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Business Video Collection

We are pleased to announce that Business Source Complete now includes a business video collection with 55 videos from the Harvard Business School Faculty Seminar Series, at no additional charge.

The series features engaging video lectures from renowned professors and experts at the Harvard Business School. All lectures are captured from executive education programs, and offer groundbreaking ideas, insightful research, and practical advice on management issues.

The videos contain a table of content allowing the selection of a specific topic. Most lectures provide a transcript in PDF format.

Literary Criticism Online

The Butler Libraries have just subscribed to a new database called Literary Criticism Online. This database indexes the Gale sets of Literary Criticism books (the large sets of brown or blue books in the Irwin Library Reference collection), including the following titles:

• Contemporary Literary Criticism (all volumes)
• Drama Criticism (all volumes)
• Children’s Literature Review (volumes 141+, from June 2009 forward)

For other areas of literature and literary criticism, we recommend the Literature Resource Center, also from Gale, which contain much of the content of all the Literary Criticism sets owned by the libraries.

PressDisplay Fixed

The earlier problem viewing newspapers in PressDisplay from off campus has been fixed.

If you continue to have any problems with PressDisplay, please contact Scott Pfitzinger at spfitzin@butler.edu. Thank you.

Technical Problem with PressDisplay

If you are using PressDisplay from off campus (or on campus but using wireless), you must log in through EZ-Proxy to access this or most other databases.

We are currently experiencing a technical problem with PressDisplay, where the main newspaper image will not display. This only occurs when accessing PressDisplay using EZ-Proxy. We are aware of the problem and are working to fix it as soon as possible. We will post another message here when this problem is eliminated. Thank you for your patience.

Intermittent E-Reserve Outages

Irwin Library E-Reserves may experience intermittent outages from 12 noon Saturday,Nov. 22 until 12 noon on Sunday, Nov. 23.

This is due to routine server maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Butler Libraries obtain Citation databases (Web of Science)

Butler Libraries has subscribed to the following Web of Science, Science Citation databases:

Science Citation Index
Social Sciences Citation Index
Arts & Humanities Citation Index

The Libraries obtained backfiles to 1999, and plans are to add more backfiles in future years.

The power of these databases resides in being able to track who is citing whom and how often articles are being cited, resulting in an article's impact within a field.

To access these databases go to:  www.butler.edu/library and select 'Databases'

For assistance in learning how to navigate these research databases, contact the Butler Libraries Reference Services:

Irwin Library:  940-9245
Science Library:  940-9401

or

www.butler.edu/library/ask

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.

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.

New Online Database for Philosophy and Religion

Introducing the Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion, & Culture!

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.

Links to this database are available on our general Alphabetical List and also in the Subject List under Philosophy and Religious Studies.

Here is a direct link.

New Psychology Database Available

We have a new Psychology-related database available.

PsycCRITIQUES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is an electronic serial of book reviews featuring full text reviews of current scholarly and professional books in psychology. The database also contains critiques of popular films and trade books from a psychological perspective.

More than 36,000 reviews are included, dating back to 1956.

Open Access Journals

A new database that is available on the Library Website is the Directory of Open Access Journals. This database covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals with the aim to cover all subjects and languages.

• There are now 2,433 journals in the directory.
• Currently 714 journals are searchable at article level.
• As of today 119,344 articles are included in the DOAJ service.

Open Access Journals are peer-reviewed or editorial-quality journals that are freely available online. They define open access journals as journals that use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access. From the BOAI definition of "open access", they won't include a journal in the directory unless the users have the right to "read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts" of the articles.

Journals can be browsed by subject or searched by keyword. Once you get to the journal, you can browse by issue/year or even search some of the journals for a keyword in a particular article. These are online journals being made open-access by their publishers via their own websites, so the features and functions will vary.

Butler Gets Britannica Online

The libraries at Butler University have just gotten a new online resource. It's the Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Britannica plus a whole lot more. One of the new features is the World Data Analyst, which gives you current and past statistics about countries around the world. The "Workspace" is also new, and allows you to save your research (articles you find, etc.) and come back to it later. Visit Britannica Online via the Databases page on the library website.

Completely updated for 2006, this award-winning reference site is now faster, easier to use, and full of new content specifically designed to meet the needs of university libraries. The foundation of Britannica Online (BOL) is the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the largest, most authoritative encyclopedia in the world. In addition to the encyclopedia, BOL includes:

• World Data Analyst - Britannica's exclusive database of current and past statistics on the countries of the world
• Gateway to the Classics - An extensive collection of significant works in literature, philosophy, history, and science
• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary & Thesaurus - Completely integrated into the site and easily accessible
• Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Quotations - A lively collection of more than 4,000 quotations, both contemporary and classic
• Full-text journal and magazine articles from EBSCO and Proquest journals - more than 700 titles, hand-selected for college needs
• BBC & New York Times daily headlines - top stories from two trusted sources The Web's Best - a collection of Web sites carefully selected by Britannica's editorial department
• World Atlas - Access Britannica maps through this interactive resource
• Advanced search capabilities and Britannica's exclusive "Workspace," a research organizer.

Announcing Business Source Complete

The Butler Libraries are pleased to announce an upgrade to Business Source Complete.

As of December 2005, there are more than 200 active full text magazines and journals available via Business Source Complete that were NOT available in Business Source Premier.

Through Business Source Complete Butler students and faculty will now have access to approximately 1,200 electronic full-text titles.

Other enhancements include:

• Select AICPA (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants) material
• Euromoney investor material
• Investment reports
• Marketing reports
• Company & industry information
• Business book review library
• Country reports
• Select full-text books and reference works

While this database is geared towards business, much of the information also has applications across the social sciences.

-Brad Matthies

New Database for Full-Text Health & Life Sciences Journals

Butler Libraries have recently subscribed to a new online database. This one is a collection of over 950 full-text, peer-reviewed journals!

The ScienceDirect College Edition Health and Life Sciences Journal Collection is the world's largest electronic collection of full text and bibliographic information about science, technology, and medicine.

Clicking the link in our list of Indexes and Databases will take you to a list of all the journals that are available in this collection. To browse them, just click the title you're interested in. Otherwise, you can do a QuickSearch by typing your search term(s) in the box at the top. If you want to do a more "advanced" search, click the green Search button at the top of the screen.

EBSCO - Saving Your Searches

How would you like to go into an EBSCO Database and not have to re-create your search?

EBSCO Databases allow you to save your search results once you've created a profile in their system. That is DIFFERENT from your Butler profile. It involves actually creating a new account with EBSCO. You will use that account to access your saved search results. Go into any EBSCO database and click on "Sign In to My EBSCOhost" to get started.



Once you've done that and created your own profile in EBSCOhost, you can save and reexamine your searches in "My Folder."

If you have any questions or problems using "My EBSCOhost," please contact a Reference Librarian.

Career Resources

Students graduating may want to peruse the Career Subject Resource Guide:

http://www.butler.edu/library/research/srg/career.html

It is a complete list of all our career resources. Better still, most titles can now be checked out by students.

Brad Matthies
bmatthie@butler.edu

PRAXIS Tests guides and practice tests for education students

If you are an education student who neess to prepare for the Praxis I PPST exam or the Praxis II subject tests, try using the "Testing and Education Reference Center" available in the list under "Indexes and Databases" in the Butler Libraries' home page.  After you bring up the database, click on "Test Preparation", then on "Civil Service and Licensing", and finally on "Praxis Exams".  You will find full text online guide to the Praxis I and II tests her, and also practice tests.  You will have to register to take the practice tests, but there is no fee--the username/password is to protect your privacy and make it convenient for use to return to the practice test at a later time.

CHOICES III Database

The CHOICES III database is still available on a computer in the Reference Department. And now there is a manual at that workstation to give you some assistance in setting up your research question, selecting columns and rows, and interpreting the results. For those of you needing consumer data about product and brand usage, this tool is just the thing.

NY Times Historical now available online

The New York Times (Historical) database is now available via ProQuest. While the most recent few years are not available online yet, you can search the full text of pages and articles, from September 18, 1851 to December 31, 2002. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

You can get to this database through our list of Indexes and Databases.

Or logon directly: New York Times (Historical)

Industry Norms & Business Ratios

To all:

Business students who are looking for industry statistics (or similar phraseology) with which to compare to a particular business (or businesses) should see:

Industry Norms & Key Business Ratios: REF DESK HF 5681 .R25 I53 03-04

Despite what students may have heard (or misinterpreted) we do not have industry norms/ratios in electronic format.

However, you can compare company to company norms & ratios in Research Insight, and to a lesser extent in Market Insight (peer group, etc.). See Business Databases.

Brad

Introducing NAXOS!

Want to listen to music online? For free? We have added a database to our collection of academic databases that allows that very thing!

The Naxos Music Library is an online collection of music that includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo, and Dacapo catalogues of over 85,000 tracks. Genres covered include Classical, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music.

The database also provides access to notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists. All these are accessible from computers on and off campus by signing on with your Butler user name and password.

The subscription currently limits us to 3 simultaneous users, so if you cannot get in, please try again in a few minutes. Also, when you're done listening, please click "Log Off" before you close the window, so another user can get in more quickly.

If you have any questions about Naxos, please contact our Reference Desk or Sheri Stormes, our Music & Fine Arts Librarian.

The State of the ERIC Database, Fall 2005

The ERIC database overhaul is still an incomplete project as the fall semester begins.  In recent weeks, they have begun to add newer material (2004) to the ERIC site, but until Ebsco signs an agreement with ERIC, no articles or documents newer than 2003 will show up in Ebsco ERIC.  A quick check of the journals currently indexed by ERIC shows that only a small percentage of the publishers of titles previously indexed by ERIC have reached an agreement with ERIC to allow indexing of their recent issues.  For now, advise everyone to make sure that they search Professional Development Collection as well as ERIC to maximize the number of current journal articles found on education topics.  The good news is that eventually, there should be much more full text  available in ERIC.  When the contractor finally finishes adding the backfile, content should be within a month of current. I have no idea how long it will take to reach that goal.

-Renee