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Students, faculty and staff visited the SEAL eResources Fair on Wednesday, March 19th, to learn about library resources and tools, enjoy cookies and coffee, and enter a Prize Raffle.

Raffle Winners:

$100 Best Buy gift card from CSA/Proquest
Erik Lion, Electrical Engineering undergrad

iPod Shuffle from the Library
Tanya Riddick, CST undergrad

$25 Circuit City gift card and tote bag from Thomson
Walter Johnson, Mechanical Engineering undergrad

1GB Flash Drive from IEEE
Michael Chen, CST undergrad

1GB flash drive from IEEE
Ajo Maret, Electrical Engineering undergrad

4-port USB Hub from IEEE
Kyle Goldstein, Civil Engineering undergrad

4-port USB Hub from IEEE
Kaveh Laksari, Mechanical Engineering graduate

$25 iTunes card from Engineering Village
Timothy Jennings, Mechanical Engineering undergrad

$25 iTunes card from Engineering Village
Tejal Patel, Electrical Engineering undergrad

Thank you to all who attended our first eResources Fair at SEAL. It was quite a success. As a graduate Mechanical Engineering student said, “This was a great event and very helpful. I’ll definitely be here next time!"

An undergraduate student in the Biology Department noted, “I learned that Temple had many databases that can ease my workload and make searching for sources very easy.”

At Temple University Libraries we’re always happy to support your research needs. Thank you again for making the eResources Fair a success!

We are pleased to announce that Paley Library has two new state-of-the art self-check machines on the first floor of Paley underneath the portrait of Samuel Paley. The new machines now feature a two step procedure that allows all sizes of books to be checked out successfully. With the old check-out machines we found that many of our users were unable to use them for large books such as music scores and art history books. Size and barcode placement is no longer a problem.

The graphics on the screen make them very user-friendly and we hope that many more of our users will be able to take advantage of their convenience.

---Penelope Myers

The Science, Engineering and Architecture Library (SEAL) is hosting an eResources Fair to familiarize students and faculty in these disciplines with the wide range of library resources available for research.

A range of vendors will demonstrate helpful research tools; details below:

Come to the Science, Engineering and Architecture Library for--
SEAL eResources Fair

Wednesday, March 19, 11am-3pm

March Library Madness!
Come meet the eExperts!

Win Prizes--$100 Best Buy gift card, $25 iTunes gift cards (2), 1GB flash drive (2), 4-Port USB Hub (2), iPod Shuffle, $25 Circuit City gift card!!

Find out about library resources that will help you keep up with the latest research.

Representatives from the following companies will be here:
Elsevier - ScienceDirect, Compendex, INSPEC
EbscoHost - Academic Search Premier, GeoREF
CSA Proquest -
Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management,
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Safari Tech Books Online
IEEE - IEEE Xplore
Thomson -Web of Science, JCR and Biological Abstracts.

A library table will feature Multisearch, RefWorks, TULink,
Subject Guides, Blackboard course packages.

The sciences, engineering, and architecture are emphasized, but all are welcome.

Free food and drink, goodies and a raffle too, so stop by the
SEAL eResources Fair.

Temple University Libraries offer a number of short workshops to help familiarize you with library resources and the latest time-saving tools for conducting research. Register by following the link.

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10 Ways to do Scholarly Research in Your Pajamas
Temple University Libraries offer thousands of online resources, plus personalized services. From using eBooks, streaming videos, and databases to requesting, receiving, and sharing online resources, learn how to make the library come to you!
1 - 2pm: 2/20/08, 2/21/08, 4/9/08, 4/10/08
Location: TECH Center rm. 205A
Register Here (Click on "Research" to see all of the library workshops)

Getting Organized Online
Forgot about a paper that`s due? Forget to pay your phone bill or to call back that cute classmate? Is your email inbox overflowing? In this session a Temple University Librarian will discuses ideas and demonstrate online applications that help you get organized: "to do" lists, events, email management, and documents. Get text message or IM reminders! Access your calendar from any computer, anywhere!
1-2pm: 2/27/08, 2/28/08
Location: TECH Center rm. 205A
Register Here (Click on "Research" to see all of the library workshops)

Stuff You Didn't Know You Could Do With Google
How do you use Google? If you’re not going beyond the introductory Search Page, then you’re not experiencing the full potential of Google. Google is the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe wanna-a-be; learn how to use it to search Temple’s databases, to search for government information from any locality in the world, to find PowerPoint presentations on any topic, to find full-text books, and much more.
1 -2pm: 3/5/08, 3/6/08, 4/16/08, 4/17/08
Location: TECH Center rm. 205A
Register Here (Click on "Research" to see all of the library workshops)

To Google or Not to Google
Google provides fast but often ineffective results. Will you really impress your professor by citing a Wikipedia article as a source for a research paper? In this session a Temple University Librarian will discuss the pros and cons of using Google for academic research. Discover how to just as quickly access more appropriate sources without over relying on Google. This session will cover a new open source Wiki alternative, as well as some of the more traditional reference tools that have been digitized for easy web access.
1-2pm: 3/19/08, 3/20/08
Location: TECH Center rm. 205A
Register Here (Click on "Research" to see all of the library workshops)

Citations Without Tears
Save time on your papers, and throw out all those long citation guides. Learn to use RefWorks, a web based application (free to Temple students!) that allows you to easily and quickly gather your citations and organize them for the creation of bibliographies and in- text citations in almost any format APA, MLA, Chicago, and more. Note: This session will include hands-on learning in the use of RefWorks.
1-2pm: 3/26/08, 3/27/08, 4/23/08, 4/30/08, 5/1/08
Location: TECH Center rm. 109
Register Here (Click on "Research" to see all of the library workshops)

Beyond Google: the Ultimate Search Engine
Google is so easy to use that it`s tempting to begin and end your Web searching right there. But, the Web is actually much bigger offering more tools and resources than what Google covers. Dare to go beyond Google and discover excellent tools on the Web that you can use to expand your searching. Get tips based on the article "FrankenGoogle: How to mash together the ultimate search engine" by Christopher Beam (Slate.com on August 14, 2007) that describes reasons why you should sometimes dare to go "Beyond Google."
1-2pm: 4/2/08, 4/3/08
Location: TECH Center rm. 205A
Register Here (Click on "Research" to see all of the library workshops)

A common question at the Paley Library reference desk is "Where can I print color pages from the computers?" and up till now the answer was "Not here." That's about to change. To respond to student requests for color laser printing in the library, Paley has recently added a color printer to its two black & white printer stations in the first floor computing area.

Owing to the much higher cost of color laser prints it is necessary to charge a fee for the color prints, and the cost is $.50 per copy, the same fee charged in the TECH Center. The procedure to print to the color print station is the same as for the black & white printers, but students must specify that they want to send their print job to the color printer. Students must then swipe their identification card in order to pay the copy fee with Diamond Dollars. We are unable to accept cash or coin as payment for color prints.

- Steven Bell, Associate University Librarian

We have just added a new service to TUlink. The Find Articles by Citation form allows you to enter an article citation (or part of a citation) and let TUlink find the full-text for you.

As long as you enter at least a Journal Title, ISSN, DOI, or PMID, TUlink will try to get you a link. In many cases you will get a direct link to the full-text labeled "Article". In some cases, the best TUlink can do is get you a "Journal" link that will take you to our electronic access to the journal where your citation is found. If Temple holds the journal in question in paper, you will get a link, and if TUlink cannot find any results it will direct you to an interlibrary loan form where you can request your article.

(More information on using the TUlink Find Articles by Citation form.)

In conjunction with this new addition we have slightly altered the "Find Articles" section of our library home page. We have added Find Articles "by Citation" to the list. Also, as part of this alteration, the list of "Only Full-Text" databases has been removed. The reasons for this are two fold: a) with the addition of TUlink, even if a database doesn't have full-text in it, full-text access is a few clicks away through the "Find Full-Text' icon; b) the full-text database list has gotten so long that it is no longer the small, useful subset of resources it once was.

-Derik A Badman,
Digital Services Librarian

Have you encountered frustration in fetching the full text of an article when using the library's research databases? We have some good news for you. We are pleased to announce the arrival of TUlink, a new service of the Temple University Libraries.

With TUlink, the research process is greatly streamlined. TUlink acts as a bridge between a citation in a database and the full-text of the article in a different database--removing a number of formerly necessary steps.

When the citation you find in a database doesn't have the full-text immediately attached to it, look for the TUlink icon:

Clicking on this icon will perform a search of our full-text resources and when possible give you an "Article" link directly to the full-text of the article. In other cases you will see a "Journal" link to the electronic copy of the journal in which your citation was published. TUlink can also get you to information on journals held in the library on paper.

If no full-text is available you will be offered an interlibrary loan link to request the article from another library.

TUlink is a work in progress. Currently enabled databases include all the EBSCO databases (Academic Search Premier, ERIC, MLA, PsycInfo, etc) and CSA databases (Criminal Justice Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, etc) and numerous others. Other databases will be enabled on an ongoing basis.

See more details on using TUlink.

--Derik A Badman, Digital Services Librarian