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Morgan and Claypool created a relatively unique
product called "Synthesis Lectures".
They have experts within various engineering
and technology fields create concise books
approxiamtely 50 to 150 pages, on current topics
for research areas.
These are an excellent starting place for anyone
not familiar with the topic, or a great resource for those
that are more experienced within a discipline to
quickly review a topic they may not have
seen in a while.
Ohio University has access to a majority of the lectures.
We will look at how to find the lectures via ALICE,
our online catalog, as well as from Morgan and Claypool's
website, and how to know if we have access or not.
One way we can access the "Synthesis Lectures"
is by searching ALICE, our online catalog.
The catalog is available from ohio.edu/library
I'm going to do a simple keyword search for
"Lung Sounds" within the catalog.
And the results that come back deal a lot with the
medical profession, which makes sense, but here
I have one that is an electronic resource
and it has a subtitle of "An Advanced Signal
Processing Perspective".
And I just wanted to point out that this is coming from
Morgan and Claypool, as the publisher.
This one has caught my attention, because
of it's engineering twist to it.
So I clicked on the title and I'm provided with
more information about this, including the
fact that it is a synthesis lecture on biomedical
engineering, and as well the table of contents.
To actually access the full text of this, I'm going to click
on connect to electronic resource.
This takes us out to Morgan and Claypool's website,
which now has an abstract for the lecture, as well
as the PDF to it.
When I search the catalog, I can also look for
an author or a title if there's a particular lecture
that I knew I wanted and
I wanted to be able to access it
The way I can get access to the lectures is by
going directly to Morgan and Claypool's website.
It's URL is www.morganclaypool.com
There are several ways that I can access the lectures
from their website.
I can do a search, either a quick search or a simpler
advanced underneath the search tab.
I'm going to do a quick search for lung sounds within
all series, and the title that we saw previously is
included in this list, as well as several others.
If you notice over here along the left, there is a little
green check mark, and this is a great
sign because it means we have full text access to
this lecture.
The other way I can access the lectures from Morgan
and Claypool's website is by browsing. And I can do that
by title or by series.
Let's go ahead and look at by title.
When I look at it by title I have the series that the
titles come from and they are listed alphebetically
on the page.
If you notice in here, we are lacking the green
check mark, so this is not as straightforward in
determining whether we have access or not.
When we look for the synthesis lectures by series,
what we have are just the series titles and then
from there we can get the titles.
And this is a great way to look for the lectures
because it starts with a broader topic
and then lets you see what is available there.
So if I was interested in Signal Processing, I can
click on that series and then see all the titles
that are available.
And you notice here, we have our little green check
marks back, indicating that we have access to it.
And then we also have this area that says
"lectures under development".
This is future content from Morgan and Claypool.
Of course we won't get this unless we pay for it,
so we may or may not have access to this in the future.
If you have any problems accessing the Morgan and
Claypool Synthesis Lectures, please ask one of us.
Click here on our Ask a Librarian tab,
You can see all of the ways to get in touch with us.
Feel free to use whatever you are comfortable with.