Faculty, come to a workshop in the City Tech Library and learn how to streamline your research with RefWorks, a bibliographic citation management tool available to all City Tech faculty. Import references from online databases, organize your references into folders by topic or project, and generate a bibliography formatted in a variety of citation styles.
Date: Wednesday, April 6th
Time: 1 – 2 pm
Workshops are open to all City Tech faculty and staff. All workshops are held in our small classroom (Rm A441) on the 4th Fl. of the City Tech Library, Atrium, unless otherwise noted. RSVP is strongly suggested to Prof. Maura Smale, msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 718-260-5748.
For more information, view our full list of faculty workshops.
OED New and Improved
Yes! We subscribe to the Oxford English Dictionary Online (OED), so don’t forget to access it via the library website.
The Oxford English Dictionary substantially revamped its online edition yesterday, rolling out new features such as integrating the Historical Thesaurus to the OED, as well as a complete list of sources, which has led British newspapers to brag about their contributions to the mother tongue. (quoted from Bookforum)
Enhancements to MathSciNet
The American Mathematical Society is pleased to announce the latest
version of MathSciNet. The new release includes the following enhancements
and features:
– Improved display of mathematics using MathJax, an open source JavaScript display engine for mathematics that works in all modern browsers (http://www.mathjax.org)
– Direct links to books, book chapters, and series using DOIs registered
by publishers
– Bibliographic entries and direct links for Ph.D. theses in mathematics,
applied mathematics, and statistics from the ProQuest Dissertations &
Theses database
For more information please see: http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/help/about.html
New Content in Caribbean Literature
Caribbean Literature – Close to 5,000 pages of new content has been added from authors hailing from Barbados, Martinique, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad, and Cuba.
See this page for a list of the new content.
Faculty workshop: Using ILLiad for Interlibrary Loan
All City Tech faculty are welcome at tomorrow’s workshop, Using ILLiad for Interlibrary Loan. The workshop will be held at 1 pm in the library’s small e-classroom on the 4th floor.
Participants will learn how to register for ILLiad accounts, how to place requests for books and articles and how to and retrieve articles sent electronically, and how to use Find It! to request articles not available from the library’s subscriptions. Questions are encouraged!
Our most popular ebrary titles
We’ve had Ebrary, a very large ebook collection, since last February. Here are City Tech’s top ten most popular titles. Thanks to Hunter Libraries for inspiring this post.
- Socialist Joy in the Writing of Langston Hughes
- Race and Religion Among the Chosen Peoples of Crown Heights
- Gloria Naylor : A Critical Companion
- Theban Plays of Sophocles
- Conspiracy Theories
- Debatabase Book : A Must Have Guide for Successful Debate (3
- Dangerous Frames : How Ideas about Race and Gender Shape Pub
- Historical Guide to Langston Hughes
- Careers in High Tech
- Iliad : Structure, Myth, and Meaning
Free Digital Archive of Mathematical Research Journals
The American Mathematical Society (AMS) has established a complete digital archive of its mathematical research journals. Over 34,000 articles are available from over 100 years of high-quality mathematical research in Journal of the AMS, Mathematics of Computation, Proceedings of the AMS, Transactions of the AMS, and Bulletin of the AMS. All back issues, starting with each journal’s inaugural issue through 2005, are now freely available in electronic format through the generosity of an anonymous donor.
Researchers can browse the contents of each journal to find articles and authors in each volume and issue, and can search across the entire archive by journal or group of journals at: http://www.ams.org/joursearch
View the abstract, references (with links to MathSciNet), bibliographic information, Mathematics Subject Classifications for each article, or view a PDF of the full article.
Each journal is unique in its offering of articles, book reviews, and reports. AMS journals have consistently been managed by editors highly prominent in their fields. [from the WALDO blog]
Researchers can browse the contents of each journal to find articles and authors in each volume and issue, and can search across the entire archive by journal or group of journals at: http://www.ams.org/joursearch
View the abstract, references (with links to MathSciNet), bibliographic information, Mathematics Subject Classifications for each article, or view a PDF of the full article.
Each journal is unique in its offering of articles, book reviews, and reports. AMS journals have consistently been managed by editors highly prominent in their fields. [from the WALDO blog]
Summertime database news
Lots of news: expect to hear more once classes start!
New electronic resources:
- ScienceDirect Freedom Collection (2000+ ejournals)
- Oxford English Dictionary Online
- JSTOR Plant Science on extended trial/free access through 2011
New interfaces and/or enhanced features and functionality for:
- EbscoHost
- LexisNexis
- NEJM
- Ovid (LWW Nursing and Health Professions Premier Collection)
- Springerlink
- Wiley Online (formerly Wiley Interscience)
Our mobile electronic resources page is coming soon. Find mobile interfaces (most are iPhone-iPod-iPad ) for:
- ACS
- Arxiv
- Ebsco
- Gale
- Nature
- PubMed
- RefWorks
- WorldCat
New: ScienceDirect and OED
We now have access to Elsevier’s ScienceDirect Freedom Collection of ejournals as well as the online version of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Off-campus access to ScienceDirect will be coming soon.
Interlibrary loan for students coming July 1
As of July 1, the City Tech Library provides Interlibrary Loan (ILL) services for students who need articles that cannot be obtained from the library’s print and electronic collections. Most articles are delivered to ILL users’ accounts as PDFs that can be downloaded and printed. Students may sign up for an ILL account here and begin placing requests immediately. Student users may have up to 5 active requests at one time.
Students are encouraged to use CLICS to request books that are available in other CUNY libraries but not at City Tech. Reference librarians are happy to help students locate books elsewhere in the biblio-universe.
