E books

Check out the new English language E-books published from 2005 in the following subject areas:
Behavioral Science
Business & Economics
Chemistry and Materials Science
Computer Science
Humanities, Social Sciences, and Law
Mathematics and Statistics
Professional and Applied Computing


Individual titles also link directly from the catalog.

Christmas Music

Naxos Music Library Online provides Christmas music for you to download and enjoy. Included are:

Christmas and Hanukah: I'll be home for the holidays

A piano Christmas in the 1920s

Christmas Jazz

Christmas Gala: Dallas Symphony Chorus and Orchestra

A Kremlin Christmas- Christmas chants of Russia - 17th-20th centuries

ebooks

The Greenwood Digital Collection is a sophisticated research platform comprised of reference, academic and general interest e-books.
It is now the ABC-Clio Ebook Collection

How to Read a Citation

When your professor hands you a citation, are you confident that you know what you're looking at? Is it a book, a journal article, book chapter, or a conference proceedings?

Here's a short, easy to follow tutorial that will give you the answers.
How to Read a Citation

Country Profiles

COUNTRY PROFILES
This site supplies information on the history, economy, and politics of countries and territories. Each profile includes an overview, map, facts and current leaders. A media 0verview provides information on the press, television, radio, news agencies, and number of internet users. Links provided on the side of the profile connect to the latest news and key stories, BBC links. Background articles, related Internet sites, video and audio clips from the BBC archives, recent news links and timelines. Information on more than twenty international organizations is also included.

Compiled by BBC Monitoring.

Job Search Tools Subject Guide

The librarians have put together several different subject guides to help when JOB-HUNTING. Find companies in your subject areas, resume and interviewing techniques books and recommended employment websites. This is just one of the many online books recommended:
Interviews by Bob Rosner, Allan Halcrow and Alan Levins

Literature Review Subject Guide

This NEW subject guide, found on the library home page at http://www.utdallas.edu/library/ under Resources is a convenient tool to guide you through the literature review process.

Language Map

The Modern Language Association Language Map
A Map of Languages in the United States

The MLA Language Map is intended for use by students, teachers, and anyone interested in learning about the linguistic and cultural composition of the United States. The MLA Language Map uses data from the 2000 United States census to display the locations and numbers of speakers of thirty languages and three groups of less commonly spoken languages in the United States. The census data are based on responses to the question, "Does this person speak a language other than English at home?"
http://www.mla.org/map

Subject Guides, Tutorials , Handouts

October is Information Literacy Month, by proclamation of the President of the United States, Barack Obama.
The McDermott Librarians have compiled several subject guides, tutorials and handouts, including How to find a Book Review, How to Evaluate a Website and How to Read a Citation. These, and others, can be found on the LIBRARY HOME PAGE under RESOURCES

RefWorks Webinars

You may create a RefWorks account through the McDermott library using your UTD email account. The RefWorks Instructors offer several different online webinars to help you learn how to use RefWorks. You may also call Chris Edwards, Reference Librarian, at 972-883-2614 with questions.

Four Ways to Create Bibliographies in RefWorks
RefAware
RefGrab-It
RefMobile
RefWorks Advanced Features
RefWorks Fundamentals
RefWorks in 15 Minutes
Six Ways to Import Information into RefWorks
Write-N-Cite III for Windows

World Population Data 2009

Reputable statistics on world population from the Population Reference Bureau in Washington, DC.

"48% of people worldwide live on less than #2 per day"
"264 births per minute worldwide"
"US has the world's highest CO2 emissions @ 5697 million metric tons per year"

SciFinder Scholar

Good news for those science researchers who would like to use SciFinder Scholar from home! SciFinder is now web-based, and is available from off-campus to all UTD students, faculty and staff. Find SciFinder from the library home page orange button - ARTICLES AND DATABASES - then under 'S' in the alphabetical list. You must create an account with SciFinder using your UTD email.

Television Ads

This is an archive of TV ads from the 1950s to the 1980s - maybe useful for marketing classes or social history - but it's also fun to look at!
http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/adviews/

Jobs of the Future

If you're still trying to decide what you want to be when you grow up - this report from the Executive Office of the President's Council of Economic Advisers may help


http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/documents/Jobs_of_the_Future.pdf

Trafficking in Persons Report 2009

This report comes from the U.S. State Department, and could provide some statistics to enhance a really good research paper.

http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2009/index.htm

Looking for a job?

The McDermott librarians have created 2 subject guides for job hunters in Business & Management and Computer Science & Engineering. Check them out at http://libguides.utdallas.edu/index.php

Find a Company/Business for Employment Purposes in CS/EE
Job Search Tools for School of Management

Harris Poll

If you need the results of a poll to enhance your research paper, here are the 2009 polls from HarrisPoll:

http://www.harrisi.org/harris_poll/HarrisPollByDate2009.asp

Country Reports on Terrorism 2008

From the U.S. State Department http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/crt/2008/index.htm

Educational Statistics

National Center for Educational Statistics has released its new reports at:
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/naepdata/

Faculty Publications at UTD

If you're interested in UTD's faculty journal article publications, check out the newest Subject Guide - Publications produced at the University of Texas at Dallas http://libguides.utdallas.edu/content.php?pid=40707.

These are articles compiled in an RSS feed from the database SCOPUS, and the list is updated daily.

Artstor Database

Have you used ARTSTOR yet?
Artstor is a visual database that contains over 500,000 pictures, paintings, sculpture, photographs, architectural drawings, and designs. Derived from the artistic traditions of many eras and cultures, this material comes from museums, libraries, photographic archives, publishers, slide libraries, and individual scholars. You can use these materials in your research papers or power point presentations.
ARTstor User Services staff provides regularly scheduled online training sessions for three topics: Introduction to ARTstor; Presenting with ARTstor; or Teaching with ARTstor. These hour-long sessions are held using GoToWebinar and are offered free of charge to all ARTstor users. To view the upcoming schedule and to register for sessions, see the online training. ARTstor in 3 Minutes instructional video demonstrations are also available. The video series offers quick, three-minute or less overviews of ARTstor features such as: how to register for an account, how to download images to PowerPoint, and how to make image groups. The video series is also available on YouTube and TeacherTube (search for 'ARTstor').

Scitable

Scitable by Nature Education
is a free science library and personal learning tool brought to you by Nature Publishing Group, the world's leading publisher of science.
Scitable currently concentrates on genetics, the study of evolution, variation, and the rich complexity of living organisms. As you cultivate your understanding of modern genetics on Scitable, you will explore not only what we know about genetics and the ways it impacts our society, but also the data and evidence that supports our knowledge.

RefWorks

Did you know that you can take your RefWorks Account and data with you when you graduate from UTD? Here’s how.

New Subject Guides added!

There are now 80 Subject Guides compiled by the librarians to help you in your classes at UTD. Some of the more recent additions include "Finding Primary Sources", "Find a Company/Business in CS/EE for Employment Purposes", and "BA 3374 International Marketing Class Handout".

Select [New] Subject Guides, Class Handouts, Tutorials on the library Home Page.

Encyclopedias

Don’t Forget the Encyclopedias …
when you start your research paper. They are great sources for background information, refining your topic and search terms, finding relevant terminology etc. The library also provides access to many online encyclopedias including:

AccessScience: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Online

Concise Encyclopedia of Statistics

Encyclopedia of Major Marketing Campaigns

Encyclopaedia Britannica

… and many more!

Obama speeches

Here is the full text of Barack Obama's speeches from 2002-2009:

http://www.asksam.com/ebooks/releases.asp?file=Obama-Speeches.ask

Medpedia

Collaborative Online Medical Encyclopedia Goes Live
Medpedia, a new online medical encyclopedia relying on user-generated content from anyone with an M.D. or a Ph.D. in a biomedical field, officially became available today. The venture, which has the backing of numerous leading medical schools, was explored in an earlier Chronicle article that takes a detailed look at issues for contributors and users of the site. --David Shieh

As with all collaborative sites, you need to evaluate the articles. I found several grammatical errors in the first article that I read!

labmeeting

From a group of PhD students at Stanford University comes LABMEETING - a social website designed to "Make Science Easier".
Organize your PDFs, discover new papers and manage your labs.

Art Databases

The library has recently added Oxford Art Online to its collection of art databases. Oxford Art Online contains Grove Art Online and other collections.

ARTStor Visual database that contains over 500,000 pictures, paintings, sculpture, photographs, architectural drawings, and designs. Derived from the artistic traditions of many eras and cultures, this material comes from museums, libraries, photographic archives, publishers, slide libraries, and individual scholars. How to Search This Database

Oxford Art Online The new home of Grove Art Online, the Oxford Art Online database contains electronic versions of the Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Term. The Oxford Art Online database also offers thousands of images from ARTstor, the British Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Images for College Teaching, Art Resource, Artists Rights Society, and numerous international art galleries and artists. You may use the artwork from these databases in your power points, presentations and research papers. They add interest, color, and many times count as primary documents.
NOTE: Copyright restrictions may apply.

Subject Guides, Class Handouts, Tutorials

The librarians have developed a page for subject guides, class handouts and tutorials.
The HOW TO ... guides include:

Find a SWOT analysis
Find a book review
Create a Company Dossier

And others

Cell Phones and Driving

Here's a report from AAA on Cell Phones and Driving http://www.aaafoundation.org/pdf/CellPhonesandDrivingReport.pdf

RefWorks Webinars available online for January

RefWorks Fundamentals
RefWorks Advanced Features
RefWorks in 15 Minutes
Globally Editing Multiple References in RefWorks
Write-N-Cite III for Windows
Creating Non-English and Multi-Language Bibliographies in RefWorks
Converting an EndNote Database to RefWorks

Make the most of your RefWorks subscription - (provided FREE by the McDermott Library) by taking one of these webinars from the RefWorks trainers.
Then go to the library home page to create your individual RefWorks Account.