GIL Express and InterLibrary Loan are Now Available

GIL Express and ILL are now accepting requests. Patrons should be able to log in to GIL-FIND to request items.

Please see How to Request a GIL-Express Item for more information.

For more information, please call 706-507-8670 or Ask a Librarian.

Explore the New GIL-Find

GIL-Find Instructional Videos!

Having trouble finding a book in the library? Need to find a book and other materials for class, or personal reading, and the library doesn't have it? Here's the help you've been waiting for! Our awesome librarian staff here at Schwob Memorial Library have created multiple video guides teaching how to access the content and materials you need!

Click on this link to access these videos, GIL-Find Instructional Videos

For additional assistance, please contact the CSU Libraries Information Services Reference Desk at: 706-507-8671 or you can always email a Librarian.

GIL Maintenance on September 14th

 

GIL will be down on Sunday, September 14th from 6 AM - 10 AM for maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any questions please use Email-a-Librarian or call the Research Clinic at (706)507-8671.

GIL-Find Downtime on March 11th from 7AM to 9AM

Access to GIL-Find will be disrupted on March 11th from 7AM to 9AM due to required server maintenance.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

For more information, please call the library at: 706-562-1492.

NetLibrary eBooks are Now on EBSCOhost!

CSU Libraries are happy to announce that our NetLibrary eBooks are now searchable via the EBSCOHost platform!

eBooks (at EBSCOhost), formerly known as NetLibrary, provides access to electronic books (eBooks), including reference books, scholarly monographs, publications of many university presses, and consumer books that have been converted into digital format. It is possible to perform full-text searches of a single eBook, search thousands of volumes simultaneously, browse topic categories, or read eBooks directly online.

One of the great benefits of this change is that now you can search across eBooks and other EBSCOhost content for integrated results. Other changes include the ability to browse by subject, genre, and language; use of an enhanced viewer for examining documents;

and the ability to view table of contents from the Result List and Detail Record.

You can access CSU's eBooks (at EBSCOhost) directly from GALILEO or in your results list using GIL, CSU's online catalog.

For more information about CSU's eBooks, please see our Electronic Resource Guides or Ask a Librarian.

Happy Reading!

Scheduled Downtime for GIL and GIL-Find

GIL and GIL-Find will be unavailable on March 26th from 5 AM to 7 AM due to scheduled maintenance.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

GIL Services Unavailable

Due to a power outage at the University of Georgia's Miller Learning Center, GIL services will be temporarily unavailable around noon today and later this evening.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Exciting Changes to the Oxford English Dictionary Online

The OED is updated four times a year, every March, June, September, and December. The most recent edition published on 1 December 2010 revises more than 2,400 entries and adds new words from across the dictionary.

In addition to this there are some other very exciting features.

Windows on to words: This feature allows you to see images associated with the word.

In the news: the UN conference on climate change is held at Cancun, Mexico; anniversary events mark John Lennon's murder in 1980, while England and Australia battle for the Ashes: do you know your googly from your yorker?

Word of the Day: December's featured words include digital, de-stress, mistletoe, and hootananny. Sign up to Word of the Day or follow OED Online on Twitter.

Shapers of English: Robert McCrum considers P. G. Wodehouse's contribution to English.

English in use: Eleanor Maier looks at Watergate and the language of scandal.

Word Story: Michael Proffitt, the OED's managing editor, traces the Changing the Meaning of Information

Schott's Vocab Daily Lexeme: Ben Schott selects a daily entry from the OED online for his blog in the New york Times

Also included are links for students and teachers on using the OED for research, study, and teaching.

New SciFinder Database Enhancements

We are pleased to announce new features to SciFinder that will improve productivity by accelerating research queries, providing easy access to lab preparations, and providing synthesis planning capabilities. The changes are in addition to recent upgrades we blogged about in November, you can read that post here.

In addition to presenting cleaner, more streamlined layouts, the new SciFinder features enable you to

• View experimental procedures in context with a reaction. You will be able to view experimental procedures from six American Chemical Society journals and patents from the USPTO, EPO, and WIPO, covering the period from 2005-2009. You will also be able to examine, sort, and analyze experimental procedures for applicability to their synthetic research needs and more efficiently determine lab preparations and plan synthetic pathways.

• Search structures using SMILES and InChI strings. You can now save time drawing structures by converting InChI (International Chemical Identifier) or SMILES (Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry Specification) text strings within the SciFinder drawing editor to generate graphic representations of specific substances.

• Sort search results by relevance. Reaction results can now be viewed from most to least relevant, bringing the most important information to your attention immediately.

Learn More about how to use these latest enhancements here: SciFinder (Fall 2010) (PDF)
If you haven’t used SciFinder before register here and start researching!

New to CSU Libraries: GIL-Find

CSU Libraries is proud to announce that GIL-Find is now available!

GIL-Find is an alternative interface to our GIL library catalog (which is now known as "GIL Classic").






GIL-Find includes the exact same information as GIL Classic, however, it is an "alternative view" that includes many Web 2.0 features, such as facets to narrow searches, tagging, and suggestions for similar items.

We encourage you to try GIL-Find. It is linked from the homepage of GIL Classic.

You can also find more information about GIL-Find online at: http://gil.usg.edu/html/aboutgilfind.html.

Please do not hesitate to contact CSU Libraries if you have any questions about GIL-Find. We hope to make some instructional videos available to help you get the most of what GIL-Find has to offer.