NAXOS Music Online

Listen to holiday music from the library's database Naxos Music Online
Naxos Music Library offers online access to more than 17,000 CDs with more than 250,000 tracks, making it one of the largest classical music databases in the world. In addition to classical music, Naxos offers thousands of tracks of jazz, film music, world music, and classic and contemporary rock. Search for recordings by genre, label, instrument, composer, or performer, then create and listen to your own playlists

Identity Theft Figures in the U.S. 2005-2010

A Department of Justice report shows that identity theft in the U.S. affected 8.6 million households. See the full report at http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/press/itrh0510pr.cfm

Doing Business in the East African Community

You business majors may be interested in this report from the World Bank
Doing business in the East African Community

Affordable Care Act Ensures Women Receive Preventive Services at No Additional Cost

A report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Last summer, HHS released new insurance market rules under the Affordable Care Act requiring all new private health plans to cover several evidence-based preventive services like mammograms, colonoscopies, blood pressure checks, and childhood immunizations without charging a copayment, deductible or coinsurance. The Affordable Care Act also made recommended preventive services free for people on Medicare

The Changing Face of the Aircraft Industry

An International Report from Chatham House, U.K.

McDermott Library Facebook

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and check out the library events calendar at http://libguides.utdallas.edu/welcomeweek

Westlaw's Campus Research

Westlaw's Campus Research is an online research service that provides access to a comprehensive collection of news and business information and law-related resources. Campus Research is divided into two sections, News & Business and Law.
News & Business provides full-text access to current and archival newspapers, magazines, trade journals, newswires, newsletters, radio and television broadcast transcripts, and foreign language publications, as well as company information such as SEC filings and Hoover’s company records. The Law section contains federal and state case law, including cases from the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Code Annotated, the Code of Federal Regulations, American Jurisprudence 2d, American Law Reports, some law materials from the European Union, and content from over 800 law reviews and journals.

Ask A Librarian

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Databases -- New

These databases have recently been added to the McDermott Library Resources:
Latin American Newspapers
Early American Imprints, Series I: Supplement
Early American Imprints, Series II: Supplement
INSPEC Backfile
Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection
British Periodicals II

Readers' Guide Retrospective 1890-1982

This standard index to U. S. periodicals of broad, general, and popular character provides a well-balanced selection of nontechnical magazines representing all the important scientific and humanistic subject fields. The periodicals represent a detailed account of American cultural life from 1890 to 1982.

The Great Courses Tutorials

Designed to meet the powerful demand for lifelong learning, The Great Courses is an intellectual engaging series of video and audio courses led by the world's best professors and experts in diverse fields such as philosophy, history, literature, science, and the arts. The Great Courses currently maintains a catalog of more than 350 courses delivered by great teachers from the Ivy League, Stanford, Georgetown, and other leading colleges and universities.
Use the Ghttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifreat Courses Libguide for a list of all of our holdings.

New Off-Campus LOG IN

At the beginning of summer semester we will be switching our login authentication to NetID and Password. You can preview the new login screen at http://libtestproxy.utdallas.edu/

Now you will use your Net ID and Password (same as for email) instead of your UTD ID and last name.

New Resource on Complementary & Alternative Medicine

A new online resource, designed to give health care providers easy access to evidence-based information on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), was unveiled today by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) of the National Institutes of Health.

With this new resource, providers will have the tools necessary to learn about the various CAM practices and products and be better able to discuss the safety and effectiveness of complementary and alternative medicine with their patients.

Subject Guides

Don't forget the Subject Guides that the librarians have produced. We have 134 guides to date, including Literature Review, Job Search Tools, and Primary Sources.

Women in America : Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being

In support of the Council on Women and Girls, the Office of Management and Budget and the Economics and Statistics Administration within the Department of Commerce worked together to create the Women in America report which, for the first time in recent history, pulls together information from across the Federal statistical agencies to compile baseline information on how women are faring in the United States today and how these trends have changed over time. The report provides a statistical portrait showing how women’s lives are changing in five critical areas:

* People, Families, and Income
* Education
* Employment
* Health
* Crime and Violence

Generations and their Gadgets

Many devices have become popular across generations, with a majority now owning cell phones, laptops and desktop computers. Younger adults are leading the way in increased mobility, preferring laptops to desktops and using their cell phones for a variety of functions, including internet, email, music, games, and video.

Pew Internet Report

Cyber Bullying

Cyber Bullying and the Law

Although bullying has long been a problem educators have faced, we are now seeing tragic results of taunting and bullying through social networking websites, text messages and other electronic means that were not available just a few years ago. School systems and state policymakers are beginning to look at measures to prevent cyberbullying and punish those who engage in it.

Homelessness in the United States

State of Homelessness in America 2011

This comprehensive examination not only reveals national and state level homeless counts, but also delves into economic indicators and demographic drivers – taking an in-depth look at risk factors for homelessness. Built upon the most recent nationally available data from the federal Departments of Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, Justice, and other public information sources, this report analyzes the effect the recession has had on homelessness and how it has contributed to an increased risk of homelessness for many Americans.