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ISI's Highly.Cited.com
The Institute for Scientific Information and its parent company, Thomsen, will be adding up to
1100 new researchers to ISI Highly.Cited.com, a free online database of the world's most cited, and perhaps the world's
most influential, scientists. Currently, Highly.Cited.com covers the top cited authors of articles indexed in
ISI's citation databases
from 1983-2002. Users need to search by author's last name but can browse the database by institution name, country,
academic field, or author name. Available at
http://www.isihighlycited.com
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Upcoming Library Workshops
Latin American Literary Criticism
Provides hands-on practice searching the NMSU Library's databases for full-text articles and bibliographic citations
to criticism and reviews of Latin American and Latino literature.
Friday, 2/20/04, 1:00-2:00 pm, Zuhl Classroom
MLA Citation Style
This workshop will explain the basics of MLA citation style and give attendees a lot of
opportunities to practice. The first hour of this workshop will cover basic MLA citation style while the
final 30 minutes will answer more advanced questions.
Note: Those who have experience
with MLA style but who also have specific questions about it, should attend the
last 30 minutes of this workshop.
Monday, 2/23/04 3:00-4:30 pm, Zuhl Classroom
Learn to PURL
Persistent URLs (PURLs) allow you to create a link directly to full text articles in the NMSU Library's
full text article databases. This workshop focuses on how to set up PURLs from your web page, from
a PowerPoint presentation, in your WebCT course and even in an e-mail message.
Tuesday, 2/24/04, 3:30-4:30 pm, Zuhl Classroom
Old Dogs CAN Learn New Tricks
Specially geared towards non-traditional students and/or those
who aren’t quite sure how to use either a computer or the Library or both. Hands on practice provided on how to adjust to and
navigate the new technology in the library. Tuesday, 3/2/04, 6:00-7:00 pm, Zuhl Classroom.
For a complete listing of
the workshops offered this semester, check out http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/workshops.htm
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More on Accuracy in the Media and in Politics
In the last issue we profiled the highly entertaining and
acerbic CampaignDesk.org from
the Columbia Journalism Review,
a daily blog "on how the press is presenting (or not presenting) the political story [of the
2004 presidential campaign] to the public."
This time around we feature FactCheck.org at
http://www.factcheck.org/, from the Annenberg Public Policy
Center at the University
of Pennsylvania. Dating back to December 2003 FactCheck already offers a healthy listing of articles noting
incorrect facts stated by current polictical players. FactCheck's goal is to "
monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major
political
players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases."
In doing so, they seek "to apply the best practices of both journalism and scholarship, and
to increase public knowledge and understanding."
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News flash from the U.S. Bureau of the Census
Last Thursday the U.S. Census released the electronic version of the
2003 Statistical Abstract of the United States at
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract-03.html. All publications on this site
are in .pdf format so users will need the Adobe Acrobat reader to view and print the statistical tables.
Also found on this site are statistical tables for the 2001 and 2002 Statistical Abstracts with a link
to the electronic versions dating back to 1995. For those of you preferring
to thumb through the print, book version, you will find it
at both reference desks. Ask for it by name. Or by call number. HA202.Un2s
Also at the Census site, you will find Mini Historical Statistics, with data on population, immigration,
marriage, birth, death, income, GDP, pollution, employment and education dating back many years.
See http://www.census.gov/statab/www/minihs.html
for these tables and more.
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Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web
This Smithsonian Institution-sponsored database at
http://web4.si.edu/sil/onlineexhibitions/oe_search2.cfm offers information and links to almost
3,000 online exhibits found at universities, museums and libraries worldwide. Users can search
by exhibition name, institution or subject terms. A search on the subject "New Mexico" yields 7 online
digital exhibits with two of these from our own New Mexico State University Archives:
"The Loreto Academy
of Las Cruces" and "Shalam Colony: A Utopian Experiment".
This database offers an excellent view of ongoing digitization projects.
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