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Share your Mexico photos!

K-State faculty and staff are working to create an online resource center that will provide a wide variety of information (photos, texts, music) about Latin America (Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean) and Iberia (Spain and Portugal). The ultimate goal of the project is to generate a website that draws upon the experience of the K-State community and serves as an educational resource for all.

Here's the great part: they want *your* photos! Maybe not your bikinis on the beach photos, but any quality photos that help illustrate the richness of Mexico. A "Regions and Photos" committee will select the pictures according to their quality, but also according to their uniqueness and their geographic, cultural and perspectival value.  It's your chance to help shape the learning experiences of future K-Staters.

Please send photos burned on a CD in jpeg format by February 15th to:

Prof. Jeffrey Smith  / 118 Seaton Hall  / Dept of Geography

If you have any questions, contact Jeffrey Smith, Gabriela Sabatés (gabsab@ksu.edu), or here in Hale LIbrary Lis Pankl or Casey Hoeve, who facilitate the K-State Latin Americanist Research Network.

New additions to KREx-the swine edition!

Researched, worked with, or have eaten swine? If so, these articles may be of interest to you.

Producing hogs under contract

Causes of diarrhea, pneumonia, and septicemia in swine for 1991 submissions to the KSU Veterinary Diagnostic laboratory

Optimum particle size of corn and hard and soft sorghum grain for nursery pigs and broiler chicks

Effects of supplementation of nursery diets with an essential fatty acid on immunity in artificially reared pigs

The effects of increasing dietary energy density on growing-finishing pig growth performance and carcass characteristics

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts offers abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters, and dissertations. The database also provides citations for these items and for book reviews published in over 1500 national and international journals. Topics are covered from 1973 to the present and include all aspects of language study, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. The Get It button is present to help you find full-text of interesting items.

Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management

Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management indexes information on the environmental sciences from journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books, and government publications. Indexed publications are covered from 1967 through the present day. Sample topics include air quality, waste management, and water resources. The Get It button is available to help you find full-text of interesting citations.

Bibliography of the History of Art

Bibliography of the History of Art covers European and American visual arts from late antiquity to the present day and includes citations on fine, decorative, and applied arts. Records in the database are pulled from journals, books, conference proceedings, essays, exhibition catalogs, art dealers' catalogs, dissertations, and microform documents. Abstracts are available in English or French, and the Get It button is present to help you locate an item's full text.

Communication & Mass Media Complete

K-State Libraries now offers access to the database Communication & Mass Media Complete through the EBSCOHost interface. This database combines the contents of CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index and adds other journals related to studies in communications and mass media. Communication & Mass Media Complete indexes over 600 journals and offers full-text access to more than 300 of those journals.

Vanderbilt Television News Archive

Did you ever wish you could re-run news broadcasts of important events - to remember where you were, or perhaps to see for yourself the stuff that's in your history book? Now you can. Vanderbilt University has been recording news broadcasts since 1968 - nightly news, special coverage, and other programs. K-State Libraries now has access to a database of this material. In the Vanderbilt Television News Archive, you can watch news programs about many of the key events that have shaped our country and our culture, including:

• Student unrest at Columbia University (1968)
• Watergate Congressional hearings (1973)
• Peace talks and treaty between Egypt and Israel (1978-1979)
• Space shuttle Challenger explosion (1986)
• Persian Gulf War (1991)
• Contested presidential election (2000)

For reasons of copyright, the Archive can't put all their recordings online. They can, however, compile and send to you a videotape of broadcasts or segments that aren't online. The Archive charges for this service in half-hour units. You'll need to create a personal account to place orders and read more details about the service.

Scirus now Gets It

After delays caused by various technical difficulties, we've now enabled the Get It button in Scirus. Scirus is a science-specific search engine that applies your search term(s) to journal articles and Web sources. Not familiar with Scirus, but think it might be useful? Read more about it.

It's not as easy in Scirus as in many of our other search interfaces to see the Get It button. You have to tell Scirus you want it. Once you do so, Scirus will remember your choice until you switch computers or your browser deletes its cookies. I've included a few screenshots to get you started.

CiNii Free

SFX now has more than 2000 active portfolios to free full-text content from CiNii. So what is this CiNii?

According to the site's "About" section, "CiNii (Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator) is a database service that enables searching of information on academic papers published in academic society journals or university research bulletins, or included in the National Diet Library's Japanese Periodicals Index Database."

Much of the free content dates back to the 1950s. The articles originate from Japanese academic journals, societies, and university research bulletins. They cover a wide variety of intellectual content, including Agriculture, Medicine, Economics and Engineering.

To see the items available from CiNii, choose the Locate tab in the E-Journals list. Leaving all other fields blank, pull down the "Vendor" menu and choose "CiNii". Click GO and browse the service's list of titles.

New Interface for Biological Abstracts

The next time you use Biological Abstracts, it's going to look a little different. This very useful database for life sciences, natural sciences, and veterinary medicine is now associated with the Web of Knowledge platform. You may look at this interface and think, "This is Web of Science!" You'd be partly right.

The Web of Knowledge platform now supports Food Science and Technology Abstracts, CAB Abstracts, Biological Abstracts, and Web of Science (which includes Social Sciences Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index).

If you even think you might need assistance with Biological Abstracts' new look or with any of our databases, send your subject librarian a call for help. Too rushed? Contact the Hale Library Help Desk using your favorite form of communication - IM, email, telephone, or face-to-face.