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ScienceDirect Mobile App from Elsevier is Here!

Want to access full-text scientific articles from one of the world’s largest scientific, technical, and medical information providers, but not near a computer?  You can now access Elsevier ScienceDirect content on your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad with a new free app available in iTunes.

The only thing you need to get started is to register on ScienceDirect.com.  You will have to do this while on campus, but after that you will be able to use the application anywhere. As part of the registration process you will need to create a username and password (different from your Northeastern username and password) and provide Elsevier with your Northeastern email address.  Your Northeastern email address is used to verify that you are a member of the Northeastern community.

Try it out and let us know what you think, either here or in the comments!

Try It: Mergent WebReports

The library is now offering a chance to try Mergent WebReports through September 30, 2010.  After you’ve used it, let us know if you found it helpful.

Mergent WebReports is an online database that allows you to access a vast archive of corporate and industry related documents. WebReports contains more than 180,000 documents covering over 100 countries and industries using an easy to navigate and reliable system.

This database trial includes the Digital Corporate Manuals and the Digital Municipal & Government Manuals, going back to the early 1900s.

Cambridge Eviction Free Zone records available for historical research

We are pleased to announce that the historical records of the Cambridge Eviction Free Zone are now available in the NU Archives, located on the lower level of the Snell Library.

This collection is part of the local history collections in the NU Libraries Archives and Special Collections. Many people do not realize that, in addition to collecting historical records of Northeastern, we also collect local history records and documents, focusing especially on Boston-area social justice organizations that serve under-represented communities.

Founded in 1988, the Cambridge Eviction Free Zone (EFZ) was an independent, tenant-run community organization that worked for social and economic justice in the areas of housing and tenants’ rights, rent control, and immigrant voting rights.

The collection includes meeting minutes, reports, newsletters, newspaper clippings, promotional materials such as flyers, photographs, signs, and memorabilia. View a guide to the collection and read a complete press release about the collection.

Some practical joke

Recently, we’ve been seeing signs posted around the library, possibly on every floor, that read:

Club Snell Announces: 24/7 PARTY. Starting July 5th, 2010. All floors will be open as dance space to Students, Faculty and Staff with current Husky ID. Sorry, no BU students.

Okay so…we can take the high road and admit that this is kind of funny. The signs are versions of the template that Krissy created in June to announce the 24/7 library service. It is not clear how somebody got a hold of the template for this sign and was able to print it. Judging from the fact that it’s in black and white, though, it must have been printed in the info commons.

Still, if you see one of these signs, you can take it down and junk it. More detective work to follow, perhaps.