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Save your work carefully!!!

At this time of the semester, most students are working away on essays, research papers, presentation materials and other projects. Inevitably someone using a library computer will believe they are saving their work, find that it is not where they believe it should be and lose hours, if not days or weeks, worth of work. Here are a couple tips that you can use to save yourself the frustration of having to recreate this work from scratch:

When you first save a document that you are working on in the library use the “save as” function rather than just hitting the save icon. Using this you can see specifically where you are saving your files. If you open a file that you have sent to yourself via e-mail, work on it, then hit the save icon this file is not saved to your My Documents folder. It will be saved to a temp folder that is cleared out with every logout. If you do not deliberately choose where you save your file you will lose your work!!

Periodically make a backup to a second folder while you are working.  If you are saving your work to a flash drive, occasionally save a backup to your network drive or e-mail a version to yourself. Having a second copy of your work can make your life much easier if a disaster such as losing your flash drive or a network error happens. At the end of the workday saving your work to a second flash drive or your own hard drive is also a good way to prevent the loss of your work.

If you are working on a collaborative project, make sure that everyone in your group follows these guidelines and have more than one person keep an electronic version of the most current form of the project.

Trial Database - ISI Web of Knowledge

The library has acquired a trial subscription to ISI Web of Knowledge. ISI Web of Knowledge is a comprehensive research platform, which means it brings together many different types of content for searching. Journal articles, patents, websites, conference proceedings, Open Access material – all can be accessed through one interface, using a variety of powerful search and analysis tools.

Included are: BIOSIS Previews, Chinese Science Citation Database, Journal Citation Reports, Medline, Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Citation Index, Current Chemical Reactions, Index Chemicus, and Zoological Records.

Please provide any feedback to our Library Director.