The Chronicle of Higher Education: new library subscription!

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Fuller Library is pleased to announce its new online subscription to The Chronicle of Higher Education, a top destination for news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.

The institution-level subscription allows for unlimited simultaneous users and provides access to current and archival content beginning with 1989.
Visit The Chronicle’s Newsletter (Web Page) to sign up for Academe Today, Weekly Briefing, Jobs, and other area of interest.

Also, our mobile users can set up a domain access to access The Chronicle of Higher education on IPAD, tablet, or smartphone by following the vendor’s mobile instructions (PDF).

JSTOR eBooks @ Fuller Library

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JSTOReBooks

Fuller Library is pleased to announce the addition of over 9,500 eBooks to our JSTOR collections. The new interdisciplinary collection includes books published in the fields of religion, psychology, philosophy, sociology, history,  anthropology, and archaeology.

JSTOR eBooks can be accessed via JSTOR’s one search integrated plaform, along with the JSTOR subscription journals.

Just a reminder that you will need to login to JSTOR using the Institution Login option.  For login help, please visit our FAQ pages.

Recent Additions to Fuller Library (January 2013)

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Psychology Browse our new titles for Jan 2013!

While we will publish the monthly lists on our blog,  you can also subscribe to the latest addition feeds on the same page, or bookmark or share the list.
Just a  reminder that the monthly lists reflect not only purchased items but also gift books which might not be recently published.

To search for specific books held by the library, visit our library catalog and limit by books or ebooks.

Open access to The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences database

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The Chinese National Social Sciences provides free open access to its content. The National Social Sciences Database contains full text articles from 842 journals. It covers Marxism, economics, international issues, social sciences, law, literature, philosophy and history.

国家哲学社会科学学术期刊数据库提供842 种期刊全文, 是在中共中央宣传部、中国社会科学院、全国哲学社会科学规划办公室领导下，承建的公益性期刊数据平台. 它覆盖了马克思主义、经济、国际、社会政法、文哲、史学等哲学社会科学主要研究领域。

New Ministry Matters database to replace iPreach!

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MinistryMattersMinistry Matters  formerly known as  IPreach, was recently launched by the United Methodist Publishing House, to replace iPreach.
The newly revamped database provides full text access to Biblical reference works, commentaries, and lectionary tools. Commentary series include: The New Interpreter’s Bible, Interpretation Commentaries, Abingdon Old Testament and New Testament, and many more.  Ministry Matters describes itself as a “community of resources for church leaders.”

Please note the database is listed on Fuller Library’s databases page, and Fuller Seminary users will need to sign in with their Portico accounts as usual. A “Purchased” sign should accompany any individual titles from the collection, once you are authenticated. For more information you can take view their short tutorial.  Also, faculty and student interested in submitting articles (750-1500 words) about subjects relevant to church leaders: preaching, teaching, worship planning, leadership, outreach may submit by email to editorial@ministrymatters.com.

American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection

Alyson Thomas

sampleAAS_GeorgeWashington_1024The Library invites Fuller community to explore the five series of American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection. Developed by EBSCO in  with American Antiquarian Society (AAS), the historical series provides digital access to the most comprehensive collection of American Periodicals published between 1691 and 1877.

Over seven million pages from more than 7,600 periodicals are available full text.

To explore the collection, please visit our  Library’s Trial Databases pages at: https://library.fuller.edu/library/trial_databases.asp.

American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection

Alyson Thomas

The Library invites Fuller community to explore the five series of American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection. Developed by EBSCO in  with American Antiquarian Society (AAS), the historical series provides digital access to the most comprehensive collection of American Periodicals published between 1691 and 1877.  Over seven million pages from more than 7,600 periodicals are available full text.

To explore the collection, please visit our  Library’s Trial Databases pages at: https://library.fuller.edu/library/trial_databases.asp.

American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection

Alyson Thomas

sampleAAS_GeorgeWashington_1024The Library invites Fuller community to explore the five series of American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection. Developed by EBSCO in  with American Antiquarian Society (AAS), the historical series provides digital access to the most comprehensive collection of American Periodicals published between 1691 and 1877.  Over seven million pages from more than 7,600 periodicals are available full text.

To explore the collection, please visit our  Library’s Trial Databases pages at: https://library.fuller.edu/library/trial_databases.asp.

Explore and evaluate the new African American Historical Serials Collection!

Alyson Thomas

sample2_ATLASerialsFuller community is invited to explore and evaluate the new African American Historical Serials Collection a unique digital collection documenting the cultural and religious life of African Americans in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The collection, featuring more than 60,000 pages of primary source content is preserved and curated by American Theological Association (ATLA) and provided by EBSCO’s Historical Digital Archives.

To explore the collection, please visit our  Library’s Trial Databases pages at: https://library.fuller.edu/library/trial_databases.asp.

Turnitin & Moodle: integration and support changes!

Alyson Thomas

We are happy to announce that Turnitin now integrates with Moodle, Fuller’s Course Management System.

To consolidate and integrate support and services, beginning January 2013 Fuller’s Distributed Learning (DL) staff will offer full support and training for Turnitin.
You can visit DL’s YouTube channel for an overview of the new Turnitin functionality within Moodle at : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoHPeWDT_8k&feature=youtu.be

The Faculty guide to Turnitin as well as the Student’s Turnitin help pages are in the process of being updated in preparation for the upcoming changes.

Please feel free to contact our friendly Distributed Learning Team at: moodle-admin@fuller.edu.