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I don’t know who out there needs to know this, but if you’re TOTALLY hard-core when it comes to using library resources, please note that on Saturday morning from 1-5am the following Gale resources may be unavailable.  That’s only a maybe and that’s a pretty low-use time of day, but still, I thought I’d mention it.

• 19th Century British Library Newspapers
• 19th Century U.S. Newspapers
• Business & Company Resource Center
• Computer Database
• Contemporary Authors
• Contemporary Women’s Issues
• Discovering Collection
• Economist Historical Archive
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online
• Expanded Academic ASAP
• Financial Times Historical Archive
• Gale Directory Library
• Gale Student Resources In Context
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
• General Business File ASAP
• General OneFile
• General Reference Center Gold
• General Science Collection
• Health Reference Center Academic
• Informe Revistas en Espanol
• InfoTrac Student Edition
• Junior Edition – K12
• Junior Reference Collection
• Kids InfoBits
• LegalTrac
• Literature Criticism Online
• Literature Resource Center
• Making of Modern Law
• Something About The Author Online

ATTENTION LATE NIGHT PAPER WRITERS:

Sadly, the bad news is for you…but only if you were planning on writing that paper (or 7) this Saturday night, May 5th.  Sometime in between 11pm and 2 am, RefWorks and its services including RefMobile and Write-N-Cite will be unavailable for up to 2 hours.  Please use this as an opportunity to take a nap… or a scheduled Facebook break. Whichever. (But please do get some sleep.)

ATTENTION EVERYONE ELSE:

And now the good news! ProQuest is again able to directly export to RefWorks. (See SERVICE INTERRUPTION – Proquest to RefWorks.) That means you can forget all those handy workarounds you figured out and go back to the 2-click export directly from your favorite ProQuest databases.

The funky news, though, is that only one of the links in your RefWorks citation will work if you are off campus.

The reason the second link won’t work is because it doesn’t include a code that lets ProQuest know you have the right to access the content if you are not within our campus IP range. Just know that you can get back to your article by using the Get It button for now, and ProQuest is working on fixing that second link for the future.

ATTENTION FACULTY:

This same funkiness will affect you if you are on campus and are trying to add a permanent link to ProQuest content on your BlackBoard page or syllabus. The ezproxy code string will not appear in the persistent link field in Proquest citations whether you are on or off campus, so you will have to add that code string manually to allow your students access to the content if they are off campus.

A huge congratulations go out to Kia Johnson and Chloe Lawyer for receiving Goldwater Scholarships!  We are all very proud of your accomplishments.  Hopefully the libraries’ resources were of some benefit to you as you conducted your research.  If you did not find the types of materials you needed to conduct your research at the library, please let us know and we’ll try to get what you need. We’re here to help and support you in your research, classes, and further pursuits.  Who knows, one of us may directly benefit from the work you do down the line.  So I’ll also throw in a “way to go” and “thank you.”

For those of us not entirely familiar with radiopaque polymers, here are a few resources that may shed light on Kia’s work:

Radiopaque objects block radiation rather than allow it to pass through. Metal, for instance, is radiopaque…

Articles on radiopaque catheters

For those of us not entirely familiar with dopamine, here are a few resources that might give you insight into Chloe’s work:

Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that serves as a chemical messenger in the nervous system and permits…

Dopamine receptors are synthesized from five different genes and, based upon sequence homology and pharmacological specificity…

Articles on dopamine receptor expression and associative learning

Shout outs for Ryan Augustin and Robert White who were also nominated for the scholarship.  Once again, we at the libraries are all very proud of our Goldwater Scholarship winners and nominees.

There is open/free trial access to the new streaming video collection Classical Music in Video (Alexander Street Press) for the entire month of April.  Click on Classical Music in Video, then click the Go To Product box in the right column.  If that doesn’t work, try this:  Access the collection here.

Classical Music in Video currently includes 600 videos, totaling more than 300 hours of performance and teaching, and will grow to more than 1,500 performances and 1,000 hours of viewing. All forms and periods of classical music are covered, including performances by leading orchestras, plus chamber music, oratorio, and solo performances.  Also included is the masterclass series from the Masterclass Media Foundation.  Other content includes performances, interviews, and documentaries from music DVD producer EuroArts.

The Library is considering the purchase of this new streaming video database, so your feedback is most welcome.  Please contact Cathy Lutz (x2-5459; crlutz@stthomas.edu) with your comments on this product by the end of April.  You may also want to compare the content with that in Opera in Video and the Music and Dance films in Films on Demand.  Trial ends May 12, 2012.

Currently Proquest is not exporting to RefWorks.  Ok, ok, ok.  Don’t anyone panic.  There is a work-around.

Go ahead and search whatever it is you need in any Proquest product and use RefWorks through the GET IT button.  Now, when you get results in Proquest,  you may or may not see the GET IT button.

Don’t despair.  Do not despair.  The GET IT button is always an option in Proquest, even if there’s full-text.  All you have to do is click Citation/Abstract and GET IT will be an option:

Once on the GET IT window, simply click RefWorks.

PS – If you click the GET IT button and you immediately get full-text and not the GET IT window, simply go to “Full-text not found?  Get additional resources” and the GET IT window appears. It’s at the top of the page after you click GET IT.