10 & 2 Research Clinics In April!

Blackwell Library is pleased to announce our month long 10 & 2 Research Clinics.  These hour long workshops are designed to focus on specific research skills or tools and are offered at the time of the semester that students are working on their final papers and projects.  There are workshops offered every Monday through Thursday at 10 am and 2 pm throughout the month of April.

A list of research clinics as well as access to our registration system can be found  here:  http://www.salisbury.edu/library/research/researchclinics.html. 24 hours advance registration is required.

Hope to see you there!

 

New Trial for Statista!

Blackwell Library is pleased to announce a trial of a new database, Statista, running from now until April 13, 2013.

Statista is an electronic statistics database available through the website http://www.statista.com/. We are licensed by over 300 universities in the United States, Canada, Costa Rica, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and the Netherlands.

A brief overview of Statista:

• Data aggregation platform with statistics, facts, and market data
• More than 100 areas of information – useful to students of all academic fields
• 9,000 studies and industry reports
• Over 18,000 North American, European, and Asian sources of information
• All statistics can be directly downloaded in JPG, Excel, and PowerPoint formats
• All data prepared according to academic citation standards, with links to the original source for further research  

Please contact Krista Knapp with feedback, comments or questions.

Trial extended!

Our trial for Passport (Euromonitor International) has been extended til March 5th!

Description: “This online market research tool monitors industry trends and gives you strategic analysis and a market size and market share database for all your products across all your key countries. Passport is Euromonitor International's global market analysis software platform, which analyses the industry in countries around the world.” More information at http://www.euromonitor.com/passport#/home

How to access it: Go to www.portal.euromonitor.com  

Complete the free registration process and then login with your personal credentials

Send feedback to: Sarah Loudenslager, Business/Instructional Librarian, seloudenslager@salisbury.edu

Quick Links to accessing the trial:
Blackwell Library Buzz blog post: http://blackwell-library.blogspot.com/2013/02/announcing-database-trial.html

Business LibGuide (bottom of home page): http://salisbury.libguides.com/business

Announcing an Education Database Trial!

NEW DATABSE TRIAL: Education Research Complete
Blackwell Library has begun a month long trial of the EBSCO database Education Research Complete.  The database is the definitive online resource for education research.
ERC provides:
     • Indexing and abstracts for more than 2,400 journals
     • Full text for over 1,400 journals
     • Full text for more than 550 books and monographs
     • Full text for numerous education-related conference papers
Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing.

For on-campus access: Education Research Complete

Questions or comments? Contact Stephen Ford

New Database Trial for Music!

International Index to Music Periodicals provides indexing and abstracts for an unrivaled range of music journals from 1874 to the present, covering the scholarly to the popular. With over 900,000 indexed articles, including an extensive backfile, it offers unique and comprehensive subject coverage - from music education, performance studies, composition, theory and ethnomusicology to jazz, hip-hop and all forms of popular music. In addition, it contains more than 160 journals in full text, with new content added every month and new full-text titles added on a regular basis.

The trial is now available and runs until 3/8/13.

You can access your trial product(s) using this web address:

https://www.proquest.com/trials/trialSummary.action?view=subject&trialBean.token=SGK96TBPCGTFJ5ULSBYN

Announcing a Database Trial

Name of the Database:

Passport (Euromonitor International)

Description:

“This online market research tool monitors industry trends and gives you strategic analysis and a market size and market share database for all your products across all your key countries. Passport is Euromonitor International's global market analysis software platform, which analyses the industry in countries around the world.” More information at http://www.euromonitor.com/passport#/home

How to access it:

Go to www.portal.euromonitor.com  

Complete the free registration process and then login with your personal credentials

How long the trial is for:

February 5^th -22^nd

To whom should feedback be sent:

Sarah Loudenslager, Business/Instructional Librarian, seloudenslager@salisbury.edu

Announcing Our New Mobile Site!

Blackwell Library is pleased to announce the launch of our brand new mobile site. You can find it at http://www.salisbury.edu/library/mobile/ or if you're on a mobile device it should automatically direct you there!  If you have any feedback, please direct it to Chris Woodall, Technology Librarian.