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Syracuse University Library will offer several training sessions and help clinics on RefWorks, a citation management tool, during February, March, and April.

“If you are writing a research paper, thesis, dissertation, or article, RefWorks is an excellent system for keeping track of your sources,” said Ruth Stein, interim director of the Academic Integrity Office.

RefWorks allows users to save and organize citations, generate bibliographies in different styles (e.g., APA, MLA, Chicago), add references to a paper, and format a reference list. Users can import references from many other sites or enter them manually. The Write-n-Cite feature automatically enters citations and generates bibliographies as you write your papers; RefGrab-It automatically captures citation information from web sites, and then converts the information into your desired citation format.

The upcoming training sessions are structured introductions to RefWorks, while the help clinics offer one-on-one assistance with specific questions. Both are open to all SU students, faculty, and staff, and no registration is required. All sessions are held in the Electronic Training Classroom, room 046, Bird Library. To see the schedule, go to http://library.syr.edu/cite/RefWorksTraining.html

Librarians from SU’s Science and Technology Library have created a RefWorks wiki, an interactive web environment, to post information and tips on RefWorks and share experiences and questions (see http://refworks.wikidot.com).

RefWorks is available for free to all Syracuse University students, faculty, and staff, as well as visitors using the campus network on-site (see http://library.syr.edu/cite/refworks.html).

Questions about RefWorks? Contact refworks@syr.edu.

Posted by Mary Beth Hinton at 10:35 AM | Permalink

Trial access has been established for Africa-Wide: NiPAD Via Biblioline.

Trial is available through February 24, 2007.

To access the database, point your browser to: Africa-Wide: NiPAD

Africa-Wide: NiPAD (NISC information, Publications and African Databases) provides access to over 30 database files from three continents. It includes multi-disciplinary coverage about politics, history, economics, business, mining, development, social issues,anthropology, natural history, literature, language, law, music and much more.

Sources indexed include theses, dissertations, journals, current research, popular magazines, reviews, monographs, pamphlets, government publications, maps, microforms, newspapers, books, and music recordings.

For more information, contact Bonnie Ryan.

Posted by Ozemede Kadiri at 1:31 PM | Permalink

Trial access has been established for African American Studies through Oxford University Press.

Trial is available through February 16, 2007.

To access the database, point your browser to: African American Studies

NOTE: Access is via IP Authentication and can only be accessed on-campus only

The Oxford African American Studies provides students, scholars and librarians with online access to the finest reference resources in African American studies. At its core, AASC features the new, three-volume Encyclopedia of African American History 1619-1895, published by Oxford in 2006; the three-volume Black Women in America, Second Edition, edited by Darlene Clark Hine, published in March 2005, the highly acclaimed Africana, a five-volume history of the African and African American experience. The Center also includes content from much-anticipated forthcoming print publications including the African American National Biography project (estimated at 8 volumes), edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., scheduled for publication in 2008; and the Encyclopedia of African American Art and Architecture, due for publication 2007. In addition to these major reference works, AASC offers other key resources from Oxford's reference program, including the Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature and selected articles from other reference works.

For more information, contact Bonnie Ryan.

Posted by Ozemede Kadiri at 10:52 AM | Permalink

Books24X7 ITPro provides both broad and deep coverage of over 100 technology topics from over 145 publishers including premier industry publishers, such as Wrox, McGraw-Hill, Apress, and Microsoft Press. Popular book series such as The Complete Reference, Inside Out, Bibles and many others provide multifaceted, multi-skilled approaches to topics.

As of January 2007, the collection includes over 5,400 titles with, on average, over 50 new titles added per month. ITPro also includes community-driven content. This content, developed as a direct result of user requests, provides coverage of specific aspects of technology, including emerging technologies--coverage that is not readily available from traditional sources.

Note: Access limited to foursimultaneous users. Registration with SU or ESF ID is required.

To access this resource, go to:
http://libezproxy.syr.edu/login?url=http://library.books24x7.com/library.asp?^B

CONTACT
Maryjane Poulin
443-9771
mdpoulin@syr.edu

Posted by Mary Beth Hinton at 9:33 AM | Permalink

Trial access has been established for African American Experience Through Greenwood.

Trial is available through february 19, 2007.

To access the database, point your browser to: African American Experience

Username: syracuse
Password: library

Note: Access Oncampus is via IP Authentication

African American Experience is the widest-ranging and easiest-to-use online collection on African American life ever assembled, The African American Experience is the definitive electronic research tool for African American history and culture from one of the most respected publishers in the field. The two primary goals: to provide rock-solid information from authorities in the field, and to allow African Americans to speak for themselves through a wealth of primary sources. Drawing on over 300 titles, and designed under the guidance of leading librarians, this database gives voice to the black experience from its African origins to the present day.

For more information, contact Bonnie Ryan.

Posted by Ozemede Kadiri at 4:38 PM | Permalink

Trial access has been established for Black Studies Center through Proquest.

Trial is available through March 8, 2007.

To access the database, point your browser to: Black Studies Center
Password: syracuse

The Black Studies Center is a leading tool that supports research, teaching, and learning in Black Studies and other disciplines that benefit from a more detailed coverage of the black experience such as history, literature, political science, sociology, philosophy, and religion.

The Black Studies Center is the resource you’ve been waiting for—a digital core collection of primary and secondary sources that record and illuminate the Black experience, from ancient Africa through modern times.

For more information, contact Bonnie Ryan.

Posted by Ozemede Kadiri at 11:53 AM | Permalink

The Book of Origins: A Survey of American Fine Binding, an exhibition, will be on display in the Special Collections Research Center, 6th Floor, E.S. Bird Library, from 5 January to 14 March 2007, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Book of Origins: A Survey of American Fine Binding has its genesis in an international set binding exhibition organized by Les Amis de la Reliure d’Art du Canada. The letterpress text tells the creation story of the Huron people in English and French through expressive typography and five original lithographs. Le Livre des Origines opened at the Bibliothèque Gabrielle-Roy in Quebec City in September of 2005 and traveled to the Grande Bibliothèque of Montreal and the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.

The exhibition will feature contemporary fine bindings by ten American binders. The group includes established masters as well as gifted emerging artists. Two works will be presented by each binder; their binding in response to the set Book of Origins text, and an additional exemplary example of their work.

Other venues for this exhibition include Michigan State University, the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, the University of Alaska at Anchorage, and the Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

The complete exhibit can be seen on the Library's website at http://library.syr.edu/digital/exhibits/b/bookoforigins

Posted by Mary Beth Hinton at 1:42 PM | Permalink