Tuesday, March 30, 2010

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:

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

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/

Friday, March 12, 2010

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"

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

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

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

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