Science Information Searching

The federal government’s Office of Scientific and Technical Information has created three search engines to assist the science researcher in locating timely information.

• SCIENCE accelerator provides searching for the 12 OSTI databases as well as DOE data.
• Science.gov searches 42 databases and over 2,000 selected web sites from 18 scientific and technical organizations from 14 federal agencies.
• The World Wide Science Organization provides a search on 76 databases from 65 countries and international organizations.

For help searching these databases, contact the Documents Department in the library at 5410 or Janice Marotta at jmarotta@ashland.edu.

Library Spotlight: New Books

New books are added to the library collection throughout the academic year. When shelf ready, titles are featured on the new book shelf on the main floor near the computer and recreational reading area.

Books have been selected by AU librarians and are subject to the library's collection development policy which includes professional reviews and faculty recommendations. Contact your library liaison for more information or submit a suggestion via the library catalog.

Recent additions to the collection include:

• Hindsight: The Promise and Peril of Looking Backward
  BF378.H54 F74 2010
• Faces of America: How 12 Extraordinary People Discovered Their Pasts
  CS49.G38 2010
• Country Driving: A Journey Through China From Farm to Factory
  DS712.H457 2010
• Why Organizations Struggle So Hard to Improve So Little:  Overcoming Organizational Immaturity
  HD58.8.K588 2010
• A New Brand of Business: Charles Coolidge Parlin, Curtis Publishing Company, and the Origins of Market Research
  HF5415.2.W29 2010
• Abortion
  HQ767.2.A26 2010
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
  HB9950.A437 2010
• Bringing Reading Research to Life
  LB1050.6.B75 2010
• Free for All: Fixing School Food in America
  LB3479.U6 P55 2010
• Morning Miracle: Inside the Washington Post: A Great Newspaper Fights for Its Life
  PN4899.W31 W346 2010
• Island Beneath the Sea: A Novel
  PQ8098.1.L54 I78 2010
• White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side
  R724.E385 2010

The Instructional Resource Center Blog routinely provides information regarding new additions to the IRC, juvenile, and education collections.

OhioLINK Authentication

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Update: Entrance Change

Beginning today, please use the main exit doors to enter the library. Work has moved to the other side of the entrance; weather permitting concrete will be poured and the project complete next week. We recommend:

• Enter and exit the library using the patio doors.
• Enter the library using the main exit doors, leave via the patio doors.

Thank you for your continued patience.

Update: Walkway & Sidewalk

The library is open!

Work continues on the sidewalk and walkway outside the library. Last week concrete was poured on the exit-door side of the main library entrance. For safety reasons, rotating closures remain in place for the main entrance and exit doors. We recommend:

• Enter and exit the library using the patio doors.
• Enter the library using the main doors, exit the patio doors.

Thank you for your continued patience.