Holiday Hours

Christmas Eve (12/24) 8am - Noon
Christmas Day (12/25) Closed
Saturday - Sunday (12/26-27) Closed
Monday -Thursday (12/28-31) 8am - 5pm
New Years Day (1/1) Closed
Saturday - Sunday (1/2-3) Closed

Database Trial - MEMSO

MEMSO : Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online

https://login.ezproxy.usd.edu/login?url=http://sources.tannerritchie.com/ 

• Trial available now until February, 2016

MEMSO contains:

1. Searchable editions of British and Irish (including foreign and colonial papers), printed editions of manuscript source material for the period c. 800 to c. 1800.
2.  Manuscript images from the UK National Archives, Kew, linked to the corresponding searchable text ebook.

Examples include:

• The Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII
• The Calendars of Patent Rolls (c. 1150-1509)
• The Calendar of State Papers, Colonial (America, West Indies, India, Persia and Japan) (1574-1706)
• Historical Manuscripts Commission
• The Rolls Series & Historical Club Publications (eg Camden Society, Bannatyne Club)
• Historical sources requested by our users.
• Manuscripts from the English State Papers, Foreign, France and Spain.

Fill out our feedback form and let us know what you think about this resource:  http://libguides.usd.edu/trial

2015 Library Annual Report

Please find the FY2015 library annual report at this link:

http://usd-web.usd.edu/apps/flip/university-libraries-annual-report-2015


All reports and newsletters are linked from the library homepage>> About Us>>Surveys and Reports

http://www.usd.edu/library/surveys

My Body, My Rights Art Exhibition

Call for art work- deadline Feb. 29, 2016

Archives and Special Collections Holiday Hours

Christmas Eve (12/24) 8am - Noon
Christmas Day (12/25) Closed

Monday -Thursday (12/28-31) 8am - 5pm
New Years Day (1/1) Closed

Food for Fines - Dec. 1-18

One food item = $1.00 in overdue fines.  For more information:

Winter Interim Hours

Library Hours for 12/17 - 1/8

Reference Desk Hours - Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm

Finals Hours- Dec. 10- 16

Thursday (12/10) 7:30am - 2am  
Friday (12/11) 7:30am - 11pm
Saturday (12/12) 7:30 am - Midnight
Sunday (12/13) 10am - 2 am
Monday - Tuesday (12/14-15) 7:30am - 2am
Wednesday (12/16) 7:30am - 5pm

ScienceDirect to cease support of Internet Explorer 8 on January 1, 2016

ScienceDirect to cease support of Internet Explorer 8 on January 1, 2016

Effective January 1, 2016, ScienceDirect will no longer support Internet Explorer 8 (IE8).


Why is Elsevier ceasing support of IE8?
We are following Microsoft’s directive to focus our support on newer, officially-supported IE browser versions. Microsoft announced in 2014 that, as of January 2016, it would only support the most recent IE browser version with technical support and security updates. We strongly encourage our customers to follow Microsoft’s directive as well by updating to more recent versions of IE. Additionally, users can move to the latest versions of the Chrome or Firefox browsers for an optimal ScienceDirect experience.
By removing IE8 from our support list, we will be able to provide the following future enhancements:
•    Remove current IE8 security issues
•    Enhance existing security measures across all browsers
•    Add support for new browser technologies
•    Add responsive design to aid use of ScienceDirect across devices
•    Improve accessibility to better enable access to people with diverse abilities
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If you have any questions or concerns, please visit the ScienceDirect Blog http://blog.sciencedirect.com/ for more details or contact us:
usinfo@elsevier.com – US & Canada


Note: Compatibility mode in IE9 or higher reverts the browser back to IE7 or IE8 behavior. If you experience issues accessing ScienceDirect using IE9 or higher, please disable the compatibility view mode in your IE browser.

Thanksgiving Hours

Tuesday (11/24) -- 7:30am-5pm    

Wednesday (11/25) -- 7:30am-5pm      

Thanksgiving (11/26) -- Closed                

Friday (11/27) -- Closed             

Saturday (11/28) -- Closed

WEDNESDAY Nov. 18 - Presentation about book making and altered books

Please join us tomorrow in library room 205, 4-5pm, for a short presentation by Amy Fill and Lateesha Caswell (Art Department graduate students) who will speak about book making and altered books.

We will then move to the Bound & Unbound III: Altered Book Exhibition in the second floor glass cases at the top of the stairs in the library where exhibit coordinator Sarah Hanson will lead an open discussion about the exhibit.

Art Exhibit - And It Just Keeps Coming

What is "U Get It" in the library databases?

By entering a research database through the libraries’ Research Gateway, users can experience integration between databases in order to find the full text in another library database. The "U Get It" button can also seamlessly take you to interlibrary loan (ILLiad) to request full text articles not available through the University Libraries.

The "U Get It" button does not necessarily mean the library does not own the full text of an article, it only means that it is not available in the database you are currently searching. It may be available in another database, and the "U Get It" button will help you to find it.

• Example: PubMed currently contains more the 23 million article citations, but only a small fraction are available in full text within PubMed. By entering PubMed through the Library’s Research Gateway, and authenticating as a USD user, you will immediately have more access to full text articles using the "U Get It" button.

(Thanks to Shelie Vacek for this blog entry!)

Find out more about "U Get It!"
in this video <https://youtu.be/Xj4cza3FbVs>:

Resovled - Technical Problem - Wiley Access

Access was restored 11-6-2015 Access to Wiley is currently unavailable unless you are using a library computer. We are working to fix the situation.

Database Trial - Fuente Académica Plus

https://login.ezproxy.usd.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=fap

Fuente Académica Plus offers:

• Nearly 500 new full-text Spanish and Portuguese journals unique to Fuente Académica Plus compared to Fuente Académica Premier
• Nearly 1,600 scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain
• Continuously expanding archives of Boletín del CEMLA (1955 - present) and the complete backfile of Darwiniana, published since 1922
• 27 Qualis top-ranked A1 titles
• Full Title list -  https://www.ebscohost.com/titleLists/FAP-coverage.pdf

Trial ends Dec. 4, 2015

Fill out our feedback form and let us know what you think about this resource:  http://libguides.usd.edu/trial

Library Hours - Veteran's Day

Tuesday (11/10) 7:30 am - 11pm
Veteran's Day (11/11) 10 am - 2 am

Database Trial - LatAm-Studies Full-Text

The trial runs until November 30th.

LatAm-Studies Full Text online is a database service dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of research on Latin America and the Caribbean, including journals and other academic content. It brings together full-text reports on 46 countries. Coverage includes all countries in South America, Caribbean, Central America and Mexico. Subjects covered include business, government, economic, and social issues.
https://login.ezproxy.usd.edu/login?url=http://latam-studies.com/search.html

Fill out our feedback form and let us know what you think about this resource:  http://libguides.usd.edu/trial

Board Vitals

BoardVitals Question Banks offer 24-hour access from your phone, tablet and computer to a huge question bank with a database of expert reviewed board questions. Board Vitals uses the same technologically advanced test interface as USMLE as well as:

• The ability to create customized practice tests using many options including number or questions, subjects and more
• Provides advanced statistics so you can know where your strengths and weaknesses are
• Suggests questions based on your performance  
•  Detailed, up-to-date explanations for each answer, with references and links to applicable sources
• A question bank that is created by leading medical publishers, research institutions, and practicing physicians
• A 'Quick Hit' section highlights the must know questions for the boards

To access Board Vitals:
Visit usd.edu/library

Click on the databases tab

Find Board Vitals by clicking on B

Once in Board Vitals- as a first time user, you will need register:  select “If registering for the first time, click here”.  You may select your own user name and password.

Once you have registered, you may access board vitals directly at boardvitals.com. Log in using the user name and password that you created.

New books!

 

Check out our Hot off the Press!

New Database- JAMAevidence

JAMAevidence

Wegner Partner Access

JAMAevidence helps to identify the best available evidence through educational guides such as the Users’ Guide to Medical Literature, the Rational Clinical Examination: Evidence Based Clinical Diagnosis, and Care at the Close of Life: Evidence and Experience.

https://login.ezproxy.usd.edu/login?url=http://jamaevidence.mhmedical.com/