NetLibrary has introduced a major site upgrade that provides improved search performance, a fresh new look and feel, and powerful new navigation tools. We have over 52,000 NetLibrary e-books in a variety of subjects.
Key new features and benefits include:
- New Site Architecture. A sleek new look and feel combined with simple intuitive navigation makes it easier to search across multiple formats.
- Automatic Summarization. Enables users to find the materials they are looking for quickly by providing a brief summary of eContent.
- Spell Checking. Automatically checks the spelling of a query term, recognizes commonly misspelled words and offers alternative spellings.
- Search within Search. Users can narrow search results by entering an additional search term or terms to drill down to relevant content.
- Concept Recommendations. Recognizes ambiguous search terms and provides recommendations for refining queries.
- Improved Query Performance. Query response will match performance indicators of leading Web search engines, typically offering response times of two seconds or less.
Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life have new features and a redesigned interface. Some of the new features are:
- Cross-database searching between Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life
- Faster, smarter searching, including:
· suggested terms for searches that return no results
· inverted author names
· punctuation alternatives
· dynamic search tips
- Ability for users to save search histories to a personal profile
- Enhanced search capability for time period searches that includes individual years and spans of years
- Ability for users to build a set of tagged records across multiple searches
- A display option for expanding all of a user’s search result records at once
- Addition of a “print-this-entry” option for each record in a search results display
- Ability to easily limit searches to English language entries only
- Ability to link to a catalog search for book entries in the Historical Abstracts database
As you can see from the photos, we have sprung a leak that effects the 3rd, 4th, and 5th levels. During regular maintenance of the sprinkler system, a large amount of water spread from the 5th level equipment room near Archives to the microfilm reader area in Media Services on level 4, down to the bank of computers in the Reference Area on level 3.
The cleaning crew is here with Wet-Vacs and mops, and the source of the leak has been found and dealt with. The Library remains open, with Media Services and Reference a little pre-occupied with clean-up. You may want to wear rubber shoes and bring an umbrella. It’s not that bad, but we do ask you to use caution until we get everything cleaned up.
We have added RILM Abstracts of Music Literature to the EBSCOhost menu. It’s the same database, but you now have unlimited access to RILM and the ability to link to articles in journals available to Radford.
Web of Science provides citations to articles from over 9,600 journals in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Radford’s subscription includes Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index, with coverage from 1976 to present. You may link to articles in journals available to Radford.