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Have you ever had trouble finding where to search for dissertations and theses?

Here’s a quick list of places to find them. You can find them on the Databases A-Z page under “C” (for Clemson), “D” (for Dissertations & Theses), “P” (for the two databases we get from ProQuest), and “T” (for Theses & Dissertations).

There are also links to the databases on the “Finding Dissertations and Theses” page, which is linked on the Where Can I Find? page and the site index under “D” and “T.”

We hope this helps!

Credo Reference recently added the following new titles:

• A-Z of Social Research, from Sage UK
• Cambridge Handbook of Age and Ageing, from Cambridge University Press
• Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World: Locations
• Dictionary of Race, Ethnicity & Culture, from Sage UK
• Dictionary of Sociolinguistics, from Edinburgh University Press
• Feminist Philosophies A-Z, from Edinburgh University Press
• Guide to Economic Indicators, from M.E. Sharpe
• Key Concepts in Medical Sociology, from Sage UK
• Key Concepts in Urban Studies, from Sage UK
• Key Concepts in Work, from Sage UK
• Sage Dictionary of Cultural Studies, from Sage UK
• Social Science Jargon-Buster, from Sage UK

The library is looking for a few creative men and women. We are starting a 3-year study of what Clemson University’s library should become. You can help shape the library of 2015!

Skill building (resume-building) work will include:

• survey design, collection and analysis
• other opinion sampling and “product testing”
• space planning and usability
• interior design
• project management
• marketing communication
• information research and report writing
• presentations to campus and national audiences

If you are interested in being on this creative inquiry team, please contact Peggy Tyler (ptyler@clemson.edu)

RefWorks-COS is pleased to announce that the Alumni Program will now be offered as a standard feature of RefWorks, providing lifelong access to users that are alumni of subscribing institutions. As long as an institution subscribes to RefWorks, alumni will have access, allowing them to continue using their personal research databases for future professional and academic endeavors.

Read more about the Alumni Program here (opens a pdf).

No, it’s not that kind of loan; but you can get books and articles. If the Clemson University Libraries do not have a book or article that you need, just fill out an ILL form and we’ll get it for you.

Read all about how to get materials on ILL here.

Be sure and pay close attention the section on textbooks. We can’t get those!

PubMed, comprises more than 19 million citations for biomedical articles from MEDLINE and life science journals. Citations may include links to full-text articles from PubMed Central or publisher web sites.

When you search for articles in PubMed, your terms are now automatically “ANDing.” For example: children exercise is searched as children AND exercise.

Exact phrases require quotes around them. For example: “exercise induced asthma”.

We now have World Folklore and Folklife – a database of folk traditions from around the world that includes:

• Celebrations and Rituals
• Food and Drink
• Holidays and Festivals
• Music and Dance
• Religion and Belief
• Tales, Myths, and Urban Legends
• Traditional Arts and Crafts

It’s linked on the Databases A-Z list.

Through Discus, we have three new career or career-related databases:

Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center
Learning Express Library
Vocations, Careers, and Technical Education Collection.

You can find all three databases on the Databases A-Z list:

To gather all our career resources together, there’s now a “Career Information” page which is linked on the Research by Subject page.

On the Where Can I Find page, you can find a link for “Graduate School Admission Exams” and linked it back to the section on the Career Information page that has the Learning Express Library, because this database allows you to take practice GMAT, GRE, LSAT, and MCAT exams.

RefWorks is a web-based tool for managing your bibliography – easy to use and accessible from any computer. Keep track of all your citations in RefWorks and format papers with ease using Write & Cite in Microsoft Word. Clemson has a campus wide subscription to RefWorks; sign in with your Clemson UserID and password (the first time you log in you must be on campus).

I am off campus. It asks for a Group Code. Help?

You can use RefWorks from off campus after you’ve set up an account but you need the Group Code to identify yourself as a Clemson user. Find it here.

Need help using RefWorks? Ask a Librarian! Or contact Bobby Hollandsworth, our RefWorks Coordinator (hollan4@clemson.edu; (864) 656-3118).

We have a new database, Literature Online – a library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 243 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources

You can see it on the Databases A-Z page and the Literature & Film: Full-Text Collections page.