Updates
Business Source Complete now includes a business video collection with 55 videos from the Harvard Business School Faculty Seminar Series.
The series features engaging video lectures from renowned professors and experts at the
The videos contain a table of content allowing the selection of a specific topic. Most lectures provide a transcript in PDF format.
You can access Business Source Complete from the library's homepage. Go to http://www.lib.cwu.edu and within the "FIND" section on the left, click on Databases. Select "by Title" and click on the "B" in the alphabet list. Select Business Source Complete. If you are off-campus you will need to enter your Wildcat Connection username and password. You can search the database and select the "Video" radio button to filter your results, or you can click on the "Business Videos" link within the Browse section below the search box and search only the video format.
Tue, 2009-11-17 10:33
LibQual, a worldwide survey among libraries, is currently conducting a survey related to perceptions of library services and materials among the CWU community. All faculty, graduate students and a random sampling of undergraduates representing all campuses have been asked to share their beliefs in a 10 minute survey.
The survey's results are especially important in these tough economic times as the Brooks Library attempts to meet your expectations. Please check your email for your opportunity to share your experiences.
If you have further questions, please feel free to contact us at Lib_Survey@cwu.edu or at ext. 1960.
Wed, 2009-11-04 12:45
The LIbrary now has access to OAIster, a digital database containing over 20 million images and other files from approximately 1100 libraries, museums, and special agencies. Digital resources include items such as:
- digitized (i.e., scanned) books and articles
- born-digital texts
- audio files (e.g., wav, mp3)
- images (e.g., tiff, gif)
- movies (e.g., mp4, quicktime)
- datasets (e.g., downloadable statistics files)
Tue, 2009-06-02 14:51
Full text is now available from RIA, an online research system for the federal tax code and regulations, financial accounting standards, international accounting standards, and auditing standards.
Tue, 2009-06-02 14:53
The Library now subscribes to the Communcation & Mass Media Complete database from Ebsco. CMMC incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline. CMMC offers cover-to-cover ("core") indexing and abstracts for more than 460 journals, and selected ("priority") coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of more than 660 titles. This database includes full text for 350 journals. Many major journals have indexing, abstracts, PDFs and searchable cited references from their first issues to the present (dating as far back as 1915). CMMC contains a Communication Thesaurus and comprehensive reference browsing (i.e. searchable cited references for peer-reviewed journals covered as "core"). In addition, CMMC features over 5,000 Author Profiles, providing biographical data and bibliographic information, and covering the most prolific, most cited, and most frequently searched for authors in the database.
Tue, 2009-06-02 14:57
Beginning January 2009, Brooks Library will no longer be maintaining a subscription to Refworks. The library instead recommends Zotero[zoh-TAIR-oh] "...a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself.” See the Zotero web site for more information. With Zotero, you can:
- Create a Zotero library stored on your personal laptop or in your USB drive (flashdrive / jumpdrive)
- Collect citations off of a database, a catalog, a webpage and from scratch
- Save a snapshot of a webpage and create notations and highlight information directly on the page
- Manage your library by creating folders, subfolders and keyword “tags” for searching your sources
- Import your citations into Microsoft Office Word as you write
- Export your references from Refworks into Zotero
Tue, 2009-06-02 14:58