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Posted February 27, 2013
Tip: Keep Up with Your Favorite Topic with Search Alerts
Have a topic where you need the latest information? Want to find out when the latest research has been published on your area of interest?
Search alerts send an email when an article matching your topic is added to a resource in GALILEO. This can be helpful in keeping up with a research topic for a paper or project, a favorite hobby, the latest research on a medical condition, news stories, and many other items of interest.
Here’s how to set up an alert…
- Search for your topic in the Discover GALILEO search box
- You may need to change the search terms to get the results you want (e.g., search for herb gardening or vegetable gardening instead of gardening to get more specific articles)
- When you’re happy with the search results, click Alert/Save/Share at the top of the search results
- Choose to Email Alert
- You will need to sign in to (or create) a free My EBSCOhost account to save the alert
- Once signed in, enter email address and settings for the alert (Tip: In Results format, choose Detailed to get an abstract in your alert email. This helps you to read through a list of articles quickly.)
- Click Save Alert to save it
If you prefer to use a feed reader or aggregator, look for the orange feed icon Alert/Save/Share page to get the link to the feed.
Posted February 18, 2013
GALILEO Resources for Women’s History Month
In honor of Women’s History Month, here are a few resources in GALILEO to help you find the stories of women throughout history.
Start by looking for a woman in the Discover GALILEO search box. Try finding Susan B. Anthony, Marie Curie, Helen Keller, Sally Ride, Coretta Scott King, Sonia Sotomayor, Jane Goodall, and others. For some major events in women’s history, look for women’s rights, women suffrage, women work*, feminism, or other topics of interest. Tip: If you are getting a lot of book reviews in the results, use Limit by Type to remove Reviews (click Show More to see all types, click Check all, then uncheck Reviews).
For institutions that purchase it, Encyclopædia Britannica offers a spotlight on women, Encyclopædia Britannica Profiles 300 Women Who Changed the World. This collection of items includes an illustrated timeline of women throughout history along with articles, essays, speeches, video clips, and learning activities. For speeches, letters, and other primary source documents, search for women in Annals of American History to see a letter from Horace Greeley on women’s rights or a declaration of rights for women from Susan B. Anthony.
NoveList and NoveList K-8 offer book recommendations for all ages. Here is a tip to find fiction books by women. Go the Advanced Search, leave the search box blank (or type in a topic of your choice), and choose Female in the Author’s Gender field to see a list of books.
Interested in important women in Georgia? Take a look at the Women of Distinction in Georgia feature in the New Georgia Encyclopedia. You can read about interesting women like Mary Musgrove, Hazel Raines, Rosalyn Carter, Alice Walker, and many more fascinating women. The Digital Library of Georgia offers many historical images and documents related to women, and it also includes two collections focused on women’s history, For Our Mutual Benefit: The Athens Woman’s Club and Social Reform, 1899-1920 and Georgia Women’s Movement Oral History Project Collection.
Some links may not work off site. Log in to GALILEO first for access.
Image from Encyclopædia Britannica
Posted February 14, 2013
A Little Romance for Valentine’s Day
Interested in a little romance reading for this Valentine’s Day?
NoveList can help you find that special book.
Try a search for love, romance, or valentine to see books with those titles or themes.
NoveList also provides lists of different types of romance novels - from classic to contemporary, from the high seas to the wild west, and more. To see all of them, click Romance under the Recommended Reads Lists on the NoveList home page to choose your favorite subgenre of romance.
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Posted February 13, 2013
Keep Your Heart Healthy with GALILEO
February is American Heart Month. If you’re looking to learn more about heart disease and how to prevent it, GALILEO offers some great consumer health resources.
Consumer Health Complete provides fact sheets, evidence-based reports, medical encyclopedias, images, videos, and more. Search for heart health or other topics to find information. If you would like to keep up with a particular topic, search for that topic in Consumer Health Complete and then click “Create alert for this search” at the top of the screen to receive emails when a new item related to your topic is added to Consumer Health Complete. For even more information, try searching for heart health in Discover GALILEO.
GALILEO also offers several consumer health magazines, such as Consumer Reports on Health, Health (Time, Inc.), Prevention, Harvard Health Letter, Harvard Men’s Health Watch, and Harvard Women’s Health Watch. If you would like to know when a new issue of any of these publications has been added, just click the magazine title in the previous sentence and then click the Alert/Save/Share link at the right of the publication record to set up an Email Alert.
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Posted February 7, 2013
NoveList Best Books Lists of 2012
If you’re looking for more books to meet that reading challenge this year, NoveList offers several list of the best books of 2012 to give you a good start in 2013.
By genre:
* Best Fantasy 2012
* Best Historical Fiction 2012
* Best Horror 2012
* Best Mysteries 2012
* Best Romance 2012
* Best Science Fiction 2012
* Best Thrillers & Suspense 2012
By age group:
* Best Younger Kids Fiction 2012
* Best Older Kids Fiction 2012
* Best Tween Fiction 2012
* Best Teen Fiction 2012
For more best books lists for 2012, search NoveList for Best 2012 and click the Lists and Articles tab.
You can also search Discover GALILEO for best books 2012 to find best books lists from library publications and other magazines.
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