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Syllecta Classica Now Online

Syllecta Classica, the annual publication of the University of Iowa Classics Department is now available online via Project Muse.

Library Workshops this Spring

Zotero 101: Organize Your Research

March 24, 2011

Olin Library Arc Lab

3:30 PM to 4:30 PM

To register, see http://zotero.doattend.com/

 

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself. In this hands-on workshop, we will cover account creation, installation, gathering references, organizing your references, creating citations and sharing or working collaboratively. For more info, see http://www.zotero.org/ 

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Paperless Reference Management with Mendeley

April 06, 2011

Olin Library Arc Lab

3:30 PM to 4:30 PM

To register, http://mendeley.doattend.com/

 

Do you have file cabinets of journal articles that you dread looking through when you need a citation? Consider going digital! Mendeley is like iTunes for your papers. Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research. Zotero can:

• Automatically generate bibliographies
• Highlight within and add digital notes to articles
• Collaborate easily with other researchers online
• Easily import papers from other research software
• Access your papers from anywhere online
• Read papers on the go, with our new iPhone app
• Automatically add references from Zotero
• For more info, see http://www.mendeley.com 

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Teaching with Twitter

April 07, 2011
Olin Library Arc Lab

3:00 PM to 4:30 PM

To register, http://twitter.doattend.com

In a world where social media has become a part of our daily existence, Twitter has begun to make inroads as a classroom technology. Please join us as we provide tips and ideas of new ways to integrate the micro-blogging tool, Twitter into your teaching and classroom activities.

 

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Online Image Editing With Picnik

April 19, 2011
Olin Library Arc Lab
3:30 PM to 4:30 PM
To register, http://picnik.doattend.com/

Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart's content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames. Other photo editing tools include auto- fix, rotate, crop, resize, exposure, color adjustments, basic sharpening, and red-eye fixing.
Picnik also has great Facebook-only features: show your photos on your profile page, browse and edit all photos tagged with you in them, or even browse and edit your friends' photos too! For more info, see http://www.picnik.com/

Philobiblion Tweets @WUSTLPhiloBib

You can learn about the latest library news for classics, philosophy, and linguistics via twitter. In addition to the contents of this blog, we'll also tweet links to more general library news and newly-noted online resources. Follow @WUSTLPhiloBib http://twitter.com/WUSTLPhiloBib.

 

New Electronic Journals

The new year brings with it online access to several additional philosophy journals.

Ancient Philosophy

British Journal for the History of Science

Hume Studies (via Project Muse)

Philosophical Topics

Social Philosophy and Policy

With the exception of Social Philosophy and Policy we have access to the complete runs of these journals, from volume 1, no. 1 to present! To find more philosophy journals in print and online see the Philosophy Research Guide.

Oxford Companion to Consciousness

The Oxford Companion to Consciousness, edited by Tim Bayne, Axel Cleermans, and Patrick Wilken, and published in print in 2009. is now available as part of Oxford Reference Online. According to the publisher:

The Oxford Companion to Consciousness is the most complete authoritative survey of contemporary research on consciousness. Five years in the making and including over 250 concise entries written by leaders in the field, the volume covers both fundamental knowledge as well as more recent advances in this rapidly changing area. Structured as an easy-to-use dictionary and extensively cross-referenced, the Companion offers contributions from philosophy of mind to neuroscience, from experimental psychology to clinical findings, so reflecting the profoundly interdisciplinary nature of the subject. Particular care has been taken to ensure that each of the entires is accessible to the general reader and that the overall volume represents a comprehensive snapshot of the contemporary study of consciousness.The result is a unique compendium that will prove indispensable to anyone interested in consciousness, from beginning students wishing to understand a concept to professional consciousness researchers looking for the best characterization of a particular phenomenon.

Oxford Reference Online includes a number of useful reference works for philosophy and cognitive science, including the Oxford Companion to Philosophy , the Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy , and the Oxford Companion to the Mind.

 

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Mobile Library Web Site & Text Reference Debut!

Washington University Libraries now has a mobile web site: http://library.wustl.edu/m. You can now use a smart phone or other mobile device to access information about the library.  From the mobile website users can access the library’s hours, the  catalog, check for computer availability, get reference assistance, and much more.

Now you can send questions to Library staff through text messages, rather than using a web browser for the regular chat service: just text your message to 314-884-8010! Get prompt replies from the Olin Library Help Desk (when it's open!).  More info.

Greece and Rome New Surveys in the Classics Online

Recent volumes in the series Greece and Rome. New Surveys in the Classics are now available online as part of the Libraries' subscription to the journal Greece and Rome. To access them you'll need to go the page for Greece and Rome on the Cambridge University Press web site and browse through the  journal's back issues, they are not yet in the library catalog. The most recent title is volume 39, Roman Landscape: Cultural and Identity by Diane Spencer. New Surveys provide concise overviews of key topics in the study of the Greco-Roman world, usually with explicit bibliographic guidance.

 

Online Logic Journals through Euclid Prime

The Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic (1960 to present) and the Review of Modern Logic formerly known as Modern Logic (1990 to present) are now both available online through Project Euclid--along with a variety of mathematics and statistics journals, proceedings, and monographs. Project Euclid's a joint venture of Cornell University Library and Duke University Press. 

Endangered Languages Database

The World Oral Literature Project at Cambridge University has just released the Endangered Languages Database. It includes records of over 3,500 languages that are in danger of extinction--more than half of the world's living languages. Records include basic geographic information have with references and links to archives and recordings where available.  Read more about it in the Chronicle of Higher Education and in the press release from Cambridge.

 

Library Survey

The Washington University Libraries are conducting a short survey to determine the library needs of the university community.

This year, it’s simple, straightforward and more closely tuned to Washington University than ever before.  It takes about 10-15 minutes to complete, and your responses are confidential.

As your subject librarian, I realize how busy you are.  The Library Survey only happens once every three years, and it fuels important changes in the Libraries’ collections, services and physical spaces. I’d like to be sure that the needs of (fill in department) are reflected

Here’s the link:  http://wulibraries.questionpro.com/ .  Note: The Library Survey runs until November 19^th, so act now!