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."
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Try Out Our Trial for a New PsycINFO/PsycARTICLES Interface
We already subscribe to PsycINFO and PsycARTICLES through EBSCO, but are trialing them through ProQuest to see how the search, linking, and interface stack up. Let us know what you think!
Trial ends: September 16th
Send feedback and other trial ideas to reference@csp.edu.
Direct URL: http://ezproxy.csp.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/?accountid=26720&selectids=1007567,1007458
Trial ends: September 16th
Send feedback and other trial ideas to reference@csp.edu.
Direct URL: http://ezproxy.csp.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/?accountid=26720&selectids=1007567,1007458
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Thursday, August 15, 2013
New subscription to ScienceDirect adds full-text access to over 1,100 high impact, academic journals in the Health and Life Sciences
Available immediately, the library has added the ScienceDirect Health and Life Sciences Collection. This new subscription contains high-impact, full-text, academic journals in the health and life sciences, environmental science, and the behavioral sciences.
There is no full-text limiter via the ScienceDirect interface. Look for the PDF icon when accessing via the ScienceDirect database and for "View Now" icons when searching in WorldCat Local.
Direct URL: http://ezproxy.csp.edu/login?url=http://www.sciencedirect.com
There is no full-text limiter via the ScienceDirect interface. Look for the PDF icon when accessing via the ScienceDirect database and for "View Now" icons when searching in WorldCat Local.
Direct URL: http://ezproxy.csp.edu/login?url=http://www.sciencedirect.com
Friday, August 9, 2013
Surprising trends in electronic publishing
Several months back, it was noted on
this blog that e-book growth seemed to be stalling significantly. Culture and technology watcher Nicholas Carr, in his post The flattening of e-book sales,
notes that the trend continues:
“The Association of American Publishers reports that in the first quarter of 2013, e-book sales in the U.S. trade market grew by just 5 percent over where they were in the same period in 2012. The explosive growth of the last few years has basically petered out, according to the AAP numbers (see graph)”
In another surprise, the Wall Street Journal recently
reported about The
New Explosion in Audio Books:
“Audio books have gone mass-market. Sales have jumped by double digits in recent years. Shifts in digital technology have broadened the pool of potential listeners to include anyone with a smartphone.”
The detailed article also reports on some of the unique approaches
of some of the newer audiobooks, including the creation of works that feature
only as audiobooks, “ranging from full-cast dramatizations in the style of old
school radio plays, complete with music and sound effects, to young adult
novels, thrillers and multipart science fiction epics.” Other innovations include the ability for
persons to switch between an e-book and the audio version, picking up the story
in either fashion wherever they left off.
As such, the article also
explores how, for many, the line between listening to a book and reading it is
disappearing.
Also worthy of note for academic libraries: even as many academic
libraries move to make serious academic books available through e-book
databases, the Chronicle of Higher Education reports that Students
Prefer Print for Serious Academic Reading.
Reasons given for this are the distraction caused by embedded links, an
inability to interact with the content as easily as printed texts, and perhaps,
the students report, not having used e-books when they were younger.
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Graph from Nicholas Carr’s blog: http://www.roughtype.com/?p=3590
Audiobook image from here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/74109564@N08/8119732223 By Nicola Einarson
Studying image from here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/merchau/8548057127 by merchau
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