Category Archives: Resources

Trial subscription to Eye Journal until 2/29/12

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Take advantage now of a one-month trial subscription to the Eye.  Eye is the official journal of The Royal College of Ophthalmologists. It aims to provide the practicing ophthalmologist with information on the latest clinical and laboratory-based research. 

You can access articles from the current issue (January 2012) here:  http://www.nature.com/eye/journal/v26/n1/index.html

To view archived issues (1987-2011), please click here: http://www.nature.com/eye/archive/index.html

Please note that you must be on campus to view these articles.  If you have any questions or comments about this trial, please let us know at http://libanswers.uah.edu/ or 256-824-6529.

OneSearch is now available

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Have you ever wished you could search everything the library has with one search box?  Well, look no further.  OneSearch is the name of our new EBSCO Discovery Service which allows you to search most of the Library’s online resources in a single search and represents the next generation of library search technology.  Books in the Library’s catalog, journals from selected subject databases, and more are searchable via OneSearch.   Please note that this box does not search our Website! 

NEW!  You can now search OneSearch directly from our library homepage at http://lib.uah.edu/.  It’s in the bottom right corner.  You may need to scroll down just a bit to see the search box.  Just type in your search term and click the OneSearch button.  You can even type in the title of a journal article!

NEW!  Install a plugin and make OneSearch a search option on your browser (IE, Firefox, or Chrome).   Google may be your default search engine now, but not for long!  Here’s the link to install the plugin:

http://www.wyrmis.com/uahuntsville/uahsearch.html

Please give it a try and send your comments and suggestions to http://libanswers.uah.edu/.

ProQuest Central database trial until Dec. 1

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From now until Dec. 1, 2011, you can access the ProQuest Central database trial at the below link:

https://www.proquest.com/trials/trialSummary.action?view=subject&trialBean.token=92XEP0WB8HXZD01SHDCB

ProQuest Central serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels. Covering more than 160 subjects areas, ProQuest Central contains over 11,000 titles – with more than 8,000 in full text. This comprehensive reference collection features a highly-respected, diversified mix of content including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, books, newspapers, reports, and videos.

ProQuest Central includes the following databases:
ABI/INFORM Complete
Accounting & Tax
Banking Information Source 
Canadian Newsstand Complete 
CBCA Complete 
Hoover’s Company Profiles 
Pharmaceutical News Index  
ProQuest Asian Business & Reference 
ProQuest Biology Journals 
ProQuest Career and Technical Education 
ProQuest Computing 
ProQuest Criminal Justice 
ProQuest Education Journals
ProQuest European Business 
ProQuest Family Health  
ProQuest Health & Medical Complete
ProQuest Military Collection 
ProQuest Newsstand 
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source
ProQuest Psychology Journals 
ProQuest Religion 
ProQuest Research Library
ProQuest Science Journals
ProQuest Social Science Journals 
ProQuest Telecommunications 
Snapshots 

We welcome your feedback at http://libanswers.uah.edu/.

ebrary trial available for next 30 days

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Take advantage of our trial to the ebrary Academic Complete e-book collection over the next 30 days, ending approximately Nov. 21.  If this collection is helpful to you with your research, please let us know!  You can contact us at http://libanswers.uah.edu/.

Subjects covered include:
Business & Economics
Computers & IT
Education
Engineering & Technology
History & Political Science
Humanities
Interdisciplinary & Area Studies
Language, Literature & Linguistics
Law, International Relations & Public Policy
Life Sciences
Medical
Nursing & Allied Health
Physical Sciences
Psychology & Social Work
Religion, Philosophy & Classics
Sociology & Anthropology

Trial access to Marquis Biographies Online until Oct. 31

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The UAHuntsville Salmon Library has trial access to the Marquis Biographies Online database now until October 31.  Simply go to http://search.marquiswhoswho.com/ and contact the Reference Desk at 256-824-6529 for login information. 

Marquis Biographies Online is a comprehensive, searchable database of over 1.4 million biographies, updated daily.  It provides up-to-the-minute biographies of leaders and achievers from around the world in the areas of business, law, science, medicine, the arts, government, entertainment and more – in one convenient source!  You can find biographies that have appeared in 24 Marquis Who’s Who print titles since 1985, plus historical biographies from the Who Was Who in America volumes from 1607–1985.

Please direct all questions and comments about this trial to http://libanswers.uah.edu/.

ARTstor Digital Library trial access until Nov. 2

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The UAHuntsville Salmon Library has trial access to the ARTstor Digital Library now until November 2.  Simply go to http://www.artstor.org/ and click on “ARTstor Digital Library-Enter Here” or go to the search page at http://library.artstor.org/.  Some content will require a login.  Please contact the Reference Desk at 256-824-6529 for login information. 

The ARTstor Digital Library is a nonprofit resource that provides more than one million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. Their community-built collections comprise contributions from outstanding international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists’ estates.  Subject guides to the collection are available here. 

Please direct all questions and comments about this trial to http://libanswers.uah.edu/.

Early Journal Content on JSTOR, Free to Anyone in World

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On September 6, 2011, JSTOR announced that they are making journal content published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world.  This “Early Journal Content” includes discourse and scholarship in the arts and humanities, economics and politics, and in mathematics and other sciences.  It includes nearly 500,000 articles from more than 200 journals. This represents 6% of the content on JSTOR.  For more info, read the full announcement from JSTOR here.

SpringerImages Trial until Oct. 31

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Please take advantage of a new trial of SpringerImages, a comprehensive collection of scientific and medical photos, graphs, histograms, tables and more, available now until Oct. 31, 2011.  You can access the SpringerImages trial from this Website:  http://www.springer.com/mytrial

SpringerImages is:
–An expansive and rapidly growing collection of scientific and medical images (over 3 million right now and over 500,000 added every year)
–Based on high quality trusted sources, such as SpringerLink or images.MD
–Always up-to-date as images are loaded as they are published
–Provides captions and extracts from the source plus the ability to link to the full-text
–Offers creation of image sets and a one-click export to PowerPoint or PDF

Learn more from the brochure here.  Please send any feedback or comments about this trial to us at http://libanswers.uah.edu.

New at the Library in 2011

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It’s going to be an exciting academic year of change at the UAHuntsville Library in the 2011 – 2012 academic year.  We have a number of new features and resources this year, some which are already here and some that are coming soon.

New furniture, workspaces, and improved study rooms are coming to the library in October.

We hope to have this all installed in the building during Fall Break, and are planning an Open House the week of Homecoming at UAHuntsville.  More information will be coming, but we plan on having a free concert in the building or just outside with local Indie Folk / Acoustic band Ashlyn Maine.

Read more about our new furniture at our earlier blog post, and become a fan of Ashlyn Maine on their Facebook page.

Scopus Database Now Available

Please go to http://www.scopus.com/home.url in order to access the Scopus database now available from the UAHuntsville Salmon Library. Access has been set up via IP Authentication (on-campus only).

Scopus, launched in November 2004, is the largest abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. You can find a wealth of easily accessible information about getting the most from your Scopus access, including demos, tutorials and downloadable user guides at http://info.scopus.com

New Vending Machines on our First Floor

Students have long asked for them, and we’re happy to finally have three new vending machines available on our first floor!  There is a can machine, bottle machine, and also a snack machine available behind the copy machines on the first floor.  Drinks range in price from sixty cents to $1.25, and snacks are available for up to a dollar.

New eBook collections from Springer

A big thank you to the Network of Alabama Academic Libraries (NAAL) for our new access to selected 2011 eBooks from Springer. Ebooks are available in the following collections:

Access Journals from SpringerLink

You have access to approximately 1700 American journal titles from 1997 to present on SpringerLink! The world’s most comprehensive online collection of scientific, technological and medical journals, books and reference works.

Get Searching or Click here for SpringerLink’s featured journal titles by collection

Improved Mobile Access

We’ve improved the mobile version of our website optimized for iPhones so that you can now enjoy more efficient access resources such as LibGuides, Academic Search Premiere, and much more.  You can now also search our catalog directly from your device as well!

If you are using an iPhone or iPod Touch, you will be automatically redirected to the mobile version of our site.  We also hope to have a version compatible with Android devices soon.

We hope you are all settling in well for the new academic year at UAHuntsville!  Remember, you can Ask Us Anything at the Library.  Be sure to Like us on Facebook or Follow us on Twitter for more information.  You can also get in touch with us through either of those resources.  Even if the answer to your question isn’t in the library, we can point you to the best resource on campus to help.

 

 

Remote Access to library databases now encrypted

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Please be aware that if you access our databases remotely you will now be directed to a secure https login page.  All of our database links have been updated.  If you have added any database links to your bookmarks or favorites, you should automatically be directed to the https login page and the transition should be seamless.  Please let us know if you encounter a dead link so we can correct it.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.  You can reach us at 256-824-6529 or http://libanswers.uah.edu/.