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The Encyclopedia of the First Amendment comprehensively examines the political, historical, and cultural significance and development of freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, the right to peaceably assemble, and the right to petition the government. The first work of its kind, this new and exciting reference exclusively focuses on the most basic of the liberties provided by the U.S. Constitution.
Featuring more than 1,400 entries, the Encyclopedia traces expressive, religious, and political rights throughout U.S. history, including the colonial era. In discussing the protections afforded by the First Amendment, it examines popular culture and the arts, social movements, religious and political organizations, landmark legal cases and doctrines, important legislation, and the men and women whose actions have left a mark on the opening tenets of the Bill of Rights. It also considers the tensions between individual freedom and maintenance of political and public order, covering such issues as censorship, prisoners’ rights, immigration and security, campaign finance, and media access. Among other perennial topics addressed are abortion, evolution, public aid to parochial schools, and pornography and obscenity.
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Trial ends: December 11, 2009
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EKU Libraries is currently offering a trial of a recommender service which provides article suggestions via the library “Get More” button. During the trial period, after you click the “Get More at EKU” button for an article that interests you, you may notice a list of articles at the bottom of the menu. The next time you’re looking for articles and click on the “Get More” button, please try out this new service for us and fill out this brief (5 minute) survey to let us know what you think. The trial ends December 10th.
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The prestigious Oxford Handbooks, now available online for the first time, provides access to over 2,000 essays from 65 print handbooks. Covering four main subject areas (Business & Management, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion), each handbook takes an aspect of its discipline and unpacks it, explaining the key issues, the classic and contemporary debates on those issues, and setting the agenda for how those debates might evolve.
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Trial ends: October 30, 2009
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EKU Libraries announces regretfully that the online database ARTstor has been cancelled due to low use relative to cost. (With the current budget situation, the Libraries’ low-use resources are at risk.) As of May 1, we will no longer provide access to ARTstor. Fortunately, faculty members may continue to use ARTstor images that they have already downloaded based on the following Terms and Conditions of use:
“Should access to the ARTstor electronic database terminate or expire, or should you cease being employed at an institution that is subscribing to ARTstor and become employed at one that is not, you may retain only those print or electronic copies of Content appearing in lesson plans or in other pedagogical, educational, or scholarly materials for personal, noncommercial uses that are consistent with fair use and other exceptions to intellectual property rights laws, provided that such uses comply with the Terms and Conditions of Use, which shall survive the termination of access to the ARTstor electronic database.”
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EKU Libraries, in partnership with the College of Education, is proud to announce several new and exciting resource subscriptions in support of the new Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies. Of particular interest to the entire campus community is Dissertations & Theses Full Text, which covers all disciplines and includes extensive full text content. Each of these databases is linked from the Library’s website and can be accessed from on or off campus:
- Dissertations & Theses Full Text offers full text online access for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works. This database will benefit researchers across all campus departments.
- Education Full Text includes the full text of articles from hundreds of education-related journals.
- Educational Administration Abstracts provides bibliographic access to resources for educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
- Sage Education includes the full text of 36 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, encompassing over 52,900 articles and up to 91 years of backfiles.
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We are excited to announce the addition of a new JSTOR journal collection at EKU Libraries! The JSTOR Life Sciences Collection is a growing collection that will eventually include 160 titles across ten disciplines in the biological, health, and general sciences. Areas covered include Aquatic Sciences, Biological Sciences, Botany & Plant Sciences, Developmental & Cell Biology, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, General Science, Health Sciences, History of Science & Technology, Paleontology, and Zoology. View the complete title list for more information, or start searching now at JSTOR. |
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EKU Libraries now subscribes to Naxos Music Library, the world’s largest online classical music library. In addition to an extensive classical music selection, you can browse the “Genres” tab to hear world music, jazz, pop, and other genres. This resource is available both on and off campus, but access is limited to 5 simultaneous users, so please be sure to log out when you are finished so others can use it. Send comments or questions to Greg Engstrom, or leave a comment below. |
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EKU Libraries subscribes to ARTstor, a fantastic image database that can be used by faculty and students in all academic disciplines. Here is some information especially helpful for faculty:
Using ARTstor large file-size images for teaching
ARTstor images are available for use in presentations for educational or other noncommercial uses in the software environment of your choice. High quality digital images—large sized JPEG files—can be projected either in the ARTstor online environment or in a variety of offline environments such as OIV, PowerPoint and Keynote. Learn more…
Integrating ARTstor with Courseware
Instructors can share ARTstor content with students through campus courseware systems, such as BlackBoard, WebCT, Sakai, or Moodle. You can upload images, provide URLs to link students to individual images or entire image groups, or share OIV presentation files. Our courseware guide explains how ARTstor content can be shared through courseware systems. Learn more…
Export image citations to citation management software
Citation management software is used to manage citations and create bibliographies. You can create image lists in ARTstor and export the image citations directly to RefWorks, EndNote, ProCite, or Reference Manager. You may also share lists of ARTstor images with others by printing, emailing, or downloading the citation list. Learn more…
Interactive features of ARTstor
ARTstor contains many interactive features that allow instructors and students to communicate within the ARTstor environment. Instructors may share image groups with students by creating password-protected (shared) folders. Students can unlock an instructor’s shared folder to view the instructor’s image groups, analyze images and metadata, study, and annotate images. Learn more…
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