EBSCOhost Mobile is Here!


EBSCO has just created a customized application for mobile device users to select when accessing EBSCOhost . The new interface includes many features for an enhanced mobile experience, is optimized for internet-enabled handheld devices, and qualified for all the major smartphones (such as iPhone, Blackberry and Treo).  EBSCO designed it with a lower resolution, simplified by removing folders and other advanced features, and changed the more performance intensive technologies, e.g., Ajax and Jav ascript, into lightweight HTML.

EBSCOhost Mobile

Try it now:

http://tinyurl.com/ykyh6a5EBSCOhostMobile

EBSCO’s Free Influenza Portal

EBSCO Publishing, a vendor to several of our library databases,  has a new portal for free information on the flu. From the website:

Due to Pandemic H1N1 Influenza and concerns about the 2009/2010 flu season, the EBSCO Publishing Medical and Nursing editors of DynaMed™, Nursing Reference Center™ (NRC) and Patient Education Reference Center™ (PERC) have made key influenza information from these resources freely available to health care providers worldwide.

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New Library Subject Guides

If you are in the habit of using University Library subject pages to locate databases, reference books, and web sites for your discipline or topic, you’ll notice that there has been a change in layout and appearance.

We have acquired a product called LibGuides that is specifically designed to manage and display library content. The LibGuides product is used by hundreds of colleges and universities to create and share library subject pages, special topic pages, and instruction materials.

Over the next few weeks, we’ll continue to update and refine our new pages. If you have suggestions or comments, you will find feedback forms on most pages and ratings for selected resources. We also invite you to respond to this post with your thoughts; we’d love to hear from you.

Live chat help/Off Line 7-25-08

We’re starting an experimental new service that will let anybody chat live with a librarian online. The e-mail service isn’t going away, and chat will provide a quicker response when someone is there to reply. We’re starting out with limited hours – roughly 2pm-5pm (central time) most weekdays for now. We may expand to more hours later, or make other changes to the service.

Any thoughts or comments would be appreciated!

Live Chat is not operational at this time.

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New Database: PILOTS

The PILOTS database (Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress) from CSA Illumina, is now available to UAH Library users. Click here to access this database. PILOTS is a bibliographic database produced at the headquarters of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in White River Junction, Vermont and is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Its goal is to include citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations, while offering both current and retrospective coverage. Document types covered include journals, books, book chapters, pamphlets, technical reports, and materials in all languages.

New Database: Accounting Research Manager

The Library now offers access to Accounting Research Manager. This is a comprehensive database of expert-written analytical accounting, auditing, governmental and SEC information as well as primary source data. Updated daily, it provides current, complete, and objective resources for your financial reporting needs. Access is available on-campus only, with a limit of one user at a time. Click here to access Accounting Research Manager.

Trial Databases: COS Scholar Universe & CSA Illustrata

The UAH Library is pleased to offer trial access to two new databases through March 9, 2007. COS Scholar Universe, a new database offered by CSA, allows you to easily search for like-minded researchers, collaborators, and peer reviewers. This database offers both biographical and bibliographical data on academic researchers around the world. CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences provides web-based access to indexed tables, figures, maps, graphs, charts, and other images contained in scholarly articles. Users can display the full image, including captions and label text – all of which can be easily saved or imported and used for presentations, lectures, or research. To access these trials, click here, select one of these databases, and click “Continue to Search”.

Gravity Probe-A Collection

The Gravity Probe-A Collection of the UAH Archives has now been indexed and made searchable! Gravity Probe-A, a joint program of the NASA-Marshall Space Flight Center and the Astrophysical Observatory of the Smithsonian Institution, was launched by NASA in June, 1976. It was the first test in space to explore the structure of space and time, and was designed to test the “equivalence principle” part of Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Click here to search the collection by Title, Author or Abstract. You can also download the Finding Guide to the Gravity Probe-A Collection in PDF format.

Robert L. Forward Collection now searchable

The Robert L. Forward Collection of the UAH Library Archives is now searchable online! In 2002, Dr. Forward (1932-2002) made arrangements for his Collection to be a part of the UAH Archives. Dr. Forward was a consulting scientist, future technologist, lecturer, and science fact and fiction writer. He was owner and chief scientist of Forward Unlimited, a consulting firm established in 1962, specializing in exotic physics and advanced space propulsion, and Partner and Chief Scientist of Tethers Unlimited, a partnership formed in 1994 with Dr. Robert P. Hoyt, specializing in highly-survivable space tethers. The Finding Guide to the Robert L. Forward Collection is now available in PDF Format as well. Click here to search the collection.