December 2011
| A bulletin regarding library electronic resources,
collections, and services |
FREE TRIAL
PsycTESTS – free 30 day trial
http://guides.libraries.uc.edu/content.php?pid=226302&sid=2262869
The University of Cincinnati Libraries have made arrangements for a 30-day trial of the new PsycTESTS database produced by the American Psychological Association. PsycTESTS is the first database to provide extensive, direct full-text access to unpublished tests and measures. The instruments in this database are of interest to researchers from a wide range of disciplines and includes measures of achievement, aptitude, beliefs, cognitive functioning, competency, coping, development, ethnicity & race, health, intelligence, occupational variables, personality, substance abuse, and more. Presently, the database includes more than 2,500 instruments, and approximately 75% are full text. The database is updated monthly, and is expected to total about 5,000 tests by early 2012. Without PsycTESTS, researchers must contact test authors directly or search through electronic articles to find actual tests and measures. PsycTESTS facilitates the process, putting the tests and measures on the researcher’s desktop.
PsycTESTS is available online at http://guides.libraries.uc.edu/content.php?pid=226302&sid=2262869. This link also provides additional information about PsycTESTS and includes a brief survey about the product.
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NEW FROM OhioLINK
OhioLINK Music Center (OMC)
http://music.ohiolink.edu/
OMC features more than 78,000 tracks and 21,000 works from the Naxos Music Library. Users can search for and listen to tracks in six genres -- Chinese music, classical music, opera, jazz, spoken word, and world music -- with works from many well-known composers including Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Chopin, Strauss, Copeland, and Ellington. Access to the music files is restricted to the students, faculty, and staff of OhioLINK member institutions, and off-campus access is available. Flash Player is required. Catalog records for the albums should be available in the OhioLINK central catalog in the near future.
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ONLINE RESOURCES AVAILABLE ON THE GO
EBSCO Mobile App
EBSCOhost has introduced a mobile app specifically designed to take advantage of EBSCO’s powerful search functionality on the most popular smart phones, including iPhones® and Droids™. Available in the Android Marketplace and iTunes, users can download the app and access UC’s subscribed EBSCO databases from their mobile device. Once downloaded and installed, the app must be authenticated with a key from the EBSCOhost database full site. Users submit either a UC or personal e-mail address to request a key via any EBSCOhost database full site. Users should then receive a reply e-mail from EBSCO containing the authentication key and instructions. The unused key is valid for 24 hours. Once activated, the key is saved in the app and remains active for nine months. More information is available online from EBSCO at http://www.ebscohost.com/promoMaterials/EBSCOhost_Mobile_Flyer.pdf and http://support.epnet.com/knowledge_base/detail.php?id=5718.
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CHECK OUT THESE FAVORITE ONLINE RESOURCES
netTrekker
http://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=http://school.nettrekker.com
netTrekker is a leader in the delivery of digital K-12 educational content and is dedicated to enhancing the education of today's youth with highly effective technologies that deliver rich educational content to children in a safe, relevant, easy-to-use format. With the mission to help every child learn and a belief that technology can transform education, netTrekker was first to the market with a standards-based educational search tool. The latest version of netTrekker now supports differentiated instruction with standards-based online resources organized by readability level to help every child achieve. netTrekker Search has partnered with BrainPOP to provide BrainPOP movies, quizzes, and games to netTrekker Search users. These include resources from BrainPOP, BrainPOP Jr., BrainPOP Espanol, and BrainPOP ESL.
TeachingBooks.net
http://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=http://www.teachingbooks.net/
TeachingBooks.net is an easy-to-use website that adds a multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children's and young adult books. This online database was developed and maintained to include thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the K–12 environment, with every resource selected to encourage the integration of multimedia author and book materials into reading and library activities. TeachingBooks makes available original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators, audio excerpts of professional book readings, guides to thousands of titles, and a wealth of multimedia resources on children's and young adult literature.
Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts
http://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/search~db=all?searchmode=advanced&searchai=714859056&showmpp=false
Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts (SWA) is an international abstracting service designed to meet the information needs of all those working, teaching, studying, or researching any of the main areas of women's studies. Each issue of Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts (SWA) gives the reader up-to-date news of developments within the field. All the major international journals and books are scanned and other original sources and cataloging services regularly searched for appropriate items. Abstracts are prepared by an international team of experts, are non-evaluative in form, and are accompanied by detailed bibliographical citations. The database comprises abstracts dating back to 1995. Abstracts are linked, where possible, to full-text services.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
http://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=http://wass.alexanderstreet.com
Women and Social Movements in the United States is a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, this collection seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding about U.S. history generally at the same time that it makes the insights of women's history accessible to teachers and students at universities, colleges, and high schools. The collection currently includes 98 document projects and archives with more than 3,850 documents and 150,000 pages of additional full-text documents, and more than 2,100 primary authors. It also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools. Many of the documents are now cataloged and linked in our online catalog and may be searched under the series title.
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Library electronic resources are accessible to University of Cincinnati students, faculty, and staff from any UC on-campus connection or through UC remote access. More information on UC remote access is available online at www.libraries.uc.edu/information/access.html. If you have any problems logging in, e-mail libhelp@uc.edu or call Library Help at 556-1994.
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