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Students, Staff, and Faculty:
Getting a book from our Libraries is as simple as clicking Get It!

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

All U of M students, faculty, and staff now have access to these electronic resources at the University Libraries!

Oxford Language Dictionaries

• http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=14717

PsychiatryOnline (core textbooks and journals)

• http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/psychiatryonline

Resources for College Libraries

• http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=14730

Weather Almanac (Gale)

• http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=5136

Wiley e-journal backfiles

• Biotechnology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics
  
• Polymer
  
• http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wil.cgi

Wiley reference sources

• Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology
  
• http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=14720
  
• Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry
  
• http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=14722

Sage complete journal package

• http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/sagecomplete

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

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.

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:

• Search and Find -- a search box that provides access to three of our most popular tools: MNCAT, E-Journals, and OneSearch.
• Search Key Resources -- Librarian recommendations for your subject or discipline.
• Subject Libraries -- Visit a library covering your subject area.
• My Saved E-Journals -- Save your favorite e-journals for easy access.
• My Saved Databases -- Got any favorite databases or indexes? Save them here.
• Checked Out Items -- Easily find the due dates for items you have checked out from the library.
• Use Statistics -- How myLibrary is being used and what is being saved.

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!

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.

Check out these new electronic resources in the arts and humanities, all brought to you by the University of Minnesota Libraries:

• Film and Television Literature Index
  
• International Encyclopedia of Dance
  
• Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive

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.