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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In light of recent news from Cuba, you may be interested in checking out the excellent PBS biographical film, Fidel Castro. Thanks to the partnership between PBS & NCLive that we announced last month, we now have access to it and many other PBS documentaries online. You can also check out the DVD from our media collection.

Watch online.

Find the DVD.

More new readings on Cuba and Castro:

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The full text of The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning is available online through the MIT Press. This series "examines the effect of digital media tools on how people learn, network, communicate, and play, and how growing up with these tools may affect a person's sense of self, how they express themselves, and their ability to learn, exercise judgment, and think systematically." Worthwhile reading for educators.

CURRENT VOLUMES:
Civic Life Online: Learning How Digital Media Can Engage Youth
Digital Media, Youth, and Credibility
The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning
Digital Young, Innovation, and the Unexpected
Learning Race and Ethnicity: Youth and Digital Media
Youth, Identity, and Digital Media

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NC Live, which provides access to online content to a statewide network of community college libraries, university/college libraries, and public libraries, is now offering online access to nearly 250 PBS programs.

UNC Asheville students, faculty and staff may access documentaries by Ken Burns as well as series like Scientific American Frontiers, American Experience, and Frontline from computers on campus or at home. (Home users please note that a high speed internet connection and Flash Media Player 9.0 or higher are required to use this resource.)

The NC Live PBS Video Collection is accessible via the Ramsey Library web site. Choose Research Databases and find the NC Live PBS Collection listed under General Indexes, Audio/Video Resources or the title list.

Go to the NCLive PBS Video Collection.

Watch more FrontLine videos online.

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Access Historical Statistics of the United States online.

This standard source for the quantitative facts of American history is now available online.

Download, manipulate and customize tables of data on a range of topics, from Asheville population stats from 1930-present to the amount of silk traded between England and the Carolinas in the 1700s.

More info

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Infotrac has long been one of our most useful research databases, and the new version, Academic OneFile, has nearly twice the content, including full text.

Covered subject areas include the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, and literature.

Other features: Persistent urls so you can add an article link to an email or web page (TIP: use the "bookmark" link to do this), Email & RSS search alerts and Direct links to JSTOR & Web of Science content

Try the new version.

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Google SketchUp for dummies
Hacking Google Maps and Google Earth
Google Maps hacks
The Google story
Google's PageRank and beyond : the science of search engine rankings
Google Analytics
Google advertising tools
The search : how Google and its rivals rewrote the rules of business and transformed our culture
Google powered : productivity with online tools
Google talking
Google : the missing manual
Google's PageRank and beyond
Google Maps hacks
Beginning Google maps applications with PHP and Ajax : from novice to professional
Hacking Google Maps and Google Earth
Winning results with Google AdWords
Messages : free expression, media and the west from Gutenberg to Google

online
The Google CheatSheet
Google Book Search
Google Alerts
Google Docs
Google Reader

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Starting Wednesday, September 19, The New York Times will stop charging for access to parts of its Web site.

The Times Select subscription program, which used to charge $49.95/yr to everyone except print subscribers, students & teachers, will be discontinued. The entire site will now be free as well as archival content from 1987 forward and from 1851-1922. Users will be charged for some content from 1923-1986, but current UNC Asheville students, faculty & staff have access, as always, to the NYT from 1851 to the present.

New York Times (1980-present). Searchable full text; East Coast Late Edition. Includes NYT Book Review and NYT Magazine.

New York Times (1851-2001) - Historical Newspaper Collection. Full-image articles from the last 150 years. Includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue -- cover to cover -- in downloadable pdf files.

More online newspaper archives

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Audio recordings of Humanities 124 lectures will now be available online via Ramsey Library's Course Reserves system. Do a course search for HUM 124, choose "Hum 124 Lectures Audio Unca Fall 2007" for a list of available lectures, and log in using your OneCard number.

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Now available via our Research Databases section: The Oxford African American Studies Center, a scholarly database containing primary source materials, photographs, maps, charts, tables, and 7,500 articles from core reference works. TIP: Do a full text search for "Asheville" to find references to local African American history.

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New subscription databases available:

SPORTDiscus. 1800-present. Covers sport, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, disabled persons, facility design & management, health, health education, physical therapy, nutrition, recreation, leisure studies, tourism, allied health, occupational health & therapy, public health and more.

Wiley Interscience. Journals covering business, chemistry, computer science, earth and environment, education, engineering, law, life sciences, mathematics and statistics, medicine, physics and astronomy, polymers and materials, psychology, and social science.

See the rest of our Research Databases.

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Check out our video and text tutorials on using EndNote Web, NetLibrary Audiobooks and RSS, and look for upcoming tutorials on the library's Tutorials page.

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Like the serendipity of browsing the library shelves? Now you can explore our materials online from macro- to micro-level subject divisions by clicking the "Browse" tab in the library catalog. With book cover images and links to reviews and Search Inside the Book, it's almost as good as being here.

Try it out here.

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Ramsey Library is very pleased to announce the availability of the bibliographic software package EndNote Web for free use by UNCA students, faculty, and staff. EndNote Web is a Web-based reference organizer, and, as the company claims, "It is the ideal, time-saving solution for students and researchers."

To find more information about EndNote Web, check the "For More Information" block on the right of this page. There you'll find a link to follow to "Learn more via recorded presentations." The 8 minute "Introduction to EndNote Web" is very useful and provides instructions on how to set up your account.

NOTE: If signing up from off campus you must access the ISI Web of Knowledge home page by going through the library page so that the proxy server will recognize that you're an authorized user.

See Jim's Notes for step-by-step instructions.

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ENDNOTE WEB

Ramsey Library is very pleased to announce the availability of the bibliographic software package EndNote Web for free use by UNCA students, faculty, and staff. I wanted to let the bibliographically enthused members of our community know of EndNote's availability as soon as I could in case you find yourselves sated with holiday feasting and looking for a project far from the madding crowd.

Provided as a complement to the citation database WEB OF KNOWLEDGE (i.e., WEB OF SCIENCE), EndNote Web is a Web-based reference organizer, and, as the company claims, "It is the ideal, time-saving solution for students and researchers." With EndNote Web you can:

* Search ISI Web of Knowledge, PubMed and hundreds of library OPACs directly
* Import references from hundreds of online bibliographic databases
* Store up to 10,000 records per user account
* Edit reference detail — add notes and keywords, modify any field
* Use over 2,300 publishing styles to format in-text citations and bibliographies
* Cite While You Write™ in Microsoft Word (requires plug-in)
* Format papers in other word processors using RTF (rich text format) files
* Simplify collaboration with colleagues — share EndNote Web folders
* Use EndNote Web toolbars in Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla® to access your reference library in one click, and capture citation data easily (requires plug-in)
* Transfer references between EndNote Web and EndNote X seamlessly (desktop to Web or Web to desktop)

To find more information about
EndNote Web, click on / or follow the EndNote Web link under "Spotlight" on the Library home page
http://bullpup.lib.unca.edu/library/. Be sure to check the "For More Information" block on the right of the page. There you'll find a link to follow to "Learn more via recorded presentations." The 8 minute "Introduction to EndNote Web" is very useful and provides instructions on how to set up your account.

I (Jim) did set up an account so it is possible for the near illiterate. It can be confusing. If trying from on campus:

1. Click on "start using EndNote Web today" under "For more information" on the EndNote Web information page http://www.isiwebofknowledge.com/endnoteweb. That will take you to the ISI Web of Knowledge home page. 2. On the Web of Knowledge home page, look to the RIGHT where you'll find "Please Register for More Features." If you have not registered previously, click on "Sign in to access EndNote Web." 3. The next screen will ask for your full email address (e.g., kuhlman@unca.edu) which become your user name to access EndNote and for you to create an 8 character password. Be sure to click on the rules for password construction. This password must contain at least one of a certain set of characters. 4. That should do it.

If signing up from off campus you must access the ISI Web of Knowledge home page by going through the library page so that the proxy server will recognize that you're an authorized user. If you simply click the link under spotlight, you won't see the part of the page that let's you create an account. try these steps:

1. Go the the library home page, http://bullpup.lib.unca.edu/library/. 2. Click on "Research Databases." 3. On the next screen, click on "Browse the Title List." 4. On the next screen, click on "S-Z". 5. On the next screen, click on "W." 6. On the next screen, finally, click on "Web of Science." 7. From here on out, it's the same as on campus access.

Actually, I hope your holidays are too interesting and too filled with joy for you to bother with this, but . . . .

From all of us at Ramsey Library, the HAPPIEST OF HOLIDAYS!!

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View/download this eBook

From the book description: Space, whether physical or virtual, can have a significant impact on learning. Learning Spaces focuses on how learner expectations influence such spaces, the principles and activities that facilitate learning, and the role of technology from the perspective of those who create learning environments: faculty, learning technologists, librarians, and administrators. Information technology has brought unique capabilities to learning spaces, whether stimulating greater interaction through the use of collaborative tools, videoconferencing with international experts, or opening virtual worlds for exploration.

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Folkstreams.net is a national preserve of hard-to-find documentary films about American folk or roots cultures. Offers free, high quality streaming video.
Check out films on Appalachian or African American culture or browse films by subject.

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