Phoning in PDFs

Not that long ago scanners were big and bulky and required special software to tell text from photos. Now you can  use your phone or tablet  to scan items directly to PDF using a new app called Cam Scanner.

 Available for both Android and IOS mobile devices,  it  features  batch scanning, editing of images and easy uploading to DropBox or Facebook.  Besides creating PDFs from scans , you can also save a scan as an image in jpg format.

Best of all, the producers of Cam Scanner will upgrade the free version of  Cam Scanner to a full version of the app  if you register with an .edu address.

For more info on this product, and to download the app, start at Cam Scanner

Watch 2013 graduation events live

Can't make it to graduation? Both the college's 2013 convocation & commencement are on the web this year this year. at 2013 DCC Graduation Live Streaming  

Cite That Tweet!!

Trying to use social media sources, like Facebook & Twitter, for research papers has been pretty difficult due to a lack of standards for documentation. Recently both APA and MLA have taken care of that problem by providing basic rules for citing major types of social media.

And Aditi Rao, who blogs at TeachBytes  has made it even easier by compiled that information into this handy table.

 

 Please note that for Twitter, you must include the entire Tweet for both APA & MLA. More information on documenting your research is available at the Ritz Library's Citation Style Guide.

Plagiarism

Wondering if you are plagiarizing?  Take a look at this simple flowchart to decide.

Web Streaming comes to DCC!!

Take a look at the Library's MyDCC Welcome page and you'll see a link for "DCC Livestream" This is the Web broadcasting system the college is using to stream selected DCC events, including some lyceum programs this school year. Events to be  streamed in the next month include the following:

Lyceum,Thursday, October 11, 12:30pm – Leo Ribuffo
Lyceum, Thursday, November 1, 12:30pm – Emily Hunter

Besides watching live events, you can also view archived programs such as this year's commencment, Eric Foner's Constitution Day lecture & Spring semester dance and music performances

Need some nursing training? Use MEDCOM!!

Medcom Trainex is an web-based site that provides access to training videos in the health sciences. Each video offers either a complete training session for a variety of subjects such as patient care, lab safety or proper material handling procedures. The individual videos can also be parts of a longer training session -- check the list thoroughly for additional videos that have the same title as the one you initially viewed.

You may access Medcom through the Library page at MyDCC, there's a link for it in the middle column.

Videos are viewable using any of the player software shown below. If you have any questions about using the database or have trouble accessing it, please don't hesitate to talk to someone at the Ritz Library Reference desk or call us at 845-431-8634.

Available video formats:

Flash

Quicktime

Windows Media

Real

Check out Jstor!

Faculty and staff now have access to Jstor, a full text database service that provides current issues & archives of core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences. We have three Jstor collections, Arts & Sciences I, II, III. These collections contain almost 400 journals and  cover a wide variety of academic fields including:

► Economics	► Music	► Mathematics
► History	► Sociology	► Classics
► Political Science	►Performing Arts	► Area Studies

One of the unique features of JStor is that journals coverage begins with the first issue published, so that sometimes you can  retrieve articles from the 19th century or earlier, a great feature when you are looking at a subject from an historical angle.  Another handy feature is that Jstor articles are easily accessed through Google Scholar.

One limitation of Jstor is that some publications do not allow Jstor to publish the current year's issues. If you need such an "embargoed" document, remember the library can get it for you through Interlibrary Loan 

Ready to try Jstor? Enter here.