From now until March 31, take advantage of our free trial to SAGE’s Online Reference database (from on campus only).

Go to http://sage-ereference.com

Select All SAGE Reference Online Encyclopedias A-Z to browse encyclopedias

Select All SAGE Reference Online Handbooks A-Z to browse handbooksEncylopedia of African American Education
Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice
Encyclopedia of Educational Reform and Dissent
Handbook of Communication Science
The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Analysis
The SAGE Handbook of Disability Studies
The SAGE Handbook of E-learning Research

For a limited time only, we now have access to the APA e-book collection! Publication years range from 2002-2011! You can access this collection using the following link from on campus:

http://psycnet.apa.org

The trial ends on March 7, 2011.

Here are just a few of the 2011 titles that are available right now!
*Anxiety in childbearing women: Diagnosis and treatment
*Building a therapeutic alliance with the suicidal patient
*Caring for veterans with deployment-related stress disorders
*The conscious body: A pyschoanalytic exploration of the body in therapy
*Deployment psychology: Evidence-based strategies to promote mental health in the military
*How animals affect us: Examining the influences of human-animal interaction on child development and human health

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration has recently issued a publication that will be extremely useful to the public. The “Guide to State and Local Workforce Data” provides links to a wealth of state and local employment and economic data – virtually all free – from government and private sector sources. It combines several features that make it uniquely valuable:

 Comprehensive coverage of the most valuable workforce data source from government and private sector sources
 Direct links to the data, which connects users immediately to the information they need
 Essential background information for each entry, including links to frequently asked questions, contact information if the user needs more help, glossaries, and the actual survey questions
 Key definitions and tips for using workforce statistics

The Guide can be easily customized by the user, and is designed for the broadest possible audience, including Educators, trainers and career counselors, Community and faith-based organizations, Economic development and strategic planners; employers, labor unions, Researchers, students, and the general public and more.

The Guide is available online at http://wdr.doleta.gov/directives/corr_doc.cfm?DOCN=2965

Questions can be directed to Frank Gallo, Workforce Analyst at the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, Office of Workforce Investment, Division of Workforce System Support. You can email him at Gallo.Frank@DOL.gov or call (202) 693-3755.

Courtesy of the Alabama Virtual Library, the Facts On File database Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center is now available to all Alabama residents until June 30, 2011.

It provides profiles of nearly 3,400 jobs and 94 industries, offers guidance on building job-hunting and workplace skills, and allows searchers to explore more than 55,000 career and industry resources. The useful Career Interest Assessment feature helps users identify interest areas and related jobs.

You can access this database from the AVL home page at http://www.avl.lib.al.us/ with your login (available from any public library) or you can find it listed under the F section of our A-Z list of databases here:
http://libguides.uah.edu/databases

From now until March 15, 2011, we will have on-campus access to the Gale Virtual Reference Library eBook collection. You can access it at the below link:

Gale Virtual Reference Library

If you click on the blue cursive “e” link that says “Gale Virtual Reference Library” over on the left, you will go directly into the search platform.

If you click on any of the subject headings under the “Featured Titles” list, you will see more information on each individual title, and you can jump into the title directly from that point. The Psychology, Nursing, and Education titles can be found under the Social Sciences sub-heading on the left.

Just a few of the advantages of eBooks from the Gale Virtual Reference Library:

*Thousands of full-text eBooks from Gale and their publishing partners
*Authoritative references, updated and in electronic format
*24/7 access from any Internet-connected computer
*No more damaged pages or missing volumes
*ReadSpeaker technology (text-to-speech) allowing text to be read aloud to users and downloaded in MP3 format
*Cross-searchable with select periodical databases and Gale Resource Centers
*No special reader or hardware required
*Unlimited simultaneous use
*Ability to print, e-mail and download articles
*On-demand content translation into 11 languages

From now until Feb. 24, 2011, take advantage of our free access to over 20,000 eBooks from Springer!

The Springer eBook Collection offers the first online book collection especially made for the requirements of researchers and scientists. The collection includes online access to more than 3,000 newly released Science, Technical and Medicine (STM) books each year.

The Subject Collections include:
Architecture, Design and Arts (new Subject Collection for 2006)
Behavioral Sciences
Biomedical & Life Sciences
Business & Economics
Chemistry & Material Science
Computer Science
Earth & Environmental Science
Engineering
Humanities, Social Sciences & Law
Mathematics& Statistics
Medicine
Physics and Astronomy

The trial includes access to all English/International language content from 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 as well as book series dating back to 1997.

Search the Springer eBooks Collection only on SpringerLink!

On campus access only.

For a limited time only (now till Feb. 11) – check out a new database called Oxford Bibliographies Online!

Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) is an entirely new research tool for the social sciences and humanities. A scholar-curated library of discipline-based subject modules, OBO is designed to help busy researchers find reliable sources of information in half the time by directing them to exactly the right chapter, book, website, archive, or data set they need for their research. Each entry is a selective guided tour through the key literature on a topic, receives multiple peer-reviews as well as Editorial Board approval, and is designed to facilitate a research experience with no dead ends.

Faculty and professional researchers will turn to Oxford Bibliographies Online for a high-level overview of scholarship on topics outside their area of specialty. It is also a useful tool for preparing a syllabus. You can use OBO to find ideas for texts to incorporate into a new course you’ve been asked to teach. Subject areas include Atlantic History, Biblical Studies, Buddhism, Classics, Criminology, Islamic Studies, Medieval Studies, Philosophy, Renaissance and Reformation, and Social Work.

To give it a try, please go to: http://www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com. On-campus access only.

The new IEEE Xplore is up and running, delivering a smarter research experience.

New interface — intuitive, easy-to-navigate
New search engine — faster and more robust
New facets — post-search refinements and enhancements
New personalization features — preferences, saved searches, alerts…and more

What else is new? See for yourself at www.ieee.org/ieeexplore

For off campus access visit the library website.