Aug 31, 2015
Straight from the Ant's Mouth: Food in the Library
Ever wonder about what you can and can't eat in the library? Student Jessilyn Dagum interviews a sugar ant to clear it all up.
Aug 28, 2015
Hey! Where did Academic Search go?
Starting Fall 2015,the library has replaced the EBSCO
Academic Search Premier and Business Source databases with two similar ProQuest
products, ProQuestCentral and ABI/INFORM Complete.
The library made the decision to move forward with an Orbis
Cascade Alliance offer for a suite of new ProQuest products. Some of
these will be replacing products that we have had for a number of years, like Academic Search Premier, while
others will offer brand new content and research tools. This decision
continues the expansion of ProQuest offerings that started last year with new
social science databases including: Social Services Abstracts, Public
Affairs Information Service (PAIS), and Sociological Abstracts among
others.
These new products add a suite of subject-specific research
tools and content – particularly for the humanities and sciences – that were
previously unavailable. A sample of the new content and tools include:
- FIAF: International Index to Film Periodicals Plus
- International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text
- Environmental Engineering Abstracts
- More than 100,000 full-text dissertations
- See a full list of ProQuest databases
In addition to new content and tools, the ProQuest package
offers some significant advantages. All of the ProQuest content will be
findable in the library’s Saints search discovery system (unlike EBSCO), the mix of ProQuest products provides more full text overall, and the new ProQuest interface has a clean look with more filtering options.
While Academic Search and Business Source are no longer available, we continue to subscribe to a number of EBSCO products core to many
of the departments and schools on campus including:
- PsycINFO
- PsycARTICLES
- ATLA Religion
- Catholic Periodicals and Lit
- Old & New Testament Abstracts
- Education Research Complete
- Communication & Mass Media
- MLA
- Mental Measurements & TIP
Questions? Please send an email to Serin Anderson, sanderson@stmartin.edu
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