Wednesday, November 30, 2011

ITP Library Catalog Now Ready for Mobile

Just a month ago, the library catalog was enabled for mobile use. This means that anyone on a mobile device or smart phone can link to the URL and it will format for easy on-the-go use. Check it out at http://librarycat.itp.edu/I40006Staff/OPAC/index.asp.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

NEW Journal Collection: JSTOR Arts & Sciences III Archive Collection

The ITP Library has a new database! We now have access to a piece of a prominent collection of databases: JSTOR. We have added JSTOR’s Arts & Sciences III Archive Collection to our Access Online Databases page. JSTOR has many database collections that index journals in arts and sciences in many fields: arts, folklore, history, religion, and women’s studies, with some full text available.


Public libraries in large metropolitan areas, (for example, San Francisco Public Library) and large universities may have additional collections of JSTOR’s databases. Our Arts & Sciences III Collection has full text from 225 journals. Articles are primarily 3 years old and older.

Contact the library for further information or help with databases: refdesk@itp.edu

Saturday, November 05, 2011

Chronicle of Higher Education Online: E-Newsletters

The Chronicle of Higher Education Online offers a number of ways for you to keep up with what is happening in academia.

One way is to sign up for the free user account then pick out the e-newsletters that you like from the My account page / e-newsletters tab. The choices include:

Academe Today
Afternoon Update
The Weekly Briefing
Breaking News Extras
Chronicle Review Newsletter
The Wired Campus
Global Edition
Community College
On Hiring

When you are on campus, you will not need ITP Library database logins because you are already authenticated. It will be easy to use the links to go directly to the full article. When you are off campus, the authentication won't be automatic for some articles that are considered premium content. If you link to the article and see a golden key, that means you need to log in to see the full content.

When you need to log in to see full content, you will copy the text or just take note of the article title you want from the alerting newsletters above, go to the Access Online Databases page, click on the Chronicle of Higher Education Online link and put the article title into the chronicle.edu search box at the upper right.

If you want more information on how to do any of the above, please email us at refdesk@itp.edu