Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Science Resource Center
Our subscription to Science Resource Center has expired. It will be removed from MultiSearch in the next few days.
Friday, September 26, 2008
New Addition - Encyclopedia Britannica in Spanish
Name of Product: Enciclopedia Universal en Espanol
Vendor: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Where accessible: All libraries and remote.
Category (1): Espanol
Annotation: Enciclopedia Universal en Espanol. Para el uso en cualquier biblioteca o de casa con un Búfalo válido y número de tarjeta de biblioteca pública de condado de Erie.
Please note that remote users will get a message stating: " Access may not be available for your school or library. Please see your librarian or administrator for assistance." To access this product, go down the page and click on Enciclopedia Universal en Espanol in the second paragraph, which will take remote users to the page for both adult and young adult Spanish. The vendor is aware of this extra step and promises to fix it in early 2009.
Vendor: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Where accessible: All libraries and remote.
Category (1): Espanol
Annotation: Enciclopedia Universal en Espanol. Para el uso en cualquier biblioteca o de casa con un Búfalo válido y número de tarjeta de biblioteca pública de condado de Erie.
Please note that remote users will get a message stating: " Access may not be available for your school or library. Please see your librarian or administrator for assistance." To access this product, go down the page and click on Enciclopedia Universal en Espanol in the second paragraph, which will take remote users to the page for both adult and young adult Spanish. The vendor is aware of this extra step and promises to fix it in early 2009.
New Database - Learning Express
Name of Product: LearningExpress Library
Vendor:LearningExpress, LLC
Where accessible: All libraries and remote.
Category: (1 category) Career and College Information
Annotation: LearningExpress Library is a comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons, both students and adult learners, succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results. For use at any library or from home with a valid Buffalo & Erie County Public Library card number.
Vendor:LearningExpress, LLC
Where accessible: All libraries and remote.
Category: (1 category) Career and College Information
Annotation: LearningExpress Library is a comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons, both students and adult learners, succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results. For use at any library or from home with a valid Buffalo & Erie County Public Library card number.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
New Britannica Databases
Name of Product: Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
Vendor:Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Where accessible: All libraries and remote.
Categories (2): Quick Search, Reference
Annotation: Britannica Online provides unlimited access to the full, updated content of the 32-volume Encyclopædia Britannica, thousands of video and audio clips, hundreds of magazine and journal articles plus Britannica's Student and Concise encyclopedias, and more. For use at any library or from home with a valid Buffalo & Erie County Public Library card number.
Name of Product: Britannica Kids
Vendor: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Where accessible: All libraries and remote.
Category (1): Kid Search
Annotation: Britannica Kids is geared toward elementary, middle, and high school students. It includes the Britannica Elementary Encyclopedia for students in Kindergarten through Grade 5 and Compton's Encyclopedia by Britannica for students in Grades 5-9. For use at any library or from home with a valid Buffalo & Erie County Public Library card number.
Name of Product: Annals of American History
Vendor: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Where accessible: All libraries and remote
Category (1): History & Biography
Annotation: Annals of American History provides online access to original source documents in U.S. History. Explore the rich and varied history of the United States through speeches, historical accounts, images, and multimedia. For use at any library or from home with a valid Buffalo & Erie County Public Library card number.
Vendor:Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Where accessible: All libraries and remote.
Categories (2): Quick Search, Reference
Annotation: Britannica Online provides unlimited access to the full, updated content of the 32-volume Encyclopædia Britannica, thousands of video and audio clips, hundreds of magazine and journal articles plus Britannica's Student and Concise encyclopedias, and more. For use at any library or from home with a valid Buffalo & Erie County Public Library card number.
Name of Product: Britannica Kids
Vendor: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Where accessible: All libraries and remote.
Category (1): Kid Search
Annotation: Britannica Kids is geared toward elementary, middle, and high school students. It includes the Britannica Elementary Encyclopedia for students in Kindergarten through Grade 5 and Compton's Encyclopedia by Britannica for students in Grades 5-9. For use at any library or from home with a valid Buffalo & Erie County Public Library card number.
Name of Product: Annals of American History
Vendor: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Where accessible: All libraries and remote
Category (1): History & Biography
Annotation: Annals of American History provides online access to original source documents in U.S. History. Explore the rich and varied history of the United States through speeches, historical accounts, images, and multimedia. For use at any library or from home with a valid Buffalo & Erie County Public Library card number.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
New Addition - Vault Online Career Library
Name of Product: Vault Online Career Library
Vendor: Vault, Inc.
Where Accessible: All libraries and remote
Categories: (1 category) Career and College Information
Annotation (including access note): Vault Online Career Library provides company and industry information, occupational profiles, career advice, college surveys, career-related videos, and access to 60+ Vault Guides. For use at any library or from home with a valid Buffalo & Erie County Public Library card number.
Vendor: Vault, Inc.
Where Accessible: All libraries and remote
Categories: (1 category) Career and College Information
Annotation (including access note): Vault Online Career Library provides company and industry information, occupational profiles, career advice, college surveys, career-related videos, and access to 60+ Vault Guides. For use at any library or from home with a valid Buffalo & Erie County Public Library card number.
Financial Information from Morningstar
Dear Information Professional, The past several days have been marked by historic corporate bankruptcy, the worst daily market loss in 7 years, and government intervention that many say is reshaping the foundation of our financial system. Some have even described it as the largest market shift since the Great Depression. But what does this mean for the average investor? And how can investors protect themselves in a changing market? To help you and your patrons better maneuver the changing economic landscape, we have attached a free report by Morningstar’s Director of Personal Finance, Christine Benz. Download and share the new report: “Are you Protected in the Current Financial Crisis?” Investors can learn first hand who will be affected by this week’s historic announcements and what they can do to limit their losses. They will find out what types of investments are secure and which ones may pose a risk now or in the future. Please feel free to distribute this article to your peers and patrons or post it to your library website, blog, or newsletter. Sincerely, Lars WasvickAssociate Product Manager Morningstar Investment Research Center If you would like to register to receive regular investment and investment database content for your website, blog, or newsletter, please contact Morningstar Library Services at: libraryservices@morningstar.com. Please include your name, title, email address, and how you most frequently plan to utilize the content.
http://news.morningstar.com/articlenet/article.aspx?id=253142&pgid=hparticle
For additional financial information, visit http://www.morningstar.com/ or the subscription version of the Morningstar database through the Library's web site: http://multisearch.buffalolib.org/BuffaloPopupHelp.asp?wffield=wf_morningstar
http://news.morningstar.com/articlenet/article.aspx?id=253142&pgid=hparticle
For additional financial information, visit http://www.morningstar.com/ or the subscription version of the Morningstar database through the Library's web site: http://multisearch.buffalolib.org/BuffaloPopupHelp.asp?wffield=wf_morningstar
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
New Addition - Medline Plus Espanol (web site)
Name of Product: Medline Plus Espanol
Vendor: (web site) U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health
Where accessible: All libraries and remote.
URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/spanish/
Category: Espanol
Annotation: MedlinePlus le ayuda encontrar las respuestas que usted busca en temas de salud. MedlinePlus ha recopilado la información más confiable proveniente de fuentes autorizadas tales como la Biblioteca Nacional de Medicina y los Institutos Nacionales de la Salud, así como otras agencias gubernamentales y organizaciones de servicios para la salud. MedlinePlus también le ofrece mucha información sobre medicamentos, una enciclopedia médica ilustrada, programas interactivos para el paciente y las más recientes noticias acerca de la salud.
Vendor: (web site) U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health
Where accessible: All libraries and remote.
URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/spanish/
Category: Espanol
Annotation: MedlinePlus le ayuda encontrar las respuestas que usted busca en temas de salud. MedlinePlus ha recopilado la información más confiable proveniente de fuentes autorizadas tales como la Biblioteca Nacional de Medicina y los Institutos Nacionales de la Salud, así como otras agencias gubernamentales y organizaciones de servicios para la salud. MedlinePlus también le ofrece mucha información sobre medicamentos, una enciclopedia médica ilustrada, programas interactivos para el paciente y las más recientes noticias acerca de la salud.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Law & Government
There are currently extra databases in this category that don't belong there. Our federated search vendor has been contacted, and the blog will be updated when this has been remedied.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Two New ProQuest Database Trials
Product: ProQuest Entrepreneurship
URL: http://trials.proquest.com/ptc?userid=2730451
Password: bufferie7
Expires: 10/7/08
Annotation: Search worldwide publications and multi-media related to the topic of Entrepreneurship. Intended to bridge theory with practice, the Entrepreneurship database covers a wide spectrum of resources useful to educators, researchers, students and practitioners. Content ranges from the scholarly - including journals, dissertations, working papers and conference proceedings - to a full toolkit of practical guides, templates, forms, sample business plans, and tips from successful entrepreneurs.
Product: ProQuest Historical Newspapers Black Newspapers Collection
URL: http://trials.proquest.com/ptc?userid=2730451
Password: bufferie7
Expires: 10/7/08
Annotation: ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers provide cultural perspective and insight to events that shaped the United States in the twentieth century. From the beginnings of the protest movement to end segregation to the ongoing challenges involving affirmative action and racial profiling, Black Newspapers provides a record of social change spanning almost a century from the perspective of those most effected by racism in American life. Covering major events to everyday life, these titles are invaluable research tools for studying American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and art.
URL: http://trials.proquest.com/ptc?userid=2730451
Password: bufferie7
Expires: 10/7/08
Annotation: Search worldwide publications and multi-media related to the topic of Entrepreneurship. Intended to bridge theory with practice, the Entrepreneurship database covers a wide spectrum of resources useful to educators, researchers, students and practitioners. Content ranges from the scholarly - including journals, dissertations, working papers and conference proceedings - to a full toolkit of practical guides, templates, forms, sample business plans, and tips from successful entrepreneurs.
Product: ProQuest Historical Newspapers Black Newspapers Collection
URL: http://trials.proquest.com/ptc?userid=2730451
Password: bufferie7
Expires: 10/7/08
Annotation: ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers provide cultural perspective and insight to events that shaped the United States in the twentieth century. From the beginnings of the protest movement to end segregation to the ongoing challenges involving affirmative action and racial profiling, Black Newspapers provides a record of social change spanning almost a century from the perspective of those most effected by racism in American life. Covering major events to everyday life, these titles are invaluable research tools for studying American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and art.
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Litfinder
Litfinder is currently down. The vendor has been notified that we are getting an error message. Please check the blog for updates on this issue.
Literature Criticism Online
Announcing Updates to Literature Criticism Online
Posted: 05 Sep 2008 07:57 AM CDT
Gale is pleased to announce a new release of Literature Criticism Online, which brings a variety of new features to this digitized collection of Gale's major criticism. The ten individual, award-winning Gale series that comprise Literature Criticism Online present a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. Imagine centuries of analysis ? the scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals ? delivered in an easy format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals.
In response to customer feedback, the following new features are now live to current users of the database:
Browse Topics - access 600+ topical entries easily through our new alpha-browse feature, with new entries added regularly.
Updated indexing in "Browse Works" and "Browse Authors" - deep cross-referencing found in Gale's Literary Index is now integrated within Literature Criticism Online.
Titles Discussed - works entries include links to all relevant pages that discuss a related title within any given essay - extreme cross-referencing at work.
Updated language - intuitive "Inside this Entry" and "Inside this Volume" links provide easily understood directions for exploring volumes and entries.
Updated design to Print/View PDFs - page limits reduce the amount of loading time (and printer paper) for patrons who want more than just a two-page spread.
Hit-Term Highlighting and Relevant Pages now available for Keyword searches - originally active in full-text searches, this has now been applied to keyword searches, too.
New design for navigating to Relevant Pages - find your search terms easily by navigating directly to relevant pages with the click of a mouse.
Cleaner InfoMarks for document Source Citations - links are more readily recognized in bibliographies, coursepacks, social bookmarking sites and more.
Some additional basic changes in Literature Criticism Online will have a MAJOR effect on how relevancy and currency are perceived within the database. By changing the Basic Search default index from "Full-text" to "Keyword" and changing the default sort from "Publication Date Ascending" to "Publication Date Descending", users will find the most up-to-date entries and relevant keyword search results at their fingertips, without changing anything other than their search terms!
Posted: 05 Sep 2008 07:57 AM CDT
Gale is pleased to announce a new release of Literature Criticism Online, which brings a variety of new features to this digitized collection of Gale's major criticism. The ten individual, award-winning Gale series that comprise Literature Criticism Online present a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. Imagine centuries of analysis ? the scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals ? delivered in an easy format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals.
In response to customer feedback, the following new features are now live to current users of the database:
Browse Topics - access 600+ topical entries easily through our new alpha-browse feature, with new entries added regularly.
Updated indexing in "Browse Works" and "Browse Authors" - deep cross-referencing found in Gale's Literary Index is now integrated within Literature Criticism Online.
Titles Discussed - works entries include links to all relevant pages that discuss a related title within any given essay - extreme cross-referencing at work.
Updated language - intuitive "Inside this Entry" and "Inside this Volume" links provide easily understood directions for exploring volumes and entries.
Updated design to Print/View PDFs - page limits reduce the amount of loading time (and printer paper) for patrons who want more than just a two-page spread.
Hit-Term Highlighting and Relevant Pages now available for Keyword searches - originally active in full-text searches, this has now been applied to keyword searches, too.
New design for navigating to Relevant Pages - find your search terms easily by navigating directly to relevant pages with the click of a mouse.
Cleaner InfoMarks for document Source Citations - links are more readily recognized in bibliographies, coursepacks, social bookmarking sites and more.
Some additional basic changes in Literature Criticism Online will have a MAJOR effect on how relevancy and currency are perceived within the database. By changing the Basic Search default index from "Full-text" to "Keyword" and changing the default sort from "Publication Date Ascending" to "Publication Date Descending", users will find the most up-to-date entries and relevant keyword search results at their fingertips, without changing anything other than their search terms!
CQ Researcher Plus Archive
We are experiencing a log-in failure for CQ Researcher. The vendor has been contacted, and the blog will be updated as soon as access issues have been resolved.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Photofact Online and Literary Reference Center
Access issues with Photofact Online and Literary Reference Center have been resolved. Please note that Photofact Online is now available at all libraries only. It is not longer available remotely.
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