Library News

Everything biology, now in Web of Science

NU researchers already know about Web of Knowledge, the mega-database from the Institute for Scientific Information that’s linked to the Journal Citation Reports. Often used for broad searching and citation tracking, Web of Knowledge through the NU Libraries now goes much deeper with the addition of BIOSIS Previews, the premier journal article database in biology. The NU Libraries have always offered BIOSIS; in fact, it was the very first online service that we ever licensed on the web, back in the palmy 1990’s when home was a haven from library research, and every other database had to be searched on a CD-ROM network on the first floor of Snell Library. Now we are shifting BIOSIS from the Ovid platform to Web of Knowledge. With this change, you can search BIOSIS with numerous other journal citation databases across and beyond the sciences. BIOSIS adds more international coverage to Web of Science, and it includes patents. We hope this will be a real boon for interdisciplinary research. Search “extraterrestrial life” and find scholarship from astronomy journals, journals in meteorology, astrobiology, medical sociology, and philosophy all in the same results set. Indexing goes back to 1969. Try BIOSIS and experience these expanded search results for yourself!

After Effects workshop at the DMDS, March 10/11, 2010

The Digital Media Design Studio is having an Introduction to After Effects Workshop. Learn how to create images through the simple tools of After Effects. Gain an understanding of moving images and learn how to bring your ideas to life. Register for the workshop here. The workshop will take place on Wednesday, March 10th at 11:45-1:25, and Thursday, March 11th from 2:50-4:30 in 200 Snell Library.

Read Across America Day

Today, March 2, is Read Across America day, organized by the National Education Association, and celebrated on Dr. Seuss’s birthday. The idea behind it is “for every child to be reading in the company of a caring adult.” Interested students at Northeastern can join organizations like Jumpstart on campus that are devoted to early childhood literacy. At the Library, we have a number of Dr. Seuss books in the Favat Children’s Collection, as well as biographies of the Massachusetts-born writer, and even a government document—a 1943 army piece illustrated by Seuss about the perils of mosquitos!

Miss an Author Talk?

If you have missed one this semester, no need to worry.  You can watch them online on Northeastern’s Youtube and iTunes University channels.  Below, watch John Nichols and Bob McChesney discuss the crisis in modern-day American journalism: Catch up on other Library programs and let us know what you think! If you’re interested in John Nichols and Bob McChesney’s presentation, read their book The Death and Life of American Journalism, available at Snell Library.  (Both also have published other books on journalism in the Library’s collection as well.) If you’re a journalism or communications student, you might also be interested in checking out librarian Julie Jersyk’s subject guide pages, or making a research appointment to learn more.  

Law Library Web Site Gets Makeover

law library Congratulations to our friends and colleagues from across Forsyth Street…the NU School of Law Library! Following on the beautiful new renovations to their digs in the Asa Knowles building, the Library at the NU School of Law now has a beautiful new web site, too. A lot of the old familiar elements are there: the blog feed from the Jurist at the University of Pittsburgh, for example, the NuCat search, and and all their helpful guides and links. Plus, everything is grouped on the home page a little more clearly, and the colors and pictures make the site quite beautiful. It’s really inspiring to us, as we begin a similar process of redesigning our web site here at Snell!