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Try a new research aid (bX Recommender)

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UW System libraries are testing bX Recommender until Feb. 28. Try it and tell us what you think of it!

bX Recommender is a scholarly article recommender service. It suggests additional relevant articles, similar to “More Like This” or “If You Liked This, You’ll Also Like…” on sites such as Amazon. Recommendations are based on article usage by nearly 2,000 users at research institutions around the world. Learn more about it on our database trials web page.

How do you use it? After doing a search in a database or SuperSearch, just click the Find It button! However, not every article will have recommendations for additional articles, especially newer articles that not many researchers have looked at yet! See a screenshot below.

How do I provide feedback? Complete a survey at https://milwaukee.qualtrics.com/SE?SID=SV_6tfBduAXuyTqroo&SVID=Prod

Thank you!!

screenshot of bX Recommender in a Find It menu

Remembering John

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Barbara
on December 8, 2009
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John Lennon was shot to death on December 8, 1980. I always think of Lennon at this time of year, not because this is when he died, but because “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” is one of my favorite songs, and it’ll be on the radio a lot now. You also can search on YouTube to hear many, many renditions of it, including videos with Lennon’s recording.

Come Together coverAndersen Library has materials on John Lennon, if you’re interested. Search the HALCat catalog to find titles such as “I read the news today”: The social drama of John Lennon’s death (3rd-floor Main Collection, ML420.L38 F64 1994) and Come together: John Lennon in his time (3rd-floor Main Collection, ML420 .L38 W5 1991). A search of the UW System Libraries finds a recording of the Happy Xmas number on the Shaved Fish album, available to UWW students and staff through the free Universal Borrowing service. Article databases can be searched to find articles such as the front-page New York Times article “John Lennon of Beatles is killed; suspect held in shooting at Dakota” (Dec. 9, 1980).

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Pluto: Planet! Not!

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The Physic Dept.’s final Fall 2009 Whitewater Observatory Public Lecture, “Is Pluto a Planet? We debate; you decide!” will take place at 8pm on Fri., Dec. 4, in Upham Hall 140. Physics faculty Robert Benjamin and Paul Rybski will deliver a mini-lecture/mock debate. A public viewing session at Whitewater Observatory will follow the lecture at 9:15pm, weather permitting.

Pluto Files coverIf you are interested in more information about Pluto, Andersen Library has resources. Search HALCat, the library catalog, to find titles such as The Pluto files: The rise and fall of America’s favorite planet (3rd-floor Main Collection, QB701 .T97 2009). Search article databases, such as the Institute of Physics electronic journals, to find articles, e.g., “What is a Planet” (The Astronomical Journal, vol. 132, no. 6, 2006, pp. 2513-2519).

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What’s your temperament?

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Ah, tests abound, don’t they? IQ tests, communication style tests, personality tests, and of course all those tests in your classes! Well, here is a “free” personality/temperament test you can take for Friday fun:

The Keirsey Temperament Sorter®-IIKeirsey.com web page excerpt

Answer a few questions (be honest about yourself) and learn if you are a “guardian,” “artisan,” “idealist,” or “rational.” A brief report is free, but more detailed reports cost money. Good luck.

Oh, and if you’re into this sort of thing, there are more resources in Andersen Library’s collections. Search the HALCat library catalog (try the keyword search “typology psychology”) to find titles such as Please understand me: Character & temperament types by David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates (3rd Floor Main Collection, BF698 .K357 1984) and Gifts differing: Understanding personality type by the late Isabel Briggs Myers (3rd Floor Main Collection, BF698.3 .M94 1995).

Search article databases to find articles such as “The Influence of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Profiles on Team Development Processes: An Empirical Study in the Manufacturing Industry” (Small Group Research, 2009, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 436-464).

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The future of being human

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What’s to become of us? Read “Future Humans: Four Ways We May, or May Not, Evolve” by James Owens (National Geographic News, November 24, 2009). The four possibilities it briefly explores:

  • Humans are done evolving
  • Humans are still evolving
  • Transhumanism awaits (humans improved through science & technology)
  • Humans migrate to the stars, and then become affected by new, alien environments in ways we can’t predict

Our Posthuman Future coverInterested in learning more? Search library catalogs such as HALCat, Andersen Library’s catalog, and article databases. You can find books such as Our posthuman future: Consequences of the biotechnology revolution (3rd-floor Main Collection, TP248.2 .F84 2002) and Ending aging: The rejuvenation breakthroughs that could reverse human aging in our lifetime (available from UW-Milwaukee or UW-Oshkosh via the free Universal Borrowing service). You can find articles such as “Immortality 2.0” (Futurist, 2009, vol.43, no.1, pp. 34-41) and “On market forces and human evolution” (Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2007, vol. 247, no. 3, pp. 397-412).

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Quasars, Black Holes & Galaxies talk Nov. 20

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Barbara
on November 18, 2009
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Dr. Marsha Wolf, UW-Madison Astronomy Dept. research scientist, will talk about “Quasars, Black Holes and Galaxies: Which Came First?” (UWW Physics Dept.’s 4th Fall 2009 Whitewater Observatory Public Lecture) on Fri., Nov. 20, 8pm, 141 Upham Hall. Public viewing at the Whitewater Observatory will follow, weather permitting. Also enjoy Upham’s lobby exhibit, “From Earth to the Universe.”

ABSTRACT:  As a result of research using telescopes such as the Hubble Space Telescope, we know that most galaxies contain a supermassive black hole whose mass is nearly a constant fraction of its galaxy’s mass. Quasars are supermassive black holes (SBHs) consuming matter at a prodigious rate and giving off light & radio waves in proportion to the matter consumed. Most SBHs in nearby galaxies are not quasars, and quasars as a group are quite distant — implying that a SBH’s quasar phase happens early in its galaxy’s life. Some scientists theorize that SBHs, while growing in their quasar phase, control the rate of growth in mass of their galaxies. If true, which came first: the galaxy feeding the SBH, or the supermassive black hole controlling the growth of the host galaxy?

Chasing Hubbles Shadow coverRelated materials are available in Andersen Library! For example, a search of the HALCat library catalog would find titles such as Chasing Hubble’s Shadows (3rd-floor Main Collection, QB500.262 .K36 2006) and Bright galaxies, dark matters (3rd-floor Main Collection, QB857 .R83 1997). Searching the Library’s article databases, such as the Institute of Physics electronic journals, would find articles such as “Co-Evolution of Supermassive Black Hole and Host Galaxy From z ~ 1 TO z = 0” (The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 696, pp. 1051-1062, doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/696/1/1051).

The European Space Agency’s web pages devoted to the Hubble Space Telescope include the page “Black holes, quasars, and active galaxies.” You also can learn more about the Hubble Space Telescope and its accomplishments and images from NASA’s web site.

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The University Library is a federal depository with many federal, state, local, and international documents on a variety of current and relevant issues available to you in print, microfiche, CD-ROM, and electronically. Come check out your government at the University Library!

Play the CNN Challenge

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Barbara
on November 13, 2009
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Do you keep up with news from around the country and the world, or is your head stuck in the Whitewater sand? There’s a lot going on! Take the CNN Challenge and see what you know. Some questions test knowledge of old news (aka history).
CNN Challenge screenshot

Feeling like you need to learn more? There are daily newspapers to read in Andersen Library (see 2nd-floor newspaper rack for current issues), web sites of news organizations, and of course, news on radio and TV. For older topics, Andersen Library has books, videos and government publications that can be found by searching the HALCat library catalog, and articles in newspapers and magazines can be found by searching article databases such as the ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2006).

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Researching dialects?

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Barbara
on November 12, 2009
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Where can you find scholarly/peer-reviewed articles on dialects?

Try these article databases:

Soldiers’, children’s accounts of war

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UWW will honor Veterans Recognition Week (Nov. 3-11, 2009) with several events.

New York Times image of Things They Wrote OP-ED“Letters Home” on Tues., Nov. 3rd, at 7:30pm (Young Auditorium) is a performance of stories of soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan and their families. It’s inspired by The New York Times articles, The Things They Wrote.

Mon., Nov. 9, 6-8 pm: Student panel on UWW Veterans’ Firsthand Accounts (location: Involvement Center, University Center).

Wed., Nov. 11, 5 pm: Guest speaker Ben Collins shares his experience as a Green Beret in Afghanistan (location: Summers Auditorium, University Center).

When War Becomes Personal coverThere are also materials in Andersen Library. A search of HALCat, Andersen Library’s catalog, would find titles such as When war becomes personal: Soldiers’ accounts from the Civil War to Iraq (3rd-floor Main Collection, E181 .W565 2008) and Stolen voices: Young people’s war diaries, from World War I to Iraq (2nd-floor Curriculum Collection, Juvenile Non-Fiction, 302.23 Sto).

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Find the Wall Street Journal Online

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kyle
on October 19, 2009
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I’ve gotten a few questions about needing to find articles from the Wall Street Journal. Conveniently enough, we have access to WSJ back to 1984 through Proquest’s ABI/Inform.

Once you’ve gone to ABI/Inform, there are two ways in which you can search for articles from only the Wall Street Journal:

  1. Use the advanced search: in one of the boxes, enter wall street journal and then select Publication Title from the drop-down menu to the right of the search box.
  2. The Publications tab at the top allows you to view the list of newspaper, magazine and journal titles that are contained in ABI. Search for wall street journal – the resulting link will take you to a page in which you can exclusively search the WSJ.