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Kathryn Paul, Reference & Collections Services, sends the following message:
UVic Libraries has upgraded its Academic Search Elite (Ebscohost) subscription to Academic Search Premier. This upgrade gives library users full text access to an additional 2100 journal titles, which more tha n doubles the number available with Academic Search Elite. Academic Search Premier also provides deeper backfile full text (PDF) coverage for certain titles (back to 1975 instead of 1985).
Description and details:
Academic Search Premier is a multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,144 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.
Academic Search Premier is found on the Libraries Gateway under Frequently Used Databases, Databases A-Z, as well as Databases by Subject.
Kathryn Paul
Information Services and Web Redesign Librarian
University of Victoria Libraries
McPherson Library
Victoria, BC, V8W 3H5
tel:(250) 721-6085 fax(250) 721-8235
Carlie Graham, Music, Audio & Media Services, sends the following:
From May 7th to May 10th the LP COLLECTION will be Temporarily Unavailable.
As one of the first steps in Music, Audio & Media Services’ transition to
the new Mearns Centre, the LP collection will be moved to storage.
After May 10, LPs can be accessed by making a request at the Music Loan
Desk. Staff will retrieve the desired LPs in less than 3 hours.
If you have any questions or comments please contact Carlie Graham
carlieg@uvic.ca
Thank you for your patience during this construction project.
Carlie Graham, MMus
Administrator, Branch Services
University of Victoria McPherson Library
PO Box 1800 STN CSC
Victoria BC V8W 3H5 Canada
p 250.721.8231 f 250.472.5448
carlieg@uvic.ca
George Eisler, CEO, BC Academic Health Council, announces the following:
On behalf of the e-HLbc Consortium under the auspices of the BC Academic Health Council and the BCAHC Operating Committee I am very pleased to announce the historic agreement by all health authorities and educational institutions involved in health provider education to join a new provincial electronic library consortium. Library services of the College of Physicians & Surgeons of BC as well as those of the BC Ministry of Health are founding partners in the Consortium.
The consortium was established to provide consistent, province-wide access to high quality electronic library resources for the health care delivery and academic health sectors, thus assuring access to timely, relevant and reliable health information. It enables practice of evidence-based care, research and education by assuring that all health care professionals, researchers and students in BC have access to the tools essential for making informed decisions. These are essential prerequisites for improvement of health outcomes, for enhancement of the quality of care, and for capacity building in health research and education.
The Consortium provides geographic equity between urban and rural settings, between students and their preceptors and practice based instructors, and between academic and practice settings. Library consortia are a proven way to minimize the cost of associate license fees.
The scope of the initial three-year licensing agreements with e-library vendors (EBSCO and OVID) provide each member organization with broad access to a suite of resources including abstracting and indexing for 9,300 journals, about 1,500 full-text journals, 360,000 records to evidence-based reviews, and access to MEDLINE. Annual costs of approximately $1.4 million will be shared roughly equally between the health care and advanced education sectors.
Establishment of the Consortium was made possible through tremendous individual and collective contributions by health librarians and administrators in both industry sectors, by a significant financial contribution from the BC Ministry of Health, by the expertise and support provided through the established electronic library consortium in the post secondary education system (ELN) and by the consensus building collaboration forum provided by BCAHC.
The Consortium is expected to come into effect as of April 1 2006. A province-wide multi-stakeholder Implementation Team guided by a dedicated implementation project manager is hard at work to assure a smooth and successful start-up and includes an extensive communication strategy.
Congratulations and thank you to all who contributed to this significant achievement.
George Eisler
CEO, BCAHC
BC Academic Health Council
#402 – 1770 West 7th Avenue
Vancouver, B.C. V6J 4Y6
Phone: 604.739.3910
Fax: 604.739.3931
www. Bcahc.ca
In a surprise announcement after his recent Lansdowne lecture Colum Hourihane, Director of the Index of Christian Art, announced he was giving the University of Victoria Libraries a subscription to this valuable resource. The gift was given in recognition of Dr. Erica Dodd’s scholarly contributions to the Index. Dr. Dodd is Adjunct Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture in the History in Art Department.
The Index of Christian Art, housed at Princeton University, contains records for thousands of medieval works of art dating from the early apostolic times to A.D. 1400. Each record provides information on style, location, subjects, and bibliographic data. The Index also includes over 100,000 digitized images from collections such as
Dumbaron Oaks, the Morgan Library, and the Courtauld Institute of Art. As part of a collaborative project with the Morgan Library, the Index is cataloging the entire collection of western manuscripts and making the text and image records available.
Before coming to teach in the History in Art Department at the University of Victoria, Dr. Dodd taught at the American University of Beirut. She has traveled and written extensively about the art and architecture in the Middle East. Her interests include Byzantine silver, Arabic inscriptions, and medieval frescoes. References to many of her publications are included in the Bibliography section of the Index.
To explore the database and see some of the extraordinary images, The Index of Christian Art is located under “Databases” on the University of Victoria Libraries Gateway.
Journal Citation Reports provides a systematic, objective way to evaluate the world's leading journals and their impact and influence in the global research community. It includes impact factor and total citations per journal for both the Science Edition - (approx. 6,100 journals from the ISI database) and the Social Sciences Edition (approx. 1,800 social sciences journals from the ISI database).
This product is available via the A-Z Database listing on the Gateway.
McPherson Library has recently purchased the following e-book products:
Safari Tech books Online
Safari Tech Books Online is the premier e-reference library for programmers and IT professionals. The UVIC Safari bookshelf contains 238 of the most popular IT titles.
Gutenberg-e
The Gutenberg-e prizewinning books have undergone a rigorous academic review process by distinguished historians brought together by the American Historical Association and produced through a close collaboration between the authors and the electronic publishing staff at Columbia University Press.
ACLS History Ebook Project
The ACLS History E-Book (HEB) Project includes over 1000 titles of major importance to historical studies.
These exciting new products can be accessed from the A-Z database list on the Gateway. Watch for more new e-books products in the coming weeks!
For more information contact:
Danielle Russell, Collections Librarian
Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Pilot Project is launched
UVic Libraries, Faculty of Graduate Studies, Graduate Admissions and Records Office and Computing User Services have partnered to conduct a Pilot Project to test digital submissions of graduate theses.
Electronic submissions of graduate theses benefit graduate students by making their research available on the web within weeks of completion. The ETD Pilot Project will be running Dec. 31, 2005. Any UVic graduate student who will be defending their thesis after July 1, 2005 or supervisors of graduate students who are interested in participating in the Pilot Project, can contact the ETD Pilot Project Management Team at:
o uvthesis@uvic.ca
OR
o visit our website at: http://web.uvic.ca/~uvthesis
Management Team members also welcome the opportunity to attend Departmental meetings to speak about the project.
The Management Team members are: Bert Annear, Graduate Admissions Officer, GARO; Sam Aquila, Head, Cataloguing Services, LIBR; Gweneth Doane, Acting Associate Dean, FGS; Patricia Fortin, Graduate Student, FGS; Katy Nelson, Librarian, LIBR; Laura Proctor, COUS; Joanne Henning, Acting Head, Collections & Preservation Services, LIBR; Nancy Stuart, Pilot Project Manager, LIBR; Frank Van Veggel, Graduate Studies Supervisor, CHEM.
