Thursday, March 31, 2011

Image Quest from Britannica

Image Quest from Encyclopedia Britannica is on trail until 4/30. Please check it out on the trials page and spread the word to interested faculty.
http://library.mtsu.edu/userservices/eresources/trials.php

Murfreesboro City Code

Murfreesboro City Code revisions since 1994 are uncodified. Unless an individual city department has put revisions online, individuals must visit the city Legal Department (1st floor city hall) to view the current Code. They are open 8:00 to 4:30.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Cinahl Plus with Full Text

We've upgraded to Cinahl Plus with Full Text. It includes more journals, 250 books, more retrospective coverage, and a few more journals with searchable cited references. It should show up in Journal Locator tomorrow. Comparision chart.

Here's the info from Ebsco's site:

"CINAHL® Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive nursing & allied health research database, providing full text for more than 770 journals indexed in CINAHL. Of those, 464 are not found with full text in any version of Academic Search™, Health Source® or Nursing & Allied Health Collection™. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index - with no embargo.

The database also provides full text for more than 275 books/monographs. With full-text coverage dating back to 1937, CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text also provides indexing for more than 4,600 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 2.8 million records dating back to 1981. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. Searchable cited references for more than 1,350 journals are also included."

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Getting documents off student laptops

Once in a while a student without a jump drive needs to get something off their laptop, and can't connect to the wireless.
The Computer Support Desk will help students retrieve the document for printing or e-mailing.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Spring Break Hours

The Student Health, Wellness and Recreation Center will be closed March 5-12 for workout and recreational purposes. It will be open Sunday, March 13, from 2 to 10 p.m.

The Campus Pharmacy, which is located in the Recreation center building, will be open Monday through Thursday (March 7-10) from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., closing for lunch between 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. all four days.

Phillips Bookstore will be closed Saturday, March 5, open Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. (closing at 3 p.m. March 8 for a meeting) and closed March 11-12.