MLA & APA citations as EBSCOhost output

Our EBSCOhost periodicals databases allow you an option of having citations printed, e-mailed, or saved as MLA or APA format. Here’s an MLA example of one of these computer-generated citations:

Patrick O'Driscoll, and Elizabeth Weise. "Green living takes root // But habits die hard." USA Today (n.d.). Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. [Library name], [City], [State abbreviation]. 9 November 2007. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=J0E333784091307&loginpage=login.asp&site=ehost-live.

You will need to change the red part (it arrived in black from EBSCOhost; red is for demonstration only) to say Southwestern College Library, Chula Vista, CA.

Also, the URL should be shortened to http://search.ebscohost.com/ to match the form most frequently used at SWC.

Even with needing to make these changes, you will find that EBSCOhost has saved you quite a bit of work in formatting your citations.

New Book - Sport in Ancient Times

One of the many new book titles available on the New Book Shelf is Sport in Ancient Times by Nigel Crowther. Call Number GV571 .C76 2007 .

This new title provides a historical overview of sport as a cultural practice around the world from about 3000 BCE to the Middle Ages. The book looks at the role of sport as practiced in several important civilizations in the ancient world.

It explores how athletics had an importance that extended beyond physical prowess to include military associations, religious ritual, status, politics, and other concerns. It also examines the Romans' love of spectator sports such as gladiatorial contests and chariot racing, looks at the status and significance of ancient athletes, the presence (or absence) of women in sports, and team sports and ball games.

You can check out Sport in Ancient Times call number GV571 .C76 2007 and our other new book titles on the New Book Shelf in the library.

Yahoo! - Time Saving Search Tips

Papers are due and Thanksgiving is just around the corner. These easy Yahoo! searches can help you with both.

Search Tips for Papers and Projects

• What does that word mean?
  Type "definition" after the word you want to define:
  'quixotic definition'
  
• What's another way to say...?
  Type "synonym" after the word:
  'quixotic synonym'
  
• I wish I could get rid of...
  Type a minus sign in front of the word you don't want.
  For example, 'Simpsons -movie' will retrieve results about The Simpsons t.v. show and other merchandise, but no results about The Simpsons movie.

Holiday Travel Shortcuts

• Traffic
  Type 'traffic' in front of a city name to go to a map of traffic alerts:
  'traffic San Diego'
  
• Flight Tracker
  Type the airline and flight number for a shortcut to the flight's status:
  'American 83' or 'Lufthansa 421'
  
• Map
  Type 'map' in front of a city name to go directly to the map:
  'map San Diego'
  You can also search a zip code to get a map of that area:
  '91910'

A Visual Internet Search Engine

Tired of sifting through text to get what you want from search engines? Well PageBull is offering visual searches. This means when you search for something the results are displayed with images.

The sites they find will appear in thumbnails across the screen.

You simply click on the image that looks best.

So, if you hate looking at results in list format, maybe you should give PageBull www.pagebull.com a try. It is an innovative approach to improving the search engine user experience on the Web

Top Shelf

by Patty Torres and Karen Smith, SWC Librarians

Book Selection
Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
Edited by Glennys Howarth and Oliver Leaman
Call# Reference HQ 1073 E543 2002

In keeping with the spirit of Halloween and “All Saints’ Day” I picked this title. This is a single volume encyclopedia with entries on all aspects of death and dying. It is arranged alphabetically by subject with both short and lengthy entries. There are some biographical entries as well. Tables and figures accompany some entries.

One can read up on such topics as the “black plague”, “bodysnatchers”, and of course on “Halloween” and “All Saints’ Day”. It also provides some peculiar entries, like “Death by Chocolate”. What is that? It’s “the name of a dessert…generally very high in cholesterol and contains generous amounts of chocolate”.

Entries provide sources for further reading and cross-referencing.
-Patty


Website Selection
U.S. Green Building Council
http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CategoryID=19

Everyone is claiming to be going green these days. Developers of new construction talk about green building, green roofs, LEED certification. What does green building really mean? Take a look at the U.S. Green Building Council’s site and find out the standards of green-ness for homes, for schools, for retail establishments, and so on.
-Karen

This Week in CQ Researcher

Mortgage Crisis by Marcia Clemmitt, November 2, 2007.

Should the government bail out borrowers in trouble?

More than 2 million borrowers will lose their homes to foreclosure because of subprime mortgage lending in recent years. With the housing market booming, lenders enticed many lower-income people into buying homes they couldn't afford by offering adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) with temptingly low initial teaser interest rates. Many loans didn't require down payments or documented proof of income.

Congress and the Bush administration are debating how to help borrowers keep their homes and whether tough, new lending standards are warranted.

• Should certain kinds of risky home loans be banned?
  
• Should the government “bail out” borrowers caught in the mortgage meltdown?
  
• Will the mortgage crisis trigger a larger financial crisis in the United States and elsewhere?

To read this article and others visit our Articles and Databases webpage http://www.swccd.edu/~library/articles.htm and click on CQ Researcher. Select the Access Off-Campus link for information on how to access this resource from off campus locations.

New 24/7 Online Reference Service

Have a question? Ask your librarian online.

Students can now receive assistance from reference librarians at Southwestern College library even if they cannot visit the library in person. And the librarians are available anytime of the day or night.

Anyone who needs help finding information may submit questions through the library’s web site . Questions are answered by librarians at Southwestern College library or by another academic librarian from another college or university participating in our worldwide network.

We now provide reference over the Web in addition to the more traditional modes of phone, email, or in-person requests for information. Our reference service spans all hours of the day or night, whether or not the physical library is open. In fact, our library is never closed to people who need information – they just enter through a different door.