New Trial: PsycTHERAPY Clinical Videos

PsycTHERAPY is a database containing more than 300 videos featuring therapy demonstrations showing clinicians working with individuals, couples, and families. It is provided directly by the American Psychological Association. 

YOU MUST ACCEPT THE SECURITY EXCEPTION TO ENTER. IT IS A SAFE CONNECTION.

Access URL: http://ezproxy.csp.edu/login?url=http://psyctherapy.apa.org/
Trial ends: February 14, 2013

Introducing ILLiad for InterLibrary Loan

The library is implementing new software called ILLiad to manage InterLibrary Loan requests. You will login to ILLiad using your CSP Connect username and password, and you will use it to request journal articles, books not found in the CLICnet Catalog, and other materials. ILLiad allows you to submit requests, monitor the status of your requests, receive full text electronic documents, and view a history of your previous requests. Interlibrary Loan and ILLiad frequently asked questions can be found on this page: http://concordia.csp.edu/Library/policies/inter_lib_loan.html

Please contact the library with any questions at ill@csp.edu or 651-641-8770.

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