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Several companies provide complimentary access to their services and databases for students and faculty of schools of library and information science. Access is available to current SLIS students and faculty. Most vendors provide access throughout your student career, though it may be necessary to obtain new login information from time to time (this is the case with Dialog). Factiva and Westlaw provide accounts for a semester of instruction—not ongoing access.

Remember that there are a large number of databases available through the King Library—including several listed here. If you need the additional resources from the list below, contact Gina Lee for an account. Please include your name and student ID number in your note.

Listed below is information about each of the services available to our students.

Bowker's "Books in Print" and "Ulrich's Periodical Directory"

SLIS access to these resources is available through these URLs:

Instructors may contact Gina Lee for the login.

Faculty training session from February 2006: Archived video (1 hour)
You will need RealPlayer to view this video. See download information.

Books in Print Tutorials
These videos are in Flash format. Download the most recent Flash player.

After clicking a link below, you must use the "Play" icon in the lower left of the screen to begin the presentation. Each unit is approximately 10 minutes in length.

Unit 1 Introduction to Advanced Search (9 minutes)
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4
Unit 5
Unit 6

Ulrich's Periodical Index Tutorials:
These videos are in Flash format. Download the most recent Flash player.

After clicking a link below, you must use the "Play" icon in the lower left of the screen to begin the presentation. Each unit is approximately 10 minutes in length.

This database is available through the King Library databases.

Credo Reference

Credo Reference (formerly Xrefer) is available to students currently enrolled in Reference and Information Services courses. SLIS passwords will be distributed to instructors who contact Gina Lee.

Dialog

Dialog accounts may be requested by instructors of 244, 245 and 220. Instructors will distribute passwords to students who have completed the Terms of Use Agreement.

Dialog's Terms of Use Agreement:
slisweb.sjsu.edu/proj/passwords/dialogconsent.htm

www.dialogclassic.com
www.dialogweb.com

Passwords on Dialog accounts change each semester.

Many training materials and additional resources are available at the Graduate Education Program (GEP) site. See gep.dialog.com/

Dialog Training Sessions from February, 2006

See a list of the files included in the GEP access to Dialog

Problems with connecting successfully? See the Database Connection Troubleshooting Tips

Factiva

Factiva accounts are available to the students during the semester they are enrolled in a class where the instructor chooses to teach how to use the database.

Factiva login page: global.factiva.com

Download Documentation: www.factiva.com/documentation

There are many documents available in a PDF format that students may find useful. One of which is the Inside-Out Guide, the Advanced User Guide for Factiva.com.

InfoPro Alliance community: www.factiva.com/infopro.
Other valuable tools such as White Papers and Presentations.

Problems with connecting successfully? See the Database Connection Troubleshooting Tips

Gale

All students and faculty can access all of the Gale databases through this program co-sponsored by ALISE. Read more at slisweb.sjsu.edu/facultyhandbook/progresources/galedatabases.php

LexisNexis

Nexis login page: www.nexis.com/research

See this page of information: slisweb.sjsu.edu/courses/244/lexisnexis.htm

Students generally receive a LexisNexis account when they take Libr 244. Student accounts are valid until graduation.

Normative Data Project (NDP)

The Normative Data Project (NDP) for libraries, an initiative involving hundreds of public libraries throughout the United States and Canada, is now available for access by contributing member libraries. Sponsored by Sirsi Corporation and the GeoLib project at Florida State University, the NDP includes detailed data on circulations at these libraries, as well as their collections and the demographics of the market areas around them. We believe the NDP will give new insights into how people use libraries, the types of materials they use, and when they use them.

To date, the NDP database has the following coverage, and it is expanding rapidly:

Library collection and transaction-level circulation data from 53 library systems representing 511 library outlets − additional libraries are being added weekly.
NCES/NCLIS public library data sets for fiscal years 2001 and 2002, with 2003 available shortly
Rank order tables and ratios for a variety of high-impact measures
GIS maps for each public library outlet in the United States, including neighborhood demographic data for each pre-set customer market area
Information on 10 million unique titles, over 30 million copies, and 200 million circulation transactions

This database is available specifically for classroom instruction and research. Students will find the modern drag-and-drop interface to the NDP database a discovery tool that encourages exploration beyond the numbers, into insights about the condition of libraries. To learn more, please visit the Web site at www.libraryndp.info

SLIS passwords are available to instructors who contact Gina Lee.

OCLC - First Search

First Search login page: firstsearch.oclc.org/

The FirstSearch databases that OCLC produces (WorldCat in particular) are available without restriction, but the third party content (H.W. Wilson for example) is not.

The password is available to use these databases. (You will need the current SLIS username and password to access the OCLC password page.)

ProQuest - CSA

ProQuest offers access to Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA), as well as a number of other CSA Illumina databases in the areas of Arts & Humanities, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and Technology.

Instructors who wish to use this resource in their courses should contact Gina Lee for login information.

ProQuest - CSA home page: www.csa.com/

ProQuest Library School Program

ProQuest login page: trials.proquest.com/ptc?userid=1932531

ProQuest Research Library, SIRS Researcher, Literature Online, and other databases are available to students enrolled in SLIS classes with assignments focusing on the use of research and finding tools. Passwords will be distributed to instructors who contact Gina Lee.

RefWorks

Summer 2008: RefWorks is now available through the Dr. Martin Luther King Library databases.

RefWorks home page: refworks.com

RefWorks bibliographic management software helps researchers gather, store and share citations and generate bibliographies in various formats. Access to RefWorks is available to currently enrolled SLIS students.

RLG

RLG home page: www.rlg.org/

These accounts will work with either the RLIN or Eureka (web) search interfaces.

Eureka:

Information: www.rlg.org/eureka.html
Login page: eureka.rlg.org

All default into the RLG Union Catalog (RLIN) but also have access to the English Short Title Catalog (ESTC), SCIPIO, the art sales catalogs database, and Hand Press Books (HPB) and as well link to several remote national union catalogs such as the CURL Union Catalog. You can find information about these databases at www.rlg.org/libres.html.

For information about connecting and searching, please see the RIC pages at www.rlg.org/ric/ric.html.

Contact Gina Lee for passwords.

Web of Knowledge

To access ISI (Institute for Scientific Information) Web of Knowledge please navigate to access.isiproducts.com/educate.

The password is available to use these databases. (You will need the current SLIS username and password to access the ISI password page.) The password and/or User ID will be changed each semester.

Visit www.isinet.com/training/trainingaids/ for a complete listing of training materials. Of particular interest to library and information science faculty is our introductory citation indexing seminar available at www.isinet.com/training/trainingaids/8192906/ that walks students through the history and benefits of citation indexing.

Westlaw

WestLaw is available to students in classes where the instructor is teaching the use of Westlaw.

First time use:

Go to west.thomson.com/librarians and click on Library students and faculty:
Register your Westlaw password on the right of the screen under the
blue LR box. This takes you to lawschool.westlaw.com
Enter your new password and accept the terms of the user agreement.
Exit out of "lawschool" and go to www.westlaw.com

The student passwords are good for 4 months from the date of registration.

See these resources:

Researching with Westlaw.com, 2005 (PDF, 370 kb)
Westlaw Research Guide, 2004(PDF, 1 mb)
Using KeyCite in westlaw.com, 2004 (PDF, 3.4 mb)
Retrieving Statutes in westlaw.com, 2004 (PDF, 163 kb)
Searching Cases on westlaw.com, 2004 (PDF, 76 kb)

Print materials are available for pick-up in the SLIS office.

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