Thu 23 Jul 2009
As its title indicate, the Coretta Scott King Book Award Curricular Resources Center permits to listen to African American authors and illustrators as they talk about and read from their books, enjoy audio recordings, book readings and videos and teach the Coretta Scott King Book Award-winning books with this free, online collection of primary source materials and lesson plans.
Thu 19 Mar 2009
New titles have been added to the Gale Virtual Reference Library. Titles have been purchased by Tampa; others acquired by USF Sarasota/Manatee on behalf of all of the USF Libraries.
The following represent the new acquisitions for Education:
The College Blue Book , 34th ed., 6v, 2007
Volumes 1 through 6 (Narrative Descriptions, Tabular Data, Degrees Offered by College & Subject, Occupational Education, and Scholarships, Fellowships, Grants, & Loans, Distance Learning) offer detailed descriptions of colleges, including degree programs offered, scholarships, and occupational education programs.
More than 3,000 institutions of higher education, in both the United States and Canada, are described, including universities, senior colleges, two-year colleges, and specialized institutions.
Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration , 2v, 2006
The Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration published by Sage presents the most recent theories, research, terms, concepts, ideas, and histories on educational leadership and school administration. With over 600 entries, the two volumes of this Encyclopedia represent one of the most comprehensive knowledge base of educational leadership and school administration.
Encyclopedia of Education Law , 2v, 2008
The Encyclopedia of Education Law is a compendium of information drawn from the various dimensions of education law and serves as an essential source for research on education law. The entries cover a number of essential topics, including key cases in education law, constitutional issues, theories and legal principles, key statutes, treaties (e.g., the Universal Declaration on Human Rights), curricular issues, educational equity, governance, rights of students and teachers, technology and key legal documents from the U.S. Constitution.
Growing and Knowing: A Selection Guide for Children’s Literature , 2004
Serves as a guide to the selection of books for children, recognizing the vast range of books published and the individual rates of reading and social development of different children. Focuses on the application of reading development theories of the 20th and 21st century to the selection of specific books and covering the characteristics of the various genres of children’s literature, including the classics and award winners. Provides ideas for book promotion within the children’s library or school library and classroom and covers the selection of books for children from ethnic communities throughout the world.
The following purchased titles can be found in the online catalog as ebooks with unlimited access. They are not included in MetaLib as these would be considered “circulating titles”, rather than online reference books.
For these resources and other library resources visit http://poly.usf.edu/library.xml. Click on “Search the Databases” (MetaLib) to begin. For the titles not included in MetaLib listed at the bottom of the list, search by author or titles in the online catalog at: http://usf.catalog.fcla.edu/sf.jsp.
Mon 26 Jan 2009
From a Project MUSE email:
Project MUSE just released the back issues of nine of its long-held journals. The addition of the back issues now offers subscribers the complete run of eight of the titles. This latest addition of back issues is part of MUSE’s ongoing pilot program to determine the feasibility of expanding coverage to include back issues. The journals initially included in the pilot are selected journals published by The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Back issues were added for the following journals:
Thu 4 Sep 2008
Announcing the recent acquisition of a significant collection of online ebooks in the field of psychology—PsycBOOKS.
PsycBOOKS from the American Psychological Association (APA) is a full text database of more than 1,566 scholarly books and 24,161 chapters published by APA and other distinguished publishers. Within this resource there are over 800 classic resources of historical impact in psychology dating from 1806, more than 740 books published by the APA and 100 out-of-print books from 1950–2002. PsycBOOKS holds the exclusive online release of the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology with more than 1,500 authored entries. Digitization of the content from the Archives of the History of American Psychology (AHAP) collection will add upwards of 2,500 works of historical significance.
PsycBOOKS is indexed with controlled vocabulary from the APA Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms resulting in precise searching and results. PsycBOOKS does exclude the content found in the APA Publication Manual, the APA directories, and books for popular audiences. Although updates are monthly, there is an eighteen month embargo on newly published titles. USF’s subscription to PsycBOOKS is through the EBSCOHost platform.
To access, visit http://www.poly.usf.edu/Library and click on “Search the databases”.
Thu 28 Aug 2008
Announcing the latest addition to the USF Libraries E-Resources Collection—Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database.
The Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) provides more than 315,000 reviews of children’s books. All are full text searchable from 37 review sources. Reviewers include book authors, librarians, writers and editors, teachers, and children’s literature specialists who read and critically review more than 4,000 books annually. Each month CLCD features interviews with children’s book authors and illustrators, and several sets of themed reviews which are archived for continued reference. There are links to author and illustrator sites, publishers, parent and teacher resources, children’s literature collections, and upcoming events relating to children’s literature.
For this and other library databases, visit http://www.poly.usf.edu/Offices/Library.xml. Click on “Search the databases”.
Tue 8 Apr 2008
For fun and a good cause:
First Book is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to give children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first new books. They partenered with cereal-brand Cheerios and actor/author John Lithgow in a book donation challenge. Cheerios will be distributing 100,000 children’s books by John Lithgow to programs serving children in need across the country.
Visitors can “help decide where the books will be donated by answering trivia questions […] from now through Sunday, June 15, 2008. Every correct answer counts as one vote […] Cheerios will donate 20,000 children’s books to programs in each of the 5 states that receive the most votes. Cheerios’ nonprofit partner First Book will be identifying programs that will receive the books in each state where the books will be donated.”
As of today, Florida is in the 13th position.
John Lithgow has written 7 children’s books, including Marsupial Sue, Micawber, I’m a Manatee and The Remarkable Farkle McBride.
Tue 19 Feb 2008
Gale is currently experiencing intermittent problems with their online databases. They are working on it as we speak. The USF Libraries have access to several Gale databases, including Academic ASAP, Business & Company Resource Center, General One File and a multitude of online reference encyclopedias and dictionaries.
Fri 15 Feb 2008
The USF Libraries have acquired the multidisciplinary database SourceOECD.
SourceOECD is an online library of statistical databases, books, and periodicals from OECD, the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development. The OECD, a membership of 30 countries, is one of the world’s largest publishers in the fields of economics and public policy. SourceOECD is comprised of over 1,800 online books with unrestricted access grouped in 24 themes, 24 periodicals, 3 reference titles, and 26 OECD statistical databases, all in full text. Themed groupings include: Education, Energy, Emerging Economies, Environment & Sustainable Development, Finance and Investment, Science, Social Issues, Urban and Regional Development, Transportation and more. Twenty-six statistical databases from the OECD are presented enabling users to download data and build their own tables, in real time. Users can also build cross-database tables. OECD has recently launched OECD.Stat that allows searches across the various OECD databases. It is now in a beta test until September 2008. The USF Libraries hold a subscription to all OECD online publications with the exception of the third-party IEA Statistics.
To access it, search MetaLib by using the “Search the Databases” link on the library’s main page.
Wed 24 Oct 2007
The APA just released new rules about the citation of electronic documents with Digital Object Identifier (DOI) numbers. You can find details on the APA website at http://www.apastyle.org/elecmedia.html as well as on the University of Maryland University College Library’s website at http://www.umuc.edu/library/guides/apa.shtml#DOI.
But, students, before you apply these new rules, check with your instructor first.
Fri 22 Jun 2007
The data from the 2006 Journal Citation Reports is now available in the ISI Web of Knowledge database. This data gives information on how many times a journal was cited, how many it has cited other journals and it’s impact factor, among others.
This kind of information is interesting when you are choosing a journal to submit an article, or when you are collecting additional information for a tenure and/or promotion dossier.
You can access the Journal Citation Reports in the Web of Knowledge database. Go to MetaLib, search the database by name and click on the resulting link. In the database itself, at the very top, you will see a drop-down menu. You will see the option for the Reports. If you are from off campus, don’t forget to log into the network first.