BetaZone

If you go to the UNL Libraries “What’s New” page, specifically this segment, you can see a short video discussing the Betazone, and the LibX toolbar.

The Libraries is experimenting with using more video clips to make announcements and to do short tutorials.  What do you think about this idea?

PubGet {beta} is a free search engine for content in the life sciences that allows users to gain acess to full-text PDF journal content right away. It indexes nearly 20 million life science research documents, including those in PubMed(R).  If the PDF of the article is available, it is displayed in the same window to the right of the search results. For maximum functionality, users should create a free personal account with PubGet. Once located, the PDFs can be saved, managed and shared online from the PubGet account.

We are currently working on getting UNL Libraries in the list of supported institutions, so there will soon be even more articles directly available in this product.  If you do research in the life sciences, it may well be worth your time in trying this database.  If you have any feedback, just click on the black word balloon  on the top of this post and leave your comments.

The academic year has started up again, and it is time to start planning out what new things we are going to look at.

One thing that has caught my interest is creating a search widget to add to our Facebook page. Other libraries have done it with mixed results, and I want to see if it is useful to you.

Another thing that will probably be a focus this year is improving access for mobile devices. Either seeing what kind of special website formatting could be done, or maybe a even creating a full-blown app for the newer smart phones. There’s been a little bit of a buzz amongst some of the librarians here about mobile access.

Those are two of the areas that are on the top of the list. If you have any suggestions, I would love to hear them. Feel free to post a comment or contact me directly.

Hi everybody, hope the summer is treating you well.

I just wanted to drop a quick note letting you know that we’ve redone the UNL Libraries Facebook page. We had to delete the old one to get some options we wanted, so if you were a fan before - we would love to have be a fan again!

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I just wanted to post a quick note letting you all know that over the summer, posts will probably come a lot less frequently. I’ll still get a post out every once and a while, especially when we do something new, but probably not one every week.