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Better than Printing Tip #8: Listen to articles instead of read them. Many journal articles in the Ebsco or Gale databases are available in audio format. Look for the microphone icon to listen to an article.
Details at: http://www.willamette.edu/wits/betterthanprinting/

• Examples of databases with audio features (from Ebsco and Gale)
• Databases A to Z

It’s not just about sustainability & waste. The Better than Printing campaign is geared toward helping you choose methods that make it easier to organize and edit your documents & articles and to work collaboratively.

View the Tip of the Week Archive:

http://www.willamette.edu/wits/betterthanprinting/tip_of_the_week.html

Save articles in RefWorks. Refworks allows you to keep track of and organize your citations and documents.  You may also continue to use RefWorks after you graduate!

For more information about creating an account and using RefWorks check out the handy guides from our librarians:
http://libguides.willamette.edu/refworks

It’s not just about sustainability & waste. The Better than Printing campaign is geared toward helping you choose methods that make it easier to organize and edit your documents & articles and to work collaboratively.

View the Tip of the Week Archive:

http://www.willamette.edu/wits/betterthanprinting/tip_of_the_week.html

Students, faculty and staff have access to personal storage space on Willamette’s network file server. This space is automatically created when your network account is made.  The NetFiles storage space can be used to store and back up data for classes, projects and academic research.  The file servers themselves are backed up regularly and data can be recovered in cases of local hard drive failures or accidental file corruption or deletion.  All members of the community are strongly encouraged to save any files that cannot afford to be lost to their NetFiles storage space.

The file server may be accessed from any computer that has network connectivity. It is similar to DropBox or other on-line storage services – and it’s completely free.

• Space: 10gb of storage are allotted to each personal share.
• Connecting On-Campus: Map your NetFiles storage space as a network drive to access it easily from your computer on campus
  • Windows - Drive Mapping for Windows
  • Mac OSX - Drive Mapping for Macintosh OSX
• Connecting from Off Campus: You MUST connect via a file transfer client application and use Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) to access your NetFiles storage space from off campus.  You can also use an SFTP client to connect to NetFiles from campus.
  • File Transfer Client Software: To access the NetFiles storage from off-campus, download and install a file transfer client application such as Filezilla or Cyberduck (both have versions for PC and Mac).  Configuration instructions for SFTP client software.
• Personal website: You can also set up a personal website on your NetFiles directory.
• Backups: NetFiles makes daily copies of each stored file, called snapshots.  These snapshots are user-accessible so you can retrieve your own files from a previous version. Please contact the WITS Help Desk or your user services consultant for help accessing or using the snapshots.
• Transition to NetFiles FAQ

View the Tip of the Week Archive:

http://www.willamette.edu/wits/betterthanprinting/tip_of_the_week.html

Use services like  Printwhatyoulike.com to help reduce unnecessary things you don’t need to print.  This resource allows you to exclude elements of web pages to print only the stuff you need.