CCH State & Federal Employment Law Compare

CCH State & Federal Employment Law Compare

Allows the direct comparison of state and federal employment law, including law cases, federal and state regulations, and government rulings. It also provides links to summaries or full text of state laws and highlights recent changes. Results can be printed or exported to Microsoft Word or Excel.

Women Writers Online Database

Women Writers Online Database is a complete set of digital texts from the Women Writers Project at Brown University. This collection contains works by pre-Victorian women writers including 100 Renaissance texts. Among the types of primary sources included in this collection are: poems, letters, essays, book chapters and plays.

ARTstor Travel Awards 2011

ARTstor is providing five travel awards of $1,500 each to supplement travel costs to help support the educational and scholarly activities of graduate students, scholars, curators, educators, and librarians in any field.
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American Time Use Survey

The American Time Use Survey (ATUS) measures the amount of time people spend doing various activities, such as paid work, childcare, volunteering, and socializing.
For example - in 2009, employed persons worked an average of 7.5 hours on the days that they worked; they worked longer on weekdays (7.9 hours) than on weekend days (5.0 hours). Eighty-five percent of women and 67 percent of men spent some time doing household activities such as housework, cooking, lawn care, or financial and other household management on a given day.

Women Writers Online Database

Women Writers Online is a complete set of digital texts from the Women Writers Project at Brown University. This collection contains works by pre-Victorian women writers including 100 Renaissance texts. Among the types of primary sources included in this collection are: poems, letters, essays, book chapters and plays.

Statistics

Including statistics in your research paper is a great way to emphasize your position and enhance your research. The US government collects statistics like squirrels collect nuts. They are freely available at http://www.fedstats.gov/

You can also try the Statistics Useful Web Sites

Factiva Database

The database FACTIVA has news articles in 23 languages, and an audio option.

Artstor Database

Now available in the Artstor Database - Editorial cartoons and sketches by John R. Fischetti
ARTstor has collaborated with Columbia College Chicago to share more than 3,200 images of drawings and sketches by Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist John R. Fischetti in the Digital Library.
Learn more

ebooks

IEEE - Wiley eBooks Library provides access to over 400 up-to-date titles, covering emerging technologies, such as bioengineering, photonics & electro-optics and robotics & control systems. Access is provided to individual chapters in PDF format. Sign up for email and RSS alerts at http://www.ieee.org/go/emailalerts to keep you informed of the 40+ titles added annually.

Business Data & Statistics

Business data and statistics from the US government

Includes:
Banking statistics
Trade statistics
Labor statistics, etc.

State of the States 2010

In State of the States 2010, the Pew Center on the States looks beyond the acute problems caused by the Great Recession to examine larger trends that have the potential to change state government in lasting ways.

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CCH State & Federal Employment Law Compare

*** NEW DATABASE***
CCH State & Federal Employment Law Compare allows the direct comparison of state and federal employment law, including law cases, federal and state regulations, and government rulings. It also provides links to summaries or full text of state laws and highlights recent changes. Results can be printed or exported to Microsoft Word or Excel.

MAPS A-Z

*** New Database ***
A-Z MAPS ONLINE

This database features 146,000 maps on multidisciplinary subjects such as politics, geology, the environment, biology, and history. It includes climate change maps, hurricane maps, earthquake maps, volcano maps, fire maps, animal and plant species distribution maps, current event maps, political outline maps, and topographic maps. All these maps can be printed or downloaded for educational use.

Ebooks from Psycnet

The library has just added a collection of psychology ebooks. Individual titles can be found in the library catalog, or you may search the Psycnet Collection.

Giving USA Foundation

The Annual Report on Philanthropy for the Year 2009

Report of charitable contributions in the US from individuals and corporations.
For example:
» Total estimated charitable giving in the U.S. dropped 3.6% in 2009.
» Individual giving fell 0.4% in 2009. Individual giving is 75% of all giving or $227.41 billion.
» Corporate giving increased 5.5%. This unexpected bounce takes corporate giving to within 1% of its pre-recession level.
» Giving to religion fell 0.7% in 2009.
» Giving to education declined 3.6% in 2009.
» Giving to foundations dropped 8%.
» Giving to arts, culture and humanities fell 2.4%.

Native American Ethnobotany

From the University of Michigan -- Dearborn
Native American Ethnobotany
A Database of Foods, Drugs, Dyes and Fibers of Native American Peoples, Derived from Plants.

From the U.S. Department of Education National Center for Education Statistics:

The Condition of Education report

NEW DATABASE

IHS Global Insight Provides coverage of regional, national, and international economic, financial, and commodity information. Includes historical data on macroeconomic variables such as national income accounts, balance of payments, foreign debt, interest and exchange rates, money supply and employment.

Texting while Driving

Wisconsin is the 25th state to make texting while driving illegal

From the Governor's Highway Safety Association

Legal Forms

Gale Legal Forms
is available to students, staff and faculty of UTD. Access through the Find Articles and Databases link.
Includes:
Bankruptcy
Divorce
Name Change
Power of Attorney
Real Estate
Sample Letters
Wills

Tell Me More

The library has a new language learning program called Tell Me More from Auralog. Lessons, from beginner to advanced levels, are available for the following languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Lessons incorporate all aspects of language learning, including pronunciation, spelling, and grammar. Users need to set up a personal account and should use headphones with a microphone to take full advantage of the learning experience.

Artstor

ARTstor has collaborated with the Emilio Sanchez Foundation to share 79 images of works by the Cuban-born American artist Emilio Sanchez (1921–1999), which are now available in the Digital Library. Sanchez is best known for paintings and prints that depict the play of light and shadow on architectural structures. He also explored light and compositional structure through non-architectural themes, including still lifes and landscapes. Internationally renowned, Sanchez has had many solo and group exhibitions around the world and his works are represented in numerous private and public collections

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

The McDermott Library has the full set of Lecture Notes in Computer Science online, with many titles also available in paper. You may look at the full list of 5472 titles by entering "lecture notes in computer science" as a title search in the library catalog - or you can search for individual titles, including:
10th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, IWANN 2009, Salamanca, Spain, June 10-12, 2009 proceedings.

Films on Demand Tutorials

Films on Demand (streaming video)
This website shows videos purchased by McDermott Library which are available to students, staff, and faculty. There are films in the following categories:
Humanities & Sciences; Business & Economics; Career Education & Job Search; Communications; Literature & Language Arts; Foreign Language & Culture; Family & Consumer Science; Social Sciences; Psychology & Mental Health; Legal Studies & Crime.

Titles include:
Applications of Quadratics (10 minutes)
Coordinates (20 minutes)
Acids and Bases (30 minutes)
The fabulous story of the American Dollar (31 minutes)
America at War (35 minutes)

Top Journals in your Field

If you need to know which are the top journals in your field, we have 2 databases that you can use:
The Web of Knowledge includes Journal Citation Reports.
1. Click on Select a Database - then select Journal Citation Reports. Now select your requirements and submit:








The database Scopus includes a Journal Analyzer. Go to the tab Analytics. Search for specific journal titles under various subject heading. Your results will be returned as a chart eg:

C-Span Videos on the Web

C-Span Puts Full Video Archives on the Web. They include White House press briefings, Congressional sessions, and interviews. The archives cover 23 years of history and five presidential administrations.
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/

RIA Checkpoint Free Webinars

RIA Checkpoint contains comprehensive federal, state and local, and international tax resources, including information, insights and tools on tax, pensions, benefits, estate planning and corporate finance topics. The centralized search interface provides an entire spectrum of tax information: complete tax law, expert analysis, practitioner insights, tax related news, cases, rulings and more.

Learn how to use RIA Checkpoint with a FREE webinar:
To find a free course and enroll right away CLICK HERE

RIA Checkpoint can be found by going to


Then select "R" in the alphabetical list of Databases - then select "RIA Checkpoint"

RefWorks Subject Guide

Our RefWorks Instruction Librarian has developed a subject guide to help you get started using RefWorks.

RefWorks is a citation management service that allows you to import citations from online article indexes and databases, organize and manage these references within folders, automatically format them within papers and create instant bibliographies in a variety of styles.

RefWorks also offers these tutorials:
RefWorks 2.0: The New User Interface
RefWorks Fundamentals
RefWorks Advanced Features
Six Ways to Import Information into RefWorks
Four Ways to Create Bibliographies in RefWorks
RefGrab-It
RefMobile
RefShare
RefWorks for Faculty
RefWorks in 15 Minutes
RefWorks Administration Tool
Write-N-Cite III for Windows
RefAware

Newsletters

Did you know you can build your own newsletter from Thomson Reuters and receive expert insight on hot topics including impact factors, global research trends, emerging technologies and managing intellectual property?
Choose from these five content areas – we will then deliver your customized KnowledgeLink newsletter every two months:
• Global innovation
• Information professional development
• Intellectual property
• Pharmaceutical knowledge
• Scientific research
Build your newsletter and see recent articles

The world's most innovative companies 2010

FACEBOOK is reported to be #1

Full report

IEEE Xplore Database

If you're a user of the IEEE Xplore database, you will notice that they have completely changed their interface.

The content is still the same -
IEEE Xplore, produced by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, is ideal for conducting research in the field of electronics, electrical engineering, telecommunications, wireless communications, and computer engineering. It provides access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines, conference proceedings, as well as current IEEE standards. Complete full text is provided back to 1988, with select content reaching back to 1952.

If you need help with the new interface, please let me know carol.oshel@utdallas.edu - 972-883-2627

U.S. Industry Outlook - State Government 2010

2010 U.S. Industry Outlook
This report covers education, medicaid, economics etc.

Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States met for the first time, February 1, 1790.
For more information on the Supreme Court, including history, opinions, merit briefs, oral arguments, etc. go to http://www.supremecourtus.gov/

Primary Sources Introduction

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

Primary Sources Introduction

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Global Powers of Retailing 2008

Would it be a surprise to discover that Wal-Mart is the #1 retailer in the world?
Read this report from Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu to discover the next 249 top retailers.

WorldCat Database

Use the WorldCat Database to find out what is available in other libraries worldwide. Our Interlibrary Loan Department will borrow the materials for you. (We do not borrow class textbooks)
Find Worldcat by going to Find Articles and Databases and clicking on W in the alphabet.

Book Reviews

If you have to do a book review this semester the Book Review Subject Guide can help suggest databases/websites.

You'll also find information on how to reach the Arts & Humanities Librarian.

Safari Online Videos

Safari Tech Books Online now includes videos (at present 565 titles). They include JavaScript Libraries and TCP/IP Packet Analysis.

Business & Company Resource Center

The database Business & Company Resource Center has a new look, but still provides current business, company, and industry content including: periodical articles, press releases, corporate structures, financials and earning estimates, investment reports, and company histories. Sources include Market Share Reporter, Ward's Business Directory of U.S. and Private Companies, and other authoritative industry databases. Companies can be searched by name, ticker symbol, SIC/NAICS code, product/brand name or location.