From the monthly archives: November 2007
Take EndNote on the road with EndNote Web
By Emily Daly On November 26, 2007 · Leave a Comment · In Cool tools, Research Help, Tips for students
Interested in accessing your EndNote library even when you’re not in front of your personal computer? Take your research on the road by setting up an EndNote Web account, and enjoy the freedom to consult or add citations to your EndNote library from any computer with an internet connection.
EndNote Web is designed [...]
Thanksgiving falls at a busy time in the semester, and many students take papers or research projects home with them to work on over the break.
You can take the library’s resources home, too. Almost all of our databases are accessible remotely with your NetID and password. For more details see our [...]
Most of the campus libraries provide staplers, hole punches, and other basic office tools for students to use. We also regularly have to replace these items because of theft – accidental due to absentmindedness, or intentional – and breakage.
So, think of the poor librarian (that would be me) who spends all her time buying [...]
Have you ever noticed the link on Amazon.com’s book record pages called “Text Stats“? (it’s in the “Inside this Book” section – you have to scroll down a bit). Since Amazon has the full text of many books in electronic format, they can tally up some fun (and revealing) statistics about each book. [...]
The Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive is a remarkable database that contains full-length digital videos of Holocaust survivors and witnesses. This resource that Duke Libraries just recently purchased contains over 50,000 video testimonies.
To get to this database, just click on the database tab on the Duke Library homepage [...]
As we at iPod – I mean, Duke – University know, podcasts have proliferated in the past 5 years. They aren’t just for fun, however – major radio news sources and government agencies are making podcasts available that can be used in research or academic presentations. Radio podcasts can provide in-depth interviews with politicians, medical [...]
The United States Census Bureau now allows you to receive updates via RSS, with subscriptions available for web site changes, tip sheets, population estimates (PopClocks!) and even daily podcasts, among others.
Most useful for researchers may be the set of RSS feeds for news releases on a wide variety of topics, [...]
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