The Diehn Composters Room, located in the Fine and Performing Arts (FPA) building, will close at 2pm today due to poor air quality.  The Hofheimer Art Library, also located in FPA, is not affected and will remain open until 5pm.

Hours for the Interim, May 11-May 19 are as follows:

*** Perry Library and Learning Commons:

Saturday & Sunday 5/11-5/12: 9am - 10pm
Monday - Friday 5/13-5/17: 8am - 10pm
Saturday & Sunday 5/18-5/19: 9am - 10pm

*** Art Library & Diehn Composers Room:

Saturday & Sunday 5/11-5/12: Closed
Monday - Friday 5/13-5/17: 8am - 5pm
Saturday & Sunday 5/18-5/19: Closed

Summer Hours begin Monday, May 20:

*** Perry Library and Learning Commons:

Monday-Thursday: 8am - midnight
Friday: 8am - 10pm
Saturday: 9am - 10pm
Sunday: 9am - midnight

*** Art Library & Diehn Composers Room:

Monday-Friday: 8am - 5pm
Saturday-Sunday: Closed

NOTE:

• Einstein Bros. Express: Closing Friday May 10 at 6pm for the summer.
• Door between Perry Library and Student Success Center: Beginning Monday, May 13th, the alarm between the Student Success Center and Learning Commons will be activated between 6:15pm and 7:00am.

Using ICPSR to Access Social Science Research Data

April 4, Thursday
6:00-7:00pm

Room 1306 in the Learning Commons @ Perry Library

Learn to use this vast archive of social science data, provided by the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR).  ICPSR's data holdings, divided into 17 broad subject areas, are designed for use with statistical software, such as SAS, SPSS, and Stata. ICPSR is an organization with over 640 member colleges and  universities around the world. Our access to ICPSR is funded with support from the ODU Office of Research.

Contact James Rhoades jrhoades@odu.edu for registration information.

The University Libraries are trying out a new "discovery service." With one click, you will be searching many of our databases and our library catalog simultaneously. Just go to the "New Trial" search box on the library's website and enter a keyword, title, or author and see what you discover.

We'd appreciate your feedback. Contact Tonia Graves tgraves@odu.edu

The following databases are being evaluated on a trial basis by the Old Dominion University Libraries.

     Oxford Bibliographies 08/31/2012 - 09/30/2012
     Silent Film Online 08/31/2012 - 11/02/2012
     New World Cinema: Independent Features and Shorts, 1990–Present 08/31/2012 - 11/02/2012

Be sure to try them out before the dates listed above. There is no guarantee that we will be able to acquire them. But while we have trial access, please use them and let us know what you think. Your opinion matters. We want to know what you think of the resources and if they would support your learning, teaching, or research at ODU.

Contact your subject specialist librarian or Pamela Morgan, Collection Development Officer, or click on the links above to access and provide feedback.

Access is also available from at the bottom of the FIND DATABASES A-Z page on the library's Web site.

Databases currently available for trial:

     Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 11/07/2011 - 01/07/2011
     Proquest History Vault, Vietnam 11/3/2011 - 12/04/2011
     PrivCo.com 11/1/2011 - 11/29/2011
     The Publishing Opportunities Database 10/25/2011 - 11/21/2011
     Jewish Studies Source 10/10/2011 - 12/10/2011
     The Early Republic 10/07/2011 - 11/20/2011
     Chicago Manual of Style Online 08/29/2011 - 12/31/2011

Be sure to try them out before the dates listed above. There is no guarantee that we will be able to acquire them. But while we have trial access, please use them and let us know what you think. Your opinion matters. We want to know what you think of the resources and if they would support your learning, teaching, or research at ODU.

Contact your subject specialist librarian or Pamela Morgan, Collection Development Officer, or click on the links above to access and provide feedback.

Access is also available from at the bottom of the FIND DATABASES A-Z page on the library's Web site.

The following databases are being evaluated on a trial basis by the Old Dominion University Libraries.

     The Publishing Opportunities Database:10/25 - 11/21/2011
     Jewish Studies Source: 10/10 - 12/10/2011
     The Early Republic: 10/07 - 11/20/2011
     World Religion Database: 08/30 - 10/28/2011
     World Christian Database: 08/30 - 10/28/2011
     Chicago Manual of Style Online: 08/29 - 12/31/2011

Be sure to try them out before the dates listed above. There is no guarantee that we will be able to acquire them. But while we have trial access, please use them and let us know what you think. Your opinion matters. We want to know what you think of the resources and if they would support your learning, teaching, or research at ODU.

Contact your subject specialist librarian or Pamela Morgan, Collection Development Officer, or click on the links above to access and provide feedback.

Access is also available from at the bottom of the FIND DATABASES A-Z page on the library's Web site.

Enhancements have been made to databases in the Web of Knowledge -- those databases include Web of Science (3 citation databases), BIOSIS Previews, Zoological Record, Medline. Some of the enhancements include:

** No more stopwords on phrases such as “Vitamin A”
** Left Hand Truncation “*phosphate” = monophosphate, triphosphate, etc.
** Automatic searches for over 7,000 spelling variations such as British/US English (colour / color) as well as name variants (mice / mouse)
** Find records by Digital Object Identifier (DOI) numbers using the DOI search field on the General and Advanced Search pages.

For more enhancements, go to: http://thenewwok.com/new/

Several new databases have recently been added to our collection.

R2 Digital Library : The R2 Digital Library includes electronic books in Nursing, Allied Health, and Medicine.

Empire Online : A full-text collection of original documents relating to Empire Studies, sourced from libraries and archives around the world.

African American Periodicals, 1825-1995 : Explores African American history, culture and daily life in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive, Part 2 : Includes documents from the United States and Europe, as well as other parts of the world. In addition to newspaper collections and books published in the antebellum era, Slavery and Anti-Slavery contains documents from several archives originally available only on microfilm.

Access these databases from the Library's "Find Databases A-Z" page.

After a few years without it, the ODU Libraries has brought back the full Britannica Online Academic Edition.

You now have access to Encyclopaedia Britannica, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, magazines and periodicals, and many other research tools including an atlas, biographies, news, and multimedia. Also available is a comprehensive database of statistics on every nation of the world, and 225 classic works by 140 authors that offer an introduction to significant works of history, literature, philosophy, and science.

One exciting feature is the extensive video collecton – "over 3,000 videos and video clips that cover a variety of subjects, including History, Science, the Arts, and Social Studies. Video topics include Toulouse-Lautrec, Botticelli, Lewis & Clark, Asia, Ancient Cultures, World Wars, Economics, Native Americans, Insects, the Chaos Theory, and the expanding Universe, among others. Short video clips are 1-5 minutes long and full length extended play videos are between 15 to 45 minutes long. All videos can be played online or downloaded and used in Power Point Presentations.

Access Britannica Online Academic Edition from "Find Databases A-Z" or "Find Books & More" then "General Reference Resources."