Monday, February 28, 2011

Ebrary goes to the Ritz!!




Your ability to search many more books in your research just expanded. SUNY has added the electronic records of ebrary's 1000s of online books to the Ritz Library's book catalog.

If you'd like to search in the catalog specifically for electronic books, go to the Advanced Search page. Below the three search boxes you'll see a drop list labeled
More Collections:. Change it from All Collections to Electronic Books. Go back to the search boxes and type in your subject or search terms. Click on go and allow the search to perform. All the books that come up will be online books.

The ebrary database also allows you to sign up for a free account. With a free account you are permitted to save any books you need to a "Bookshelf" list, allowing for quicker access the next time you need them. If you'd like to sign up for an account, click Sign In in the upper right corner then click on Create a new account to the left. Fill out the form and you're in!

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Use your phone to help write a research paper!!


It's not unusual for people to use their cameras to snap photos of pages in a book or journal for research purposes, but now there's a new smartphone app that turns your phone's camera into a citation generator.

With Quick Cite you use the camera on your smartphone to scan the bar code on a book. The service then e-mails you a citation for the book in one of four styles, including APA and MLA, that you can then paste into your paper. This app is available for both Android and Apple products.

Want more info? Go to Quick Cite

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Gale Mobile Database App now available for Android phones



There's a new way to search some of the library's most popular databases from your mobile device. Gale Cengage is now offering a version of its Access MyLibrary app for the Android operating system . Some of the databases available through this app are:

  • Opposing Viewpoints

  • Literature Resource Center

  • Virtual Reference Library

Download the app through the title of this post. More on Gale's support for mobile access is at:

Gale Apps