Encore
A new, state-of-the-art search technology for the library catalog is now available through Encore. The new web-based search engine, called Encore, will reveal content like media and e-books, suggestions of recently added items, faceted search results for easily modifying queries, and pathways to relevant websites and library databases. Library patrons can access all this from a single "Google-like" search box.
New Database Subscriptions
Access is available to Guide to Reference. This online resource includes more than 16,000 trusted go-to sources and offers guidance in the form of introductory essays and annotations for entries.
Subscriptions are in place for these electronic resources:
The African American Experience
The American Indian Experience
The Latino American Experience
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center
Access is available to the 2nd edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. This 9-volume ebook covers scholarship and fields that have emerged and matured since the publication of the original international edition. It highlights the expanding influence of economics in social science research and features new articles and biographies contributed by scholars from around the world on a wide array of global topics in the social sciences.
A subscription to 360 Search is active. 360 Search is a federated search engine for searching across selected electronic resources from one simple interface. It provides citations and abstracts as well as linking opportunities to full-text articles and records in the DCCCD library catalog.
Database Trials
EBSCO's Biography Reference Center is on trial through November 30, 2009. No login or password is required.
A trial to Grzimek's Animal Life Online is available from Gale until December 16, 2009. No login or password is required.
EBSCO is offering trial access to its enhanced Literary Reference Center Plus. Access may be gained through two different links: the Literature Reference Center Plus Interface or the Literary Reference Center Plus on EBSCOHost Web Interface. No password or login is required.
A trial is available to SimplyMaps, a product from Geographic Research, Inc. until December 18, 2009. Follow the directions after linking to the product.