PubMed has free medical journal articles!

Are you doing research on a medical condition for yourself or a loved one? Google has found in its' user studies that over 33% of all Americans have used Google to research medical information in the past year. Yet most of the websites that come to the top of the results list from Google are commercial sites that may not have the most accurate, unbiased information.

The next time you're researching medical topics, try PubMed. PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

Monday, October 5th-Question of the Week

What is the name of the ethnic group that the British divided between the two countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan?

Yale's Human Relations Area Files Now Available

The Human Relations Area Files, Inc. (HRAF) is an internationally recognized organization in the field of cultural anthropology. The mission of HRAF is to encourage and facilitate worldwide comparative studies of human behavior, society, and culture. Founded in 1949 at Yale University, HRAF is a financially autonomous research agency of Yale. HRAF produces two major full-text databases (eHRAF World Cultures and eHRAF Archaeology), encyclopedias, and other resources for teaching and research.

Human Relations Area Files, Inc. (HRAF) is an internationally recognized organization in the field of cultural anthropology. Founded in 1949 at Yale University, HRAF is a not-for-profit membership consortium of universities, colleges, and research institutions. Its mission is to provide information that facilitates the cross-cultural study of human behavior, society and culture.

Monday, September 14th-Question of the Week

Is it possible to find Variety movie reviews in Film & Television Index with Full Text?

Film & Television Index with Full Text

Film and Television Index with Full Text is the definitive online tool for film and television research. It is a comprehensive bibliographic and full-text database covering the entire spectrum of television and film.

Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation and restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. The database provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for 350 publications as well as full text for more than 100 journals and nearly 100 books.

August 9, 2009-Question of the Week

What is the best way to limit searches on Google Scholar, according to the Help feature: Author, Title, or Publication?

August 2, 2009-Website of the Week-Google Scholar

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.

Features of Google Scholar
Search diverse sources from one convenient place
Find papers, abstracts and citations
Locate the complete paper through your library or on the web
Learn about key papers in any area of research

How are articles ranked?Google Scholar aims to sort articles the way researchers do, weighing the full text of each article, the author, the publication in which the article appears, and how often the piece has been cited in other scholarly literature. The most relevant results will always appear on the first page.

Question of the Week-July 2nd, 2009

According to A.H. Maslow's 1943 paper, what must be one of the foundation stones of motivation theory?

Website of the Week-Classics in the History of Psychology-June 29, 2009

Classics in the History of Psychology are sets of documents focused on a particular topic in the history of psychology. Each Special Collection is edited by a professional in the field who brings together a number of related and historically-signficant primary source documents, interspersing them with short essays setting them in their intellectual, institutional, and broader social contexts.

It is edited and was created by Professor Christopher Green at York University in Toronto.

You can check it out by clicking on this link here: http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/

ESL Readers

Penguin Readers are written with the ESL student in mind by providing enjoyable reading materials to adult learners using simple to advanced English vocabulary. There are 7 vocabulary levels. The Easy Starts level uses 200 common words and the 6th or most advanced level uses vocabulary with 3,000 words. Mookini Library's READ Collection includes Penguin Readers from Levels 1 to 6.

A few books also have an audiocassette tape that allows the reader to listen to the book being read. On the back of each Penguin Reader is information about the book--language used (American or British English), whether it is contemporary, classic or original literature, etc. Graded readers give adult ESL students successful first reading encounters at the same time they allow for advancement to higher levels of reading vocabulary.

CCA students can check as many of these readers out as they like for up to three weeks. They are a great way for ESL students to improve their reading skills in English.

Question of the Week-June 26, 2009

When were the Trinidad Mine Strikes, and who was the Governor of Colorado during the strikes?

E-Books

Netlibrary is a collection of electronic books, or "eBooks", which you can read online. The books are full text, and you can search the text for words or phrases related to your topic. The NetLibrary collection includes over 13,000 copyrighted books selected specifically for Colorado community college libraries. Subject areas in the current NetLibrarycollection include: Psychology, Sociology, Literature, Jobs & Careers, Business & Economics, Computer Science, Education, History, Latin American Studies, Political Science, Health & Wellness, and more.

It's easy to use the NetLibrary E-book collection:
From on-campus, go to the CCA Library website: http://www.ccaurora.edu/students/library/
Then, click on the link for Ebooks
Finally, type keywords related to the kind of books you want to find in the search box.

From off-campus, go to www.ccaurora.edu/ccapwd
Put in the username of ccapwd, and the password of Peacock1
Then, click on the Netlibrary link toward the bottom of the page
Finally, type keywords related to the kind of books you want to find in the search box.

Website of the Week-Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection

Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection is a searchable online database that includes Colorado's earliest historic newspapers. Early years of over 60 newspapers, including the Rocky Mountain News, Boulder Camera, Colorado Chieftain are now available online. The digital collection now contains over 250,000 pages covering 1859 - 1924, and represents 56 Colorado cities and 38 counties.

Researchers can leaf through an issue page by page search the database by topic look at an individual article by itself or as part of the full page search through articles, graphics, letters to the editor and ads search a single newspaper, a group of papers or all papers. The project is a collaboration of the Colorado Digitization Program, the Colorado State Library and the Colorado Historical Society. The project is partially funded by LSTA and IMLS grants.

If you're doing research on Colorado History, there's no better source than Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection.

Check it out by clicking here: http://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/Default/welcome.asp?skin=Colorado&QS=Skin=Colorado&e

Question of the Week-Friday, June 19th, 2009

What was the name of the controversial representations of traditional American Indian culture produced in a limited edition from 1907-1930 that continues to exert a major influence on the image of Indians in popular culture that you can find in the American Memory project?

Website of the Week-The Library of Congress American Memory Project

American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning.

This is a great resource for finding primary sources (sources that document events that happened as they occurred) such as diaries, letters, and journals of historical figures, famous and ordinary.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html