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Library Web Site Highlights

**//[|Journal Finder]//**

 * Search by journal title to find databases providing full text access


 * **//[|Weblinks]//**: Through professional reading, constant internet searching, and collaboration with colleagues and faculty, the librarians at Ursuline often find academic resources we feel would be useful to our students. When one of us discovers a potential //Weblink//, we share the site with each other and with faculty from the pertinent college department. After evaluating the content and authority of the site, we determine through consensus whether the site is worthy of inclusion as a //Weblink//.


 * //**Assignment Help Center**//: The AHC is really a separate website linked to the Library website. The content on these pages is created by our librarians to support specific topics or assignments. When you create an assignment with a research component, our staff will create a web page for your students to guide them to the appropriate resources.
 * **Click here to explore the Nursing Resource Center**


 * **It's easy to connect your students to resources in //Weblinks// and/or in the //Assignment Help Center// through ANGEL.**Insert links in your course materials to point your students directly to the best resources.
 * There are two main places to add links to websites in **ANGEL**:
 * ======**[|Content tab - click here for video tutorial]**======
 * **Note: when adding a Content link, change the drop-down menu option to "link target" in a new window**
 * ======**[|Resources tab - click here for the video tutorial]**======

Managing Online Content Keeping track of all the "Good Stuff"

1. Site by site monitoring and registration - Databases

 * Sign up for "My..." services: MyNCBI (PubMed), Ebsco personal account, MyEJC, Cochrane (Wiley InterScience), etc. [|Proquest] does not offer registered user accounts, but every search result screen provides an option to set up an email alert or an RSS feed for that search.
 * In addition to search and content alerts, registering for an account allows you to save searches. You can rerun the search, and/or combine it with new search terms or limits.

2. Create a central storage site - Web Sites

 * One option: "Favorites" or "bookmarks" on your own computer
 * Favorites and feeds in Internet Explorer
 * Bookmarks and Live Bookmarks in Firefox
 * Or, to access your bookmarks from any Internet-connected computer, get a free account on a website like Delicious, Digg, Diigo, or StumbleUpon. So many to choose from! Sample some from this list.
 * Use tags to easily locate your favorite web pages.

3. RSS Aggregators / Feed Readers

 * Software applications such as FeedDemon and FeedReader are free to download to your PC
 * Or, to access your feeds from any Internet-connected computer, register for a free web-based aggregator such as [|Bloglines] or [|Google Reader].
 * If you see this logo [[image:rss_logo.JPG]] on a web page or database search result, you can establish a feed in your preferred Feed Reader.