Environment Complete (EBSCO)
Covers applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more.

Garden, Landscape, and Horticulture Index (EBSCO)
A resource for access to articles about gardens and plants. Topics include horticulture, botany, garden and landscape design & history, ecology, plant and garden conservation, garden management, and horticultural therapy.

GreenFILE (EBSCO)
Offers well-researched but accessible information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment.

If you have questions about these databases, our research librarians are available to consult with you and can offer search strategies and tips.

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• 80% of Americans say borrowing books is a “very important” service libraries provide.
• 80% say reference librarians are a “very important” service of libraries.
• 77% say free access to computers and the internet is a “very important” service of libraries.
• 49% say they visit to sit, read, and study, or watch or listen to media.
• 46% say they visit to use a research database.
• 54% say they visit to research topics that interest them.
• 50% say they visit to get help from a librarian.
• Having more comfortable spaces for reading, working, and relaxing: 59% of Americans ages 16 and older say libraries should “definitely do” this.
• Offering a broader selection of e-books: 53% of Americans ages 16 and older say libraries should “definitely do” this.

To read the full results and analysis, go to “Library Services in the Digital Age.”

Equally interesting, is the recent “State of America’s Libraries Report 2013″ from the American Library Association.

Let us know what your favorite services are at the MSJ Library, as well as what educational services you’d like us to expand upon.

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Other cool things WordCat offers includes a mobile app and a citation tool which will format book and film titles in a number of formats including APA, MLA, Turabian, and Chicago style.   The citation tool is something that our research librarians frequently recommend to student researchers, as the built-in citation generator makes constructing works cited pages easier.

Use worldcat.org’s built-in Cite/Export tool.

To learn more, visit:

WorldCat http://www.wordcat.org

WorldCat Mobile http://www.worldcat.org/mobile/

How to use WorldCat Citations (video tutorial) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8W7kWMrVNk

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In addition to the Levine Collection, we also offer a number of “e-text” subscription databases dedicated to poetry and literature:

• Learn about Poets:
  Literary Reference Center
  
• Read full text of poems:
  African-American Poetry 1760-1900
  American Poetry Database 1600-1900
  English Poetry 600-1900
  20th Century African-American Poetry
  20th Century American Poetry
  20th Century English Poetry
  William Butler Yeats Collection

National Poetry Month _ April 2013

And if that’s not enough for your poetic curiosity, there are a number of free websites that can guide you to further resources:

–National Academy of American Poets http://www.poets.org/
–30 Poets, 30 Days http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/22934
–The Writer’s Almanac http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/
–Poets & Poetry (from the Bill Moyers Journal) http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/poetry/

Do you have a favorite poet or poem? Do you know of a great poetry website?  Let us know and we’ll add it to our site.  Enjoy!

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Bring your lunch to the Library and enjoy good music and free coffee in a relaxing atmosphere.

Concerts start at 12:15 on these dates:
March 5 – Daniel Wilson, Classical Guitar (student)
March 27 – Travis Pearce, Waldo Potgieter, Vocal and Piano (students)
April 16 – Melissa Walding, Lauren Picarillo, Oboe and Bassoon (faculty)

To learn more: http://www.msjmusic.org/lunch-at-the-library/

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The Library will be open until 10pm, Thursday, March 28th. 

However, we will be CLOSED Friday, March 29th through Monday, April 1st.

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Nursing students, take note that the CINAHL Plus research database offers Full Text–Evidence-Based Care Sheets!

To search these you will need to be within CINAHL.  Here’s how to access:

1. Go to library.msj.edu and look for the “Find Articles” section of our site.
2. Under “Find Articles” look for Databases A-Z or Databases listed by Subject. In both places you will find the CINAHL database.
3. If you are off-campus, use your MSJ AllCard to login.
4. Once inside CINAHL, look for the “Evidence-Based Care Sheets” section at the top of your browser screen.

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Journal of Advanced Nursing is a peer-reviewed journal.

It’s not unusual for professors to require their students to find and use “peer-reviewed journals” for  assignments and research papers.  Peer-reviewed means that articles published in certain journals are intended for researchers and scholars, and these articles go through a “peer-review” editorial process of experts in that field of study prior to publication. Examples of peer-reviewed journals include: Journal of Personality Assessment, Journal of Advanced Nursing.  If you physically flip through these journals, striking characteristics include no photographs, lots of text, and if there are illustrations they support the research in the article (graphs, charts, etc.).

Contrast this with popular press publications such as Time or Psychology

Time Magazine is NOT a peer-reviewed journal. It is a popular press publication.

Today:  these two magazines target a general audience, include lots of advertisements, color photos, non-academic illustrations, and non-scholarly article content.

So how do you find scholarly, peer-reviewed articles for that up-coming term paper?  There are several ways to go about a search, but one of the easiest ways to find peer-reviewed articles is to look for and check the Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals limit option that many of our databases offer.  For example, the image below shows the peer-reviewed limiter that is available in all EBSCOhost databases. Simply check that box, type in your search words, and boom, your results will all be peer-reviewed article records!

For more search tips and strategies, we welcome you to consult with our research experts; MSJ Librarians will be happy to consult with you at any stage in your research process.

Look for and check the Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals limit option that many of our databases offer.

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Follow us online for updates on our educational efforts and topics related to learning and searching:

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1) Go to library.msj.edu
2) Choose Databases A-Z under “Find Articles”
3) Choose Mango Languages Learning Center from the “Databases M-O”
4) If you are off-campus, use your MSJ AllCard to login
5) For first time users, click the Start Learning button to try it out. Or create a free Mango profile to log in and track your progress.

If you need help accessing and using Mango, feel free to contact a research librarian at 244-4307, or drop us an email at library@mail.msj.edu.

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