As you may have heard, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the American Psychological Association’s primary mental health handbook, has recently published a new edition. It’s been a long time in coming – the DSM-IV came out in 1994 (it was revised in 2000). This reference work is the primary tool for diagnosing… Read more »
Month: July 2013
Money makes the research go ’round
July brings a new fiscal year and with it comes renewal requests for many of the databases and other online resources you may need for your academic research. We wanted to share with you the costs of some of these. The viability of these resources for our campus is calculated using a formula of “cost… Read more »
Business Insights: Essentials
Last week we looked at a database that was adding new content, but sometimes our databases completely reinvent themselves. Such is the case with Business Insights: Essentials, a database from the Gale Corporation. Formerly called Business and Company Resource Center, Gale fully reengineered the search interface, making it much cleaner and easier to use. You… Read more »
Psychological Insight
Last week we looked at improving the library collection with a new database, but our existing databases are anything but stagnant! New, up-to-date content is being added to them all the time. One recent example is Wiley Online Library, which has just added the Handbook of Psychology to its extensive list of interdisciplinary titles. The… Read more »
Pride in the Library
Library collections are vibrant — continually changing and growing. We enhance the Library collection at IU East with the primary purpose to provide you with reliable and current resources relevant to curricular and research needs. Electronic resources and databases continue to increase in relevance and usefulness, offering millions of journal articles, encyclopedias, videos, e-books, and… Read more »