New E-Journals Collections from Sage and ACS

Mahoney Library has 2 new collections of full text journals online.
The first is quite large – around 450 scholarly and trade journals – and offers content across all disciplines. Sage Premier Journals is a great collection, with full text from 1996 through the present. Sage covers the following areas:
Humanities: Area Studies, Language Studies, Music, Religious Studies
Life Sciences: Biochemistry, Endocrinology, [...]

Study of Spirituality in Higher Education

The Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA has been studying the developments and patterns of spirituality and religiousness of college students since 2003.
A recent report indicates a pattern of spiritual growth among many students between their freshman and junior years of college: http://www.spirituality.ucla.edu/news/Spirituality_on_Campus_release_12.18.07.pdf
For additional information from the 5-year study, see http://www.spirituality.ucla.edu/news/index.html for news releases, and http://www.spirituality.ucla.edu/publications_reports/index.html for published journal [...]

Return books, avoid fines and holds

Please remember to return any items that you have borrowed before you leave for the semester break. Overdue books or late fines can cause a hold to be placed on your student account. This can delay your grades or transcripts, and hold up the registration process for next semester.
You can return books anytime, even when we’re [...]

ProQuest databases unavailable for 12 hours this weekend…

ProQuest will be installing an update to their system, designed to enhance the Dissertations & Theses database.  Since scholars are increasingly providing supplemental digital materials – i.e., audio, video, spreadsheets, etc. – with their dissertation or thesis, this update will make it possible to access those materials within the ProQuest interface.
This update will be installed on [...]