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In this issue
- E-books
- Site search
- Study room
- BIOSIS
- SciFinder
- Signage
- Reference books
- Online help
- RSS Feed
- New books
Hot New Tool
RefWorks
Top Links
Library
Hours
ScienceDirect
Course
Rserves
Library
Tutorial for Nursing
Bulletin:
Remind
your students that Rodgers Library is offering, as a pilot project,
expanded hours, 24/4, Sunday through
Thursday, during the
fall semester.
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News
and Tips for UA Science, Engineering,
and
Nursing Faculty and Students
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More E-books are
our latest initiative for building a virtual library.
New conference proceedings
from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) will
be in electronic format only beginning in 2009. Access from
the ASME Digital Library.
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This summer Rodgers
Library also acquired access to the R2
Digital Library, a huge collection of nursing books. The
R2 Digital Library will give a boost to the large number of
distance
education students enrolled in the Capstone College of Nursing.
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To
help you find content in library-generated Web pages, try our
new Site
Search. A dialog box for Rodgers Site Search is at the
bottom of this page.
- The Nightingale Room, a new group
study place, is a popular stop for students working on
collaboratively on special projects. The room
accommodates up to
six
(6) students.
- In August, Rodgers Library started
a subscription to BIOSIS
Previews, the premier
database for the life
sciences. The literature can be accessed back to 1955
with this tool.
- SciFinder Scholar is
available for access from all campus computers. A special
desktop client must be loaded
on your computer to use SciFinder Scholar. Start
here. A Web version of SciFinder Scholar will be ready
later this fall.
- Navigating the
book stacks got much easier this summer with the addition to new
signage. Colorful images, along with standard call numbers,
point users to major subject areas such as geology and electrical
engineering.
- Our online reference book collections
continue to grow. Key collections include: Knovel,
ENGnetBASE,
and CHEMnetBASE. Also available: Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia
of Chemical Technology.
- Safari
Books online is a
great choice for computer science reference books.
- Your are invited to ask questions
or offer comments from the Online
help page on our Web site or email us at scenglib@bama.ua.edu.
We are always ready to serve you better.
- RSS feeds are useful to keep
aware on new books arriving daily in Rodgers Library.
This service can greatly
boost
faculty productivity. Open
now
- Another tool for finding
new
books is located in the library's catalog module. New books are
shelved in a display area immediately to the right when you enter
Rodgers Library.
RODGERS LIBRARY SITE SEARCH
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