Library Hours: January 3 – 16

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.

Over the River and Through the Woods…With an Audiobook

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!

Database of the Month: Web of Science

Web of Science 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:

  • Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) — 1956-present
  • Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) — 1975-present
  • Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) — 1977-present

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.

Citation Mapping:

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.

  • Go forward and backward in time to track citing and cited references
  • Color code, re-configure and organize your citation maps to discover trends in citation activity
  • Completely interactive!
  • Access via any Web of Science full record

To learn more about citation mapping please visit the citation mapping tutorial from WoS.

Registering with WoS and Remote Access:

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.

Connect to this Database:

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.

We’re Open All Night During Finals!

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!

Tuesday, 12/13 – Saturday, 12/17:
Open at 7:30am on Tuesday 12/13 & remain open
until 9:00pm on Saturday 12/17

*Saturday, 12/17:
Close at 9:00pm (everyone take a little break from studying!)

Sunday, 12/18 – Wednesday, 12/21:
Open at 10:00am on Sunday 12/18 & remain open
until midnight on Wednesday, 12/21

Thursday, 12/22
Open 8:00am – 5:00pm

What to expect:

  • Reference services will not be available during the extended late-night hours.
  • All patrons in the building at 2:00am will be required to show a Bentley ID in order to remain in the building.
  • Patrons entering the Library after 2:00am must enter via the front entrance and will need to show their Bentley ID upon entry.

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!

In the Art Gallery: Rachel Grobstein / “So Long, It’s Been Good to Know Ya”

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/.

Rachel Grobstein
So Long, It’s Been Good to Know Ya
December 4, 2011 – February 3, 2012

Opening Reception
Thursday, December 8, 2011
4:30pm – 6:30pm
Artist Talk and Q&A at 5:00pm
light refreshments will be served

Rachel Grobstein-I'll Be With You Like a Sunset
"I'll Be With You Like A Sunset", gouache on paper, 8.5" x 11"

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.