For thirty days, the Middlebury College community has free access to the Oxford Language Dictionaries
The innovative Oxford Language Dictionaries Online site offers essential language resources never before available online: fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries, and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languages.
Let us know what you think – email eaccess-admin@middlebury.edu or your liaison.
The Middlebury College community now has access to two resources of full-text journals and e-books in languages other than English!
*Records for the books and journals in these collections will be in the library catalog in the coming weeks.
+Please note that our access to content in Torrossa does not include every title. When you do a search, icons indicating subscribed access appear next to items included in the EIO Italian Studies Collection.
At Middlebury, we’ve been using Summon as the discovery layer for our library collections for the last several years. The recent article from the Chronicle of Higher Education about discovery tools is an interesting read:
Many professors and students gravitate to Google as a gateway to research. Libraries want to offer them a comparably simple and broad experience for searching academic content. As a result, a major change is under way in how libraries organize information. Instead of bewildering users with a bevy of specialized databases—books here, articles there—many libraries are bulldozing their digital silos. They now offer one-stop search boxes that comb entire collections, Google style.
That’s the ideal, anyway. The reality is turning out to be messier.
Read the rest of the article here
Ideal lengths of tweets, facebook updates, blog posts, etc. (Hint: facebook updates – really, really short)
Dartmouth Pops the Champagne as Basic Programming Language Turns 50 – Basic, the programming language that revolutionized computing by making it accessible to people beyond the worlds of science and engineering, turns 50 this week, and it’s getting a birthday party.
How the 5 hottest tech jobs are changing IT – The IT industry is shifting. Here are five jobs coming to the forefront and how they are transforming the IT department.
How to Delete Yourself from the Internet – You can make yourself “disappear” from the Internet. But be forewarned: Most of the following tactics are irreversible.
Flipped learning skepticism: Is flipped learning just self-teaching?
After receiving some of the most positive response to a database trial ever, we are pleased to now provide full access to SAGE Research Methods Online. 
Thanks to everyone who responded to their liaison !
In addition to the recently announced Annual Reviews of Economics and Chinese Newspaper Archive, more new library collections are rolling in:
Research Databases
Encyclopedias
Journals, etc.
Nope, nothing new in this photo. Starr Library, 1945
Because Middlebury was ranked by Sierra Magazine as one of the “Cool Schools,” Taylor & Francis is graciously providing us with free access to the 212 journals in their Environment and Agriculture Collection.
Since there isn’t a specific page or website for these journals, after the trial we will see whether the journals in this collection were used sufficiently to justify a subscription. Find articles in these journals by searches in Summon, or searching the Taylor and Francis Online platform, or link to the journals from go/journals. A complete list of journal titles can be found here.
Middlebury College has free access through April 30th to the NAACP Papers section of the ProQuest History Vault. Browse-able and searchable by full-text, this collection includes documents from NAACP Conferences, legal pursuits, correspondence of all kinds, political activities and more.
Let us know what you think. Please email eaccess-admin@middlebury.edu or your liaison.
View any of over 700 videos highlighting many aspects of art and architecture, including
and more! The Art & Architecture collection from Films on Demand is available on a trial basis to the Middlebury College community through April 21, 2014.
Let us know what you think! Drop an email to eaccess-admin@middlebury.edu or contact your liaison.