News from the City Tech Library
The library’s collection of eBooks is accessible from any computer, just as our ejournals and all content from our databases are. There are 2 ways to access eBooks from off campus; both start with a validated and activated City Tech ID card.
Method 1:
Method 2:
Download these instructions as a .pdf or view them online. Happy e-reading!
The library’s newly acquired ebook collections include many books of poetry. In Ebrary, you’ll find Chinua Achebe’s Collected Poems and The Trouble with Poetry by Billy Collins. Caribbean Literature is a great source for poetry collections such as Over the Roofs of the World by Olive Senior. Try searching NetLibrary for a wide variety of renowned poets — Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Frost, Phyllis Wheatley, and Carl Sandburg, to name a few. Browse these collections or search for a favorite.
Of course, poetry that is free of copyright restrictions is easy to find online. One comprehensive source is Bartleby.com/verse/ – search by author or first line, or browse the many anthologies and other collections.
We now have almost 1400 Wiley Blackwell ejournals. Find them on our database pages under “Wiley Interscience” or via the “find journals” tab on our homepage by title.
Counseling and Therapy in Video from Alexander Street is now live. This growing collection will eventually have 400 hours and more than 330 videos. Off-campus access will be available early next week.
The Getty Institute has graciously made this database available free of charge. Links are on our electronic resources pages.
We now have JSTOR Arts and Sciences I-VIII as well as the Arts and Sciences Complement and Health and General Science.
Nursing students and faculty: our CINAHL subscription has been upgraded to CINAHL Plus with Full Text.
Get published! Check out Publishing Opportunities Database.
| Publishing Opportunities Database, published by Talsk Research Inc., provides the most extensive listing of opportunities for professors, post-doctorates and other students interested in presenting and publishing their research papers. Information from three distinct sources is combined and presented in a convenient, intuitive format: Continue reading “Publishing Opportunities database” |
ILLiad is the library’s new Interlibrary Loan system for faculty to request books not available here or in another CUNY library and journal articles not available from our subscription databases.
Workshop attendees will learn how to set up ILLiad accounts, how to place requests for articles & books, how to request articles directly from library databases, and how to retrieve requested items that are delivered electronically.
The workshop will be held on Wednesday, February 3 from 1-2 pm in A540, the library’s e-classroom. It will be repeated on Thursday, March 4 from 5-6 pm. RSVPs are encouraged to Prof. Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu.
Visit the library website for the Spring 2010 schedule of faculty workshops.
The OpenLab is an open-source, digital platform designed to support teaching and learning at City Tech (New York City College of Technology), and to promote student and faculty engagement in the intellectual and social life of the college community.
