Credo Reference - a trial database

Credo Reference is an online reference library that provides access to 120 reference books such as dictionaries, encyclopaedias and quotation books that cover a wide variety of subject areas. So although this site is not specific to biography, it can search for biographical information from a variety of subject areas. The biographical section itself searches through 'Debrett's People of Today', The Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography' and 'The Penguin Biographical Dictionary of Women'. By selecting the browse feature, you can take a look at all the books CREDO Reference has access to under the specific subject headings.
For trial access, please login with Username: user@marywood.edu and Password: trial

Please let us know if you think it is a useful source that Marywood library should have.

Marywood Library's Annual Fall Festival

Get Caught In The Web of Knowledge at the Library all this week (Oct. 27-Oct.31) and join the library in welcoming its first annual Fall Festival. Get informed while you enjoy food, fun and prizes!

Stop by for:
• Snacks and refreshments 9-11AM on Monday/Wednesday/Friday and 4-6 Tuesday and Thursday (while supplies last!)
• Halloween Candy Hunt - find the lucky candy to win a prize (Tuesday-Thursday)
• 20 minute information sessions on the library's new social sciences database Web of Knowledge, and Endnote Web, a program that helps cite and format your sources (ATTEND A SESSION AND YOU MAY WIN A PRIZE!)
• Live music provided by Marywood students Chris Errante and Paul Rosato.
• Halloween Costume Contest - THREE CASH PRIZES TO BE WON on Friday, Oct. 31.
For more information, please contact the library front desk at 961-4707.

Check Out Our Halloween Display!

Stop by the library and check out our display featuring Halloween books and movies. Some Halloween favorite movies we have are the following: The Exorcist, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Signs, The Sixth Sense, and some Alfred Hitchcock films!

Library Titles on Human Rights

Available here is a list of library items on Human Rights that have been published in the past five years.

Graduate Fair Winners!

We would like to announce the winners from this week's Graduate Fair! The following students have won a $20 copy card from our random drawing:

Melanie Clark
Liz Richmond
Mary Tupaj
Marguerite Innes
Amy Grocki
Tatiana

New Arrivals

Stop by and check out some of the new arrivals this week now on display:



Why there's antifreeze in your toothpaste : the chemistry of household ingredients 1st ed.
Field, Simon (Simon Quellen)

Senator Obama goes to Africa [DVD]

My stroke of insight : a brain scientist's personal journey 1st Viking ed.
Taylor, Jill Bolte

Apollo's fire : igniting America's clean-energy economy
Inslee, Jay

Sustainable ethanol : biofuels, biorefineries, cellulosic biomass, flex-fuel vehicles, and sustainable farming for energy independence
Goettemoeller, Jeffrey.

The serial killer files : the who, what, where, how, and why of the world's most terrifying murderers 1st ed.
Schechter, Harold

Electoral realignment and the outlook for American democracy
Paulson, Arthur C

Mediating American autobiography : photography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman
Meehan, Sean Ross

New Database: ISI Web of Knowledge

ISI Web of Knowledge contains:

• 13,000 journals
• 23 million patents
• 192,000 conference proceedings
• 9,100 Web sites
• 5,000 books
• 2 million chemical structures
• Over 100 years of backfiles
• 40 million cited references added annually
• 256 subject categories in Science, Social Sciences, and Arts and Humanities, covering the full range of scholarship and research.

ISI Web of Knowledge offers these benefits:

If you publish, you'll find high impact articles upon which to base your articles — increasing the quality and credibility of your published work, resulting in more publication in more prestigious sources.
If you research, you'll be able to quickly identify potential collaborators with prolific, significant citation record. And tracking your own citation record will help you demonstrate your work's impact on your field.
If you teach, your students will be assured of using the highest quality resources — finding valuable information in journals they may not have the knowledge and experience to seek on their own.

If you are on campus you can log in from ISI Web of Knowledge