Healey Keynotes

Moving forward at the Healey Library

A few weeks ago, University Librarian Daniel Ortiz  was happy to announce that the Healey Library had joined the Fenway Libraries Online (FLO.)

We have already begun to enjoy the fruits of this alliance; recently the staff at FLO regenerated the keyword index for Healey Library's Voyager catalog; upgrading subject headings, author names, and words in titles. 

This will make searches of Voyager faster, more relevant, more robust, and allow you to find what you need on our shelves!

Dr. Ortiz, the staff of Healey Library, and the staff at FLO, are working on many more improvements in the coming months.

Soon, we will soon a new way to access eJournals will be introduced, making finding that important research article that much easier. We will be rolling out a complete upgrade of our Voyager catalog as well!

Summer 2008 is going to be an exciting time at the library, stay tuned for more announcements from Dr. Ortiz!

Access Healey from Anywhere

The librarians at Healey Library have created a tool that allows you to search for Journals, Books, and Articles directly from your Internet browser.

It works in both Firefox and Internet Explorer.

To download for Firefox

For Internet Explorer
if you are using IE you will need to make sure that you have Microsoft .NET 2.0 installed first.

To search, select the catalog or database from the menu to the right of the search box and the field to search from the menu to the left. Then input your search term and click the Search button. Multiple terms may be added using the "Create New Search Field" button, a blue down arrow directly to the right of the search box.

The HealeyTool also links to Healey Library content from other places on the Internet.

All you do is look for this icon:

   

Clicking on this icon will link you to items in the Healey collection that relate to your Google search,

or books at  Amazon and other book ordering sites.

 

the toolbar will automatically turn many ISBNs, ISSNs, DOI IDs, and PubMed IDs found on any webpage into a link to a search for that ISBN in the Healey collection.

You can also select sections of text (such as a bibliographic citation) and drag it to the diploma icon in the toolbar to search Google Scholar and open its best guess for the article in our Article Linker.

 

The toolbar also allows you to highlight titles, authors, or keywords from any webpage, right-click, and search them in the library catalog or Google Scholar.

The toolbar can be used on or off campus (though you will need to login with your library barcode if you are searching databases.)

If you are having difficulty installing the tool bar please contact us.

HealeyTools is an edition of the LibX toolbar created by Annette Bailey and Godmar Back at Virginia Tech.

NEW - Roper Center Public Opinion Archives

Looking for public opinion data? UMass Boston researchers now have access to the entire Roper Center Public Opinion Archives site. The Roper Center conducts polls on a wide array of topics including, the 2008 presidential election, abortion, education, the environment, the Middle East, war, and the list goes on and on. Use the iPoll database to search the full text of surveys, including the individual questions asked, and to retrieve the survey questions and results.  First time iPoll users must complete an iPoll New User Registration form.

The site has public opinion surveys from 1935 to the present.  Because you have access to older as well as current polling data, you can trace over time how public opinion on a topic has changed.