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.