New Titles in Oxford Reference Online:
- The Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins
- The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
- A Dictionary of Sports Studies
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Oxford Reference Content Update Jan 2010
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Category Archives: Library News
Preventive Education Reduces Plagiarism
According to a new research study, exposing students to an educational tutorial about what constitutes plagiarism and how to prevent it is an effective mechanism for reducing student plagiarism. The study divided hundreds of students into two groups. he first group of students received no special instructions or information about plagiarism. Students in other randomly selected courses, however, were required to take a short online tutorial on plagiarism and were required to complete the exercise before they could hand in any papers. The results indicated that the students who were exposed to the online tutorial showed significant improvement in reducing the occurrence of plagiarism, especially among students with low SAT scores who typically are most likely to plagiarize.
These findings suggest that faculty concerned about student plagiarism should consider preventive educational approaches over enforcement approaches (e.g., using detection software to catch plagiarizers). While enforcement approaches may be effective at catching or detecting plagiarizers, they do little to attack the root causes of plagiarism. One of the challenges for students is not realizing they have access to tools that can help them to avoid plagiariasm and that can help them create and gather proper citations. Temple University librarians have expertise with tools such as RefWorks, a personal bibliographic software that is free to all Temple faculty and students, that can help students to better manage the citations they collect for their research project – and assist in integrating those citations into a research paper. Librarians can also show faculty the many research databases that enable students to create citations while doing their research. Consult our list of subject specialists to contact the librarian that serves your department.
ARTstor Update 1/14/10
ARTstor has announced the following:
Now available: Brooklyn Museum Costumes (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
ARTstor is collaborating with The Metropolitan Museum of Art to share approximately 5,800 images of American and European costumes and accessories from the Brooklyn Museum in the Digital Library.
The Samuel H. Kress collection now complete, including images from the National Gallery of Art
The Samuel H. Kress Collection is now launched in its entirety in the ARTstor Digital Library with approximately 1,700 images of European art, including more than 700 works from the National Gallery of Art.
Now available: Additional images from the Frick Art Reference Library Photoarchives
ARTstor is pleased to announce the addition of approximately 6,000 images to the Digital Library from the Frick Art Reference Library Photoarchives.
Now available: Additional images from The Warburg Institute
Approximately 860 additional images of Renaissance and Baroque book illustrations from The Warburg Institute are now available in the ARTstor Digital Library.
New collection agreement: The Trout Gallery (Dickinson College)
ARTstor is collaborating with The Trout Gallery, the art museum at Dickinson College, to share approximately 6,000 images of works in its permanent collection in the Digital Library.
Updates to Business & Company Resource Center
Business & Company Resource Center has a more polished look and has added more SWOT analyses. More details are available here.
New: Value Line
We’ve just added the online version of the highly respected Value Line Investment Survey (both the Standard and Small/Mid-Cap editions).
Films on Demand Content Update 1/12/10
More than 90 new titles were recently added to Films on Demand.
Text Us!: Ask a Librarian
The library offers a number of means for you to Ask a Librarian for research help and information. Besides visiting our service desks in the library, you can phone us, email us, and chat with us online. This week we introduce another way to Ask A Librarian: text messages (SMS). Now you can send us a text message with a question, and we’ll send a reply back to your phone or mobile device. Simply send your messages to:
267-266-4375
We’ll do our best to give you as complete an answer as possible. Be aware, while you can send us messages during off-hours (late at night, early in the morning) don’t expect a reply until the morning working hours. (You probably know the drill, but: Standard text messaging fees may apply, depending on your service plan.)
Historical Newspapers Content Update 1/11/10
The following content was recently added to:
America’s Historical Newspapers
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Publication |
Issues |
Publication Location |
Date Start |
Date End |
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Boston Daily Advertiser |
10312 |
Boston, MA |
1860-01-03 |
1900-12-31 |
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Manufacturers’ and Farmers’ Journal |
35 |
Providence, RI |
1861-01-01 |
1898-12-31 |
|
Ulster Gazette |
5 |
Kingston, NY |
1803-12-17 |
1821-05-30 |
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Morning Telegraph |
1 |
New York, NY |
1870-01-02 |
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Gazette-Telegraph |
6 |
Colorado Springs, CO |
1914-01-05 |
1921-04-23 |
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New York Herald |
1412 |
New York, NY |
1875-04-20 |
1898-12-31 |
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Evening Times |
2048 |
Grand Forks, ND |
1906-01-03 |
1914-03-28 |
|
Illustrated New Age |
891 |
Philadelphia, PA |
1863-07-29 |
1866-06-30 |
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New Yorker Volkszeitung |
12 |
New York, NY |
1889-05-05 |
1898-08-18 |
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Publication |
Issues |
Publication Location |
Date Start |
Date End |
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Diario de la Marina |
1 |
Havana, Cuba |
1902-03-11 |
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Estrella de Panama |
1545 |
Panama, Panama |
1872-01-01 |
1904-02-28 |
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Prensa |
30 |
Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1909-05-01 |
1909-05-31 |
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Star and Herald |
2119 |
Panama, Panama |
1857-06-02 |
1877-06-30 |
Credo Reference Update: 12/21/09
Credo Reference recently added the following new titles:
- Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness
- Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance
- Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships
- The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Economic Behaviour
- Cambridge Handbook of Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
- The Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis, Edinburgh University Press
- Key Thinkers in Psychology, Sage UK
- Religious Holidays & Calendars, Omnigraphics
Films on Demand Content Update 12/17/09
Films Media Group had added over 165 new titles from PBS to Films On Demand. Titles are available immediately, and include highly acclaimed films by Ken Burns as well as notable programs from the PBS series Empire, Scientific American Frontiers, Frontline, American Masters, American Experience, and many more.