UE Library News

New at the University of Evansville Libraries!

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Indiana has a new website

I just learned that Indiana has released a new website for in.gov.  Check it out at: http://www.in.gov/.

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Ten Things You Can Do With Wolfram Alpha

Have you heard about Wolfram Alpha?  It is a computation engine that answers fact-based queries.  About.com has a great article listing 10 uses of W|A at http://websearch.about.com/od/enginesanddirectories/tp/wolfram-alpha.htm.  One really cool feature is the ability to map family trees and really figure out who is a 2nd cousins and who is an out-law.

Center for Social Media Releases New Guide to Navigating Copyright Law

The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Scholarly Research in Communication will help guide researchers in using copyrighted work—like political cartoons or screenshots from online games—in their studies.