How to Contact UA Board of Regents:

Contact information can be found on this webpage:
https://www.alaska.edu/bor/members/board-contact-info/. . .

How to contact Legislators:

Public Opinion Messaging
https://www.akleg.gov/poms/

From this website you can select specific committees.

Select Finance and Education . . .

SAGE Research Methods has relaunched on a new and improved platform. Some of the key features of the new site are:

• A unified platform for text and video content, providing users with a multimedia research experience
• A fully responsive site that will work well with all mobile phones and tablet devices
• Improved discoverability of content, both from within the platform and from external sources
• The Methods Map has been improved, allowing users to explore method concepts with greater ease. The browse options have been enhanced to align with user needs – allowing browse by discipline, content type, and method topic.

RefWorks users must move to the new version of RefWorks citation management software by May 10th, 2016 when the old version expires. The new RefWorks has a number of nice features and it is very easy to move the citations from your old account to the new account.

How to Move to New RefWorks

In addition, the UAA/APU Consortium Library is offering workshops that will show you how simple it is to move your existing RefWorks citations and offer tips and tricks for how to get the most out of the new version.

• In-person Workshop, Tue March 29th 1pm-2pm, Consortium Library Room 309

• Webinar Workshop, Fri April 15th 10am-11am, Connection Link

Scheduled maintenance on August 21, 2015 may cause brief intermittent interruptions to EBSCO ebooks. This maintenance is expected to take place from 7:00 p.m. until 11:00 p.m.

Elsevier has recently released a new interface for its ScienceDirect platform.

The new release has four key upgrades:

• A simplified user experience, with less visual clutter and improved design
• Better visibility of open access content
• Quicker discovery of relevant ScienceDirect content from search engines
• Seamless export of citations and full-text articles to Mendeley

To learn more about this new release and other updates, visit the ScienceDirect Blog.

The Consortium Library has recently added Arctic & Antarctic Regions from EBSCOhost to its collection of databases.

This database contains over 1 million records covering multidisciplinary research on polar regions, spanning from 1800 to the present. Sources indexed include books, dissertations, government reports, conference proceedings, and scientific periodicals.

Subject areas include:

• Geology
• Global Warming
• Engineering
• Oceanography
• Biology
• Ethnicity
• And much more

See more information about Arctic & Antarctic Regions and a complete list of content coverage at http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/arctic-antarctic-regions

If you’ve used the Consortium Library recently, chances are you’ve come into contact with the electronic materials we offer. The library currently owns or subscribes to almost 70,000 electronic books and 60,000 electronic journals and provides access to thousands more freely available resources. The Library also has hundreds of specialized online databases that cover a broad range of subject areas and formats, such as streaming video, interactive tutorials, and audio files.

While electronic resources, or e-resources, for short, can make research materials accessible to many more students, allowing you to study at a time and place convenient to you, they also bring some challenges with them. Publishers have many different pricing and access models and they vary widely in what they allow you, the researcher, to do with their materials.

It’s  my job as Electronic Resources Librarian to get new resources up and running and make sure they are accessible to you through the Library website. I track renewals and license information and monitor usage data. I also troubleshoot any problems that might arise, such as maintenance outages, broken website addresses, and log in issues. It’s a full-time job keeping up with all the changes in the e-resource world, but it’s also fascinating to see how electronic resources continue to evolve.

Stay tuned to this blog for news and announcements about all that is happening with electronic resources here in the Library–from new resources to access problems to tips for using our ebooks, ejournals, and specialized databases.

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