Facts On File Science Online, the July Research Spotlight
Diagrams, images, & more gets you started with scientific disciplines in a redesigned database that is the KSL July Research Spotlight. Use Facts on File Science Online to "Explore Subjects," 10 disciplines from Biology to Weather & Climate.
As you rollover each discipline term, a photo & brief caption-explanation helps you choose an area, helpful if you'd like to see what's in the Forensic Science section! Tip: choose a discipline to get subdivisions of Overviews, like the 7 topic areas in Weather & Climate.
Tabbed results make it easy to view your search results in Facts on File Science Online for Topics, People, Images, News Items, Videos, Table & Data (in Weather, take your pick this month between UV Index & Windchill Factor Conversion!) and more. Try out the homepage Special Features, too: Editor's Selection of the Month (heat and body temperature) and Focus On...
Find & Create BookLists with a New Tool--KSL May Research Spotlight
PatronBooksInPrint, complimentary tool from BooksInPrint database, lets you search genres, favorite fiction characters, award-winners, create lists & more. Create a profile for alerts & favorites, & read about a favorite year with top 10 lists.
- Get full-page value-added information on a title: Path to Power, Robert Caro's first volume about LBJ, includes cover art, synopsis, & reviews of the National Book Critics Circle Award winner of 1982...
- Browse fiction, non-fiction, sci-fi, mystery and click through to the Case Catalog (and then to OhioLINK, too) to find copies.
- Browse nearly 100 subject categories like Consumer Behavior, Negotiating, Workplace Culture & find details in a category (in Travel, read about countries & continents, Cruises, Essays & Travelogues, Maps & Atlases, Parks, Restaurants & more.)
Go Back In Time—What's Your Favorite Year? (1895-2006)
Use PatronBooksInPrint database to profile a year—lists of the 10 fiction & non-fiction books, plus commentary in The Year At a Glance... where you'll find Jonathan Livingston Seagull, a new Dow Jones high, ragtime revival, and Vietnam troops coming home (1973). Try your favorite year in PatronBooksInPrint, the May KSL Research Spotlight!
Available to you through BooksInPrint, from the database list.
(VPN activation & Case ID/password authentication required.)
Libraries Collaborate on Digital Archive Commemorating 40th Anniversary of MLK's Death
Digitized versions of original reel-to-reel interviews of people involved in the Civil Rights Movement are now available in the Who Speaks for the Negro? Archive. Transcripts, correspondence, & other materials related to Pulitzer prize-winning author Robert Penn Warren's interviews for his 1965 book reveal the famous as well as the daily wage earners across the U.S.
Vanderbilt University announced the archive on April 4, 2008, the 40th anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., and thanked the library community for its cooperation & collaboration in bringing these materials to researchers. Both the University of Kentucky and Yale University digitized original recordings, and Vanderbilt University Library hosts the materials and enjoys support from their Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities.
Search & use the Who Speaks for the Negro? Archive by Keyword, Interviewee, or Name/Subject:
- Browse a Subject List for interviews about Freedom Rides, Fisk University, Liberalism, School Integration, Sit-ins, & more.
- Find interviews about presidents (Thomas Jefferson, LBJ, JFK, & Abraham Lincoln)
- Listen to interviews with Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Search topics like African American Leadership, education, employment—find Cleveland Ohio in 12 of the interview files.
In the site's Remembrances by Rosanna Warren (now a professor at Boston University) one reads of her family life with guests like Stokely Carmichael and Malcom X and of her father's travels, "a deep inner exploration for a white Southerner...as well as an outer exploration in which so many people struggled and still struggle to bring justice into reality."
The Oxford African American Studies Center--April 08 Research Spotlight
Enjoy new online access to important works about the African-American experience (1500s- present), through The Oxford African American Studies Center (AASC), the April 2008 KSL Research Spotlight.
This new database offers a rich experience of history, biographies, encyclopedia to multi-volume sets like Africana, with:
- text
- images
- maps & vital statistics
- multimedia
- charts & tables
- timelines
- primary sources, and more.
Example: Timelines has sections for Women's History, Business & Labor, Sports, Military History, Literature, General, and more—select & search by years, decades, or centuries! Features (under Learning Center) has an array of research topics from Hip Hop to Kwanzaa, or Jazz Greats to Jim Crow Justice.
The KSL Research Spotlight is always easy to find from the KSL homepage:
Use the left sidebar for Research Tools; mouseover it to find online resources like the Research Spotlight (plus the database list, ejournal list, ebooks & more.)
Research Databases require a network computer connection (on campus) or
VPN that is logged on with your Case network ID & password if you are on wireless or off-campus.
Discover the visual arts through the diversity of women and their historic accomplishments. The 2008 honorees showcase women artists from the 1800s to contemporary artists like Judy Chicago. In the "Biography Center," read about former honorees such as Abigal Adams, First Lady and women's rights advocate in the late 1700s & early 1800s; Bella Abzug, Congresswoman; Maya Angelou, author and poet, and others.
Take the quiz "Test Your Knowledge of Women's History" (answers included) and see if you can name the first woman to run for president, the first licensed woman doctor in the U.S., and when girls were allowed to join Little League teams! Find it all, in the March KSL Research Spotlight.
African American History Month--KSL's February '08 Research Spotlight
Dr. Carter Woodson, Juneteenth, AAS@Case digital exhibits, first person narratives, images, phamphlets from the 1800s, ejournals, and many other selected items help you learn more about African American history.
Celebrating the 2008 theme "Carter G. Woodson and the Origins of Multiculturalism" , KSL has carefully selected resources for your learning and research. Read about the founder of Black History Month, and visit sites from the Smithsonian, The Library of Congress, and the Veterans History Project. Find academic contributions in first person narratives (University of Virginia, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), and browse the Subject Listing for various African American areas in Digital Case.
Take a Black History Quiz, listen to jazz, tour a museum—all on the KSL Research Spotlight for February 2008!
KSL January Research Spotlight--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Research Resources
Listen to the 'dream' in an audio file, find notable biographies & more about "teaching King," on the KSL January Research Spotlight.
The KSL Research Spotlight makes it easy to learn more, linking you to the King Institute's teaching resources, and to hear a compelling short speech where MLK defines greatness, as the King Center web page opens. KSL saves you time and leads you to great sites—learn more about this modern leader from the various speech text, audio, video, & music galleries from important sites. You'll also find resources & links to works in our own collections.
Enjoy a new Research Spotlight every month, now on the KSL Research Tools page!
From Shakespeare to history, to climate change and Early English Books of centuries ago, the KSL Research Spotlight has it all.
Each month, a resource is highlighted and brought to your attention...if you miss one, or know you read about China Online a few months ago but want to revisit it, just look in the Archives of the KSL Research Spotlight!
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.
Review all the great monthly KSL Research Spotlights ...don't miss "Shakespeare Searched," the "Fiction Connection," "AccuNet Multimedia" and many more from 2006. Spotlights are highlighted each month, but you can find them all on the Archived Issues link on each month's Research Spotlight!
Climate Change, the News, Tools, Challenges — January Research Spotlight
Climate change, policy, health & environmental effects, science, a personal emissions calculator, and you...see how the EPA's Climate Change Site offers information on these issues. The news releases, features, summations, and images help us to understand how society is affected, at the individual, community, business, government, and international levels.
Sidebars offer:
- quick definitions (global warming, or climate change?)
- categories to explore more about recent news such as the polar ice shelf melt
- Example: "Polar Region" link for Arctic Climate Impact Assessment report (sea level rise, polar bears, remote sensing evidence, NASA & NOAA data and indicators, analysis, and references)
- NOVA PBS features, peer-reviewed reports and images that inform, raise your awareness, and help support decision making.
The Personal Emissions Calculator, along with the category "What You Can Do" (home, office, school, etc.) is a quick way to see how your car, home, recycling, or remodeling efforts stack up to national data and carbon emissions. By saying yes to things like 2 degrees cooler/warmer, new windows, new appliances, see how you can have a startling positive effect on your planet!
Shakespeare Searched, with Visualization Techniques—December Research Spotlight
Whether it's a kingdom for your horse, or murder most foul, Shakespeare Searched lets you search & discover in new ways, with KSL's December Research Spotlight.
Which play and which king...how many plays mentioned murder, or witches? What were some of Mark Anthony's famous lines? Find these answers, and more, with this search engine that uses visualization techniques in the results.
Example:
- Search "murder" in all plays. Results display two ways: in text, & in clusters along the left side of the page.
- Tabs for Characters, Works, or Topics show how the search term is treated by the Bard.
- Try Topics. The clusters display 10 areas, including one for "foul." Choose it, to see Hamlet and the Ghost.
- Click the link for "surrounding text" to see who the Ghost was talking to, the full speech, and a citation link for Act I, Scene 5 of one of Shakespeare's most recognizable works.
World Data Analyst--In Depth Information at a Glance, the November Research Spotlight
Looking for detailed statistics on places like Iraq, France, or smaller ones like Trinidad? Use the World Data Analyst database for a great variety of data-topics you can select and compare: demographics, vital statistics, national econonmy, foreign trade, transportation & communications, and military--then choose from many elements in each topic area.
Compare data, too--choose several countries, select the statistical groups you want (cell phone use, number of dentists, life expectancy), and the software produces graphs for you. Use current or historical statistics, rank them, and get useful summaries that can launch your research, travel, or employment planning.
Choose this month's Research Spotlight and see data in new ways, with World Data Analyst!
Remote access to this OhioLINK database is by VPN, or via OhiolINK PIN authentication.
Classical & Jazz Music Libraries Online--October Research Spotlight!
Enjoy your music online, with Naxos Music Library and Naxos Music Library Jazz. Try some new search features like Moods or Scenarios, besides composer/arranger, instrument, country of origin, etc. With Scenario searching, you can find piano music for sunsets...or superheroes.
Check back frequently on the NML top of the page "New Releases," to see what's new from orchestras around the world, listing selections and artists. This month includes the President's U.S. Marine Band (Monumental Works for Winds), with notes on the selections from Verdi to Copland. Be sure to try the "User Instructions" for great tips on using Naxos. (Naxos Music Jazz Library featured on the 8/31 KSL News Blog Entry.)
Start Your Research in a Scholarly Way, on Academic Search Premier, the September Research Spotlight
This largest scholarly, multidiscipline full text database offers you a wealth of resources, document types, and search features, to get you started on the road to research at Case. With full text for over 4,700 publications, and with abstracts for over 8,000 journals in the database, your topic can be searched with ease on Academic Search Premier. Try out the September Research Spotlight, and see what discovery is like!
Also find Academic Search Premier on the Research Database List. Remote access requires an activated VPN connection and a current Case network ID and password.
