Cool Trial: Download EBSCO eBooks to your eReader

THIS TRIAL IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE.

Until October 2nd, you can try out the new functionality offered by eBooks on EBSCOhost to download books to your personal eReader (unless you use a Kindle - Amazon's DRM system is proprietary and doesn't operate with non-Amazon systems). All you need to do is create a MyEBSCO account (if you don't already have one) and download Adobe Digital Editions and install it on your computer. Watch this video to see how it all works:



Only around 50% of titles in eBooks on EBSCOhost are downloadable. If the book is accompanied by an icon that says Download (Offline), it should be available for download.

New Subject Guides for Epidemiology, Health, Environmental Chemistry, and Education

The library has recently published more new Subject Guides (and updated a bunch that already existed). The brand new guides are linked below:

Education 290 - Language and Society

Environmental Chemistry

History 487 / Political Science 487

Kinesiology and Health Sciences 220 - Epidemiological Foundations

Health Resources

Theology 100

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.

Library Hours During the School Year

Here are the library's hours now that school is back in session. Hours are always available under the About the Library section of the Library's Web site. The library will be closed on Saturday-Monday for the Labor Day weekend and will reopen on Tuesday, September 6th. To see hours for other holidays and finals, click here.

Library Hours
Monday - Thursday	7:45 a.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Friday	7:45 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Saturday	10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sunday	1:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Reference Desk Hours
Monday - Thursday	10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Friday	10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Saturday	12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sunday	4:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

New Subject Guides: Legal Research and Positive Psychology

CSP librarians are always working to expand the offerings available in Subject Guides. This week we've added two brand new Subject Guides, one targeted toward a the discipline of legal research and the other tailored to a specific class, Positive Pscyhology (PSY490). See what's inside at the following links:

• Legal Research: http://libraryguides.csp.edu/legalresearch
• Positive Psychology (PSY490): http://libraryguides.csp.edu/psy490

See all CSP Subject Guides here.

Library Hours During Welcome Week

Monday, August 22: 9:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Tuesday, August 23: 9:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Wednesday, August 24: 9:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Thursday, August 25: 7:45 AM - 8:00 PM
Friday, August 26: 7:45 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday, August 27: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Sunday, August 28: 1:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Regular library hours begin on Monday, August 29.

New Database Trial: 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. Access Films on Demand via the following link: http://ezproxy.csp.edu/login?url=http://digital.films.com/portalplaylists.aspx?cid=1637&aid=9102

Tell us about your experience with Films on Demand: reference@csp.edu

Three New Subject Guides Published: Criminal Justice, Sociology, and Kinesiology

If you're researching in Criminal Justice, Sociology, or Kinesiology, you're in luck. The library has just published three brand new Subject Guides that you should use as the home base for your research activities.

Criminal Justice: http://libraryguides.csp.edu/criminaljustice

Sociology: http://libraryguides.csp.edu/sociology

Kinesiology: http://libraryguides.csp.edu/kinesiology

These were completed by our newest librarian, Karen Brunner, who will also be providing reference service, classroom instruction, and management of the library's print journals and periodicals.

New Database: Art Full Text

The Art Full-Text Database (via WilsonWeb) is now available via the CSP Library! Art Full Text indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world, and includes full-text of articles from more than 270 periodicals. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Indexing coverage begins 1984; abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Full-text coverage begins in 1997. Please note, the Library's subscription to Oxford Art Online will end on June 30th.
Access Art Full Text:
http://ezproxy.csp.edu/login?url=http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml

Learn more about the specifics of Art Full Text:
http://www.hwwilson.com/ast/artindex.cfm

Contact argo@csp.edu for a personal demo or to set up a classroom instruction session.

June Trials: Business, Communications, Environmental Science, and More

Many trials are available from now through mid-to-late June. Access them (with descriptions) here or at the URLs below. As always, any feedback is welcome and appreciated: reference@csp.edu

Here is a list:

1. Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO)

2. Gender Studies Database (EBSCO)

3. Physical Education Index (ProQuest)

4. ProQuest Environmental Science Collection

5. GREENR (Gale)


6. Environment Complete (EBSCO)

8. Market Research Academic

9. Demographics Now (Gale)

10. Gale Business & Company Resource Center


11. World Advertiser Research Center (WARC), contact reference@csp.edu for access details.

12. Polling the Nations

13. Gale Directory Library, including Market Share Reporter

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.

CLICnet Catalog Changes on May 1st

Beginning May 1^st, the Encore interface for the library catalog will no longer be available. Any bookmarks made in Encore will stop working on that date and should be replaced with links from the CLICnet Classic version of the catalog, which will be the version of the library catalog that will be available going forward. Remember to check for bookmarks in syllabi, Blackboard courses, Web browsers, and social bookmarking Web-applications.

The decision to discontinue Encore was made at the consortia level, and it enables the CLIC libraries to offer a wider search and discovery experience through OCLC’s WorldCat Local product, which will be implemented over the summer. With a single search interface, WorldCat Local will allow you to search Concordia’s book holdings and article databases simultaneously, with several options to scope your search, including limiting by format and expanding by location.

Please direct any questions about these changes to reference@csp.edu.

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

New Adolescent Psychology and Philosophy Subject Guides

Two new Subject Guides have been recently published by CSP Librarians: Adolescent Psychology and Philosophy.

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:

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: