News for January 2011
Posted January 20, 2011
Eating Better
Are you looking for ways to eat better this year? Maybe you want to lose weight, eat healthier, or just find some new recipes. GALILEO has several resources to help you do that.
Take a look at the Diet and Nutrition section of GALILEO. You can search several databases at once to save time, or you can go to the Articles and Databases tab to search databases like Consumer Health Complete or MasterFILE Premier for topics such as diet, weight loss, cooking, nutrition, or recipes.
Remember that you can set up a search alert in the individual databases so that you receive emails when a new article matching your search is added. Or, if there is a particular magazine you love or if you want to keep up with nutrition magazines, such as Better Nutrition or Environmental Nutrition, you can set up a journal alert to receive emails when new issues are added.
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Search and magazine links may not work off site. Click the database name or log in to GALILEO first for access.
Posted January 18, 2011
Athens Historic Newspapers Archive now available in GALILEO
The Athens Historic Newspapers Archive, which includes five newspaper titles published in Athens from 1827 to 1922, is now available at http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=athn or through the GALILEO website.
A promotional information sheet can be found at: http://about.galileo.usg.edu/docs/materials_docs/DLG-AthensNewspapers.pdf
This archive joins other historical newspaper collections in the Digital Library of Georgia. See a full list here: http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/MediaTypes/Newspapers.html
An announcement from the Digital Library of Georgia describing the resource is available below.
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The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the availability of a new online resource: The Athens Historic Newspapers Archive
http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/athnewspapers
The Athens Historic Newspapers Archive provides online access to five newspaper titles published in Athens from 1827 to 1922. Consisting of over 57,000 newspaper pages, the archive provides historical images that are both full-text searchable and can be browsed by date. The site will provide users with a view into the history of Athens in its early years as the home to the first state-chartered university in the nation and its eventual growth into the largest city in northeast Georgia.
The archive includes the following Athens newspaper titles: Athenian (1827-1832), Southern Banner (1832-1882), Southern Watchman (1855-1882), Daily/Weekly Banner-Watchman (1882-1889), Daily/Weekly Athens Banner (1889-1922).
The Athens Historic Newspapers Archive is a project of the Digital Library of Georgia as part of the Georgia HomePLACE initiative. The project is supported with federal LSTA funds administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Georgia Public Library Service, a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. Digitization is also made possible through a grant provided by the Francis Wood Wilson Foundation, Inc.
Other newspaper archives available through the Digital Library of Georgia include the Atlanta Historic Newspapers Archive (1847-1922), the Macon Telegraph Archive (1826-1908), the Columbus Enquirer Archive (1828-1890), the Milledgeville Historic Newspapers Archive (1808-1920), the Southern Israelite Archive (1929-1986), and the Red and Black Archive (1893-2006). These archives can be accessed at http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/MediaTypes/Newspapers.html
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Viewing records in the Georgia Historic Newspapers databases from the Digital Library of Georgia requires the DjVu plug-in:
http://www.caminova.net/en/downloads/download.aspx?id=1
If you are having problems viewing images, please see the DjVu FAQ:
http://help.galileo.usg.edu/faqs/why_am_i_having_problems_accessing_djvu_files_for_newspaper_and_other_image/
If you have any questions or need more information, please use GALILEO’s Contact Us feature or contact ITS Customer Services at helpdesk@usg.edu.
Posted January 7, 2011
Getting Fit in the New Year
USA.gov provides a list of popular resolutions for the new year, and one of the top resolutions is getting fit. Let’s take a look at some resources in GALILEO that can help someone keep this resolution.
GALILEO offers access to the full text of several popular fitness magazines, such as Men’s Fitness, Running and FitNews, and Shape, and it also includes some publications for those more serious about exercise, such as American Fitness, Bicycling, Joe Weidner’s Muscle and Fitness, and Runner’s World. Just go to Magazines A-Z to search for these or magazines that you like. If you want to know when a new issue is added, you can set up a journal alert.
In addition to the magazines, you can find many more articles, fact sheets, and more in several databases, such as Consumer Health Complete or MasterFILE Premier. Just search “physical fitness” or “exercise” in these or other databases listed in the Exercise subject area of GALILEO. If you have a particular topic that you like, you can set up a search alert so that you will receive emails when an article about your topic is added.
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Journal and search links may not work off site. Log in to GALILEO first for access.