Milne Library News

The Statesman's Yearbook (2007) is now available on-line via the library catalog. The Yearbook contains extensive country information (climate, government, energy, religion, culture, etc.), material on international organizations and a chronology of events.

1. Find Books on the library page
2. Type in statesman's yearbook in the Basic Browse box
3. Click on the title Stateman's Yearbook
4. Click on Availability
5. Click on Electronic Location

Only one simultaneous use is permitted, so be sure to Logoff (upper right of screen) when you're finished so that the next user can get in. The library has selected earlier editions available in print going back to 1924.

Xrefer is a digital collection of over 100 reference sources including encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, factbooks, and guides on pretty much any topic imaginable. A unique "concept map" provides a visual map of the results of any search. Overall, a useful all-purpose dictionary and encylopedic starting place.

We have a free trial of Xrefer through November 30. Give it a try and send your comments and recommendations regarding whether we should purchase or not to Nancy Cannon at cannonns@oneonta.edu.

The library has upgraded from Academic Search Elite to Academic Search Premier. Touted as "the world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database," Premier is more than twice the size of Elite, providing access to 4,600+ periodicals, including the full text of over 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. New features include the ability to select "Academic Journals" or "Magazines" or "Newspapers" from the list of results. For a more in-depth description of Academic Search Premier go to the Ebsco web page.

This, and other new databases, are part of the SUNYConnect package which comes through SUNY consortial negotiating.

The library no longer has InfoTrac Expanded Academic, but Academic Search Premier is a much larger database, more than filling the gap left by InfoTrac.

WorldCat, the world's largest joint catalog of books and media materials owned by libraries the world over, is now freely available for searching to anyone anywhere. Search "1.3 billion items in 18,000 libraries worldwide" at www.worldcat.org. Find out what resources exist on any topic, find out who owns the resources you need (including your own Milne Library at SUNY Oneonta), and, best of all, submit a request to borrow items Oneonta doesn't own.

The new SUNY Connect Union Catalog allows you to search over 50 SUNY library catalogs through a single search engine. Results indicate which libraries own an item, and if Oneonta does not own it, simply click on Request Item in the upper right of the screen to ask for the item through Oneonta's Interlibrary Loan.

The link to the SUNY Union Catalog is on the upper right of the library home page under Other Library Catalogs.