Oxford English Dictionary Online

Te latest quarterly update to the Oxford English Dictionary Online is available at www.oed.com!
OVER 1,300 NEW AND REVISED WORDSThe revised material in this update includes words in the range of "ran" to "reamy." In his latest article, John Simpson, Chief Editor of the OED, discusses these revisions, noting that the entries at the beginning and end of these ranges tend to be rather inconsequential terms -- in this instance, when's the last time you referred to something frothy as "reamy?" Nonethless, Simpson also mentions that in addition to the monumental prefix "re-," the list of revised words also includes more significant terms like ranch, rancid, ransom, rational, ravage, and read.
Principal Editor of New Words Graeme Diamond highlights notable new words ew, plus-one, podcasting, and Rashomon in a commentary written for this update. New words also added to the OED include the quite colorful time suck, skeezy, brewski, and frenemy, among others.
THREE LAPS TO GOWhat will be the 3rd edition of the OED is now a quarter complete with this December update. At the quarter mark of this revision process, the OED now contains a staggering 263,917 entries (741,153 meanings), illustrated by 2,931,547 quotations!
THE OED IS CELEBRATING ITS 80TH ANNIVERSARYIf you’ve always wanted a copy of the Oxford English Dictionary (or if your current copy has seen better days!), don't miss your chance: the magnificent 20-volume printed set is only available through January 31, 2009 at the special offer price of just $895.

How to Read a Citation

If you have trouble finding a journal article or book in the library catalog, even when you have a complete citation, you might benefit from our latest tutorial How to Read a Citation.

RefWorks Webinars for August

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. Learn how to use RefWorks and discover its many benefits!

Sign up for a free account now (be sure you use your utd email address) and join one of these RefWorks webinars in August:

RefWorks Advanced Features
RefWorks in 15 Minutes
RefWorks Fundamentals
RefAwareWrite-N-Cite III for Windows
RefShare

Westlaw's Campus Research

McDermott Library is pleased to announce the availability of WestLaw’s Campus Research database, a valuable addition to the Library’s collection of electronic resources.

WestLaw’s Campus Research provides federal and state case law, including cases from the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Code Annotated, the Code of Federal Regulations, the Federal Register, American Jurisprudence 2d, American Law Reports, some law materials from the European Union, and content from over 800 law reviews and journals.

You may access Campus Research immediately, both on campus and remotely (a valid UTD-ID is required for off-campus access), using the Library’s electronic legal resources page.

Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources, sponsored by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, is a global teaching and learning network of free-to-use resources. It includes K-12 lesson plans and college courseware for you to use, tag, rate, and review.

Here’s just one example of the great content in this site:
Looking for open resources on Climate Change?
Climate Change is a 5-minute video with lesson plans about the difference between weather and climate, for grades 6-12.
Climate Change Course is a college-level unit exploring the science that underpins climate change and global warming.

Dictionaries, free online

Here are some free, online dictionaries from Oxford University Press:

Compact Oxford English Dictionary http://www.askoxford.com/dictionaries/compact_oed/?view=uk

Little Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (2nd Ed.) http://www.askoxford.com/dictionaries/quotation_dict/?view=uk

Concise Dictionary of First Names
http://www.askoxford.com/dictionaries/name_dict/?view=uk

STAT-USA/Internet & Daily Composite Quotations for U.S. Securities.

As of July 1, STAT-USA will no longer carry the Daily Composite Quotations for U.S. Securities. They have also removed the archives of these files from their site. However, they have obtained new files on government securities trading that may be of value:

Weekly reports on primary transactions in U.S. government securities, by type and by dollar value
Quarterly reports on primary securities dealers, ranked by their share of market activity
Year-to-date reports, updated quarterly, on the primary dealers’ trading in government securities