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The Prizes will be awarded to entrants in the US, Canada, Asia, Eastern Europe, Western Europe and all other regions. All winners must present correct answers to 3 quiz questions. All universities, domestic and international, are eligible to participate and win. For entries to be valid, and to qualify for prizes,  students must use Knovel to answer the questions.

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Adil Mudassir, a graduate student in Electrical and Computer Engineering, recounts his literature search experience for a class assignment for a course during the Spring term.

In his own words:

“I attended a library information seminar in Fall 07 and through it, got to know about the plethora of information and resources made available at the library. This was useful for me during the ECE-C633 course I took this Spring under Dr. Sethu. We were to do a literature survey and critique a technical paper in the field of networking. I was able to go to the IEEE Transactions as well as ACM Digital Library through the library and then decided on the following paper – Efficient Cache Management for Multi-hop Wireless Networks -  -  getting all this information in the library helped me a lot for my coursework.”

LibX Drexel Edition is a Firefox and Internet Explorer extension that provides direct access to your Library’s resources.  Its features include:

1. Toolbar & right-click context menu: Search your library catalog directly from the LibX toolbar or using the right-click context menu.

2. Support for off-campus access via EZProxy/WAM: Using the Library’s off-campus proxy, you may reload a page through the proxy, or follow a link via the proxy, making it appear as though you are coming from an on-campus computer.

3. Quick full text access to journal articles: LibX uses Google Scholar to search for articles and directs the user to the electronic copy subscribed to by your Library.

To see LibX’s other features and to download it, go to LibX Drexel Edition.