Okay, today's post is only loosely related to natural sciences, but it does highlight some great electronic library resources, especially two that might come in handy for Thanksgiving tomorrow.
WMU Libraries have several items with "cookery (turkey)" as a subject, but two of these resources may be of special interest on the Thanksgiving holiday tomorrow. The first, titled
Let's Talk Turkey: A Consumer Guide to Safely Roasting a Turkey, a pamphlet put out by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is part of our Government Docume
nts collection in the library. By clicking on the web link included in
Talk Turkey's catalog record (see record detail above), you can access the
PDF version of the pamphlet. This resource is an example of how U.S. Government Documents are increasingly available online.
The second item is
Wild Turkeys: Hunting and Watching. Haven't
gotten your Thanksgiving turkey yet? Why not skip the grocery store and instead let this resource show you how to get your turkey the old fashioned way.
Wild Turkeys is an e-book -- an electronic version of the book that is viewed online.
To check out and read the book, you click on a web link in
this item's library catalog record (see record detail at above), which takes you directly to the e-book viewer. This viewer has many features, such as a hot-linked table of contents (TOC) that allows you to click directly to book sections listed in the TOC, and a feature that lets you search for, and go directly to, keywords in the book text.
The WMU Libraries have many e-books on various topics available through the library web site. For an overview, see the
Electronic Books Guide on the Libraries' web site. I'll talk more about effectively using electronic library books in future posts.
Meanwhile, have a Happy Thanksgiving!
We now subscribe to the journal Nature Physics, and our subscription includes full text articles starting from volume 1 issue 1 (2005) to the present. If you are on campus, you can access the journal either by going to the Nature Physics website or via the Libraries website. If you are off campus, you will need to use the Libraries website to access full-text articles. If you try to access content from the journal website, the site won't recognize that you're part of the WMU Libraries' subscription and won't allow you access.
You can access this database from the Libraries' Environmental Studies Article Databases page -- just as you did Lexis Nexis Environmental. Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management is the first database in the list.
nts collection in the library. By clicking on the web link included in Talk Turkey's catalog record (see record detail above), you can access the PDF version of the pamphlet. This resource is an example of how U.S. Government Documents are increasingly available online.
gotten your Thanksgiving turkey yet? Why not skip the grocery store and instead let this resource show you how to get your turkey the old fashioned way. Wild Turkeys is an e-book -- an electronic version of the book that is viewed online.
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