New books have arrived for Carlson and Mulford Libraries from the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library. At Carlson, these popular fiction and non-fiction titles are located near the Circulation Desk, and at Mulford, titles are found on the low shelves on the 5th Floor. Use your Rocket ID Card and check out these bestsellers. A full list of books is available in our catalog, or you can browse the shelves by author’s last name. New items include:
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New Items: Books, Movies, More…
The Libraries added many new items in October, including those featured below. Many new or replacement DVDs were added to the collection as well. (If the item you want is checked out, use the ‘Request’ feature to place a hold on it for when it returns.)
New Database: Scopus
The University of Toledo students, faculty, and staff now have access to a new database for scholarly literature (especially in the sciences). Scopus is a databases of peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers from approximately 18,000 international publications, as well as additional content from patent records and scientific websites.
Additionally, Scopus has the capability of performing cited reference searching so that you can see which articles cite a particular article or author in their bibliographies. Cited reference searching is a great way to expand your search and find new articles that did not come up from searching by keywords. Scopus can therefore be a complementary database to Web of Science, which has the same capability.
Additional information about Scopus is available in the Scopus User Guide.
Researcher authors can use Scopus to track the impact of their own research in publications since 1996. Authors can see who else is using their published articles in their research using Scopus’ citation analysis and visualization tools. See our Citation Analysis LibGuide for more about this type of searching.
Scopus is provided to UT as part of OhioLINK for the next three years, and the database purchase will be re-evaluated in 2013.
Millions more articles available through ScienceDirect
UT students and researchers will now have access to more than 3.4 million additional articles from Elsevier’s ScienceDirect database, a highly regarded publisher in the fields of science and engineering. The journal titles available include The Lancet, Thin Solid Films, The Journal of Operations Management, and 2,700 more.
Though we’ve had access to Elsevier journals previously in the OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center (EJC), this additional collection includes historic backfiles, with articles from 1995 back until the start of each journal. The new articles are currently available on the ScienceDirect website, and the content will be added to the EJC in the coming year. Look for the green key or green page icons to see what you have access to on the ScienceDirect site.
The addition of these files was made possible by funds from both the Ohio Board of Regents and contributions from all OhioLINK member institutions, including University of Toledo Libraries.
Three New Health-related Databases!
We now have access to three new databases in the health sciences!
DynaMed is an evidence-based clinical reference tool designed for use at “point of care.” It has summaries derived from peer-reviewed journals and systematic evidence review databases for 3,000+ topics on diseases, disorders, and symptoms. Summaries include information on etiology, associated conditions, history and research findings, differential diagnosis and diagnostic testing, prognosis, treatment and prevention, as well as links to patient information.
The Nursing Reference Center is a clinical point-of-care resource intended for staff nurses, nurse administrators, nursing students, nurse faculty, and hospital librarians. Full text content from leading publishers includes information on diseases, disorders, diagnostic tests, and drugs; patient education resources; and best practice guidelines. Also includes continuing education modules, legal cases, and the latest medical news and drug updates. Full-text reference books include:
- Davis’s comprehensive handbook of laboratory and diagnostic tests,
- Davis’s drug guide for nurses,
- Taber’s cyclopedic medical dictionary, and
- Diseases and disorders: a nursing therapeutics manual.
And finally, HAPI (Health And Psychosocial Instruments) provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. This database is limited to 5 users at a time.
New Business Database: Passport GMID
The University Libraries recently bought a subscription to a business & economics database from Euromonitor, Passport Global Market Information Database (GMID). Passport GMID contains over a million demographic, economic and marketing statistics for 205 countries worldwide. The database also contains 6-year historic market size data for more than 330 consumer products in 52 countries, plus 5-year forecasts. In all, the database has:
Statistics
- 4 million demographic, economic and marketing statistics
- 4 million consumer lifestyle statistics
- 200,000 market size statistics
Reports
- 1,500 market reports
- 8,500 sector briefings
- 45 strategy briefings
- 70 global reports examining consumer markets, services and sectors
- 6,700 local company profiles
- 500 global company profiles
- 79 future demographic reports
- 213 regional and country profiles
- 176 country briefings
- 74 consumer lifestyles reports
Comments
- Timely insight into the factors influencing industries, countries and consumers
- New product launches, marketing strategies and industry trends
- Acquisitions, disposals and strategic partnerships
- Regulatory issues and seasonal trends
- Social, economic and political issues
- Emerging consumer trends and attitudes
- New consumer segments
- World events in context
Do to the subject content, this database is available to Main Campus library users only.
New Items in our Collections: September 2009
Over 100 new items were added to the libraries’ collections in September. Check out our New Acquisitions page to see what we’ve been adding to our collections, now including DVDs in our listing. The list is arranged by Library Location, then by Library of Congress Call #.
Wizard of Oz Anniversary
UT Libraries commemorate the 70th anniversary of the film The Wizard of Oz with several new purchases,
- The Wizardry of Oz: The Artistry and Magic of the 1939 MGM Classic,
- The Wizard of Oz: An Illustrated Companion to the Timeless Movie Classic,
- The Real Wizard of Oz: The Life & Times of L. Frank Baum,
- The Wizard of Oz and Philosophy: Wicked Wisdom of the West
- as well as Marvel’s graphic adaptation, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
And if you’re a fan of Oz, you might enjoy Wicked, Son of a Witch, and Lion Among Men, best-selling contemporary stories about the world of Oz by Gregory Maguire.
Of course, we also have the original 1939 film of the Wizard of Oz as well as some of the original Oz books by L. Frank Baum.
New Items in our Collections: August 2009
Over 300 new items were added to the libraries’ collections in August. Check out our New Acquisitions page to see what we’ve been adding to our collections, now including DVDs in our listing. The list is arranged by Library Location, then by Library of Congress Call #.
GREENR: Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, & Natural Resources
The UT Libraries now subscribe to GREENR, an information portal on environmental and energy topics from around the world. You can browse pages on a variety of topics, or do your own keyword searches to bring up:
- Academic and Trade journal articles
- Videos, Images, and Podcasts
- Conference papers
- Reports & Statistics
- … and more!
Whether you’re studying current events, biology, public policy, engineering, or physics, there’s something in this database for you! Check it out!