Access Science

There are promotional brochures at the desk for Access Science, one of our newest licensed databases.  You can find it in the A-Z index in GALILEO or here is a direct link:http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=accq-dek1

The database has the content of the multi-volume print McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science, plus some enhancements that are possible in the digital format such as digital animations and hyperlinks to cited and supplemental material.

This license was requested by science faculty from Alpharetta as part of a grant proposal, so you might have students inquiring about it. 

Please try it out and feel free to record any comments or tips in the comments section.

New ProQuest Databases

As part of the GSU consolidation, GPC students will gain access to some new databases.

The first to arrive are from ProQuest, which can be accessed as individual databases or collectively under the ProQuest Central platform. We already have Nursing and Allied Health Sources, which is a favorite of our Dental Hygiene students. Articles are already loaded into Discover GALILEO and can be accessed with the Find It button. New titles for us are listed below.

ABI/INFORM Complete

Banking Information Source

Biology Journals (ProQuest)

Canadian Business and Current Affairs Complete (CBCA)

Canadian Newsstand (ProQuest)

Criminal Justice (ProQuest)

Environmental Science Collection (ProQuest)

Family Health (ProQuest)

Health and Medical Complete (ProQuest)

Health Management (ProQuest)

Hoover's Company Profiles

OxResearch (ProQuest)

Pharmaceutical News Index

Political Science (ProQuest)

ProQuest Asian Business & Reference

ProQuest Career and Technical Education

ProQuest Computing

ProQuest Education Journals

ProQuest European Business

ProQuest Military Collection

ProQuest Newsstand

ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source

ProQuest Religion

ProQuest Research Library

ProQuest Social Science Journals

ProQuest Telecommunications

Psychology Journals (ProQuest)

Science Journals (ProQuest)

Snapshot Series (ProQuest)

Sociology (ProQuest)

ProQuest does a great job with training materials. Here are some options for webinars: http://bit.ly/1JQcpcU Scroll down the page to see the recorded training from October 6th.

Have fun exploring the new resources and feel free to add any tips and tricks you discover in the comments below.

 

Streaming Video

This is a copy of Sonya' post on email.  Please ask if you are unclear about this. The bottom line is that students can directly access three of the four streaming film sources.  For SWANK, they need to go to their courses in iCollege to have access.

Sonya's text:

We had a number of questions lately through e-mail and chat about watching streaming films, so I want to make sure that we are on the same page answering them.

GPC Libraries currently offer four streaming video options: Films on Demand, American History in Video, Digital Theatre Plus and SWANK.

FOD, American History in Video, Digital Theatre are unlimited simultaneous use by all faculty and students, records for films are in out catalog. Films can be accessed through OPAC and through collections’ native interfaces.

SWANK – we currently have 25 full features films available for streaming (see list below). They are also unlimited simultaneous use, but due to the licensing requirements, links to these films should be requested by faculty and placed in iCollege before students can watch them.

So, when asked about watching streaming films:

-          Ask about the title of the film first to determine what collection can be used to access it.

-          If it is a feature film, check our SWANK list to see if it is available (http://guides.gpc.edu/SWANK)

-          If it is available through SWANK, ask what class/ instructor it is for and advise a student that their instructor has to request a link and make a film available through iCollege class.

-          You are welcome to contact the instructor with relevant information about SWANK or ask me to do it.

More information about SWANK – http://guides.gpc.edu/SWANK

More information about streaming video in GPC Libraries collection - http://guides.gpc.edu/gpcvideo

Please let me now if you have any questions.

List of SAWNK titles that are currently available:

Anchorman (2004, Adam McKay)

Bamboozled (2000, Spike Lee) 

Battleship Potemkin (1925, Sergei Eisenstein) 

Bicycle Thief (1948, Vittorio de Sica)

Bonnie and Clyde (1967, Arthur Penn)

Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz)

Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)

Crash (2004, Paul Haggis)

Dark Girls (2011, D. Channsin Berry, Bill Duke)

Do the Right Thing (1989, Spike Lee)

Gattaca (1997, Andrew Niccol)

Inception (2010, Christopher Nolan)

Monster's Ball (2001, Marc Forster)

New World (2005, Terrence Malick)

On the Waterfront (1954, Elia Kazan)

Paper clips (2004, Elliot Berlin, Joe Fab)

Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock)

Pulp Fiction (1994, Quentin Tarantino)

Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese)

Shawshank Redemption (1994, Frank Darabont)

Singin' in the Rain (1952, Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly)

Social Network (2010, David Fincher)

Tombstone (1993, George P. Cosmatos)

Waiting for "Superman" (2010, Davis Guggenheim)

West Side Story (1961, Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins)