Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Find Tech E-Books Online: iPods, Photoshop, eBay and More

Find quick tech tips and solutions to hardware and software problems with Safari Tech Books Online. This collection includes more than 4,200 e-books covering computer science, information technology and related fields.

Additional e-books are added regularly, some of the newest titles include:

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Adobe Photoshop Unmasked:
The Art and Science of Selections, Layers, and Paths

by Nigel French

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GRE Exam Prep
by Steven W. Dulan

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iPod: The Missing Manual
by J.D. Biersdorfer

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by Paula Garrett, Steve Dennis
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Selling Collectibles on eBay®
by Michael Miller

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Moving to Free Software
by Marcel Gagné


Safari Tech Books Online is available through Grasselli Library to all students, faculty and staff at John Carroll University and is accessible via any Web-enabled computer.

Looking for more e-books? Try our other e-book collections: Electronic Reference Books (encyclopedias, handbooks and guides), the History E-Book Project, netLibrary, and Oxford Reference Online Premium Collection.

Friday, November 17, 2006

Get help with searching Academic Search Premier Database with New Grasselli Library Online Tutorial

Try the library's new Academic Search Premier tutorial and learn more about searching this extensive resource. Tell us what you think.

Academic Search Premier is the world’s largest scholarly, multi-discipline, full text academic database. This resource indexes over 4300 periodicals and contains full text for over 3400 scholarly publications, including journals, magazines, and newspapers.

Academic Search Premier includes full-page images as well as color embedded images. This scholarly collection provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. The full-text links can be downloaded to a disk, e-mailed, or printed.

Comments and suggestions about the Academic Search Premier tutorial can be directed to Nevin Mayer mayer@jcu.edu

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Find Business Information and News from Around the World With Factiva

Grasselli Library now subscribes to Factiva. Factiva, a Dow Jones & Reuters Company, provides essential business news, information and financial data including stock quotes, company comparisons, financial snapshots, SEC filings, interactive charting, and historical market information.

Grasselli Library users now have have comprehensive searchable access to sources from over 150 countries including newspapers, journals and magazines; newswires; media programs; websites in more than 20 languages; pictures and much more.

Factiva’s unrivaled collection of more than 10,000 authoritative sources includes the exclusive combination of The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Dow Jones and Reuters newswires and the Associated Press, as well as Reuters Fundamentals, and D&B company profiles. Factiva delivers content in 22 languages including Spanish, German, Chinese and Italian and is used by over 85% of Fortune 500 companies for research.

Access Factiva through the Grasselli Library Databases, or directly at Factiva.