Author: Troy Swanson

The New England Journal of Medicine is one of our country’s most prestigious medical publications, and in the August 21st, 2008, issue, the NEJM published Jonathan Oberlander’s article, The Partisan Divide — The McCain and Obama Plans for U.S. Health Care Reform, which is available in print in the library or by following the link to… Continue reading Obama vs McCain on Health Care from the NEJM

Price of Oil This BBC News feature page on the price of oil includes articles, analysis, maps, and charts.  This could be especially useful for students who are topic shopping for a paper.  This page provides a great starting point into research on oil prices and some of the complexity in the oil markets.

Several of our library’s most used article databases come to us on the EBSCO platform. Over the summer, EBSCO has updated their interface to include some new features. The feature I like the best is the new display for search results which shows articles, images, options to limit by source type, and options to limit… Continue reading EBSCO’s New Cool Interface!

The University of Georgia Libraries have created the Civil Rights Digital Library, which includes online video and numerous resources.

I wanted to pass along some resources on the tragic earthquake in China: China Earthquake from the BBC EBSCO Search on Chinese Earthquake (MVCC ID required from off campus) Googel News Search

Well, the news was a flutter with discussion of last night’s earthquake. If you missed it, take a look at: Midwest Quake Felt Far and Wide from CNN. By the way, I was told that today marks the 102nd anniversary of the San Francisco Quake & Fire of 1906.Here’s some info forwarded to our library… Continue reading Information Sources on Earthquakes

This one is for you historians & biologists… The Complete Works of Darwin This site contains Darwin’s complete publications, thousands of handwritten manuscripts and the largest Darwin bibliography and manuscript catalogue ever published; also hundreds of supplementary works: biographies, obituaries, reviews, reference works and more. Cambridge University Libraries has put this out for free.  What… Continue reading The Complete Works of Darwin Online

This is a useful resource to pass along, Open CR provides free Congressional Research Reports on a range of topics.  Here’s a piece from the about section: A project of the Center for Democracy & Technology through the cooperation of several organizations and collectors of CRS Reports, Open CRS provides citizens access to CRS Reports… Continue reading Open Congressional Research Reports

The Web is growing at such a rate that no search engine, not even Google, can search the entire Web. As the Web grows and different technologies come into existence, it becomes increasingly useful to have a whole range of search tools in your bag of tricks. Remember, each search engine uses its one search… Continue reading Web Searching Beyond Google

Today marks 40 years since the tragic, assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, and yesterday marked the 40th anniversary since King’s Mountain Top Speech. This was one of the most powerful speeches in US history. Here is a clip of that speech from Pacifica Radio’s Democracy Now program: If you’d like to learn more, you… Continue reading The Mountain Top: 40 Years Ago