New Subscription to The Cochrane Library: Evidence-Based, Systematic Reviews for Health and Medicine

The CSP Library now subscribes to The Cochrane Library, a collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. "Each Cochrane Review is a peer-reviewed systematic review that has been prepared and supervised by a Cochrane Review Group (editorial team) in The Cochrane Collaboration according to the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions or Cochrane Handbook for Diagnostic Test Accuracy Reviews."

Direct URL: http://ezproxy.csp.edu/login?url=http://thecochranelibrary.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

Literature Database Trials: Literature Resource Center & MLA International Bibliography

Through the month of October, the CSP Library is offering a trial to two different literature database resources, Literature Resource Center and MLA International Bibliography. Find them at the following URLs:

• Literature Resource Center: http://ezproxy.csp.edu/login?url=http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/mnaconcordia?id=elm4you&db=LitRC
• MLA International Bibliography: http://ezproxy.csp.edu/login?url=http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/mnaconcordia?id=elm4you&db=MLA

The Literature Resource Center is filled with critical, biographical and contextual content which includes full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines 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 

The MLA International Bibliography provides searchable access to more than 2 million bibliographic citations to journal articles, books, dissertations, and scholarly websites. It indexes materials from 1921 to the present in disciplines such as language, literature, folklore, linguistics, literary theory and criticism, and the dramatic arts.

Contact reference@csp.edu with feedback. Trial Ends: October 31st

Database Trial: Sports Medicine and Exercise Science in Video

For the month of October, the CSP Library is offering a trial of the database Sports Medicine and Exercise Science in Video at the following URL: http://ezproxy.csp.edu/login?url=http://spex.alexanderstreet.com

This is an extensive video collection covering the areas of fitness and health assessment, disease management, injury treatment, nutrition, medical fitness, sport science, work-site wellness, exercise adherence, and much more. Developed through an exclusive partnership with Healthy Learning, the world’s leading producer of sports medicine videos.

Contact reference@csp.edu with feedback. Trial Ends: October 31st

CSP Library Now Subscribes to CINAHL Plus with Full Text - The Premier Nursing, Health and Allied Services Database

We are happy to announce that the CSP Library now subscribes to CINAHL Plus with Full Text, the premier nursing, health, and allied services database available. From the EBSCOhost Web site:

It provides full text for more than 770 journals indexed in CINAHL®, including many of the most-used journals in the index—with no embargo. Of those, 464 are not found with full text in any version of Academic Search™, Health Source® or Nursing & Allied Health Collection™.  Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.  In addition, this authoritative file offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. 

Locate this database via our Databases A-Z or Databases by Subject List, found on the Library homepage under Research Tools, or via this direct link: CINAHL Plus with Full Text (EBSCO).

Trial the eBook Academic Collection from EBSCO

If you're looking for a few last minute eBooks to finish off your research this semester, try our trial of the eBook Academic Collection from EBSCO. The trial contains 50,000 of the 70,000 books in the collection and covers an interdisciplinary array of academically focused books published over the last ten years.

Also, click here to search both the trial titles and the 16,000 eBooks we already own via EBSCOhost simultaneously.

WorldCat Day Webinar Archived

If you missed one of our instructional sessions about how to use the new search interface WorldCat on on WorldCat Day a few weeks back, you can view a recording of one of the Web-based sessions at the following link. Allow 5 minutes for video to load and buffer.

 https://csp.webex.com/csp/ldr.php?AT=pb&SP=MC&rID=57064727&rKey=e4648016f9052188

ProQuest Has a New Interface

Click here to try out the new ProQuest interface.  There's no going back!  See a demo of the new platform here.  Contact the Reference Staff with any questions.

Database Trial: Communication & Mass Media Complete, Gender StudiesDatabase

Communication & Mass Media Complete incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields. Contains a contains a Communication Thesaurus and over 5,400 Author Profiles. Trial dates: April 25 - June 30th.

Gender Studies Database combines the Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues, with coverage spanning from 1972 to the present. Trial dates: April 25 - June 30th.

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

New Subject Guides: Environmental Science and Childrens Literature

Two new Subject Guides have been recently published by CSP Librarians: Environmental Science and Children's Literature.

Subject Guides are the first place to go when starting your research, and provide a good home base to jump off from and return to during the process. They are authored by CSP Librarians and organize the copyrighted academic materials (that you won't find for free on the web) that are supplied for your use by Concordia as part of your tuition. These guides include shortlists of the best databases in each subject, links to online Reference e-Books, embedded search boxes to many of our resources, research tips and hints, and a whole lot more.

Browse all 50 guides here, and add a bookmark so you can return each time you have research to do. If you've never seen a Subject Guide, that's what they look like below, with a clean look and an easy-to-use navigation with tabs for different aspects of research:

What is Interlibrary Loan?

Interlibrary Loan (ILL) is a service that can help you get materials that you can't get immediately through the CLICnet library catalog or in full-text through Concordia's subscription databases. The main uses are 1) when you can't find the full-text of an article in the library's databases (more on that in a second) or 2) when you can't find library materials (e.g.: books, CDs) in the CLICnet catalog.

If at first you don't find full-text while searching a database, try the Get It button when available to find full text. Clicking the Get It button will automatically search to see if the full-text is available in the rest of the CSP Library databases. If it isn't, a screen will suggest you submit a journal article request form through Interlibrary Loan. See screenshot below:

The journal article request form links you into CLICnet, and prompts you for your name and barcode number. Simply enter your name, first and then last (if that doesn't work, try your last name only), and then your barcode from your Concordia ID. This is not the L Number, but the 14-digit number below the barcode which starts with a 2.

Interlibrary Loan is also available for Books and Book chapters, ERIC documents, Theses and Dissertations, and Conference Proceedings which aren’t available via the CLICnet Catalog. Those forms are available at the following URL: http://concordia.csp.edu/Library/help/Forms/SpecificForms/illforms.html

Interlibrary Loan requests can take anywhere from a handful of days to 2 weeks to be filled, so don’t submit a request if you have a short deadline because the material will not arrive in time. ILL service is most valuable to people who start their projects early and research in advance.

New Subject Guides Are Here!

The Library is excited to roll out its newly designed Subject Guides. Not only do they have a clean new look, but they have been reorganized to make it easier to know where to start your research on a particular topic. Some new features of the Subject Guides include:

• - Suggested database lists are shorter, giving you a better idea where to start your research
• - Easier navigation by tabs to different areas (Articles, Books, Citation Guides, etc.)
• - Find materials newly added to the CSP Library in a particular subject
• - Follow the newest news and research in your field via automatically updated RSS feeds
• - Look for tabs with content specific to your subject
• - Some subject areas have guides for specific classes
• - Get in touch with the library liaison in your area
• - All Subject Guides are available in one location: http://libraryguides.csp.edu/

We are very excited to serve you this academic year. Let us know what we can do to help you in your research process, whether it be orienting yourself to the library's resources, conducting "pre-search" on a topic, finding reliable Web sites, tweaking search terms, locating a full-text article from a citation, or anything else you may need along the way.

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.

Three New Trial Databases Are Now Active

The library is happy to announce the activation of three new databases trials. Send feedback to reference@csp.edu

Global Issues in Context (GALE) - Issues and countries form the core of this product, which uses resources to explain the historical and contemporary conditions necessary to understand global issues, conflicts and events. Global Issues in Context supports research in a wide variety of subject areas, including sociology, current events, civics, politics, science, economics, cultural/religious studies, women’s studies, human rights, English composition and many more. Trial runs through April 9th.

Ethnographic Video Online - Covers the study of human culture and behavior – more than 750 hours and 1,000 films at completion. The collection covers every region of the world and features the work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more. This first release includes 226 videos totaling roughly 152 hours. Trial runs through April 3rd.

Women and Social Movements, Scholar's Edition - Includes primary historic documents, books, images, scholarly essays, teaching tools, and book and Web site reviews documents the history of women’s activism in public life, and is one of the most heavily visited resources for women’s studies and for U.S. history on the Web. Organized around document projects written by leading scholars, the collection is a powerful research and classroom tool designed to help users develop the skills needed to analyze primary documents and conduct research. Document projects are organized around interpretive questions, each with 20-50 primary documents that address the question. Trial ends March 31st.

Goodbye, BearHunt

QuickSearch via BearHunt will no longer be available beginning May 1st. There are a number of reasons that the library chose to discontinue this federated search service. Most important, as everyone is tightening their belts, BearHunt came at a substantial cost while offering no new content. Also important, usage was low compared to cost. When it first became available, we were excited to try a federated search, but along with other CLIC libraries and the rest of the library world, we’ve realized that the technology needed to support the idea isn’t quite there yet. The relevancy rankings don’t seem to work correctly or consistently, links were frequently broken, searches executed slowly, and the interface left a lot to be desired. We also felt there was a possibility that it was misleading searchers to think they were searching “everything”, while in fact there are a number of both purchased and freely available resources that aren’t included in a BearHunt search. Also, the search is not complete in that it stops at a predetermined time interval instead of continuing until all searches have had a chance to complete. In the end, BearHunt and federated search as it now exists seems at odds with our mission to teach academic research skills tailored to specific situations and inquiries, using the full breadth of our resources. We will look forward to new federated search products with anticipation, especially if they meet our criteria of completeness and have added-value in their presentation.

New Resource Credo Reference is a Great Place to Start Your Research

The library is now subscribed to Credo Reference, the premier Reference database on the market. This is a great place to start your research. Here is the title list. It includes concept maps and an image search in addition to the usual encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations, bilingual dictionaries, and measurement conversions. There are also connections which allow you to jump to some of our other database subscriptions once you're ready to do more in depth research. From their Website:

“Credo Reference is a full-text online reference service. Our collection includes over three million entries from hundreds of well-regarded titles from some of world’s the best reference publishers. Credo’s collection is intelligently integrated with millions of cross-references and contains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy, science to Shakespeare and law to literature.”

Enter at the URL: http://www.credoreference.com.ezproxy.csp.edu/