Friday, February 20, 2009

Subject Guides for Your Department

Did you know that there are biological sciences, chemistry, environmental studies, and geosciences subject guides on the Libraries web site? And, that the subject guides list and *link* to the Libraries article databases especially relevant to your field of study?

Here's how you can access these subject guides...

  1. Go to the Libraries web page
  2. Hover your mouse over the "Research" link (on the left side of the tan navigation bar at the top of the screen)
  3. Move your mouse down to "Subject Guides" and click
  4. From the alphabetical list, click which ever guide you want to use

The library has over eighty subject guides. In addition to linking to relevant article databases, these guides also link to handbooks, dictionaries, patents, government information as well as other useful information.

Knowing where these resources are centrally located can save you time and effort.

Take a look at the subject guide relevant to you. Tell your students about it. If you have any questions or suggestions of other resources that should be included in the guides, feel free to let me know.

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1 comment:

Unknown said...

Process of leaving a comment is horrific. Tried to reset Google Account password (since I don't think I even recall when I set up one) and literally couldn't read the various word verifications--letters very skewed and jammed together. One below is very readable but definitely not true in other instances.

Anyway, my intent was to note that your blog is nicely designed. I loved the word "hover" to describe a mouse over albeit I don't want mice over or hovering above anything in my house!