Travel Help

With the holidays looming on the horizon, travel is on everyone's mind. Here are some nifty travel sights that might make everything a little bit easier next time you travel:

Adioso is a simple travel site that lets you search easily and quickly for the cheapest flight available. It lets you search with a variety of methods, including setting a specific price or lower for airfare. Offerings are slim for now, but this is definitely worth bookmarking for future reference.

Stay.com lets you create your own travel guide. From hotels and restaurants to fitness centers and children's museums, Stay.com lets you create a travel guide based on what YOU want to see. You can also suggest attractions to the creators. Cities on offer are few right now, but the major tourist cities are included and if you're starting out clueless, this is a better place to start than a packaged tour that makes you go places you'd rather not.

Something not travel related: If you don't already have a customized homepage, Start IO can help you get started. Just register and Star IO will walk you through setup. The most popular links are already included, but you can easily add links you'd rather see at start-up and remove links that are irrelevant. You can also customize start pages for group use.

What UE Libraries Can Do for You: Project Muse

What UE Libraries Can Do for You: Project Muse

Do you need research articles detailing what the Koran says about women’s rights, a review of the play Spring Awakening by Steven Sater (graduate of Evansville’s Harrison High School), a comparison of Jane Austen and J.K. Rowling, or analysis of the Epic of Gilgamesh? Project Muse is the database for you.

Project MUSE's mission is “to excel in the broad dissemination of high-quality scholarly content.” MUSE is a not-for-profit collaboration between participating publishers and the Johns Hopkins University Library. This partnership collaborates to provide 100% full-text, user-friendly online access to a comprehensive selection of humanities and social sciences journals.

Project MUSE provides

· full-text access to current content from over 400 titles representing nearly 100 not-for-profit publishers

· full-text versions of titles from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies

· most articles available in both HTML and PDF

· online access to complete content of each journal issue—including all charts, graphics and images

· no embargoes on journal content —the MUSE issue typically appears online before the print version mails

· access to over a decade of backfiles for selected titles

· tools including citation exporting, RSS feeds, and social bookmarking to assist with saving and sharing favorite content.

Explore Project Muse.

Contact Kathy Bartelt (kb4) or Shane White (sw69) with questions or comments.

JSTOR Business III

The Libraries have added another JSTOR collection: Business III.  Take a look at the title list and journals' coverage at http://about.jstor.org/content-collections/journals/business-iii.

Asia-Studies Databases -- New!

The Libraries have recently purchased Asia-Studies Full-Text Online and Asia-Studies Humanities.

Asia-Studies Full-Text Online is a database that provides access to reports, working paper series, and peer reviewed journals and e-journals. It covers business, economics, government, politics, and social sciences related to the nations of Asia-Pacific. Examples of specific subject coverage include finance, trade, environment, human resources development, best practices in government, fisheries, tourism, education and women's studies to name a few. Statistical reports on Asian countries are also available.

Asia-Studies Humanities is a full-text database that provides access to reports, working paper series, and peer reviewed journals and e-journals. Subject coverage is Asia-Pacific Humanities - Asian languages, arts, culture, history and religion.

Both databases cover 53 countries including all of Asia from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Central Asian republics on east through India, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.

Try them out and let us know what you think!

CQ Global Researcher Database Trial

You have until November 19th to try CQ Global Researcher. This database offers focused, single-topic reports on current world issues. The reports provide in-depth coverage of global affairs from international viewpoints. CQ Global Researcher is published monthly, with each report covering a pressing political, social, environmental, or regional issue from around the globe.

What UE Libraries Can Do For You: Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)

What UE Libraries Can Do For You: Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)

Are you having trouble finding resources for your Poli Sci paper? Perhaps you are researching the possible outcomes of Iran’s nuclear program on its standing in International affairs? Are you looking for what scholars are saying about the latest news from Pakistan and Israel? Columbia International Affairs Online or CIAO may be the database you need.

Content of CIAO includes:

* Working or white papers from leading research institutions and universities about current political issues around the world.

* Access to approximately 100 unique journal titles not found in other databases

* Access to case studies

* Course work, packs and syllabi from Political science classes of many educational levels

Explore CIAO.

Contact Kathy Bartelt (kb4) or Shane White (sw69) with questions about CIAO.

Wheeler Fund Available to Purchase Library Materials

UE Libraries invites proposal applications for the Wheeler Fund.  This fund was established in remembrance of Walton M. Wheeler, Jr. (1908-60).   Each year the fund is used to purchase special materials designed to enhance the library collection.  This year the amount available in the fund is $1,018.

Materials purchased will consist of items an academic department cannot afford to purchase with its budget allocation and which make a significant addition to present library holdings.  Proposals fulfill one of the following purposes:

                *to purchase materials for a new academic program

                *to purchase materials for an existing program

                *to purchase cross-disciplinary enrichment materials

The materials will NOT include pieces of equipment or computer software.  They will NOT entail continuing costs; for example, a subscription to a journal.

Proposal applications include:

  A Statement of Intent—The statement consists of a one-page (200-300 words) description of the overall purpose of your proposal and a description of the type of material you wish the library to acquire.  Please submit the Statement of Intent by Monday, November 1, 2010.

  Formal Proposal—Statements considered to be most promising will be returned with a request to prepare a formal proposal.  The proposal should include: (1) a 300-500 word rationale; (2) an itemized budget listing materials to be purchased; and (3) any additional supporting data the applicant wishes to present.  The previously submitted Statement of Intent is not equivalent to the proposal.  If you are selected to submit a Formal proposal it is due by Monday, November 22, 2010.

Please direct questions to Kathy Bartelt, Collection Development Librarian, at 488-2486 or kb4 AT evansville dot edu.

Fall Break Hours

UE Libraries will observe the following schedule of hours during Fall Break.

• Friday, Oct. 8: 7:45 a.m. - 5 p.m.
• Saturday, Oct. 9: CLOSED
• Sunday, Oct. 10: CLOSED
• Monday, Oct. 11: 7:45 a.m. - 5 p.m.
• Tuesday, Oct. 12: Resume Regular Hours

What UEL Can Do For You: ScienceDirect

Are you looking for research about the changes in atmospheric composition or perhaps new insights into brain-computer interfacing?  Science Direct is your source for information on these topics and many more. 


Within the Science Direct database, UE Libraries subscribes to the full text of the Physical Sciences and Engineering component; searching the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Life Sciences components will yield citation information but not full text of articles or books.

Content of Science Direct includes:

• Reference resources and handbooks
• Over 2,500 journal titles
• Over 6,000 e-books
• Full text and citation information for many disciplines
• Related Articles and "Cited by" references
• Unique journal titles not found in other databases.

Contact Kathy Bartelt (kb4) or Shane White (sw69) with questions about Science Direct.