Temple University Libraries is proud to announce the establishment of the Library Prize for Undergraduate Research. The Library Prize has been created to encourage students to exploit the extraordinary resources available through Temple Libraries and other libraries and archives and to foster the development of undergraduate research techniques.

Papers or projects, in any format, completed for a for-credit Temple University course in the fall 2004 or spring 2005 semester may be submitted. The deadline for submissions is April 8, 2005.

Winning entries will be determined by a committee of faculty and librarians. Up to three Prizes will be awarded this academic year. Winning research projects will be awarded a $1000 cash prize, and be displayed in the library and on its website.

Please see http://library.temple.edu/prize for more
information about the Prize, including application requirements, selection criteria, eligibility, and important dates.
- posted by Brian Schoolar @ 11:52 AM

 
Resource Update:
The majority of ERIC documents from 1993 onward are now freely available full-text online via the ERIC database. This is both good and bad news. Good because of the convenience this affords those who need these documents, but potentially bad because of the tendency of students to use whatever is available in full-text online regardless of quality. Be sure to emphasize to your students the qualitative difference between ERIC documents and journal articles. Don't be surprised if a lot more ERIC documents begin showing up in your students' lists of works cited.

We have access to ERIC via three different interfaces (listed in order of my preference):

via EBSCO
via CSA
via the U.S. Department of Education
- posted by Brian Schoolar @ 10:01 AM