Birds of North America
18,000 pages of continually updated information on North America's breeding birds, now online. The Birds of North America Online is produced by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. It contains image and video galleries showing bird behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and nestlings, and more. Online species accounts contain recordings of songs and calls. For assistance in using Birds of North America Online please contact Jim Bird in the Science & Engineering Center, 581-1697 of Jim.Bird@umit.maine.edu. -- Added:8/8/2008
IEEE Xplore & IEEE/IET Electronic Library
The IEEE Xplore site (authenticated access available from http://www.library.umaine.edu/indexesdb/Indexes.asp) now provides access to over two million documents. Included are the 160+ journals published by the IEEE and IET along with transactions, conference proceedings and active IEEE standards. These publications are relevant to many disciplines including: electrical engineering, computer science, electronics, spatial information science, and sensors technology. Indexing extends back to 1988 for all journals and conference proceedings and further back to 1913 for selected publications. The IEEE Xplore search platform allows simple keyword and phrase searching or complex search queries employing a variety of operators. It also offers an alerting service, saved searches, and other valuable Web 2.0 capabilities for users who register for free personal accounts. For assistance in using IEEE Xplore please contact Martin Wallace in the Science & Engineering Center, 581-1678 or martin.wallace@umit.maine.edu. -- Added:7/15/2008
New Database: GreenFILE from EBSCOhost
GreenFILE provides information on all aspects of human impact to the environment, including such subjects as global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and recycling. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. Multidisciplinary by nature, GreenFILE draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records. GreenFILE coverage is 74% unique when compared to Environment Complete, which is a more scholarly database. GreenFILE is for the concerned person looking for information on individual response to environmental issues, such as solar or wind power options; on corporate response such as alternative energies used in the business sector; or on local or government impact such as environmental laws and studies. -- Added:5/12/2008
Fogler Library Celebrates the University of Maine Yearbooks Online, April 17
For the past eighteen months, Fogler Library staff members have been engaged in digitizing the full run of the Prism yearbook and completed the final of 107 volumes in early March. The Yearbooks Online, which run from 1895 through 1997, are available to browse page by page from the Library’s web site. The online address is: library.umaine.edu/yearbooks.
To celebrate the completion of the project, we would like to invite members of the University Community to an afternoon event to be held April 17 from 3-4 pm at the University Club. A brief presentation of the project and the resulting resource will lead off the occasion followed by an opportunity for attendees to explore the site on individual wireless laptops with assistance from project team staff. Selected physical copies housed in our Special Collections will also be on display.
This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. We encourage you to stop by and take the premier tour with us. -- Added:4/14/2008
URSUS User Interface Upgrade April10
The software vendor for our online catalog URSUS will install their latest update to the user interface "WebPac Pro" on Thursday, April 10. There should be no downtime for URSUS users.
The look and feel of the existing URSUS interface will still be present after the upgrade, but WebPac pro will give us some new features, including improved relevance ranking for search results. The most significant difference that users will notice after the upgrade is the use of the brief citation display in search results lists. This feature shows more information about items in the results list than the current view. We will also have the option of increasing the number of results that display on the results page. -- Added:4/10/2008
LibQUAL Results Available
This past spring the University of Maine community was asked to participate in in LibQUAL, an online survey measuring user perceptions of library services and resources. Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey. The results of the survey are now available online at http://library.umaine.edu/libqual/default.htm. -- Added:3/10/2008
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