Electronic Resources Update

We are excited to highlight our new electronic resources which we recently added. If you would like instruction or information on these or any of our resources, contact a .

New Look…

Ebsco released EBSCOhost 2.0 introducing a new interface for the EbscoHost Databases. Enhancements include a simpler basic searching screen, the ability to preview an article or image by mouseover, new result and detail display, new search history capability, enhanced personalization features, new search modes including SmartText and URLs that can be bookmarked.

Gale Literature Resource Center also had an interface upgrade. In addition to the new look, students can now e-mail citations in the appropriate citation format.

Oxford - Oxford Art Online and Oxford Music (formerly Grove Art and Grove Music) have new interfaces and added content resulting in the name change. Updated content in Oxford Art Online includes access to The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms and The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. Oxford Music online now also includes access to The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Second Edition and The Oxford Companion to Music.

New Reference Ebooks…

Gale Virtual Reference Library – Have a look at the Reference Ebooks we added to our existing Gale Virtual Reference Library collection of EBooks:

Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography

International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences 2nd Ed.

International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences

Elsevier’s ScienceDirect database now also has Reference Ebooks. These can be accessed from the Ebooks link on the Library homepage, from the Databases by subject pages or, by jumping into the ScienceDirect database for browsing. ScienceDirect features extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles in the encyclopedias and related journal articles, making navigation flexible and easy. Click on a title below to have a look at a major reference work or Enter ScienceDirect Ebook collection.

Also, watch for the Forthcoming title:

Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict 2nd ed

New Journals for Psychology:

Autism: the international journal of research and practice

from 2008 to present in CALCAT Jennings Library Print Collection
from 01/01/2008 to present in SAGE Premier 2007

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

We now have a print subscription to this journal which includes online access for the current year.

New Databases:

** DATABASE TRIAL** Testing & Education Reference Center Powered by Peterson's and brought to you by Gale, the Testing & Education Reference Center is a resource of unprecedented value for public, academic, This trial database will expose students to a variety of tests and test preparation

AccessScience features fully searchable content from McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th Ed. It also includes research updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology, definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, biographies of well-known scientists from the Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography® and the latest news in science and technology from Science News® and ScienCentral® videos.

MarketLine provides a comprehensive and unique collection of company, industry and country information, extending across more than 200 countries and every major industry sector. Updated on a daily basis, MarketLine is a dynamic access point to the world of market intelligence.

Mental Measurements Yearbook provides users with critical evaluations for over 2,000 commercial tests within a wide variety of areas that include education, psychology, business, aptitude, achievement, and intelligence. Written by leading experts in the field, this series supports the informed selection and use of commercial testing products. Typical MMY entries include descriptive information about the test, professional reviews, and reviewer references. To be included in this series, a test must be commercially available in English. Full text of test reviews is included in the database.

New Jersey Business-to-Business Directory provides access to more than 57,000 New Jersey Company profiles. Pinpoint New Jersey businesses by industry, location, company size, number of employees and revenue size.

New Links to Existing Databases:

Hoover’s Company Records, which is part of the ABI Inform business database, is now also a direct link:

Hoover’s Company Records - Hoover's delivers in depth industry analyses, information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers, and more.

Lexis-Nexis – Watch for new links to pre-set search forms on the Business, Biography, Education and Newspapers databases pages. These links should make searching this rich database a little easier. If you are a regular Lexis-Nexis user, you might want to look at the Lexis Nexis Wiki for Higher Education which has a wealth of information on searching and using this database.

NJKI Update:

Thank you to those who did advocate for NJKI funding at the $3 million dollar level. It is very likely that the survival of NJKI at any level in a very tough budget climate was directly related to advocacy. In the final state budget for FY2009 signed by Governor Corzine, the New Jersey Knowledge Initiative was kept at the FY2008 $2 million level. While this amount did not allow the State Library to replicate the original NJKI project, it enabled the continuation of the most used and valued databases including Academic Search Premier.

Jennings Library has funded for our students and faculty to have continued, uninterrupted access to the NJKI databases: Biomedical Reference Collection, Business Source Premier, CINAHL, Medline, Nursing and Allied Health Collection and some Nature Journals (Nature weekly, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Genetics, Nature Immunology and Nature Medicine). The NJKI databases which were discontinued are: OVID Journals, Regional Business News, Wiley Journals and some Nature Monthly Journals

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