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October 30, 2006

Book Review Digest Plus and Retrospective

We've purchased the retrospective file (1905-1982) for Book Review Digest Plus and updated the url so that when you're in Book Review Digest Plus, you are searching the entire file, 1905+. However, Book Review Digest Retrospective is also in the database finder by itself, so you can search 1905-1982.

The print volumes will be going to storage.

October 17, 2006

Lexis workaround for Sources tab

Colleagues:

Just off the phone with a kind representative from LEXIS NEXIS. Apparently several of us from Albany have asked “why isn’t the SOURCES tab working?”

Until it’s “fixed” – here’s the work-around….when connecting to LEXIS NEXIS through the database finder, it takes us to this address:

https://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/

notice the https

if you eliminate the s so you’re sending to http and not https [send to http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/] and press send, you can then get into the SOURCES file

Carol

October 16, 2006

Metacritic - new site

This site has been added to the Films/Reviews & Information page of the online Reference Collection. It's a searchable database of reviews of film, video, DVD, television, music, books and games. Reviews are done by a "carefully-screened group of the most respected critics." Each review includes a "metascore" that combines all of the individual reviewer scores. This site was one of the winners of the RUSA "Best Free Reference Web Sites" of 2006.