Enjoy Encyclopedia Britannica online with great new features: Merriam-Webster's collegiate dictionary (tenth edition), Britannica Year in Review from 1993 forward, and a greatly enhanced Encyclopaedia that includes the latest articles not yet in the print Britannica version.
Interactive and graphical, this noted authoritative encyclopedia now adds:
Britannica Daily—Biography of the Day, This Day in History, Britannica Blog
Featured Spotlight—in-depth presentations, plus Spotlight Archive
News—New York Times on the Web, BBCNews
Workspace—create a customized search or project space for articles, images, links, and more
Research Tools are especially enriched: • Video Collection: short & full length videos on many disciplines, people, & events Ex: search Louis Armstrong or Normandy Invasion and select media to hear him play & to see soldiers advancing on France. • Interactive Timelines: 14 topic areas (from the first tools to the modern unmanned spy plane in Technology) • World Data Analyst: current, past, & ranked statistics (top countries on health services expenditures as % of GDP) • Country Comparisons: quick facts & articles about country demographics, culture, history, government & more
Search and Browse by term, the index, by subject and more, and enjoy the newest version of a favorite resource!
Get ahead at your job or your new year as a student, with Safari Books Online. Learn new Microsoft Office applications at your convenience...use the examples in a Photoshop or HTML, while you create your own works. No renewals, no returns—just efficiency & productivity at your fingertips!
• We also put books where you really need them: when you download applications from the Case Software Center, look for the Safari Books Online icon next to the application. Download the corresponding Safari book, and start work with your new applications right away!
From desktop applications to writing apps for iPhone, banking or business law, make the most of your time and use Safari Books Online for technology, creative production tools, and business & management titles.
Stay on top of breaking news, legislation, business, and more, on critical national and global environment & energy policy and news. Kelvin Smith Library now brings Case researchers Environment & Energy Publishing (E & E), with 5 comprehensive, electronic news alerts and publications you can use—daily.
Customize your news the way you like to read: from the E&E website, with an RSS feed, or an email alert from:
• ClimateWire - the politics & business of climate change with a sidebar digest (daily)
• E&E Daily - Congressional & agency news, markups & hearings (daily when Congress is in session)
• GreenWire - top stories & agency news, policy & markets, business, finance & technology, resources (weekdays)
• LandLetter - stories on climate, interior, oil & gas, national parks, timber, endangered species, & more (weekly)
• E&ENews PM - get the late-breaking developments & stay ahead of tomorrow's headlines.
Other features: each publication has tabs for the previous days of the week, plus an archive back to 2006. Transcripts & videos archived on E&ETV brings you encore interviews from reporters. Special Reports section tracks Key Reports like the Road to Copenhagen (global climate treaty), and the Special Reports focus on varied timely topics like Sustainable Energy, the Electric Switch, and more.
Keep abreast of critical energy & environment issues & developments—try E&E today, from the E-Journal Portal or the Research Database list. E&E Publishing is reserved for Case researchers and requires an activated VPN connection.
Now you can have shorter catalog urls that will always work! If you've ever tried to copy & paste a 3-line catalog url and worried that it might fail, you'll enjoy the newest feature on both the Case Catalog & OhioLINK Central Catalog. Instead of a 3 line address, the url is likely to be 3x shorter:
- Search a catalog record you want to save, send, or reuse later.
- Click on the title & scroll down to see all details (series, subject terms, call numbers, ISBN, etc.)
- *Find the "Persistent link to this title" url: Case Catalog—on the left side under the title/publication line; OhioLINK Catalog—at the bottom-left of the record's details.
So, instead of trying to share a catalog search record like this:
http://olc1.ohiolink.edu/search~S0?/dappreciative+inquiry/dappreciative+inquiry/1%2C1%2C5%2CB/frameset&FF=dappreciative+inquiry&5%2C%2C5
...just click "Peristent link" to share with friends & students a short, always dependable url in emails, handouts, library reserves, etc: http://olc1.ohiolink.edu/record=b26138623~S0
Powerful industry research & analysis from Gartner Research is available for a limited time to Case researchers. Gartner, a leader in world technology and advisory research, is the September KSL Research Spotlight.
Gartner's industry analysts bring research-based insight to the Case learning environment for an usually rich array of information, including insight for business technology solutions, industry-watch news & trend analysis, hype-cycles (cross-industry perspectives on when a trend is coined, applied, accepted, becomes the norm—or not), magic quadrants & marketscopes, current research methodology, and unpredented access to industry statistical data.
Study the Topics and Industries, read the current Features and Alerts on issues like cloud computing, social networking, IT budget optimization, hear podcasts and more. Gartner is a gold standard in the industry, and is a Case resource for a limited time. Explore it now from the KSL September Research Spotlight, and watch for upcoming news on featured webinar training and events!
Gartner is available until February 2009, and is a collaborative effort between Case IT's license for enterprise solutions, and KSL for all-campus access for the remainder of the license. Access is strictly controlled for current Case individuals only, and thus requires a network connection or activated VPN (wireless or remote) plus a network ID/password confirmation page.
Gartner is also easily accessible from the Business subject folder, on the Research Database list.
2-For-1:Use a Research Database to Find Travel News
Leverage a research database for your summer use & find the best dining spots, tour tips, sports events, and local news before you leave home! Use PressDisplay and find the current news for US and world cities, and get a head start on your business or summer trip.
PressDisplay has 650 newspapers from 76 countries (38 languages), all with current news you can use—you can even search recent news, for last week's articles about upcoming events.
Use the search box (top right) to quickly find a newspaper:
- "Select Title" and see a list by country, by language, or alphabetical order.
- 'Mouse over' Country, and a pop-out menu on the right lists the countries.
- 'Mouse over' US and a see the pop-out menu on the left that lists papers from Arkansas to Washington...
- Or, 'Mouse over' US and click on it. You'll see the front covers of many newspapers, with a list of all titles on the left that you can easily browse. Click on a title and you can turn the pages, and perhaps listen to an audio reading!
Find a good restaurant from New York to San Francisco by reading the news...find a sporting event from Boston Seattle, so you're sure not to miss the top picks! (Test your language skills, if you're planning a trip out of the country.)
For the international travelers, the full-color, full-page dining, shopping, transit and local news are invaluable, and you can easily get ready before you go. Add PressDisplay to your reading list, this summer!
This Case-only database requires you to activate your VPN icon for remote authentication to PressDisplay.
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 askalibrarian@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.
