ScienceDirect, Elsevier's ejournal search platform, has added some new features and enhancements:

Want to see reference information without scrolling to the foot of an article? It is now possible to view reference information within the body of a paper when your cursor moves over a reference marker.

Want to quickly evaluate articles before reading them? You’ll find easy access to important article components including the abstract, figures/tables and references on the search results, table of contents and article pages.

You’ve evaluated and read the article, what now? You can take further action quickly and easily. A new article toolbox brings together all of the article-related functionality including "Cited By", "E-mail Article" and more, into one easy-to-find location.

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We're pleased to announce a new web interface for Scifinder Scholar, the search interface for access to Chemical Abstracts online. The web interface can be used without downloading and installing client software, and does not require use of the VPN.

While all search features are available in the web interface our Math Sciences Librarian, Peggy Dominy, has identified some functions -- primarily used by those doing bibliometric analysis -- for which the downloadable interface may be preferred, therefore we will continue to make this version available as well.

Chemical Abstracts covers the published scientific research in chemistry, and offers searching by author name, research topic, substance identifier, chemical structure, or chemical reaction. Now includes the Substructure Module (SSM). The limit of 4 simlutaneous users will continue to apply regardless of which interface is in use.

Look for both versions of Scifinder Scholar in our lists of databases.

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Browse the April New Book Lists for recent additions to the Hagerty and Health Sciences Library Collections. For your convenience, the lists are grouped by broad subject areas -- set a bookmark for your area of interest ; although the lists are updated each month, the page address for each subject area will always stay the same.

For a more personalized or specialized announcement of additions to the library collections, set up an email alert using the "Preferred Searches" feature of our catalog.

At right, Bananas : how the United Fruit Company shaped the world / Peter Chapman.

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Browse the March New Book Lists for recent additions to the Hagerty and Health Sciences Library Collections. For your convenience, the lists are grouped by broad subject areas -- set a bookmark for your area of interest ; although the lists are updated each month, the page address for each subject area will always stay the same.

For a more personalized or specialized announcement of additions to the library collections, set up an email alert using the "Preferred Searches" feature of our catalog.

At right, Jeans: a cultural history of an American icon / by James Sullivan.

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Recycling? Biofuels? Green buildings? Environmentally-sensitive product packaging? A recent addition to our collection of databases, EbscoHost's GreenFILE, is a good place to find information on any of these topics:

GreenFILE offers well-researched but accessible information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles include content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done on each level to minimize negative impact. Topics covered include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. GreenFILE is multidisciplinary by nature and draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.

Need more? You'll find a lot of useful suggestions on Science Librarian Peggy Dominy's Research Guide for Environmental Science.

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We're pleased to announce the addition of the APA Style Guide to Electronic Reference to our electronic collections:

Expanded and updated from the Electronic Resources section of the Fifth Edition of the Publication Manual, this comprehensive yet succinct style guide in PDF format offers up-to-date information on formatting electronic references in APA style. With more than 40 example references, the APA Style Guide to Electronic References outlines for students and writers the key elements to include in references to electronic sources, with numerous examples.

Among the new examples are dissertations and theses; bibliographies; curriculum and course material; reference materials, including Wiki; gray literature, such as conference hearings, presentation slides, and policy briefs; general interest media and alternative presses such as audio podcasts; and online communities, such as Weblog posts and video Weblog posts. Students and writers will find this guide indispensable as well as convenient to download and use when citing electronic references.

This brief guide, in useful pdf format, is available to students and other members of the Drexel community (yes, you may print a copy for yourself) -- just search "APA style" in the Library Catalog.

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Interested in finding out how many books are borrowed from the libraries in a year? How many electronic books the libraries offer? how many reference questions did we answer last year?

We've added a Libraries factsheet to our website, listing basic data and statistics about the libraries' facilities, services and resources. Check out our numbers at http://www.library.drexel.edu/resources/documents/factsheet.pdf.

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Browse the February New Book Lists for recent additions to the Hagerty and Health Sciences Library Collections. For your convenience, the lists are grouped by broad subject areas -- set a bookmark for your area of interest ; although the lists are updated each month, the page address for each subject area will always stay the same.

For a more personalized or specialized announcement of additions to the library collections, set up an email alert using the "Preferred Searches" feature of our catalog.

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The Freshman Writers Toolbox is the starting point for students in the English 102 course in preparation for the Library Instruction session they will attend during the 3rd or 4th week of classes. Visit the Toolbox for an overview of research tools available through the library.

All English 102 students are requested to view the online Library Research Skills tutorial (in Powerpoint) prior to their scheduled library class:

• Part One: Introduction
  
• Part Two: Scholarly Information
  
• Part Three: Database Searching
  
• Part Four: Finding Full-Text
  
• Part Five: A Database Searching Exercise

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Ann Keith Kennedy, Librarian for Media Arts and Design, is pleased to announce that we have added another streaming audio service from Alexander Street Press to our collections. Alexander Street Press are also the producers of our popular Classical Music Library.

American Song is a history database that will contain 50,000 tracks that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past. The database will include songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests and more.

The first release includes music from many labels, including Rounder Records, McNeil Music, Native Ground Music, Rebel Records, County Records, Smithsonian Folkways, and Document Records. American Song will become the definitive source for American roots music and pre-1960 American popular music. It encompasses the great American musical genres including country, folk, bluegrass, Western, old time, American Indian, blues, gospel, and shape note singing - combined with powerful recordings by artists such as Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Peggy Seeger, Si Kahn, Lead Belly, Sleepy LaBeef, the New Lost City Ramblers, Otis Clay, Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater, Nanci Griffith, The Lilly Brothers, Merle Travis, and many others.

It is linked on our Databases by Title page, the Databases/Article Indexes for Performing Arts, as well as the Music/Music Industry Research Guide.

Or, for quick immediate access:

http://www.library.drexel.edu/cgi-bin/r.cgi?url=http://amso.alexanderstreet.com/

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Browse the January New Book Lists for recent additions to the Hagerty and Health Sciences Library Collections. For your convenience, the lists are grouped by broad subject areas -- set a bookmark for your area of interest ; although the lists are updated each month, the page address for each subject area will always stay the same.

For a more personalized or specialized announcement of additions to the library collections, set up an email alert using the "Preferred Searches" feature of our catalog.

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The Libraries are excited to announce that trial access to the CSA’s newly integrated Community of Scholars products is now live, and will continue until February 22nd. Please send feedback on these to Jane Bryan at jgb34@drexel.edu.

COS Funding Opportunities
A compiled database of available opportunities for grants, fellowships, prizes and other type of funding. It is an extensive database with opportunities for recipients anywhere in the world, working in any discipline. Opportunity sponsors come from the public and private sector, including local, state and national governments, foundations and societies, and corporations.

COS Papers Invited
The database consists of detailed information and deadlines about calls for papers for forthcoming conferences and special issues of scholarly journals. These calls for papers are issued by professional bodies, journal editors and other conference organizers in all disciplines and from all over the world. Thus, the database serves as an alerting service for researchers, scholars and students that are seeking opportunities to present and publish their research. Approximately 10,000 conferences are listed each year along with 1,200-1,500 special issues.

COS Scholar Universe
Provides authoritative information about more than 1 million scholars and organizations around the world, together with verified affiliation and publication information. The database comprises international faculty at 4-year universities and their departments. Also searchable from within any of Drexel's CSA databases. A complement to COS Expertise.

From the libraries’ funding databases page (http://www.library.drexel.edu/resources/dbsubjects/funding.html) choose any of the three COS trials (Funding Opportunities, Papers Invited, Scholar Universe). All will lead you to the basic search page and your results will include tabs for available funding, scholars, calls for papers, as well as published articles, web sites, conference papers, books. (Note: this bibliography does not necessarily include all publications by a scholar or on a topic.)

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Browse the December New Book Lists for recent additions to the Hagerty and Health Sciences Library Collections. For your convenience, the lists are grouped by broad subject areas -- set a bookmark for your area of interest ; although the lists are updated each month, the page address for each subject area will always stay the same.

For a more personalized or specialized announcement of additions to the library collections, set up an email alert using the "Preferred Searches" feature of our catalog.

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Students using the public computers in Hagerty Library will be pleased to find that Office 2007 applications are now available, as well as Office 2003.

In order to further improve library computer services, we're conducting a brief survey. You can connect to the survey from any of the public computers (look for the Firefox icon on the lower left of the desktop) or connect directly at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=yf5nxCQ4weEU0JJoIsZFUw_3d_3d. Let us know what you think about the hardware, software, and technical support offered in Hagerty Library.

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Business Librarian Emily Missner is pleased to announce the availability of Mergent WebReports Digital Corporate Manuals, the electronic form of the old Moody’s Manuals in a digitized TIFF format. This database spans from 1909 to the most current year. You'll find the Mergent WebReports at http://www.library.drexel.edu/cgi-bin/r.cgi?url=http://webreports.mergent.com or in our list of Business and Economics Databases.

Mergent WebReports includes every manual published since 1909:

• Industrial Manual since 1920
  
• OTC Industrial Manual since 1970
  
• OTC Unlisted Manual since 1986
  
• Bank and Finance Manual since 1928
  
• Public Utility Manual since 1914
  
• Transportation Manual since 1909
  
• International Manual since 1981

Engineering Librarian Jay Bhatt announces the addition of the Merck Manual to the Knovel collection of e-books:

"An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. The Merck Index is a world renowned, authoritative handbook of chemical, pharmaceutical and biomedical information that contains more than 10,000 monographs, 32 supplemental tables and 450 Organic Name Reactions and almost 1000 retired monographs. Provided by Knovel."

Read more about online access to the Merck Index in Jay's very popular Englibrary Blog.

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Browse the November New Book Lists for recent additions to the Hagerty and Health Sciences Library Collections. For your convenience, the lists are grouped by broad subject areas -- set a bookmark for your area of interest ; although the lists are updated each month, the page address for each subject area will always stay the same.

And of course, if you want a more personalized or specialized announcement of additions to the library collections, set up an email alert using the "Preferred Searches" feature of our catalog.

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As we continue to replace the print bound journal and index collections at Hagerty with available electronic journal coverage, we have purchased more electronic content and indexes available to the entire University community. We now own the electronic backfiles to 549 journals not previously accessible online to Drexel Libraries. These titles are contained within several Springer Online Archive packages and the American Institute of Physics Archive that have been purchased with funds provided by the Provost for replacing our print journals. Fifty-eight of these titles replace Hagerty’s bound print holdings; the rest are additions to our collection.

All of these titles are now available in the catalog and electronic journals list. Please see the following pages for the individual journal titles included in each collection:

• AIP Digital Archive


• Springer Link Historical Archives Chemistry and Materials Science


• Springer Link Historical Archives Computer Sciences


• Springer Link Historical Archives Earth and Environmental Sciences


• Springer Link Historical Archives Engineering


• Springer Link Historical Archives Mathematics


• Springer Link Historical Archives Physics and Astronomy

• Library Literature and Information Science Retrospective
  
• Applied Science and Technology Retrospective
  
• Readers Guide Retrospective

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Browse the October New Book Lists for recent additions to the Hagerty Library Collections. For your convenience, the lists are grouped by broad subject areas -- set a bookmark for your area of interest ; although the lists will be updated each month, the page address for each subject area will always stay the same.

And of course, if you want a more personalized or specialized announcement of additions to the library collections, set up an email alert using the "Preferred Searches" feature of our catalog.

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The Careers Collection remains closed while it is moved from Hagerty Library to the Steinbright Career Development Center suite at 3201 Arch Street. The move will allow better integration of the collection, and the services of Careers Librarian Jenny Roberts, with the services and resources of the Steinbright Career Development Center.

Watch for announcements of the grand re-opening of the Careers Collection!

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Hagerty Library is very pleased to announce the addition of major electronic journal backfiles, which significantly expand the retrospective coverage of our online journal collection. The Wiley Interscience and Elsevier backfiles collections include 575 journals, primarily in the sciences, computer and engineering disciplines, with coverage of some titles extending back as far as the 1930's. While 145 of these titles replace titles currently in our print journal holdings, the remaining 430 titles are new to our collections.

Use studies and surveys have shown that our faculty and students, particularly those in the science and technical fields, have a strong preference for journals in electronic format. The purchase of these backfile collections with special funds provided by the Provost will allow us to remove underutilized print volumes to clear space on the third floor of Hagerty Library for use by the College of Law Library.

A list of the journal titles and coverage provided in the Wiley and Elsevier backfiles is available at http://www.library.drexel.edu/resources/backfiles-oct2007.html. The titles have already been added to the library catalog and electronic journal lists. Watch for announcements of additional titles as we continue to enhance the electronic collections.

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"Does the library have the assigned textbook for my class?"

Maybe. At Hagerty Library, we don't buy the required textbook for every course (if we did, we'd have a library full of out-of-date textbooks and nothing else). We will have one or more copies of required readings for a course on Reserve, if the instructor has requested that we do so.

You can find books or course readings on Reserve by the course number (for example, MATH101), or by the instructors name. At Hagerty Library, most Reserve books can be checked out for 2 hours at a time to be used only in the Library; this ensures that everyone in a class has an equal chance to use the books.

You may occasionally find a required book (or an older but still useful edition of it) in the general library collection. You can check by searching the Library Catalog for the title or author's name.

Psssst -- if there isn't anything on reserve for your class, let your instructor know how useful it would be to his or her students!

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Congratulations -- you've found your way to the Library! Learn about the services and resources the Libraries have to offer -- online and in-person -- on our New Students' Guide to the Libraries.

Watch this space (or subscribe to this news blog -- see below) for tips for making the most of the libraries, and answers to some frequently asked questions.

Do you have a question for us? Ask us! By email, by instant messaging, by phone -- or come in and say hello! no question too big, too small or too silly!

Continue reading "Welcome New Students!" »

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It's been a busy summer here in the libraries -- we have a lot to tell you about!

• You'll notice a new entrance gate when you come in to Hagerty Library. Just swipe your DragonCard over the stripes on the top of the gate support, and wait a few seconds for the bars to drop. You don't even need to take your card out of your wallet!
  
• New DragonCard machines have been installed at both Hagerty and Hahnemann Libraries; you can check the balance of all funds on your card, and add money for printing and copying. At Hagerty, the machine is located on the first floor near the reference-area printer; at Hahnemann, you'll find it in the 24-hour study room.
  
• Six new group study rooms have been created at Hahnemann; they can be used for individual quiet study when they aren't signed out to a group.
  
• IM Reference service is now offered at Hahnemann Library as well as Hagerty. For screennames, times, etc.
  
• Construction is underway at Hagerty Library to create a 24-hour Study Room on the south side of the 1st floor (previously the reserve/periodicals reading room). The room is planned to be a lounge-style area, with comfortable seating to facilitate group work, with some form of coffee/snack vending provided. Read more in the Triangle!
  
• New stuff! New laptops, new PC's at Hagerty and Hahnemann, 2 42" LCD TVs in viewing rooms at Hagerty -- get the full story in our 7/27 blog posting.
  

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Or nanotubes? or enzymology? Whatever your area of interest, you can receive email alerts from the library when relevant items are added to the library collections, using the Preferred Searches feature available through the MY Library Record service.

To set up an email alert:

• Log in to your library record (look for the "Check MY Library Record" link on the Library Homepage) -- use your Drexel email ID and password to log in.
  
• From your record, click on the "Search Catalog" button.
  
• Search for library items that match your interests; you can use a subject search, author search or keyword search, or used the Advanced Keyword feature to construct a more complex search strategy (need help? Ask a Reference Librarian!).
  
• At the top of your search result list, click on "Save Your Search".
  
  
• Now click on "Return to your Library Record" at the top of page.
  
• Click on the "Preferred Searches" button to see a list of the searches you've saved.
  
• Check the box under the "Mark for Email" column, then click "Update List" to get email alerts when new items that match your interests are added to the library catalog -- the alert will be sent to your University email address.

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Give us your recommendations!

Let us know what DVDs you'd like to see at The Suggestion Box online or near Hagerty's exit.

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The July 27th issue of The Triangle highlights Drexel's virtual Second Life campus, Drexel Island, initiated by the College of Arts and Sciences Jean-Claude Bradley, and Hagerty Library's Tim Siftar (aka Jack LaPointe in SL). The library, occupying the western end of Drexel Island (okay, we're the Dragon's Tail!), is experimenting with ways to offer services to the University community in Second Life -- reference help, virtual learning experiences, access to research tools, perhaps even virtual book groups. Library staff, travelling as their Second Life avatars, have visited online conferences and exhibits in Science Commons, Info Island and other Second Life locations.

Second Life will soon be available on all desktop computers in Hagerty Library, providing opportunities for students and other library visitors to explore Drexel Island.

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Santa made an out-of-season visit to Hagerty Library's systems department this month, bringing lots of new techno-goodies!

Look for:

• Twenty new Lenovo R60 Laptops!
  
• New Omega Ps150 Touchscreens to replace the Dragonprint Stations at the printers in L14 and the Reference Area!
  
• New computers for the 1st floor Reference Area and L13! Be aware that these computers do not have "floppy" disk drives which have become increasingly prone to breakage and file loss -- we recommend the use of USB "Flash" Drives or Dunx1 space for file storage.
  
• Two 42" LCD TV's, with DVD players! One has been placed in Study Room 123.
  
• Four new Canon Scanners, replacing the two scanners previously available in room L14!

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Do you need a photo to illustrate your next presentation? An image to liven up your lecture? Tim Siftar, Librarian for Information Science and Technology and Education, has compiled a guide to resources that provide images that can be used in presentations or instruction. Look for news photos and maps in Accunet, historic advertisements in Ad*Access, anatomical images in images.MD.

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Ann Keith Kennedy, Librarian for Media Arts and Design, is pleased to announce the addition of International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance with Full Text to the library collections.

The International Bibliography is a fully indexed, cross-referenced and annotated databank of over 60,000 journal articles, books, book articles and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance in 126 countries. Full text available includes more than 100 journals and over 50 books & monographs such as Art and the Performance of Memory, Who's Who in Contemporary World Theatre, World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre and many more.

Look for more research resources in our listing of Databases for Performing Arts.

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Need to write a business plan for a new boutique? Find the hot fashion colors for 2008?

Ann Keith Kennedy, Librarian for Media Arts and Design, has compiled a new research guide for Design and Merchandising, listing recommended sources for journal articles, trade publications, trend information and market research.

Look for more research guides to topics from Business Etiquette, Nanotechnology and Photography to Africana Studies, Forensic Science and Physics at http://www.library.drexel.edu/resources/guides/subjectguides.html

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Okay, we don't either -- in fact, we don't know anyone who does!

Tim Siftar, our IST/Education Librarian has just updated his very helpful PowerPoint overview of RefWorks, the powerful web-based bibliographic management software offered the by the libraries. You can learn how to download and save citations from library databases and other sources, and use them to create bibliographies in all of the standard academic formats.

Find Tim's "Using RefWorks" on our tutorials page, http://www.library.drexel.edu/resources/tutorials/tutorials.html#citing.

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Can we have a show of hands of students looking for a job or a co-op or career advice. Anyone?

The Drexel University Libraries has brand-new resource specifically for job-seekers. It’s easy to get caught up in all this fascinating job-hunting and career information available through this rich resource including:

• Industry career guides
  
• Industry employer guides
  
• Career topic guides
  
• A day in the life of a…
  
• Company Q & A with actual employees
  
• Sample cover letters and resumes
  
• Careers of celebrities
  
• Message boards
  
• and more!

To find the Vault Online Career Library

1. Go to www.library.drexel.edu
2. Click on “Find Databases/Journal Articles”
3. Browse databases by title.

Subscribe to DrexelCareerLib for more great tips for finding careers and co-op information!

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Cell Press, an imprint of Elsevier, is offering a free print subscription to Cell.

As a benefit of the Drexel University Libraries' site license to Cell Online, any researcher, student, or faculty member in North America affiliated with our institution is entitled to receive a print subscription – normally a $179 value – absolutely free. To sign up for the offer, go to http://www.Cell.com/freesub.

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Whether to use Wikipedia or not use Wikipedia depends on what you need and how you are going to use the information you find.

If you need an authoritative scholarly resource for your research paper, Wikipedia is not your best choice. Wikipedia has limitations; its articles are written by anonymous authors, they can be edited by anyone, and the information is largely unreviewed, unregulated and, sometimes, inaccurate.

The University Libraries license authoritative general and specialized online encyclopedias for use by the Drexel community, including Britannica Online (academic edition), AccessScience (McGraw-Hill’s Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Online), Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, POLYMERSnetBASE, Ullmann’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry, Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science, Grove Dictionary of Art and the Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. These sources do provide scholarly, authoritative and reliable information. They are all free to Drexel students, faculty, and staff and are not available freely on the Internet.

Likewise, scholarly research articles can be found using electronic databases available from the library's web site. Several databases such as Expanded Academic, Proquest Research Library, and Ei Compendex/INSPEC offer access to peer reviewed journal articles. Major subject based electronic databases are available from: http://www.library.drexel.edu/resources/databasesbysubject.html.

Use the library’s guide, 'Is this a Scholarly publication?,' at http://www.library.drexel.edu/resources/tutorials/scholpubs.html to determine whether the article you found fits the definition of a scholarly publication or not.

On the other hand, Wikipedia can often provide a good starting point. In addition to general background information and context, it can quickly provide appropriate keywords that you can use while searching for scholarly information through databases available from the library's web site.

The library staff is happy to answer questions about finding the best possible source. Please contact the library staff or email or IM your questions by going to:
http://www.library.drexel.edu/about/askaquestion.html

Jane Bryan, Director of Libraries
Jay Bhatt, Engineering Librarian

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Due to popular demand, Hagerty Library has recently added a number of top Bollywood films to our growing DVD collection. Among them include superhit movies such as Lage Raho Munnabhai, Rang De Basanti, Black, and Dor.

Browse the DVD collection on the first floor of the library -- loan period for DVDs is now 5 days, and they can be checked out from the Circulation desk in the library. Enjoy and have fun!

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On Tuesday, April 10th, the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design will kick off its 5-evening lecture series entitled Textiles: The Next Horizon. As part of the series, an exhibition of innovative materials from Material ConneXion® will be on display at the Paul Peck Alumni Center’s Gallery at 32nd and Market Streets. Dr. Andrew Dent, Vice President of Library and Materials Research at Material ConneXion, will be speaking this evening at 7:00 pm in Stein Auditorium, Nesbitt Hall.

For more information on Textiles: The Next Horizon, see the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design’s series website at http://www.drexel.edu/westphal/academics/undergraduate/fashion/textiles.asp

Explore the Material ConneXion® online database through the Libraries' subscription -- recommended for those with Design and Materials Engineering interests!

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Full text of books, pamphlets, broads