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Graduate Student Workshop: Learn RefWorks Citation Manager

By Michael Yunkin on September 26, 2012 4:18 PM | Permalink

Learn how to create citations and lists of works cited in the various citation styles using RefWorks. This web-based bibliography manager lets you save citations to journal articles, books, web sites and more into your personal online database. You'll be able to quickly link to online articles, organize and share your references, and create formatted bibliographies in all major citation formats; APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.

Wednesday, October 3, 4:00 - 5:00 pm,
Lied Library, Pioche Room.
Limited to 24 participants!

Please register by going to: https://cedwebserver.unlv.edu/wconnect/cfpo/home.htm

Workshop presented by Rachelle Weigel, Research & Education Division, University Libraries. For information, 895-2147 or rachelle.weigel@unlv.edu

Internet Explorer Users: Potential Website Problems

By Michael Yunkin on September 12, 2012 2:03 PM | Permalink
Some users of Internet Explorer have reported problems viewing portions of the new Libraries website (for example, the list of databases page). These problems have been fixed, but because of the way Internet Explorer works, your browser may not know that they've been fixed!

Here's how you can rectify the situation:

The Issue:
Your browser is displaying the site in Compatibility Mode or Quirks Mode, making it ignore some of the placement rules we've used on the website. This causes everything to look jumbled, and some things to not display at all.

The Fix:
  1. Visit a page that's not rendering properly
  2. Click F12, which will give you a new menu about halfway down the screen.
  3. Under Browser Mode, choose "Internet Explorer 9" (this should automatically change your Document Mode to "IE9 Standards")

New Database Trials!

By Michael Yunkin on September 4, 2012 1:50 PM | Permalink
September always brings with it some exciting new database trials, and this year is no exception.

For the next month, UNLV students and faculty are encouraged to take advantage of temporary access to:
  • Black Studies Center
  • NAACP Papers
  • Social Explorer
  • Oxford Bibliographies Online
Access to--and descriptions of--each of these is available from our database trials page.

Don't forget to also fill out the form on that page and let us know if you think UNLV Libraries should purchase permanent access to these databases!