News July 2009

Readers Guide Retrospective Has Been Added to the Databases Page
Readers Guide Retrospective, covering a wide range of subject areas, is an excellent source for studying U.S. popular culture in the 20th century. It will help you locate articles from about 375 different general interest periodicals published from 1890 through 1982. The article text, online or in print, can be found using MultiLink from within the database.

Biography Index Retrospective Has Been Added to the Databases Page
Biography Index Retrospective, contains citations to biographical resources for about 300,000 people. It indexes biographical resources published from 1946 through 1983. The article text, online or in print, can be found using MultiLink from within the database.

Education Index Retrospective Has Been Added to the Databases Page
Education Index Retrospective will help you locate articles published from 1929 through 1983 from 500 journals, magazines, and yearbooks. This database is the electronic equivalent of the print title Education Index. The article text, online or in print, can be found using MultiLink from within the database.

July 2009 Tip of the Month

Many of the databases on the Ball State University Libraries Articles and Databases page use link resolver technology which allows you to locate the full text of articles not already in full text in the database you are searching. We have named our link resolver "MultiLink." When you are searching in a database you may see the MultiLink button on a query results list. When you click on the button MultiLink looks to see if this article is available in full text in another database. If so, it will take you to the full text of the article. If not, it will allow you to look in CardCat to see if we have a print subscription to the periodical in which the article appears. If the article is not available in print or online you can do an interlibrary loan for the article. MultiLink also gives you the option to do an interlibrary loan and will even fill out the form for you.

Events July 2009

Through September 15, 2009

Railroads of Delaware County will be on display in Archives and Special Collections through September 15th. The exhibit looks at the history of railroads in Muncie, IN and surrounding areas through newspaper articles, business records, and the photographs of Wiley Spurgeon and Richard Greene. For more information, please contact Lajmar Anderson at ldanderson@bsu.edu.