BGSU University Libraries News

Workshop: RefWorks
Date: February 12
Time/Location: 9:30 a.m. -10:45 a.m., 142 Jerome Library (ERR)
Audience: Faculty, Instructors and Graduate Students
Registration Information: call  2-6898 or e-mail ctl@bgsu.edu
For more information, click here.

The Libraries invite you to explore three very different tools that search the full text of digitized books.

Google first explored launching a digital books project in 2002. Since then, the company has formed partnerships with major research libraries around the world to digitize their collections. Google Books searches these digitized texts, displaying full text when the title is in the public domain or snippets of full text when the title is under copyright.

HathiTrust is a similar project from the University of Michigan. It is a repository for the digital collections of major American research libraries, including those of the Committee on Insitutional Cooperation and the University of California System. The HathiTrust catalog searches the full text of nearly 5 million books, journals and more, most of which are not in the public domain. Because most of the material is under copyright, most titles cannot be viewed full text online, but can be requested through interlibrary loan.

The Internet Archive contains digital texts, audio, video and more in the public domain. It serves as both a repository to preserve this material and a platform to search and display it. Items in the Internet Archive are contributed by libraries, individuals and organizations.

Records for all three of these tools have been added to the Libraries’ E-Book Collections page.

Beginning Monday, February 8, BGSU students and faculty will have access to SciFinder Scholar via the web.

In consultation with Chemistry faculty, the Libraries have decided to reallocate one of our two SciFinder Scholar seats from the client software to the web version. This will allow SciFinder users to be able to access the database from any computer on or off campus. The web version also includes expanded functionality, such as the ability to create a personal account and access saved content (alerts, comments and answer sets) from any web-accessible computer.

View a demo of the web version of SciFinder.

Students and faculty who wish to use the web version of SciFinder must register using their BGSU e mail account before they will able to log in. Students and faculty who do not wish to use the web version of SciFinder may continue to access SciFinder from campus computers as they have previously done. BGSU’s web seat will be available after 8:00am Monday, February 8, 2010.

SciFinder Scholar is a specialized chemistry database used to search and analyze chemical  substances and reactions as well as published scientific literature in chemistry.

Registering for SciFinder Web

1. Go the BGSU SciFinder registration page from on or off campus.

Note: you may get an error message indicating the connection is untrusted or that there is a problem with the website’s security certificate. This error message is caused by the library’s proxy software, which manages off-campus access. If you click through the message you will be redirected to the registration page.  Click here for more information.

2. Fill out the registration form. You must use your BGSU e mail address to register an account.

3. Next, you will receive an e mail from registration@cas.org with a url that you must click in order to activate your account.

4. After you have finished this activation process, you will be able to log in to SciFinder Web.

If you have any questions, please contact Amy Fry, the Libraries’ Electronic Resources Coordinator, at afry@bgsu.edu or 419.372.2690.

Each year, The Friends of the University Libraries recognizes members of the University community for their scholarly publications and artistic achievements. This year, honorees will be selected for accomplishments that occurred from Sept. 1, 2008, to Dec. 31, 2009. They will be recognized during National Library Week, April 11 – 17.

We are asking you to nominate individual(s) from within your department or area by completing the nomination form, which is available on the Friends Web Site at: www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/about/page40915.html. Self-nominations are acceptable.

To ensure that all nominations receive full consideration, nominations must be received no later than 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 19.

Thank you for participating with The Friends in this important project.

Workshop: RefWorks
Date: February 4
Time/Location: 3:30 p.m. -4:45 p.m., 142 Jerome Library (ERR)
Audience: Faculty, Instructors and Graduate Students
Registration Information: call  2-6898 or e-mail ctl@bgsu.edu
For more information, click here.

Workshop: Beyond EBSCO
Date: February 5
Time/Location: 3:30 p.m. -5:00  p.m., 142 Jerome Library (ERR)
Audience: Graduate Students
Registration Information: call  2-6898 or e-mail ctl@bgsu.edu
For more information, click here.

In honor of the 100^th anniversary of Bowling Green State University, three staff members from the University Libraries have created eight unique wall-sized quilts using historical photos of the BGSU campus.  These quilts are one-of-a-kind creations perfect for any BGSU lover and are ideal to display at home or in the office.  For more information, click here.

Want to hear the outcome of the first Super Bowl? Watch coverage the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle?  Are you interested in reliving the days of Crystal Pepsi? You can do all this and more using the Libraries’ newest database, the Vanderbilt Television News Archive.

This database contains abstracts describing each segment of the major television networks’ daily news broadcasts  since 1968 (ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX and CNN), including commercials. It also contains streaming video for the NBC Evening News from 1968 to the present and CNN daily news programs from 1995 to the present. Video is available approximately 72 hours after the broadcast aired; it is in RealMedia format and can be viewed with RealPlayer, available for free download at real.com.

Searches can be limited by date, network, anchor/reporter, or particular program segment (introductions, commercials, etc.).

Access the Vanderbilt Television News Archive at http://maurice.bgsu.edu/record=e1000435~S0.

The full-text life sciences encyclopedia Science Online will be unavailable from 12:00am to 7:00am on Saturday, January 23, 2010, due to vendor maintenance.

University Libraries is collaborating with the Office of Advising & Academic Success once again to offer several academic services to students at Jerome Library after regular business hours. The service is called “The Learning Commons.” The following services will be available every Sunday and Tuesday evening from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. starting January 24 and continuing through May 4th.

• Academic Advising – 1st floor (Reserve Room)
• Research and Information Assistance – 1st floor
• Tutoring for Mathematics – 1st floor (room 122) SUNDAY NIGHTS ONLY
• Tutoring for Biology, Chemistry & Psychology – 7th floor
• Writing Consultations – 1st floor (Reserve Room)

These are drop in services. No appointments are necessary.

E-books accessed through the ebrary platform will be unavailable from 8:00pm tonight, Thursday, January 21, 2010 through 2:00am on the morning of Friday, January 22, 2010, due to scheduled software maintenance.

BGSU has access to over 10,000 business and education titles through ebrary.