What’s New

Eleven More Electronic Reference Books Available

Eleven new e-books have been added to OhioLINK's Electronic Reference Books Collection, bringing the total number of e-books available to 440.

The Electronic Reference Books Collection contains special-topic reference books--including encyclopedias, handbooks, biographical collections, guides--from ABC-CLIO, an educational reference publisher.

The most recent additions to the Electronic Reference Books Collection are:

• American Indian Religious Traditions: An Encyclopedia
• Ancient Mesopotamia
• Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific
• Central Asia
• The Constitutional Convention of 1787: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of America's Founding
• Handbook of Chinese Mythology
• Information Sources of Political Science, Fifth Edition
• Iran's Diverse Peoples: New Perspectives
• Native American Issues: A Reference Handbook, Second Edition
• Northern Europe
• Traditional Festivals: A Multicultural Encyclopedia

The Electronic Reference Books Collection may be found by searching the OhioLINK Library Catalog, by searching the collection, or by browsing the list of titles in the collection.

Safari Tech Books Online Adds E-Books and RSS Feeds

Twenty-nine e-books have been added to Safari Tech Books Online, a collection of more than 3,150 e-books covering computer science, information technology and related fields. In addition, Safari now offers standard and customizable RSS feeds for new and top titles. Users can find out when a new title is added to the collection, when a new title is added to a specific e-book category in the Safari Tech Books Online Collection or you can create a custom feed. See http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/?mode=tools for details.

Some of the latest additions to the Safari Tech Books Online collection include:

• Adobe Reader 7 Revealed: Working Effectively with Acrobat PDF Files
• Novell ZENworks 6.5 Suite Administrator’s Handbook
• SAMS Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days Fifth Edition
• Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web, Third Edition
• 802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide
• Adobe® Creative Suite 2 Classroom in a Book®
• Killer Game Programming in Java
• Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Computer Basics, Third Edition
• Java Puzzlers: Traps, Pitfalls, and Corner Cases
• Robin Williams Cool Mac Apps, Second Edition: A guide to iLife ’05, .Mac, and More!
• iPod & iTunes: The Missing Manual, 3rd Edition
• Perl Testing: A Developer’s Notebook
• Making a Movie in Premiere Elements: Visual QuickProject Guide
• Microsoft® Office Project Server 2003 Unleashed
• Show Me! QuickBooks® 2005
• eBay Hacks, 2nd Edition
• A Practical Guide to Linux® Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming
• Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology, and Design
• .Net Gotchas
• Visual Quickpro Guide PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites, Second Edition

Whether you need a quick tech tip or have an immediate hardware or software problem to solve, turn to Safari Tech Books Online for e-books from 15 top tech publishers. This collection is available to all students, faculty and staff at OhioLINK member institutions and is accessible via any Web-enabled computer.

New OSearch Interface Live

OSearch, a new version of OhioLINK's internally-created interface for many research databases, is now live. OSearch replaces the old interface for more than 30 databases, including Applied Science and Technology Abstracts, Art Abstracts, Business and Industry, Compendex, Education Abstracts, ERIC, Humanities Abstracts, Inspec, and PsycINFO.

While the basic functionality of OSearch will remain the same as the previous version, improvements have been made, the most noticeable of which is a dramatically improved design.