September 2007 - Posts

Thursday, September 27, 2007 4:19 PM

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online

Introducting OLDO! The Oxford Language Dictionaries Online.


Instant access to Oxford’s top-of-the-line, unabridged bilingual dictionaries!

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online features essential language resources never before available online – fully searchable, comprehensive, authoritative bilingual dictionaries and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languages.

  1. Initially offering over 1.2 million words and phrases, and over 2 million translations in French, German, Spanish and Italian
  2. Coming in 2008: Chinese, Russian, and revolutionary pronunciation software allowing you to hear native speaker stress and intonation
  3. Unique language learning support, including usage examples and illustrative phrases, grammar guidance, click-through verb tables and pronunciation charts, explanations of grammatical terms, and help with spelling and pronunciation
  4. Access to hundreds of correspondence templates including sample letters, emails, and resumes to provide practical help with writing
  5. Regular updates every six months ensure that the most current meaning and the latest new words are just a click away
You can access OLDO on the Library Website under Databases or just click the link above.
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Monday, September 24, 2007 10:59 AM

Philosophy, Religion, & Culture from Cambridge University Press

A new database is available through the Butler Libraries, called Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion, and Culture.

Cambridge University Press publishes many books in their "Companions" series, each on a specific topic. The Cambridge Companions series offers specially-commissioned collections of essays which are intended to serve as reference works for an inter-disciplinary audience of students and non-specialists.

Addressing topics and figures ranging from Plato through Kant to Habermas, and philosophical movements such as the Scottish Enlightenment and German Idealism, this online collection contains over 900 downloadable essays taken from the Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture (more than 90 volumes).

Each volume also includes a substantial bibliography and other elements such as glossaries and timelines. You can browse the collection by Volume, by Chapter Title, and by Author.

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Wednesday, September 19, 2007 4:08 PM

Access Restored!

For the last few days, our SFX service has been down. This has affected the FindIt button and Journals A-Z.

As of Wednesday, Sept. 19, all these services have been restored. We regret any inconvenience this may have caused.
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007 7:03 PM

RSS Feeds from EBSCO Searches

EBSCO databases have long used "alerts" to help you keep track of new materials that interest you. Now they've begun delivering those alerts via RSS feeds.

Users can now create an Alert directly from the Result List, Search History, or the Publication list. Create instant RSS feed Alerts by clicking on the orange RSS Feed icons.

What does this mean? It means you can create a search in any EBSCO database, grab the resulting RSS feed, and get information sent to you about new materials that have been added to that database that fit your search criteria. And without having to re-do your search every time.

(If you need an RSS reader, we recommend Google Reader or Bloglines.)

Butler Libraries currently subscribe to over 35 different EBSCO databases, including Academic Search Premier, Business Source Complete, ERIC, MasterFILE Premier, MEDLINE, Newspaper Source, PsycARTICLES, and SocINDEX with Full Text.
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