ERIC and Medline

Per request, I changed the links for ERIC and Medline to the Ebsco platform.

Biographies Plus Illustrated

H.W. Wilson's Biographies Plus Illustrated is now Biography Reference Center. Biography Reference Center, like Points of View, cannot be searched with our other Ebsco databases. Here is the product description
We also now have Biography Reference Bank. This can be searched with our other databases simultaneously, and is included in the articles search on the front page. Here is the product description.
Should I create another LibData resources for the latter resource, Biography Reference Bank, or not?

Dixie Price

Dixie will be out this Thursday, March 29th in order to travel to Knoxville to take her comprehensive exams. She normally works at the desk from 3:30-7:00 P.M. Please wish her good luck!

Sharon

Shepard's Citations

There is a Business Law assignment requiring students to use Shepard's Citations. It is now standard to do citation searches online rather than using print citators or the old CD-Rom versions. Shepard's Citations is located in LexisNexis Academic under the US Legal tab on the left-hand frame. Westlaw has a competing product called KeyCite. It is available in Westlaw Campus Research. You will need to click on the Law tab located on the header. From there enter either the citation or the case name in the Find box on the left-hand side. The KeyCite report is a part of the record returned about the case. I have added an entry for Online Citators to the online legal resources guide that explains how to access these important resources. It appears in the same section as the links to LexisNexis Academic and Westlaw Campus Research.

Sharon

Update on Article Linker connection to Ebsco

I received the note below from Serials Solutions today, in response to my concerns about error messages in Ebsco products from Article Linker links.
I've asked Serials Solutions to turn off the one-click feature for all Ebsco databases for the time-being. What this means is that when Article Linker finds that the full text for an article should be available in an Ebsco database, it will go to the Article Linker results page, instead of trying to open the article.
I have previously turned off one-click for Gale databases, so you can see an example of this behavior in this article: Is computer science education in crisis?
Please let me know if you have any questions. ~Mary Ellen

Hi Mary Ellen,

Thanks for checking in on this, and my apologies for the inconvenience. Our link development team has been working on this as a high priority and has identified a fix for this issue that will be applied an upcoming software release. As soon as I have a date from them confirming when this will be corrected, I will let you know.

Thank you again for your patience.

Best regards,
Lisa

Populations for Metropolitan Statistical Areas

Am I the only one who gets regular reference desk phone calls from a guy named Sam about 2010 population figures for Metropolitan Statistical Areas? (And sometimes about radio station output power?)

It always take me a while to fumble around and find MSA populations with American Fact Finder, so here's a direct link to the relevant Census Bureau table. I've also got this link bookmarked on the desktop of Ref2.

-- Jason

Using WorldCat Local to request books through ILL

Here's a tip for helping patrons request books through ILL:

- Find the book in WorldCat Local
- Click the "Request through Interlibrary Loan" link on the right
- Log in to Illiad
- The request will be pre-populated with the book's details
- Review, then click "Submit Request"

Baruss and Bal Article

You may have students asking for "Perceived Parental Attachment and Achievement Motivation" by M. Bal and Imants Baruss. The professor who made the assignment apparently did not provide any additional bibliographical information. The article is available only in print in Psychological Reports. It is in the December 2011 issue which is v.109 number 3 on page 940. It is shelved in the current periodicals area, but will likely wander. Although Psychological Reports is indexed in PsycInfo this particular issue has not yet been added.

Sharon

Bloomberg - problems with streaming media

I am working on a solution to a problem with streaming media on the Bloomberg terminal. I'll put a note on the monitor for the time-being.