Have you ever seen a DOI on an article and wondered what it was? DOI, or Digital Object Identifier, is a unique number given to an article to provide a persistent link to its location on the internet. The DOI is typically located on the first page of an article. A new feature of the Full Text Journal Finder tool allows you to search using the article’s DOI. Go to research.udmercy.edu, click Articles, Journals + Databases, scroll down to “Find...
Need to find information in electrical and computer engineering? Even information on medical or dental applications? Try IEEE Xplore. This database offers basic and advanced searching in almost four million records, including conference publications, standards, journals, and magazines published by the IEEE. Only abstracts are available. Topics include: Aerospace Bioengineering Communication, Networking, and Broadcasting Components, Circuits, Devices, and Systems Engineering Materials Engineering Profession Fields, Waves, & Electromagnetics General Topics for Engineers Geoscience Nuclear Engineering Photonics & Electo Optics Power Energy...
Hard to believe, but there once was a time when you could visit the corner newspaper stand and find daily (sometimes twice daily) newspapers from the immediate vicinity as well as national and even international publications providing different perspectives on important events and people. Well, the good ‘ole days aren’t completely gone thanks to the MeL Database InfoTrac Newsstand. InfoTrac Newsstand provides access to full-text newspapers and allows users to search articles by title, headline, date and other fields. Over...
Extra! Extra! Read All About It! The New York Times is now available online! Don’t miss out! Need to write a speech on an event that happened on your birth date? Explore over 150 years of breaking news stories from the renowned New York Times. Read about the sinking of the Titanic, where more than 1,500 people perished in the icy waters of the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912. Or if sports is more your thing, read about the New York Yankees 5-3...
You may have noticed, or will notice in the coming weeks, that the PsycINFO database has a different look to it. Indeed it does. The library is now providing PsycINFO through ProQuest rather than Ebsco. From the library homepage, research.udmercy.edu, click on the third tab, Article, Journals + Databases. Under Find databases by title, select the letter P. Scroll down until you find PsycINFO 1887 (third from the bottom). By clicking on it, the basic search screen will come up....
PubMed is a free database created by the National Library of Medicine [NLM], a part of the National Institute of Health. It’s the best place to begin a literature search on any healthcare, medicine, nursing, dentistry or basic science topic. It is the broadest index of medical, science, and healthcare. There are currently about 24 million citations from about 5,500 journals. Here are some short tutorials about searching PubMed. While the site is free, access to the full text of...
Why would you want to use Academic OneFile? It is an excellent database to begin your research because not only does it contain peer-reviewed, scholarly articles on multiple subjects such as the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and more, but has magazine and newspaper articles as well including the New York Times (1985-present). Academic OneFile has the content you need no matter what topic you have chosen for your research paper and it has many...
Spring break is over. It’s time to get serious about those research papers that are coming due. But where to start? Your professor wants you to use scholarly articles but what are those and where do you find them? You start right here at the library research portal, research.udmercy.edu. Simply click on the third tab, Article, Journals + Databases. The UDM Databases are searchable collections of full-text journal articles, abstracts (article summaries), or citations. They have gone through an evaluative...
Happy New Year from the librarians! Are you refreshed and ready to tackle another term? The library re-opens tomorrow, January 2, 2014 at 9:00am. What’s new for the new year at the library? – Have you heard of LibGuides? Maybe not, but you’ve probably seen them. LibGuides organizes information on a web site. Coming soon, you’ll have access to discipline-specific information in the form of a Libguide. Check out a preview of the Nursing LibGuide by clicking on this link....
How many times have you heard “there’s two sides to every story”? With the popularity of social media sites like Twitter and Facebook, it seems everyone has an opinion about everything these days. So where can you go to get intelligent information about controversial topics? Try the database Opposing Viewpoints: In Context. This database covers the pro and con perspectives on over 13,000 issues from the legalization of marijuana to rap music to Wikileaks. In addition to the pro/con arguments,...
