24-Hour Reference Service Goes Live!
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24-Hour Reference Service Goes Live!
In early August Information and Library Services (ILS) launched round-the-clock e-mail and interactive chat reference service. Now you and your students can receive prompt assistance with library resources and services whenever and wherever you need it. ILS librarians will provide assistance during regularly scheduled hours, and when they are not available, ILS has contracted with Tutor.com to respond to your questions. To get timely help when you need it, send an e-mail to library@umuc.edu or click on "Chat with a Librarian" on the ILS home page.
Citation Linker
If you know the title of a journal and want to locate full text of it in a library database, try the Citation Linker. Enter as much information as you know about what you are looking for in the appropriate boxes and then click the FindIt button. If full text of the journal is in one of UMUC's subscription databases, you will retrieve a link to that database. If UMUC does not subscribe to the electronic version of that journal, there will be a link to the interlibrary loan form that you can fill out and submit to obtain a specific article from the journal.
Database Changes
FIS Online Becomes Mergent
FIS Online has changed its name to Mergent Online and launched a more user-friendly search interface. Mergent Online provides current, detailed, accurate, and comprehensive information on United States and international companies. When you want to research the history of a company's financial information or create individual and comparative company reports that you can export into software applications such as Word and Excel, Mergent Online is the database to choose. Mergent Online also provides access to EDGAR filings for 10,000 US public companies. If you are researching profitability ratios, you can create a report by quarter or by year for one company or compare several companies in an industry and export the results into a spreadsheet. You can also retrieve country profiles with statistical data and a map. To access Mergent Online go to the Library Database and E-Journals page and click on M under Resources by Title.
New E-Books in netLibrary
This spring Information and Library Services purchased about 275 new titles for its e-book collection in netLibrary, bringing the total to more than 2,500 complete online books. Many of the new titles are in the business and management field, but the entire collection covers almost every subject. You can search the collection by author, title, subject, and keyword for individual books that you can browse for 15 minutes. If you'd like to read a book for a longer period of time, you can create an account and check it out to read online for two hours. For information on how to create an account, visit the E-book link under Electronic Resources on the library home page at www.umuc.edu/library. You can access the e-book collection through the library catalog or by clicking on N and then on netLibrary under Resources by Title on the Library Databases and E-Journals page.
Tutorials
A "Citation Explained" tutorial is now live in both HTML and Flash versions to guide students through the intricacies of APA citation. In practical terms, it explains why to cite, how to create in-text citations, and how to create citations for the reference list at the end of a paper. Both versions have interactive exercises to enliven and reinforce the main concepts; however, the Flash version goes further in allowing students to practice creating citations by dragging and dropping elements from database records, articles, and Web pages into citation templates and seeing the elements transformed into correct APA style. An MLA style tutorial is under construction. Look for "Citation Explained" under the Tutorials link on the library home page under Research Help, General Resources.
Library Instruction and E-Reserves
As the fall semester begins, remember to consider incorporating library instruction into your online classroom. To request a librarian to visit your online or face-to-face classroom and help your students with their research, submit the Request for Library Instruction form. In addition, we encourage you to use our e-reserves services to post Reserved Readings in your Web Tycho and Web Tycho enhanced classes. The ILS e-reserves team has created an E-Reserves Do's and Don'ts to provide guidelines for you as you use these services
URLs of Links Used on This Page
- Library Services
http://www.umuc.edu/library - Citation Linker
http://www.umuc.edu/library/database/ejournals.shtml - Library Database and E-Journals
http://www.umuc.edu/library/database/ - Request for Library Instruction form
https://www.umuc.edu/library/birequ.html - Library Services E-reserves
http://www.umuc.edu/library/ereserve/resfaq.shtml - E-Reserves
Do's and Don'ts
http://www.umuc.edu/library/ereserve/eres_dos_donts.html
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