Due to the elimination of federal funding through the Institute of Museum and Library Services paired with the Indiana State Library receiving a 30% cut in their budget for the coming year, we will be experiencing a reduction in the library databases we have access to from the State Library’s INSPIRE contract. This took effect… Read more »
Research
Celebrating Open 2025: The CMT Fellowship
At the time of writing this blog, it is Open Education (OE) Week 2025. OE Week is a worldwide celebration held the first week of March that connects and inspires practitioners, educators, students, and communities that support and promote open educational practices. Open educational practices are teaching and learning methods that use open technologies and… Read more »
Basic Research Tools
Transitioning to college research requires better tools, and the library provides many resources that will help students submit better work than can be generated through free web search engines like Google or Bing. The easiest place to start is with the EBSCO Discovery Service, a meta-search engine that searches most of IU East’s databases at… Read more »
On your mark, Get set, Research!
Excited to explore an array of trusted resources and dependable databases? Be sure to hit that ‘Like’ button on the IU East Campus Library’s Facebook page! We regularly feature highlights from our NEW A-Z index, and here are some of our recent favorites. In search of comprehensive reports on current and trending issues? Look no further than the CQ… Read more »
Digging Into Research
Learning the principles of good research is a key component of digital fluency, and the freedom that comes with it. This requires expertise beyond the skills obtained with commercial search engines like Google or Bing. In conducting scholarly research, it is best to start with repositories of vetted information like academic databases and datasets. Often… Read more »
Music for social movements
Music is essential to social movements throughout American history. From the Revolutionary War to modern civil rights protests, music has invigorated the masses, served as a cultural touchstone for future generations, and galvanized communities to take action. This is true not only in the United States but throughout the world. A quick overview of protest… Read more »
Friends with Research
If you haven’t yet, be sure to LIKE the IU East Campus Library Facebook page for updates on databases that can provide interesting, reliable information for a class project, research paper, or simply be of interest to you! Below are highlights of databases featured recently. Education Interested in interactive tutorials, practice tests, e-books, flashcards, and… Read more »
Full-text and e-books for fast access
When time is a factor, your campus library has resources that can be accessed immediately – locally held books and ebooks and full text articles in databases. Most databases offer a check box or something similar to refine searching to immediately available assets. Often, this will be near the search box, or along one side… Read more »
Open To All – the Public Domain
On Public Domain Day, January 1, 2023, works published in 1927 entered the public domain. What is “Public Domain” and Why 1927? The public domain consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply. Those rights may have expired, been forfeited, or waived. Therefore, anyone can legally use or reference… Read more »
Faculty resources at the library
The IU East Campus Library supports the entire IU East community – students, staff and faculty. While many of the library’s resources focus on topics of broad interest to everyone on campus, they also include materials specifically for faculty. Chronicle of Higher Education The Chronicle of Higher Education (CHE) is a weekly publication founded in… Read more »