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Another option for users is to create a unique User ID, which will allow them to create and save "Playlists" of both full length videos and video seg- ments to share with their classes. For an example of what a Playlist looks like, see this example . In this playlist, notice that the first video on the playlist is only a "segment". Users have the option of show- ing entire videos or selecting specific segments, it’s all up to you. — Ron Hardy Polk Library has arranged for institutional access to "Films on Demand", a state of the art streaming video platform that makes it easy to incorporate educational films from Films Media Group (including Films for the Humanities and Sciences) into D2L, library course pages, in class or via email to your students. Several thousand documen- taries covering topics in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Business & Economics, Sci- ence & Mathematics, and Health & Medicine are in- cluded in the collection. These films are licensed for classroom use as well as for student, staff and faculty research. There is no need to download or install any software - the films are all viewed online. Films on Demand can be ac- cessed from the Polk Library home page from a link in the lower left, or from the drop down list of resources on the center of the Polk Library web site. Accessing Films on Demand through the Library website will authenticate off campus users. That is, they will have to enter their Titan- Mail user name and pass- word to see the film. Alternately, users can copy and paste a unique ―Title URL‖ to a single video to place on D2L or send by email to their students. With these ―title URLs‖ users do not need to be on campus nor authenticated to view the films, making it ideal for distance education courses. Please note that there is a URL, found at the bottom of a film’s page in the Films on Demand Collection and the URL across the top of the website. What you want to embed in D2L or in an email to your students is the Title URL. Select the link in the box at the end of this article to watch a short how - to video. RELIABLE INFORMA TION - REAL SERVICE - RIGHT NOW April 2010 Issue 47 POLK LIBRARY NEWS In this issue: Films on Demand Women’s History Month Institutional Repository Peer Review Staff News Updates … and more At a glance: Films on Demand National Library Week is April 11th through 17th, 2010. Polk Library is celebrating with our 6th Annual Book Sale , which takes place on April 13th and 14th, across from the check out desk. Stop by to find a book that you love …and don’t Books are sold for $.50 each and 3 for a $1.00. When using Films on Demand, how can you tell which URL to embed? There is a special Title URL that allows students to view films directly, with fewer clicks. Here is a two minute video to show you how to find the Title URL in our Films on Demand Collection: http://screencast.com/t/ NmQ0ZTdk Students often find it difficult to distinguish between peer reviewed journals and non - refereed periodi- cals for class research assign- ments. Many of Polk Library's online databases allow the user to limit their results to only peer - reviewed materials, but some do not. If users do not set this limit before they search it is difficult to tell from the search results page whether a particular article is from a peer reviewed journal. They would have to know to look for the peer review status on the journal’s infor- mation page. Not being readily able to find a journal’s peer re- viewed status can be frustrating for faculty as well, when considering where to send out articles for publication. The database Science Direct, for instance, does not offer the option to limit to peer reviewed returns nor does it always offer the peer re- viewed status on the journal information page. To help patrons find what they need, Polk Library has enhanced the journal title search feature found on the library home page. Now when you use the search box following the words ―Know the name of a specific journal and want to know if we get it?‖ Title search results include a new link. Next to most titles, the "Is this Peer Reviewed?" link appears and one can simply click the link to find out if the journal is peer reviewed. The data is provided by an OCLC WorldCat web service, based on an original version by Karen Coombs of LibraryWebChic.net. For those journals that World- Cat does not provide information for, librarian contact information appears. Patrons can call the reference desk or chat online with a librarian to get a definitive answer. Please contact me with any questions, feedback, or other suggestions on how we can help students understand the library's academic resources. - By Maccabee Levine provided by University of Wisconsin - Madison Space Science and Engineering Center and Culvers’ flavor of the day module. Polk’s application was developed by library staff in conjunction with MIO, Resident Life’s Manage- ment Information Office. In addition to the custom searches, Polk’s applica- tion allows students to add one - click access to their The UWO Student Por- tal , called MyUWO, now includes a Polk Library application. In addition to other useful applications, such as the current weather or current bandwidth usage, the Polk Library application allows for DVD and Leisure Reading collec- tion searches. Modules are also available, such as the Road Conditions Module with information library course pages and displays their library card num- ber. MyUWO is not just for students, however. Faculty and staff can access the portal by logging in with their Titan mail username and password. The portal can be cus- tomized with your choice of module or widget, similar to Google’s iGoogle home page. Online access to the 16 - digit TitanCard ID number is especially useful. All library patrons use that number to initiate Interlibrary Loans and request materials though Universal Borrowing, both accessible from the front page of Polk Library’s website. How to add the application to your my UWO portal: http://screencast.com/t/MmFjNGI1N Peer reviewed articles made easier to find Student Portal increases access to Polk Page 2 POLK LIBRARY NEWS For journal title searches that return 10 or fewer results, all peer reviewed titles are indicated automatically, without having to click ―Is this Peer Reviewed?‖ Thanks to Cody Thimm, one of our STEP - funded Library Web Developer interns, for building this new tool for our patrons. Every year, it seems that there is a proliferation of disasters — floods, torna- dos, mudslides, wildfires, earthquakes and hurri- canes which sometimes affect us locally, nation- ally and internationally. American citizens are sometimes rendered homeless without the basic necessities that we take for granted or are stranded by such a disas- ter in a foreign country. In response to the need to assist our residents and citizens a federal government web site has been created. The site, which is a E - government initiative, is designed to assist victims of disasters determine what government assis- tance programs they are eligible for and outline what steps need to be taken to apply for that assistance. The site pro- vides links to various agencies of government that offer such assis- tance. On the site is a link, lo- cated in the center of the page, that offers the op- tion to fill out a question- naire to determine the assistance needs or one to begin the application process immediately. Visitors to the page can use the three tabs at the top of the page to find key information. The first tab is for disaster assistance, the next for disas- ter information, and the last for foreign disasters, to be used by American citizens affected by dis- asters in foreign countries. The web site, with it’s no nonsense common- sense and attractive design should prove to be invaluable for disaster victims and survivors. - Mike Watkins DisasterAssistance.gov Page 3 ISSUE 47 Women’s History Month, with Snapshots from UW Oshkosh History A Day Without Feminism is an annual event that strives to make students (and staff) think about how their lives on campus have been affected by the advances of the feminist movement. It serves as a kick off to women’s history month activities. Over the past several years, under- graduate history interns, working in the University Archives department of Polk Library, have researched and written for an online, satirical history exhibit that imagines this University at four periods in its 139 year history. The exhibit presents four different ―websites‖ from these periods, each with information documenting how women (and men) were treated on campus in the areas newspaper clippings and documents, all culled from the archives’ collections are used — with humor — to show how college life has changed as the women’s movement progressed. Visit the exhibit at http://www.uwosh.edu/march1/ This year, to promote the site, students and archives staff teamed up with Radio, TV and Film students and faculty to produce a four minute history ―moment‖ (because it’s longer than a min- ute!) that can be viewed via YouTube. The program highlights each of the four eras through the testimony of a fictional female student from the time. Each concentrates on a different aspect of their lives on campus in Oshkosh. View the video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw - n0BxT1ek . The web site DisasterAssis- tance.gov can be accessed at : http://www.disasterassistance.gov/ daip_en.portal Reliable information - real service - right now. Page 4 project was undertaken to get permission from thesis, field pro- ject and clinical paper authors to digitize their work for inclusion into the repository. Many authors agreed and a significant portion of Masters projects submitted in 2008 were digitized and added. Undergraduate work is also housed in the repository, in the form of UW Oshkosh Scholar arti- cles. Digital repositories are intended to hold scholarly research and make it more freely accessible. In MINDS@UW Oshkosh, there is a distinct lack in the repository of scholarship produced by profes- sors. This is true for most reposi- tories, which were created with the idea that professors would flock to open - access ideals and create, describe, deposit and maintain their scholarly communi- cation. It has not come to pass, for a variety of reasons. Yet the idea to make scholarship more freely accessible is still a good one and repositories can offer durable links for ease of citation and retrieval as well as functioning as an archive. All UW schools participate in the state wide digital repository sys- tem, which is an online space holding scholarly work. The types of items in institutional repositories include articles published by pro- fessors, undergraduate and graduate scholarship and theses and dissertations. The beauty of an institutional repository is that it is fully searchable online, so that anyone with an internet connec- tion may search for and find freely accessible scholarly work. The work of the library with regard to institutional repositories is two - fold. First, librarians generate the metadata that makes it easy for search engines like Google to find items in the repository. Second, libraries encourage items to be added and publicize the contents of their respective repository col- lections. The majority of items that reside in MINDS @ UW Osh- kosh are Masters Degree projects. Beginning in 2009, two copies of all theses are submitted – one digital, one in print – and the digi- tal copy is housed in the reposi- tory. The print version is archived at Polk Library, as is a copy of every thesis since UW Oshkosh began granting them. A special Our Institutional repository: MINDS@UW Oshkosh Polk staff updates: The staff would like to thank the workers who helped with the check out and lobby area renova- tions and refurbishment over the last two semesters. Access Services staff member Crystal Buss graduated from UWM’s School of Information Studies in December 2009. Access Services staff member Eric Graczkowski began his School of Information Studies degree program at UWM in January 2010. Collection Development Librarian Ron Hardy is the current Interim Head of Access Services. The search to replace retired librarian Jeanne Foley in that position is in progress. Outreach Services Librarian Ciara Healy guest edited the Winter 2010 issue of the journal Library Trends on the topic of Media Librarianship. Also appearing in that issue is her article entitled UW Oshkosh: 33,192 hits (84 items, averaging 395 hits per item) UW Milwaukee: 35,651 hits (122 items, averaging 292 hits per item) UW Madison: 768,333 hits (7118 items, averaging 108 hits per item) The repository system will not replace publication or peer review, but it can work along- side it to increase and pre- serve access, which is in and of itself worthwhile. So, please consider submitting your digital or digitized work to MINDS@UW Oshkosh. Questions about negotiating permissions for already pub- lished work can be directed to Deb Duncan, MINDS@UW Oshkosh’s repository manager.