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Library Hours (updated January 25, 2010)

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Web of Science (updated February 8, 2010)

The Institute for Scientific Information’s Web of Science is finally available here at Northern Arizona University! The resource provides powerful access to the world's leading citation databases representing over 250 disciplines in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Coverage includes thousands of high-impact journals, books, book series, reports, and more. In some areas, retrospective coverage is available to 1900.

Powerful tools include cited reference searching, Citation Maps, and an Analyze Tool. The three citation databases in NAU's subscription contain the references cited by the authors of the articles. You can use these references to do cited reference searching, i.e., finding articles that cite a previously published work:

• Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-Expanded) fully indexes over 6,650 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines and includes all cited references captured from indexed articles.
• Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) indexes over 1,950 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines. It also indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.
• Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) covers 1,160 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. It also indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.

Funding for the entire Web of Science product came from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and was allocated by NAU President John Haeger. Funding covered the complete backfiles for all three components of Web of Science (Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index) with three years of subscription access to ongoing content. This is an amazing addition to the university that will benefit many for years to come.

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Cline Library 2 U: Library Podcast Videos for Students by Students (posted December 18, 2009)

Check out the first two videos about Cline Library made possible through funding from a President’s Recruitment and Retention Grant. Two library student employees have been working with a team of library staff to identify topics, develop scripts, and produce (using the library’s Studio B) a series of six videos which are intended to help students become more familiar with the library’s services and resources.

The first two are ready for viewing at nau.edu/library/videos. The next two focus on research strategies and media services which are due to be released around the end of January. Enjoy! Sincere thanks to our two students, Ray Stoeser and Lily Sommers.

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Research Resources for Cold Winter Days (posted December 18, 2009)

Need to do some research over Winter break? Don't forget these great resources:

• JSTOR archives hundreds of academic and professional journals which span many disciplines, covering the academic spectrum. JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. JSTOR seeks to develop online access to the full back files of selected academic and professional journals, and is not a current issues database. There is a gap, typically from 2 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR.
• ScienceDirect is a database for scientific research that contains the full text of more than 1,000 Elsevier Science journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences.
• Ebrary lets you search more than 40,000 e-books covering all kinds of topics. Ebrary allows users to search a large collection of e-books, quickly pull up information from dictionaries or encyclopedias related to e-book text, and save references and annotations to a personal "bookshelf."
• Films On Demand provides thousands of streaming educational videos.

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Native American Film Series (updated November 25, 2009)

Cline Library and the NAU Institute for Native Americans are pleased to present the Native American Film Series for 2009/2010. All films start at 7 p.m. in the NAU Cline Library Assembly Hall, and are free to the public.

Films scheduled for 2010:

• February 22, 2010: The Last Trek (2006), Director Ramona Emerson (Navajo)
  Twice a year a few Navajo people still make an arduous journey to take their sheep to distant grazing lands. The filmmaker accompanies Elder Helen Bitsilly on what she has said will be her last trek.
• March 22, 2010: Our Spirits Don’t Speak English: Indian Boarding School (2008), Directors Steven R. Heape & Chip Richie (Cherokee)
  The film examines a boarding school system designed to destroy Indian culture and tribal unity for more than 100 years. Many students were uprooted from their homes; some perished while others survived to help change the system. Students share stories of their personal experiences.
• April 19, 2010: Lady Warriors (2001), Producer John C. P. Goheen
  The filmmaker tells the story of seven Native American teenage girls who are Arizona state cross-country running champions, training for another championship competition. The film takes us behind the scenes—on the Navajo and Hopi reservations, in and around Tuba City, Arizona and on the road—as the Lady Warriors prepare for their fourth state championship competition.

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