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Link to FullText/Find
Full Text
Link to Full Text and
Find Full Text are terms now popping up in most of the databases
and in Google Scholar and Scirus to help you find the full text
of an article. Go ahead and click on the link and read the
screen that pops up. It might tell you the article is not
available OR it might give you a link to the actual article.
In any case, it will help you find whether or not an article you
are looking at is available in full-text without having to go through
Ejournals.
Zotero
Have you heard about Zotero?
It is a bibliographic reference and notes software program that
runs in the Mozilla browser. It works similar to EndNote or
Reference Manager, by helping you organize your references as you
do your research. The software automatically recognizes references
on your screen and captures them through a simple keyboard click. A
online tutorial about the software can be found at http://www.zotero.org/videos/tour/zotero_tour.htm.
Scholar and Scirus
Scholar and Scirus are
two online search engines focusing mostly on the sciences.
It is a mystery what publishers Scholar indexes, but Scirus is associated
with Elsevier. Both do a good job of bringing up relevant
scholarly information on a variety of topics. Best of all
when you are off-campus, you do not have to log-in to conduct a
search. Even better, you can import the citations found in
both Scholar and Scirus into the Zotero software discussed above.
To learn more about Google Scholar, please watch the following video
found at http://liblearn.osu.edu/movies/google_scholar.htm.
It provides a great introduction to searching with Scholar.
Selected New Books
Title
|
Author
|
Call
Number |
Ubuntu
Hacks |
Oxer,
Jonathan et al |
QA76.76.O63O94
2006 |
Beginning
Rails: From Novice to Professional |
Carneiro,
Cloves |
QA76.73.R83H3
2007 |
Adobe
Flex 2: Beyond the Basics |
Gassner,
David |
QA76.625.A364
2006 (video) |
Component-based
software engineering |
Heineman,
George T. |
QA76.758.C39
2005 |
Colossus
: The secrets of Bletchley Park 's codebreaking computers
|
Copeland,
B. Jack et al (eds) |
D810.C88C66
2006 |
Who
controls the Internet? : Illusions of a borderless world |
Goldsmith,
Jack L. |
HM851.G65
2006 |
Linux
Programmer's Toolbox |
Fusco,
John |
QA76.76.O63F875
2007 |
Foundations
of GTK+ Development |
Krause,
Andrew |
QA76.73.C15K73
2007 |
Web Sites of InterestÂ
Innovations Report
http://www.innovations-report.com/
The Innovations Report is described on their site as “the
forum for science, industry and economy that promotes innovation
dynamics, networking of innovation and performance potentials.”
It is certainly a momentous project, and with over 6700 content
partners from across the globe, they certainly do an admirable job
of bringing together research results and interesting studies in
one site. Visitors can search the entire contents of the site, or
they can also peruse a list of thematic reports, including communication
media, earth sciences, information technology, and traffic logistics.
Within each report, visitors can view headlines for each topic,
and they can opt to click through to get to the entire news report,
working paper, or presentation. While the site doesn’t appear
to have RSS feeds, visitors can email items of interest along to
colleagues. Overall, it’s a great way to keep abreast of developments
in different fields, and it is worth noting that the site is also
available in German. [KMG]
Faculty Innovation
Center: Resources [pdf, Macromedia Flash Player]
http://www.fic.engr.utexas.edu/resources/index.cfm
The University of Texas’s College of Engineering is committed
to continual improvement of their undergraduate curriculum and they
have created the Faculty Innovation Center in part to work on this
process. Along with the work they do in the classrooms at the University
of Texas, they also provide a number of tremendously useful online
materials that are relevant to both those involved in engineering
education and those who teach all manner of college courses. These
resources are divided into several sections here, including “Teaching
and Learning”, “Teaching with Technology”, and
“Distance Learning”. All told, there are over eighty
resources here, including a worksheet on developing effective lectures,
a “best practices” overview for videoconferencing, and
a guide to using student feedback. [KMG]
From The Scout Report,
Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2006. http://scout.wisc.edu/
Comments
or suggestions for the newsletter are welcome and appreciated.
Please reply to:
JaNae Kinikin, Science Librarian
Stewart Library
(801) 626-6093
jkinikin@weber.edu