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Database of the Month: Ulrichsweb Global Serials Directory

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Whether you want to find out if a source is authoritative or want to find places to publish a piece of writing or an article, Ulrichsweb Global Serials Directory is a great place to start. Ulrichsweb includes detailed information on more than 300,000 serials of all types: academic & scholarly journals, e-journals, peer- reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters and more. Each Ulrich’s record provides data points such as: ISSN, publisher, ordering details, subscription price, language, subject, abstracting & indexing coverage, full-text database coverage, tables of contents and reviews written by librarians.

Just type in a specific title (Advances in Accounting) or ISBN number (0882-6110) to bring up the relevant record.

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Please note that the Content Type: “Academic / Scholarly”  just means that the title is published or sponsored by a college, university or a traditional academic publisher. The key to authoritative sources is to look for the Refereed Symbol (See below image)Ulrichcodes

Another Key Feature to note when looking at the authority of a source is to see whether or not a source is included in Journal Citation Reports (JCR). In an Ulrichsweb record, the JCR information will be noted under the “Additional Title Details”. Please see earlier JCR blog post about Impact Factor for more information about JCR.

Advanced Search allows you to search for groups of titles by the critieria you want in over 950 subject groupings.

A results list can be narrowed down using the facets searching on the left or sorting the different columns by clicking on the headings

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Ulrichsweb Global Serials Directory is available through the Bentley Library’s Databases A to Z listing. For further assistance using Ulrichsweb, please contact the Reference Desk.

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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 Ask a Librarian. If you would like a demonstration of this database for a class, please contact our Coordinator of User Education, Elizabeth Galoozis.

I Just Need 3 Sources Workshop: March 4 & March 6

Kimberly

ResearchHelpHave a paper or project due soon, and need information to complete it?

Drop in to:

“I Just Need 3 Sources By Tomorrow!”
Drop-In Research Help

Bring whatever you are working on to a reference librarian and get immediate expert assistance in finding the information you need, whether it be articles, statistics, company information, or books. You will walk away with the source or two (or three) that you need!

Three sessions:

  • Monday, March 4, 2:30 to 3:30 (during activity period)
  • Wednesday, March 6, 1:00 to 2:00 (during activity period)
  • Wednesday, March 6, 5:00 to 6:00

(No RSVP necessary; come in anytime during the hour)

These sessions will take place in the Research Instruction Center (Room 11) located on the library’s lower level.

Now Showing in the Art Gallery: Amy Williams

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Amy Williams
New Venue
December 10, 2012 – January 18, 2013

Amy Williams is more commonly known to staff and students as Professor Amy Ray of the Information and Process Management Department.  After this semester, she will be leaving Bentley University to further pursue her love of painting. Her paintings are now showing in the Art Gallery.

Sunset over Manana by artist Amy Williams
Sunset over Manana
oil on canvas | 18″ x 24″

Opening Reception
December 12, 2012
5:00 – 7:00 pm
Artist Talk and Q&A @ 5:30

Light refreshments will be served.

Artist Statement:

Engaging in creativity has been essential to me for as long as I can remember.  As a young child I spent countless hours sewing clothes for my stuffed animals from scraps of cloth and then drawing pictures of them sporting their new apparel.  I also spent a lot of time drawing my sisters, our dogs and the flowers and trees in our yard as well as making construction paper collages of virtually everything, but especially the trees.  My mother’s brother and sister were both artists who were never happier than when they had paintbrushes in their hands and I seem to have inherited that feeling from them.  At the age of 8, however, I fell in love with music and that took me down a different creative road until I was a freshman in college and decided to use my music scholarship to pursue an education in Accounting.

Throughout my early adult life, I was always a volunteer for various creative arts organizations while focusing mainly on my career.  Then, in 2000, I attended a special Van Gogh exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts on my very first weekend as a Boston-area resident. I was completely awe-struck by the exhibit and overwhelmed by the fact that the MFA was my ‘hometown museum’.  With this amazing resource available, I vowed to rededicate myself to the creative process and started with classes at the venerable School of the Museum of Fine Arts that summer and have been painting and drawing regularly ever since.

Thanks to Bentley’s agreement to let me phase out of my current academic position, I have recently had the opportunity to study intensively for months at a time in NY at the world famous Art Students League with some of the greatest living painters and teachers including Burt Silverman for whom I have had the honor of serving as class monitor and also with Nelson Shanks, Ray Kinstler and most recently Dan Thompson, who is without a doubt the most passionate teacher I have ever known.  Painting brings me great joy and I am so happy to have this amazing gift back in my life. I am never happier than when I’m in the sun dappled woods trying to capture the amazing beauty before me.  And even when I’m not painting, I’m looking at the world as an artist again and it feels really good.

Database of the Month: Morningstar

Kimberly

Many of you may have used this database to retrieve a company’s annual report, but Morningstar Investment Research Center offers so much more than that!

Morningstar covers all stocks traded on the NYSE, NASDAQ, and AMEX, and nearly 14,000 mutual funds – nearly 20,000 securities in all. Morningstar Investment Research Center contains powerful screener tools and detailed financial information on stocks, funds, and exchange-traded funds (ETFs), analyst reports for 1,000 stocks and 2,000 funds including buy and sell directions, market sector and industry reports, portfolio management tools, and more.

To learn about this database, the new Tutorial Section provides 8 excellent 2 to 4 minutes clips which introduce you to navigating the database content and using the screening and graphing tools.

In addition, Morningstar offers online self-paced training on investment topics such as Stocks, Funds, Portfolio and Bonds with various content levels from 100 to 500 on these topics.

Learn More

Visit Morningstar’s Investing Classroom (available under the Help & Education area) to discover what additional topics are offered.

Connect to this Database

Please visit  Morningstar Investment Research Center to explore the database further.   You may also access library databases via our Databases A-Z and Databases by Subject pages.

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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 Ask a Librarian.  If you would like a demonstration of this database for a class, please contact our Coordinator of User Education, Elizabeth Galoozis.

Congrats to Our Graduating Student Assistants! We Dedicate These Books & Films to You…

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Commencement is coming, making it time for the library staff to bid farewell to our graduating student assistants – Charles “Costas” Blougouras, Jamie Carrillo, Michael Clark, John Cunniff, Anthony DeAngelo, Claude Louis, Nicholas Moutinho, Julia Powell, Melissa Rivers, Safiya Samms, Lauren Steinbrecher, Anika Sutty & April Watkins.
Congratulations and best wishes for a happy and successful future!

It’s a Bentley Library tradition to dedicate a title to each of our graduating student employees in appreciation for their service.  This year, the students were invited to choose either a book or a film to be dedicated on their behalf. We will be displaying all of their individual selections in the New Books area for the next few weeks – stop by and take a look:

  • Charles “Costas” Blougouras – The Hunger Games
  • Jamie Carrillo –  (dvd) Almost Famous
  • Michael Clark –  (dvd) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Parts I and II
  • John Cunniff –  To Kill A Mockingbird
  • Anthony DeAngelo –  A Game of Thrones
  • Claude Louis –  (dvd) Transformers
  • Nicholas Moutinho –  Ronald Reagan, Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History
  • Julia Powell –  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  • Melissa Rivers –  Diary A Novel
  • Safiya Samms –  The Perks of Being a Wallflower
  • Lauren Steinbrecher –  The Lonely Hearts Club
  • Anika Sutty – Introduction to Fashion Merchandising
  • April Watkins –  A Good Man is Hard to Find

Thanks goes out to all of our student employees for their hard work and commitment throughout the past year! Have a wonderful summer break, and we look forward to your return next year.

On Display: Women & Leadership

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Currently on display in the library lobby are books chosen to accompany the Center for Women & Business (CWB) Inaugural Forum – Moving from Conversation to Action – which is being held at Bentley University on Friday, April 27, 2012. This display features books by forum speakers Betsy Myers, Tom Peters and Rosabeth Moss Kanter, and also includes titles that have been selected for their coverage of the subject of women’s leadership.  In addition to professional and academic books, you’ll find many inspiring and illuminating personal stories by and about women leaders.

Please stop by the browse the display, or view the display on Pinterest.

Life Stories

On Display: Life Stories

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Life StoriesOne question we get quite a lot at the reference desk is “Where is your biography section?”. This is not an easy question to answer. The library has thousands of biographies, autobiographies and memoirs in our collection, but these titles are classified under various topics/disciplines which puts them in different call number areas of the collection.

On Display: Life Stories via Pinterest
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Currently on display in the Library lobby is a collection of biographies and autobiographies celebrating the wide variety of people and places published in this genre. Included are winners of the Pulitzer Award, National Book Critics Award, James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award. We have also included some brand new 2012 titles and some staff picks.

Please stop by and browse, or, check out the display on Pinterest!

Database of the Month: American FactFinder

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American FactFinder is a web tool provided by the United States Census Bureau that offers access to some of the Bureau’s largest data sets, including information from the Decennial Census, American Community Survey, Economic Census and Population Estimates Program. American FactFinder helps you find population, economic, housing, industry, and business data about the United States, Puerto Rico and the Island Areas. Many of these statistics are broken down at the national, state, county and place levels.

On January 20, 2012, American FactFinder went through a major upgrade and now has a new look and features.

Searching American FactFinder

You can use the Quick Start box located in the middle of the screen to pull up tables or data files that meet your search criteria. You can search by topic or table or for a specific state, county or place.  You may use the links on the left side of the page (under Search Using the Options Below) to browse topics, geographies, race and ethnic groups, or industry codes associated with the many different statistical data sets contained in the site.

The data in American FactFinder comes from several censuses and surveys. To learn more about the individual surveys click on the symbol next to each table on the search results page.

Learn More About this Resource

Click here to discover more information about the new American FactFinder or to view an excellent (5 minute) virtual tour of this new service.  If you need any assistance using American FactFinder or any other library resources, please contact a Reference Librarian.

Connect to American FactFinder

American FactFinder is available at http://factfinder2.census.gov/. Please note: American FactFinder works best with Mozilla Firefox 3.6 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 7. Other browsers may not perform as expected.

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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.