Swine Flu (now called 2009 H1N1 flu)

Find some up-to-date information by clicking on these “Hot Searches” in LexisNexis Academic database:
In Major US Newspapers  (explore the “People” group at left menu)
In Healthcare News (Worldwide)  (explore the “Subject” group at left menu)
In Major Papers (Worldwide)   (explore the “Geography” grouping at left menu)
In another database (Health Source – Consumer Edition), a report:
details the discovery of an [...]

Reducing Your Carbon Footprint

This week’s issue of CQ Researcher, Reducing Your Carbon Footprint, debates the question: Can individual actions reduce global warming?
“As climate change rises closer to the top of the government’s policy agenda – and an economic crisis intensifies – more and more consumers are trying to change their behavior so they pollute and consume less. To reduce [...]

GreenFILE & “Buying Green”

In light of CSE Green Week, it seems appropriate to point out a few environmental information sources:

“Buying Green,” a CQ Researcher report published earlier this year, discusses the marketing trend of greenwashing and highlights ways to truly reduce your impact on the environment. Also available in PDF format.
GreenFILE, a free article index provided by Ebsco Publishing, allows you to [...]

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, [...]