The Academic eBook Subscription Collection has been added to eBooks on EBSCOhost, which includes 86,000 titles! This collection covers a vast range of topics including art, business, literature, technology, and much more!

We are excited to announce our new ebook collection, ebrary! With this new collection, we're adding 70,000 books on a variety of subjects. ebrary allows a user to:

·         Search across every single word on every single page of every single eBook.

·         Copy and paste. Email. Print. Cite.

·         Take notes. Store and share your research online.

Get it here – On Campus Link

Or here – Off Campus Link

View the Quick Start Guide.

Downloading – Although ebrary eBooks can be downloaded as an entire book, book chapter, or page range, most users prefer to access them online where the ebrary reader provides a superior reading experience along with many research aids such as highlighting passages, note taking, and online storage of your research when you create a personal account.

NetLibrary, home of the library’s largest eBook collection (41,000 vols.) has changed names and looks. It is now called eBooks on EBSCOhost. This change is expected to make eBooks easier to find and easier to use as EBSCO rolls out a series of improvements including:

- Integration (including linking) with other EBSCO databases (We have about 25.)

- Free inclusion in EhIS (EBSCOhost Integrated Search) – Allowing users to search eBooks and articles at the same time.

- Improved Title Acquisitions Process

- Greatly improved searching, including subject searching (previously unavailable)

Lexis Nexis Academic, available from the database pages, is great for business and legal studies! Provides access to over 10,000 full-text news, business, and legal publications. This product also provides access to the renowned Shepard's Citations® service for all federal and states court cases back to 1789. Please check it out!

Interested in learning a little more on your Tuesday? Use our library resources to try to answer these trivia questions!

1. What is a bucky ball?

2. What was the title of Edgar Allan Poe's first published work?

3. What was the name of Napoleon Bonaparte's second wife?

(Hint: You can find these answers and a lot more in our new Reference Universe database)

ebrary  - (on campus access only during trial)  - During the month of October the Thrift Library will be conducting a trial of ebrary, an online ebook collection of 47,000 titles.  ebrary is similar in size, scope, and features to NetLibrary.

This collection is available through a variety of pricing  schemes including:

Subscription – around $6,000 per year

Purchase entire collection or any combination of sub collections

Purchase by title

And even a deposit account where you only buy the titles that are used. In other words, you the user, select your own collection on a per need basis.

ebrary provides online support at the following locations.

1.     View our Quick Start video at http://www.ebrary.com/corp/collateral/flash/QuickStart/ (please allow a few seconds to load). We also offer a one-page Quick Guide, which includes easy, step-by-step instructions on how to get started with ebrary.

2.     The Quick Guide can be found online at http://www.ebrary.com/corp/collateral/en/Quick_Guides/Quick_Guide.pdf. Printed copies are also available upon request.

3.     Sign up for live, online training for you and your library patrons. We offer several different modules at a variety of times to meet your library’s needs. For a description of the modules and to sign up, please visit http://www.ebrary.com/corp/training.jsp.

4.     Additional training materials, including Flash videos and user guides, are available at http://www.ebrary.com/corp/training.jsp.

 Your opinions as to the usefulness of this second eBook collection would be appreciated.

For the next month to two months, the library will have a few databases on trial. Please feel free to try them out and let us know what you think!

Communication & Mass Media Complete: offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 550 journals, and selected ("priority") coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of 737 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for over 440 journals dating as far back as 1915. In addition, CMMC features over 5,400 Author Profiles, providing biographical data and bibliographic information.

Grove Music Online / Oxford Music Online: A dynamic online resource and the unsurpassed authority on all aspects of music.  Now available through the Oxford Music Online gateway, Grove Music Online includes the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition; The New Grove Dictionary of Opera; and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition.  A subscription to Grove Music Online now also includes access to the full text of the Oxford Companion to Music and the Oxford Dictionary of Music, and linking from Grove articles to RILM, DRAM and Classical Music Library for subscribers to these sites.

http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.

SPORTDiscus with Full Text: is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals, providing full text for more than 520 journals going back to 1985.
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=s3h

Proquest Dissertations and Theses: (PDQT) includes 2.5 million dissertation and theses citations from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format.

http://trials.proquest.com/ptc?userid=3372254 Your password is au002.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature: RILM's coverage spans 1967 to the present, with limited coverage going back to 1835 covers over 700 “music” journals comprehensively and 10,000 non-music journals Types of publications and media covered by RILM include collections of essays, conference proceedings, critical editions of music, digital media, dissertations, journal articles, monographs, online resources, reference materials, reviews, and technical drawings of instruments. Sound recordings and motion pictures that present the results of scholarly research or fieldwork are also included.
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=rih

RIPM - Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals:
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=rph

RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals is an international, highly annotated database with detailed content analysis of writings on musical history and culture between 1800 and 1950--from Beethoven to Bartok, from Berlioz to Berg, and from Schubert to Shostakovich--all provided by internationally-recognized scholars and editors.

RIPM  currently indexes the contents of over 130 music periodicals including articles, reviews, illustrations, music examples, advertisements, press reviews, and more. In addition, RIPM offers more than 5,000 English-language translations of articles from journals in other languages.

RISM Series A/II: Music Manuscripts after 1600:
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=rsm

RISM - Series A/II: Music manuscripts after 1600 is the most comprehensive annotated index and guide to music manuscripts containing more than 620,000 manuscript records by over 22,500 composers found in over 800 libraries and archives in 32 countries including: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, Uruguay and the United States.