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Electronic Resources Update
Mark your calendars for Tuesday, February 10 from 3:30 to 4:30 pm. An Electronic Resources Update
session kicks off the Library's Spring workshop season by highlighting some of the major new additions to the NMSU Library’s electronic resources. Come
to the Zuhl Electronic classroom to learn how these resources can facilitate your research or your teaching. Electronic resources added in 2003-2004 to the Library's offerings include:
CQ Congress, CQ Public Affairs, CQ Researcher, and CQ Supreme Court. Other useful databases recently added include:
Business Source Elite, Columbia International Affairs Online, Emerald Fulltext, IEEE Explore, and
Current Research from UMI.
This workshop is highly recommended for NMSU faculty and graduate teaching assistants!
Conduct Legal Research with Westlaw
Westlaw is
one of the main databases in the NMSU Library that is used for conducting legal
research.
If you need to tackle any type of legal research in the future, consider
attending the Westlaw workshop on Friday, February 13 from 1:00 - 2:00 pm in the
Zuhl Electronic classroom. Attendees will be introduced to both Westlaw's
contents and
to effective Westlaw search strategies.
NOTE: The
Westlaw database is made available to researchers only within the NMSU Library
buildings (Branson and Zuhl). You will not be able to access the Library’s
subscription to Westlaw from either your home or your office.
For a complete listing of the workshops offered
this semester, check out http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/workshops.htm
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Search Canadian Theses and Dissertations Online
Theses Canada Portal is a new web site, available from the
National Library of Canada/Bibliotèque du Canada and located at
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/thesescanada/index-e.html
Access to the full text electronic versions of Canadian
theses and
dissertations that were published from the beginning of 1998 to August 31, 2002
is freely available to the public for personal or educational use.
To purchase a Canadian thesis that's not avaiable digitally from this site you
need to contact
ProQuest at
http://www.umi.com/hp/Products/Dissertations.html.
Basic and advanced search interfaces are available.
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Campaign Coverage on the Web
Check out some new sites focusing on the 2004 Campaign.
- LexisNexis Launches Campaign 2004 Coverage
At http://www.lexisnexis.com/campaign2004, LexisNexis "has bundled relevant information from some of its more than 32,000 news, business and legal
sources into an easy-to-use, one-stop resource for U.S. election coverage." You will find links to candidates'
web sites, recent campaign news items, campaign topics (e.g. Terrorism, War & Conflict, Medicare, etc.),
and candidates’ positions on major issues.
- The Campaign Desk
The sponsor of this new web site, Columbia Journalism Review, advertises
their
new blog as a
"critique and analysis of 2004 campaign coverage". Critique is the key word here
as every day The Campaign Desk's
bloggers take such well-known journalists as Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw,
Brit Hume and David Broder to task for
their errors in coverage and their misunderstandings and misquotes every day.
Other
notables recently skewered in this site are
the redoubtable New
York Times, ABC News' "Primetime Live" and MSNBC. The
bloggers are rather caustic but its a fun read nevertheless. Check out
The Campaign Desk at http://www.campaigndesk.org
- Project Vote Smart: 2004 Presidential Candidates
Available at
http://www.vote-smart.org/election_president.php, Project Vote
Smart offers
biographical and contact information, issue positions, campaign finances, speeches and public statements,
voting records, endorsements, and even fun facts. Presidential candidates for the
2004 election
are searchable by last names, or you can browse for candidates by party
affiliation.
- America Votes: Presidential Primary Review
Hosted by CNN at http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/
America Votes 2004
follows the path of the 2004 presidential
primary race with information on the current candidates; their
positions on topics such as civil rights, healthcare, international policy, and
the environment; and their battle for campaign
contributions. It also provides a monthly poll tracker, a description of the
primary process by state, an election calendar, and timeline.
- Fund Race 2004: Follow the Money
Those of you who are interested in campaign and candidate financing should take a look at
Fund Race 2004 located at
http://www.fundrace.org.
The site uses electronic data from the
current presidential race to create rankings of the candidates based on size and
frequency of contributions and number of contributors. It also provides a map
that shows the geographic distribution of funding contributions to these
candidates by state, county, or zip code.
- Rhetorica
According the site's creator, Andrew R. Cline, Ph.D., Rhetorica
"offers analysis and commentary about the rhetoric, propaganda, and spin of
journalism and politics, including analysis of presidential speeches and
election campaigns." Featured on this site are a web log analysis of presidential candidate's rhetoric,
a comprehensive list of news media links, including media, political and academic blogs,
a rhetoric textbook, a primer
of critical techniques, and information for voters.
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Up-to-the Minute News from Topix
Available at http://www.topix.net.
Topix is an up-to-the minute news source in beta
test that is both a search engine and a subject
catalog. According to the site, it lists "content from
3100 sources organized into over 150,000 topics."
You can also browse news by geographical location. Topix is fairly
logically organized and easier
on the eyes than most online news sources. Thankfully, the ads are kept to a
minimum.
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