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APA Style Central Trial

APA Style Central

Using the APA Style Publication Manual, but have tons of questions about headings, in-text citations, writing style, references or where to publish your brilliant work? Here’s the all-in answer for you. We’re trialing APA Style Central!

Including:

videos

student assignments

tests

templates

guides

journal information

and links into the APA Publication Guide.

Please play around in APA Style Central. Tutorials help you find support for your teaching and publishing, as well as for your students’ writing.

Do you think this will be helpful to you for publication purposes? Or for our students to help them in writing papers and in understanding APA Style?

Let Merrie Davidson know if you have any questions or comments.

Trial ends 11/2/2016

October 7, 2016 by
Business & Economics, Database Highlights & Trials, News & Events

Trial – eMarketer

This month we are trialing a marketing and advertising resource called eMarketer. It provides market data, statistics, and analysis including trends in e-business, mobile, social media, and online advertising. The data can be used to look at consumer behavior and market size. eMarketer includes articles, analyst reports, and statistical tables which can be downloaded to Excel for further analysis.

emarketer

This trial runs through 10/27/2016. Please send your comments on this resource to Marianne Hageman.

October 3, 2016 by
Database Highlights & Trials

Start with Summon

Welcome to a new school year. Please note that Summon is now the default search. You can search

Books
Articles
Journals
Movies
Encyclopedias
Music

and 85 other types of library content.

Despite the announcement on August 25 that Summon wasn’t working on iOS. That has been fixed. Summon works just fine on PC, Mac, iOS, Android and anything else that’s out there.

If you EVER have any problems using ANY library resource, please ask us.  We’re here to help you have a successful, not stressful, year.

 

September 9, 2016 by
Database Highlights & Trials

Summon not available for iOS

We are very sorry to report that there is a glitch in the system somewhere and Summon is not working on iOS products. The company we get Summon from is aware of the problem. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Hopefully things will right themselves soon. Please use Summon from a laptop or desktop until this is resolved. Thanks. And again, sorry.

August 25, 2016 by
Database Highlights & Trials

Big Day for Thomas Aquinas

AquinasThe UST Libraries just added the Collected Works of Thomas Aquinas (Electronic Edition) to our collection. If you can believe it, this title was available on CD-Rom before now. I’m happy to report that, like nearly everything else in the known world, it has been made available on the web for your 24/7 viewing pleasure.  And as an added bonus, if you were to require some help in interpreting the works of Thomas Aquinas, we’ve also just added the Oxford Handbook of Aquinas, which is one of 64 titles included the new Oxford Handbooks of Philosophy collection.

April 21, 2016 by
Database Highlights & Trials, Media/Music Collections, Music, New Materials, News & Events

Medici.TV

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The UST Libraries is pleased to announce the new subscription to Medici.TV. A streaming video music database covering over 1,500 films in high definition with the best of classical music from Baroque to Contemporary music, including: concerts, operas, ballets, archival documents, portraits of artists and composers, master classes, conductors in rehearsals. Over 100 live broadcast every year from leading concert halls and classical music festivals.

Access to these films through the Library Catalog CLICnet, or you can go through this link Medici.TV . To watch a performance click on the “picture.” .

If you have questions about this streaming film collection, please feel free to contact Cindy Badilla-Meléndez, Media/Music Resources Librarian at cbadillame@stthomas.edu

 

April 1, 2016 by
Database Highlights & Trials

Proquest Planned Outage

On Saturday March 12, all ProQuest products will be unavailable from 9 p.m. and will last for 8 hours.

During this time, access to the ProQuest products listed below will not be available, and users will be redirected to a web page explaining the scheduled maintenance.

Research databases

  • ProQuest platform databases
  • ProQuest Congressional

Dissertations

  • Dissertations Express
  • PQDT Open

Research tools

  • RefWorks
  • Pivot

Bibliographic and catalog enrichment services

  • Books in Print
  • ProQuest Syndetic Solutions
March 11, 2016 by
Database Highlights & Trials

Proquest Unavailable for 1/16-1/17

proquestlogoAll of ProQuest & its related databases will be unavailable to the public starting at 9 p.m. Saturday and lasting until 5 a.m. on Sunday.  This means any library resource that has this logo will not be available.  Here’s a sample list:

Research databases
– ProQuest platform (search.proquest.com)
– ProQuest Congressional (congressional.proquest.com)
– Chadwyck-Healey databases (full list available)
– ProQuest Digital Microfilm

Reference management/Research support tools
– RefWorks
– COS Funding Opportunities
– COS Scholar Universe

Bibliographic and catalog enrichment resources
– Books in Print®
– LibraryThing for Libraries™
– Resources for College Libraries

If you need these resources, please wait it out until later on Sunday morning.   Thanks for your understanding.

January 15, 2016 by
Database Highlights & Trials

TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES – TAYLOR & FRANCIS

1:16pm.  This issue has been resolved. Please let us know if you experience otherwise.

We have over 140 journals from the publisher Taylor & Francis. They are currently experiencing technical difficulties. They are aware of the problem and working on it. Thanks for your patience.

October 21, 2015 by