Posted on July 22, 2008 by Amy Schleigh
The American Psychological Association has issued new guidelines related to electronic sources, including wikis, blogs, video clips, podcasts, as well as e-journals and articles from library databases.
Mahoney Library has developed a guide that reflects the new guidelines for online sources, as well as the general guidelines for print sources. To access the guide, click Instruction [...]
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Posted on April 8, 2008 by Amy Schleigh
Mahoney Library has entered into a site-wide license for online access to The Chronicle of Higher Education. All CSE faculty, staff and students have access to the daily web articles as well as the weekly print edition, online.
You can access the Chronicle of Higher Education subscription at
http://cseproxy1.cse.edu/login?url=http://chronicle.com.
Links are available from the Mahoney Library Faculty/Staff page, the Newspapers Online page, and [...]
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Posted on March 14, 2008 by Amy Schleigh
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Posted on January 29, 2008 by Amy Schleigh
In Growing Up Online, FRONTLINE takes viewers inside the very public private worlds that kids are creating online, raising important questions about how the Internet is transforming childhood.
The first ‘chapter’ of the program – Living Their Lives Essentially Online – focuses on high school students in Morris County, NJ. Subsequent chapters address topics like cyberbullying, online predators, [...]
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Posted on January 29, 2008 by Amy Schleigh
Each week the CQ Researcher addresses a different topic of current interest. This week’s CQ Researcher offers an in-depth look at student aid for college students:
“With a record number of students hoping to attend college next year – and fees higher than ever – finding a way to pay the bills will be tough for many. [...]
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Posted on December 20, 2007 by Amy Schleigh
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, [...]
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Posted on December 20, 2007 by Amy Schleigh
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 [...]
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