New mobile app for ebrary

The Ritz's largest electronic book collection, ebrary, is in the process of enhancing mobile access to their over 100,000 titles. Part of that enhancement is the retirement of the current ebrary app, which is scheduled to occur of August 4.

If you have that app, or just want to access ebrary from your mobile device, it's time to change over to BlueFire app, the ebook reader that ebrary will be using from now on. As with the ebrary app, BlueFire allows you to download an entire book to read when Internet access is unavailable.  Instructions on the entire process of using mobile devices and ebrary is here

More information on accessing the Ritz's resources from mobile devices is posted on the Mobile Access Ritz Research Guide.

ScienceDirect enhances mobile access

ScienceDirect, a collection of over 2,000 peer reviewed journals covering all aspects of the sciences, recently released  a mobile version of its Web site that offers streamlined page layouts which significantly improves the readability of articles. And given the in-depth nature of the 11 million documents in ScienceDirect, this enhancement will make the database much more usable for those using mobile technology.

In conjunction with the roll-out of the enhanced Web site, ScienceDirect is retiring the mobile app that previously acted a a gateway to the database. To see the new Science Direct mobile site, take a look at this demo.

More information on accessing ScienceDirect from your tablet or smartphone is at the Ritz Mobile Guide.

Mobile Access available for OmniFile database

The Ritz Library now offers mobile access to OmniFile, a database that contains articles from almost 3,000 journals & magazines. With coverage begining in 1994, OmniFile allows you to get research material from a wide variety of publications, and a special emphasis upon the fine arts such as painting, photography & ceramics.

Access OmniFile by pointing your smartphone's browser to WilsonWeb Mobile. At the login prompt, put in your MyDCC username and password.

More information on DCC research services for smartphones and tablets is at the Ritz Mobile Access Guide.

Questions? Call 845.431.8634 or email Ritz Reference.

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

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

Mobile Access to ArtStor Now Available

ArtStor,the Ritz's database of digital images of art works, can now be accessed through Apple's iPad, iPhone, & iPod Touch mobile devices using Safari.

Containing over 1 million images of paintings, sculpture, drawing and photographs, ArtStor is considered to be the best Internet source for images of art works. All images are in extremely high resolution. A special feature of mobile access is Flashcard View, which allows users to test their knowledge of artworks without descriptions of the object.

To use ArtStor mobile, set up an account on the system. You must do that by accessing ArtStor from a computer on the DCC campus. Start by going to http://library.artstor.org/library/welcome.html . Register for an account through the "Welcome to ArtStor" link.

More information on this resource is available from ArtStor's Mobile page.

Go to The Ritz Mobile Access Guide for a listing of all the Ritz library's mobile applications.