Faculty: Request library instruction for your students
Supplement your class with Vitamin L! If you want your students to use the library to do research, please consider incorporating library instruction in some way.
We offer instruction on: creating search strategies; finding articles; searching databases; differentiating between popular and scholarly sources; identifying research articles; avoiding plagiarism; using EndNote; citing in APA, MLA, and Chicago/Turabian; [...]
Journals being moved
During the August break, we will be rearranging the Periodicals Collection by call number. Journals on the same subject will now be located in the same area.
When complete, if your location is Periodicals, call numbers beginning A through RT will be located on Level 2, and call numbers S through Z on Level 1.
During the [...]
Blackwell Synergy journals now Wiley Interscience journals
Blackwell Synergy and Wiley InterScience journal publishers have merged. As a result, more than 800 Blackwell Synergy journals are now only available on Wiley InterScience.
How will this affect you?
It may not affect you at all, unless you are looking for an article that was formerly available through Blackwell Synergy.
If the “Find Full Text” link [...]
Good-bye to InfoTrac: how faculty, staff, and students will be impacted
As of July 1, the InfoTrac databases will no longer be available. Instead, RU faculty, staff, and students will have access to several new EBSCO databases which cover similar areas and disciplines. (See EBSCO databases replace InfoTrac.)
What you need to know:
InfoTrac Powersearch will be gone. In its place, use Academic Search Complete, [...]
EBSCO databases replace InfoTrac - July 1
We are pleased to announce several new EBSCOhost databases provided to Radford and other state colleges and universities by the VIVA consortium:
Academic Search Complete
Business Source Complete
Computers & Applied Science Complete
Consumer Health Complete
Environment Complete
Hospitality & Tourism Complete
Humanities International Complete
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Legal Collection
MasterFILE Premier
Military & Government Collection
Newspaper Source Plus
Psychology & Behavioral [...]
One-stop shopping is here!
Need to check out a DVD? A Reserve book? How about a digital camera? Now you can check out all of these materials at the same place - the Front Desk at McConnell Library.
The Front Desk is located on Level 3 (the main floor) and was formerly known as the Circulation Desk. In addition to [...]
New e-journal and e-book collections
McConnell Library has added more e-journals and e-books for your research. These include:
over 1,250 e-journals in the Elsevier ScienceDirect collection, covering the social and behavioral sciences and the health and life sciences
more back issues of important scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, and sciences in the JSTOR Arts & Sciences V collection– at [...]
Congratulations to our Library Research Award winners!
The winners of the Winesett Awards for Library Research were announced Friday, April 25:
Upper Division: Meredith C. Jones, “‘Unshored, Harborless Immensities’: Cetology, Gender, and Sexuality in ‘Moby Dick’” Sponsor: English Professor Timothy Poland
Lower Division: Kelly Drake, “The Nature of Friedrich’s Ataxia.” Sponsor: Biology Professor Orion RogersWinners receive a $500 prize.
Finalists:
Upper Division
Adam M. Farmer, “The Effects [...]
NLW Trivia Contest Winners!
Katelynn Lemons is the Grand Prize winner of last week’s National Library Week Trivia Contest. She won a 1 GB iriver MP3 Player. Tiffany Buck won the second-place prize of a beautiful print of McConnell Library. Both contestants had perfect answers. Thanks to everyone who entered the contest! The theme was “Learn the Radford University [...]
You’re invited! Library Research Awards Reception 4/25
Find out who will be published in the Archives of the Winesett Scholars and who will win the $500 prizes at the Library Research Awards reception on Friday, April 25. The celebration will start at 4 pm on the 4th floor of McConnell Library.
Dr. Theresa Burriss, Director of LARC and Assistant Professor of English [...]
