Ramsey Library News

NOTE: These trials have now ended. (14 May 2008)

Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to try the following online resources and let us know if you find them useful. Email your thoughts to: libref [at] unca.edu.
Note: These resources are available on campus only.

Oxford Scholarship Online

Oxford Scholarship Online provides access and full-text searchability to nearly 2,000 core Oxford University Press books in thirteen subject areas: Economics/Finance, Political Science, Religion, Philosophy, Literature, History, Classics, Psychology, Linguistics, Physics, Mathematics, Biology, and Business/Management.

http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/

CQ Press Political Reference Suite

CQ Press Political Reference Suite of Online Editions offers online access to CQ Press's reference titles on government and politics.

http://library.cqpress.com/prs

CQ Global Researcher

CQ Global Researcher offers focused, readable, single-topic reports on vital world issues. Reports include an introductory overview; background and assessment of the current situation; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; chronology on the topic, followed by short features for extensive context; a sampling of related international perspectives; maps and graphs; bibliographies of key sources; next steps for additional reading; and author profiles. Researchers may also search for all documents related to given geographic areas and individual states, using a new interactive global map.

http://library.cqpress.com/globalresearcher

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My Antonia: The Story in Sign
The Friends of Ramsey Library and Ramsey Library are very pleased to announce our support of a very special event which is free and open to the public. Acclaimed actress and American Sign Language practitioner Barbara Bates Smith will perform passages of My Antonia in sign and spoken word with Marilyn Edwards, Telecommunications Specialist, Asheville office, N.C. Division of Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. This program is a component of the region’s celebration of the National Endowment of the Arts THE BIG READ, which is featuring Willa Cather’s My Antonia under the auspices of Western North Carolina’s Together We Read.

My Antonia: the Story in Sign (poster)
Sunday, March 16
2:30 PM
Reuter Center
UNCA Campus

AUDUBON’S BIRDS ONLINE
In its 4 March issue, the Chronicle’s “The Wired Campus” reported that Pitt’s Digital Research Library “. . . used a high-resolution scanner to create the digital set (of Audubon’s 435 birds) for the Web, along with reprints from Audubon’s Ornithological Biography, his five-volume text describing each of the birds.” “The naturalist John James Audubon attempted, in the 19th century, to paint every species of North American bird. He got through 435 of them before running out of time and money.” Only 120 sets of the large, hand-colored works are known to exist. To view the plates and text directly, go to the University of Pittsburgh’s beautiful Audubon’s Birds of America.

Audubon's 435 Birds Mounted Online at Pitt

AND FROM THE SHADIER SIDE OF ACADEME
The Chronicle’s “Today’s News” of 6 March reported that a researcher at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has been suspended for fabricating data which “. . . appear in two papers about ways to manipulate human cells that were published in highly influential journals. The articles by the scientist, Tae Kook Kim, appeared in 2005 and 2006 in Science and Nature Chemical Biology, and had both already been cited several times by authors of other articles, an indication of their importance.”

Biology Papers in Prominent Journals May Be Frauds

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