The library is currently hosting a trial to EBSCO eBooks, which provides you with access to 51,000 titles. This subscription package contains a large selection of multidisciplinary e-book titles representing a broad range of academic subject matter—from business and science, to engineering and humanities.
Books can be viewed online or downloaded to a device such as the iPad or the Nook. (Sorry, Kindle owners, these e-books are not compatible with your e-reader due to DRM restrictions.) For instructions on downloading e-books, visit ebscohost.com/ebooks/.
The trial ends on June 30, 2012! The database is available from both on- and off-campus, so try it out today!
Your feedback is greatly appreciated in assessing trial databases. Please contact Prof. Allie Verbovetskaya at averbovetskaya@citytech.cuny.edu with your comments, questions, or concerns about EBSCO eBooks.
Don’t forget! All databases currently under consideration by the City Tech library are listed on the library’s website.
New e-book collection: Project MUSE Global Cultural Studies
The library has recently acquired new e-book collection:
Project MUSE Global Cultural Studies
This collection of e-books contains 245 titles on American studies, ethnic studies (including Asian, Latin American, African-American, and indigenous studies), women’s and gender studies, disability studies, and other works that fall within the rubric of contemporary cultural studies.
The e-book collection includes such titles as:
Interested in what else is available? Check out Project MUSE Global Cultural Studies today!
Have a question about this (or any other) e-book collection? Leave a comment or ask a librarian!
Women’s History Month: Women’s Education – Women’s Empowerment
In the United States, the month of March marks Women’s History Month. (And today, March 8, is International Women’s Day!) This year’s theme is “Women’s Education — Women’s Empowerment” and the Library would like to highlight some of the material we own on the topic:
Books
(Want more books? Search in the catalog for women and education.)
E-Books
(Want more books? Search in the catalog for women and education.)
Databases
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
Learn about the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000. This database includes many primary resources, support materials, chronology, and teaching tools.
Websites
Women’s History Month (Library of Congress)
WIG: Women, Internationalisms, and Gender (Binghamton University)
Women’s History Sourcebook (Fordham University)
Women Working (Harvard University)
Aletta: Institute for Women’s History (includes extensive list of websites on women)
National Women’s History Project
Essential Texts in Feminist Theory & Feminist Thought (NYPL Blogs)
Women’s Leadership in American History (CUNY)
Have a question about something listed above? Want to share your own favorite resources for women’s studies? Leave a comment or ask a librarian!
On Trial: Palgrave Connect E-Book Collection
Palgrave Connect is Palgrave Macmillan’s complete e-book collection, containing over 9,500 titles in Business, Humanities, and Social Sciences.
Trial access only gives you limited previews of the e-books but a full subscription would give you total access to fully searchable PDF e-books with “Social DRM” (allows for full title download and printing) and linking capability, so instructors would be able to link to e-book content from their course sites.
The trial ends on April 21, 2012! The database is available from both on- and off-campus, so try it out today!
Your feedback is greatly appreciated in assessing trial databases. Please contact Prof. Allie Verbovetskaya at averbovetskaya@citytech.cuny.edu with your comments, questions, or concerns about Palgrave Connect.
Don’t forget! All databases currently under consideration by the City Tech library are listed on the library’s website.
Our MyiLibrary ebook collection is getting ever bigger
With the addition of 20 new ebooks recently, our grand total of ebooks in MyiLibrary is, drumroll please, 94 titles! Find these ebooks either via the online catalog or by going directly to MyiLibrary.
Here’s the list of what we added recently:
Ancient Bodies, Modern Lives : How Evolution Has Shaped Women’s Health
Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern
Biographies of Disease: AIDS
Bottom Line or Public Health, The: Tactics Corporations Use to Influence Health and Health Policy, and What We Can Do to Counter Them
Case of Terri Schiavo : Ethics, Politics, and Death in the 21st Century, The
City of Dust: Illness, Arrogance, and 9/11
Culture of AIDS in Africa, The: Hope and Healing Through Music and the Arts: Hope and Healing Through Music and the Arts
HIV / AIDS, Health and the Media in China
HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: Politics, Aid and Globalization
Innovations in Hospital Architecture
Integrative Women’s Health
Life After the Military: A Handbook for Transitioning Veterans
Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers: The Caribbean Diaspora 1910–1920, Volume XI
Online Resources for Caregivers of the Elderly:
Origins of AIDS, The
Outpatient Management of HIV Infection
Partner To The Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader
Practical Healthcare Epidemiology
Real Collaboration: What It Takes for Global Health to Succeed
Roadmap to 100, The
New ebooks on HIV/AIDS
Students and faculty in our Nursing, Health Administration and other allied health areas should note that we recently bought a cluster of MyiLibrary ebooks on HIV/AIDS. Find these ebooks either via the online catalog or by going directly to MyiLibrary.
The books are:
HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: Politics, Aid and Globalization
Biographies of Disease: AIDS
HIV / AIDS, Health and the Media in China
Outpatient Management of HIV Infection
Origins of AIDS, The
Culture of AIDS in Africa, The: Hope and Healing Through Music and the Arts
New Gale Virtual Reference e-encyclopedias
Our digital reference collection just keeps expanding! You can find these Gale digital encyclopedias either by title in the CUNY Catalog or within Gale Virtual Reference (use the advanced search and search by publication title:
Cuba
The Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer: A Guide to Cancer and Its Treatments, 3rd Edition
Encyclopedia of Geography
Encyclopedia of Research Design
Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Communication
Encyclopedia of Social Networks
Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World
New Nursing ebooks from Ovid
Our Ovid nursing ebooks collection now includes these two new titles:
- Assessment: An Incredibly Easy! Pocket Guide (2nd ed.)
- Atlas of Pathophysiology (3rd ed.)
Six New Oxford Encyclopedias
We have six new e-encyclopedias from Oxford University Press:
- Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
- Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the US
- Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
- Encyclopedia of Human Rights
- Encyclopedia of Social Work, 20th edition
- Oxford Encyclopedia of ancient Greece and Rome
You can find them via Oxford Digital Reference Shelf E-Encyclopedias and Dictionaries (look for the NEW designation) or by title in the online catalog.
Spotlight on Cambridge Histories
Our Cambridge Histories ebook collection is growing regularly and if you haven’t ever explored these reference books, you’re in for a surprise. These ebooks cover a wide variety of historical topics from Islam to 20th century music to history of the book. We’ve just added 41 new records to the online catalog, so don’t forget that all ebooks are also findable in the online catalog as well as via direct links in the ebooks section of our website.
