Going Far By Going Local
The University's Health Sciences Libraries are on a mission to transform the way Minnesotans manage their health, using a website called My Health Minnesota--Go Local.
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July 31, 2006
July 21, 2006
New Resource: Nature archive, 1960-96
This new archive provides back-files of Nature, one of the most read—and cited—scientific scholarly journals.
New Acquisition: Rare Medieval Manuscript
A Manuscript is its Own Laboratory
A recently-acquired 15th century legal manuscript provides a unique glimpse of medieval Jewish life in what is now the Czech Republic. University faculty and students will use this resource as a portal into Jewish life and civic rituals. The University has few manuscripts like this, so the joint purchase with the Newberry Library of Chicago makes available study and research that had been limited on campus. The purchase combined the resources of the University Libraries; Center for Medieval Studies; the Center for Jewish Studies; Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch; and Center for Early Modern History with those of the Newberry, an independent research library and educational institution concentrating in the humanities. Since the 1990s, the Newberry has been making joint acquisitions with academic libraries around the country, helping build their own collection and those of other institutions while pooling resources for distinctive acquisitions. The volume will divide its time between the Newberry and University Libraries’ Special Collections and Rare Books unit.
Featured Service: Ref Works
Going Where No Note Card Has Gone Before
“If I had to go back to writing papers without it, I don’t know what I would do,� says Karen Koch, University Libraries’ 10,000th RefWorks account holder. RefWorks is a web-based citation management tool provided by the University Libraries where students, faculty, and staff can create their own database of references and generate bibliographies in different formats. It is available free of charge to University students, faculty, and staff and can be accessed from any Internet-accessible location. Comparable software can cost $100 or more for a single copy to use on a single computer. RefWorks gives users the flexibility to sort, search, organize, and reorganize their references to their heart’s content, something that note cards are hard pressed to offer. The Libraries were the first RefWorks customer to hit 10,000 accounts, and the milestone was celebrated in March at informal receptions around the Libraries. Koch, a class of 2007 Ecology, Evolution, and Animal Behavior major, explains, “I now use (RefWorks) with all my papers and research…It is hands down the best tool I have found to help write my papers.�