Saving and Emailing from JSTOR and Sage

The new version of JSTOR requires users to register a username and password in order to email results to themselves. Saving via downloading to a flash drive or a hard drive seems to the easiest way to work with content in JSTOR.

To email results in JSTOR, the user needs to login, checkoff results, click on the link for saved citations (upper right of page below your login identity), then select the citations again and click on “export.” Then, finally, one can email citations with links. Off-campus users will have to authenticate into JSTOR to access the articles.

Sage also requires a little learning curve. You don’t need to create a username/password to work with results. After checking off the results you want, the critical step is to click on the button “Add to My Marked Citations.” If you don’t click that button, your results are not saved even if you check off the box next to the article. The final step is to select either *View/Edit My Marked Citations or * Email/Download/Save/Print My Marked Citations. The rest is fairly straightforward. As with JSTOR, full text can’t be emailed—only citations with links.

5th Floor Reopens

The 5th Floor is now accessible. Please note that the 4th floor will be for group study and individual quiet study. The 5th floor will be for individual study only plus the study rooms.

Library Relaunches Website!

The Ursula C. Schwerin Library is pleased to announce the launch of its newly redesigned website – http://library.citytech.cuny.edu. The website incorporates user-centered design, faster load times, and improved accessibility. The site has several new features including:
– A redesigned homepage with “switch” tabs to facilitate easier searching for books, articles, databases, and the site itself.
– An updated navigation scheme allows users to easily traverse the website.  Users also have section markers to indicate where they are on the site. In addition, each page has uniform navigation so users can readily visit other sections of the site.
– Electronic forms have been updated so faculty members can reserve course materials, make interlibrary loan requests, schedule reservations for the Multimedia Resource Center project ion room, and to request help through our Email-A-Librarian form.
– A new “How Do I…?” section provides quick answers to popular questions.  This includes questions on where to find books on the shelf, the length of loan periods, online renewals,  CLICS (CUNY Libraries Inter-Campus Service),  library accounts, connecting to the library’s wireless network, and much more.
– The website has also been integrated with the library’s news blog, LibraryBuzz. New headlines are automatically generated on the homepage.

We encourage you to visit the website today! In striving to improve our website’s services, your feedback and suggestions are most welcome. You can submit your reactions through the comment page linked at the bottom of the homepage, or by contacting Prof. Junior Tidal at jtidal@citytech.cuny.edu .

For a printable PDF version of this post, click here.

New Interface for Project MUSE

Seems like every vendor is jumping on the “new interface” wagon. Project MUSE “offers full text access to current content from nearly 400 high quality journals in the humanities and social sciences. A highlight of MUSE’s new web site is wider range of functionality at the individual journal article level, including the ability to email a link, find more articles from the same author(s), and share the article via popular social bookmarking services. Color indicators allow users to easily determine to which content they have full text access, at both the journal and article level.”

Finding Books in Other Libraries/Google Books – A Workshop for Faculty

All City Tech faculty are invited to attend a library workshop on finding books in other libraries and Google Books. This workshop will cover the use of Google Book Search, other e-text collections, and the many other options available for getting books that are not available in this library, including Interlibrary Loan and CLICS (CUNY Libraries Inter-Campus Services). Explore the bibliographic universe beyond the shelves of the City Tech library!
This workshop will be held on Wednesday, September 17, from 10-10:45am in the library classroom, A540. Please RSVP to Anne Leonard at aleonard[at]citytech.cuny.edu
The complete schedule of faculty workshops for the Fall 2008 semester can be found here.

The Library's hours for the Fall semester

Effective on the first day of the new semester, the library’s regular semester hours have resumed:
Monday – Thursday 9 a.m. – 10 p.m.
Friday 9 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Saturday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Sunday closed
Complete details about the library’s hours, including closures for holidays, are available here. The library is closed this Saturday, August 30 and Monday, September 1 for Labor Day weekend.

A Video Version of the Periodic Table

[from the Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus, 8/22/08]
A Video Version of the Periodic Table
The University of Nottingham, in England, has put a high-tech twist on the periodic table, creating a clickable version that points to short YouTube clips about each element.
The Periodic Table of Videos, as their creation is called, features 118 videos, each about 2 minutes long. Scientists perform experiments with the elements or describe unusual properties of each one. In the clip about Beryllium, for instance, a researcher refuses to open a jar holding a sample of the element, explaining that exposure to it can cause a rare and deadly disease. (Another researcher interviewed in the video explains that the element is used in the processing of medical X-rays.)
The “most watched” elemental video, according to the site, is the one for Sodium. If you drop sodium into water, the reaction is explosive, as researchers demonstrate. —Jeffrey R. Young

PubMed Now Indexes Videos of Experiments and Protocols in Life Sciences

For faculty who teach in the life sciences and use visual online resources to enhance learning, this will be of interest:

(from the Chronicle of Higher Ed. Wired Campus) PubMed Central, the National Library of Medicine’s online database, is now indexing videos from The Journal of Visualized Experiments. According to the publication’s official blog, JoVE is “the first video-journal to ever be accepted for publication in PubMed.”

The online, open-access journal publishes videos of experiments and protocols in the biological and life sciences and offers its video-articles to science bloggers to illustrate their posts. <full article>

Use the CUNY portal for Blackboard and eSims Access

From July 15, 2008, all Blackboard users will no longer be able to access Blackboard through the backdoor, which uses Last Name, SSN, and Date of Birth. Users must logon directly to the CUNY portal to access Blackboard. Also, students will now need to access eSIMS directly through the CUNY portal, NOT through http://esims.cuny.edu.