UMD Library Newsletter Fall 2006
UMD Library Newsletter Fall 2006: The Library Connection: A Newsletter for Friends of the UMD Library.
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UMD Library Newsletter Fall 2006: The Library Connection: A Newsletter for Friends of the UMD Library.
I want to just mention a little-known service of the library website: the Citation Linker. This allows you to put in a citation to an article, and the system will attempt to link you directly to that article in one of our databases. Take it for a spin...
The library is providing access to a number of online encyclopedias, including the new, major work, the Gale/Macmillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy, which was released in 2006. In its print version this is a ten volume work. Our access to it is online, which many of you will find useful. This acquisition was strongly recommended by Jim Fetzer.
We also recently acquired a briefer work in electonic form, Routledge's Concise Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy, which was published in 2005.
In addition, for users on the campus network (on campus only, not VPN) there is Routledge's larger Encyclopedia of Philosophy, another major work.
Of course, the world also has access to the ever improving Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Philosopher's Index, the main indexing service for philosophical literature, is now coming to us on a different database platform than before, due to a decision by the library to switch vendors.
In my opinion, this is good news. I think that if you try searching Philosopher's Index on the new platform, which is by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, and explore some of its tools you will agree that you can do more faster and easier in the database than previously.
One feature that I highly recommend you try is the "Alert" service, which is available under the "Search Tools" tab. This service allows you to save searches into a profile you set up and then emails you new results to your search as new records are entered into the database. This is a handy way to be quickly informed of new publications in your areas of interest that you might not otherwise learn of so quickly.
To try out the new CSA interface to Philosopher's Index, go to:
http://www.d.umn.edu/lib/lurl/LibGo.php?TiPrimaryID=692