New e-Resources in Harvard Libraries

These resources were added to e-Research at Harvard Libraries in May 2011:

Bibliothèque Bibliographique des Littératures Francophones Européennes (BIBLIFRE)
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:bblfe

Detroit Free Press
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:proqhdfp

Encyclopedia of medieval philosophy
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.ebook:GEN_9781402097287

Gallup Brain
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:gallup

John Johnson Collection: an archive of printed ephemera
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:johnjohnson

Patrimonio cultural de España
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:ptcle

ProQuest Civil War Era
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:proqcwe

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Boston Globe, 1872-1979
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:bostonglobe

SPIE Digital Library - eBooks
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:spiedlib

Tax Analysts web services
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:TaxAnalysts

Please let me know if you have any questions about them or any other library resources.
At your service,
Cheryl

These resources have been added to E-Research @ Harvard Libraries during April, and can be seen in the "New E-Resources" list. (To access the New E-Resources list: from Cross Search, click on "New E-Resources" under the Quick Sets pull-down menu), OR just click the links below:

BCC Research
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:bccrsrch

Government Finance Statistics
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:imfgfson

International Inventory of Musical Sources: RISM Series A/II
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:rismopac

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Times of India (1838-2001)
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:proqhtoi

At your service,
Cheryl

LibX for Google Chrome

Do you use Google Chrome as your browser of choice? Then here's good news for you: a bet version of LibX for Google Chrome has just been released.

To install the add-on in Google Chrome, open Chrome and follow the instructions provided here: http://lib.harvard.edu/tools/libx_chrome.pdf

LibX is a browser toolbar add-on that allows you quickly to search a number of library resources. For more information and for links to the Firefox and IE versions of LibX, just visit the Harvard LibX page, at: http://lib.harvard.edu/tools/libx.html
At your service,
Cheryl

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt: it's available to you online

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt has been added to the Harvard Libraries portal, so you can search it 24/7/365 from anywhere in the world with your Harvard ID and PIN. The Encyclopedia presently holds over 600 original articles written by leading scholars, offering information on ancient Egyptian civilization from the predynastic era to its eclipse in the seventh century CE. Subjects covered include "art, architecture, religion, language, literature, trade, politics, everyday social life, and the culture of the court."

At your service,
Cheryl

Send Us Your Feedback, Please!

Mary Beth Clack and I would very much appreciate any feedback you'd care to send us about the new Library Grad Guide: A Guide to Library Resources for GSAS Graduate Students. Anything not there that you'd like to have on it? Anything there you don't want on it? Want more pictures? Want more video? Want falling toasters...? Do you like / hate / feel completely ambivalent about it?

Our only goal is for the page to serve you folks, so please let us know how we can improve it.
Me (Cheryl): claguard@fas.harvard.edu,
Mary Beth: mclack@fas.harvard.edu.

At your service (and we mean it),
Cheryl

The NEW Library Grad Guide: A Guide to Library Resources for GSAS Graduate Students

Please do check out the new Library Grad Guide: A Guide to Library Resources for GSAS Graduate Students, at: http://guides.hcl.harvard.edu/gradguide. Our goal with this guide is to provide a dynamic (yet stable and on-going) resource to graduate students throughout GSAS. As you'll see, we are now including sections for Arts and Humanities, the Sciences, and the Social Sciences, in addition to general tools that will be of help to all grad students.

Please let me know if there's any information or links you'd like us to add to the guide -- we enthusiastically welcome your suggestions and ideas. To get started, you might want to take a look at this video from the new site.

At your service,
Cheryl

Tools of the Trade

I’d like to direct your attention to a web resource (an e-book, essentially) a couple colleagues of mine (Susan Gilroy, ably assisted by our web designer, Enrique Diaz) recently created to serve Harvard freshmen — it’s Tools of the Trade: A Library Starter Kit for Harvard Freshmen. It's a literate, pragmatic, and frankly, beautiful guide to doing research, well worth a read. Take a look for excellent advice and information, as well as the pleasure of seeing a very well-done web-based research tool.

At your service,
Cheryl