New online reference source

Nursing Resource Center Available Now

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Nursing Resource Center is now available to the UMass community and Massachusetts residents courtesy of the Massachusetts Library System. The database is a compilation of articles from encyclopedias, handbooks and journals. You can search by subject, publication, author, date and nursing codes.

For assistance with this resource, contact Jim Craig, Health Sciences liaison librarian, at 413-545-6690.

Business Insights: Essentials Replaces Business and Company Resource Center

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The Libraries are now providing access to Business Insights: Essentials, a Gale database available via the Massachusetts Library System subscription. This source incorporates the database formerly known as Business and Company Resource Center and provides a company directory, industry profiles, investment research reports, trade journal articles, market share data and more.  You can browse or search by company, industry, topic, NAICs code, etc.

If you would have questions about Business Insights, contact Mike Davis, Business Reference Librarian at 413-545-6822.

New Online Reference Sources

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The following e-reference titles have been added to the UMass Amherst collections. You can find them by searching in the UMass Amherst library catalog and UMA WorldCat:

  • Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
  • Encyclopedia of Polymer Science & Technology
  • Handbook of Green Chemistry
  • International Encyclopedia of Education
  • Protein Science Encyclopedia

If you have questions about using any of these sources, contact a reference librarian.

New Science E-Reference Titles

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The following science reference e-books are now available through the UMass Amherst library catalog and UMA WorldCat:

  • Comprehensive Nano Science & Technology
  • Comprehensive Natural Products II
  • Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior
  • Encyclopedia of Chemical Biology
  • Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering
  • Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology

Contact a reference librarian with any questions you may have about using these resources.

New E-Reference Titles

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The following reference e-books are now available through the UMass Amherst library catalog and UMA WorldCat:

  • American incomes: demographics of who has money, 8th ed.
  • Best customers: demographics of consumer demand, 8th ed.
  • Complete costume dictionary
  • Encyclopedia of Management, 2012 edition
  • International Encyclopedia of Education
  • The SAGE handbook of organizational institutionalism

Contact a reference librarian with any questions you may have about using these resources.

New Oxford Handbooks for Business and Management

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The Libraries have added the Oxford Handbooks Online for Business and Management. This collection includes the following 28 titles:

  • Oxford Handbook of Business and Government, David Coen, Wyn Grant, and Graham Wilson (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment, Pratima Bansal and Andrew J. Hoffman (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Business Groups, Asli M. Colpan, Takashi Hikino, and James R. Lincoln (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Business History, Geoffrey Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Comparative Institutional Analysis, Glenn Morgan, John L. Campbell, Colin Crouch, Ove Kaj Pedersen, and Richard Whitley (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility, Andrew Crane, Abagail McWilliams, Dirk Matten, Jeremy Moon, and Donald S. Siegel (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Critical Management Studies, Mats Alvesson, Todd Bridgman, and Hugh Willmott (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurship, Mark Casson, Bernard Yeung, Anuradha Basu, and Nigel S. Wadeson (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Human Capital, Alan Burton-Jones and J.-C. Spender (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Human Resource Management, Peter Boxall, John Purcell, and Patrick Wright (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies, Robin Mansell, Chrisanthi Avgerou, Danny Quah, and Roger Silverstone (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Innovation, Jan Fagerberg, David C. Mowery, and Richard R. Nelson (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Inter-Organizational Relations, Steve Cropper, Mark Ebers, Chris Huxham, and Peter Smith Ring (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of International Business, Alan M. Rugman (ed.)
  • Oxford Handbook of Management Information Systems, Robert D. Galliers and Wendy L. Currie (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory, Haridimos Tsoukas and Christian Knudsen (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Organizational Decision Making, Gerard P. Hodgkinson and William H. Starbuck (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Organizational Well-Being, Susan Cartwright and Cary L. Cooper (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Participation in Organizations, Adrian Wilkinson, Paul J. Gollan, Mick Marchington, and David Lewin (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Pensions and Retirement Income, Gordon L. Clark, Alicia H. Munnell, and J. Michael Orszag (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Personnel Psychology, Susan Cartwright and Cary L. Cooper (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Project Management, Peter W. G. Morris, Jeffrey K. Pinto, and Jonas Söderlund (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Public Management, Ewan Ferlie, Laurence E. Lynn, Jr., and Christopher Pollitt (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Regulation, Robert Baldwin, Martin Cave, and Martin Lodge (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies, Paul S. Adler (ed.)
  • Oxford Handbook of Strategic Sales and Sales Management, David W. Cravens, Kenneth Le Meunier-FitzHugh, and Nigel F. Piercy (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Strategy, David O. Faulkner and Andrew Campbell (eds)
  • Oxford Handbook of Work and Organization, Stephen Ackroyd, Rosemary Batt, Paul Thompson, and Pamela S. Tolbert (eds)

If you would like assistance using these sources, contact Mike Davis, Business Reference Librarian, at 413-545-6822.

New Reference Titles

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The Libraries have activated the following new reference e-books. You may find them in the UMass Amherst library catalog:

  • The American marketplace: demographics and spending patterns, 10th ed.
  • The art & craft of case writing, 3rd ed.
  • Encyclopedia Islamic Finance
  • Encyclopedia of climate and weather
  • Encyclopedia of Sports Management and Marketing
  • Forecasting financial markets: the psychology of successful investing 6th ed
  • Green logistics: improving the environmental sustainability of logistics
  • Handbook of international corporate governance, 2nd ed.
  • How to write persuasively today
  • International communications strategy: developments in cross-cultural communications, PR and social media

If you would like assistance using any of these sources, contact a reference librarian.