Off The Shelf

Did you know that you can find Company Profiles (including Data Monitor reports, Company History, Revenue analyses, and SWOT analyses) in Business Source Complete?

When you access the Business Source Complete database (via the library’s Articles, Books, and More  link), look for the More link on the dark blue bar along the top of the screen. 

Hover over this link and you will see a drop-down menu appear. Click on Company Profiles.

From here, simply search for your company’s name in the search box.  Voila!

For more help finding Company Information in LexisNexis and on the web, check out these fantastic guides:

Company Information in Lexis Nexis

Finding Company Information

And as always, if you need assistance – don’t hesitate to give us a call in the library!

~Jennie

You’ve all been there it’s a Sunday or late in the evening and you have been searching for “hours” – You are not getting what you need. What can you do if a librarian is not available to help. 

1. If your assignment is not due right away, stop searching and send us an email. We will respond to it the next day we are in the office. We start working on those emails at 8:00am. 

2. If your assignment is due soon remember that you are probably not getting results for one of two reasons:

• You are using the wrong words (try other terms that mean the same thing). If you can’t think of these terms try the Thesaurus or Subject Terms link at the top of most of the Library databases.
• You are in the wrong database (remember each database covers a unique set of journals). For example if you are in ERIC try Proquest Education Journals, if you are in Business Source Complete try ABI/INFORM.

3.  You may want to review the following brief tutorial Finding Journal Articles  , it’s less than 10 minutes and it may remind you of some concepts you have forgotten about for getting good search results.

Hope some of these tips help!

Robin

Looking for transcripts of television or radio interviews?  Our LexisNexis database has them.  

Once you have opened the LexisNexis database,  just follow these easy steps:

1)  Type in your search terms in the Search Terms box.  

2)  Check the TV and Radio Broadcast Transcripts box in the Search within area and make sure that is the only box checked.

3)  Choose the correct time period or date range from the Specify date area.

4)  Click Search.

Look through your results list and choose the one you want.

That’s it!

Kim

So just when you thought Facebook was only for viewing baby pictures and following the everyday activity of friends and family, one of your Capella Librarians stumbles across a useful application.  The application is called CiteMe and is pretty slick to use, coming from www.worldcat.org.  But, like all citation generators, you need to verify with your APA manual if the citation is 100% correct.

In order to use CiteMe through Facebook you’ll need to have a Facebook account.  Once you have an account you can search for the CiteMe application and use it to find and generate citations along with WorldCat.org.  I found this brief video from SELCOtv (a Minnesota Library cooperative’s video feed) helpful for learning how to use CiteMe: SELCOtv 68 Using Facebook’s CiteMe application.

Here are some pictures showing how to access this application in Facebook:

1) Use the search box in the upper right-hand side of Facebook to search citeme (no spaces):

2) You might need to next click on the Applications link to the left if CiteMe (as shown below) isn’t included in your results.  Then click View Application:

3) When you reach the CiteMe application information page, then just click Go to Application to begin using:

-Sommer

Our new tutorial Finding Resources for Your Literature Review is a comprehensive overview of specific search techniques you can use to assure you leave “No Stone Unturned” in finding everything available on your topic for your literature review.

The tutorial includes the following new media pieces:

Defining Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Resources

Keyword Searching for your Literature Review

Bibliographic Mining and Cited Reference Searching

Using Dissertations for Research 

Searching by Methodology

It also includes a NEW tutorial on RefWorks that shows you how to sign up for an account, store, organize and print APA formatted references of your citations.

Check out these new resources and let us know what you think!

Robin

A new Google Labs experiment called Google Fast Flip wants to help people read news online in a faster format.  From the Google Blog Post regarding this new “experiment” it talks about how long it takes to read the news on the web as you wait for each page to load for a news article.  What Fast Flip is trying to do is make reading the news online similar to reading the news in print, finding a way to “flip” pages quickly just as you would a newspaper or magazine page with your finger, instead you’re flipping from one article to another.  If you want to read the complete article you need to click on the page for it to open on the news website.

There are 4 categories for viewing:

• Popularity (Most Viewed, Recommended, & Headlines)
• Sections (Politics, Business, U.S., World, Sports, Sci/Tech, Entertainment, Health, Opinion, & Travel)
• Topics (Randomized, changes each time you refresh the page, e.g. Argentina, Stock Market, etc.)
• Sources (Randomized, changes each time you refresh the page, e.g. BBC News, NY Times, Salon, Newsweek, The Atlantic, etc.)

It’s an interesting idea and could be useful if you want to get the headlines on a particular topic or subject, and it does allow you to move through content pretty fast.  However it’s currently somewhat limited, but experiments in Google Labs are often changing as they receive feedback and try to improve the product.  The Topics & Sources links change every time you refresh the web page.  You might have fun clicking on one of the random topics and viewing the news stories related to that topic, but if you wanted to focus on a specific topic then you’re probably better off either clicking on one of the Sections links, which has sections like you’d find in a regular newspaper (see bullet point above).

There is also a mobile option, for those of you with fancy mobile devices that connect to the Internet.  iPhone and Android devices can access Mobile Google Fast Flip by pointing their browsers to http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/mobile.

Check it out at http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/.

-Sommer

PsycBOOKS added the following titles to its coverage list in October 2009. Of the titles added, 3 were APA books and 20 were designated classic books. Classic books are landmark titles in psychology and are selected by APA experts.

APA Books

1.   Addictive behaviors: New readings on etiology, prevention, and treatment, ©2009, by Marlatt, G. Alan (Ed.); Witkiewitz, Katie (Ed.)

2.   Disgust and its disorders: Theory, assessment, and treatment implications, ©2009, by Olatunji, Bunmi O.; McKay, Dean

3.   A lifetime of intelligence: Follow-up studies of the Scottish mental surveys of 1932 and 1947, ©2009, by Deary, Ian J.; Whalley, Lawrence J.; Starr, John M.

Classic Books

4.   Biographia literaria, or Biographical sketches of my life and opinions, ©1847, by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; Coleridge, Henry Nelson (Ed.)

5.   Christian non-resistance, in all its important bearings, illustrated and defended, ©1846, by Ballou, Adin

6.   An examination of President Edwards’ inquiry into the freedom of the will, ©1845, by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor

7.   Government of the thoughts, for young men (from the 2nd London ed., rev. by the Committee of Publication), ©1844, by Committee of Publication, Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, Boston, MA, US

8.   Hereditary descent: Its laws and facts, illustrated and applied to the improvement of mankind; with hints to woman, including directions for forming matrimonial alliances so as to produce, in offspring, whatever physical, mental, or moral qualities may be desired, together with preventives of hereditary tendencies, ©1843, by Fowler, O. S.

9.   A history of the earth and animated nature, Vol 1 (new edition with corrections and alterations), ©1844, by Goldsmith, Oliver

10.   Lectures on mental philosophy and theology, ©1846, by Richards, James

11.   Life of faith: In three parts, embracing some of the scriptural principles or doctrines of faith, the power or effects of faith in the regulation of man’s inward nature, and the relation of faith to the divine guidance, ©1854, by Upham, Thomas C.

12.   Locke’s essays: An essay concerning human understanding, and A treatise on the conduct of the understanding (Complete in 1 volume with the author’s last additions and corrections), © No Year Specified (Reprinted 1844), by Locke, John      

13.   On feigned and factitious diseases, chiefly of soldiers and seamen, on the means used to simulate or produce them, and on the best modes of discovering impostors: Being the prize essay in the class of military surgery in the University of Edinburgh, session 1835-6, with additions, ©1843, by Gavin, Hector

14.   The philosophy of history, in a course of lectures, delivered at Vienna (2nd ed., rev.), © 1846, by von Schlegel, Frederick; Robertson, James Baron(Trans)

15.   The philosophy of human life: Being an investigation of the great elements of life: The power that acts—the will that directs the action—and the accountability or sanctions that influence the formation of volitions, together with reflections adapted to the physical, political, popular, moral and religious natures of man, ©1939, by Dean, Amos

16.   Plato against the atheists; or, The tenth book of the dialogue on laws, accompanied with critical notes, and followed by extended dissertations on some of the main points of the Platonic philosophy and theology, especially as compared with the holy scriptures, ©1845, by Plato; Lewis, Tayler

17.   The principles of medical psychology, being the outlines of a course of lectures, ©1847, by von Feuchtersleben, Ernst; Lloyd, H. Evans (Trans.); Babington, B. G. (Trans.)

18.   The principles of physiology applied to the preservation of health, and to the improvement of mental and physical education, ©1844, by Combe, Andrew

19.  Principles of the interior or hidden life, designed particularly for the consideration of those who are seeking assurance of faith and perfect love (8th ed.), ©1843, by Upham, Thomas C.

20.   Self education: or, The philosophy of mental improvement, © 1847, by Hosmer, William

21.   A system of logic, ratiocinative and inductive, being a connected view of the principles of evidence and the methods of scientific investigation, ©1847, by Mill, John Stuart

22.   Theory of morals: An inquiry concerning the law of moral distinctions and the variations and contradictions of ethical codes, ©1844, by Hildreth, Richard

23.   Unity of purpose, or Rational analysis: Being a treatise designed to disclose physical truths and to detect and expose popular errors, ©1846, by Young, Augustus

Note: To read any of the these ebooks – go to the Articles, Books, and More page.  Scroll down and click PsycBOOKs.  Once  in the database, type in the title.

~Jennie

The Business Source Complete database now includes 55 videos from the Harvard Business School’s Faculty Seminar Series. These videos cover a variety of business topics, and are about an hour long. You can either watch them online or read a PDF copy of the transcript.

If you’d like to see the videos, you can simply search the database for Harvard FSS in the title:

- Erin

Learners have been inquiring about RefMobile, a newer RefWorks mobile version that allows you to access your RefWorks account with your mobile device.  I decided I’d give it a try and see what all the buzz was about with my iPod Touch.

I found this guide very helpful when I first tried RefMobile and started learning its features: Working with RefMobile.  From that guide it outlines the features of RefMobile and links to guides showing you how each feature works:

• Searching within your RefWorks account
• Viewing ALL references and file attachments (if the attachment type is supported by your mobile device)
• Viewing references by folder
• Adding or removing references to/from a folder
• Creating new folders
• Entering new references via SmartAdd — which locates references on the web when you enter an ISBN, DOI, PubMed ID (PMID), first author and pub year, or partial title
• Adding comments or text to the Notes field of your references

So if your mobile device can access the Internet, then you can utilize RefMobile.  Just point your web browser to www.refworks.com/mobile and have a go!

-Sommer

Last week I blogged about a new guide for CQ Researcher recently available.  This week I wanted to announce the Credo Reference User Guide is also now available.  To access the guide just go to the to the Library Homepage and following this path:

1. Click Articles, Books and More (your one-stop-shop for all of the Capella subscribed databases)
2. Scroll down the alphabetical list of databases until you see Credo Reference.  Underneath the database link is the link to the User Guide.  Click to open!

Earlier this year Robin blogged about how Credo Reference (along with Gale Virtual Reference Library) are helpful in gathering background information.  Credo includes dictionaries, encyclopedias, biographies, quotations, and bilingual dictionaries.  Check out her blog post for more information!

-Sommer