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Library Web Site Update

New OPAC Look - Over the summer we have been working to improve the "look and feel" of the Library's online catalog. When you connect to http://opac.fullerton.edu from home or office, you can search the online catalog, check CSUlink for books we do not own and request them from CSUlink participating libraries like San Diego State and Cal Poly Pomona, look for journal articles in our Indexes/Abstracts/Full-Text pages, search the reserve book collection and renew books - all starting from the same web page!

One feature of the new OPAC interface may be new to you. Before you start a search you can limit that search to a specific collection within the library. For example, suppose you want to check out training videos on Microsoft products like Word, Excel, or Access. Before searching for the subject "Microsoft," you can click on Select a Collection to Search and then on AudioVisual Collection Only . The resulting list of some thirteen items includes videocassettes on PowerPoint, Office, Word, and Access. Were you to search "Microsoft" without limiting your search to the AudioVisual Collection, you would have to sort through the resulting list of 258 items to locate a videocassette.

New Indexes/Abstracts/Full-Text Web Pages - With more and more CSUF faculty and students wishing to use our electronic resources remotely from home or office, we continue to replace when possible our CD-ROM indexes with web-based equivalents. From the Library home page at http://www.library.fullerton.edu click on Indexes/Abstracts/Full-Text to see the Library's newly-remodeled electronic resources menu . On the left side of the screen you will notice that we have grouped the databases by broad subjects for your convenience. There is also a listing of just those databases that include the full text of journal articles or reference books and a list called All Databases Described which provides a fuller description of each database.

With some ninety databases now available electronically, students sometimes find the variety of choices overwhelming. In response to the need for guidance in using these resources, CSUF librarians have begun preparing a series of instructional web pages targeted at specific academic disciplines. You can see the first of these web guides on the Indexes/Abstracts/Full-Text pages if you scroll down the left frame past Library Catalog to the heading Bibliographic Instruction Pages . There are currently pages for Anthropology, Art, Biology, Environmental Studies , Kinesiology and Nursing in addition to an " Introduction to Library Research " page. These pages were prepared by Government Documents Librarian Carol Bednar, Bibliographic Instruction Coordinator Suellen Cox, and Science Reference Librarian Elizabeth Housewright.

Dow Jones Interactive and ProQuest Direct - New this fall and available from our Electronic Resources page are two major full-text electronic databases now available through the Internet: Dow Jones Interactive and ProQuest Direct .

Dow Jones Interactive is a vast archive of the world's most important business publications, reports and news. It includes:

	Business Newsstand. Recent back issues of the world's leading newspapers and selected business magazines, including a 90-day archive of real-time, continuously updated newswires.
	Dow Jones Publications Library . Full text of 5,500 leading business newspapers, magazines, trade journals and newsletters and television and radio transcripts.
	Company & Industry Center. Full-text market research and investment analysts reports on companies and industries. These reports provide detailed analysis of areas such as market share, product lines, strategy and business forecasts.

ProQuest Direct provides powerful, convenient search and retrieval to one of the world's largest collections of information, including many in full-text, full-image format.

Databases included in ProQuest Direct are:

	ABI/INFORM Global business and management database. Articles on advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, etc. Also, information on 60,000+ companies.
	ProQuest Newsstand. U.S. and international news sources including coverage of 150+ major U.S. and international newspapers such as The New York Times and the Times of London, plus hundreds of other news sources and news wires.

Jan Zlendich
Library Web Site Coordinator