U Libraries Resources and Services: Update for CEHD Researchers

November 2009

Librarians

• Laurel Haycock: Librarian for CEHD EdPsy, ICD, OLPD (EdPa) hayco001@umn.edu

• Nancy Sims: Copyright Program Librarian – Campus wide nasims@umn.edu

• Other librarians for CEHD– Kim Clarke: C&I, CPsy undergrads, PSTL clark078@umn.edu– Scott Marsalis: FSoS, Kin, OLPD (WHRE), SW

marsa001@umn.edu

Some ways we can help

• Consultations, Presentations, Purchases & subscriptions, E-access, Problem solving, Email Q & A, Web pages

– Library resources for research papers, grants, presentations

– Library technologies: MNCAT, e-journals, e-books, citation managers, rrs feeds, UDC digital archive

– Copyright, author’s rights, scholarly communication topics

– Purchases and subscriptions: E-journals, print and e-books, databases, data collections, DVDs, …

– Problem solving : e-journal access

New and evolving roles for librarians

• Partnership projects: Digital content, E-publishing & Digital archiving

• Web 2.0 & mobile technologies• Personal information management :

Organizing the “personal information space”

• Scholarly communication & author’s rights

• Data curation; e-science

Today – highlighting…

• Journals: myLibrary for personalized e-journal lists– Google Scholar preferences, RSS

feeds• E-books • UDC University Digital

Conservancy– U of M dissertations and more

myLibrary : ejournals

• Create a personalized list of e-journals and library search engines

• List will also show up on your myU portal page

• List could be added to rss feed reader

myLibrary feature

Select: Add to myLibrary

RSS for web site updates

• Web site updates are published into rss feed format

• RSS feeds are read with tools like Google Reader

• Look for rss feeds on library web site

Recent new e-journal subscriptions

• Africa education review (2010-)• Assessing writing• Child indicators research • Frontiers of education in China

(2010-)• International journal of educational

advancement

More new e-journals

• Neuropsychological rehabilitation (2010-)

• Neurorehabilitation (2010-)• Prospects, UNESCO's quarterly

review of comparative education (2010-)

• Teaching professor (formerly Teaching professor newsletter)

Suggest new journals

• Send recommendations to your librarian

• Depending on funding…

Google Scholar

• Google scholar preferences– Set to U of M to link to our e-journals– Set for your citation manager

• Advanced Search offers more options

• Results are interdisciplinary

Set to link to U of M TC e-journals

Set for citation manager preference

Google Scholar Preferences

E-books and print books

• Jan-Oct 2009:– More than 1500 new books purchases

in CEHD areas• E-books for online access

– E-only– Anytime, anywhere access via

computer– Search text of book

E-books

• Many publishers and e-book packages– Springer, APA PsycBooks, MITCogNet

books, Ebrary, netLibrary, myiLibrary, and many more

– Features vary -- Some work better than others…

E-books

• Read on your personal computer screen

• Limited downloading and printing – 10 pages, more or less

• Set up account & sign in for more features (bookmarking, note taking…)

• Evolving products; vendors, publishers

E-book readers

• Library is studying and testing various e-book readers and related technologies

Townsend, Tony. (2007). International Handbook of School Effectiveness and Improvement. Springer.

Teaching Mathematics to Middle School Students with Learning DifficultiesMontague, Marjorie (Editor) Jitendra, Asha (Editor) Publisher: Guilford Press Released: 2006

Google books & digitization

• Partnership project with CIC libraries to digitize books & federal documents

• U of Michigan, U of Wisconsin, U of California led the way in digitization

Hathi Trust

• Digitized content is expected become available to us in partnership with Hathi Trust

• Content will be more than that digitized by Google

U of M digital archive

The University Digital Conservancy is:• a venue for faculty to deposit copies of their

works for long-term preservation and open access

• centralized, searchable access to institutional digital resources that would have traditionally gone to the University Archives.

• And, now it includes U of M Dissertations

http://conservancy.umn.edu/

U of M Dissertations

• 91% opt in rate: 466 of 511 dissertation authors opted in

• Impressive use statistics

• Some colleges / departments are adding Plan B master’s & professional papers

3946 dissertation pdfs were downloaded in Oct 2009

A recent CEHD dissertation

By subject

Want to know more??

• Contact your liaison librarian– Email, IM

• Attend library workshops• Use AskUs for email and IM

questions