Check out our book, popular reading, DVD and audiobook acquisitions for the month of December. Go to our New Books & DVDs page to browse by subject or format. If you find something you want, simply hit the “Request” button to place a hold on it.
Check out our book, popular reading, DVD and audiobook acquisitions for the month of December. Go to our New Books & DVDs page to browse by subject or format. If you find something you want, simply hit the “Request” button to place a hold on it.
The Library is closed evenings and weekends while classes are not in session. For the period of January 3 – January 16 our hours are:
Monday – Thursday:
8:00am – 6:00pm
Friday:
8:00am – 4:30pm
Saturday & Sunday:
CLOSED
Monday, January 16:
CLOSED (Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday)
Library hours will change when Wintersession classes begin on Tuesday, January 17. Please note that the cafe is closed until January 23. For more information about the library or cafe hours please check our hours calendar.
Bentley University and the Bentley Library are closed for Winter Break from Friday, December 23, 2011 through Monday, January 2, 2012. The library reopens at 8:00am on Tuesday, January 3, 2012. For more information about the library’s hours please check our online hours calendar.
Happy holidays from the staff of the Bentley Library!
Whether you’re spending time in the car running holiday errands or strapped in for a long-distance trip to visit friends and family, the time will pass much faster if you’re listening to an audiobook. We have a great collection of popular fiction and nonfiction audiobooks in CD and digital player formats. Need help finding one? You can browse our recent acquistions, view a complete list of titles sorted by publication date, or use the catalog to search for a specific title or author. Happy travels!
Packing up and heading home? Don’t forget to check the due dates of any books and DVDs you currently have checked-out, and return or renew them before you leave for winter break (DVDs may not be renewed). Log-in to My Library Account to view your account and renew your books online. You may also contact the Library Services Desk at 781.891.2168 or libraryservices@bentley.edu for renewal assistance.
Web of Science (WoS) is a cited reference index, which is one of the best tools for discovering and retrieving accurate citation information from as far back as 1956. WoS allows researchers to trace particular research forward in time or backward in time to see how published scholarship grows and helps researchers focus on a wide array of published scholarship. WoS is published on Thomson Reuters’ Web of Knowledge research platform. Bentley subscribes to three WoS citation indexes:
WoS lets users search for topics, authors and publications, as well as, eleven other indexes. Users can search for and limit data based in times span (within a date range, from a date, or before a particular date). Lemmatization allows users to find alternative forms of the search term, for example, tooth and teeth. Results can be limited by publication date, relevance, times cited, source, author, and publication. The Web of Knowledge platform provides a number of useful tools that work with WoS including the Journal Citation Reports (JCR). The learn more about JCR please see Database of the Month for June 2011.
WoS citation mapping tool tracks an article’s cited and citing references through two generations, allowing researchers to visually discover an article’s wider relationships.
To learn more about citation mapping please visit the citation mapping tutorial from WoS.
Users can click on the “Sign In” link at the top of any WoS webpage to register become a registered user. To register one should be on-campus with a Bentley University I.P. address. Once registered, users will be able to access WoS from off-campus. Registering with WoS will also allow users to set up search alerts, save custom searches and search histories, and select a starting application that enables them to start their session in a specific database rather than on the All Databases (default) page.
Users will find each of the WoS databases (Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Citation Index and Science Citation Index) listed under their individual names on our Databases A-Z page as well as on any applicable databases by subject pages. The databases can be searched individually or cross-searched in any combination.
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Database of the Month provides a very brief introduction to an important research database, highlighting key features of the database that you should know about. If you would like more information about this database (or any of the library’s databases) please contact the Reference Desk. If you would like a demonstration of this database for a class, please contact our Coordinator of User Education, Elizabeth Galoozis.
The library’s 24-hour access for final exams begins Tuesday, December 13 (Reading Day) and ends Wednesday, December 21 (last day of exams). *Please note our weekend exception!
What to expect:
For more information about the library or cafe hours please view our full hours calendar online. Best of luck with your finals, and have a wonderful winter break!
The current exhibit at The McGladrey Art Gallery is an installation titled “So Long, It’s Been Good to Know Ya” by artist Rachel Grobstein. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, December 8, from 4:30pm-6:30pm, with an artist talk and Q&A session starting at 5:00pm. To learn more about the artist please visit http://damnnanner.blogspot.com/.
Located on the main floor of the Bentley Library, The McGladrey Art Gallery is free and open to the public. Check the online hours calendar for information about the Library’s hours.