November 2010
| A bulletin regarding library electronic resources,
collections, and services |
NEW ELECTRONIC DATABASES AVAILABLE
SimplyMap
http://simplymap.com/index.php
SimplyMap is a web-based mapping application that lets users quickly create professional-quality thematic maps and reports using demographic, business, and marketing data for the United States. First time users will create an account ("personal workspace") to login.
Simply map has made the “Choice Outstanding Academic Title” list and contains the following types of data:
- Population, Age, Race, Income, Ancestry, Marital Status, Housing, Employment, Transportation, Families, and more.
- Historical census data: including 1980, 1990 & 2000, plus current year census estimates and 5 year projections.
- Detailed Consumer Expenditure, Consumer Price Index, Quality of Life & Consumer Profiles, Business & Employee Counts by industry, and EASI© Market Segments & Life Stages.
- Mediamark Research’s (MRI©) Survey of the American Consumer™: EASI, using MRI survey data, produces local estimates of usage and consumption (propensity) for thousands of specific and detailed products and services.
- PRIZM™ from Nielson Claritas: defines every U.S. Household in terms of 66 demographic and behavior types or segments to help discern those likes, dislikes, lifestyles, and purchasing behaviors.
- Experian SimmonsLOCAL: a powerful targeting and profiling system that provides insights into consumer behavior for all of America's 210 media markets on a local level with 60,000+ data variables, including over 450 categories and 8,000 specific brands.
- U.S. Business and Points-of-Interest (POI) data (over 4.5 million points) including legal name, business name, NAICS codes, address, telephone number, web address, and general description.
- Answers to frequently asked questions about disease, health status, doctor visits and more
- Health Questions Age 18+ & under 18
- Death Causes
EASI Health Package incorporates the following data:
- All Types Heart Disease
- Coronary
- Hypertension
- Stroke
- Emphysema
- Asthma
- Hay Fever
- Sinusitis
- Chronic bronchitis
- Cancer
- Diabetes
- Ulcers
- Kidney disease
- Liver Disease
- Arthritis Diagnosis
- Chronic joint symptoms
- Migraines or severe headaches
- Pain
- Hearing trouble
- Vision Trouble
- Absence of all natural teeth
- Sadness
- Hopelessness
- Worthlessness
- Nervousness
- Restlessness
- Restlessness - Some of the time
- Difficult of cannot be done
- Health Status
- smokers
- Alcohol
- Vigorous leisure activity per week
- Body mass index
- Health Care
- Last doctor visit
- Last dental visit
- HIV
Emerald Business, Management and Economics eBook Series
Emerald Business, Management and Economics eBook Series Collection offers online access to a collection of more than 550 volumes from more than 70 book series titles. The series features relevant, international and trusted content in many fields including strategy, economics, accounting and finance and human resource management.
Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities
http://www.cabells.com/memberarea.aspx
Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities provides information on journals in business, education and psychology. It helps you select those journals that are most likely to publish your manuscript. To further assist in organizing and preparing the manuscripts, each Directory includes information on the style and format of most journals. If a journal has its own set of manuscript guidelines, a copy of these guidelines is published in the Directory. Also, each entry indicates the use of a standard set of publication guidelines by a journal. Furthermore, each Directory describes the type of review process used by the editor(s) of a journal, number of reviewers, acceptance rate, time required for review, availability of reviewers' comments, fees charged to review or publish the manuscript, copies required and manuscript topics.
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Mental Measurements Yearbook and Tests in Print merge
Earlier this fall, the EBSCO databases of Mental Measurements Yearbook and Tests in Print were combined into a single database.
Mental Measurements Yearbook and Tests in Print
http://search.epnet.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=mmt
Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. First published by Oscar K. Buros, the MMY series allows users to make knowledgeable judgments and informed selection decisions about the increasingly complex world of testing. MMY provides coverage from Volume 9 to the present. Also produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).
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RefWorks adds RefShare, a new “sharing” module
RefWorks is a Web based personal bibliographic management service that enables users to electronically collect, manage, and organize bibliographic information and full-text articles. RefWorks also facilitates the research report and manuscript composition process by automatically creating in-text citations, footnotes and bibliographies in nearly 2000 different output styles. In short, RefWorks can save countless hours of time spent on resources management and manuscript or report production.
Provided by the University of Cincinnati Libraries, RefWorks has been available for all UC students, faculty and staff since 2004. RefWorks has become a very popular research tool for UC scholars of all levels and disciplines. More than 4,000 RefWorks accounts have been created at UC, and approximately 80 new accounts are created every month.
Beginning this fall, University of Cincinnati RefWorks users have access to RefShare, a collaborative research module that provides RefWorks users with the ability to share their RefWorks personal database (or any part of it) with anyone in the world who has Internet access. RefShare links may be distributed in a variety of ways, e.g. in an email message, via Blackboard or on a Web page, to reach either a selective or a general audience. The recipient(s) of a RefShare link can, depending on the permissions granted, view, print or export references from the RefWorks user’s personal database. Additionally, because the RefShare link points to a folder in a dynamic RefWorks database, the references can change, i.e., be added, deleted or revised, as the database evolves.
Set up a RefWorks account to explore the possibilities for increasing your productivity and reducing some of the stress in your academic life. For more information about RefWorks, see the contact information or web sites listed below.
RefWorks Web Sites
UC -- East campus RefWorks site: http://libraries.uc.edu/hsl/reference/elec/refworks.cfm
UC -- West campus RefWorks site: http://libraries.uc.edu/services/tech_services/refworks.html
RefWorks site: http://www.refworks.com/
Instruction/Tutorials
Classroom Instruction: http://webcentral.uc.edu/hslclass/
General RefWorks tutorials: http://www.refworks.com/tutorial/
RefShare tutorial: http://www.refworks.com/tutorial/RefShare%20User%20tutorial.htm
Contacts
East campus: Edith Starbuck (edith.starbuck@uc.edu)
West campus: Randall Roberts (randall.roberts@uc.edu)
[1] RefWorks is one of two personal bibliographic management tools supported by the University of Cincinnati Libraries, the other supported product is EndNote.
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