Comments Off on Taekwondo Lessons

By bmatthie, October 28, 2006 8:30 am

Butler Taekwondo

Beginner Taekwondo Classes Forming – 1 hour on Tuesday and Thursday evenings.

Those with little or no experience are encouraged to check us out.

Tradition – Self-defense – Sport – Exercise – Fun

For more information contact Mr. Brad Matthies at 317-940-9549 bmatthie@butler.edu.

Comments Off on Open Access Journals

By Scott Pfitzinger, October 24, 2006 6:45 pm

A new database that is available on the Library Website is the Directory of Open Access Journals. This database covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and
scholarly journals with the aim to cover all subjects and languages.

• There
  are now 2,433 journals in the directory.
• Currently 714 journals are searchable at article level.
• As of today 119,344 articles are included in the DOAJ service.

Open Access Journals are peer-reviewed or editorial-quality journals that are freely available online. They define open access journals as journals that use a funding model
that does not charge readers or their institutions for access. From the
BOAI definition of “open access”, they won’t include a journal in the directory unless the users have the right to “read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts” of the articles.

Journals can be browsed by subject or searched by keyword. Once you get to the journal, you can browse by issue/year or even search some of the journals for a keyword in a particular article. These are online journals being made open-access by their publishers via their own websites, so the features and functions will vary.

Comments Off on Interlibrary Loan Tips

By bmatthie, October 19, 2006 5:31 pm

Following these tips can speed up the turnaround time for Interlibrary Loan Processing. What this means is Butler students, faculty, and staff can get books and articles sent to the Butler campus much quicker.

• Obtaining an ILLIAD Account.
• The home library should be selected with care. 
  Selection of home library should be determined by field of study, not
  the class hosting the instruction session.  A change to home library after
  an ILLIAD account is set is not encouraged.  Tracking requests after
  changes to home library is very difficult.  Rule of thumb: Science majors should generally select the Science Library and Liberal arts should  select Irwin Library.

• When creating a User Profile to obtain an ILLIAD account, you MUST use your Butler email
  address.  No other email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail) will be recognized.

•  Filing an ILL Request.

• File ILL requests directly from an electronic database (World Cat,
  EBSCO, etc.) whenever possible.  This limits mistakes made in entering
  information into the request.  Use the SFX Find It! button whenever
  available.

• Check the Butler Library Catalog
  and journal holdings in the Citation Linker before filing any ILL requests. 
  Databases are not always accurate in reflecting our holdings.

• Be discriminating when it comes to requesting
  items through ILL.  Even though students, graduate students, staff and
  faculty are not charged for the Interlibrary Loan Service, it can be very
  costly.  From the postage to send material to and from BU to the cost to paying
  copyright fees, a book or article may be as much as $30-$50.  When someone
  orders material and then never picks it up, or orders needlessly, it
  jeopardizes the standard of keeping this service free to all users.

• Please limit the number of dissertations you request.  Often there is only one copy available and most libraries will not loan them.

•  Renewing ILL Requests.
  
  
  • ILL materials can be renewed through your Interlibrary Loan Account. To log-on click on the ILLIAD link. Once in your account select VIEW/RENEW, and follow the directions.  Bookmarks detailing this
    information are inserted in each loan.  Not all ILL materials are
    renewable.  It is at the discretion of the lending library.  Renewals
    must be requested 3-5 days before the due date.

Comments Off on Visual Search in EBSCO Databases

By Scott Pfitzinger, October 16, 2006 10:17 am

The EBSCO databases have a cool new way to search for information. It’s called Visual Search. “Visual Search allows you to search efficiently across broad subjects,
and then returns a visual map of results, organized by topic.”

You just search for a topic and you’re given a visual picture of your search results, where circles represent related topics and squares represent actual articles.
To move back (or up) in the map, click outside of a circle or square. Click on Top Level to view the entire map.

You can even use the filters at the top of the map to limit or focus information by keyword, date, or publication name.

Click on the circles to focus on that particular topic. Then mouseover any square to get the citation info for its article. If you want more, click the square to view the information on the right side of your screen. You can even see whether the article is available full text.

To search visually rather than textually, just click the “Visual Search” tab at the top of any EBSCO database.

Comments Off on Tutorial Quizzes

By Scott Pfitzinger, October 11, 2006 3:18 pm

Just wanted
to let you all know that there’s a new webpage on our library website that has
instructions for faculty about using the quizzes that are associated with the
tutorials that we have online.

It’s under “Faculty Services” under “Library Info.”

If any
faculty have questions about getting or using the quizzes, this is a good place
to send them.

Thanks.
Scott