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.

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
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