University Library News

Going out of town after classes finish?  Need something to listen to on the long flight or drive? We’ve just posted a guide to finding...

Western Illinois University Libraries is offering its new “Text Me” service, through which students can text reference call numbers to their mobile phones. Would you...

OVC has released “Victims With Disabilities: Collaborative, Multidisciplinary First Response” This training guide and DVD provide techniques for first responders helping crime victims who have...

The lead article in “NIJ Journal No. 262”  examines the underground criminal industry of sex trafficking and identifies promising practices for recognizing victims and investigating...

New features of this database include the following: Five-year journal impact factors Impact factors with self-citations removed Eigenfactor metrics, which delineate the influence of journals that...

This report from HHS’ Administration of Children and Families indicates that an estimated 794,000 children were determined to be victims of maltreatment in 2007, down...

This issue includes articles on a client’s suicide during field placement; art and photo therapy; self-determination in ethics; building private practice; and job searching strategies,...

ticTOCs Journal Tables of Contents Service is a free site that monitors over 12,000 scholarly journals to alert researchers to new items.  Readers can subscribe...

Are you a Eudora Welty fan?  If not, you could be!  The 100th anniversary of her birthday is Monday, April 13, 2009.  To help celebrate,...

This news release summarizes research related to genetic on/off mechanisms; autism and the developing brain; child maltreatment and health; and short-term treatment for ADHD.