Where is "The Chronicle of Higher Education"?

LexisNexis has changed its interface, and as a result, it is no longer easy to do a collective search of university and higher education newspapers, although the material is still covered by Lexis.

Here are a couple of options:

Open the 'Search the News' widget box.

Option 1) Type 'Chronicle of Higher Education' in the Source Title box. This will limit the search results to only those articles published in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Option 2) Enter your search terms, and change the default source from Major World Publications to All News.

Then from the results screen, limit by the source type [Newspapers], and look to see if The Chronicle of Higher Education (or some of the University News Wires) is amongst the results.

Option 3) Use the Sawyer Library's eJournal Search to identify the databases which include The Chronicle of Higher Education, and follow the appropriate link.

From off campus, entering the databases will require a current Suffolk ID.


Option 4) Use the Browse function within LexisNexis Academic to locate The Chronicle of Higher Education and University Wire publications:

A good book to read when flying (or driving) accross the U.S.

Were your holiday travel plans disrupted due to the weather? Next time be prepared for a multi-hour layover, with a long, but good book:

Annals of the Former World, by John McPhee

This book gathers five previously published titles by John McPhee, all devoted to the geology of North America. It is the item to have along when looking out the window on a flight between the east and west coasts of the United States. However, this is not a textbook, rather it is more like being able to hitch along on a road trip across the States, in the company of people who know a lot, and who tell good stories.

Snow Closing: Friday January 3, 2014

Due to the inclement weather, Suffolk University offices, including the Sawyer Library, will closed on Friday, January 3, 2014.

Snow Closing: Thursday January 2, 2014

Due to the inclement weather, Suffolk University offices, including the Sawyer Library, will close at 1:00 pm Thursday, January 2, 2014.

New Interface for LexisNexis Academic to be released on Monday, December 23rd.

LexisNexis Academic, a provider of newspapers, company information, and legal information is planning on releasing a major overhaul to its interface on Monday, December 23, 2013.

To that end, LexisNexis has prepared a video tutorial, “Introduction to LexisNexis Academic,” to introduce the new interface.

This video is available on the LexisNexis Academic YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgaI80zPZ4U).

Looking for something to read, or for an idea to follow up on for a research topic? Have a look at some of the titles listed below, by Oliver W. Sacks.

Oliver Sacks, is a neurologist and research scientist, who tells wonderful (true) stories. The Sawyer Library owns several titles authored by Oliver Sacks. Several of his works are based on case studies of his patients. All of his works make for fascinating reading.

The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales.

Seeing Voices : A Journey into the World of the Deaf

Musicophilia : Tales of Music and the Brain

Sawyer Library Hidden Treasure: Europe Since Versailles

This latest unburied 4th floor Sawyer Library gem, Europe Since Versailles, features political cartoons drawn by Sir David Low from the decades between World War I and World War II. During this time of shaky peace, Sir Low's caricatures lambasted world nations and their leaders as their political interactions frequently presaged being sucked into a second world war. So pointed were the critiques against Nazi "governance" in particular, that Adolf Hitler himself placed Sir David Low on a list of people to be rounded up after Germany's conquest over England (Streicher, 6). Fortunately for Low, England never fell to Germany, and he continued designing scathing editorial cartoons, thumbing his nose at Hitler's apoplectic rage. 

In this reprinted edition of Sir David Low's works, Lawrence Streicher has added an introduction, epilogue, and partial bibliography of Low's collected works. Frequent characters in Low's satirical cartoons include: Maxim Litvinov, Neville Chamberlain, Pierre Laval, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Aristide Briand, and Joseph Stalin. Check out this item to chuckle at sharp images depicting the ineffectiveness of politics (my, how things change!), or bemoan the inevitability of civilian pain and suffering at the end of this era.


Image credit: "DAVID LOW (English Cartoonist)" belongs to Flickr user NCMallory. License to use: CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en)