Naxos Change of Service Notice

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White Elephant / Awful Christmas Attire Party

Even if you didn't attend the 2009 Christmas party, Owens employees should check out the photos posted on the B.D. Owens Library Wiki [private].

Credo - New Instructional Video

We've recently made a new instructional video available. This one will teach you how to use our Advanced Search feature. Check it out below!

Video.mp4 (2 MB) [approx. 2 min. 30 sec.]

LesixNexis Academic Enahancements

Enhancement for December 2009

The newly enhanced LexisNexis Academic

The latest version of LexisNexis Academic unveils enhancements - driven by student user testing - designed to make it even easier to use:

-Redesigned Easy Search form is the default home page
-Six widgets to help students conduct basic research tasks
-Additional content added for and Environmental Studies search form
-Navigation presents all options in a single menu

The result? Quicker access to the most commonly used content.
Now that will be music to your students' ears

To learn more about the changes to LexisNexis Academic, visit our wiki... now the source of a new LexisNexis Academic Help section.

Cambridge Collections New features

[E]xciting features include a general upgrade across the site. This includes, faster browsing and searching; new hit-highlighting toggles on the chapter page; search results pagination controls and inline PDF viewing for all browsers. Customers will also be authenticated when they access any page on the site, meaning they can link directly to any volume or chapter with ease.