Now online: Mental Measurements Yearbook and Tests in Print

We are now subscribing to Mental Measurements Yearbook and Tests in Print online.

According to the database help guide, ”the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. All MMY entries contain descriptive information (e.g., test purpose, publisher, pricing) and edited review(s) written by leading content area experts. To be included in the MMY, a test must be commercially available, be published in the English language, and be new or revised since it last appeared in the series.”

The Tests in Print help guide states that it is a “comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s). A score index permits users to identify what is being measured by each test. Tests in Print is directly linked to the critical, candid test reviews published in the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) series. Users can research current test information from the TIP series and continue their search to all available test reviews published in the MMY series. Tests in Print is an indispensable reference for professionals in areas such as education, psychology, business, as well as those interested in the critical issues of tests and testing.”

Business database trials

There are trials to five (count ‘em - five) business databases up on the Database Trials page.

Please take a look if you have a need for company, industry, market, or marketing information; and please fill out the Database Trial Evaluation form if you would like to provide feedback.

Whose Story Gets Told? Human Rights and the Power of Records

On June 19th at 6:00 pm in the State Farm Lecture Hall of the BAS, there will be a panel discussion regarding the accuracy of historical records.

See more information at The Record online, “Human Rights“

International Folkfest at MTSU

Enjoy International Music and Dance!!

International Folkfest Comes to MTSU
FREE PERFORMANCES IN FRONT OF THE MTSU LIBRARY AT 1:30 PM DAILY

Tuesday, June 12th - Italy - Italian dancers at DNJ

Wednesday, June 13th - The Netherlands - Netherlands dancers

Thursday, June 14th - India - Indian Dancers

www.mboro-international-Folkfest.org

MTSU registers with Google Scholar

Google Scholar (scholar.google.com) Our Google registration is automatically available if you are working on an MTSU computer or a personal computer logged into the campus network. If you are working from off campus you will need to set “Scholar Preferences” from a link at the right of the search box. Search for and select Middle Tennessee State University as your preferred library. Open Worldcat should also be selected. When using Google Scholar you will find that many of the items returned will provide a link to “Fulltext @ MTSU.” That will take you into our Article Linker tool to connect to one of our subscribed databases. Please remember that the articles and other materials that you find by this pathway are paid for by MTSU. Google is only providing the indexing. You also need to remember that many of our subscribed databases are not indexed by Google (and they don’t reveal which are). If you’re not finding what you need, you will probably have better luck using our Research Guides by Subject to find the best tools.

Some returns in Google Scholar will be for books instead of online documents. For those returns you will see a link below the citation for “Library search.” If Walker Library owns the book we will be the first library listed, followed by other libraries that are near by, such as Vanderbilt or Nashville Public Library. If we don’t own the book you will see a link for “Request through ILL” at the top of the page. This will allow you to submit a request to Walker Library’s Interlibrary Loan service.

Try it and let us know how you like it.

New: Blackwell journals online

Walker Library recently added more than 700 new fulltext electronic journals to its collection through a subscription to collections from Blackwell Publishing: the Humanities and Social Sciences and Science, Technology and Medicine collections. Many of these are published by Blackwell on behalf of leading professional and scholarly societies.

Browse journals in your discipline.

Logging on to computers

Starting today, you will need to log in to use public computers in the library. If you are a student, staff, or faculty member, you may log in using your Pipeline username and password. If you are a guest, or if you do not have a Pipeline account, you may obtain a guest password from the Service Desk on the first floor of the library.