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Trial access has been established for Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
Trial is through March 24th, 2008 and it's available via IP authentication.

Please Note: First time users will be asked to set up an account.
To access the database, point your browser to: Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Onlineis the first comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. More than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world, make this the most complete body of work focused on world music. This release includes 1210 essays and images from 10 sources.

For more information or comments, please contact Carole Vidali.

Posted by Ozemede Kadiri at 1:52 PM | Permalink

Trial access has been established for Oxford Scholarship Online
Trial is through February 23rd, 2008 and it's available via IP authentication.

Please Note: First time users will be asked to set up an account.
To access the database, point your browser to: Oxford Scholarship Online

Oxford Scholarship Online is a groundbreaking online resource, combining OUP's core scholarly books in thirteen subject areas: Economics/Finance, Political Science, Religion, Philosophy, Literature, History, Classics, Psychology, Linguistics, Physics, Mathematics, Biology, and Business/Management. The latest update brings the total number of scholarly monographs available in this cross-indexed, fully searchable database to 1,974. And on top of its redesigned, sharper look, Oxford Scholarship Online continues to offer the same outstanding functionality and content: sophisticated search capabilities, keywords and abstracts on the book and chapter level, DOIs, OpenURL support, extensive reference linking from bibliographies and footnotes, and much more!

For more information or comments, please contact Natasha Cooper.

Posted by Ozemede Kadiri at 1:50 PM | Permalink

Trial access has been established for Encyclopedia of Popular Music Online
Trial is through February 23rd, 2008 and it's available via IP authentication.

Please Note: First time users will be asked to set up an account.
To access the database, point your browser to: Encyclopedia of Popular Music Online

Encyclopedia of Popular Music Online (EPM)gives you online access to the largest and most authoritative popular music reference work, comprised of the full text of The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 4th Edition.

For more information or comments, please contact Carole Vidali.

Posted by Ozemede Kadiri at 1:48 PM | Permalink

Trial access has been established for Oxford Islamic Studies Online (OISO)
Trial is through February 23rd, 2008 and it's available via IP authentication.

Please Note: First time users will be asked to set up an account.
To access the database, point your browser to: Oxford Islamic Studies Online (OISO)

Oxford Islamic Studies Online (OISO) offers unrivaled online access to the history and culture of Islam and provides full-text access to great Oxford reference and scholarly works, including The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, The Oxford History of Islam, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, two classic interpretations of the Qur'an, a Concordance of the Qur'an, What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam, and the forthcoming Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World (due to publish in 2008).

For more information or comments, please contact Natasha Cooper.

Posted by Ozemede Kadiri at 1:41 PM | Permalink

The SU Library has added a new feature called RefShare to our campus site license for RefWorks. RefWorks is an online citation management tool designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies. It allows you to save and store citations, generate bibliographies in different styles (e.g., APA, MLA, Chicago) and, using the Write-N-Cite feature, automatically add references to a paper and generate a bibliography with them. You can import references from a number of SU Library’s online databases, the SUMMIT library catalog, and other bibliographic management tools, or you can manually enter the information into RefWorks.

RefShare is an add-on module to RefWorks that provides a quick and easy way to share your entire RefWorks database or specific folders with other researchers, further enhancing collaborative research. You can share your RefWorks references with members of the SU community and globally with any researcher who has access to the Internet.

For more information on RefShare, visit SU Library’s RefWorks help page at: http://library.syr.edu/cite/RefWorksHelp.html.

Our Spring 2008 RefWorks training schedule is now posted at: http://library.syr.edu/cite/RefWorksTraining.html. Classes are free of charge, and registration is not required.

Posted by Pamela McLaughlin at 11:30 AM | Permalink

Trial access has been established for RGE Monitor

Trial is through February 5th, 2008 and its available via IP authentication.

Please Note: First time users will be asked to set up an account.
To access the database, point your browser to: RGE Monitor

RGE Monitor is a Collected Resource for macroeconomic, risks, and emerging market data, analyses and commentary. Fulltext of National Bureau of Economic Research and Center for Economic Policy Research Working Papers.

RGE Monitor offers real-time coverage of news, commentary, research, analysis, blogs and data on global economic information applicable to business strategists, investors, researchers, academics, policy makers and regulators.

For more information or comments, please contact Natasha Cooper.

Posted by Ozemede Kadiri at 4:38 PM | Permalink

Syracuse University Library launched its new Business and Management Information Gateway on January 14th, 2008. A collaborative project of SU Library and the Whitman School, the Gateway is a customized collection of information resources specific to business and management that was designed specifically for Whitman School students, faculty, and staff. As information continues to shift towards online digital formats, the number of available information resources is increasing at a rapid pace. The Gateway organizes the best business information resources in a custom-designed and easy to use interface.

The Gateway's search functionality, powered by MetaLib, streamlines the discovery process and enables users to locate the information they need quickly and effectively. The new interface searches multiple information resources simultaneously, eliminating the need for users to learn different search protocols and interfaces. A single search will include results from a variety of information resources such as journal articles, newspapers, books, library catalogs, and other quality Internet resources. The Gateway also includes links to other library services, as well as to course-specific information developed by the library’s business subject specialist.

Gateway search results are presented in a manageable, unified format, enabling users to:

- Review retrieved items in a merged, de-duplicated list
- Group results by facets such as author, date, journal, or other attributes
- Compare the result lists of different searches
- Save relevant records and locate the actual material

The search interface accommodates the varying skill and experience levels of individual users, offering both novice and expert search modes. Options include a simple "Google-like" keyword search or an advanced search of specific fields with Boolean operators.

There are three audience-specific versions of the gateway available for student, faculty, and staff use. The gateway can be accessed through Whitman’s Blackboard Community Intranet; the student version is also available on the library website at http://library.syr.edu/information/services/whitman/students.html. Licensed online resources are accessible only by those with a current SU/ESF I.D. card.

For more information about this project, contact Angela Ramnarine-Rieks at x8709 or email auramnar@syr.edu.

Posted by Pamela McLaughlin at 2:35 PM | Permalink