Fortunately for us, iCONN has added the following e-reference titles to our collection at no additional charge:
Alternative Energy
Crime and Punishment: Essential Primary Sources Diseases & Disorders, vol. 1-10 Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture Encyclopedia of Products & Industries - Manufacturing Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450 Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. History, Government and Politics Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. History, War
They also have added the following titles that are the parts of the Diseases and Disorders series:
Acne
AIDS
Anthrax
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Headaches
Hemophilia
Obesity
SARS
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
West Nile Virus
Source: iConn
Monday, January 31, 2011
Required Course Readings
The Goodwin Library works with faculty to make sure your required course readings are available. Most of them are on reserve. Yet despite our hard work you may encounter a problem. Please contact the library staff as soon as possible if you are having difficulties.
New Rules on Sharing Scientific Data
Last week, a significant change went into effect at the National Science Foundation: The agency will now require researchers to submit data-management plans with their grant proposals.
Open government advocates hailed the move as the latest in a series of steps that are expanding public access to work done with taxpayer money. The policy will not go so far as to mandate public sharing of all data, which in this context could mean anything from glacier images to scientific papers to computer code. But it will “require people to essentially justify why they choose not to be open,” says Beth Noveck, a professor at New York Law School.
You can find lots of detailed information about the change at the NSF and the Association of Research Libraries sites.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Open government advocates hailed the move as the latest in a series of steps that are expanding public access to work done with taxpayer money. The policy will not go so far as to mandate public sharing of all data, which in this context could mean anything from glacier images to scientific papers to computer code. But it will “require people to essentially justify why they choose not to be open,” says Beth Noveck, a professor at New York Law School.
You can find lots of detailed information about the change at the NSF and the Association of Research Libraries sites.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Start Meditating
Scientists say that meditators may be benefiting from changes in their brains. The researchers report that those who meditated for about 30 minutes a day for eight weeks had measurable changes in gray-matter density in parts of the brain associated with memory, sense of self, empathy and stress. The findings will appear in the Jan. 30 issue of Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging.
Skeptical? Do you need evidence? MRI brain scans taken before and after participants’ meditation regimen found increased gray matter in the hippocampus, an area important for learning and memory. The images also showed a reduction of gray matter in the amygdala, a region connected to anxiety and stress. A control group that did not practice meditation showed no such changes.
It is hard to pinpoint the benefits of meditation, but a 2009 study suggests that meditation may reduce blood pressure in patients with coronary heart disease. And a 2007 study found that meditators have longer attention spans.
So what are you waiting for? Start meditating today. It can't hurt.
Source: Illustration and article "How Meditation May Change the Brain" by Sindya N. Branoo. New York Times January 28
CT Digital Collections
CT Digital Collections
Connecticut History Online (CHO) is a digital collection of more than 15,000 primary sources. This collection has been here now for ten years. Have you used it? If you haven’t, it’s definitely time to try it now.
The collection focuses on digital capture of historical artifacts, including photographs, maps, broadsides, oral histories, and manuscripts. This collection documents events, people, and places of Connecticut. There are wonderful stories to uncover here for many classes and research projects.
The photograph above is a 1930 aerial view of the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co in East Hartford. The automobiles are parked beside the large industrial building. I didn’t know they grew tobacco in East Hartford, but in the distance we can see tobacco fields with tobacco netting and tobacco barns. (I reduced the size of the photograph; it is bigger in the collection.)
Note: Personal or educational use of all images found in CHO is permissible. The site includes detailed information on how to cite text or images. This collection and two others are freely available to us through the Connecticut State Library, local libraries, and the Department of Higher Education.
Access here: CONNECTICUT HISTORY ONLINE
Connecticut History Online (CHO) is a digital collection of more than 15,000 primary sources. This collection has been here now for ten years. Have you used it? If you haven’t, it’s definitely time to try it now.
The collection focuses on digital capture of historical artifacts, including photographs, maps, broadsides, oral histories, and manuscripts. This collection documents events, people, and places of Connecticut. There are wonderful stories to uncover here for many classes and research projects.
The photograph above is a 1930 aerial view of the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co in East Hartford. The automobiles are parked beside the large industrial building. I didn’t know they grew tobacco in East Hartford, but in the distance we can see tobacco fields with tobacco netting and tobacco barns. (I reduced the size of the photograph; it is bigger in the collection.)
Note: Personal or educational use of all images found in CHO is permissible. The site includes detailed information on how to cite text or images. This collection and two others are freely available to us through the Connecticut State Library, local libraries, and the Department of Higher Education.
Access here: CONNECTICUT HISTORY ONLINE
Friday, January 28, 2011
Does college make you smarter?
In a recent book titled "Academically Adrift," the authors contend that 45 percent of the nation's undergraduates learn very little in their first two years of college.
The study, by two sociologists, Richard Arum of New York University and Josipa Roksa of the University of Virginia, also found that half of the students surveyed did not take any classes requiring 20 pages of writing in their prior semester, and one-third did not take any courses requiring 40 pages of reading a week.
Not everyone agrees whti their study. Read the discussion.
Source: New York Times Today
The study, by two sociologists, Richard Arum of New York University and Josipa Roksa of the University of Virginia, also found that half of the students surveyed did not take any classes requiring 20 pages of writing in their prior semester, and one-third did not take any courses requiring 40 pages of reading a week.
Not everyone agrees whti their study. Read the discussion.
Source: New York Times Today
Thursday, January 27, 2011
State of the Union Address
January 26, 2011 18:45
Remarks by the President in State of Union Address
Source: White House
See also: Congressman Paul Ryan Delivers Republican Address to the Nation
See also: Congresswoman Michele Bachmann: Response to the State of the Union
Remarks by the President in State of Union Address
Source: White House
See also: Congressman Paul Ryan Delivers Republican Address to the Nation
See also: Congresswoman Michele Bachmann: Response to the State of the Union
Monday, January 24, 2011
Trial on Business Source Premier
Business Source® Premier, the industry's most popular business research database, features the full text for more than 2,200 journals. Full text is provided back to 1965, and searchable cited references back to 1998.
Journal ranking studies reveal that Business Source Premier's full-text coverage outshines its competitors in all business disciplines, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.
ACCESS ON CAMPUS HERE!
Journal ranking studies reveal that Business Source Premier's full-text coverage outshines its competitors in all business disciplines, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.
ACCESS ON CAMPUS HERE!
Trial on Environment Complete Datavbase
Environment Complete™ offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more.
Environment Complete contains more than 2.4 million records from more than 2,200 domestic and international titles going back to 1888 (including over 1,350 active core titles). The database contains full text for more than 920 journals, including many of the most used journals in the discipline, such as Environment (back to 1975), Ecologist, Conservation Biology, etc. Additionally, Environment Complete provides full text for more than 190 monographs, such as Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (3 volumes), Advances in Water Treatment & Environmental Management, etc.
ACCESS ON CAMPUS HERE!
Environment Complete contains more than 2.4 million records from more than 2,200 domestic and international titles going back to 1888 (including over 1,350 active core titles). The database contains full text for more than 920 journals, including many of the most used journals in the discipline, such as Environment (back to 1975), Ecologist, Conservation Biology, etc. Additionally, Environment Complete provides full text for more than 190 monographs, such as Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (3 volumes), Advances in Water Treatment & Environmental Management, etc.
ACCESS ON CAMPUS HERE!
Respiratory Probems and Scented Products
A survey of selected scented consumer goods showw the products emitted more than 100 volatile organic compounds (VOCs), including some that are classified as toxic or hazardous by federal laws. Even products advertised as “green,” “natural,” or “organic” emitted as many hazardous chemicals as standard ones.
Read the article!
This article was published in Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP),a monthly journal of peer-reviewed research and news published by the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services. EHP's mission is to serve as a forum for the discussion of the interrelationships between the environment and human health by publishing in a balanced and objective manner the best peer-reviewed research and most current and credible news of the field. With an impact factor of 6.19, EHP is the top monthly journal in public, environmental, and occupational health and the second-ranked monthly journal in environmental sciences. It is also free and online readily available for everyone.
Read the article!
This article was published in Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP),a monthly journal of peer-reviewed research and news published by the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services. EHP's mission is to serve as a forum for the discussion of the interrelationships between the environment and human health by publishing in a balanced and objective manner the best peer-reviewed research and most current and credible news of the field. With an impact factor of 6.19, EHP is the top monthly journal in public, environmental, and occupational health and the second-ranked monthly journal in environmental sciences. It is also free and online readily available for everyone.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
New Journal Launched
A new open-access journal, Scientific Reports, will releast its first issue in June 2011. The peer-reviewed online publication will accept papers deemed scientifically sound and original without regard to the significance of the research.This policy is similar to that of the journal PLoS One Scientific Reports.
Quote of the Day
"Research in universities is so thoroughly embedded in universities that the line between the two has become difficult to discern. And research in universities requires solid undergraduate and graduate learning and teaching. It is foolhardy to weaken this foundation, because the modern research university is built on the energy and ideas of students. Students are not customers of a university; they are its very soul. The idea that research will prosper whle teaching and learning decay is a dangerous fallacy."
Source: "University cuts show science is far from saved" by Colin Macilwain in the January 13 issue of Nature, World View section, page 133.
Source: "University cuts show science is far from saved" by Colin Macilwain in the January 13 issue of Nature, World View section, page 133.
Cool Web Tools! "Send to Kindle: Any Web Page Text, With One Click, Using Chrome Browser
While this blog has an earlier article on using Instapaper to send articles to the Kindle and a revision of Instapaper has made it even easier now, what's described here is a new feature possible via the Chrome browser.
With the new Send to Kindle option, you can specify that the text content of a webpage you're on be sent to your Kindle at [you]@free.kindle.com. This Kindle address avoids the 15 cents per megabyte charge for sending a personal document over 3G Whispernet instead. The [you]@free.kindle.com
With the new Send to Kindle option, you can specify that the text content of a webpage you're on be sent to your Kindle at [you]@free.kindle.com. This Kindle address avoids the 15 cents per megabyte charge for sending a personal document over 3G Whispernet instead. The [you]@free.kindle.com
NEW TITLES IN EBRARY
New in EBRARY Academic Complete
They have recently added over 1,100 multidisciplinary titles from National Academies Press, New Age International, World Trade Press, University of Chicago Press, and other leading publishers.Below is a sample listing of newly added titles.
Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal,by Ben Mezrich (Anchor, 2010)
Brain Sense: The Science of the Senses and How We Process the World Around Us, by Faith Hickman Brynie (AMACOM, 2009)
Discrete Mathematics,by B.S. Vasta and Suchi Vasta (New Age International, 2009)
Innocent Bystanders: Developing Countries and the War on Drugs,
by Philip Keefer and Norman Loayza (World Bank, 2010)
Spirituality and Aging, by Robert C. Atchley (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009)
Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals, by Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce
(University of Chicago Press, 2009)
They have recently added over 1,100 multidisciplinary titles from National Academies Press, New Age International, World Trade Press, University of Chicago Press, and other leading publishers.Below is a sample listing of newly added titles.
Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal,by Ben Mezrich (Anchor, 2010)
Brain Sense: The Science of the Senses and How We Process the World Around Us, by Faith Hickman Brynie (AMACOM, 2009)
Discrete Mathematics,by B.S. Vasta and Suchi Vasta (New Age International, 2009)
Innocent Bystanders: Developing Countries and the War on Drugs,
by Philip Keefer and Norman Loayza (World Bank, 2010)
Spirituality and Aging, by Robert C. Atchley (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009)
Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals, by Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce
(University of Chicago Press, 2009)
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Don't Pass the Salt
The American Heart Association on January 13 issued a call to action for the public, health professionals, the food industry and the government to intensify efforts to reduce the amount of sodium (salt) Americans consume daily.
In an advisory, published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association, the association sets out the science behind the American Heart Association’s recommendation for the general population, which is to consume no more than 1500 milligrams (mg) of sodium a day because of the harmful effects of sodium – elevated blood pressure and increased risk of stroke, heart attacks and kidney disease. Elevated blood pressure (hypertension) is a major public health problem – approximately 90 percent of all Americans will develop hypertension over their lifetime.
There is no direct conversion, but 1500 milligrams is about equivalent to 1.5 teaspoons of salt daily.
Source: American Heart Association
In an advisory, published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association, the association sets out the science behind the American Heart Association’s recommendation for the general population, which is to consume no more than 1500 milligrams (mg) of sodium a day because of the harmful effects of sodium – elevated blood pressure and increased risk of stroke, heart attacks and kidney disease. Elevated blood pressure (hypertension) is a major public health problem – approximately 90 percent of all Americans will develop hypertension over their lifetime.
There is no direct conversion, but 1500 milligrams is about equivalent to 1.5 teaspoons of salt daily.
Source: American Heart Association
Pride and Prejudice for Feeley's ENG 102 classes
I have requested copies of Pride and Prejudice through Interlibrary loan. Students can also find this full text on line because it was written in 1813 and is no longer copyright protected. Any number of students can simultaneously read the novel online. Below is the link to the Gutenberg and other sites:
http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/pridprej.html
http://www.fullbooks.com/Pride-and-Prejudice.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342
There are other full text sites online as well.
I will have multiple hard copies by tomorrow and the rest will come next week. Enjoy!
http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/pridprej.html
http://www.fullbooks.com/Pride-and-Prejudice.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342
There are other full text sites online as well.
I will have multiple hard copies by tomorrow and the rest will come next week. Enjoy!
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Urban Fantasy Reads
Urban fantasy is a subset of contemporary fantasy, consisting of magical novels and stories set in contemporary, real-world, urban settings--as opposed to 'traditional' fantasy set in wholly imaginary landscapes, even ones containing imaginary cities, or having most of their action take place in them.
Examples of urban fantasy:
Moon Called by Patricia Briggs
Storm Front by Jim Butcher
Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison
Tell us if you have any favorites or suggestions for the library. Just click on "Post a Comment" below and write to your heart's content.
Examples of urban fantasy:
Moon Called by Patricia Briggs
Storm Front by Jim Butcher
Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison
Tell us if you have any favorites or suggestions for the library. Just click on "Post a Comment" below and write to your heart's content.
Highlights in U.S. Women's History
January Highlights in US Women's History so far this month:
Jan 3, 1949 - Margaret Chase Smith (R-Maine) starts her tenure in the Senate, where she stays in office until 1973; the first woman to serve in both the House and Senate as she previously served in the House (R-Maine, 1940-1949)
Jan 5, 1925 - Nellie Tayloe Ross is inaugurated as the first woman governor in U.S. history (governor of Wyoming)
Jan 7, 1896 - Fanny Farmer's first cookbook is published in which she standardized cooking measurements
Jan 7, 1955 - Marian Anderson is the first African American woman to sing at the Metrop olitan Opera
Jan 8, 1977 - Pauli Murray, the first female African American Episcopal priest, is ordained
Jan 11, 1935 - Amelia Earhart makes the first solo flight from Hawaii to North America
Jan 12, 1932 - Hattie Wyatt Caraway (D-Arkansas) is the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate. She was the first woman to chair a Senate Committee and the first to serve as the Senate's presiding officer as well
January Birthdays
Jan 3, 1793 (1880 ) - Lucretia Mott, women's rights pioneer, Quaker minister, pacifist; NWHP co-founder Molly MacGregor is honored to share her birth day
Jan 7, 1891 (1960) - Zora Neale Hurston, pioneering scholar of African American folklore
Jan 8, 1867 (1961) - Emily Greene Balch, economist and sociologist; co-founder of the Women's International League for Peace with Jane Addams (1919); won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946, shared with John Mott
Jan. 9, 1859 Carrie Chapman Catt, woman's suffrage leader and president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
Jan. 9, 1941 - Joan Baez, award winning singer and songwriter; human, civil, and peace activist; founder of Humanitas International Human Rights Committee (1979)
Jan 11, 1885 (1977) - Alice Paul, suffragist leader, founder of National Women's Party (1916); her strategies helped pass the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote (1920); initiated the Equal Rights Amendment (1923)
Jan 12, 1820 (1914) - Caroline Severance, early suffragist, social reformer; co-founded the American Woman Suffrage Association (1869); first woman to register to vote in California (1911)
Jan 13, 1850 (1911) - Charlotte Ray, fi rst African-American woman lawyer and first woman admitted to the bar in D.C.
Jan. 13, 1917 Edna Hibel the first woman to win the Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts.
Jan 19, 1905 (1995) - Oveta Culp Hobby, second women in the U.S. Cabinet (20 years after Frances Perkins), first Secretary of the Dept of Health, Education, and Welfare (1953); awarded the Distinguished Medal of Service for her work as Director of the Women's Army Corps (1945)
Jan 3, 1949 - Margaret Chase Smith (R-Maine) starts her tenure in the Senate, where she stays in office until 1973; the first woman to serve in both the House and Senate as she previously served in the House (R-Maine, 1940-1949)
Jan 5, 1925 - Nellie Tayloe Ross is inaugurated as the first woman governor in U.S. history (governor of Wyoming)
Jan 7, 1896 - Fanny Farmer's first cookbook is published in which she standardized cooking measurements
Jan 7, 1955 - Marian Anderson is the first African American woman to sing at the Metrop olitan Opera
Jan 8, 1977 - Pauli Murray, the first female African American Episcopal priest, is ordained
Jan 11, 1935 - Amelia Earhart makes the first solo flight from Hawaii to North America
Jan 12, 1932 - Hattie Wyatt Caraway (D-Arkansas) is the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate. She was the first woman to chair a Senate Committee and the first to serve as the Senate's presiding officer as well
January Birthdays
Jan 3, 1793 (1880 ) - Lucretia Mott, women's rights pioneer, Quaker minister, pacifist; NWHP co-founder Molly MacGregor is honored to share her birth day
Jan 7, 1891 (1960) - Zora Neale Hurston, pioneering scholar of African American folklore
Jan 8, 1867 (1961) - Emily Greene Balch, economist and sociologist; co-founder of the Women's International League for Peace with Jane Addams (1919); won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946, shared with John Mott
Jan. 9, 1859 Carrie Chapman Catt, woman's suffrage leader and president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
Jan. 9, 1941 - Joan Baez, award winning singer and songwriter; human, civil, and peace activist; founder of Humanitas International Human Rights Committee (1979)
Jan 11, 1885 (1977) - Alice Paul, suffragist leader, founder of National Women's Party (1916); her strategies helped pass the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote (1920); initiated the Equal Rights Amendment (1923)
Jan 12, 1820 (1914) - Caroline Severance, early suffragist, social reformer; co-founded the American Woman Suffrage Association (1869); first woman to register to vote in California (1911)
Jan 13, 1850 (1911) - Charlotte Ray, fi rst African-American woman lawyer and first woman admitted to the bar in D.C.
Jan. 13, 1917 Edna Hibel the first woman to win the Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts.
Jan 19, 1905 (1995) - Oveta Culp Hobby, second women in the U.S. Cabinet (20 years after Frances Perkins), first Secretary of the Dept of Health, Education, and Welfare (1953); awarded the Distinguished Medal of Service for her work as Director of the Women's Army Corps (1945)
Zenyatta: Horse of the Year 2010
The charismatic mare, who captivated a nation with her pre-race antics, was named the 2010 Horse of the Year on Monday night at the 40th annual Eclipse Awards in Miami. Zenyatta lost the Breeders' Cup Classic, but she still won horse racing's biggest prize.
Zenyatta ended her career with 19 wins in 20 starts, but the last race was the toughest.The 6-year-old mare was defeated in the Breeders' Cup Classic by Blame, who was also one of the three finalists for Horse of the Year. After Zenyatta won the Breeders' Cup Classic a year ago, she was defeated for Horse of the Year by another mare--Rachel Alexandra.
Source: Albany Times Union
Free Chemistry Peer-reviewed Articles
Chemistry Central publishes peer-reviewed open access research in chemistry. Chemistry Central is part of the BioMed Central group.
Chemistry Central publishes a range of online open access journals, and provides links to other online open access journals of interest published by BioMed Central.
On of the most frequently accessed article in the last 30 days?
Chemistry in Second Life
Andrew SID Lang, Jean-Claude Bradley
Chemistry Central Journal 2009, 3:14 (23 October 2009)
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