Archive for the ‘GALILEO’ Category
Monday, June 14th, 2010 - phoebe
The ATLA Religion Database is one of the best resources for searching for scholarly publications on religious topics. Produced by the American Theological Library Association (ATLA), it indexes bibliographic citations to articles in 650 journals and other works, and covers topics including ethics, history of religions, church and ...
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Monday, May 17th, 2010 - Amy Watts
Beginning today, May 17, there is a new password for accessing GALILEO resources (databases, journals, etc.). This password will be valid until 06/15/2010. To access the new password, sign in to your account. Remember, passwords must be entered in all lowercase characters.
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Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 - phoebe
My sharp colleagues in the Reference Department pointed out that I missed a key source of census data at the county level in my last post about finding census data - the GALILEO database Social Explorer, to which we recently subscribed.
Using Social Explorer, I can easily generate reports for Clarke ...
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Monday, March 15th, 2010 - phoebe
A patron contacted us this week wondering if we had issues of the magazines Ebony and Jet, for the period 1972-1974, for browsing.
We have digital access to Ebony and Jet from 1992 to the present through GALILEO databases. (To find out where, enter the magazine title in the Electric Journal ...
Posted in E-journals, GALILEO, GIL (Libraries Catalog), Google Scholar, Library Notes, Question of the Week by phoebe | 1 Comment »
Monday, March 1st, 2010 - phoebe
The University of Georgia Libraries have a wealth of information about family history and genealogy - maybe even yours! We now have a new subject guide highlighting some of our print and online resources for finding obituaries, military records, newspapers, census and other vital records, for Georgia and other locations.
The ...
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Friday, February 19th, 2010 - phoebe
If you've used the GALILEO database Lexis Nexis lately, you may have noticed the new default search interface, which debuted on Tuesday. The "easy search" page lets you choose to search news, legal cases, company information, and do country or person searches - or combine multiple searches. (Click image to ...
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 - phoebe
Social Explorer is now available in GALILEO. This is a great addition to the library's census resources!
Covers U.S. Census of population data from 1790 to present.
Easy creation of thematic maps and downloading a folder of them into a powerpoint file.
Retrieve spreadsheet-compatible data tables using a similar interface to census.gov's American Factfinder ...
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Friday, January 15th, 2010 - Viki Timian
Beginning Jan. 19th users will need their PIN to make GIL Express requests through the Universal Catalog (https://giluc.usg.edu/).
If you have already gotten your PIN through GIL’s My Account page (https://gil.uga.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=pbLogon) you do not need another one. You will use the same PIN for GIL Express that you use to access ...
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 - phoebe
New graduate students have a high level of interest in finding and getting copies of dissertations - maybe so they can see what others are doing!
Searching for Dissertations
Electronic Theses and Dissertations (University of Georgia) - in GALILEO
Search for dissertations and theses completed at UGA since 1999; some are available ...
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 - phoebe
Wait, what's a citation?
A citation is the information about a scholarly resource: author's name, title, source (journal or book or whatever), page numbers, year. It's the information you include in the bibliography when you write a paper, and it's the information a GALILEO database will give you when you do ...
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