Environment Complete: A Multidisciplinary Resource Covering Environmental Topics

This new multidisciplinary database offers deep coverage in the areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, and affiliated areas of study.  Full text is available for over 1,000 journals.



Direct URL: http://ezproxy.csp.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=eih

Or start your environmental studies at our Subject Guide:
http://libraryguides.csp.edu/environmental-science

Consumer Behavior and Industry Analysis Just Got Easier With Market Research Academic

This new database of lengthy, narrative-style market research reports compliments the industry reports of IBISWorld very nicely, and also has reports on consumer behaviors and market segments.

Sample reports include:

• Foodies in the US: 192 page report
• Non-GMO Foods: Global Market Perspective: 142 page report
• Wireless Opportunities in Healthcare (The Market for Bluetooth, RFID, Zigbee, UWB WWAN, WMAN, WLAN and other technologies): 200 page report
• The iPad and Its Owner: Trends and Statistics 2014: 78 page report
• The African-American Consumer Market, 9th Edition: 142 page report

Access it via this URL: http://ezproxy.csp.edu/login?url=http://www.academic.marketresearch.com

Or start at our Business Management Subject Guide: http://libraryguides.csp.edu/business-graduate

Using PubMed? Enter From The CSP Library Site To Take Advantage Of Our Full-Text Holdings

PubMed is a great place to do research on medical and health sciences topics. The PubMed interface provides a lot of added value with its Related Citations area and its use of MeSH Subject Headings, which provide a controlled vocabulary that you can use to conduct more thorough and authoritative searches. But there are also many links that are unclear, difficult to understand, and which lead to dead ends or sites asking you to pay for content. You don't have to pay for the content! And now, the CSP Library offers integration with its full text holdings on every single PubMed citation in the form of our Get It button:

Look for the following button in the top right corner of your screen:

When you hit the Get It button, the citation you're interested in will be searched against our full text holdings for a match. When a match is found, a link to the article will be provided. When no match is found, use the "Request via InterLibrary Loan" link to place a request via a prepopulated form which our InterLibrary Loan staff will work to fill from surrounding libraries. InterLibrary Loan requires a one-time registration process the first time you use it.

Most importantly, in order to search in an environment which has this CSP-specific functionality, you must use the link for PubMed provided at the Library's Website!!! It is a custom URL which includes info which identifies us to PubMed and includes our Get It button. Find it on our Databases lists and in our Health and Science Subject Guides.

The direct URL is: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?otool=mncustplib

Stream Music Now Via Naxos - App Also Available

Concordia is now a full subscriber to Naxos, the world's largest online classical music library which offers streaming access to more than 79,660 CDs with more than 1,143,200 songs - both standard and rare repertoire - covering classical, jazz, and world music. Naxos is available via our databases pages or directly at the following URL: https://ezproxy.csp.edu/login?url=http://CSP.NaxosMusicLibrary.com

Faculty can create and edit playlists that will be available to the general subscription populace. If you are faculty and are interested in this functionality, email Music Liaison Jennifer Carlson (jcarlson@csp.edu) or Electronic Resources Librarian Greg Argo (argo@csp.edu) for details and access instructions.

It is important to note that the number of simultaneous users for our site is limited to 10.

Naxos also provides an App for smart phones on the iPhone and Android platforms. To install and access follow these instructions:

1. Go to the following link and click “Sign Up” in the "Personal/Student" playlist account area. http://csp.naxosmusiclibrary.com.ezproxy.csp.edu/student/login.asp

2. Create a login on the sign up page. This login, consisting of your CSP email address and a custom password, then becomes your login for the app.

3. Find the Naxos app on your mobile device via the App Store (Apple) or Play Store (Android), download, and login to start streaming music.

Oxford Islamic Studies Online Available Through 2013

As part of the upcoming Let's Talk About It: Muslim Journeys grant, Concordia has been provided access to Oxford Islamic Studies Online, a portal which features reference content and commentary (the site is a cross-search of around 11 well-respected works) aiming to foster a more accurate and informed understanding of the Islamic world. This is available throughout the 2013 calendar year.

You can locate this resource via our Database pages: http://libraryguides.csp.edu/databases-a-z

You can also go there directly using the following URL:  http://ezproxy.csp.edu/login?url=http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com

Streaming Music Database Available Through February

From now through the end of February, Concordia Library users will have access to the streaming music database Naxos Music Library. Naxos is the world´s largest online classical music library and offers streaming access to more than 79,660 CDs with more than 1,143,200 songs - both standard and rare repertoire - covering classical, jazz, and world music.

Professors can create and edit playlists that will be available to the general subscription populace. If you are a professor and are interested in this functionality, email Music Liaison Jennifer Carlson (jcarlson@csp.edu) or Electronic Resources Librarian Greg Argo (argo@csp.edu) for details and access instructions.

The number of simultaneous users is limited to 10 and the trial ends on February 28th, 2013.

Direct URL: https://ezproxy.csp.edu/login?url=http://CSP.NaxosMusicLibrary.com

New Database! Literature Resource Center

The CSP Library is pleased to announce a new database subscription that will serve as the go-to resource for literary criticism and information about authors and literary movements: Literature Resource Center from Gale. You will be able to find this database under the title Literature Resource Center in the Databases A-Z and Databases by Subject lists, as well as in various Subject Guides.

"Full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines are combined with critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, biographies, and more to provide a wealth of information on authors, their works, and literary movements"

Databases Trials: Criminal Justice Abstracts With Full Text and SocIndex with Full Text

Currently on trial are these two databases from EBSCO, Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text and SocIndex with Full Text.

About Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text:

Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text™ is the full-text counterpart of Criminal Justice Abstracts™, formerly a SAGE database. This resource includes bibliographic records and full text covering essential areas related to criminal justice and criminology. The increasing globalization of criminology is reflected in Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text’s coverage of hundreds of journals from around the world.

About SocIndex with Full Text:

SocINDEX™ with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest-quality sociology research database. Its extensive scope and content provide users with a wealth of extremely useful information encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study. The database features more than 2.1 million records with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers.

 SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 890 journals dating back to 1908. This database also includes full text for more than 850 books and monographs, and full text for over 16,800 conference papers.

Both trials end December 31st. Send feedback to Subject Liaison Karen Brunner: brunner@csp.edu or to the Reference Staff: reference@csp.edu

New Resource: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

The CSP Library is excited to announce that they now offer ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, which supplies over 3 million searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with over 1 million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Most dissertations published since 1997 are in full-text, and roughly 80,000 new dissertations are added each year.

Find under the entry ProQuest Dissertations & Theses on our Databases A-Z page, or access via the direct URL: http://ezproxy.csp.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/pqdtft?accountid=26720

Wednesday, February 8th: Join the Library for WorldCat Day

Please join the Library for WorldCat Day on Wednesday, February 8th. The Library will be offering training sessions on our powerful new search interface WorldCat Local, which allows simultaneous searching of content from both the CLICnet catalog and various article databases. Training sessions led by CSP Librarian Greg Argo will take place in the main level of the library at 11:15 AM, 12:15 PM, and 1:15 PM. If you'd prefer to participate remotely, join an online session via WebEx led by CSP Librarian Nathan Rinne at either 10:15 AM or 12:15 PM by following the instructions at the following link: http://concordia.csp.edu/library/events If you can't make it to one of the sessions, approach the Reference Desk at any time or email reference@csp.edu to set up an appointment.

Registration for sessions is not required. Students, faculty, and staff are all encouraged to come and learn.

The Library is Offering Four New Databases This Year...Try Them All!

Art Full Text - Features full-text articles, abstracting and indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications, podcasts, and page images.

Communication & Mass Media Complete - Coverage of more than 770 academic titles, with full-text availability for over 450 journals. In addition, find keywords with the Communication Thesaurus.

Films on Demand - Films on Demand is a streaming video platform which allows for real-time viewing of educational videos. With a multidisciplinary scope, Films on Demand offers over 9,000 streaming videos which touch on topics spanning the arts, sciences, and humanities.

SPORTDiscus - Academic journals focusing on sports & sports medicine, providing full text for 550 journals, with the majority of titles being exclusive to this database. Note: Subscriptions is for 4 simultaneous users. Try back later if you're having problems accessing SPORTDiscus.

Health and Sports Medicine Database Trials

Comprehensive nursing & allied health research database, providing full text for more than 770 journals indexed in CINAHL. Of those, 464 are not found with full text in any version of Academic Search, Health Source or Nursing & Allied Health Collection. The database also provides full text for more than 275 books/monographs, and indexing for more than 4,600 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 2.8 million records dating back to 1981. Trial ends: May 31.

Comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals, providing full text for 550 journals indexed in SPORTDiscus. Of those, 393 are not found with full text in any version of Academic Search, Health Source, or Biomedical Reference Collection, with full-text coverage dating back to 1985. Trial ends: May 31.

Minitex Spring Database Trials

Minitex Spring Database Trials: Lots of video and e-Book resources, including Gale In Context Databases (Biography, Global Issues, GREENR, Science, U.S. History, and World History), Alexander Street Press Counseling and Therapy in Video, Alexander Street Press Filmakers Library Online, Alexander Street Press Education in Video, Alexander Street Press Music Online, Films on Demand Master Academic Collection, Gale Virtual Reference Library, Palgrave Connect e-Books, and Plunkett Research Online. Access instructions provided here: http://www.minitex.umn.edu/Electronic/Spring2011.aspx


Trial dates: April 5 - May 13.

Send database trial feedback to reference@csp.edu

Medical and Health Databases

Concordia's Medical and Health databases are now conveniently collected together on one Web page.

http://concordia.csp.edu/Library/research/databases/medicalhealth.html

These include databases meant for health professionals, consumers, and researchers, and run the gamut from general to highly technical. For further assistance, contact reference@csp.edu.