ATTENTION: LIBRARY CLOSING SATURDAY OCTOBER 31, 2009
October 22, 2009
Our very capable electrical technician
Due to required electrical maintenance work, the Robert R. Muntz Library will be CLOSED all day on Saturday, October 31, 2009.
Please note that all online library resources (databases, the website, our reference e-mail service, so on) will be unavailable from Friday evening October 30 until we reopen the library on Sunday November 1st.
The library will reopen for regular hours on Sunday November 1st.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
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eBook of the Month: The Naked Roommate
August 18, 2009
… And 107 Other Issues You Might Run Into in College.
By Harlan Cohen
Whether you’re returning for your senior year of college or just starting out at as a freshman, this ebook offers useful, straight-forward and often humorous expert and student advice on all facets of college life:
- Roommates
- Laundry
- Classes
- Dating/Relationships/Sex
- Dorm Life
- Alcohol & Parties
- Managing money & Credit cards
- And everything in between.
Freshmen will likely find the sections on dealing with roommates, finding friends, and getting involved to be most helpful during these first few weeks on campus. And of course, since the main point of college is getting that degree, you’ll want to study chapter 7, which offers tips for how to be successful in the classroom.
Though some of the information in the book might be old news for upperclassmen, it is nice to be reminded of how to make the best of your time in college. Check out Chapter 12 (Money, Laundry & Cheap Eats) for a quick lesson in how building good credit now makes it easier to have a successful future.
One of the best features about The Naked Roommate is that the advice is real (much of it coming from students like you) without being preachy. This is a fantastic source to get the new school year started off right.
The Naked Roommate is an ebook offered through NetLibrary, meaning you can read it for free online from anywhere. It is available only to students, faculty and staff of UT Tyler. Access this book:
- On campus: go to www.netlibrary.com, and search for The Naked Roommate.
- Off campus: go to http://library.uttyler.edu/databasesAll.html#N and click on NetLibrary in the center of the page. You will be required to sign in with your Patriots username and password. Then search for The Naked Roommate to view the book.
Effective this Summer I semester, the Library will be migrating the remote, OFF CAMPUS login to our databases to the Patriot Account Login. This is the same account that is utilized for the new Blackboard version 8, POPS, Patriot Air, Patriot Email (students), Patriot Webspace, the computers in the Campus Computing Center in BUS101, the Library, the Communications Lab, the Technology Lab, the Nursing Lab, and the Engineering Labs.
In addition to providing a uniform means of authentication across these numerous services, this change will allow the Library to more promptly provide access for our faculty, staff and students to our databases at the start of each semester.
We apologize in advance for any inconveniences this change may cause.
Every student, faculty member and staff member has been provided a Patriot Account. Your Patriot Account can be activated from either the Blackboard link (http://ccs.uttyler.edu/blackboard/) or the student email link (http://ccs.uttyler.edu/email/) found at the bottom of the UT Tyler homepage.
Additional assistance is available from the Campus Computing Center located in BUS101 or via email at itsupport@patriots.uttyler.edu.
Introducing…Health and Psychosocial Instruments
April 22, 2009
Need a survey or questionnaire for your research? Why reinvent the wheel? The Robert R. Muntz Library is pleased to announce a new subscription to Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI).
Health and Psychosocial Instruments provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science.
HaPI does not contain the actual instrument but gives you information on how to obtain the article. The information in HaPI is maintained by Behavioral Measurement Database Services (BMDS). BMDS provides copies of selected instruments cited in the HaPI database for a small fee. If you are having trouble finding an instrument, BMDS also provides free Assistance and Consulting. For more information about BMDS please see their brochure.
The University of Washington Health Science Libraries has created a really useful Searching HaPI guide which goes through some of the database’s advanced search techniques. Ovid has created a Field Guide which also provides details for taking advantage of HaPI’s advanced search capabilities.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments can be accessed through the alphabetical list on the Find an Article (Databases) page and through related Research/Subject Guides. Please note that our subscription to HaPI is limited to 5 concurrent users. For help using Health and Psychosocial Instruments, please take a look at one of the resources above, or contact a librarian.
New Beta Trial – American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection
February 24, 2009
The library has a new trial to the beta version of the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection published by Ebsco.
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection is a comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1693 and 1877. In total, more than 6,500 periodicals will be available. The collections include digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals never before available outside the walls of the American Antiquarian Society, the premier library documenting the life of America’s people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction.
This beta version only provides access a small subset of the total collection and includes periodicals published around the time of the American Revolution. Please give American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection a try and let us know what you think – leave a comment here or send us an email.
To find out what trials we have access to at any given time, click on the “Find an Articles (Databases)” link on the Library’s Homepage and then click on the “Trials” link located at the end of the alphabetical list.
New Database Trial – Compendex
February 19, 2009
Doing some engineering research? The library has a new trial to Compendex through Elsevier’s Engineering Village.
With over 10 million records from more than 5,600 scholarly journals, trade magazines and conference proceedings, Compendex is the most comprehensive interdisciplinary literature database available to engineers.
Give Compendex a try and let us know what you think – add a comment here or send us an email. Our trial to Compendex ends March 2nd.
To find out what trials we have access to at any given time, click on the “Find an Articles (Databases)” link on the Library’s Homepage and then click on the “Trials” link located at the end of the alphabetical list.
Introducing…Latin American Women Writers
February 19, 2009
The Robert R. Muntz Library is pleased to announce access to Latin American Women Writers:
Latin American Women Writers is an extensive searchable collection of prose, poetry, and drama composed by women writing in Mexico, Central America, and South America. Also included are essays by Latin American feminists and revolutionaries, who address both the universal concerns of women in every age and the distinctive issues of their struggles in the region. The database currently features 36 plays and over 52,000 pages of prose.
Latin American Women Writers can be accessed through the alphabetical list on the Find an Article (Databases) page and through related Research/Subject Guides. Give Latin American Women Writers a try and let us know what you think – leave a comment here or send us an email.
New Database Trial – Credo Reference
February 19, 2009
Doing some research and looking for a place to start? The library has a new trial to Credo Reference, a database of 410 reference works covering Art, Business, History, Literature, Music, Psychology, Science, and a dozen other subject areas. Just a sample of the titles included in Credo Reference:
- The Encyclopedia of American Folk Art
- Collins Dictionary of Business
- The Reader’s Companion to U.S. Women’s History
- Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary
- The Harvard Dictionary of Music
- Biographical Dictionary of Psychology
- McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
Give Credo Reference a try and let us know what you think – add a comment here or send us an email. Our trial to Credo Reference ends March 15th.
To find out what trials we have access to at any given time, click on the “Find an Articles (Databases)” link on the Library’s Homepage and then click on the “Trials” link located at the end of the alphabetical list.
Introducing…ASCE Online Research Library
February 6, 2009
The Robert R. Muntz Library is pleased to announce a new subscription to the ASCE Online Research Library.
The ASCE Research Library is a comprehensive online tool for locating articles of interest across all disciplines of civil engineering. The Research Library provides you with unprecedented access to more than 40,000 full-text papers from ASCE Journals and Proceedings published with approximately 4,000 new papers to be added each year.
ASCE Online Research Library can be accessed through the alphabetical list on the Find an Article (Databases) page and through the Civil Engineering Research/Subject Guide.
New Database Trial – Research Starters Business/Education
January 31, 2009
Doing some business or education research but aren’t sure where to start?
The library has a trial to a new Ebsco database called Research Starters. Available for business or education research, Research Starters takes a topic and provides:
an Overview to explain the topic, Further Insights/Applications to demonstrate how the points discussed in the overview can be applied, a Viewpoints/Issues Discourse section to help the reader develop a critical perspective on a topic, a glossary of Terms & Concepts, a Bibliography and a Suggested Reading list.
One of the best features of a Research Starters article is the bibliography and suggested reading section at the end. If an article listed in this section is available in an Ebsco database or is freely available online, Research Starters links to it so by starting with Research Starters, you can quickly gather a collection of resources on topic.
Though the Education and Business Research Starters databases can be searched individually, Research Starters is actually integrated into various Ebsco databases so that when you search Academic Search Complete, for example, you’ll not only get results from the Academic Search Complete database, you’ll also get a list of relevant topic results from the Research Starters database. To see how this works, see the screenshot below.
Research Starters Business/Education can be accessed through the Library’s Database Trials webpage or by searching one of Ebsco’s databases such as Academic Search Complete, Business Source Complete, or Education Research Complete. Give Research Starters a try and let us know what you think – add a comment here or send us an email. Our trial to Research Starters ends May 30th.
To find out what trials we have access to at any given time, click on the “Find an Articles (Databases)” link on the Library’s Homepage and then click on the “Trials” link located at the end of the alphabetical list.
