The Library currently holds a variety of online health/medical books from Salem Press. We’ve recently added history and forensic science online books to these existing library resources, as well as, a new video service from Videatives which features short videos for early education and child development. They are linked on our BOOKS, AUDIO-VISUAL , and A-Z List pages.
The library now has Springer ebooks. Springer is a major academic publisher of both books and journals. Our Springer collection includes books in biomedical & life sciences, computer science, engineering, mathematics and statistics, medicine, and much more, published in 2011. You can find the link to Springer ebooks on both the BOOKS and the A-Z List web pages.
Six weeks ago we announced that the Library had purchased parts of the JSTOR collection, including Arts & Sciences I, Business I, and Mathematics & Statistics. We have now added Arts & Sciences II-VIII and the Life Sciences collections.
Nothing to do? Watch our new Films on Demand collection at home. Just log in through Campus Connect, click on the library tab and find Films on Demand under our A to Z list. This collection is truly addictive! It is also educational, with hundreds of videos on all kinds of subjects, like Health & Medicine, Careers & Job Search, selected 20/20 episodes, and much more.
Take home books to read, add a puppet or two, and put on a show at home.Find summer reading for your kids. The Library has around 5,000 books for children. You can also check out children’s music CDs and magazines like Turtle, Ladybug, National Geographic Kids, Ranger Rick, and Your Big Backyard.We also have books for ideas for children’s activities, games, crafts, etc. You can view our puppet collection at: http://ivytechlibraryftwpuppets.wordpress.com/
EBSCOhost customers can now enjoy the expansion of multilanguage searching in EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) and EBSCOhost® to include over forty-five (45) languages. This means that users will experience improved search results in both EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) and EBSCOhost databases.
Continued improvements support multilingual capabilities for non-Roman character set languages including Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Russian and others. Additional improved searching in complex languages, and advanced support for non-Roman languages (Chinese, Japanese and Korean) are also being addressed. For example, phrases or sentences in languages such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean are commonly written without spaces between words. Some languages contain multiple scripts per language, and there are regional and historical variations to consider. EBSCO has created a system to handle these variations among character sets and offers unparalleled searching in these non-Roman languages.
Supporting multiple languages with non-Roman characters is a challenge with most online search services in the library marketplace. EBSCO Publishing’s Senior Director of Software Development, Ron Burns, noted that “EBSCO knew it had to develop a custom solution that addressed the needs of a global and diverse customer base, and became an essential element of the continued development of the EBSCOhost platform.”
The all-new ProQuest platform is designed to deliver the right content, in the right place, at the right time.
Based on customer feedback, the Results page is built with the best of what you love—with exciting features and functionality found in many of our unparalleled resources, plus much more.
From simple to advanced searches, users can see the big picture across format types as well as modify search options to full-text content and/or scholarly journals (1). Helpful suggestions are provided by ProQuest Smart Search (3).
Users can set up alerts, create RSS feeds, and save searches in My Research (2) as well as cite and export references plus email (4)—all from the Results page.
The results list uses icons to indicate the content format at a glance (5) and Full Text PDF and Citation icons—plus check boxes (9) to mark items to save, print, or share via email or social networking. Optional hit-term highlighting makes it easy to scan results quickly (7). And now, users can preview the content without ever leaving the Results page via a light box (8)! In addition, images—such as tables, charts, and more—are provided right in the results with links to the image in context in the article (10).
With the cool new collapsible sidebar (6), users can quickly sort and narrow results by source type, subject heading, date, etc. And the visual date trail histogram shows the content that is available according to a range of dates.
The enhanced Results page is just one example of how the all-new ProQuest platform is creating the best search and discovery experience in the industry.
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