Category: Feature

  • Call for Submissions to Featured Collections

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    What would you feature in this spot on our homepage?

    In order to better represent the magnitude and diversity of materials the Libraries hold, we are opening up the Featured Collections block on the Rutgers University Libraries homepage to submissions. We can include a photograph and a brief description of a physical or digital collection or other materials you think will be of interest to our users.

    To be included, please send Mary Ann Koruth an image with a caption and a description with a link (if available) to any item that you feel deserves to be showcased on the homepage. These could include photographs, prints, videos, maps, books, collections, items relating to science and medicine, oddities from the archives–you name it.

    We’d like to extend a special thanks to Caryn Radick and Tara Maharjan in Special collections in Alexander, for the wealth of material they have brought to our notice over the past years.

    Please take some time to peruse through collections in your specialty and send in a submission that grabs your eye and piques your interest!

  • Win a copy of Tom Glynn’s award-winning book, Reading Publics

    Win a copy of Tom Glynn’s award-winning book, Reading Publics

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    As you may have noticed in the Staff News, Tom Glynn’s new book, Reading Publics: New York City’s Public Libraries, 1754-1911, has won three major awards:

    His publisher, Fordham University Press, was kind enough to give us a review copy of his book for a giveaway. This giveaway is only for faculty, staff, student workers, interns, and other employees of Rutgers University Libraries. See below for details on how to enter. You can receive up to 3 entries if you complete all three actions:

     

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  • New research impact panel

    New research impact panel

    altmetricsCheck out the new Research Impact panel on the Information for Researchers and Scholarly Communications website: http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/services_researchers. Intended for the libraries users, it includes an overview of traditional citation analysis tools and metrics, as well as an Altmetrics description and useful links.

    Send any questions about scholarly metrics to: scholarlyimpact@rulmail.rutgers.edu.

  • 5 Things to Know about the New RefWorks:

    5 Things to Know about the New RefWorks:

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    1) ProQuest is merging RefWorks and Flow into a single platform known as the new RefWorks. Flow users have automatically been moved to the new platform. RefWorks users can choose to upgrade by logging into their account and clicking “Move to the newest version of RefWorks.”

    2) Notable features of the new RefWorks include the ability save references and full text with the click of a button, automated recognition of uploaded documents, auto-completion of references, integration with Google Docs and Dropbox, and built-in document reading, highlighting, and annotation.

    3) The old RefWorks platform is scheduled to be retired by January 2018. However, Rutgers users will be migrated to the new platform some time before then. The exact date has yet to be determined. Until then, Rutgers users will continue to have access to both versions of RefWorks.

    4) Although it offers many new features, the new RefWorks does not have all of the same features as the old RefWorks. Features that are currently not available include support for multiple file attachments, public sharing, folder-level deduping, and global citation editing. The new RefWorks is also not fully compatible with older versions of Internet Explorer as well as Microsoft Word for Mac 2016. ProQuest continues to add features and functionality to the new RefWorks and aims to have full parity by late 2016.

    5) For more information see the RefWorks FAQ on the library website or the Upgrade FAQ on the RefWorks support site.