Jeeves has retired

Ask Jeeves, a not so good search engine, has been renamed Ask.com and upgraded to compete with Google. It even has features Google lacks. For the few searches I have tried, I found the quality is competitive with Google and better than Yahoo. A Wall Street Journal article today by Walter Mossberg agrees that Ask.com "holds its own with Google." He suggests trying to search the George Mason basketball team as a trial.
www.ask.com

Use the Multimedia Archive

The AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive is a supplemental research tool available to the Goodwin community. You may search four databases with photographs, audio sound bytes, graphics and text spanning over 160 years of history. You have access to the Archive 24 hours a day, seven days a week, using any computer with web-browsing capabilities. The content is a primary source, and is provided by The Associated Press. What are you waiting for?
Source: Connecticut Digital LIbrary
http://www.iconn.org/

New Additions to the Library

Inside The FDA: The Business & Politics Behind the Drugs We Take & the Food We Eat (Hawthorne)
Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions (Randall)
Cosmic Landscape: String Theory & the Illusion of Intelligent Design (Susskind)
Children as Illustrators: Making Meaning Through Art and Language (Thompson)
World of Difference: Readings on Teaching Young Children in a Diverse Society (Copple, Ed.)
Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple (Gladwin & Trattler)
Clinical Anatomy Made Ridiculously Simple (Goldberg)
Ethics and the Early Childhood Educator: Using the NAEYC Code (Feeney & Freeman)
Never Let me Go (Novel by Kazuo Ishiguro)
Runaway (Stories by Alice Munro)
Connecticut Walk Book (Connecticut Forest & Park Association)

Where is my Journal?

The full-text of Mark Allen Publishing Limited titles (i.e., British Journal of Nursing, British Journal of Midwifery, International Journal of Palliative Nursing, etc.) as well as American Journal of Critical Care and I believe one other title were pulled from Health Source Nursing Academic and now are only in CINAHL with Full-text which we also have.

I thought you all might want a heads up. It's not a lot of journals but a few of those titles are used by our students/faculty.

New Web Site--Tech Search.com

The two most important trends on the Web today are Search and Blogs. TechSearch combines both into a uniquely valuable resource for technology professionals.
Search more than 60 CMP technology sites, read blogs, and find the best tech content from across the World Wide Web--all in one place. Published by CMP Media's Business Technology Group, TechSearch is built around a high-quality search engine providing instant access to high-technology news and information. from CMP's extensive network of industry-leading technology publications and blogs.
http://techsearch.cmp.com/

Review for NCLEX in the Library

We have interactive software specifically designed to mimic the actual NCLEX-RN® exam. Thoroughly updated, the NCLEX® Review 3500 follows the most current NCLEX® test format
to ensure that students succeed. The Goodwin College IT Department has loaded this product onto our network to make it available to students in the library.

Over 3,500 questions
Inclusion of alternate-format questions
Questions now follow newest test plan (example: nursing management questions have now increased 10%)
Three study modes—pretest, review, and test—give correct and incorrect answers with rationale
Glossary with approximately 400 medical terms
Study aids generated by student's performance on a test
Additional features include a hints button, a client-needs subcategory for each question, and printing capability.

Teaching English in the Two Year College

The library subscribes to Teaching English in the Two-Year-College. TETYC is for instructors of English in two-year colleges as well as for teachers of first- and second-year composition in four-year institutions. TETYC publishes theoretical and practical articles on composition, developmental studies, technical and business communication, literature, creative expression, language, and the profession. Writing centers and the two-year-college is the theme for the for the current issue now available in the library.

Pending Immigration Legislation

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) introduced a border security bill on March 16, announcing he wanted to ensure the Senate held a vote on immigration the week of March 27. But the Senate Judiciary Committee members reached an agreement yesterday on different immigration legislation that includes plans for a guest worker program and a legal remedy for illegal immigrants already in the country. The Senate will be debating this week. Massive demonstrations on this important issue are taking place across the country. For background, look at the Congressional Quarterly Researcher report, "Illegal Immigration."

Book of the Week

It's Spring--time for a walk!

CONNECTICUT WALK BOOK

The complete guide to Connecticut’s 700 miles of Blue-blazed Trails published by the Connecticut Forest & Park Association—maps, descriptions and more!

Faculty Book of the Week

You Can Teach Online
by Moore, Winograd, and Lange

"This book provides a terrific foundation for faculty just beginning the journey into online teaching and online course development. It will serve as a guide for getting faculty up to speed on the instructional design and the technology."
--K. Vignare, Director at the Rochester Institue of Technology

New Periodical Issues Arrived Today

Business 2.0 March
Time March 27
Chronicle of Higher Education March 24
U.S. News & World Report April 3
Information Outlook March
East Hartford Gazette March 23
Hartford Business Journal March 27
Nursing Research March/April
Jet March 27
Wired April
Science News March 11
New Yorker March 27

Subject Index for AJN 2004 & 2005

The subject index for the American Journal of Nursing, and both the 2005 and 2004 indexes are now available at no cost as PDF downloads for anyone interested in a print index.

2005: http://www.nursingcenter.com/library/JournalArticle.asp?Article_ID=622733
2004: http://www.nursingcenter.com/library/JournalArticle.asp?Article_ID=634144

Distance Education

REP. VERNON J. EHLERS, a Michigan Republican and former
physics professor at Calvin College, is skeptical about the
value of distance education over the Internet, and he has
become a thorn in the side of institutions that offer it. He
spoke recently to The Chronicle about his views on the issue.
SEE http://chronicle.com/weekly/v52/i30/30a03801.htm

Specter-Harkin Amendment

On March 15, the US Senate passed an amendment that provides more money for health and education programs in fiscal year 2007. Senators Arlen Specter (R-PA) and Tom Harkin (D-IA) introduced the amendment to offset the administration's proposed funding cuts that would reduce funding to the National Institutes of Health to more than 11% below 2003 funding level. The Medical Library Association/Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries Legislative Task Force are closely monitoring the development of the NIH budget and will keep the MLA members informed of its progress. (Goodwin Library is a member of the Medical Library Association.)

Library Instruction Workshop

Medical Assisting Research
Clinical Procedures l (Ambrosio)
March 27 9:00 a.m.

Assignment: Patient Education Brochure
Research Process
Searching Strategy
Evluating Sources
Discipline Specific sources
Citating Sources

College Basketball Archive

With two Connecticut teams headed for glory in the NCAA tournament, it might be fun to check out the College Basketball Archive between games. You can search newspaper articles from thousands of historical newspaper pages from the Newspaper Archive.

http://www.collegebasketballarchive.com/

Controversial Therapy for Diabetes is Verified!

"Three groups of scientists report today that they independently replicated a controversial finding: severely diabetic mice can recover on their own if researchers squelch an immune system attack that is causing the disease.

It is a discovery that was first published in 2001 and raised the hopes of people with Type 1 diabetes, which usually occurs in puberty and afflicts an estimated half-million to a million Americans. If the findings applied to humans, they might mean reversing a disease that had seemed incurable. "
Source: Science and The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/24/health/24diabetes.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

CINAHL Databases Support RSS Feeds

All EBSCOhost databases* and interfaces support RSS ("Really Simple Syndication") Feeds for search alerts and journal alerts. RSS enabled alerts allow users to feed results from EBSCOhost search alerts and journal alerts into their RSS readers and aggregators, as well as their web sites.

You can use RSS to be notified when your EBSCO databases have been updated with results related to your search alert or journal alert. In the E-mail Options section, select the No e-mail (RSS only) option. After you create the alert, a confirmation message will display on-screen. Be sure to copy the Alert Syndication Feed link (URI) into your newsreader.

*Goodwin Library EBSCOhost databases include: CINAHL, Pre-CINAHL, CINAHL Plus with Full Text, Clinical Pharmacology, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, PsycINFO, and PsycARTICLES.

Baby Boomer Projections

In 2006, 7,918 Americans will turn 60 each day, according to projections. That amounts to 330 every hour. In 2030, 57.8 million baby boomers will be alive, 54.9 percent of whom will be female. That year, boomers would be between the ages of 66 and 84.

Source: "U.S. Interim Projections by Age, Sex, Race, and Hispanic Origin.” U.S. Census Bureau.

BMC Cell Biology - Image of the Month

HISTOLOGY MAJORS ALERT

Every month, BMC Cell Biology features an image IN COLOR from a previously published article as Image of the Month. An archive of previously published images covers 2005-2006.


BMC Cell Biology's Image of the Month for March shows the expression of the alpha6 integrin subunit and the urokinase plasminogen activator receptor in pancreatic cancer. The image comes from an article by Sawai et al. entitled 'Interleukin-1alpha enhances the aggressive behavior of pancreatic cancer cells by regulating the alpha6 beta1-integrin and urokinase plasminogen activator receptor expression'.

Featured Database: ABI/INFORM COMPLETE

Featuring nearly 4,000 journals, ABI/INFORM Complete™ is the most comprehensive business database on the market today. The combination of products forms a business database package that offers nearly 3,000 full-text titles covering business and economic conditions, corporate strategies, management techniques, as well as competitive and product information. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world. ABI/INFORM Complete is used at major business schools including Harvard, Michigan, Wharton, Northwestern, and Chicago.
ABI/INFORM Complete consists of:
ABI/INFORM Global™
ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry™
ABI/INFORM Dateline ™
ABI/INFORM Archive™
Newspapers, inlcuding The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times

Workshops on using this database are available in the library.

Library Instruction Workshops

English 101 (Lane)
March 23 9:00 a.m.

Assignment: Argumentative/Persuasive Essay with Research Component
Research process
Developing a search strategy
Evaluating information sources, including websites
Citing resources (MLA)

ESL (Landis)
March 23 12:15 p.m.

Introduction to Library Resources on Biography

Jay Leno's Shame Award

The 2005 Two-Year College English Association (TYCA) Shame Award went to Jay Leno for continually making disparaging remarks about community colleges/two year colleges and community college students on NBC's Tonight Show. Specifically, the award went to Leno for his introductory monologue where he noted, "Thousands of students gathered in Sacramento to protest the proposed hike in tuition fees -- all these community college kids." He explained that "You could kind of tell they were community college students," and then ran a video clip of young protesters -- presumably community college students -- holding signs bearing slogans such as "Skool is expensive," "Let us lern," and "Don't raise tooishun."

Negative comments in such a public forum tend to spark strong reactions, such as the two-year college professor who rode her Harley across the country to have a talk with Leno. See that story and "Students, Faculty 'Are the Best PR' for Two-Year Colleges" in the recent issue of The Council Chronicle in the periodical room.

Academic Leader Subscription

The library has a subscription to Academic Leader. This newsletter helps deans, chairs, and other academic decision-makers provide effective leadership within their departments and fulfill their institutions' primary missions of teaching and scholarship.

Includes news of successful programs (concerning faculty development, roles and rewards, and performance reviews, program/departmental assessment, curriculum, and governance) on campuses nationwide.

Click here to view the current issue summary

Contact the librarian if you would like to receive an online copy of the current issue.
mnowlan@goodwin.edu

Hartford Courant Historical at Goodwin Library

ICONN recently added a digitized archive of historical editions of The Hartford Courant. The archive includes over 280,000 pages of text from 1764 through 1922 and is available through www.iconn.org.

ICONN now includes more than 4,000 full-text magazines, newspapers, scholarly journals, ebooks, images, encyclopedia entries, and a statewide library catalog.

ChemRef: Open Access Chemistry

ChemRefer: Open Access Chemistry
Source: Mary Laine
http://www.chemrefer.com/

"A search engine that is designed to allow students, academics, chemical and pharmaceutical companies quick access to chemistry literature which is available on the internet... ChemRefer only finds literature that is full text and freely available (from many different sources)."

Tougher Standards at Two Year Colleges

Proposal Would Toughen Standards at 2-Year Colleges in Calif.

Faculty and staff members at California’s 109 community colleges are debating a proposal to raise the academic standards required of students to receive associate degrees, The Sacramento Bee reported today. The community-college system’s Academic Senate recommended last year that the minimum requirements be stiffened in both English and mathematics. Critics of the plan say the colleges’ open-admissions policies and increasingly diverse enrollments, including many students for whom English is not a first language, would make it extremely difficult to raise standards without having a major, unfair impact on students’ ability to move on to a job or a four-year institution. Defenders of the plan say the current standards are so low that students can graduate with few of the skills needed to succeed in whatever they do next.

New Periodical Issues Today

Business Week March 27
Medical Library Association News March
Money Apri
New England Journal of Medicine March 16
Newsweek March 27
Nursing 2006 Critical Care March
Teaching PreK-8 April
Travel & Leisure April
U.S. News & World Report March 27

RN Work Force: Almost 3 Million Strong

Compiled by Nursing Spectrum staffFebruary 27, 2006

A highly anticipated government survey of registered nurses shows the number of RNs is increasing, their income is growing, and a large majority of them like their jobs. But racial and ethnic minorities still account for only a small percentage of the nation’s 2.9 million nurses, workforce sufficiency varies widely among states, and, like the rest of the country’s workforce, nurses as a group are getting closer to retirement, according to preliminary findings from the 2004 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses.
http://www2.nurseweek.com/Articles/print.html?AID=19908

BOOK OF THE WEEK

HIDING IN THE MIRROR
By Lawrence M. Krauss

“Want to expand your mind? Let it wander in new directions! You’ll find some interesting company in extra dimensions, ranging from crackpot spiritualists to earnest physicists. You’ll have so much fun reading that you’ll hardly notice that it’s about physics and cosmology.”
--Walter Isaacson and Frank Wilczek

PubMedLimits Page Updated
Limits Page Updated

[This feature was implemented in PubMed on March 15, 2006.]

The PubMed Limits page was redesigned to provide an improved interface to limit search by age group, gender, human or animal studies, languages, publication types, dates and other parameters. Click the Limits tab to display the Limits page.

For further information:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma06/ma06_limits.html

CQ Researcher
March 17, 2006
Coal Mining Safety

Are underground miners adequately protected?
The year has started off tragically for the coal industry, which provides the fuel to generate half the nation's electricity. The deaths of 12 men in an explosion at the Sago mine in West Virginia — and nine more mining fatalities soon afterwards — have raised questions about whether the nation's 75,000 coal miners are adequately protected. Critics say the Bush administration rarely penalizes mine operators who violate safety rules. But the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) says its strict enforcement has led to the lowest number of fatalities in history — just 22 deaths in 2005 compared to 66 in 1990. West Virginia already has passed tougher state rules, and its congressional delegation advocates similar protections nationwide. Meanwhile, MSHA has issued new rules requiring coal operators to report accidents within 15 minutes and to stock more breathing devices underground. The agency also is testing the reliability of wireless communications and tracking technologies used in Australia but rarely in the U.S. (Abstract)

Resources for the Final Four
Source: Gary Price

http://digbig.com/4gskn

New Orleans Public Library

The New Orleans Public Library is asking for any and all hardcover
and paperback books for people of all ages in an effort to restock
the shelves after Katrina. The staff will assess which titles will be
designated for its collections. The rest will be distributed to
destitute families or sold for library fundraising. Please bring your
books to the Goodwin Library.