Try BrowZine: Academic Journals on the iPad

The library is now running a trial of BrowZine. BrowZine is an iPad app that lets you browse, read and monitor some of the library's best journals, all from your iPad or tablet.

Important Trial Information

1. First get the App from the App Store. It's free.
2. When launching for the first time: Set Macalester College in the top dropdown.
3. Username and password is your Macalester username/password.

More Details

• You can search by titles or by subjects.
• The trial expires mid-March.
• Not every title to which we have a subscription is included.
• To learn more, check out this 2-minute video.

Feedback Welcome!

We appreciate your feedback to help us determine if we should subscribe to this service.
If you have questions, please contact us.

Mobile Users: Try Out Our Mobile Site

m.macalester.edu/library

The library has a mobile-optimized website that is designed to work well on mobile browsers. It includes a mobile-friendly WorldCat Local search, links to research databases, a mobile chat option, and news and events.

The library's mobile site can be found in the Academics section in the College's new mobile site. 

Library Databases Currently Unavailable

Due to a technical glitch, library databases, such as Academic Search Premier, are currently unavailable on either the Database pages or Worldcat. We apologize for the inconvenience and are working on a solution as quickly as possible.

Illiad Service Outage, January 23

Due to a service upgrade on January 23rd at 10am, the Illiad interlibrary loan request system will be temporarily unavailable. We anticipate that all services will resume at noon on the same day.

Mobile Users: Try the New Library Mobile Site!

m.macalester.edu/library

The library recently launched a new mobile-optimized website.  It is a website designed to work well on mobile browsers and it includes a mobile-friendly WorldCat Local search, as well as links to research databases, contact options including a mobile chat option, and news and events.

The library's mobile site can be found in the Academics section in the College's new mobile site. 
We are interested in your feedback about this new service. You may contact Ask Us or Johan Oberg, Digital Scholarship and Services Librarian, with any questions or comments.

It's Sustainability Awareness Week!

What can you do to celebrate our campus commitment to creating a smaller Mac footprint?

• Buy a onesie. 
• Learn a new print-less technique. 
• Share a bike. 
• Read Stuffed and Starved by Raj Patel, and come to Friday's Sustainability Book Club meeting.
• Nominate your professor to be recognized as a Sustainable Scholar. 
• Use our Sustainable Scholar nomination form to tell us the great things Mac faculty are doing in your classroom to be sustainable. You might win a pizza party for your prof and your class. 
• Check out our kiosk display and web site to learn more about the ways the library and other departments are collaborating toward the goal of zero waste. 
• Drop in at one of our trick and treats hands-on happenings at the library's new MediaScape this week. 

Watch the Piper and the library home page for our trick and treats schedule and more information.

OA Quiz Answers and Winners

Open Access Quiz Winners

Thank you to everyone who entered the library’s Open Access Week prize drawing last week. Please contact the library if you have any question about what your options are for making your scholarship accessible to scholars across the world.

The prize winners are:

Kindle Fire

• Kimberly Goodnight, Student

Open Access T-shirts

• Imogen Pursch, Student
• Erin Porter, Student
• Beth Severy-Hoven, Faculty
• Ryan Sutley, Student
• Keri Ann Yatogo, Student

The Correct Answers

Open access means that online access to the information is unrestricted and free of charge. 

Himalaya, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, is the most frequently accessed journal in Digital Commons, Macalester's open access repository. Articles have been downloaded from this journal approximately 104,000 times.

True: Publishing or adding a research article to Macalester’s Digital Commons gives it a permanent online home, makes it findable via Google, and increases readership and visibility.

Professor Joan Ostrove’s article “Social class and belonging: Implications for college adjustment” has been downloaded 2,252 times from Macalester’s Digital Commons.

True: The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) lists over 8,200 journals and provides access to over 916,000 open access articles.

True: Federal law requires an electronic version of final, peer-reviewed manuscripts that are results of research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to be submitted to PubMed Central within 12 months of publication.

SciFinder Scholar, a major research tool in the chemical sciences, indexes articles from over 10,000 journals. The average 2012 price of a chemistry journal title is $4,227.