Need to find a resource with background information or an overview of a topic? Check out the library’s database, Credo Reference, which has hundreds of subject encyclopedias that can be cited instead of Wikipedia. *

*Please note: If you are off campus, you will need to enter your JagNet username and password to access library databases.

Contributed by Librarian, Maureen Mitchell

New Database: Naxos Music Library

May 4, 2016

The Library has added Naxos Music Library to its online database collection.  Naxos Music Library offers streaming access to more than 124,500 CDs with more than 1,800,000 tracks of fine arts music. Over 800 new CDs are added to the library every month. Naxos Music Library provides several options for searching and browsing the collection.

Use Naxos Music Library to look up and listen to music you read about or hear about in class. Naxos Music Library sound recordings may not be downloaded, copied, or used for commercial purposes. Naxos Music Library can be accessed from the Library’s Online Library page at http://library.southtexascollege.edu/resources/databases/

Contributed by Jesús Campos, Director of Technical Services.

Earth Day will be celebrated around the world on April 22nd. Join in the celebration by visiting the library and checking out one of our many videos on the topic. Here are a few titles to get started:

#1) Years of living dangerously: the complete series / Cameron, James

Call Number: QC 902.9 .Y437 2014 DVD

Also found online in Films on Demand database.*

#2) Tapped / Soechtig, Stephanie

Call Number: HD 9349 .M542 T36 2010 DVD

#3) The 11th hour / Conners, Nadia.

Call Number: GF 75 .A13 2008 DVD

#4) Plastic paradise : the great Pacific garbage patch / Sun, Angela

Call Number: TD 427 .P62 P53 2014 DVD

#5) Vanishing of the bees [videorecording] / Langworthy, George

Call Number: SF 538.5 .C65 V36 2010 DVD

#6) Dirt! : the movie [videorecording] / Benenson, Bill

Call Number: S 591 .D57 2009 DVD

#7) Gasland : Can you light your water on fire? / Fox, Josh

Call Number: TN 881 .A1 G373 2010 DVD & ( Part II: TD 195 .G3 .G37 2014 DVD)

#8) Food, Inc / Kenner, Robert

Call Number: TP 370.2 .F66 2009 DVD

#9)Unacceptable levels / Author Brown

Call Number: RA 1226 .U533 2013 DVD

Also found online in Films on Demand. *

#10) GMO trilogy / Smith, Jeffrey M.

Call Number: TP 248.65 .F66 G66 2006 DVD

Additionally, many related titles can be found in the Films on Demand database by searching Earth Day or Environmental Science. Check out the online videos, Blue Gold: World Water Wars or Flow: For Love of Water to get started.    The Green Interview films and Green Planet Films also have many related titles of interest.*

* Please note: If you are off campus, you will need to enter your JagNet username and password to access library databases.

Contributed by Librarian, Maureen Mitchell

Earth Day image from www.rinconeducativo.org with changes under creative common: CC BY-NC 2.5

New Database: NewsBank—Access World News

November 30, 2015

The Library has added NewsBank — Access World News to its collection of online databases.  NewsBank — Access World News is a news content database covering news sources from throughout the world, including the United States, Texas and the Rio Grande Valley.  Sources include printed and online newspapers, blogs, journals, newswires, broadcast transcripts and videos.  Coverage can extend back several years depending on the source.  In addition to a standard search box, the database also provides a feature, called Find a Topic, which enables users to browse through news content using general subject categories.

NewsBank — Access World News can be accessed from the Library’s Online Library page at http://library.southtexascollege.edu/resources/databases/?libpage=N#

The database can also be searched from the Discovery Search results page using the NewsBank widget pictured below:

Contributed by Jesús Campos, Director of Technical Services.

The Library has added Alexander Street Press’ Stanford Executive Briefing Series: Thought Leaders collection of online videos.  Alexander Street Press is an online service that provides educational videos in streaming video format. The Stanford Executive Briefing Series: Thought Leaders collection consists of 20 lectures by corporate executives and scholars on leadership and business management topics.

Searching and viewing Alexander Street Press Stanford Executive Briefing Series videos does not require creating an account. However, by creating an account, users can create folders with playlists, share video segments by e-mail, or post video segments to online course management programs like Blackboard. The Stanford Executive Briefing Series collectioncan be accessed by selecting Alexander Street Press — Stanford Executive Briefing Series from the Library’s Databases page at http://library.southtexascollege.edu/resources/databases

Contributed by Jesús Campos, Director of Technical Services.

Did you know you can search for journal articles from our TexShare Databases in Google Scholar? From Google Scholar, click on Settings as shown below.

Next, click on Library links on the left which will bring up a search box. Type South Texas College and search to bring up the below options. Check: Open WorldCat and South Texas College, and Save.

In Google Scholar, search your keywords, for example, “adhesive capsulitis” “mobilization techniques”, will bring up the below results. To see the article from our databases, click on the Texshare EBSCOhost link. To find more articles on the same topic, click on Related articles. To see the article citation in several formats, click on Cite.

Additionally, students of Paralegal Studies can find case law in Google Scholar by clicking on the case law option found below the search box on the initial Google Scholar search page, in the top illustration.

Contributed by Librarian, Maureen Mitchell

The STC Library has added JoVE’s General Laboratory Techniques streaming video collection to its research databases. The General Laboratory Techniques collection was created by JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments), a PubMed/MEDLINE-indexed, peer reviewed, scientific video journal that intends to make it easier to learn and reproduce scientific techniques by viewing them.

The JoVE General Laboratory Techniques collectioncan be accessed by selecting JoVE from the Library’s Online Library page at

http://library.southtexascollege.edu/resources/databases/?libpage=J

Contributed by Jesús Campos, Director of Technical Services.

The Library has acquired the Latino-Hispanic American Experience: Leaders, Writers, and Thinkers digital collection. This EBSCO digital resource is the second series of the Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection and consists of newspapers, letters, advertisements, and other primary source documents covering Latino-Hispanic civil rights, religion, and women’s rights.

Latino-Hispanic American Experience: Leaders, Writers, and Thinkers can be accessed from the Library’s Online Library page at http://library.southtexascollege.edu/resources/databases/?libpage=L

Contributed by Jesús Campos, Director of Technical Services.

Do you have a quote from a database article, but forgot to note your source?  There is a way to find it!

For example, to find the following highlighted quote found in Academic Search Complete, copy the quote:

Today, Travel & Tourism accounts for some 9.2 percent of our nation’s GDP … That’s worth almost $1.4 trillion dollars … And it provides nearly 14 million jobs. That’s practically 10 percent, or 1 out of every 10 jobs in the United States of America.

Next open Academic Search Complete, and choose “Smart Text Searching” located underneath the ”Search Mode” option.  Additionally, check off the box “Also search within the full text of the articles.”

Now paste the quote into the search box as shown below and search!..

After executing the search, the first article in the list of results is where the quote is found.

http://library.southtexascollege.edu/databases?libpage=A

Contributed by librarian Maureen Mitchell.

Looking for a Hoover Company Profile or SEC financial statement, the library has just what you need in the database, WestlawNext Campus Research. Once you are in the database, click on the news link:

In the next window, click on Hoover’s Company Profiles to bring up the link you will need to follow.

On the left side under Search These Sources, to see a Company Profile, click on Hoover’s Company Profiles or to see a SEC financial statement, click on SEC Filings. After clicking, search the company to bring up the desired information.

http://library.southtexascollege.edu/resources/databases?libpage=W

Submitted by librarian Maureen Mitchell.