Announcing The Cochrane Library

The Cochrane Library is a searchable database of reviews of health care interventions and treatment plans, meant to help health care providers and patients make appropriate and informed decisions. All reviews and reports are full-text and updated quarterly. Most reports include a summary of one or more treatment options, a literature review of research on that treatment, and a compilation of research findings and statistical evidence. You'll find reports about treatments for many sports-related injuries, as well as all sorts of other injuries and ailments. The Cochrane Library is also available from the library's Nursing Indexes and Health Science & Sport Studies Indexes pages. Contact Bill Meloy if you have any questions about the Cochrane Library!

Nursing and sports medicine students especially should check out this database!

New Full-Text Resources!

Manderino Library is very pleased to announce new full-text resources available to students from both on- and off-campus locations. You can access them directly below, but they can also be found by clicking Find Articles and then Electronic Journal Collections from the library home page. Contact Bill Meloy with any questions about these great new resources!

Here they are...

Anthrosource provides full-text access to over 30 American Anthropological Association journals and magazines(see list) back to 2003, with indexing only back to 1880. Anthrosource has its own search interface, but most of the titles in the collection are also indexed in EBSCO’s Academic Search Premier or Sociological Collection, so you can also search there.

Project MUSE includes full-text of over 300 scholarly, peer-reviewed journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. See a full title list, with dates of coverage, or a list of titles organized by subject. Project MUSE is especially strong in history, literature, philosophy, performing arts, women’s studies, economics, religion, and others!

Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes full-text of 21 very high quality, core criminology journals-some dating back more than 20 years. For a list of titles and years covered see http://www.csa.com/factsheets/sagecrim-set-c.php . These journals cover Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, Penology, Policing, Forensic Psychology, and Family and Domestic Violence. It can be searched as an isolated collection, but it also works great with Criminal Justice Abstracts (also available from the Criminal Justice Indexes page). All 19 of the journals are indexed in Crimianl Justice Abs and the full-text is available directly now that we own this Sage Criminology collection.

New Chemistry and Biology Full-text journal Sources

Manderino Library has recently added BioOne and the American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications. Both of these offer full-text of very high-quality journals in biology and Chemistry. They can be found on the library Web site on the Biology, Chemistry and Physics Indexes page

BioOne is a full-text database of bioscience journals, mainly from society and other non-commercial publishers. Eighty-one titles are currently included (eventually they will supposedly have over 200 titles!) and full-text coverage is from 2000 to the present for most titles. For more information, view BioOne Home Page, Title List, or BioOne Search Tips.

The library’s new subscription to the ACS Publications allows CalU students to access full-text of over 30 ACS journal and newsletter publications. See a list of titles or go directly to the search interface to get started!

If you have any questions about these resources please contact Bill Meloy.

85th Anniversary of the Women's Suffrage Movement

The passage of the 19th amendment, giving women the right to vote, is celebrating its 85th birthday. The library will be highlighting the anniversary with a display of the Women's Suffrage Movement in the lobby on the first floor of the Louis L. Manderino Library. Please stop in to view the thought provoking display created by Dan Zyglowicz.

NEW Library Web Site!

The library is pleased to offer a NEW library Web site! It looks different, has more features than before, and uses more advanced technology than the old site. Please note: In order to release the new site before the Fall semester, we did so as a "work in progress." Please bear in mind that it is not yet in its "final" form. During the next semester you will continue to see subtle changes on the site. There are still a couple of "bugs" to work out! Nevertheless, we think it offers advantages, and we hope that you find it easier to use. Please contact Loring Prest with any problems or comments.