Sage Journals Online: Now Available!

We’re excited to announce that we’ve expanded our collection of Sage publications online to over 560 journals. Coverage includes journals in the social sciences, health, business, and related disciplines. You can access these through the database Sage Journals Online, where you can choose a specific journal title or search by keyword or topic. You can also find an individual Sage journal title through NUCat or the E-journal Finder.

Citations, Quotations, Notations…Frustrations

Remember when before EasyBib you actually had to know what citation convention you were using and actually format your citation yourself? If you’re like me, of course you don’t, because we grew up in the computer age. Regardless, citations are a crucial function to the scholarly process, and withholding due credit (not citing your sources) or even citing incorrectly is frowned upon to the extent of expulsion for plagiarism. Some of the new features on EasyBib have made this process even easier by automatically citing sources based on article titles, and giving a much wider range of citation formats and documentation options. Unfortunately, you still have to cite within your actual text manually, a process that is known to be arduous and often time consuming…until now (for those of you who didn’t know about this before reading my blog post). Available through on the Self-Service tab of MyNEU, by clicking into Software Downloads you will find the answer to all things citation related. The program named EndNote, aptly puts an End to all of your Note-ation problems (I try to be funny… it usually never works). Straight from EndNote themselves…

“Millions of researchers, scholarly writers, students and librarians use EndNote to search online bibliographic databases, organize their references, images and PDFs in any language, and create bibliographies and figure lists instantly. Instead of spending hours typing bibliographies, or using index cards to organize their references, they do it the easy way—by using EndNote” (Endnote).

See the citation convention I used there? All thanks to EndNote! Some other cool functions include automatic paper formatting, template extensions, online reference searches, customizable export options, and more. So, while EasyBib may be a great tool for citations, the software provided by Northeastern will make sure you aren’t stuck in Snell Library all night.

InterLibrary Loan: A Memoir

So my favorite easy read author is Harlan Coben. He comes out with a few books every year and they’re fast paced mysteries that I find extremely easy to breeze through in just a few days. Given that he only comes out with one or two a year in hard cover it’s difficult to read them all right away. This is why I would like to give a big thanks to Northeastern Universities Inter-Library Loan. When I first decided to check if he had released a new book, NUcat helped me out and found that the only copy of his new novel was at the Wellesley College Library. Under the advice of the librarian assisting me, I put a request through ILL in about 30 seconds and the book left my mind. Two days later as I’m leaving for the weekend and looking for a read on the bus, I get To Kill a Mockingbird. I figured I’d give it a second go since it’s been a few years, and the guy working the desk says my book is in! Two days. Literally it arrived before I even remembered ordering it. And to top it off, the book is great! I just started it a day ago and I’m already 200 pages in. Thanks Inter-Library Loan!! I will definitely be using this service again!

Where Is Business Source Premier?

If you’ve been looking for Business Source Premier, we have upgraded it and its name has changed! Business Source Complete is the upgraded version of Business Source Premier, and it includes more full-text peer-reviewed journals, more trade journals, more industry and company profiles, more market research reports and more working papers.  Business Source Complete also includes some types of resources not available in Business Source Premier, such as author profiles, full-text interviews (executive & analyst) and faculty seminars (videos). Enjoy the upgrade !

New this week

If you haven’t checked out our new book lists–or subscribed to the rss feed–we publish new lists of new titles every week.  Yes the economy’s bad, but we are still buying new books, journals, CDs and films, and online resources. Here’s a sample of what’s new in the library this week: Since we’re in the season of meteor showers, it might be interesting to look at The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars by Christopher Cokinos, a study of the pioneering explorers and eccentrics who’ve become entranced by the meteors and their imprints on earth. Natalie Merchant’s Leave Your Sleep, from our CD collection, is a set of folk songs and nursery-rhyme inspired songs focusing on themes of motherhood and childhood.  Rolling Stone says, “The music is beautiful and the vibe mellow,” and you can hear her talk about it in a radio interview and sample the music here. A number of new titles about alternative energy, including its use in building design, the pioneering promise of nanotechnology in photovoltaics, a history of hybrid cars, and a look at wind energy are also new this week in the library. Finally, there’s my favorite genre: biography.  A biography of Mum Bett, the first slave granted her freedom by a United States court, in Massachusetts in 1781, by arguing that “all men are born free and equal” made her slavery illegal in Massachusetts.  A group biography of presidents Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson also makes its appearance. Check out our other new books, or subscribe to the RSS feed!