Current Library Displays

Current Library displays highlight the College of Engineering and Computer Science and International Week. 

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What UE Libraries Can Do For You: American Chemical Society Journals

Curious about the influence of a diet rich in fruits and vegetables in preventing cancer?

Need to locate an article dealing with tetrahedral manganese complexes authored by Dr. Bryan Lynch?

Need current information on the persistence of PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) in the environment?

Concerned about your health and drug resistant bacteria?

Resources to answer these questions can be found in the American Chemical Society Journals online database. The American Chemical Society is the leading publisher of peer-reviewed research journals in the chemical and related sciences. The Society publishes more than thirty-five journals, as well as Chemical & Engineering News and the ACS Legacy Archives. In addition to these publications, thirty-five to forty new books are produced each year.

The ACS publications website provides quick and advanced search options (with the ability to save searches), full text HTML display with in-line references and a figure viewer, and direct SciFinder® links from articles/chapters to the CAS database.

Explore American Chemical Society Journals and contact Kathy Bartelt (kb4@evansville.edu) or Shane White (sw69@evansville.edu) with questions or comments.

What UE Libraries Can Do For You: Health Source Plus: Nursing/Academic Edition

What UE Libraries Can Do For You: Health Source Plus: Nursing/Academic Edition

Looking for information about the nutrition issues in the United States? Perhaps you need research on the various treatments used in alternative medicine. Health Source Plus is an excellent place to start.

Health Source Plus is home to over 550 medical journal titles. This database is ideal for nursing and physical therapy students as well as anyone else looking for health science information. There is full text for many of the journal titles while the rest are indexed and easily obtained via interlibrary loan.

Content of Health Source Plus includes:

* over 550 journal titles

* full text and citation information for many areas in health sciences

*unique journal titles not found in other databases

Explore Health Source Plus.*

Contact Kathy Bartelt (kb4) or Shane White (sw69) with questions about Health Source Plus.

*link will only work if on campus network or logged into “off-campus access”

Libraries Get Mobile

The Libraries have released a beta mobile version of their website: http://libraries.evansville.edu/mobile/. Please let us know what you think! Contact Meg Atwater-Singer (ma35 or 2487) with comments, including things we've missed.

New Content on LCO

The Libraries have added more content to Literary Criticisms Online! Joining recent volumes of Contemporary Literary Criticism are Drama Criticism, Classical & Medieval Literature Criticism and Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. While the library is working to purchase the backfiles of these essential reference works, researchers may need to consult the printed volumes of these four series in the Reference Collection.

What UE Libraries Can Do For You: Biography Resource Center

What UE Libraries Can Do For You: Biography Resource Center

Are you looking for quick biographical information about Abraham Lincoln? Perhaps you want to see the latest news about Rod Serling or Coretta Scott King. Or you need a biography on Kim Jong-Il or Husni Mubarak. Start with Biography Resource Center to find this information and a lot more besides.

Within the Biography Resource Center database UE Libraries you will find biographies covering an internationally wide range of people from all subject areas. The database covers over 150,000 individuals and their lives. Some entries are more in-depth than others due to availability of information. Each entry gives an objective overview of the subjects life and times as well as quick facts about them such as dates of birth and death, primary residence, positions in life, and so forth.

The Biography Resource Center is an excellent place to begin researching an individual because it not only supplies a good handle on the particular person but also provides additional resources for use for research and a bibliography from whence their information was culled.

Content of Biography Resource Center includes:

* Over 150,000 entries

* Combines information from over 280 K biographies and 250 periodicals.

* Provides up-to-date information on a particular entry

*Provides news articles concerning the subject

*Related Articles and cited references

Explore Biography Resource Center.

Contact Kathy Bartelt (kb4) or Shane White (sw69) with questions about Biography Resource Center.

Athens Historic Newspapers Archive

I just read about Georgia's historic newspaper project.  The Athens Historic Newspapers Archive provides online access to five newspaper titles published in Athens from 1827 to 1922.  The archive includes the following Athens newspaper titles: Athenian (1827-1832), Southern Banner (1832-1882), Southern Watchman (1855-1882), Daily/Weekly Banner-Watchman (1882-1889), Daily/Weekly Athens Banner (1889-1922).