American History in Video provides streaming video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.
Please send comments to Cindy. Trial ends May 1, 2013.
We’ve been given the “all clear” signal from the consortium. You should no longer be seeing malware warnings when attempting to use CLICnet. If you do, try refreshing your browser, or refreshing and restarting.
Taylor & Francis, a journal publisher, is giving away free journal content for the rest of the month. Here’s their press release:
Click here to start browsing all Routledge Behavioral Science journals!
We are delighted to offer free online access to our complete range of Routledge Behavioral Science Journals throughout February 2013. We publish over 200 journals covering a range of subject areas including: Mental Health; Social Psychology; Neuropsychology Cognitive Psychology; Psychotherapy and Counseling; Developmental Psychology; Gerontology; Work and Organisational Psychology; Marriage and Family Therapy; Psychoanalysis; Creative Arts and Expressive Therapies; Behavioral Medicine and much more, so make the most of this unique opportunity and start browsing now.
Free journal content is great and I’m not trying to distract from it, but Free your Mind reminds me of one thing and one thing only:
None of you may remember this, but your parents will. Good stuff.
Anyone looking for the article “Coca-Cola, caffeine, and mental deficiency: Harry Hollingworth and the Chattanooga trial of 1911” please be aware there is some wonkiness with loading the PDF. Email the PDF article to yourself if it doesn’t load.
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…when the heady mixture of stress, Red Bull and coffee fill the library air. I want all of you that I see studying so hard to just take a moment out and breathe. Get up from the table and stretch. Maybe go up and down the stairs a few times. Hey, how about eating an apple? It’ll relax you and give you a small bit of armor against any freeloading flu that may attack your stressed system. I know it’s stressful now, but you can totally do this. You’ll get it all done. And you’ll do well.
Congratulations all freshmen for making it through your first semester of college. You’ve done a good job navigating these new waters.
Bon voyage to all of those in our community who are leaving to study abroad. Just a reminder: many library resources and services will still be available to you no matter where in the world you go. You can still access all of our databases, ejournals and ebooks and you can still chat with your hometown librarians.
And I want to wish you all a peaceful, joyous, and healthy break. Come back to us in the spring.
The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae is now available only in Ireland Library at an Ireland Library computer. You cannot use this from your personal computer while sitting in Ireland Library, or anywhere for that matter. In-library use only.
And here’s the proof. Emerald, a database of management journals, is especially strong in management topics such as human resource management, operations management, and library and information management. But in the spirit of the giving season, it offers these free holiday-related articles.
The act of giving a gift at Christmas is a form of consumption that invokes different levels of involvement. The purpose of this study is to explore and measure involvement in parental Christmas gift giving and giving branded items as gifts.
This article takes a look at in-store information search for a Christmas gift, specifically focusing on gender differences. Females, compared to males, were found to start Christmas shopping much earlier and embark on a greater number of shopping trips!
The authors of this article attempt to understand what Christmas gifts mean to children by examining the features and styles of the letters that children write to Santa Claus.
A humorous approach is taken in this article, which aims to cost the acquisition of the items listed in a popular Christmas song. It was found that there was a significant increase in costs from 2005 to 2006!
Christmas celebrations are a complex amalgam of motives, strategies, attitudes, rituals, behaviours and relationships. Christmas spirit is an important topic of deep interest to consumer behaviour researchers.
Dating all the way back to 1968, this article from Emerald’s archives discusses a product which could be the centrepiece of Christmas evenings – the Christmas cake.
The paper is a humorous story designed for Christmas reading. The authors find that taxation legislation is difficult to apply to mythical characters!
This study examines the personal, situational and socio-demographic factors influencing consumer information search strategies whilst Christmas shopping in a religiously-diverse Middle Eastern country: Lebanon.
DRAM – Digital Recordings of American Music is experiencing post-Sandy technical difficulties. They are located in NYC and there was a power outage last night. And their backup generators were knocked out by the flooding a few weeks ago. I guess the bottomline is, please be patient if there are DRAM outages. We have other streaming audio products that might help in a pinch.
See, that’s the great thing about America – our diversity. It gives us a depth that the old world doesn’t quite have yet. While they have centuries of history on us, we have this wide spectrum of what it means to be an American. So you are required to take a human diversity class. And in that class you’re required to do some library research. We have got this totally covered – some of these resources are really unique and interesting, so even if you’ve already fulfilled this requirement, you still might wanna check out:
E pluribus unum, baby. E pluribus unum.
