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		<title>Blackwell Synergy journals now Wiley Interscience journals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://penguin.radford.edu/news/index.php/2008/06/30/blackwell-synergy-journals-now-wiley-interscience-journals/</link>
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		<title>Good-bye to InfoTrac: how faculty, staff, and students will be impacted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://penguin.radford.edu/news/index.php/2008/06/20/good-bye-to-infotrac-how-faculty-staff-and-students-will-be-impacted/</link>
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		<title>EBSCO databases replace InfoTrac - July 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#38; Applied Science Complete
Consumer Health Complete
Environment Complete
Hospitality &#38; Tourism Complete
Humanities International Complete
Health Source:  Consumer Edition
Health Source:  Nursing/Academic Edition
Legal Collection
MasterFILE Premier
Military &#38; Government Collection
Newspaper Source Plus
Psychology &#38; Behavioral [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://penguin.radford.edu/news/index.php/2008/06/20/ebsco-databases-replace-infotrac-july-1/</link>
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		<title>One-stop shopping is here!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://penguin.radford.edu/news/index.php/2008/06/18/one-stop-shopping-is-here/</link>
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		<title>New e-journal and e-book collections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#38; Sciences V collection&#8211; at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://penguin.radford.edu/news/index.php/2008/06/02/new-e-journal-and-e-book-collections/</link>
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		<title>Congratulations to our Library Research Award winners!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The winners of the Winesett Awards for Library Research were announced Friday, April 25:
Upper Division: Meredith C. Jones, &#8220;&#8216;Unshored, Harborless Immensities&#8217;: Cetology, Gender, and Sexuality in &#8216;Moby Dick&#8217;&#8221; Sponsor: English Professor Timothy Poland
Lower Division: Kelly Drake, &#8220;The Nature of Friedrich&#8217;s Ataxia.&#8221; Sponsor: Biology Professor Orion RogersWinners receive a $500 prize.
Finalists:
Upper Division

Adam M. Farmer, &#8220;The Effects [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://penguin.radford.edu/news/index.php/2008/04/25/congratulations-to-our-library-research-award-winners/</link>
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		<title>NLW Trivia Contest Winners!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://penguin.radford.edu/news/index.php/2008/04/21/nlw-trivia-contest-winners/</link>
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		<title>You&#8217;re invited! Library Research Awards Reception 4/25</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://penguin.radford.edu/news/index.php/2008/04/21/youre-invited-library-research-awards-reception-425/</link>
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		<title>Stress Buster April 21-25</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Need a break from studying? 
Stop by the library&#8217;s Radford Room during the week of April 21-25.  Enjoy some
cool bottled water and soak in the relaxing atmosphere.  Comfy couches, bead
crafts, a massage chair pad, board games, puzzles, and more are waiting for
you!
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		<link>http://penguin.radford.edu/news/index.php/2008/04/17/stress-buster-april-21-25/</link>
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		<title>New APA Style for Electronic Resources Available</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The library has purchased a site license so that Radford University faculty, students, and staff can each download and print his or her own copy. This 24 page PDF revises and updates section 4.16 (pp. 268-281) of the 5th edition of APA, and includes how to cite online articles, Websites, PowerPoint Presentations, blogs, and much, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://penguin.radford.edu/news/index.php/2008/04/17/new-apa-style-for-electronic-resources-available/</link>
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