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UP student wins intl award for building libraries in rebel hotspots

A 16-year-old Filipina Christian-Muslim won an international award for building libraries and distributing books in areas known to be hotspots of rebel and terrorist groups in the Philippines.

Arizza Ann Sahi-Nocum, the administrator of the Kristiyano-Islam Peace Library (Kris), was the first Filipina to win the prestigious Zonta International Young Women in Public Affairs Award (YWPA).

Astrophysicists report first simulation to create a Milky Way-like galaxy

"SANTA CRUZ, CA--After nine months of number-crunching on a powerful supercomputer, a beautiful spiral galaxy matching our own Milky Way emerged from a computer simulation of the physics involved in galaxy formation and evolution. The simulation by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Zurich solves a longstanding problem that had led some to question the prevailing cosmological model of the universe."  READ MORE HERE

Open Access Ebook Collections from Ebrary

Resources currently available include the following:

• New! 9/11 Searchable Information Center- In support of the 10th anniversary of September 11, ebrary is offering open access to a collection of relevant e-books through September
• East Texas Baptist University’s Bible Study Guide Commentary Series - Includes a growing selection of Bible commentaries and study aids in English, Russian, and other languages
• Breast Cancer Searchable Information Center – Includes authoritative fact sheets, posters, and other materials resulting from collaboration between librarians at ebrary and other organizations
• Cyber Bullying Searchable Information Center – Includes e-books from leading publishers subsidized by ebrary
• Natural Disaster and Extreme Weather Searchable Information Center
• Library and KM Center – Includes e-books from leading publishers subsidized by ebrary. Also includes a collection from Dr. Allen McKiel, Dean of Library and Media Services at Western Oregon University including his book Beyond tolerance: religion and global community
• H1N1 (Influenza) Searchable Information Center
• Many others to be added soon!

Student Email Accounts

If you DO NOT have your google (@bulldog.aamu.edu) email account active yet please do it quickly!  This account will also act as your authentication to our Databases from off campus.   Here's the link. 
Not only is this your official AAMU email, you'll have access to Google Docs Google's "software as a service" office suite. Never lose a document again! Work in real time with others across campus or across the country.  Documents, spreadsheets, presentations can be created with Google Docs, imported through the web interface, or sent via email. Documents can be saved to a user's local computer in a variety of formats including: (ODF, HTML, PDF, RTF, Text, Microsoft Office). Documents are automatically saved to Google's servers to prevent data loss, and a revision history is automatically kept so past edits may be viewed (although this only works for adjacent revisions, and finding changes in long documents is difficult). Documents can be tagged and archived for organizational purposes. The service is officially supported on recent versions of the Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari and Chrome browsers running on Microsoft Windows, Apple OS X, and Linux operating systems. 1 GB of storage is included for free.   Google Docs supports 15 file formats:

    * Microsoft Word (.DOC and .DOCX)
    * Microsoft Excel (.XLS and .XLSX)
    * Microsoft PowerPoint (.PPT and .PPTX)
    * Adobe Portable Document Format (.PDF)
    * Apple Pages (.PAGES)
    * Adobe Illustrator (.AI)
    * Adobe Photoshop (.PSD)
    * Tagged Image File Format (.TIFF)
    * Autodesk AutoCad (.DXF)
    * Scalable Vector Graphics (.SVG)
    * PostScript (.EPS, .PS)
    * TrueType (.TTF)
    * XML Paper Specification (.XPS)
    * Archive file types (.ZIP and .RAR)

Google Plus

Have you seen this?  Google Plus--a new social networking endeavor.  Check it out here.

BULLDOGS EMAIL SIGN UP OR HELP

I.T.S. reminds AAMU students--if  you do not know your bulldogs.aamu.edu account information  you can retrieve that information online at myAAMU under the Email tab.   This is also where you will sign up to receive your bulldogs email account.  


You will need this account to sign on remotely to Blackboard, Banner, LRC Databases (remotely)  and other important AAMU accounts. 

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Welcome Back and Welcome New Students and Faculty!

Our web page link is highly visible on the AAMU homepage.  We look forward to seeing you all this semester.   Here's a link to our databases by subject.    As our website changes you'll see more additions and new resources.

News from Science Direct: SciVerse

 

SciVerse ScienceDirect notice for Internet Explorer 6 users
Please note that, as of September 2011, SciVerse ScienceDirect will no longer be actively supporting Internet Explorer version 6 (IE6), released in 2001.
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iSpeech® develops Audio Reader for SciVerse Applications

The iSpeech Audio Reader text-to-speech application instantly converts any full-text article within SciVerse ScienceDirect into a natural sounding voice file.
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Elsevier and Molecular Connections develop two new applications

"Ask Extractor" and " Journal Trends" help researchers narrow search results.
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Never underestimate the value of data

With integrated data, researchers and librarians can capture unseen insights and initiate new, cross-disciplinary interactions.
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How can applications make a positive impact on the scientific research workflow?
Rafael Sidi, VP of SciVerse Applications and Developer Network at Elsevier explains.
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Red Tails: Tuskegee Airmen Movie coming 2012