FDU Library News

The Films On Demand streaming video platform will be down for approximately seven hours on January 23rd from 12:00 AM to 7:00 AM (EST). This scheduled maintenance is necessary to perform hardware updates to continue to meet the traffic demands of our Films On Demand users.

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience the scheduled maintenance may cause.

In recent months, seven new databases and an encyclopedia have been added to the FDU Online Library. They can easily be found at FDU Online Library: A-Z, and are also available in the appropriate subject categories on the main FDU Online Library webpage. These new additions are:

AtoZ Maps Online, from World Trade Press: a comprehensive database of over 4,000 world, continent, country, and state maps, including political, physical, population, precipitation, climate and other maps.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text, from EBSCO: the world’s most comprehensive nursing and allied health research database, covering nursing, biomedicine, alternative and complementary medicine, consumer health, health sciences librarianship, and 17 allied health disciplines. This full-text upgrade supplants our previous CINAHL database.

Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health: a 5-volume encyclopedia available online on the “Gale Virtual Reference Library” platform, with over 850 alphabetical entries covering topics in nursing and allied health written for students and professionals in the field.

Praeger Security International Online, from Greenwood Publishing Group: an interdisciplinary database covering international security, including defense and foreign policy, strategy, regional security, twentieth century military history, and terrorism.

SPORTDiscus with Full Text, from EBSCO: the world’s most comprehensive source of full-text journals in the fields of sports and sports medicine, this database includes over 490 full-text journals, with coverage dating back to 1985.

U.S. Government Online, from Facts On File: a reference site devoted to the U.S. government, offering overview essays, articles from encyclopedias and other reference works, primary source documents, current news articles, tables, charts, and maps, images and videos, a dictionary, and more.

Westlaw Campus Research, from Thomson West: a comprehensive collection of news, business, and legal resources, this massive database includes newspapers; magazines; trade journals; SEC filings; Hoover’s company records; newswire and broadcast transcripts; law reviews and journals; American Law Reports; United States Code Annotated; all federal and state court cases; state statutes and regulations; Code of Federal Regulations; Federal Register; and more.

World Higher Education Database Online, from Palgrave Macmillan: the most comprehensive reference on higher education worldwide, with information on some 17,000 higher education institutions in 183 countries and a description of each country’s education system.

All these resources are accessible by current FDU students, faculty, and staff both on and off campus.

The Library is pleased to announce that 50 new video titles have been added to our Films on Demand collection. The videos were selected by FDU faculty and represent the following disciplines — Nursing, Communication, Social Sciences and History, Psychology, Sociology, and Literature. The new titles can be viewed by logging into the FDU Films on Demand website — http://fmgaccess.fdu.edu – with your FDU Webmail login and password (see the tab labeled ‘Recently Added Videos’). They may also be viewed within the library’s online catalog — http://coolcatnj.fdu.edu.

At yesterday’s VALE Digital Media/NJVid meeting at MCC in Edison I learned about a free resource for streaming educational video that is very popular at colleges and universities in NJ. Individual faculty, staff and students can sign-up for accounts and view this complete list of titles absolutely free:

Annenberg Media resources can be accessed for FREE at Learner.org, or can be purchased through the Web site or by calling 1-800-LEARNER.

New Content for Philosophy and Religious Studies

INTELECOM is pleased to announce the addition of the Philosophy Core Content Collection on the INTELECOM Online Resources Network. Video clips in the collection average three to five minutes in length and cover a range of topics including:
• Human Nature
• Reason and Knowledge
• Morality and Ethics
• God and Religion

The FDU Library is pleased to provide you with access to this repository of video learning objects, located at: http://librarydb.fdu.edu/onlinelibrary.html in the “Online Videos” category.

Contact the reference desk at any FDU library for the required login.

Ambrose Logo

Ambrose Video, a leading producer of educational documentaries, offers an extensive library of award-winning materials in social studies, literature, fine arts, and the sciences. The FDU Library is pleased to offer institutional access to this collection via the FDU Online Library (look under the category labeled ‘Online Videos’). Examples from the FDU Ambrose collection include classics such as The Long Search, James Burke’s Connections, and Legacy: The Origins of Civilization.

Are you looking for information about pandemics? We have many resources available within FDU Libraries including the following 2 films in our Films on Demand collection (http://fmgaccess.fdu.edu):

Watch this space for more information about access to the INTELECOM Online Resources Network™. INTELECOM is a collection of over 1,000 high quality, educational video clips that cover a range of academic disciplines including Health, Psychology, Business, History, Communication and more:

• Video Learning Objects…Streamed on Demand
• Content Across Academic Disciplines
• Intuitive “Search, Save and Stream” Design
• Seamless Integration Within Any CMS, LMS
• Enhance PowerPoints, Blogs, Lectures
• 508 Compliant Video

A sample from the collection — The Beginning Days of a Presidency

The Library is pleased to announce that 7 new titles have been added the Videos on Demand Collection* (http://fmgaccess.fdu.edu):

• Advertising
  • This program features a historical survey of the methods of advertising in the U.S. (28 minutes)
• Book Industry
  • This program provides a detailed look at how trade and educational/reference books are made, sold, and marketed. Also discussed is the perception of book publishing as a glamorous career field, in spite of the hard reality of low profits and wages. In addition, talk-show footage of William F. Buckley, Jr., and Madeline Cartwright, author of For the Children, adds insights into the experiences of book authors. (28 minutes)
• Radio History
  • This program tells the complete story of radio, from its roots in Marconi’s wireless telegraphy and the invention of the vacuum tube by Lee De Forest, to its heyday in the 1930s and subsequent upstaging by television in a battle for audience-share. (28 minutes)
• Sex, Censorship, and the Silver Screen: From the Depression to WWII
  • In what many see as Hollywood’s Golden Age, the offices of William Hays and Joseph Breen worked overtime to combat %#$!$uality and subversion in American movies. This program examines the products of that era-films that danced around the standards of the Production Code and paved the way for increasingly daring storytelling and images. (72 minutes)
• World War II
  • This program features FDR’s declaration of war on Japan, and General Douglas MacArthur’s “Old Soldiers Never Die” retirement speech before Congress, along with other speeches. (39 minutes)
• World War II: The Road to War
  • This program chronicles the global events that ultimately led to U.S. action in World War II. (31 minutes)
• World War II: The World at War
  • Starting with Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, this program follows the United States through its mobilization for war and into battle in North Africa, Europe, and the Pacific. (31 minutes)

*Requires a valid FDU Webmail login and password for access to the film collection.