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.