Anthropology Plus is a comprehensive, focused index of bibliographic materials from the
late 1800s to today in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and
interdisciplinary studies. It brings together into one resource the Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK.
User ID: cairoant
Password: tryanteg
(Access configured for 5 simultaneous users.)
Trial ends May 19
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http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com
A digital resource of art images and related multimedia gathered from the collections of distinguished museums around the world.
Trial ends May 19.
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ENGnetBASE
Contains over 600 CRC Engineering Handbooks.
Click on "Log In" on left hand side.
username: aucairo
password: aucairo
Trial ends November 22, 2006
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
Online version of the 87th edition, 2006-2007.
username: aucairo
password: aucairo
Trial ends November 22, 2006
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1. Go to
http://www.refworks.com
2. Select User-login (on the left under the photo)
3. Create an individual account.
Click on 'Sign up for an Individual Account'. The user is presented with a brief
form that requires completion by entering name, log-in name (to be used
in future log-ons, eg. nbarber) , creating your password, and your email
address (Note – we recommend that all users use their official Institutional
emails rather than personal ones - @yahoo/@hotmail etc).
4. Your account is ready and you can begin putting references into RefWorks.
5. See the
Quick Start Guide (attached pdf) for help on getting started.
Trial ends November 8, 2006
*If you are off-campus, follow step 1 and you will be prompted for the Institutional code: RWAUC. Follow the rest of the steps.
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One feature of Refworks is RefShare, the sharing module allowing collaborative work between different institutions on different geographic sites.
Our trial account has a RefShare web page where we can
- post bibliographies of interest to all
- post reading lists for students or for collaborative research projects
- post lists like alerts on hot topics of interest to your Institution
RefWorks created a test list for the trial. To see these lists from within RefWorks, go to the tool bar View/RefWorks Shared Area and you will open an URL - click on the hyper links to see the bibliographies.
Currently, all users can post their bibliographies to the RefShare page (in the menu bar Folders/Share folders and click on 'share folder', complete the details and then at the bottom click on 'include in shared area and choose which category or simply send your bibliography via email by clicking on the 'Email URL' button top right. You can see the results of the posting by following the instructions above).
October 16, 2006 in Trials | Permalink | Comments (0)
http://www.digitalengineeringlibrary.com/
Digital Engineering Library features content from McGraw-Hill publications, including classics such as Marks' Standard
Handbook for Mechanical Engineers (10th ed.), Perry's Chemical
Engineers Handbook (7th ed.), Standard Handbook for Electrical
Engineers (14th ed.), Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain (7th ed.),
and many more.
Click on the "Log In" link in the upper left corner of the screen.
Username: ucairo
Password: digital
Trial ends October 28, 2006
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Updated daily, AccessScience delivers the latest content of the trusted McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 9th Edition, and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th Edition.
Click "Subscriber log-in">
Username: ucairo
Password: science
Trial ends October 28, 2006
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During the month of May we will be running a trial of Ebsco's LinkSource OpenURL link resolver service. LinkSource allows item level (individual record) linking between library databases and services presenting full-text options as available. The service provides links to full-text resources in other databases as well as direct links to the library catalog and document delivery service, providing the patron with all available options for obtaining the full-text of the item.
For the trial, we've set-up LinkSource with databases from three of our major vendors – Ebsco, OCLC and Proquest. You'll notice some slight differences in how the different vendors present LinkSource options and how it displays results based on the source (the database searched) and the target (the database or service linked to). Below please find sample searches that show a few different types of results and links.
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1) Database: Academic Search Premier (Ebsco)
Step #1: Locate the record for an article titled "QMSs and EMSs Support Financial Management Systems" from the March 2006 issue of Quality Progress.
Step #2: View the record for the article and click on "Check LinkSource for Full-text". If your browser will not allow pop-up windows, you will need to hold done the <CTRL> key while clicking the link.
Step #3: In the pop-up window, click on "Check ProQuest for Full-text" to access the full-text of the article. Again, you may need to hold down the <CTRL> key in order to allow the pop-up window.
For another example with this database, find any article from the Journal of Heredity or the Wall Street Journal in Academic Search Premier and use LinkSource to obtain the full-text. Do some general subject searching on your own as well and let us know what you think.
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2) Database: Biology Digest (OCLC)
Step #1: Locate the record for an article titled "March of the Superbugs" by Alison George from the July 19, 2003 issue of New Scientist.
Step #2: View the record for the article and click on "Check LinkSource for Full-text" option.
Step #3: In the pop-up window, notice the first three options and try each one.
Notice that the ProQuest option will take you directly to the full-text of the item. Lexis/Nexis, on the other hand, will take you to a search screen for that publication and require the user to perform another search to retrieve the item. This is due to the different ways that ProQuest and Lexis/Nexis deal with the OpenURL standard and is not something we can fix within LinkSource. We can, however, modify the text displayed for Lexis/Nexis links to help explain the extra steps for the end-user.
Try the AUC library search as well to see how LinkSource connects to our catalog and displays results based on an ISSN search.
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3) Database: ABI/Inform (ProQuest)
Step #1: Locate the record for an article titled "Wal-Mart's Family Firm" from the February 2006 issue of Strategic Direction.
Step #2: View the record for the article and click on "Check LinkSource for Full-text".
Step #3: In the pop-up window, click on "Check Emerald for Full-text" to access the full-text of the article.
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The three examples from above are intended to give you an idea of how LinkSource works in a few different types of situations ---admittedly, the best case scenario for each tool used in the examples. There are several options that can be changed both at the database and LinkSource level, so please let us know if you had trouble with one aspect or another as it might be an issue in the set-up of the service rather than with the software itself.
Two additional things to keep in mind for the evaluation of LinkSource:
1) For the document delivery linking, LinkSource will automatically fill in the required bibliographic data from the database. This will take some extra work on our end if we decide to purchase LinkSource. If implemented, this should prevent data entry errors as the student will only have to enter their personal information in the form.
2) This tool would allow us to list our holdings in tools like Google Scholar and automatically forward our users to the appropriate AUC owned copies of full-text articles from searches within those types of tools. That decision is for another time but we wanted to make sure you were aware of the possibility with the implementation of LinkSource.
Thank you for taking the time to help us evaluate this tool. Any thoughts, comments, or suggestions are welcome and please let us know if you have any questions. The Electronic Resources Committee will make a decision on LinkSource at the end of the month, so please
forward any feedback by May 18th to cgrimmer@aucegypt.edu.
May 07, 2006 in Trials | Permalink | Comments (0)
Literature Online is a fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 175 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources. On-Campus Use Only.
For access to the Individual Literature Collections, see http://collections.chadwyck.co.uk
Trial ends: April 9, 2006
*For information on using and searching Literature Online, see the Literature Online Training Pack.
http://www.galeuk.com/trialsite/
Arab-Israeli Relations 1917-1970 - offers the widest range of original source
material from the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office and Cabinet Papers
from the 1917 Balfour Declaration through to the Black September war of 1970-1.
Here major policy statements are set out in their fullest context, the minor
documents and marginalia revealing the workings of colonial administration and,
following the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, British diplomacy towards
Israel and the Arab states.
Username: xcairoau
Password: aucairo
Trial ends March 16, 2006
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Provides access to photographs published by the Associated Press
from the past year, as well as photos from a library of more than 50
million images. Most of the photos were published between 1995 and the
present, but there are images available as far back as the 19th
century. Content is updated daily.
Click on "Wide World Photos" to login and begin searching images.
username: eyamerican1
password: trial
Trial ends December 9, 2005.
