New Databases & Changes

Polk Library has made a number of new electronic resources and databases available to you beginning August 1, 2009. We are very excited about these additions, please see the list below.

However we have also either cancelled or lost access to several previously held electronic resources as well. If you had a smart link to articles or databases in course pages, D2L, electronic reserves to one of the resources that we no longer have access to, it will no longer work. In the case of course pages, it has been removed.

Contact Ron Hardy (424-2097, hardyr@uwosh) if you have any questions regarding this.

New Electronic Resources to Polk Library (Summer 2009)

• Alt Health Watch
• Business Source Premier;
• Education Administration Abstracts
• Education Research Complete;
• Film & Television Literature with Full Text;
• Gale’s LitFinder;
• Green File
• Historical Abstracts;
• History Reference Center;
• Humanities International Complete;
• LGBT Life with Full Text;
• Literary Reference Center;
• MEDLINE with Full Text;
• Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies;
• Morningstar Investment Research Center;
• The Music Index
• Oxford African American Studies Center;
• Points of View Reference Center;
• Political Science Complete;
• Public Administration Abstracts;
• Reference USA – Business information and market analysis;
• Science Reference Center
• SocINDEX with Full Text;
• Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide;

Electronic Resources Polk Library No Longer Has Access To (Summer 2009)

• Cambridge Sociological Abstracts
• Corporate Resource Net
• Earthscape
• McClatchy-Tribune Collection
• Mergent Online
• Newspaper Source
  
• RILM
• Social Services Abstracts
  
• Wilson Web (Applied Science & Technology FT, Art FT, Business FT, Education FT, General Science FT, Humanities FT, Readers Guide FT, Social Sciences FT, Wilson Omni File)

Wireless Printing on Campus!

Academic Computing has introduced Wireless Printing! Visit their site to download printing software for your laptop. Printing for Macs is coming soon.

Install the wireless printing on your own laptop, or check out a laptop from the Circulation Desk. They already have wireless printing available on them!

Instructions:

1. Use your laptop and go to the Academic Computing Site to Download the File. Click on the logo that says "UW Oshkosh Wireless Printing"
   
2. Click Save File. The filename being saved to your computer is: "ITPRINTS-UWO-WIRELESS-PRINT-for-W2K.exe"
3. Choose a place to save the file, such as the Desktop.
4. Go to the desktop and double click on the file to begin installation.
5. Ignore any warnings about the file ITPRINTS-UWO-WIRELESS-PRINT-for-W2K.exe
6. Select Install to begin.
7. When the software has installed successfully, select Finish.

After installing the wireless printing software, you will be able to print to a campus printing release station, such as the one in Polk 101 (1st floor South) or the Computer Lab (1st floor North).

From the software menu of the document you wish to print, select:

File/Print

1. Select UWO Wireless Print from the Printer Name menu. (see below), Click OK
2. A box labeled Print Job Details will pop up (see below). Login with your computer lab (Novell) username & password. Your username is the same as your email username. Your password is your 7 digit campus ID, unless you have elected to change it.
3. Click Print
   

At the print release station:

• Login with the same computer lab username/password that you used to send the job to the printer.
• Select Print to send your document to the printer.

If you have problems with your username/password, please contact Academic Computing 424-3020 or acshelp@uwosh.edu. Also contact Academic Computing if you are having any problems with the wireless printing.

Check Out a Calculator

Did you come to the library and forget your calculator? You can check out a calculator at the Circulation Desk. We have 4 Texas Instruments calculators available for check-out. You can check them out for 3 hours with your TitanCard. The models we have are the TI-30X IIS and the TI-83 Plus .

Reserve a Group Study Room!

Need a place to study with your group? Want to spread out your materials on big tables? Reserve the Group Study Room on 2nd floor North for your group of 3 - 15 people. The room can be reserved for up to 2 hours.

Click here to reserve it online or call 424-7316. You can request a date up to 7 days in advance.

There is also a smaller room available.