook and its Treatment Companion, and the American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders Journals including The American Journal of Psychiatry and Psychiatric Services Textbooks including The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry Self-assessment tools for study, board certification and recertification review, and lifelong learning Clinical & research news from Psychiatric News Delivering the information you are looking for, whenever and wherever you need it. PsychiatryOnline is more than just printed material converted to an electronic medium. The website employs the latest technology and provides you with a powerful, custom-designed tool that enables you to make the most of the wealth of psychiatric information available. Easy to use and convenient. All you need is a web browser. The platform moves far beyond simply reproducing the traditional print format, providing an enhanced multimedia experience and intuitive navigation. For here or to go. Access from any computer with a web connection—anytime, anywhere. Unlimited PDA downloads. Download any book section to your PDA. A custom index of your downloads is automatically generated on your PDA, enabling you to quickly jump to the topic you want. Regular updating. Stay on top of the latest developments. Journal articles are available online before the print issue reaches you. And new APA Practice Guidelines and Guideline Watches plus revisions to DSM codes are posted when they are issued. State-of-the-art, cross-format searching. Search across the most important titles in psychiatry instantly: DSM-IV-TR®, books, and journals. Unlike other general search engines that yield too many irrelevant hits, our search engine employs sophisticated semantic indexing to yield the hits that answer your question. http://dbproxy.lasalle.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic/api/version1/sf?shr=t&sfi=AC00NBGenSrch COVERAGE: Latest two reports for each company and industryCOVERAGE-TYPE: Full-textFREQUENCY: DailyUPDATE-SCHEDULE: Updated regularly - Atypical update schedule/as received from the vendorLANGUAGE: English The new Lexis-Nexis has more than just a revamped interface - there is access to new material as well. Investext Current Reports are available as a choice in the Company Profiles section.The Investext Current Reports file will provide the two most recent reports on each of more than 35,000 companies and the two most recent reports of each of the 54 industries tracked by Investext. A specially developed process will select the latest reports for each company and industry every day from the full range of data collected by Investext from sources around the world. New reports will be added to the Investext Current Reports database every morning; older reports will be rolled over into the full Investext file where they will continue to be available for archival research.The Investext Current Reports file will offer the same document format for Web and Classic users, with each report as a single, easily printed document. INVESTEXT(R) is a database containing company, industry, geographical and topical reports from the world's leading investment banks and research firms. Reports are authored by security analysts, who are employed to be accurate and insightful in their evaluation of companies and industries.The INVESTEXT(R) database can be used for numerous applications. A sampling includes:- perform competitive analysis,- conduct market research,- identify mergers & acquisitions candidates- research industry trends- locate current and historical information on companies or industries. http://library.cqpress.com/prs/ CQ Political Reference SuiteThe Connelly Library is happy to announce that we are now subscribers to CQ Political Reference Suite, a new electronic source which gives easy access to some of the major publications of Congressional Quarterly.Included in the Political Reference Suite are the following publications: Historic Documents Series 1972-2005 Political Handbook of the World CQ's Politics in America Supreme Court Yearbook Series 1989-2005 Vital Statistics on American Politics Washington Information Directory Congress and the Nation Series 1945-2004 Each resource can be browsed or searched individually. In addition, they can be searched collectively using the search box at the top of the screen. Some more information on each title: Historic Documents Series 1972-2005 (will be updated annually) Research the most important primary source documents from the last three decades. Read expert commentary and analysis that sets each year’s events in context. Perform advanced searches for documents by subject, date, and more. Appropriate for research on current events, U.S. history, international affairs, political science, public policy, and more. Political Handbook of the World (annual) Quickly find current, in-depth political information on more than 200 countries. Search and browse country profiles based on political characteristics. Find important information including names of key ambassadors, international memberships of each country, and profiles of over 120 intergovernmental organizations. Appropriate for research on international relations, political science, public policy, comparative government. CQ's Politics in America (every two years) Access lively, unbiased profiles and assessments of every member of the U.S. Congress. Search the full database of member profiles back to the year 2000, or limit searches by state, member, or political party. Research key votes, interest-group ratings, election results, state and district information, biographical data, contact information, and other member facts. Appropriate for research on U.S government, public policy, current events, and more. Supreme Court Yearbook Series 1989-2006 (updated annually) Search and browse sixteen years of expert coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court. Read case summaries of every opinion during each court term. View helpful tables and figures on voting patterns and constitutional law. Appropriate for research on legal studies, U.S. history, politics, current events, public policy, and more. Vital Statistics on American Politics 2007-2008 Research key data on U.S. elections, the U.S. Congress, the presidency, the Supreme Court, public opinion, and more. Access over 200 helpful tables and figures. Export and download data into Microsoft Excel®. Appropriate for research on politics, public policy, U.S. government, legal studies, and more. Congress and the Nation Series: 1945-2004 (updated every 3 years) Navigate seamlessly through all eleven volumes of this definitive resource documenting nearly 60 years of the events, trends, and controversies in the U.S. Congress and the presidency. Access in-depth review and analysis of legislation and policy during each Congressional session and presidential term. View tables, graphs, and charts that help explain vital issues. Appropriate for research on politics, U.S. history, government, political science, legal studies, public policy, business regulation, and more. http://library.cqpress.com/globalresearcher/ CQ Global Researcher is the Connelly Library's newest resource! About CQ Global Researcher and Related Resources Modeled after the award-winning CQ Researcher, CQ Global Researcher provides students with definitive, in-depth coverage of global affairs from a number of international viewpoints. Available exclusively online, CQ Global Researcher offers focused, readable, single-topic reports on vital world issues. Written by seasoned journalists with years of international experience, these reports make use of such popular sections as "current situation," "pro-con," and a new feature called "voices from abroad." By exposing students to a wide range of viewpoints CQ Global Researcher provides a comprehensive snapshot of today's most pressing issues. Each single-themed, 12,000-word CQ Global Researcher report is researched and written by an experienced observer of the given issue. The consistent, reader-friendly organization provides researchers with an introductory overview; background and assessment of the current situation; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; chronology on the topic, followed by short features for extensive context; a sampling of related international perspectives; maps and graphs; bibliographies of key sources; next steps for additional reading; and author profiles. While CQ Global Researcher is published online for wider access, color PDFs may be downloaded according to user preference. In the coming months, CQ Global Researcher will be expanding its coverage of specific regions and countries as events dictate, building a resource for international analysis relevant to a plethora of research interests. The latest update of CQ Global Researcher allows researchers to search for all documents related to given geographic areas and individual states, using a new interactive global map. CQ Researcher and the Global Researcher Since our library has access to both the CQ Researcher and the CQ Global Researcher, all of the CQ Global Researcher articles are integrated in the ResearcherWeb site. In the integrated CQ ResearcherWeb site, you can use the Issue Tracker, topic browse, or date browse to find CQ Global Researcher articles as well as related CQ Researcher articles. http://www.infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/phil31439?db=LCO Description: The largest, most extensive compilation of literary commentary available. Literature Criticism Online includes centuries of analysis - the scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals. This replaces the print sets Contemporary Literary Criticism , Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism 1400-1800, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Drama Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism. http://www.jstor.org/about/desc.html Connelly Library is happy to announce that we have added two new JSTOR collections: Arts and Sciences Complement and Arts and Sciences V - (If you are unacquainted with JSTOR, you can read more about it here: http://www.jstor.org/about/desc.html )Arts & Sciences Complement (to be completed by the end of 2008) The Arts & Sciences Complement is intended to offer participants a method to seamlessly add journals related to the core Arts & Sciences I, II, III, and IV Collections. For the Arts & Sciences Complement, journals may be focused in any of the more than thirty arts, humanities, and social sciences disciplines covered by JSTOR. Our aim is to introduce important titles that we were unable to include in earlier collections and to capture journals that cross discipline boundaries. A minimum of 150 titles will be included by the end of 2008 . This is the title list: http://www.jstor.org/about/ascomp.list.html Arts & Sciences V (to be completed by the end of 2009) The Arts & Sciences V Collection will comprise a minimum of 120 titles when it is completed in 2009. Building on disciplines introduced in previous collections, Arts & Sciences V will include a number of important literary reviews and state historical journals. It will also widen the scope of core disciplines in the arts and humanities, such as philosophy, history, classics, religion, art and art history, and language and literature. This is the title list http://www.jstor.org/about/asV.list.html http://dbproxy.lasalle.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.acm.org/dl Previously, we only had access to the "Core Package" of the ACM Digital Portal. That gave us access to the Magazines, Journals, and Transactions of the ACM. However there were sections of the Digital Library to which we had no access, namely the Proceedings, Newsletters, Publications by Affiliated Organizations, the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and the ACM Oral History Interviews. Now we have access to everything on the Digital Portal! We are participating in a joint subscription with the PALCI consortium, which allows us to subscribe to everything for slightly less than we paid previously for partial access. So it is a win-win situation for all concern http://www.lasalle.edu/library/content.php?section=about&group=about&subgroup=departments&page=new_in_av Take a look at what new movies have been added to Connelly Library's video collection. RSS Feed http://www.lasalle.edu/library/content.php?section=about&group=about&subgroup=departments&page=new_in_imc Take a look at the new books in Connelly Library's Instructional Materials Center, located on the lower level. RSS Feed http://www.lasalle.edu/library/previoushome.htm To ease the transition to the new site, we still will provide access to the old site until you become comfortable with the new one. count=652