Transcript The New Oviatt Library Website Your Portal to Academic Success Presenters • Stephanie Ballard Librarian Liaison for: Psychology, Educational Psychology, Child and Adolescent Development • Marcia Henry Database.

The New
Oviatt Library Website
Your Portal to
Academic Success
Presenters
• Stephanie Ballard
Librarian Liaison for: Psychology, Educational Psychology,
Child and Adolescent Development
• Marcia Henry
Database Coordinator and Librarian Liaison for
Health Sciences, Communicative Disorders,
Kinesiology, Leisure Studies
• Credit also to Elizabeth Altman, Web Developer
Website Redesigned
Summer 2005
Design Goals
• Make information easier to find
• Refresh the library's online presence with
an updated look
• Address accessibility issues:
CSU Executive order 926 demands
adherence to accessibility standards set by
the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Accessibility
• Most pages designed to comply with the
highest level of accessibility (AAA)
currently defined by the W3C
• Presentation of pages supported by style
sheets
• Visitors to the site can customize text size
using browser settings
Homepage
http://library.csun.edu
Organization: 5 Category Tabs
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Find Resources
Library Services
Research Assistance
Collections
About the Library
All tabs visible from main pages of the website.
Find Resources
Links to all major research resources
Library Services
Circulation, ILL, computing and classroom services, special
services for faculty, including online version of Faculty Guide
Research Assistance
Instructional Documentation
Collections
About the Library
Hours, News, Administration, Contacts, Policies
New Interlibrary Loan Service (Fall 2005)
•Requests submitted electronically
•Patrons can monitor status of requested materials
Electronic Research Resources
Overview
Subscriptions or access to:
200 databases
134 online encyclopedias
11,000+ electronic books
20,000+ electronic journals
Additional collection statistics
Access electronic subscriptions
Find Resources
• Find Articles and Research Data
• Databases A-Z
• MetaSearch
Find Articles and Research Data
Databases A-Z
Databases for all disciplines
MetaSearch
Has 63 disciplines
Offers simple interface
Can search across 10
databases at a time
Offers my space to store
retrieved records, search
strategies, custom
database lists
Databases most used by
undergraduates
• InfoTrac OneFile
• Academic Search Elite
• Proquest databases-ABI/Inform,
Newspapers and more
• Library Online catalog
Academic Search Elite (EbscoHost)
InfoTrac OneFile
InfoTRAC has many databases
Proquest Databases
Library Online Catalog
MetaSearch Quick Search
most popular – uniform interface
MetaSearch offers 63 categories
and simple search form
MetaSearch results
Articles available full text
MetaSearch My Space for you
Databases of special interest
for faculty
• DIALOG has Citation
indexes. Acess now with a
self service dialog form
which includes the account
and password to search
• Science Citation Index
• Social Sciences Citation
Index
• Retrievals give total citing
and titles
• Partner with MetaSearch’s
simultaneous search to
identify titles
Cited reference searching help
How to track citations of
your published works
Tools available through
the Oviatt Library and
the Internet
Uses of Citing Reference
• Authors track citations of their works
(ego-centric citation searching)
• Faculty RTP evaluation
• Funders select grant recipients
• Scholars and students follow trends
in theories and review literature
Databases Covered
• ISI databases: Science Citation
Index, Social Sciences Citation Index,
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
• 1994--CINAHL adds cited references
• 2001--PsycINFO adds cited refs
• 2005--Google Scholar & Books
Cited Reference Searching
(backward/retrospective)
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Citing Reference Searching
(forward/prospective)
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PsycINFO
Find Citation feature
“A comparison of eyewitness
and physical evidence . . .”
Find Citing Articles feature:
two citations found
Verify References for
Citing Article
Create Automatic Email Alert
CINAHL: Cumulative Index of
Nursing and Allied Health Literature
“The hemodynamic effects of arm
or leg exercises . . .”
Times Cited in this Database
Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.com/
Advanced Search Screen
Search Results for
author Joyce Munsch
First Article Cited by 20
Google Books
(formerly known as “Print”)
http://books.google.com/
Advanced Search Screen
Search Results for
book Sandplay
Details of Citing Reference
Conclusions
• Retrievals grow quickly
• Google Scholar/Books find unique
retrievals: online theses, reading
lists, class notes, online journals
• ISI citation indexes continue to
offer unique retrievals
Self-Serve DIALOG
ISI citation databases
Log-in page
Sample retrieval for RR Mitchell
DIALOG retrievals give title
Partner with MetaSearch
Search for Title
Metasearch screens
Retrieve article information
found in just 1 database
Another example which picks up
record in 2 databases
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Article
brief record;
PsycInfo includes abstract
Full text available in 2 databases
Article info given but item not
owned so ILL link offered
Request on Interlibrary Loan
Correct ILL form populated with
bibliographic information delivered
Interlibrary Loan menu
Review outstanding requests. Can
prefer electronic delivery if possible
Review Requests, Review Personal
Information in your ILL account
New Databases
New Databases Spring 2006
• Index to Jewish Periodicals (EbscoHost)
• Library and Information Science Abstracts
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(LISTA) (EbscoHost)
CINAHL Plus with Full text (EbscoHost)
SciSearch and Social SciSearch (DIALOG)
ACM (Association of Computing Machinery)
SciFinder (Chemical Abstracts)
Oxford University Press (130 ejournals)
Springer/Kluwer.
International Guitar Research
Archive (online Fall 2005)
•Searchable database of guitar discography with cover images
•Online inventory of manuscripts
Tseng Family Collection
of Chinese Antiquities
How to connect from off campus:
Activate your 14-digit barcode
at Library’s Circulation Desk
or use VPN Virtual Private Network
Important URLs
• Free Library Classes
library.csun.edu/Research_Assistance/classes.html
• Librarian Subject Specialists
library.csun.edu/About_the_Library/librarians.html
• Electronic Research Databases
http://library.csun.edu/mhenry/Databases2006.xls
• The New Oviatt Library Website: Your Portal to
Academic Success . . . PowerPoint linked from
http://library.csun.edu/mhenry/ http://library.csun.edu/sballard/
January 24, 2006
California State University Northridge
Faculty Retreat
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