Library News

Business Source Premier has now a new interface: Business Searching Interface (BSI).

It offers a clean, easier to browse UI to make any research faster and more intuitive.  Read the full overview from EBSCO's website.

Some of the new features include:

• Discover Popular Topics 
• Explore Featured Content 
• Company Profile Reports 
• Country Reports
• Industry Reports
• Featured Collections
• Browse Featured Business Magazines 
• Spotlight On

Feel free to ask to any of our Reference and Instruction Librarians any tip and suggestion how to optimize your research while using this new Interface.

If you are a Faculty Member, feel free to also book an in-class library session with our Instruction Librarians to explain in better details how to retrieve Reports, Literature and Analyses useful for upcoming assignments. 

As the new semester starts, the Frohring Library is happy to provide some updates about new content available on Kanopy.

As finals approach, our 12 Nights in the Library tradition returns to help our students succeed! 📚✨ 

🗓️ When: December 1–12
⏰ Hours: 8 AM–1:45 AM (10 AM opening on Dec. 8)
📍 Where: Frohring Library and Secchia Lab (Guarini Campus)
☕ Bonus: Free tea & coffee at 11 PM

Whether you're prepping for finals or finishing that big project, the library is here to help you with your references, finding sources, and offering some much-needed moral support. 

See you there!

November is International Games Month, an initiative run by volunteers from around the world to reconnect communities through their libraries around the educational, recreational, and social value of all types of games.

The Frohring Library has inaugurated the month with a spooky Halloween event in collaboration with the Board Game Club.

The students had fun playing games in the library that, for once, was not a quiet place!

The Frohring Library is thrilled to announce a new addition to its collection: the Canadian Journal of Zombie Science is here, just in time for Halloween. 🎃 

From zombie plants to possessed critters, dive into the eerie side of science! Check it out at https://shorturl.at/G3ZHl 

From the publisher: “Read by academics, zombie enthusiasts, and survivors in the field, this spine-tingling journal is dedicated to the scientifically intriguing exploration of ‘zombie-like’ phenomena in the realms of plants, animals, and the environment across the world. After all, zombies have no borders.”

Beware...it's not a real journal! While this unique journal is just for fun, it showcases real scientific papers that were previously published in Canadian Science Publishing journals!

Newly acquired books, ebooks, and videos are constantly updated in the New Acquisitions list. In this way, our users can always be updated on what's new in the library!

Join the Frohring Library in celebrating 2024 International Open Access Week in October!
 

Community over Commercialization
October 21-27, 2024

Open Access Week is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.

The Frohring Library is currently offering trial access to two new resources.

We encourage you to explore the resources, and we warmly welcome any feedback or suggestions you may have to further enhance our library's offerings.
Thank you for your engagement, and we look forward to your valuable input.

Sage Catalyst provides unlimited access to 550 textbooks. Subject areas include: Business and Management, Social Sciences, Humanities.

The trial will remain active until October 20, 2024.
 

LitBase is a world literature database with a modern search experience. A curated collection of critical primary texts and secondary sources, it supports research of the most studied authors, poetry, fiction, plays, and creative nonfiction worldwide.
The datbase includes over 425,000 primary sources, 100,000 secondary and reference sources, and hundreds of full-text scholarly journals and literary magazines to support literature research.
It delivers author interviews, biographies, creative nonfiction, literary criticism, poems, poetry reviews, scripts, and short stories from ancient times to the 21st century, including high culture works that didn’t originate in the West.

LitBase and MLA International Bibliography with Full Text come together to create a comprehensive research experience for all. The most recognized literature and language bibliography complements LitBase content with minimal overlap of scholarly journals.

The trial will remain active until November 15, 2024.

For questions and assistance, do not hesitate to get in touch with the Reference Librarians at referenceservices@johncabot.edu.

The Frohring Library is pleased to announce the official launch of its new institutional repository, John Cabot University ScholarShip – Digital Archive. Originally envisioned by former Head Librarian, Elisabetta Morani, this project has been in development for two years and provides an online space to archive, organize, preserve, and make accessible the digital scholarship produced by JCU faculty and students.

Key features of the repository include:

• Preservation of digital scholarship: The repository will permanently store and showcase the scholarly accomplishments of the JCU community, including student theses and faculty publications (articles, book chapters, books, and working papers from research institutions) submitted electronically.

• Open access promotion: The repository supports JCU’s commitment to open access by collecting and providing access to faculty open-access publications.

• Sustainability at JCU: The repository contains thematic communities (or grouped collections), including one on Sustainability given its importance, that will contain all related publications as well as students’ capstone projects.

• Searchable faculty directory: The “Authors” section will become a comprehensive and searchable faculty directory, featuring profiles for all faculty members.

As new scholarship is constantly being uploaded and future open-access works are directly submitted, JCU faculty are encouraged to contribute to the growing repository. If interested, please contact archive@johncabot.edu.

The John Cabot University ScholarShip – Digital Archive is a collaborative effort and was made especially possible by JCU’s Head Librarian, Livia Piotto; Electronic Resources Librarian, Giovanna Contigiani; and Collection Management Librarian, Civita Mosillo.

Are you curious about what's new in the Library? Check out the New Acquisitions page! Find out new books, e-books, and videos that are now available in our collections.