May 02, 2008New E-resources at the U of M LibrariesThese e-resources are now available to U of M students, faculty, and staff through the University Libraries! DemographicsNOW Dyabola Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America April 22, 2008New E-resources at the U of M LibrariesThese e-resources are now available to U of M students, faculty, and staff through the University Libraries! Morningstar Library Edition National Association of Social Workers e-journals Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide March 20, 2008New E-resource Features the Work of Philosopher John DeweyJohn Dewey: Collected Works & Correspondence: http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/pastm.cgi This new e-resource at the University Libraries is an addition to the Past Masters platform access. The database is based on the 37-volume printed edition The Collected Works of John Dewey, 1882-1953, published by Southern Illinois University Press, 1967-1990 (edited by Jo Ann Boydston). March 10, 2008New E-resources at the U of M LibrariesThese e-resources are now available to all U of M students, faculty, and staff through the University Libraries! CIS Congressional Hearings Digital Collection Retrospective A (added to LexisNexis Congressional) Gale - newspaper archives
Waterloo Directory of of English Newspapers and Periodicals Get It: One-Stop Shopping for Book Requesting & Delivery
Need a Book from Our Collections? Now it's so easy! Students, Staff, and Faculty: Look for the Get It! button in the library catalog at mncat.lib.umn.edu For more information, visit www.lib.umn.edu/site/getit.phtml March 07, 2008New NIH Public Access MandateNIH funded? Ready to Publish? Here's what you need to know. The new NIH Public Access Policy now requires researchers to submit any articles which arise from NIH funding to NIH's PubMed Central, where they will be freely and permanently accessible to all so that they might better advance science and improve health. Before that, however, researchers will need to make sure they don't sign away the necessary rights in the journal's author agreement. The University Libraries and the Sponsored Projects Administration are prepared to help. Questions from University faculty and staff about the policy can be sent to nihpublicaccess@umn.edu. We can help ensure you have the necessary rights, guide you through the submission process, and help you understand how to cite your articles in future applications and progress reports. For more information, go to: http://www.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/NIHaccess.phtml February 26, 2008New E-resources at the U of M LibrariesAll U of M students, faculty, and staff now have access to these electronic resources at the University Libraries! China Data Online Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography History Cooperative journals (selected titles) Oxford Digital Reference Shelf - additional titles
February 11, 2008More E-resources Now AvailableCheck out these additional electronic resources now available at the University Libraries! Access: The Supplementary Index to Periodicals Chicago Manual of Style Online Inderscience e-journals Nelson Marketplace Web February 05, 2008New E-resources at the University Libraries
All U of M students, faculty, and staff now have access to these electronic resources at the University Libraries! Oxford Language Dictionaries PsychiatryOnline (core textbooks and journals) Resources for College Libraries Weather Almanac (Gale) Wiley e-journal backfiles
Wiley reference sources
Sage complete journal package January 30, 2008Win up to $700: University Libraries Student Book Collection Contest
Tell us about your special collection of books, media, maps, or other published works and you can win. Contest details: www.lib.umn.edu/site/sbcc/phtml U of M's "EthicShare" Project Pilots a Groundbreaking Approach to Ethics Research
The University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics in partnership with the University of Minnesota Libraries and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering has been awarded a $517,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop and pilot “EthicShare,” an online Web site and bibliographic database for ethics scholars to discover and share high quality digital articles and other materials—scholarly and popular press articles, multimedia objects, pre-prints, and archival documents. During the pilot phase, the EthicShare team will develop features for users to rate, comment on, and vet content, allowing EthicShare to establish new forms of editorial control and community participation in the growth and future of the Web site. “EthicShare is a groundbreaking opportunity for scholars to work together to create a new approach to identifying and sharing the best materials in ethics,” says Jeffrey Kahn, Director of the University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics and one of the project’s principal investigators. “The technologies we are putting to work will allow for detailed searching, including the ability to use reviews and quality ratings by colleagues as a way to find and select scholarly materials. EthicShare will also create a way for scholars to share works in progress and collaborate on new ideas.” The EthicShare pilot is a continuation of an earlier grant awarded to the University of Minnesota by the Council of Libraries and Information Resources (CLIR) with funds from the Mellon Foundation. EthicShare grows out of a planning partnership with Indiana University-Bloomington; Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; the University of Virginia; and Georgetown University. This phase of EthicShare is bolstered by newly established relationships with the National Library of Medicine (NLM), OCLC, and others. EthicShare is part of a larger trend towards discipline-specific online communities that support the humanities, social sciences, and the sciences—all fields that play a role in practical ethics scholarship. Recent priorities of American Council of Learned Societies, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation, as well as the University of Minnesota, have included strategies to build community and support collaborative exchange among scholars distributed across the globe. As a partnership between the Center for Bioethics, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and the University Libraries, EthicShare is a unique interdisciplinary collaboration that brings together a diverse but deep commitment to innovation in the areas of information discovery, scholarly exchange, and dissemination. Wendy Pradt Lougee, University Librarian, and Computer Science and Engineering professor John Riedl, both co-principal investigators along with Professor Kahn, are leaders in the fields of digital library development, and social networking and collaborative filtering, respectively. Together with Professor Kahn, Lougee and Riedl hope to develop a virtual community for scholars that serves as a model for scholarly research for fields beyond practical ethics. January 25, 2008New web site feature: myLibrary
myLibrary is an interactive library page where you can help shape the information provided to you. myLibrary features librarian based suggestions for resources and libraries, easy access to the materials you may have checked out from the University Libraries, and spaces where you can save your favorite library resources like databases and e-journals. myLibrary can be accessed at the URL: https://www.lib.umn.edu/mylibrary/ or in the toolbar of the University Libraries main web site. Currently, the page features seven content areas:
In the coming months we hope to expand and enhance myLibrary to include more search options, allow you to rearrange the layout and add or subtract options, and even take your data and content to other services such as iGoogle. Also, the more people that use myLibrary the better our statistics and suggestions for resources become. Be assured that it is the policy of the University Libraries to respect and maintain the privacy of its users. The University Libraries follow the guidelines set forth in the University of Minnesota Online Privacy Statement . The services on myLibrary are also available on MyU. Do you have any questions, comments, or suggestions concerning myLibrary? Leave a comment below! November 16, 2007Emergency? Be informed.
TXT-U is the University of Minnesota’s emergency notification text messaging system. Students, faculty, and staff can stay informed about critical campus safety information by registering to receive TXT-U messages. Only University of Minnesota students, faculty, and staff can register for TXT-U. However, you can add more than one mobile device to your account, registering your parents, family, friends, or others. TXT-U will be used infrequently and specifically for real emergency situations. Be prepared. Register today for TXT-U. October 31, 2007New electronic resources in the arts and humanities
Check out these new electronic resources in the arts and humanities, all brought to you by the University of Minnesota Libraries: October 05, 2007Reading rooms now open later
The Archives and Special Collections (ASC) reading room in Elmer L. Andersen Library and the James Ford Bell Library reading room in Wilson Library are now open Thursday evenings until 8:00 p.m.. If you'd like to use these collections on Thursday evenings, please make arrangements with individual ASC units to have materials paged in advance, as retrieval of materials will be limited during evening hours. |
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