Archive for the ‘Scholarly News’ Category
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 ...
Posted in GALILEO, GIL (Libraries Catalog), Question of the Week by phoebe | No Comments »
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 - Kristin Nielsen
In an ongoing effort to eliminate all non-essential uses of the Social Security Number, logging in to your GIL “My Account” using the SSN is no longer available. To login, use the complete barcode number on your UGACard or UGA ID. Most barcodes begin with 627541 810. Questions? Please ask ...
Posted in GIL (Libraries Catalog), Library Notes by Kristin Nielsen | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 - Kristin Nielsen
We wish Virginia Benjamin, Faculty Liaison for Electronic Library Services and EndNote trainer extraordinaire, a fond farewell and congratulations upon her retirement. Virginia has been with the UGA Libraries in different capacities for forty years.
Thanks to Virginia's efforts, the Libraries will continue to manage the site licenses and training ...
Posted in EndNote/RefWorks, Library Notes, Scholarly News by Kristin Nielsen | 4 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in About us, E-journals, GALILEO, GIL (Libraries Catalog), Library lingo, Question of the Week by phoebe | No Comments »
Friday, April 3rd, 2009 - phoebe
What is the Bindery?
Sometimes you will see "bindery" listed as a location in the online GIL catalog. This most often occurs with print journals, and most often appears in the spring. Why? A print journal may arrive at the library quarterly, monthly, or even more often than that. The individual ...
Posted in E-journals, GIL (Libraries Catalog), Library lingo, Question of the Week by phoebe | No Comments »
Thursday, March 26th, 2009 - phoebe
You are off-campus, searching in the GIL catalog, and find an e-book you want to look at. But when you click through you can't get in!
Getting to NetLibrary e-books from off campus takes a few steps.
First, go to NetLibrary through GALILEO.
You'll get asked for the GALILEO password (what's that?) - ...
Posted in Books, GALILEO, GIL (Libraries Catalog), Question of the Week by phoebe | No Comments »
Thursday, March 19th, 2009 - phoebe
An old friend who is a faculty member at another school mused to me (on Facebook!): "Actually, it has occurred to me that there really ought to be a good central place to go for scanned scholarly books that are out from under copyright...the Zygouries and Palace of Minos volumes ...
Posted in Books, GIL (Libraries Catalog), Google Scholar, Question of the Week by phoebe | No Comments »
Monday, February 23rd, 2009 - Amy Watts
RefWorks
Tuesday, February 24
Miller Learning Center, Room 370
7:00 p.m.
Learn how to manage your works cited page with software that allows you to store references, insert them in your paper, and generate a bibliography in the style of your choice. All online and all free for the UGA community! This workshop is ...
Posted in EndNote/RefWorks, Library Events, Miller Learning Center, Programs by Amy Watts | No Comments »
Thursday, February 12th, 2009 - Amy Watts
The UGA Libraries is sponsoring a series of workshops about library research tools and other resources. Learn how to use GALILEO and other research tools, such as RefWorks, in our Library 1101, Internship/Job Search Research, and RefWorks workshops. Harness the mighty power of Google in any of our Google-oriented workshops, ...
Posted in EndNote/RefWorks, GALILEO, Google Scholar, Library Events, Main Library, Miller Learning Center, Programs, Science Library by Amy Watts | No Comments »
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 - Ian Thomas, Science Library
UGA Faculty/Staff/Students:
SciFinder Scholar is now available via the web to UGA faculty, staff and students. In order to access this database please visit the website listed at the *bottom* of this post and follow the online instructions:
PLEASE NOTE: You will need to be at an *on-campus* computer to create your ...
Posted in Library Notes, Resources, Scholarly News, Science Library by Ian Thomas, Science Library | No Comments »
