The Library has a new database trial running for the month of February: a demographic data resource mapping tool called PolicyMap.
Build visualizations to better understand a wide variety of data points geographically. Access and map thousands of indicators from authoritative public and proprietary sources through the web’s largest geographic data warehouse. PolicyMap’s dedicated team expertly curates the data to ensure it is the most current and accurate available, with the greatest geographic coverage of national data available at the local level across the US. The data comes from disparate sources but is standardized to allow for simple analysis across indicators. PolicyMap also creates unique data, such as trends over time and indices that combine relevant indicators.
EBSCO will be upgrading their database user interfaces in 2025! The rollout of this new interface at UMass Dartmouth has been pushed back to July 31, 2025.
EBSCOhost has been redesigned based on user testing and feedback to improve usability and accessibility. The new interface will be less “busy,” with filters located in pop-up menus instead of automatically visible side panes, and it will include new features such as dashboards for saved articles and searches and added options for citing and sharing sources. EBSCO hopes to provide a productive and intuitive research experience with this new design.
*12/2024Edit: the new launch date for the updated EBSCOhost interface at UMass Dartmouth is July 31, 2025.
EBSCO will be upgrading their database user interfaces on January 7, 2025. EBSCOhost has been redesigned based on user testing and feedback to improve usability and accessibility. The new interface will be less “busy,” with filters located in pop-up menus instead of automatically visible side panes, and it will include new features such as dashboards for saved articles and searches and added options for citing and sharing sources. EBSCO hopes to provide a productive and intuitive research experience with this new design.
Our librarians were hard at work this summer expanding the library’s collection. Check out these new resources now available through the Claire T. Carney Library:
The Oxford English Dictionary Online. An authoritative guide to the meaning, history, and usage of 500,000 words and phrases, past and present, from across the English-speaking world.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers. Browse full text issues of the following newspapers, including news articles, photos, advertisements, classified ads, obituaries, cartoons, and more:
The Boston Globe(coverage: 1872-2007). One of the most successful metro newspapers in the United States, providing a window through which to study New England and American history.
ProQuest History Vault. A digitized collection of unique manuscript and archival materials. The following modules are available:
American Indians and the American West, 1809-1971. A variety of collections from the U.S. National Archives, a series of collections from the Chicago History Museum, and selected first-hand accounts on Indian Wars and westward migration.
Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Law and Order in 19th Century America. Documents the international and domestic traffic in slaves in Britain’s New World colonies and the United States, providing important primary source material on the business aspect of the slave trade.
Springer Lecture Notes. The series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), including its subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI), has established itself as a medium for the publication of new developments in computer science and information technology research, teaching, and education. We have access to the ebooks from 2024.
New Student orientation will take place at the Claire T. Carney Library over a few days in August. Please note that this could limit access to our public computers on the following days:
Tuesday, August 27 – Transfer Students
Thursday, August 29 – First-Year Students
Friday, August 30 – Veterans
New students will have priority access to the library’s 1st floor and 2nd floor computers as part of their training on various applications for orientation. If you plan to visit the library during student orientation, it is possible that there won’t be any available public terminals. You are welcome to bring your own laptop or mobile device. UMass Dartmouth students, faculty, and staff may borrow laptops at the first-floor circulation desk. Thank you for your understanding, and we wish all new students a smooth orientation day!
The Carney Library recently added a subscription to the Chicago Manual of Style Online: your guide to Chicago-style citation, grammar, and usage in an accessible online format. To access this resource, search the library catalog or visit the Chicago Manual of Style website.
The library is here to help you with all of your information needs, including citation help! Check out our website for more information or reach out to us with any questions.
A trial of the database APA PsycTests® is now available through our library, enabling users to search thousands of research instruments and their psychometric properties.
There are more than 62,000 records in APA PsycTests. Searchers can limit by descriptive fields, including Methodology, Test Language and Factors/Subscales and find research instruments available as PDF downloads or multimedia files.
This trial will be available through June 30, 2024 and is accessible through our A-Z Databases List.
New Student Orientation will take place at the Claire T. Carney Library over several days in June. Please note that this will limit access to our public computers on the following days:
Thu. June 13
Mon. June 17
Thu. June 20
Fri. June 21
Tue. June 25
Wed. June 26
Fri. June 28
New students will have priority access to the library’s 1st floor and 2nd floor computersas part of their orientation. Due to high demand, computers may be completely unavailable to other users during this time. If you plan to visit the library during student orientation, you are welcome to bring your own laptop or mobile device. UMass Dartmouth students, faculty, and staff may also borrow laptops at the first floor circulation desk.
Use the Carney Library’s Franklin A50 5G hotspots to connect up to 15 devices using AT&T’s cellular network. The library provides unlimited data, and loan periods are for one week.
You can check availability for hotspots and other new/popular technologies on the library’s Technology Lending webpage. You can borrow a hotspot at the Carney Library’s 1st floor Circulation Desk.
If you have questions about borrowing a hotspot, please call 508-999-8750 or email libaccess@umassd.edu. Technical questions should be sent to libsys@umassd.edu.
LibKey Nomad makes accessing library resources a lot easier, especially when you start your research outside the library. LibKey Nomad is a browser extension that provides one-click access to full text library resources from websites such as PubMed, Wikipedia, and publisher pages. Check out the first minute of this short video for a brief overview:
The library has offered LibKey Nomad for individual download for a while. Starting Monday, February 26th, the library, in collaboration with CITS, will begin pushing the Chrome and Edge extensions to all university owned workstations. After the plugin is installed, if you run a search on a site like PubMed, or even look at citations in Wikipedia, you’ll see Third Iron generated links connecting researchers to library materials. You will also see links to LibKey links on many publisher sites, simplifying full text access.
Here are a few examples of how LibKey Nomad may appear:
Example #1: PubMed
Example #2: Wikipedia References
Example #3: Publisher Websites
In you want to install LibKey Nomad on your personal machine, you can do so at https://thirdiron.com/downloadnomad/#choose-browser. The extension does not require a login and it doesn’t collect any personally identifiable information.
