Scholars can now search & read thousands of varied texts (1473-1700) & images: proclamations & statutes for historians, sermons and versions of the King James Bible for religious scholars, literature for all subjects. Researchers get unparalleled glimpses into 16 & 17th century British life, from catalogs, pamphlets, almanacs, treatises, and more.
Searching EEBO just got easier—enroll in a free lunch/workshop at KSL:
April 10th, 11:15-11:45 a.m.
KSL Dampeer Room, 2nd floor
Hands-on Workshop 11:45-1:15 with database representative.
NOTE: RSVPs are essential. Case faculty, students, & staff can RSVP to KSL administration, or call 68-2992.
Print a workshop flier to remind yourself, your department, or your study group about this opportunity!
EEBO is a database licensed for Case faculty, students, and staff on campus network connections, or with a logged-on Case VPN access (wireless or remote connections.)
DRAM--Database of Recorded American Music, KSL's November's Research Spotlight!
CD quality audio, liner notes, essays streamed to your computer make it easy to research, teach, complete & enhance class assignments, and enjoy recorded American music!
DRAM, the Database of Recorded American Music, offers nearly 10,000 compositions for your listening pleasure, all searchable by composer, artist, ensemble, instrument, or record label. You can find Cole Porter (composer) to Cold Blue Mountain (record label), and musical instruments like bongos, rain sticks, or the tam-tam Chinese drums.
Each listening experience is enhanced by album art, song title lists, running times, and more: e.g., click on the composer Cole Porter, and then click on an album title to see the album, the song list, and data about the album. Liner notes give you a brief bio of the composer, industry quotes, and intriguing notes in "About the Songs."
DRAM is a Case-only resource, and works on all campus network computers. Remote access requires an active VPN session and your current Case username and password.
DRAM'sHelp link offers information technical requirements, and Intellectual Property statements on acceptable and prohibited uses for education and personal use (sections 5 & 6 are especially helpful.) Explore and enjoy the KSL November Research Spotlight!
Get Control of Your Data-Use RefWorks, the April Research Spotlight!
Do you have a lot of research & too many citations in too many places? Use RefWorks to control your data and your hard work. Find out more about how to import your references from a variety of places and how to auto-format your bibliographies & footnotes...in seconds. Read more about it on this month's Research Spotlight!
Find RefWorks on the Research Database pages (look for the "Manage Your Information" link.) Sign up for your personal account so you can do more—search, create folders, sort, save, share, delete duplicates, and more!
Peanut butter jars & mystery messages? Find out what's going on by entering KSL's Geocaching Contest! Clues were posted this week, and you have until November 15th to find them and get entered into a drawing for a free Garmin eTrex GPS unit!
Learn some new skills and try to locate 5 caches on campus. The Center for Statistics and Geospatial Data (CSGD) invites all Case faculty, staff, and students to join the contest, and has created the Geocaching Contest website for you. You'll find suggested books to learn more about geocaching, more details on how the contest works, and the list of coordinates and what to look for. Check out a GPS unit from the Freedman Center, stop by the CSGD and find out more about the contest! The winner will be announced at noon on November 15...start geocaching now!
ISI Web of Knowledge Enhancements for Citation Index...
ISI, one of Case's premier content providers, has made major changes to its search function, and offers new tools like Author Finder and RSS feeds for citation alerts when you search the ISI Web of Knowledge Citation Indexes. Enhancement tips appear in a news crawl when you log on. Click on the news crawl to go to an online active tutorial you can watch & listen to, and/or download as a PowerPoint session. Choose the first one, "New Features," to learn more about the significant changes to this powerful database, including simplified search functions.
Choose a any Citation Index (Arts & Sciences, Science & Technology, or Social Sciences), from our Research Databases list. Click on the news crawl to go to the recorded tutorials powered by Brainshark. Tutorial sections are 30- 60 seconds, and the entire session with all topics is about five minutes, as are other specialized tutorials. Screen shots are accompanied by voice-over explanations & highlighted areas to guide you. You can see how Author Finder helps you narrow your search for best results, how to set up citation or search alerts, and more. Other Recorded Training Sessions show you how to use other products, such as Journal Citation Reports.
An OhioLINK database offering, ISI Web of Knowledge offers you the Web of Science Citation Indexes, Journal Citation Reports, and more. Remote authentication requires either an active Case VPN connection or OhioLINK PIN authentication.
Try Out the New Image Search Prototype in the JSTOR Sandbox
Do databases give you the results you want when you search images? Search across both content and images in the JSTOR Sandbox and then comment on the development of this new search prototype. Your search results display in tabbed areas: Articles, Images from Articles, and meta-data from ARTstor. When you choose Images from Articles, you see the article (including reviews) citation information and thumbnails, with annotations on type, size, museums, gift funds, and private collection ownership.
Stable URL links make it convenient to use for teaching and research. From the JSTOR main search page, choose the link at the top of the page for the JSTOR Sandbox. Choose the JSTOR/ARTstor Search Prototype and enter a query for
"Jackson Pollock." From the results, select the tab for "Images from Articles." Sort for relevance, and read items like Diane Johnson's review of Jackson Pollock: An American Saga by Steven Naifeh, Gregory White. (Archives of American Art Journal, Vol. 29, No.3/4 (1989), pp.61-64)
The stable URL takes you directly to the complete book review and the 1940s photo of Pollock standing in front of his paintings plus a photo portrait of Pollock from the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Save up to 200 citations in a search session, and email, view, print, or export them. Try out the search prototype, and use the comment feature on the results page. JSTOR is licensed for Case individuals, and remote access requires an active VPN connection.
Now you can find more articles in LexisNexis, when you find a reference in a database search. Over 6,300 LexisNexis titles from major newspapers, law journals & reviews, trade publications, and scholarly journals have open URL linking through OLinks, taking you directly to available full text. When you search and find a link, if it's a new Lexis link, you can click on the url and it will automatically launch a Lexis search to the article you selected.
Whether you are in PAIS, Art Abstracts, or other databases, look closely at the top left of your search result screen after you find a reference. Click on "Find It!" through OLinks. Look at the top left of the result page for "View full text of this article at LexisNexis." Example: In the database Communication & Mass Media, search Direct marketing's role to find the link to Chris Colbert's article abstract. Scroll down to the "Find It!" link. Look for the top left of the page link to "View full text..." Read the article in LexisNexis!
When looking for journal titles online, or when you already have the complete citation, find results fast by using our new E-Journal portal, too. (Find it on the top-of-page convenient links on the Case Catalog.) A search for this example's original citation (Advertising Age, vol 64, issue 52, p20) revealed many options:
Advertising age (0001-8899)
from 01/06/1986 to present in LexisNexis Academic
from 1994 to 2006 in Business & Industry (OhioLINK)
from 06/10/1996 to present in MasterFILE Premier
from 06/10/1996 to present in Vocational & Career Collection
from 06/10/1996 to present in Academic Search Premier (OhioLINK)
from 06/10/1996 to present in Business Source Premier (OhioLINK)
from 06/10/1996 to present in Communication & Mass Media Complete (OhioLINK)
from 06/23/1997 to present in Expanded Academic ASAP
from 11/15/1999 to 09/04/2006 in ABI/INFORM Complete
Case's E-Journal Portal requires an activated VPN connection and a Case network ID/password.
Welcome to the Historical Statistics of United States (HSUS), Millennial Online edition, where you can access data on social, behavioral, humanistic, and natural sciences including history, economics, government, finance, sociology, demography, education, law, natural resources, climate, religion, international migration, and trade - quantitative facts of American History.
This is the standard source for the quantitative facts of American history and is now completely expanded and revised.
The Millennial Edition, a compendium of statistics from over 1000 sources, was last updated in 1975. It has now been expanded to include over 37,000 data series, which is three times more than the previous edition. This edition includes dozens of new topics including slavery, American Indians, and poverty. This monumental five-volume work is now available in both print and electronic formats.
Special Feature Include:
Capability to create custom tables - merge columns from multiple tables to create custom tables, which can also be downloaded, printed, or graphed.
Advanced searching of the tables, their documentation, and essays.
Full citation downloading in RIS, text, or CSV format.
Saving your search criteria
Searching within a chapter or part
Bookmarking tables or essays
Searchable term and contributor indexes
Viewing tables in PDF or HTML format
Tables online include full documentation, sources, and footnotes
Selecting certain years or series of years to view, download, print, or graph
Downloading unrounded table data, for more detailed statistical analyses Enhanced table display features: jump to a certain table column (series), skip over blank data cells, highlight table rows and columns for readability
Toggle table sorting by ascending or descending year
Creating and downloading colorful charts, graphs, and plots
Emailing a table or essay to a colleague 30 day Historical
Please note that only "Part A/ Population" is available to all trial users.
Please send comments to ulrefer@case.edu
Take an "Open Book" Quiz...Knovel Style! You Could Win a 30G Video iPod! Answer all 5 questions on the entry correctly and you could win a 30G Video iPod! (Hint: Use www.knovel.com!)
Only complete entries will be eligible to win. This contest is open to current students in all schools with trials and subscriptions to the Knovel Service. One entry per person. The contest starts today, 4/19/06. You have until (midnight) Wednesday, May 31 to submit your answers and contact information (full name, school, mailing address, email address, and time to complete) via the link at www.info.knovel.com/ipod.
All entries with a total of 5 correct answers will be placed into a random drawing for the 30G Video iPod, which will take place on June 1, 2006. The Prize will be awarded to one entrant in the US, one entrant in Asia, one entrant in Europe and one entrant in all other regions. All winners must present correct answers to all 5 quiz questions.
The winners will be contacted by Knovel Corporation.
Case does subscribe to Knovel, so use this as a chance to explore what you are missing.
Through May 20th we have free access to the following databases. Give them a try and send comments here.
BIZINFO ONLINE Directory to millions of U.S. companies - small and large. Create marketing lists, look up corporate information, credit ratings and more.
OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS RESOURCE CENTER Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles
BOOK REVIEW INDEX ONLINE PLUS (FULL TEXT) A comprehensive online guide to book reviews that includes more than five million review citations from thousands of publications, with linking to more than 630,000 full-text reviews.
BIOGRAPHY RESOURCE CENTER Provides a wide selection of state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others. Also included is a comprehensive attorney state directory and a dictionary of legal definitions explained in laymen's language.
LEGAL FORMS Provides a wide selection of state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others. Also included is a comprehensive attorney state directory and a dictionary of legal definitions explained in laymen's language.
MAKING OF MODERN ECONOMY DIGITAL ARCHIVE BACKFILE "The Making of the Modern Economy: Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850" provides digital facsimile images on every page of 61,000 works of literature on economic and business published from 1450 through 1850. Full-text searching on more than 12 million pages provides researchers unparalleled access to this vast collection of material on commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade and transport.
Information is only valuable if you can use it when you need it. RefWorks reference management becomes your own customized database that helps you import, organize, and share your research, while creating bibliographies:
- import references from databases, catalogs, and other bibliographic management tools, or, enter references you already have.
- Organize your research into project folders, and share with colleagues.
- Select English, French, Spanish, or non-Roman languages.
- Search (Quick or Advanced) from online sources or your own RefWorks database.
- Open Word and launch Write-N-Cite to create reference lists, with over 400 output styles available--create bibliographies in seconds!
- Remember where the citation was originally found--take advantage of Open URL and Z39.50 compatibility, and the 'data source' field.
Sign up for a RefWorks account first...then use your Case ID/Password login. The "RefWorks User Login for Case Western Reserve University" displays, then click on First Time User/Sign Up for Individual Account.
RefWorks requires no software downloads. Just use it from the web to organize your work. There's no huge manual to decipher--Online Tutorials and Help screens are available anywhere, anytime. Use Refworks on your PC, Unix, or Mac computer. Search EuclidPLUS, OhioLINK, OCLC, JSTOR, Ebsco, BioOne, ISI, PubMed and many other online databases and then import references and manage your research smarter and faster.
From the library homepage, use the "Research Tools" link from the main menu, and then select the Research Database list to locate RefWorks
