What's New at the GSU Zach S. Henderson Library » e-books http://zachsnews.edublogs.org Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:49:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 New Databases http://zachsnews.edublogs.org/2009/07/09/new-databases/ http://zachsnews.edublogs.org/2009/07/09/new-databases/#comments Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:49:08 +0000 Jonathan http://zachsnews.edublogs.org/?p=194 Thanks to funding from the College of Education and feedback from our recent database trials, there are some new databases in GALILEO:  the Children’s Core Collection; the IGI InfoSci Book & Reference Collection; and 3 Cabell’s Directories of Publishing Opportunities:  Educational Curriculum & Methods; Educational Psychology & Administration; and Education Technology & Library Science.  Their funding has also added more education e-books to our Ebrary and NetLibrary accounts.
Children’s Core Collection (4 simultaneous users allowed) is the online version of Children’s Catalog, which is “a selective annotated list of fiction and nonfiction books and magazines for children from preschool through sixth grade, along with review sources and other professional aids for children’s librarians and school media specialists.”
IGI offers mainly information technology e-books, in full text with perpetual access.  The IGI books currently included in the database, which are also listed individually in the GIL library catalog, are:
Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining
Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking
Handbook of Research on New Media Literacy at the K-12 Level: Issues and Challenges
Online and Distance Learning: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Student Plagiarism in an Online World: Problems and Solutions
]]> http://zachsnews.edublogs.org/2009/07/09/new-databases/feed/ 0 H1N1 (Swine Flu) Information http://zachsnews.edublogs.org/2009/05/06/h1n1-swine-flu-information/ http://zachsnews.edublogs.org/2009/05/06/h1n1-swine-flu-information/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 14:54:08 +0000 Jonathan http://zachsnews.edublogs.org/?p=178 Some of our database suppliers are providing the public with free access to information on the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu.

Check out the “Swine Flu (H1N1) Facts” icon in the middle of this page from Gale, to find free full-text articles from the Gale Virtual Reference Library (including e-reference books that we’ve purchased, which are available via GALILEO here; just click “Show All” to see the books in our GVRL collection).  Use the drop-down menu for “I want to know…” to access the Swine Flu Portal.

EBSCO and Dynamed are also offering clinical information about the virus for health care professionals here.

**Update:  Here’s the H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) page from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  (Thanks, JoEllen!)

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