NetLibrary eBook of the Month for December

The New Grove Guide to Wagner and his Operas will be provided with free, unlimited access December 1-31. Click on the image for direct access to this title.

New GVRL title: Europe since 1914: Encyclopedia of the age of war and reconstruction

Europe since 1914: Encyclopedia of the age of war and reconstruction is now available within the
Gale Virtual Reference Library. A record for this item has also been added to the Felix catalog.

New enhancements for EBSCO databases

I have now made the following features available within most EBSCO databases:

The Ask-A-Librarian link allows you to send questions to your library via email, right from EBSCOhost. Simply click the Ask-A-Librarian link in the upper right corner of your screen and complete the resulting form. You may also be able to include your current Search History in your email, for clarification.

The Autocomplete Keyword Search Suggestions feature automatically offers keyword suggestions, as you begin to enter a search term in the Find field. Suggestions are based on popular and commonly misspelled search terms.

To learn more about these and other new features, open an EBSCO database and click on the New Features link in the upper right corner of the screen as shown below:

Resource APSU educators can share with students

APSU has been registered for free access to Awesome Stories. Awesome Stories is a gathering place of primary-source information. Its purpose is to help individuals find original sources, located at national archives, libraries, universities, and government web sites.

For now, you will have to create an account to access the materials within this resource. Signing up for an account will provide you with an access code that you can share with students. The current system allows fifty people to simultaneously log-on with the same access code. See the message below for details about signing up for an account.

"We have approved your request for an AwesomeStories academic membership for Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee.

Once we have accepted a library, school, museum or other academic institution for group membership, as we accepted yours, other librarians or educators at that institution, or in that association, who would like free library or classroom access to AwesomeStories will need their own user names and passwords. Please let your colleagues know that. They simply have to sign-up at the academic member section of the site, http://www.awesomestories.com/ as you have done. We require EACH librarian and faculty member to have separate academic memberships so we can track the number of site users - that helps us to determine when we must increase server capacity. (AwesomeStories is an extremely fast-loading site, and we want to keep it that way!) Because we have already accepted your organization, there will be no delay in providing those requesting teachers and librarians their access codes - other than their position in the sign-up queue.

This free group membership extends to yourself and students, or individuals, physically studying or learning in your classroom or library. Our current system allows fifty people to simultaneously log-on with the same access codes. (We are working on IP recognition which, we hope, will soon eliminate that restriction.) "

Stat!Ref an@tomy.tv now available

Access to Stat!Ref an@tomy.tv is now available from the library's list of databases, the biology subject page, the nursing subject page, and the medical studies page. For more information view the an@tomy.tv info page. APSU shares the cost for this resource with other institutions in the TENN-SHARE consortium.

New features and databases added to Central Search

Serials Solutions has added a new feature called clustering to our existing federated search program Central Search. Clustering is a new technology that organizes results in a way where similar search results are grouped together.

The clustering box is placed on the upper left hand corner of the results page with the title "Clustered Results". Users can view their clustered results by topic, publication date, journal, and author, using the tabs at the top of the clustered results box.

Clicking on the “Show In Clusters” link within a search result will highlight in yellow within the custering box where that result fits into the list of clustered topics. The “Remove highlighting” link in the clustered results box will remove this highlighting.

In addition, Lexis-Nexis Academic and Encyclopedia Britannica Online are now available for searching within this federated search product.

Removal of access to CQ Weekly Reports

The subscription for CQ Weekly Reports ended 11-1-2006 and will not be renewed. All links to this resource have been removed form the Library website.

Access provided to 2,582 freely accessible e-journals

Access to 2,582 freely accessible electronic journals has now been provided through the Serials Solutions products Find Periodicals andArticle Linker. 1,522 of these titles are unique titles for which thelibrary did not previously provide access. Many of these journals are well known scholarly journals which may provide open access to all issues except those from the current year. The subject breakdown for these journals are listed below:

273 Freely Accessible Arts & Humanities Journals
136 Freely Accessible Business Journals
60 Freely Accessible General Interest Journals
331 Freely Accessible Journals
4 Freely Accessible Pre-print Services
1381 Freely Accessible Science Journals
397 Freely Accessible Social Science Journals

An entry for one of these new titles from "Freely Accessible Science Journals" within "Find Periodicals" is provided in the example below:

Journal of infectious diseases (0022-1899) View Terms of Use
from 04/01/1997 to 1 year ago in Freely Accessible Science Journals

Access to titles previously accessible in Felix should be immediately available, but unique titles will not be available in Felix until Serials Solutions provides the monthly update of MARC records.

NetLibrary eBook of the month for November

From Vietnam to 9/11 will be provided with free, unlimited access November 1-30, 2006. Click on the image for direct access to this title.