New Credo features

Update from Credo on new features, enhancements, and gadgets:

"Based on feedback from librarians and users, we've enhanced our basic search page with key new features:
1. An image-only search
2. A featured content section
3. An indication of the content you may find in Credo

1. Searching Credo's 200,000+ images just got easier. From the Search page, select the Image Search tab and enter your search term to view related images. Similarly, you can access our Concept Map by clicking the Concept Search tab.

2. Our Featured Content area will spotlight interesting searches and content related to current events. Featured Content will be updated regularly and remain timely. We welcome suggestions for the Featured Content area. Send your ideas to support@credoreference.com.



3. The search page now includes suggestions for how to use Credo. Under 'Use Credo Reference to find', you can click through to all our encyclopedias, dictionaries and biographical titles. Or get quick access to our measurement conversions tool and crossword solver.


New Search Gadgets
Credo's current Gadgets have proven very popular, and we're pleased to announce the addition of two new gadgets:
1. Image search
2. Pronunciation search
Use the Image search to find photos, illustrations or maps. Need to know how to pronounce a term? Type your word into our Pronunciations gadget to find out.

Credo's Gadgets are accessible from the navigation pane at the top of each page. Gadgets will open on the right side of your Credo pages. Use them to get a quick definition, lookup a person, solve your crossword puzzle and much more."

Swine Flu Info from EBSCO

Dear Librarians and Information Specialists,

With the recent outbreak of Swine Flu, we hope the following information is of value to you. Please feel free to pass along this information to healthcare professionals at your institution as well as faculty, staff and students.

Due to the recent global outbreak of Swine Influenza, EBSCO Publishing and the DynaMed Editors have made DynaMed’s information about Swine Influenza free to health care providers and institutions throughout the world. The DynaMed topic on Swine Influenza consolidates information from multiple sources for health care providers to stay current with recommendations for monitoring, diagnosing, and treating patients with flu-like illnesses during this outbreak. DynaMed Editors will continue to monitor information and update this topic as needed throughout this global crisis. Please click on the following link for information regarding Swine Influenza:
http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed/swineflu/.

DynaMed is a point-of-care reference resource designed to provide clinicians with the best available evidence to support clinical decision-making. DynaMed is part of the suite of medical products owned and provided by EBSCO Publishing and is updated daily by monitoring medical literature sources.

Current DynaMed subscribers are encouraged to use their access to DynaMed through their institutional subscription to monitor the latest clinical information on Swine Flu at http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed/logIn.php.

Should you have any questions or need additional information about DynaMed, please contact us at information@ebscohost.com.

Kind regards,

Susan Entrican
Programs Manager
EBSCO Publishing
sentrican@ebscohost.com

Online Catalogs: What Users and Librarians Want

The OCLC research report, “Online Catalogs: What Users and Librarians Want”, is now available for order and download. Authored by an OCLC research team headed by Karen Calhoun, Vice President, WorldCat and Metadata Services, the report presents findings about the data quality expectations of catalog end users and librarians.

Visit http://www.oclc.org/reports/onlinecatalogs/default.htm to order the report, download a copy and to learn more.

Library Technology Reports Online

Library Technology Reports Online is now accessible by IP authentication.
http://alatechsource.metapress.com/content/W41833/

Sage Journals Online

Access to SAGE Premier: http://online.sagepub.com

"We are delighted to inform you that as a member of GWLA, you now have access to 514 SAGE journals through SAGE Premier, which includes electronic access to content back to 1999 available on SAGE Journals Online, SAGE’s award-winning online journal delivery platform, powered by HighWire Press."

Serials Solutions/Ulrich's technical news

Please note that Ulrichsweb and Ulrich’s Serials Analysis System will be temporarily unavailable from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT on Friday, April 3 (01:00 to 03:00 GMT on Saturday, April 4). Users will not be able to login or access the products during that time period.

This temporary system downtime will allow us to put a series of content enhancements into production. As a result, users may experience intermittent site slowness when using Ulrichsweb and Ulrich’s Serials Analysis System for a period after service restarts. Regular service will be restored by 2:00 PM PDT (20:00 GMT) on Saturday, April 4.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

As always, thank you for being a user of Serials Solutions services. If you need any support or training for either service, please contact us through the Serials Solutions Support Center (http://support.serialssolutions.com) or at clients@serialssolutions.com.

2.0 Toolmaker Library Journal Movers & Shakers 2009

Visit the Z. Smith Reynolds Library's homepage (at Wake Forest University) <http://zsr.wfu.edu/> to view the Toolkit <http://zsr.wfu.edu/toolkit/>
featured in the Library Journal article below:

http://www.libraryjournal.com/MS2009Inductee/2140335992.html

Question to consider:

Should we develop a "Toolkit" feature for the Owens Library homepage?

We could use some of the tutorials and learning objects currently linked from http://www.nwmissouri.edu/library/courses/research/research.htm and we could make new uTube videos that feature how to renew a book, how to request a book through MOBIUS, etc., etc.