Summer brings you new databases for general health, science, encyclopedia, and biography reference resources. As several grant-funded databases provided for Ohio residents reach their grant expiration dates, Libraries Connect Ohio (LCO) has licensed new & similar products for OhioLINK, OPLIN, INFOhio, and the State Library of Ohio:
- Science Online, the July 2008 KSL Research Spotlight, features broad science coverage with extensive essays, diagrams, images, biographies, and news.
- Consumer Health Complete features health & medical information via encyclopedias, fact sheets, evidence-based reports, images, videos, and more.
- World Book Web is a suite of resources (dictionary, atlas, children's sources, and Hispanic versions) for general study, articles, educator tools, student activities & learning, images, audio & video, and related web sites.
- Biography Reference Bank brings you half a million people from antiquity to today, with thousands of images. Search and display obituaries (and sources), photos, books by & about the person, and extensive biographical essays. Catch up on everyone from Galileo (1560) to Bill Gates (1950), and/or Charlemagne to Charles Darwin!
Looking for print copies of standardized tests so you can practice & raise your score? Use the Learning Express database—take over 160 interactive practice tests for free. Practice, improve your score, learn & boost your confidence for the real test!
Learning Express is a convenient way to practice. Sometimes the circulating print copies at Case and in OhioLINK are already checked out, and if you'd like to practice a test, you can now take it privately on your computer:
- Tests are free
- Login & 'register' with a username & password you can remember
- "Score my test" & "View Answer" for the correct answers, and a customized analysis of your strengths & weaknesses
- Retake tests as many times as you wish
- Tests range from 20-130 questions
- Tests are timed from 30-120 minutes to give you a true test-taking experience
- Print the results
- Your score is private, only you have access
Choose from 30 subject categories of tests like TOEFL, Graduate School Entrance, Civil Service, Nursing,and other occupation tests, Business Writing Skills, Resume & Interviewing Skill tests, and much more. Try one today, on the Learning Express Library, from the Research Database list.
Learning Express is an OhioLINK database and is authorized for Case faculty, students, and staff.
GreenFILE Environmental Issues Database, June Research Spotlight
Renewable energy, green buildings, sustainable agriculture, & more are in
GreenFILE, a new database to help raise your environmental consciousness and research.
GreenFILE helps you see how human interactions with the environment can relate to law, health, technology, energy, food sources, education, and more. The initial launch has over 600 titles of comprehensive coverage (Vol. 1—present) such as Bioscience (1964—), Journal of Ecology (1913—), Journal of Environmental Planning & Management (1948—), and others. The database has nearly 300,000 abstract/indexed articles, and has full text for nearly 5,000 records from open access titles.
This is an open web database from EBSCO publishing and requires no authentication.
Tip for Case researchers: since this is an open web product, it doesn't automatically link you to "Find It" icons, but with over 9,000 e-journal titles on the E-journal portal, you're likely to find Case and OhioLINK journal articles for many of the cited titles from GreenFILE, the June 2008 KSL Research Spotlight!
Find out what's happening & where to dine, before you travel this summer! Read about food, culture, sports, summer fairs and more, on the PressDisplay database.
With 550+ newspapers from 76 countries, and in 38 languages, your summer travel can be much easier if you read about the city before you go—by reading the local newspaper you'll be sure not to miss a city's highlights.
Use "Select A Title" in the upper right corner—select the country to display a city list. Papers are full-sized and can be displayed double-sided so you can turn the pages. Read the comics, do the crossword puzzles, check the local weather, and if the newspaper has a sound icon, the paper can be read to you.
Plan ahead for US cities like Baltimore & Boston, Chicago or Los Angeles. Read North American & South American papers, African, European, or just read the Wall Street Journal Europe...but read newspapers on PressDisplay database, today!
PressDisplay is licensed by KSL for Case individuals. To use it and other databases, login to your VPN software to authenticate with your network ID & password.
Need A Manual? Online Ebooks Linked from Software Center
Next time you get a new OS or application from the Software Center, you may see an icon for the manual, too! Thousands of ebooks are searchable in Safari Books Online, and now many are linked to the applications you're authorized to download.
Ebooks linked next to Case Software Center products is a great idea sent to us by a faculty member. We liked it so much, it became a KSL/Case IT collaboration to bring the information you need to where you need it most!
Example: Click to download Adobe Indesign for Macintosh & you'll see the Safari Books Online logo and a link to go to manuals for the application—you don't even have to search for them!
You'll find an Overview, Editorial Reviews & Book Descriptions, and options to "Start Reading Online." Safari Books Online is always available from the Research Tools-->Database list from the KSL homepage. Use it to search thousands of books, with a convenient search box & Browse Category section to narrow your search. Try RSS alerts and get the newest title when it loads!
An activated VPN authentication is required for wireless or remote access. You should be able to click through to the texts, but if the page asks for a login, click the "academic license" link on the right side of the page. Then just click through to see titles that match the downloaded product from the Software Center.
24,000 black & white and color images from the Motion Picture & Television Archives take you from 1910 to today. Follow images of a young Frank Sinatra with Bob Hope (early tv,1948) to a candid dinner shot of Old Blue Eyes with President Kennedy (1961). See the amazing aerial view of Astaire & Rogers on the soundstage of "Top Hat," with the crew surrounding the stars.
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text database offers a special search function so you can enjoy these images:
- choose "Images" from the top green menu bar
- type in your term(s)
- and follow the images!
You'll find film/tv sets with directors and actors at work, iconic images, industry insights into staff & equipment, costumes, cars, and more. Search any year, names (directors, photographers, actors, film/show names), award shows, countries, and more.
Images are copyrighted by the MPTV, and the Film Image Collection is owned by EBSCO publishing. Images are for internal and personal use only, no publication allowed—hence, no images are embedded in this blog, but from the fabulous Salome to a 1920s Swanson signing her contract, you'll enjoy this database and its image function!
Tips: Sign in on the database to create a personal folder, and "add" items to it so you can save the ones you'd like to see later. Ignore the "find it" icon, since there is no accompanying text.
Find Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text on the Database list from the KSL homepage and/or from the Case Catalog. Use the database by logging on to your VPN to activate it, or use your Library PIN to authenticate as an OhioLINK user.
Oxford Reference Online Premium now supports Boolean searching with 'and' 'or'" and 'not' and has a wealth of advanced search tips available in Using the Search Tools". Oxford Reference Online Premium also has many resources to help with your research, including a convenient list of collections, from American, British, German, & Italian literature, Edwardian fiction, Plays, Twentieth Century literature, and much more.
Oxford Refrence Online Premium databases are licensed for Case through our OhioLINK membership and require an active VPN connection, or OhioLINK remote authorization with your Case Account Number and your Library PIN.
Once again, Ohio is visionary in ensuring that its residents have access to information. Libraries Connect Ohio (LCO), a partnership of library organizations and libraries, provides seamless access to information resources for all Ohioans. Just as OhioLINK serves the academic community, the new Ohio Web Library has been designed to bring newspapers, trade publications, popular magazines, scholarly articles, maps, and much more to Ohio residents.
Ohio residents, K-12 teachers & students, state employees & legislators, and academic communities can log in with their institutional usernames/passwords to find a library near home or office, direct young students to Homework Help or online research assistance, or connect to online databases with Ohio Web Library.
For Ohioans, it's your tax dollars at work. Tell family, friends, neighbors, and explore it today. Find out more, from the Kelvin Smith Library December Research Spotlight!
Case researchers have a rich list of research resources that are licensed for use by the Case Libraries and our membership in OhioLINK, the state's academic consortium. Case is a founding member of OhioLINK. OhioLINK, OPLIN, INFOhio, and the State Library of Ohio are the major partners in this effort to connect Ohioans to information, from the first years of school through graduation, and beyond.
Find International Jobs & Internships with Going Global
Case's newest database is a collaboration between the Kelvin Smith Library and the Career Center. When the Career Center investigated the licensing for Going Global, talks with Kelvin Smith Library ensured that the entire campus would have full access to the content, rather than access only for the Career Center. Going Global is a resource that helps people find international and U.S. jobs, internship opportunities, employment trends, industry focuses, country-specific career information, and much more.
Going Global highlights:
• International sites (31 countries) or U.S. regions & metropolitan markets
• USA City Guides —comprehensive snapshots & insider tips from office life to nightlife (Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, New York City, San Francisco, North Carolina Regional Triangle)
• Embassies, interviewing, cultural tips for the region
• 250,000+ constantly updated job openings & internship listings
• Customized alerts for new listings
• Helpful "User Guide" for tips on searching, browsing, chat, printing, bookmarks, & personal accounts.
Find Going Global on the Research Database list, a convenient link from either either the KSL homepage, or the Case Catalog. This is a Case-only resource that requires your Case network ID and password.
The Web of Knowledge gets a new interface, the October Research Spotlight!
The ISI Web of Knowledge is a research portal that includes a citation database and other diversified scholarly information in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
Over the next few months, ISI will be transitioning to a new interface. Currently, Case Western Reserve University students, faculty, and staff have dual access to both the new and previous versions of ISI Web of Knowledge. As you become more familiar with the new features and functionality, please make the new ISI Web of Knowledge your primary portal. At any time, you may access the new interface from the [Access the new version] button on the top, green menu bar of the current version.
Treasures Online from the 1400s -1700, the September Research Spotlight!
Travel through time with Early English Books Online (EEBO), a compilation of virtually every work printed from 1473 to 1700 in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America (plus works in English printed elsewhere.)
Study a ballad, a broadside, a sermon or Shakespeare, an almanac or an auction catalog, royal proclamations, a pamphlet from 1600, or liturgies from the 1549 Book of Common Prayer. Experience the Restoration, the English Civil War, Galileo, or early women writers and much more as EEBO offers esearchers of all disciplines an unparalleled view into another world.
Enjoy Basic and Advanced searching, sorting, easy marking of page records, and highlighted stable URLS you can use in your documents or KSL Course Reserves. Get started with Recommended Titles that include PDF handouts showing interdisciplinary uses in Languages, Music, Religion, Science, Travel and Exploration, and English Literature, so you can find Chaucer...or dueling.
Enjoy the last days of summer with a movie or two, or three...or more. Since the Kelvin Smith Library and the Cleveland Institute of Art Gund Library collaborated a few years ago to purchase a local store that specialized in scholarly media, KSL has continued to add to the collection. Now you'll find entertainment items & great movies, along with the academic, documentary, and other research-oriented titles.
Faculty love to use the collection to teach, using them in class and also for Reserve, and everyone enjoys the great breadth of titles. Take a few minutes to browse your favorite artist or director, using our KSL Video/DVD QuickList to produce a list that helps you make your weekend & summer choices!
QuickList can be found the KSL homepage in the right-side "Highlights" box:
- Find the newest purchases. First select "Date Added" & choose 'last month,' or anything from 2-12 months
- Specify Video, or DVD, depending on your media equipment
- Select KSL or other campus libraries, for specific collections
- In a hurry? Select "Availability" to make sure the results only show what you can get today!
Your search results appear in a table and you can sort the columns to re-order the results. Sort Format to group together all the videos, sort the Title column so you can quickly find one you're looking for. Sort the Call Number column so you can produce a short list that you can then take to the KSL Main Service Desk so the staff can retrieve them for you! (Remember to sort for availability if you need it right away—avoid disappointment that someone else has beaten you to the copy of Lawrence of Arabia.)
All Case individuals can check out media from KSL's collection with their Case or CIA ID and a library account in good standing. Check out the QuickList, and a film, today!
Find those electronic books faster, now that OhioLINK has created the EBC, the Electronic Book Center. A new purchase of 5,000 e-books from Springer and Oxford University Press (plus the other existing 20,000 OhioLINK e-books) brings all OhioLINK e-books together in the beta release of the EBC.
- Search across all books, or only within the newest (2005-07) scientific, technical, and medical titles from Springer.
- Search specific terms, or find all occurrences of a term within a work.
- Search or browse 26 subject areas (Medicine & Public Health, to Mathematics, Physics, Philosophy, Computer Science, & more.)
- Find a good e-book...and then find more, with the link for "Find More Like This."
Featured books with cover art will display on the EBC home page each time you logon or refresh the browser window. Explore these newest additions, or use the page links to the other significant OhioLINK e-book collections—netLibrary, Safari Tech Books Online, E-Reference Books, Humanities EBook, Oxford Reference Online, and American & English Literature—now gathered all on one page.
The OhioLINK EBC authenticates Case individuals using an active VPN connection, or OhioLINK authentication via library PIN.
3 New OhioLINK Schools Add 360,000 Theological Items
The Theological Consortium of Greater Columbus (TCGC) joins OhioLINK and expands your research with significant theological collections of 360,000 items.
Case welcomes new members Methodist Theological School in Ohio, Pontifical College Josephinum, and Trinity Lutheran Seminary (all from OPAL (Ohio Private Academic Libraries 21-member shared-catalog consortium). They bring the general membership to 87 institutions, including Ohio's academia and the State Library of Ohio.
OhioLINK materials supplement local collections and this collection is particularly rich for multidisciplinary studies. Individuals of Case and OhioLINK institutions may now order items from the new partners on the OhioLINK Central Catalog, enjoying the option of delivery to any member library of choice—usually in about 3 days.
More details, including quotes from OSU's Joe Branin and others, are available from the OhioLINK press release.
New One-Stop Online Newspaper Source, Press Display!
Take the world in pictures...and text in dozens of languages, with KSL's newest resource that brings you PressDisplay, the world in newspapers, online!
Logon to the PressDisplay page and watch the center screen refresh every few seconds to show you front pages & matching headlines from around the world. Click on it, use the magnifying glass to enlarge it, or lasso it with your mouse and see it expand!
PressDisplay, the KSL August Research Spotlight, will change your view of the world. Get today's news, today (or any from the 60-day archive), from Algeria to Zimbabwe:
- Rolling news thread & front page images at the top of the homepage
- 37 languages—"Select Title" by country, language, title (mouse-over a language to see available papers)
- Customize a reading list or monitor a hot topic with "My Newspapers"
- Take the overview approach—top news in "Newsline" or "Top Newspapers" & "Top Reporters"
- Scan a city or the world by Front Page, News, Business, Sport, Entertainment, Editorial & More...
Enjoy the many special features of this collection even more, including printing power tips, translations on demand, system requirements, & more in the FAQ from the Using PressDisplay link at the bottom of the PressDisplay page.
