Introducing Global Search

The library has a new “one-stop shop” for searching our entire collection. Global Search allows you to search our library catalog, our subscription databases, and open educational resources (OER) from the web through one search interface. To use it, first go to the library’s website: https://www.tarleton.edu/library. Then type in a keyword, title, or author’s name

Elsevier Negotiations

 Texas Universities Join Forces to Negotiate Their Future New Coalition Seeks Lower Costs and Greater Access to Research Forty-one universities across Texas have joined forces as the Texas Library Coalition for United Action (TLCUA) to think creatively about access to faculty publications and the sustainability of journal subscriptions. TLCUA has organized to identify the best

Library Resources (and Veteran\’s Day)

Thursday is Veteran\’s Day, so I was doing research on it and found that one of our new databases has lots of good resources for and about Veterans.   History Reference Online Complete from ABC-Clio has several titles about veterans and the issues they have faced.  In fact the library has over 175 databases to help

Top 10 Tuesday: Tips for E-Research

Research can be pretty daunting — so many possible starting places, so little time. Online resources can help us locate useful, quality information, as well as meet deadlines if used systematically. The following list presents one possible strategy: begin with general resources and progress to more specialized resources. 10. Start with Wikipedia for topic overviews.While

Writing a Paper? Try These 7 Research Tips

This article by Lynn Jacobs and Jeremy Hyman in U.S. News & World Report offers practical tips for successfully starting, planning, and finishing papers. The following list gives article excerpts and along with links to Tarleton Libraries\’ resources and services to help you apply the research tips. Enjoy! Start from where you are. Pick a

Wikipedia and Research: What\’s the big deal?

Wikipedia was [edit]\”initially conceived as a feeder project for Nupedia, an earlier (now defunct) project\” founded by Jimmy Wales. Its name,suggested by editor-in-chief Larry Sanger, is a combination of the words wiki (which means \”fast\” or \”swift\”)2 and encyclopedia. 1 (More information).As of this writing, it has over 12 million free articles online in various