Cambridge Books Online

The Graduate Center has a trial through March 8 to Cambridge Books Online offering the full text of 6,000 recently published Cambridge University Press books in all disciplines.  Browse by subject, search by keyword, or use the advanced search for keyword, subject, title, author, editor, or contributor searching.

COS Funding Opportunities

COS Funding Opportunities contains internships, grants, and fellowships offered in all subject areas.  Browse or search in basic and advanced mode by topic, funding source, deadline, and location.  Set up alerts about new opportunities; view brief online tutorials.

History Database Trials

CUNY has trials through March 31 to the full-text versions of America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts.  America: History and Life Full Text includes text from 222 of the 1,700 journals it indexes, as well as the text of over 90 books.  Historical Abstracts Full Text includes the text of 362 of the 1,800 journals it indexes, as well as the text of over 130 books.

Electronic Books from ebrary

As of January 25, CUNY has access to 46,000 scholarly books in all disciplines from ebrary.  In addition to finding these books through author, title, subject, and keyword searches in the CUNY Catalog, it may be beneficial to browse ebrary directly to see what types of books are available.  For example, the 5,723 titles under Language and Literature include 1,155 general literature, 1,120 English literature, 1,084 philology and linguistics, and 980 American literature titles, as well as hundreds of other titles about literature and language studies in languages other than English.  Using the advanced search and the text and key fields option will find books in which your topic is mentioned.  For example, searching the CUNY Catalog for film noir and ebrary finds seventeen titles, while a text search of ebrary for film noir finds 1,272 titles, with the ones mentioning film noir most often appearing first.  Select the Sign In button to create an ebrary account so that you can place selected titles in a Bookshelf.  Select My Settings to manage exporting records to EndNote or RefWorks.  For assistance in using ebrary or any other library resource, contact the subject specialist in your discipline.

Looking for an e-book?

As part of a pilot project, the Student Tech Fee Committee has provided the Mina Rees Library with funds to purchase e-books requested by students. If you find an e-book while searching CUNY+ online catalog, or a database such as Springer ebooks or Oxford Online Scholarship and the Graduate Center does not own it, use this form to send us a request for full-text access. The librarians will review the suggestions and add appropriate titles to the collection, based on our Collection Development policies.

Oxford Scholarship Online

As of November 17, the Graduate Center subscribes to Oxford Scholarship Online, providing the full text of hundreds of scholarly books published by Oxford University Press.  While the Graduate Center’s subscription allows access to abstracts of books in other disciplines, text is available for titles only in economics and finance, history, linguistics, literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, and psychology.  Title lists are available for each discipline.

Who’s Who in LexisNexis

LexisNexis has just added the Marquis Who’s Who Biographies.  These include Who Was Who in America, Who’s Who in Advertising, Who’s Who Among Human Services Professionals, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Education, Who’s Who in American Law, Who’s Who in American Nursing, Who’s Who of American Women, Who’s Who in the East, Who’s Who of Emerging Leaders in America, Who’s Who in Entertainment, Who’s Who in Finance and Industry, Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare, Who’s Who in the Midwest, Who’s Who in Religion, Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, Who’s Who in the Media and Communications, Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, Who’s Who in the West, and Who’s Who in the World.  To search these resources, go to LexisNexis, select the Sources tab at the top of the search screen, and on the next screen enter Marquis in the Find a Source search box.

Digitize Sound in the Media Room

Newly installed equipment in the Media Room will allow you to digitize analog media (lp/cassettes and video/VHS/) to e-files and save them to a portable drive (note that most of the files will be too large for a flash drive).

You can use your own mini headphones with the 1/8” jacks – no headphone checkout from the circulation desk will be required. Instructions on using this equipment are on the library’s web site at: http://library.gc.cuny.edu/faq/media.htm

This equipment was funded by Student Technology fees. Thanks also to Michael Oman-Reagan who helped us order and set up the equipment and to Eric Pellerin who developed the instructions.

Everyone is reminded to observe all “Fair Use” copyright guidelines when making digital copies.

Endnote X3 Available

The latest version of Endnote for Windows is now available for free download by Grad Center students, faculty, and staff. Use Endnote to organize your citations, take notes, format footnotes, and generate bibliographies.

New Book and Paper Scanners

Information Technology has placed two book and paper scanners on the east 34th St. side of the library’s 2nd floor. Scanning is free; a Graduate Center computer network login is required. Each Epson GT-2500 scanner has a sheet feeder. Both are connected to PCs with Epson scanning software shortcuts on the desktop. Documents and photos may be scanned to JPG, PDF and other file formats, then saved or emailed. Contact the Information Technology Help Desk on the concourse level of the library for assistance with these scanners.