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Alternative Press Index -- now available via EBSCOhost platform

Alternative Press Index is a bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 300 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. Covering theories and practices of socialism and revolution alongside ecology, democracy and anarchism, feminism and organized labor, indigenous peoples and gays/lesbians, API coverage is both international and interdisciplinary. Coverage begins in 1991.

NOTE: This index was on the OCLC FirstSerach platform and was just recently migrated to the EBSCOhost platform.

Simultaneous Users: Unlimited

New Online Newsweeklies: Hill Times, Embassy, Parliament Now

UVic now has online access to the editions of:

Hill Times: an independently-owned newsweekly based in Ottawa. Written for the savvy, political and government insider. CTV's Ottawa bureau chief Bob Fife says The Hill Times is a "must-read for anybody or anyone who cares about the democratic process." The Hill Times conducts and publishes exclusive surveys and lists every year, including the famous "The 100 Most Influential List," "The Top Lobbyists List," "The Terrific Twenty-Five Staffers List," "The Annual Best and Worst in Federal Politics List," and the tongue-in-cheek "Annual Sexy and Politically Savvy Survey."
New weekly editions available every Monday.

Embassy: launched in 2004 Embassy delves more deeply into the international side of Canadian politics. Believed to be thorough, influential, news-breaking, and thought-provoking.

In the 2007 Pollara readership survey, some 80 per cent of readers said they must read every issue of Embassy and The Hill Times to stay up to date.

Parliament Now: Stay up-to-date with the latest information from the House and Senate as it's happening. Find out what's going on today, or see a summary of what happened yesterday. Also provides list of politically related events on Parliament Hill, across Canada or across the globe. Events are listed by the week, for the month and the year.

IMPORTANT NOTE: To receive complementary PDF of these three publications an email distribution list must be sent to The Hill Times. Please send me your email address and any email addresses for faculty that you know will want to receive the PDF version of these three publications. Email to: lmiles@uvic.ca

NEW Online Resource added: International Bibliography of Art (IBA)

International Bibliograpahy of Art (IBA) : is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), and includes the most recent index records that were created by the Getty Research Institute as part of BHA. These records were created in 2008-2009, and cover scholarship up to 2009, including retrospective records for material published in previous years. ProQuest will be building on this by adding 25,000 new records per year going forwards, ensuring unbroken coverage of indexed journals.

Unlimited Access

Platform: CSA Illumina

Coverage 2008-present

New Trial: Ethonographic Video Online

Ethnographic Video Online provides the largest, most comprehensive resource for the study of human culture and behavior – more than 750 hours and 1,000 films at completion. The collection covers every region of the world and features the work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more. This first release includes 404 videos totaling roughly 270 hours

Provider: Alexander Street Press

Trial expires August 5, 2010

Please provide feedback.

IMF E Library purchased

Description:
Information on IMF's activities and policies, as well as on its 185 member countries.
Statistics, books, periodicals, working papers and country reports.
World Economic Outlook
Global Financial Stability Reports
Regional Economic Outlook
Statistics:
International Financial Statistics (IFS)
Balance of Payments Statistics (BOPS)
Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS)
Government Finance Statistics (GFS)

IMF ELibrary

Source OECD -- New Interface

Source OECD will be migrating to a new interface.

We have made both links available via Metalib. Training using the new interface will be held August 17, 2010 after which we will refer users to the new interface.

A guided tour of the new interface is also available: Click here

UpToDate now available online with remote access

UpToDate:

is an evidence-based, peer-reviewed clinical information resource designed to assist with diagnosis and treatment. With UpToDate, you can answer questions quickly, increase your clinical knowledge and improve patient care. Independent studies confirm these benefits.

Information is presented in the form of topic reviews, each one addressing a particular clinical issue; those on treatment or management topics include recommendations. Topic reviews contain links to other related topics and are fully illustrated and referenced. You can view related charts, x-rays, photographs, movies and Medline abstracts by clicking on the associated links. There is complete access to an extensive drug database.

Remote access: Yes
Umlimited Simultaneous Users

Note: UVic previously licensed a standalone workstation with this site license we will have access for unlimited simultaneous users in addition to remote access. This purchase was made possible with funding from the School of Nursing, the Freigang family and Library funds.

BHA Bibliography of the History of Art -- status update

As of April 1, 2010, the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) will be available free of charge on the Getty Web site at http://library.getty.edu/bha. Free Web access to BHA is an advantage not only to all traditional users of the database but also to such potential users as institutions in developing countries and independent scholars worldwide, who until now have been unable to afford access to the BHA. Since ending its collaboration with the Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique (INIST)–CNRS in December 2007, the Getty has been searching for partners to continue the production and distribution of BHA. This process has been complicated, and with no suitable arrangement immediately available, the Getty decided to act on its commitment to the scholarly community by providing access to BHA directly from its own Web site.
“The Bibliography of the History of Art has been an indispensable resource for scholars and students for many years. We are delighted to announce that BHA will be available on the Getty Web site. We remain firmly committed to making the present BHA accessible to all,” says Thomas Gaehtgens, Director of the Getty Research Institute.
BHA on the Getty Web site offers both basic and advanced search modules, and can be searched easily by subject, artist, author, article or journal title, and other elements. To search BHA, please visit, http://library.getty.edu/bha. Note that the database search includes the International Bibliography of Art (IBA), covering the years 2008 and part of 2009. The Répertoire de la litterature de l’art (RILA), one of the predecessors of BHA, with records that cover 1975-1989, will be online by May 1.

Note: Catalogue records will be updated shortly to reflect this change. The databases A-Z page has been updated with the new access point.

NEW: Digital Microfilm

ProQuest's Digital Microfilm is now available for the following three newspaper titles:

•Washington Post
•Wall Street Journal
•New York Times

Beginning with 2010 we have opted to renew our subscription for the titles above with Digital Microfilm. This is an exact replica of the microfilm which includes advertising, classifieds, etc. As with microfilm there is no search function. For more information: http://www.proquest.com/assets/literature/products/databases/digital_microfilm.pdf

The digital version allows for:

•Unlimited users for access of each title, on or off campus
•Backfile coverage starting 2008 for each title
•Remote access
•Ease of printing and viewing
•Backfile coverage starting 2008 for each title

Vendor: Proquest

New: Access UN

Description:

Access UN indexes documents (including Masthead documents, Official Records, resolutions, sales publications, treaties, meeting records, etc.) from the main UN bodies- General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, Secretariat, and International Court of Justice- as well as documents from other UN programmes, such as UNEP, UNDP, UNFPA, UNHCR, UNITAR, and the many committees, subcommittees, and commissions. Coverage is from 1945 to the present.

Access UN is ideal for multidisciplinary research, including international affairs and diplomacy, political science, contemporary history, international law, peacekeeping, human rights, trade and economic development, environmental affairs, international statistics and demography, public administration, and atomic energy.

Unlimited simultaneous users

NEW: Lexis Nexis Academic now available

LexisNexis Academic provides access to full-text news, business, and legal publications, using a variety of flexible search options. One of the most heavily used databases in higher education, LexisNexis Academic is available at over 1,500 libraries serving over 8 million students and faculty. It is a standard element in many research and information literacy programs.

UVic now has a site license which allows for:

Unlimited number of simultaneous users
IP authenticates access from any computer (no more usernames/passwords)
Remote access

Note: The dedicated Lexis terminal behind the Library Help Desk will be retired.

On site training will follow on March 2nd and 3rd -- announcements will be sent out with specific dates and times.

Product Overview
Access over 6,000 news, business, and legal sources. The outstanding news coverage includes deep backfiles and up-to-the-minute stories in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources. Use the included Company Dossier module to retrieve detailed company information and financial performance measures or identify and compare companies matching specific criteria. This product also provides access to the renowned Shepard's Citations® service for all federal and states court cases back to 1789.

New Trial: SimplyMap Canada

Trial available until February 28, 2010

To create a personal workspace, please go to http://www.simplymap.com/index.php. Click on "Create Personal Workspace" and enter your e-mail address and a password. We will then send a confirmation e-mail to your e-mail address - please click on the link in this e-mail to activate your account.

Additional Trial Information

Since there is some training required in order to understand a few concepts related to mapping, we highly recommend that you watch our 6 minute training video to get the most out of SimplyMap. The training video can be accessed by clicking on the "Tutorial" link in the top right corner of SimplyMap.

SimplyMap is an Internet-based mapping application that enables users to develop interactive thematic maps and reports using thousands of demographic, business, and marketing data variables. Professional mapping applications take over 20 hours of training to use, but we have designed SimplyMap to be incredibly user friendly - most users are up and running with less than 10 minutes of training.

Your trial entitles you to access the following Environics Analytics Group ® Data Packages; Adjusted Census Data from the year 2006, Current Estimates and Five Year Projections & the 2009 Household Expenditure Potential (HEP). It also includes the D&B Canadian Business Directory.

Adjusted Census Data: The Adjusted 2006 Census provides clients with a new alternative to the 2006 Census that adjusts for the effects of random rounding and suppression while maintaining a
strong relationship to the Statistics Canada data. This unique product reduces the amount of missing data through proprietary interpolation procedures. In any Census release, random
rounding is applied to the data as one of several privacy protection measures that, while important, results in variable summations that do not match published totals and percentages that
range around 100. The Adjusted Census ensures that variable categories are internally consistent, thereby allowing the creation of realistic percentages.

Trial access: Hill Times Publications

Description: Hill Times Publications

Trial dates: February 8- March 7, 2010

The Hill Times: The Hill Times is an independently-owned newsweekly based in Ottawa. We break ground and blaze trails every week in our coverage of federal politics and the federal government. We're an influential must-read and we write for the savvy, political and government insider. Our readers include Cabinet ministers, MPs, Senators, political staffers, lobbyists, 'backroomers,' political junkies, and some of the top decision-makers in the country, including influential players in Parliament, Cabinet, the Prime Minister's Office, the Privy Council, the Finance Department, Treasury Board, the Department of National Defence, the Justice Department, and many more.

The Embassy: Embassy is Canada’s influential foreign policy newspaper. With a weekly readership of over 60,000 it is the forum for debate on international issues for politicians, foreign policy experts, diplomats, aid workers, the military, leaders in trade and business and immigrant communities in Canada.

DailyPublinet: PubliNet is a daily information service that tracks parliamentary business in both the House of Commons and the Senate. PubliNet monitors legislative and committee activity, and provides a summary of news releases from the federal government, political parties, and numerous non-governmental agencies.

Trial for Hill Times and Embassy will include:
www.hilltimes.com
Electronic Access
Weekly PDF alert
Access to Archives

Trial for DailyPublinet includes:
Daily PDF Alert
Weekly PDF Alert
Complete access to website

Trial Access: Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Description: The first multi-volume Encyclopedia to be published in the discipline in over thirty years, Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy is now regarded as the definitive resource in the field. Featuring 2,000 original entries from a team of over 1,300 of the world's most respected scholars and philosophers, REP swiftly accumulated rave reviews and awards, including selection by Library Journal as one of its 50 Sources for the Millenium, and recognition as an Outstanding Reference Source by the American Library Association.

Trial access until February 28, 2010

New Gale Digital Collections purchased

New from Gale's Digital Collections:

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive PART 1 is a historical archive that embraces the scholarly study of slavery in a comprehensive, conceptual and global way. Once completed, this digital collection will comprise five million pages of documents selected by a renowned board of scholars and organized in four parts:

Part I: Debates over Slavery and Abolition
Part II: Slave Trade in the Atlantic World
Part III: Institution of Slavery
Part IV: Age of Emancipation

Part I: Debates over Slavery and Abolition – available now – contains 1.5 million pages, including more than 7,000 books and pamphlets, 80 newspaper and periodical titles, and a dozen major manuscript collections. For academic researchers, historians, undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and others studying slavery, these varied sources shed light on the:

Abolitionist movement and conflicts within it
Anti- and pro-slavery arguments of the period
Debates on the subject of colonization

Part I strongly supports research with a U.S. focus, but also includes resources from Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean – allowing for comparative research. Developed under the guidance of a board of scholars, this new digital archive explores all facets of the controversy with a focus on economic, gender, legal, religious and government issues.

British Literary Manuscripts Online c.1660-1900 contains complete facsimile copies of author manuscripts including poems,plays, and novels, private correspondence, diaries and journals as well as drawings and handwritten notes. The collection traces the development of literary movements from the classicism of Pope and Johnson to the Romanticism of Wordsworth and the gothic novels of the Brontës. Users can search across 400,000 pages by metadata which includes author, named person and title of the work.

State Papers Online Part II: The Tudors: Henry VIII to Elizabeth I, 1509 – 1603: State Papers Foreign, Ireland, Scotland, Borders and Registers of the Privy Council

Containing around 500,000 facsimile manuscript pages linking to fully-searchable Calendar entries, Part II reunites Foreign, Scotland, Borders and Ireland papers for the 16th century together with the Registers (‘Minutes’) of the Privy Council for the whole of the Tudor period.

NEW: Dictionary of Irish Biography Online

Dictionary of Irish Biography:
Published in collaboration with the Royal Irish Academy, the Dictionary of Irish Biography is the most comprehensive and authoritative biographical reference work available both in print and online for Ireland. From James Ussher to James Joyce, St Patrick to Patrick Pearse, St Brigit to Maud Gonne MacBride, Maria Edgeworth to Elizabeth Bowen, Edward Carson to Bobby Sands, this indispensable resource outlines the careers at home and overseas of prominent men and women born in Ireland, north and south, and the noteworthy Irish careers of those born outside Ireland. Distinctive features of the Dictionary include the particular attention paid to outstanding women who have previously been overlooked and its broad coverage of the modern period.

New Resources Purchased

Newly purchased collections from Adam Matthew Digital:

Victorian Popular Culture:

The Victorian Popular Culture Portal is comprised of three separate sections:

Spiritualism, Sensation and Magic
Circuses, Sideshows and Freaks
Music Hall, Theatre and Popular Entertainment

Taking its cue from the source material, the innovative portal interface welcomes readers into the darkened halls, small backrooms and travelling venues that hosted everything from spectacular shows and bawdy burlesque, to the world of magic and spiritualist séances.

It describes popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe in the period from 1779 to 1930 and shows how interconnected these worlds were.

Foreign Office Files for China (Part 1):

Complete FO 371 and FCO 21 files from The National Archives, Kew
Available in three sections covering the periods 1949-1956; 1957-1966; and 1967-1980; this project addresses a crucial period in Chinese history, from the foundation of the People’s Republic, in 1949, to the death of Zhou Enlai and Mao, the arrest of the Gang of Four and the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976.

Made available are the complete British Foreign Office Files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in this period. These files are particularly important because Britain was one of the first countries to recognise Communist China.

Mass Observation Online: (new content added)

Mass Observation Online offers revolutionary access to one of the most important archives for the study of Social History in the modern era. The material covers:
 The end of the ‘Hungry Thirties’ when the impact of the Depression was still being felt;
 The onset of war, the Blitz and war on the home front;
 The post war world, with the rise of consumerism and television.
The archive has always been immensely popular with students because it offers immediate and engaging evidence of major trends such as the increasing role of women in work, the birth of the welfare state, anti-Semitism and anti-communism, the growth of secularism and the increasing importance of radio, television and cinema in people’s lives. Through interviews, overheard conversations, directive responses and diary entries it offers brilliant cameos describing life in the jazz halls, what people thought of the movies they saw, how people survived the random terror of the Blitz, and where they lived and worked.

Also purchased but available not yet available, coming fall 2010:

London Low Life:

Sources from the Lilly Library, Indiana University

This collection brings to life the teeming streets of Victorian London, inviting students and scholars to explore the gin palaces, brothels and East End slums of the nineteenth century’s greatest city.

From salacious ‘swell’s guides’ to scandalous broadsides and subversive posters, the material sold and exchanged on London’s bustling thoroughfares offers an unparalleled insight into the dark underworld of the city. Children’s chapbooks, street cries, slang dictionaries and ballads were all part of a vibrant culture of street literature.

This is also an incredible visual resource for students and scholars of London, with many full colour maps, cartoons, sketches and a full set of the essential Tallis’ Street Views of London – a unique resource for the study of London architecture and commerce. We also include George Gissing's famous London scrapbooks from the Pforzheimer Collection, containing his research for London novels such as New Grub Street and The Netherworld

New archival database added: MemoryBC

MemoryBC.ca is a portal where you can access descriptions of archival materials preserved in repositories throughout the province.

Archival repositories preserve records, papers, photographs and lots of other types of historical information created by people and organizations over time. All of these materials are available to the public to access, research and enjoy.

The MemoryBC.ca portal provides a searchable database of the materials available at nearly 200 archival repositories throughout the province of British Columbia.

NEW: Bibliography of British and Irish History Online (BBIH)

The BBIH has grown out of, and will supersede, the Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History. The new service, which will be launched on January 1, 2010, will be a partnership between the Royal Historical Society, the Institute of Historical Research, and Brepols Publishers. The BBIH will change from free access to a subscription service. The old Royal Historical Society Bibliography will be discontinued and will go offline at the end of December 2009.

The new BBIH will retain the key facilities available on the current RHS Bibliography search forms, including the subject classification scheme and searching by period covered. It will also offer a number of new features, such as an auto-complete function, an auto record count per search field, a multilingual interface and extended export possibilities. Users will be able to choose between a simple or an advanced search, both offering significantly faster returns of results. The new Bibliography will be compatible with OpenURL, facilitating linkage to full text. Links to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, the National Register of Archives, Who Was Who, BL Articles Direct, Google Books, COPAC, H-Albion Reviews, British History Online and Reviews in History will also still be available.

New Trial: SCOPUS

A Scopus trial has been granted for University of Victoria.

Please go to http://www.scopus.com/home.url in order to access the trial account immediately, and begin searching nearly 18.000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers, 38 million records, of which 19 million records include references going back to 1996 & 19 million pre-1996 records go back as far as 1823.

For Scopus demos, tutorials and downloadable user guides at http://www.scopus.com/home.url

SCOPUS is an Elsevier product comparable to ISI's Web of Science.

Access unavailable : Safari Books Online

Please note:
Safari Books Online is temporarily unavailable. This is a known issue and access is expected to be restored shortly.

From Safari Tech Support:
We are currently experiencing a technical problem which is preventing access to a number of Safari Books Online portals. Our engineers are aware of the problem and are working on restoring access as soon as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience.

New Trial: Reference Universe

Trial expires December 14, 2009

Please note: for purposes of this trial we opted to test the product without supplying our local holdings. If you search using a term such as "British Columbia" you will get a good sense of what the product can do.

Reference Universe allows your library patrons to search your library’s expensive specialized electronic and print reference collection in a much deeper way.

Whereas OPAC searches only title or vastly-inadequate subject heading access, Reference Universe searches the complete back-of-the-book indexes and article titles to over 16,000 reference works--then matches those to your local holdings. Now you can see what’s really in your reference collection!

Please take a brief look at this snapshot of a display of results from a search of Reference Universe with Local Holdings Options activated. http://www.paratext.com/ru2009.pdf

The Reference Widget

Most Reference Universe libraries deploy the Paratext ‘Reference Widget’ a flexible search box which can be deployed in LibGuides, your library’s home page or any part of your library’s web presence where you’d like to point patrons to your carefully selected reference materials. Examples of how the Reference Widget is used in other libraries can be found at http://refuniv.odyssi.com/support.

Style Guides

From the teaching & learning librarian:

Our APA Quick Guide is now out of date with the latest edition of the publication. As a result, the document has been from the website and replaced temporarily with a link to a good site at Purdue: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/.

The in-house guide is being re-worked and will be up shortly.

The out of date quick guides at the help desk have been removed. Please point students instead in this interim to the above link, located on our style guides page: http://library.uvic.ca/site/lib/instruction/cite/styleguides.html

Remote access to MyiLibrary -- Restored

Please note:

IP access has been restored for our MyiLibrary ebook collections, allowing users remote access again. The vendor reports that they will carry on monitoring our account for suspiciuos usage (mass downloading beyond allowed amount) and report any findings.

Please let me know if you receive any other reports of users unable to access titles within MyiLibrary.

Lisa

Library Workshop for Community Researchers

We have organized a couple of general workshop sessions for community researchers. The workshops are organized in collaboration with the Office of Community Based Research. Community researchers have to register for workshops in November - see workshop registration page for details.

There will be an evening and a lunch time session to accommodate work schedules. The sessions will be very general.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Trial Access: Canadian Women and Social Movements

A special edition of the online publication Women and Social Movements in the U.S. titled “Canadian Women and Social Movements,” is now on trial through November 15th.

Publisher: Alexander Street Press

Editors for this project include Candian feminist historians Lara Campbell (Simon Fraser); Nancy Janovicek (University of Calgary); Tamara Myers (University of British Columbia); and Joan Sangster (Trent University). This issue also includes two dedicated document projects on Canadian feminism for use in the classroom, as well as book reviews of recent publications dealing with women in Canadian history.

URL: http://wass.alexanderstreet.com

Username: canada

Password: women

To access the special issue on “Canadian Women and Social Movements” directly, go to http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/was2/absV13N2.htm—and see the complete table of contents below.

New Trial: Bibliography of British and Irish History

Trial expires: Novemeber 30, 2009

URL: http://www.brepolis.net and click on [enter databases]

Username: COPPUL2009

Password: COPPUL2009

Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). The BBIH has grown out of, and will supersede, the Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History. The new service, which will be launched on January 1, 2010, will be a partnership between the Royal Historical Society, the Institute of Historical Research, and Brepols Publishers. The BBIH will change from free access to a subscription service.

The old Royal Historical Society Bibliography will be discontinued and will go offline at the end of December 2009. The new BBIH will retain the key facilities available on the current RHS Bibliography search forms, including the subject classification scheme and searching by period covered. It will also offer a number of new features, such as an auto-complete function, an auto record count per search field, a multilingual interface and extended export possibilities. Users will be able to choose between a simple or an advanced search, both offering significantly faster returns of results. The new Bibliography will be compatible with OpenURL, facilitating linkage to full text. Links to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, the National Register of Archives, Who Was Who, BL Articles Direct, Google Books, COPAC, H-Albion Reviews, British History Online and Reviews in History will also still be available.

Remote access and MyiLibrary

There is currently a known issue with remote access and MyiLibrary, the vendor has blocked remote access because they have blocked the IP address of our EZProxy Server due to unauthorized use by an individual (mass downloading of ebooks). The patron has been blocked from using Library resources and we are waiting to hear back from MyiLibrary to see if they can restore remote access to our ebooks. It should be working later this evening or tomorrow morning at the latest.

Apologies for the inconvenience.

ACCESS is available from on campus.

Lisa

New Trial: American History in Video

Trial active until: November 15, 2009

American History in Video provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. This release now provides 1526 titles, with new videos from California Newsreel and PBS, equalling approximately 528 hours.

This is a new collection from Alexander Street Press.

Refworks

Hi Everyone,

Please let us know if you or the students are experiencing any connectivity problems when using RefWorks or when trying to import citations into Refworks.

We are seeing messages on the RefWorks list regarding connectivity problems so it would be good to know if you encounter them as well.

Please send your email to refworks@uvic.ca or use the form on the Refworks support pages. DO NOT send them to Inba.

Thanks very much for your assistance.

Trial: Paley Centre Seminars (Video)

Trial dates: from 09/22/2009 to 10/20/2009.

Access link:
http://trials.proquest.com/ptc?userid=3113319
Password: welcome

Description:

The Paley Center Seminars is an exclusive video collection of interviews with celebrities, television crews, and distinguished panels. It includes 300 filmed seminars from the acclaimed series held by The Paley Center for Media (formerly The Museum of Television & Radio) in New York and Los Angeles. These lively discussions feature the leading names in media discussing the creative process, contemporary issues in production, and issues such as the impact of the media on contemporary society. Topics covered range from presidential advertising campaigns to reality shows, from the writing process of “The Wire” and “Heroes” to Madeline Albright and Henry Kissinger on the media and foreign policy.

The completed archive will include more than 310 hours of video, with new content added each year in regular updates. This first release includes more than 75 hours of recordings, and includes seminars on movie editing, women in television drama, and representations of gay and lesbian characters, together with panel discussions with the cast and crew of both current hit shows (“Lost,” “House,” “24,” and “South Park”) and television classics such as “M*A*S*H” and “Columbo.”

Although television is the main focus of the collection, many of the seminars were based around documentaries, and so include extensive discussion of the topics covered by those documentaries, be that literature, cinema, music, opera, radio, politics, history or current events.

High-profile participants include J.J. Abrams, Madeleine Albright, Alan Alda, Robert Altman, Glenn Close, Stephen Colbert, Larry David, Tina Fey, Sally Field, Matt Groening, Holly Hunter, Garrison Keillor, Henry Kissinger, Michael Moore, Michael Palin, Thelma Schoonmaker, Aaron Sorkin, Jon Stewart, Joel Surnow, Kiefer Sutherland, Gore Vidal and Kurt Vonnegut.

Trial access: Koseisha's Zasshi Kiji Sakuin Shusei

Trial access: September 25th - November 24th, 2009

Description:

Koseisha's Zasshi Kiji Sakuin Shusei is an index of Japanese periodicals that covers materials published from the Meiji Period to today. The database includes the full National Diet Library periodicals’ index, but is especially useful for those looking for resources published before 1948.

New Trial - Canadian Book Review Annual Online

The Canadian Book Review Annual has been relaunchedin electronic format. You may recall this well-respected title, used both for reference and new acquisitions, last published in paper format in 2006.

There is a 30 day free trial currently active.

To login use: BVIV for both the Username and Password

Oxford Digital Reference Shelf -- Purchased

The Oxford Digital Reference Shelf offers libraries the opportunity to purchase electronic editions of an expanding range of Oxford's award-winning scholarly reference titles in the Arts, Literature and Language, History and Culture, Science, and Social Sciences. Presently there are 42 titles in the collection.
For a complete title list go to: http://www.oxford-digitalreference.com/title_list

Chinamaxx Ebook Collection Purchased

Chinamaxx Digital Library houses the world’s largest and most complete database on Chinese publications. It has a collection of Chinese literature. The greatest proportion of the holdings are books published since 1949 and a few are from earlier years; Classified using the CLC (Chinese Library Classification) system, it includes 22 main classes and 52 sub-classes covering all academic disciplines. This rich and scholarly content lays emphasis on Social Sciences and Humanities to attend interests on China study, enhance research project and facilitate paper writing.

UVic has initilally purchased 328 titles from the complete collection. New titles can be purchased throughout the year.

New Resource: Knovel

Knovel is the leading online technical reference resource providing answers to science and engineering questions.

UVic has access to over 800 ebooks across six subject collections from Knovel; these include:

1. Electrical and Power Engineering
2. General Engineering Reference
3. Electronics and Semiconductors
4. Mechanics & MechanicalEngineering
5. Sustainable Energy and Development
6. Metals and Metallurgy

Gail and Sandy have loaded the MARC records for this collection into the Catalogue. New content is added throughout the year along with their corresponding records in the catalogue.

SAGE Full Text Collections no longer available via CSA Illumina

Please note:

Proquest CSA will cease hosting the SAGE Full-Text Collections on the ProQuest CSA Illumina platform on December 31, 2009. SAGE will host the SAGE Full-Text Collections exclusively on the SAGE Journals Online platform after that time.. Links will be updated directing users to the new interface.

Users will need to sign up for any alerts on the SAGE Journals Online platform for which they had previously signed up on the ProQuest CSA Illumina Platform.

The 10 Full Text Collections are:

Communication
Criminology
Education
Health Sciences
Management & Organization Studies
Materials Science
Political Science
Psychology
Sociology
Urban Studies and Planning

MyCopy activated for Springer EBooks

What is MyCopy?

MyCopy is a truly innovative concept - merging the electronic capabilities of the Springer eBook Collection with a digitally print on demand (POD) option. The professor, researcher, or student has the choice - if the electronic chapter is enough for episodic reading, or whether a print book is needed for truly immersive reading. Springer is the first publisher in the market to create a business model that combines the benefits of eBooks with the print.

MyCopy's primary goal is to make the Springer eBook Collections more attractive for libraries, as well as providing end-users with a print option at no extra cost for the library. MyCopy allows library patrons to purchase a digitally printed version of the eBook (softcover, color-cover, black-and-white interior), shipped to their home address for only 24.95 USD. Currently about 11,000 eBook titles, as of copyright year 2005, are available as MyCopy books. For more information, please visit www.springer.com/mycopy.

You should now see a MyCopy icon underneath the eBook metadata, as well as to the right of the eBook abstract or chapter, as shown below. These should appear for eBooks that you have purchased under the Springer eBook Collection.

Note there are some exclusions:
Non English titles are not included in the MyCopy option at this time
Titles over 800 pages may not qualify
Titles with heavy graphics and or colour may also not qualify

IFLP and FIAF -- New serach interface

Note:
The two databases FIAF - International Film Archive Database and IFLP -- Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals are now accesible on the OVID-SP interface. The Silver Platter WebSpirs interface has been retired links on the Databases A-Z listing have been updated and any links in the catalogue will be updated shortly.

NEW: Le Grand Robert Online

Le Grand Robert de la langue française online provides all 6 volumes of the latest edition of this prestigious work.

More than one million hypertext links for easy navigation and for passing instantly from one word, one quotation or one author to another

An unpublished index of all the expressions, idioms and proverbs for direct access to an expression from any word

Direct access to all the conjugation tables containing all the verbs
Powerful search functions for carrying out cross-searches on words, quotations, whole text

Entirely reconfigured pagination for easy readability, which makes all the information clear and accessible

Le Grand Robert de la langue française is par excellence the dictionary for use in French, literature, history and philosophy courses.

New search interface for the database: FRANCIS

Please note:

The database FRANCIS will now be available via the CSA Illumina platform. Access has been on OCLC's First Search platform however with the move to CSA Illumina we will now have unlimited simultaneous users for this product.

Description:
FRANCIS provides broad international coverage of a wide range of subjects in the fields of humanities, social sciences and economics paticularly in areas such as archaeology, geography, linguistics, philosophy, religion, and sociology. This multilingual database includes a particular emphasis on European publications; a significant number of the abstracts and citations are to works in European languages. Created by the Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (INIST-CNRS) in Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy (France).

New: International Encyclopedia of Human Geography Online

Description:
The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography provides an authoritative and comprehensive source of information on the discipline of human geography and its constituent, and related, subject areas. The encyclopedia includes over 1,000 detailed entries on philosophy and theory, key concepts, methods and practices, biographies of notable geographers, and geographical thought and praxis in different parts of the world.

Platform: ScienceDirect MRW

Publisher: Elsevier

New Resources added to Metalib

Two new, free resources added to Metalib:

Asian Development Bank Publications :

ADB is an international development finance institution whose mission is to help its developing member countries reduce poverty and improve the quality of life of their people.

Headquartered in Manila, and established in 1966, ADB is owned and financed by its 67 members, of which 48 are from the region and 19 are from other parts of the globe.

ADB’s main partners are governments, the private sector, nongovernment organizations, development agencies, community-based organizations, and foundations.

FAO Document Repository (Food and Agriculture Organization)

The FAO Corporate Document Repository houses FAO documents and publications, as well as selected non-FAO publications, in electronic format. It enables users to easily access the accumulated knowledge and information produced by FAO directly on the Internet

NEW: The Feminist Encyclopedia of Italian Literature available online

The Feminist Encyclopedia of Italian Literature covers eight centuries of Italian literature, from the Middle Ages to the present. Included are entries for major canonical male authors, such as Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, as well as for female writers such as Lucrezia Marinella and Gianna Manzini. These entries discuss how the authors have shaped the image of women in Italian literature and how feminist criticism has responded to their works. Entries are also provided for various schools and movements, such as deconstruction, Marxism, and new historicism; for genres and forms, such as the epic, devotional works, and misogynistic literature; for figures and types, such as the enchantress, the witch, and the shepherdess; and for numerous other topics.

Trial Access: Psyc EM

Trial access is now available for:

Psych EM (Psych Evidence Matters)

Evidence Matters (EM) is an award-winning Canadian company which creates industry-specific, evidence-based knowledge solutions. Industry verticals range from medicine and mental health to finance and law. For each domain of application, a system is comprised of an online database, with custom content and references, a search engine, and data analysis tools that are quick and easy to use. This allows critical information to be transferred to users as soon as it is published, in standardized, summarized formats that are easily analysed and customized. The Evidence Matters solutions help users to be more up-to-date and evidence-based in their choices. Solutions are currently in use by physicians, researchers, decision-makers and interested patients, at leading academic and clinical centres in 3 languages and in more than 10 countries worldwide.

Trial valid until December 31, 2009

New Encyclopedias from Elsevier's Major Reference Works Collection

Two new online encyclopedia's from Elsevier:

Encyclopedia Of Microbiology

Audience
Researchers, technicians, teachers and students of microbiology, biotechnology, and environmental sciences
Contents
Antimicrobial Agents Applied Microbiology: Agro / Food Applied Microbiology: Industrial Cell Morphology, Chemical Composition Fungi Genetics, Genomics History and Culture History and culture, (and Biographies) Microbial Ecology Microbiology and Society Model Systems Mutualism and Commensalism Pathogenesis Physiology Systematics, Evolution Techniques

Encyclopedia of Consciousness

Coverage encompasses a summary of major research and scientific thought regarding the nature of consciousness; the neural circuitry involved; how the brain, body, and world interact; and our understanding of subjective states. The work includes contributions covering neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and artificial intelligence to provide a comprehensive backdrop to recent and ongoing investigations into the nature of conscious experience from philosophical, psychological, and biological perspectives.

Platform: Science Direct (MRW)

NEW: Chronicle of Higher Education Online Site License

We now have a site license to the Chronicle of Higher Education, users will now be able to access the online content without the requirement of a Chronicle user name or password.

Please let your faculty members, administrators, and others know about the new, convenient IP access to The Chronicle's Web site.

Highlights include:

*** the Web site (http://chronicle.com) updated throughout the day with the latest news in academe;
*** the text from the current print edition, posted every Monday morning (http://chronicle.com/chronicle);
*** a searchable archive of every issue published since September 1989 (http://chronicle.com/search);
*** all the commentary and essays from our weekly magazine, The Chronicle Review (http://chronicle.com/review);
*** all the data from the annual Almanac and other special, single-topic reports are in easy-to-search databases (http://chronicle.com/special);
*** online "extras" such as slide shows, podcasts, and video (http://chronicle.com/extras).

Complimentary e-mail newsletters/alerts can be set up, to see the list of newsletters go to: http://chronicle.com/help/emails

New Trial -- The Scientist

Description:

On trial: June 23-July 22, 2009

The mission of The Scientist is to provide compelling print and online coverage of the latest developments in the life sciences including research, technology and business. Our target audience is active researchers that are interested in maintaining a broad view of the life sciences by reading articles that are current, concise, accurate and entertaining.

Upgrade - Business Source Complete

Note we have upgraded from EBSCOhost's Business Source Premier to Business Source Complete.

Business Source Complete provides a collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals, Business Source Complete contains detailed author profiles for the 40,000 most-cited authors in the database. Additional full text content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.

New products from Bureau Van Dijk

Bureau Van Dijk is a supplier of corporate, financial, marketing and economic databases and manipulation software, directories, technical, legal and bibliographic data.

UVic users will now have access to three of their products (Note: ORBIS and MINT GLOBAL are the same product with the option to use a different search interface. Mint Global is intended for the beginner/student's needs and Orbis is intended for the more advanced user/researcher's needs.)

ORBIS is a global database which has information on over 50 million companies. ORBIS includes advanced search and analysis software so you can identify and evaluate companies around the world using just one BvDEP product.

The ORBIS database is also available on MINT GLOBAL which has been specifically designed for end-user access.

MINT GLOBAL is easy to use. Four different databases are presented in a modular format. Each is intuitive and flexible. MINT GLOBAL is ideal for desk top delivery to users who are not necessarily familiar with professional information products. The modules provide straightforward screening options, with automatic choices offered for refining searches. The linking of the forty or so data sources that contribute to MINT GLOBAL is invisible to the user - the aim is to simplify their experience as far as possible. MINT GLOBAL covers an impressive 50 million companies around the world.

MINT GLOBAL is the ORBIS company database.

OSIRIS offers historical financial information on 55,000 listed and major unlisted/delisted companies worldwide (43,000 are non-US companies).
The information includes: standardised and "as reported" financials (including restated reports), SEC filings, detailed earnings estimates including recommendations, ownership, stock data, news and ratings (inlcudes a 30 year history)

BANKSCOPE is a comprehensive, global database containing information on public and private banks. It includes information on 29,000 banks around the world. It combines data from the main information provider, Fitch Ratings, and nine other sources, with software for searching and analysis.

Each bank report contains detailed consolidated and/or unconsolidated balance sheet and income statement totalling up to 200 data items and 36 pre-calculated ratios per bank. The data is provided in varying degrees of standardisation and detail so you can search and analyse banks across borders. In addition to the existing ratios you can also create your own that you can display in the reports and also use in your searches and analyses

Canadian Patent Reporter Plus Online

Canadian Patent Reporter Plus provides cases, full text, from 1942 to the present. Related statutes and regulations in a consolidated format. Legislative histories of the Copyright Act, Industrial Design Act, Patent Act, and Trade-marks Act from R.S.C. 1927 forward.

Unlmited simultaneous users
Vendor: Canada Law Book
This database has been purchased by the Law Library with access for the entire campus.

New Trial - Oxford Digital Reference Shelf

Description:

The Oxford Digital Reference Shelf is a new initiative offering libraries the opportunity to purchase electronic editions of an expanding range of Oxford's award-winning scholarly reference titles in the Arts, Literature and Language, History and Culture, Science, and Social Sciences

For a complete title list: http://www.oxford-digitalreference.com/title_list

Note: UVic currently subcribes to fifteen of the titles.

Trial expires: July 11, 2009

New Trial - Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture

Description:

The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture provides the most current, comprehensive, and reliable information on this topic of burgeoning importance in world history and the visual arts. The unparalleled scope and depth of these three volumes include wide-ranging subject areas such as: artists, rulers, writers, dynasties, architecture, ceramics, sculpture, metalwork, painting, calligraphy, textiles, and more.

The Encyclopedia offers fully-updated articles and bibliographies that draw upon the expansive scholarship of The Dictionary of Art , as well as more than 500 plans, maps, diagrams, illustrations, and color plates. Richly illustrated and accessible, the set is an indispensable reference resource for all those interested in Islamic studies.

Trial access expires July 12, 2009

New Trial - POIESIS Philosophy Online Serials

Description:
POIESIS: Philosophy Online Serials is a subscription based reference and publishing service offering searchable access to the full text of hundreds of issues of a selection of philosophy journals and series. Every word in every available issue is fully searchable, including thousands of articles, book reviews, and dissertation listings, as well as all abstracts, footnotes, and bibliographic listings. Uniquely structured around dozens of philosophy titles, POIESIS includes journals and series published by philosophical societies, departments, and university presses in several countries. While annual subscriptions to POIESIS are only available to institutions, the tables of contents and all available abstracts are freely available for personal, non-commercial use.

Trial access expires July 12,2009

NEW: World Higher Education Database Online (WHED)

Description:

With coverage of some 17,000 higher education institutions in 183 countries, accessible through an easy-to-use interface, user-friendly search facilities on a large variety fields, it is the most efficient way to find information about higher education throughout the world.

In WHED Online you will find:

A description of the education system and credentials of 183 countries

Information and admission criteria for national and overseas students

Quality assurance and recognition systems

Contact details for national bodies

Detailed information (location and description, type of institution, officers, academic divisions, degrees, student services, etc) on some 13,000 HEIs offering at least a post-graduate degree or a four year professional diploma

Information on some 4,000 other-level HEIs offering at least a diploma in 3 years.

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

NEW: China Yearbook Full-Text Database (CYFD)

China Yearbook Full-Text Database is co-developed by China Academic Journals Electronic Publishing House and Tongfang Knowledge Network Techonology Co., Ltd. Yearbook is a type of chronicle almanac which records facts, statistics, activities, events and other national or regional conditions in an intensive, detailed, timely, comprehensive and systematic manner. Through yearbook, you can learn about a country, a specific industry or field, or a particular region from every aspect such as politics, economy, science and technology, culture and education. It is an indispensable reference work that covers authoritative data, literature, intelligence and informative resources for your research.

UVic has access to 28 titles pre-selected from the full collection.

Unlimited simultaneous users.

NEW: Accessing Lexis Nexis Web

NOTE: Lexis Nexis is now accessible via the web link: http://www.lexis.com

The dedicated ports are no longer available on the computer terminals behind the Library Help Desk.

This version is the "light" version and is not the full Lexis Nexis Academic -- we are reviewing the ELN license and pricing to dertemine whether or not UVic will participate in this offer.

This version is also username/password controlled.

PLEASE DO NOT GIVE OUT the u/p -- the license stipulates that access if for current faculty students and staff. Where possible please login the user with the u/p information -- this will be kept at the Help Desk. You may also contact Lisa Petrachenko or Inba Kehoe for this information.

PLEASE DO NOT RESET the password.

A record will be added to the catalogue with the link but again, u/p information will not be included as we can not post this information. If we join the ELN license access can be provided via IP authentication thereby eliminating the need to require users to log in with a username/password.

Please let me know if there are any questions.

Regards,
Lisa

How to use the web version of SciFinder Scholar

NEW: The web version of SciFinder is now available at our university. Access is available after completing the Registration Process.

Individual Registration is required. SciFinder's web-based user registration form allows you to create your own SciFinder username and password. After the form is complete, CAS sends an e-mail with the instructions for completing the registration process. The registration process requires you use an email address ending in @uvic.ca
1. Register for SciFinder web access (click here): University of Victoria
2. Click next
3. Enter your contact information (only your email address is required)
4. Specify username and password. Usernam: 5-15 characters (May contain only a combination of: letters, numbers, these special characters: - . _ @). Password: 7-15 characters (Must include at least 3 of the following: letters, mixed upper and lowercase letters, numbers, non-alpha characters (, @ # % * ) ).
5. Select a security question from the drop down list and provide the answer
6. Click Register
7. A message indicates that you will receive and e-mail from CAS. Check your e-mail to complete the registration.

NEW - Dictionary of Old English Online

The Dictionary of Old English (DOE) defines the vocabulary of the first centuries (600-1150 A.D.) of the English language, using today's most advanced technology. The DOE complements the Middle English Dictionary (which covers the period 1100-1500 A.D.) and the Oxford English Dictionary, the three together providing a full description of the vocabulary of English. Under the direction of editors Angus Cameron, Ashley Crandell Amos, and now Antonette diPaolo Healey, the Dictionary has published (as of 2008) four major research tools, the Dictionary of Old English Corpus on the World Wide Web, the fascicles for the letters A-G on microfiche, the Dictionary of Old English: A to G online. More than one third of the Dictionary -- eight of the 22 letters of the Old English alphabet--has been published, and more than half of the total entries have been written to date.

NOTE: This replaces the CD Rom version held in Reference.

NEW- Encyclopedia of Public Administration & Public Policy

The Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy reaches still further across the globe to provide detailed coverage of watershed policies and decisions from such fields as privatization, biomedical ethics, education, and diversity. This second edition features a wide range of new topics, including military administration, government procurement, social theory, and justice administration in developed democracies. It also addresses current issues such as the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and covers public administration in the Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia, the Pacific, and Latin America.

Platform: Informaworld
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Unlimited Simultaneous Users

IMF E-Library -- Trial

The IMF E-Library contains information on IMF's activities and policies, as well as on its 185 member countries. Statistics, books, periodicals, working papers and country reports.
World Economic Outlook
Global Financial Stability Reports
Regional Economic Outlook
Statistics: International Financial Statistics (IFS), Balance of Payments Statistics (BOPS), Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS), Government Finance Statistics (GFS).

Trial expires: June 22, 2009

Trial -- Chinamaxx Digital Libraries

Chinamaxx houses the world’s largest and most complete database on Chinese publications. It has a collection of 780,000 titles of Chinese literature. The chunk proportion of the holdings are books published since 1949 and a few are from earlier years; About 35,000 new titles are added to the database with 3 uploads every year. Classified using the CLC (Chinese Library Classification) system, it includes 22 main classes and 52 sub-classes covering all academic disciplines. This rich and scholarly content lays emphasis on Social Sciences and Humanities to attend interests on China study, enhance research project and facilitate paper writing.

Trial dates: May 13, 2009 - June 30, 2009

Access via the Datbases Page under New Trials or search for Chinamaxx as a title.

Cochrane Library Online (Wiley Interscience Platform)

Canadians will have access to the Cochrane Library via the Wiley Interscience platform for the remainder of the 2009 calendar year.

This pilot is a joint intiative of the Canadian Cochrane Network and CHLA/ABSC and was made possible by the building on the leadership of the existing subscribers from provinces, territories and institutions across Canada.

To access the resource: www.thecochranelibrary.com

A link has also been added to the Databases Page.

Medline with Full Text

Medline with Full Text is now available via the EBSCOhost platform.
Access to the full text version is made available as part of the e-HLbc Initiative.

The Electronic Health Library of BC provides the academic and health care community of British Columbia with easy access to online health library resources. The purpose of the e-HLbc is to support and improve practice, education, and research in the health sciences.

Trial: Reaxys

Description:
Reaxys is a web-based search and retrieval system for chemical compounds, bibliographic data and chemical reactions. It is built to support chemists in their daily work with focused and relevant information in chemistry.

Trial dates: May 4 - June 1, 2009

Additional information:
Note: a detailed description of the technical requirements (including supported Java environments) is available. Please check the page “About Reaxys” first before you start working with Reaxys.
In order to successfully evaluate Reaxys we would like users to participate in the Reaxys orientation webinar, thus ensuring the trial period is of maximum value for everyone involved. This webinar can be delivered on any day, at a time convenient to the user. Please register for the evaluation webinar at: webinars@reaxys.com
We are also running regular Reaxys training webinars – for more details and registration please visit www.info.reaxys.com/event.
For further assistance and information on Reaxys, please consult the Help section within the product – this tab is visible no matter which page you are in. Within Help you can then access the Release Notes section - home>customer support>release notes. This area explains which functions are currently available and what will be coming shortly.

Bureau Van Dijk Trial

Trial dates: April 27 - May 8, 2009

Access to company information via three different platforms depending on the user's needs.

• Mint Global: end-user platform designed for the students' needs:
• Please visit : www.mintglobal.bvdep.com/ip

• Orbis: research-heavy platform designed for professors:
• Please visit: www.orbis.bvdep.com/ip

Mint and Orbis provide essentially the same information, however Orbis allows for more granular details (i.e. specific ratios, further historical financials etc). Both platforms make up our standard "academic package."

The third platform:
• Bankscope: Information on over 29,000 banks around the world:
• Please visit: www.bankscope.bvdep.com/ip

Trial: ProQuest Digtial Microfilm

The ProQuest Digital Microfilm system is a browser based system that provides a simple and convenient way to access microfilm content in a digital format. ProQuest Digital Microfilm allows the user to retrieve, view, print and email specially digitized images from ProQuest microfilm.

Titles avaialable include:
The Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition)
The Washington Post
Los Angeles Times (Library Edition)
Chicago Tribune
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Barron’s
American Banker
The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
Sacramento Bee

Trial dates: April 23, 2009 - May 23, 2009

Encyclopedia of Popular Music - available online

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (EPM) gives you online access to the largest and most authoritative popular music reference work, comprised of the full text of The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 4th Edition.

Encyclopedia of Water Science -- available online

Encyclopedia of Water Science provides access to the most effective procedures in agricultural water engineering--unveiling a wide spectrum of design concepts, methodologies, and solutions for enhanced performance of water quality, treatment, conservation, and irrigation methods, as well as improved water efficiency in agricultural programs. It covers best practices in water handling, preservation, and recovery, and addresses challenges in the provision of safe water supplies for the 21st century. It provides full coverage of current debates in the field, with entries on current laws and regulations, irrigation management, agricultural water economics, agroforestry, erosion control, nutrient best management practices, and water sanitation.

Platform: Informaworld

Simultaneous Users: Unlimited

Canadian Directory to Foundations and Corporations - now online

Description:
Canadian Directory to Foundations and Corporations is an online database containing updated information on over 2,200 Canadian grant-making foundations. Together these foundations hold assets of almost $12 billion and award grants with a total value of over $1 billion. In addition, we include over 150 American foundations with a history of granting in Canada, and over 500 partial records (for which we print only the Purpose statement): most of these are either dissolved foundations or foundations that restrict their giving to a few specified charities.

NOTE: This license if for on campus use only

ASM Handbooks Online -- now available

Description:

ASM Handbooks Online features the complete content of twenty ASM Handbook volumes plus two ASM Desk Editions.

Subject area: Engineering

Simultaneous users: Unlimited

Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals available online

Description:
This database is the full text equivalent of the print series, Annotated Leading Cases of International Tribunals.
Distinguished experts in the field of international criminal law provide commentary on these decisions. Includes the most important decisions, including concurring, separate and dissenting opinions, from the Int. Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda (ICTR) and Yugoslavia (ICTY), The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), and Special Panel for Serious Crimes (SPCL, re. Timor Leste).
In production: decisions of the ICC and Dili District Court of Timor Leste

Coverage: 1993-present
Simultaneous Users: One
Subject categories: Law, Criminology, Political Science, EBooks
This database was purchased by the Law Library

VLex Global Database purchased by Law

VLex Global Description:

Primary and secondary sources from the world: 13 languages, 98 countries, over 22,000,000 documents. Content comes from 84 publishers, including a small number of titles from LLMC, and others such as the IMF, Universities, and commercial publishers. Canadian, UK, and US sources are better accessed with other products, but VLex offers access to the national laws of South America, Europe and Mexico, with a special fort? in Spanish law

This database was purchased by the Law Library with a site wide license for the UVic campus.

Simultaneous Users: Two

New resource: Si Ku Quan Shu

Description:

Si Ku Quan Shu（四库全书）is the main collection of Chinese pre-modern texts from antiquity up to 18th Century. It includes more than 3,400 Chinese works in the fields of classics, history, philosophy and literature. This collection was a 15-year project (1773-1782) compiled under the edict of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing dynasty. The full-text database is based on the Wenyuange (文渊阁) edition. You can search the Chinese characters in the system with the support of useful tools like the Ancient Character Dictionary and the Calendar conversion.

License Agreement: Si Ku Quan Shu is only licensed for use by UVic students, faculty, staff, and users in the library.
Current Users: Because we have access for only ONE user, please remember to exit your session when you've finished your search.
To use Si Ku Quan Shu, you may either...
Link to reader and install it on your computer.
or use a public access PC (not Mac) in either the Information Commons or the Info Commons Classroom 130 in the McPherson Library. You will be able to use it by selecting “SKQS” from the Windows Start Menu.

Note:
Thanks go to Ying for her efforts in working with the vendor and preparing the web page with the instructions on how to access Si Ku Quan Shu.

New Trial: RefAware (expires April 9th)

RefAware, the web-based current awareness service which provides members of the academic community and other researchers with immediate access to the most up-to-date research and new publications in their fields.

Creating an Account:

1. Go to: http://www.refaware.com
(Note: In order to sign-up for an Account, a first-time user must do so with an email address of the organization’s domain name.)
2. Click on Create a New Account.
3. Enter user information and create password.
4. Click on the Create Account button to finalize.
5. An email will be sent confirming registration.

Setting up User Profile:

Once the registered user has created an account, they can customize their “Account Preferences” under the User Profile area within the program. The preferences include the ability to:

• Change Password and Login Information
• Set-Up Email Alert Frequency
• Select Discipline Specific Coverage
• Link RefAware to a RefWorks Account.
• Change User Default Settings

The user is now ready to create their search strategies.

Creating Search Strategies:• Click on Create Search Strategies, and then type in the Strategy Name.
• Select the first criterion (Term, Author or Journal) that you want to include in your strategy by clicking on the Search Criteria drop-down box. Enter the information in the text box.
• Click on Add Search Criteria. Your criteria will be displayed in the Criteria List. Add additional criteria by making a new selection in the Search Criteria drop-down box. Each line is separated by a logical “OR”; in other words, the results of your Strategy will include all articles that meet ANY of the criteria on individual lines of your strategy.
• Once you have completed your strategy, click the Save or Save & View Results button.
Further assistance on establishing search strategies can be found via online Help.

Please note: Given the set-up insturctions involved in setting up an account this will not appear on the New Databases on Trial category -- please foward the email as appropriate.

Cataloguing request for new books

When a student or library user wants to use a new book that has been received by the library, I have been sending them to the loan desk to request that it be rush catalogued. I was informed today that Loan Desk tells them it will be available within 5 working days.
FYI.
thanks, Katy

Digital Engineering Library - name changed to AccessEngineering

AccessEngineering is a redesign of the premiere online engineering resource, formerly known as McGraw-Hill's Digital Engineering Library.

AccessEngineering delivers comprehensive authoritative information that accelerates research and innovation, and features content from a broad range of must-have McGraw-Hill engineering publications, including the latest editions of classics such as Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, Perry's Chemical Engineers Handbook, Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers, Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain, and many more.

Focused around 14 major areas of engineering, AccessEngineering features a new taxonomy book view offering comprehensive coverage and faster title-by-title access to our engineering collection in the following subject areas:

• Biomedical

• Chemical

• Civil

• Communications

• Construction

• Electrical

• Energy

• Environmental

• Green/Sustainable

• Industrial

• Material Science

• Mechanical

• Nanotechnology

• Optical

In addition, the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Engineering is embedded on all search pages. Search and generate results from the world-renowned McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Engineering, which contains more than 18,000 entries containing synonyms, acronyms, abbreviations, and a pronunciation guide are included for each term.

OCLC First Search Base Package Upgrade

We recently upgraded our WorldCat subsciption and our First Search subcriptions to allow for unlimited simultaneous users, you should no longer receive an "All ports full -- try again later" message when searching WorldCat.

With this upgrade OCLC has also expanded our First Search Base Package to include the OAIster database on FirstSearch and the CAMIO® and ArchiveGrid® databases at no additional charge to your library. In addition, in May we will receive access to an entry-scale, hosted version of CONTENTdm® with secure systems support at no additional charge, to support your efforts to increase access to digital content your library provides.

Full descriptions of each product:

ArchiveGrid: Online access to nearly a million descriptions of archival collections owned by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide. ArchiveGrid is an important destination for searching for historical documents, personal papers and family histories held in archives.

CAMIO—Catalog of Art Museum Images Online. A resource of high-quality art images from around the world contributed and described by leading museums, all rights-cleared for educational use. Every work in CAMIO is represented by at least one high-resolution image and a description. Many have additional views of the work, sound, video and curatorial notes. CAMIO art images span the following categories:
o Photographs
o Prints
o Sculptures
o Paintings
o Decorative arts
o Posters
o Costumes
o Utilitarian objects
o Jewelry

OAIster. A union catalog of more than 19 million digital resources from over 1,000 organizations developed by the University of Michigan and harvested using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting). Digital resources in OAIster include items such as:

o Digitized (i.e., scanned) books and articles
o Born-digital texts
o Audio files (e.g., wav, mp3)
o Images (e.g., tiff, gif)
o Movies (e.g., mp4, quicktime)
o Datasets (e.g., downloadable statistics files)

CONTENTdm. A single software solution that handles the storage, management and delivery of your library’s digital collections to the Web. In May, you will also receive access to full-function CONTENTdm software hosted by OCLC. Your library will receive three Project Clients for collection building, a 3,000-item limit and 10GB of storage.

Graphic Novels Core Collection Database

We now have a subscriptio to Wilson's Graphic Novels Core Collection database.

Description:

For collection development, readers’ advisory, curriculum support, and selection and purchasing, the Graphic Novels Core Collection addresses the growing popularity of this literary form. It highlights approximately 2,000 recommended titles with descriptive and evaluative annotations (including review excerpts and awards the title has won), plus cover art. Standards for rating material by age appropriateness are strictly applied, plus all titles are searchable by author, title, subject, genre, and grade level.

Entries link to additional review excerpts from Wilson’s Book Review Digest Plus database. A very powerful database, particularly when searched simultaneously with other Wilson Core Collections and other databases like Readers’ Guide.

Platform: WilsonWeb

Simultaneous Users: 8

Shakespeare Suvery now also available online

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism.

Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies, and of the year's major British performances. The virtues of accessible scholarship and a keen interest in performance, from Shakespeare's time to our own, have characterised the journal from the start.

The books are illustrated with a variety of Shakespearean images and production photographs.

Shakespeare Survey Online makes all issues of the Survey, including over 90% of the original images, available online for the first time.

Cambridge Histories Online purchased

Cambridge Histories Online:

This unique historical reference compendium brings the texts of the Cambridge Histories series to life. Includes access to over 250 titles covering over 15 different academic subjects.

Global NewsBank - Upgraded to Access World News

Please Note:

Our subscription to Global NewsBank has been upgraded by the vendor to their product Access World News. When you click on the link to Global News Bank you are taken to a page displaying Access World News along with all of our other NewsBank/Readex products. There will also be an entry for Access World News -- both will take you to the same spot, eventually we will remove the link to Global NewsBank.

Description:
Access World News is a comprehensive, web-based resource that provides access to thousands of news publications from countries worldwide. These sources include the full text of major national and international newspapers, news wires, transcripts, magazines and videos. Access World News is updated daily to keep students informed of current issues and events and includes deep archives that provide background information on important topics, enabling students to track contemporary world issues and study international cultures. The content is relevant for world history, English and science classes, debate teams, speech and persuasive assignments. Several search modes are available including keyword or map-based for easy country studies and comparing/contrasting issues and perspectives from different areas. Students may also search by continent, country, state or an individual title. The interface may be viewed in English or Spanish.

NFB Online Screening Room

NFB's Online Screening Room has been added to the Databases A-Z List.

From the press release:
National Film Board of Canada is marking its 70th anniversary in 2009 with a gift to Canadians and Web users of all ages: a new online Screening Room providing free home viewing of over 700 productions, films, trailers and clips from the NFB's world-renowned collection.

Click here for the full press release

New SAGE Abstracts available online via EBSCO

We recently purchased three of the ten SAGE Abstracts that are hosted on the EBSCOhost platform:

Peace Research Abstracts:includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to peace research, including conflict resolution, international affairs, peace psychology, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains 115,000 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline.

Race Relations Abstracts: includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. Records are selected from many of the top titles within the discipline, including Race, Ethnicity & Education and Ethnic & Racial Studies.

Urban Studies Abstracts: includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to urban studies, including urban affairs, community development, urban history, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains 40,000 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline.

New online resource: Discovering Women's History Online

This is a free resource from Walker Library at Middle Tennessee State University.

Discovering American Women's History Online provides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States.

Users can search by keyword (implied Boolean "AND") in the default search box, or combine searches of different fields in the advanced search. Browse options include subject (160+ entries), place (states), time period, and primary source type.

Please note that the thumbnails that appear as part of the short records are only examples from the relevant collections. The full record links to the digital collection rather than the single item.

The database currently describes about 400 digital collections.

Additional Adam Matthew Digital Collection

We also have access to Perdita Manuscripts 1500-1700: The Perdita Manuscripts project is on the cutting edge of digital scholarship, allowing scholars to consult detailed descriptions and full facsimiles of early modern womens' manuscripts from a wide range of public and private collections through a simple yet versatile search interface. This resource is produced in association with the Perdita Project based at the University of Warwick and Nottingham Trent University. Their goal was to identify and describe all manner of writing by early modern women from diaries to works of drama. The manuscripts are remarkably varied in their content including works of poetry, religious writing, autobiographical material, cookery and medical recipes, and accounts. Historians and literary scholars alike will find this an invaluable resource. There are contextual essays from academics working in the field, as well as biographical and bibliographical resources.

New online Encyclopedias from Elsevier

Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences:
The Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences is the most current, authoritative, and comprehensive resource on the science of the oceans. This ambitious work includes contributions from leading scientists around the world on the physical processes that drive the oceans and the chemical, biological, and geological disciplines. The Encyclopedia also covers ancillary topics such as ocean technology, law of the oceans, global programs, marine policy, the use of the oceans for food and energy, and the impact of pollution and climate changes.

Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science:
The quaternary sciences constitute a dynamic, multidisciplinary field of research that has been growing in scientific and societal importance in recent years. This branch of the Earth sciences links ancient prehistory to modern environments. Quaternary terrestrial sediments contain the fossil remains of existing species of flora and fauna, and their immediate predecessors. Quaternary science plays an integral part in such important issues for modern society as groundwater resources and contamination, sea level change, geologic hazards (earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis), and soil erosion. With over 360 articles and 2,600 pages, many in full-color, the Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science provides broad ranging, up-to-date articles on all of the major topics in the field.

Platform: Science Direct

Three new Adam Matthew Digital Collections now available

New from Adam Matthew Digital:

America, Asia and the West:
The Edward Sylvester Morse Collection from the Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem Edward S Morse (1838-1925) was a great polymath -- notable for his work in natural history, ethnography and art history -- but, perhaps most famous for his work in bringing Japan and the West closer together. He was one of the first Americans to live in Japan -- teaching science at the Imperial University of Tokyo -- and he devoted much of his life to the task of documenting life in Japan before it was transformed by Western modernization. In addition to preserving the household records of a samurai family and many accounts of the tea ceremony, Morse made notes on subjects as diverse as shop signs, fireworks, hairpins, agricultural tools, artists -- studios, music, games, printing, carpentry, the Ainu, gardens, household construction, art and architecture. An accomplished draughtsman, his pencil and ink drawings, enliven his diaries and correspondence and make his papers a pleasure to read.

American West:
Sources from the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana at the Newberry Library, Chicago.

The story of the American West has exerted a powerful influence over the psyche of the modern world, helping to fashion senses of national identity as well as permeating literary and cinematic culture. Tales of frontier life, of Native Americans and of vigilantes and outlaws are of constant interest, and are matched by more recent interest in the growth of urban centres, the environmental impact of westward expansion and of life in the borderlands. The Graff Collection is a unique resource which will allow scholars to explore all of these areas and more. Through a mixture of original manuscripts, maps, ephemeral material and rare printed sources, this collection will act as a dynamic teaching and research resource.

Eighteenth Century Journals III:
Materials for Eighteenth Century Journals III are drawn from two sources: the British Newspaper Library at Colindale, London and Cambridge University Library. This section focuses on journals published outside of London. The inclusion of Canadian, Caribbean and Indian journals allows users to explore the ways in which major world events were reported in different areas of the globe. There are also a large number of Irish journals and British provincial publications.

Note: Oliver Stacey with Adam Matthew will be on site this coming Monday to preview these and other collections they are working on -- January 26th at 10AM Room 210.

Referex and Naxos on trial

Trial access is available for two products:

Referex: Referex Engineering is a specialized electronic reference product that draws upon hundreds of premium engineering titles to provide engineering students and professionals with the answers and information they require at school, work, and in practice.

Naxos: Naxos Music Library [NML] is the world's largest online classical music library.
The library offers the catalogs of more than 50 classical, jazz and world music labels with more labels joining every month. Among the labels whose catalogs are included in the service are leading independent classical labels such as BIS, Chandos, CPO, Haenssler, Hungaroton, Marco Polo, Vanguard Classics, VOX, and of course Naxos. World music content is provided by ARC, Celestial Harmonies and others.

Both trials expire February 21, 2009

Two music databases migrated to EBSCOhost platform

Please note:

Both Index to Printed Music and RISM: International Inventory of Musical Sources after 1600 have been migrated from the NISC/Biblioline platform to the EBSCOhost platform.

New EBSCO database on Trial: Public Affairs Index

Public Affairs Index is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of national and global contemporary public policy issues ranging from public health, the environment, housing, human and civil rights, to international commerce and conflict.
This database draws from a diverse array of scholarly journals, conference papers, trade publications and government documents to provide up-to-date information on a broad range of topics of concern to the world today.

Platform: EBSCOhost

Trial expires: Feb.14, 2009

New Trial: Graphic Novels Core Collection

Graphic Novels Core Collection:
For collection development, readers’ advisory, curriculum support, and selection and purchasing, the Graphic Novels Core Collection addresses the growing popularity of this literary form. It highlights approximately 2,000 recommended titles with descriptive and evaluative annotations (including review excerpts and awards the title has won), plus cover art. Standards for rating material by age appropriateness are strictly applied, plus all titles are searchable by author, title, subject, genre, and grade level.

Entries link to additional review excerpts from Wilson’s Book Review Digest Plus database. A very powerful database, particularly when searched simultaneously with other Wilson Core Collections and other databases like Readers’ Guide.

Platform: WilsonWeb

Trial access expires: Feb 29, 2009

New Trial: Encyclopedia of Popular Music Online

Oxford's Encyclopedia of Popular Music (EPM) gives you online access to the largest and most authoritative popular music reference work, comprised of the full text of The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 4th Edition.

Trial expires: Feb.11, 2009

Access from the New Databases on Trial category within Metalib.

Deeper back files purchased for ISI products

Deeper back file coverage is now available for:

Biosis Previews: Coverage is now back to 1975 (previous coverage was 1985-present)

Zoological Record: Coverage is now back to 1945 (previous coverage was from 1978-present)

Web of Science: Coverage will be back to 1955 once ISI activates our new license this is an additional 10 years of coverage.

New Trial - Knovel

Knovel:
Knovel was created by engineers for engineers to remove barriers to finding useful data.
Knovel’s comprehensive, database delivers information—from the hard-to-find to the most commonly used—along with the tools needed to perform analysis, all on one simple platform.

Knovel provides easy access to current references that focus on emerging trends.

Trial access expires : Feb.13, 2009

Max Plank Encyclopedia of Public International Law

This encyclopedia has been licensed by the Law Library with campus wide access available.

The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL) online edition, edited by Rüdiger Wolfrum, is a fully updated online edition of the Encyclopedia of Public International Law published in print between 1991 and 2001 under the general editorship of Rudolf Bernhardt.

Platform: Oxford

Irwin Law Ebook Collection purchased

The Priestly Law Library has purchased the Irwin Law Collection also available on the ebrary platform.

Description:
Includes 88 titles in the Irwin Essentials of Canadian Law series. Authors are leading academics at Canadian law schools.

To select only Irwin titles, search the ebrary platform as follows:
Advanced search
Publisher = Irwin

Note: We will be rebranding the existing landing page for ebrary to reflect the Irwin Law Collection along with the other ebrary ebook collections we have purchased.

Duke University Press EBook Collection now available

e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection:
The collection provides online access to at least 100 new scholarly books published by Duke University Press in the humanities and social sciences in a calendar year. By purchasing the current year's (2009) titles, libraries also receive free electronic access to over 900 backlist books.

Platform: ebrary
MARC records are available and will be loaded into the catalogue.

New purchase: Archive of Americana titles

Note: The seven products listed below that are part of Readex's Archive of Americana have been purchased; they had been on trial last term.

U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980:Search or browse the Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, originally published in approximately 13,800 bound volumes.

US Congressional Serial Set Maps:The maps published as part of U.S. Congressional Serial Set publications.

America's Historical Newspapers:
Searchable American newspapers enable users to explore America's past. Available here: Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876. Note: There are other series available but at this time we have access to Series 1 only.

American State Papers, 1789-1838:
Legislative and executive documents, many originating from the important period between 1789 and the beginning of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set in 1817.

American Broadsides and Ephemera:Based on the American Antiquarian Society's landmark collection of American broadsides and ephemera, this full-color digital edition offers fully searchable facsimile images of approximately 15,000 broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900. These often rare printed documents vividly capture the daily lives of earlier Americans in a way that no other material can.

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans 1639-1800:Books, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints listed in the renowned bibliography by Charles Evans.

Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker 1801-1819:Covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States, Early American Imprints, Series II (1801-1819) provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century. The continuation of Readex's Early American Imprints: Series I, this rich primary source database, based on the authoritative bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker.

Complimentary accces to EBSCO databases

Note:

With existing subscriptions we gain complimentary access to the following databases that some of you are most likely already familiar with but if not here is a list of the four EBSCO databases.

NHS Economic Evaluation Database:
The NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED) assists decision-makers in the world of professional health care by providing information on the costs and effects of drugs, treatments and procedures. Economic evaluations - the cost-benefit analysis of two or more different medical treatments - from around the world are systematically identified, described and appraised for quality while their relative strengths and weaknesses are explored and highlighted. The database contains over 6,000 abstracts of quality-assessed economic evaluations and more than 21,000 total records. NHS EED is produced by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) at the University of York, UK.

Mas Ultra School Edition: Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for more than 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra - School Edition also provides more than 360 full text reference books, 85,670 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 341,655 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.

Lexi-PALS Drug Guide: The Lexi-PALS Drug Guide is a database of Patient Advisory Leaflets from Lexi-Comp that provides vital education on medications for patients. The approach for each pamphlet is to present each medication in an easy to follow and understand question-and-answer format. The database consists of over 1,450 medication and natural product leaflets, with an additional 600 Spanish language leaflets representing the most subscribed and commonly used medications. The database is offered on the EBSCOhost platform and is updated monthly.

Health Technology Assessments:The Health Technology Assessments (HTA) database provides details of completed and ongoing health technology assessments (studies of the medical, social, ethical and economic implications of healthcare interventions) from around the world. The aim of the database is to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of health care. In addition to systematic reviews, HTA contains ongoing and completed research based on trials, questionnaires and economic evaluations.

CRKN Ebook Collections

Canadian Electronic Library Publishers Collection:
The Canadian Electronic Library Publishers Collection is a collection of 8,131 English and French e-book titles from 47 Canadian publishers. Included in these are the major Canadian University Presses, among them the University of Toronto Press, the UBC Press, Les Presses de l'Universite du Quebec and McGill-Queens University Press. Virtually all the books are authored, edited and produced by Canadians. Many of the titles in the collection are from Canada's leading scholarly publishers, most being offered for the first time in online e-book form.
Platform: eBrary

Three collections provided by Coutts/Ingram Digital on the MyiLiibrary platform.

Cambridge University Press (Ebook Collection):Collection of 2,431 e-book titles published between 1995-2007; over the next three years the collections will grow to include 333new forward list titles.

Oxford University Press (Ebook Collection): Collection of 5038 e-book titles published between 1948-2008; over the next three years the collection will grow to include 333 new titles.

Taylor & Francis (Ebook Collection): Collection of 11,697 e-book titles published between 1933-2008. Over the next three years the collections will grow to include 333 new titles.

ELN Multi Sector Bundle New Content

The BC ELN Multi-Sector Bundle offers new content to every BC ELN partner library. The products target many programs delivered by BC post-secondary institutions including business, health, education, library sciences, trades and tourism, to name a few. UVic subscribed to many of the products included in the bundle but new content now available to UVic includes:

Consumer Health Complete (EBSCO): Provides consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. CHC provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) with Full Text(EBSCO) :
Full text of over 220 library journals as well as abstracts for an additional 690 titles

Masterfile Premier (EBSCO):
Designed specifically for public libraries, MasterFILE? Premier contains full text for nearly 1,750 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. This database also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books, 86,017 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 341,655 photos, maps & flags.

Professional Development Collection (EBSCO):
Covers over 500 full text Education titles including 343 peer reviewed titles; also includes the Chronicle of Higher Education dating back to 1999

Primary Search (EBSCO):
Primary Search contains full text for more than 50 popular, elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for over 100 student pamphlets. Additionally, Primary Search includes the Encyclopedia of Animals, and features the Funk + Wagnall's New Encyclopedia, which provides students with easy-to-read encyclopedic entries written specifically for kids. This database also provides the American Heritage Children's Dictionary, 3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin, and an Image Collection of 91,000 photos, maps and flags.

Middle Search (EBSCO):
Middle Search Plus, designed specifically for middle school libraries, contains full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for biographies, historical essays and student pamphlets. Additionally, Middle Search Plus contains primary source documents including Essential Documents in American History, reference books including the Funk + Wagnall's New Encyclopedia and American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition from Houghton Mifflin, the Encyclopedia of Animals and an Image Collection.

NoveList (EBSCO):
Fiction readers can find the perfect novel with this reader's advisory service.

NoveList K8 (EBSCO):
NoveList K-8, a fiction database, is designed with a bright, appealing layout, designed especially for elementary and middle schools. The “Working with Kids” section of the Browse panel on the homepage provides a single location to access all of the curricular materials such as our Grab and Go Book Lists, BookTalks, Picture Book Extenders and more.

World Book Online:
This subscription includes World Book Advanced, World Book Kids, L'Encyclopedie Decouverte and Online Reference Center. World Book Advanced is a powerful reference tool that includes encyclopedia, multimedia, e-book, and primary source databases

World Book Kids is the premier general reference Web site developed especially for younger users.

L'Encyclopedie Decouverte is written by expert contributors at a reading level appropriate for younger users who are native speakers and readers of French, as well as older students and adults for whom French is a second language.

The World Book Online Reference Center (WBORC) is a student's best source for accurate and accessible information. This comprehensive site includes all the articles from the 22-print volume print set, plus thousands more by World Book's renowned contributors and editorial staff.

Additional EBSCO products included as part of a subscription or available freely to existing subscribers include:

Teacher Reference Centre: Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.

EBSCO Animals (comes with Primary Search and Middle Search):
Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.

Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia (comes with Primary and Middle Search):
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas

Regional Business News (comes with Business Source Premier):
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.

British Colonist Online 1858-1910

British Colonist Online has been added to Metalib and can be found under the categories: New Databases and Newspapers.

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the British Colonist newspaper, every page of every issue, from the first one on December 11, 1858 until the end of June, 1910, a total of 100,554 pages, have been digitized and made searchable.

Access is also available from the Digital Collections Page

RefWorks Update

Hi All,

Webinars for January have been posted. Please publicize to your departments.

SwetsWise - ALJ Collection now available

Description:
The ALJC package is a journal collection published by members of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) through Swets. Founded in 1972, ALPSP is the international trade association for the not-for-profit publishers and represents more than 300 members in 31 countries worldwide. The collection is comprised of 696 journal titles by 52 publishers. New starts and transfer titles are not included in the agreement.

Platform: SwetsWise

Simultaneous Users: Unlimited

This is a CRKN product.

New online resource available: Business and Company Resource Center

Description:
Business and Company Resource Center (BCRC) provides a portal for business and industry content including periodical articles, domestic and international company information and histories, investment reports, brand and product information, rankings, and financial and industry overviews.

Vendor: Gale Cengage

Platform: Infotrac

Simultaneous Users: Unlimited

NOTE: Investext Plus has been cancelled and in it's place UVic will now subscribe to Business Company Resource Center.

New Resource: State Papers Online

State Papers Online: offers a completely novel working environment to researchers, teachers and students of Early Modern Britain. Whether they are used for original research, for teaching, or for student project work, State Papers Online offers original historical materials across the widest range of government concern, from high level international politics and diplomacy to the charges against a steward for poisoning a dozen or more people. The correspondence, reports, memoranda, and parliamentary drafts from ambassadors, civil servants and provincial administrators, present a full picture of Tudor and Stuart Britain.

State Papers Online is published in four parts. UVic currently has access to:
Part I: The Tudors, 1509-1603: State Papers Domestic

Trial Access to IGI Global products

IGI Global's InfoSci-Medical: A fully searchable database providing access to cutting-edge medical information technology research in topics such as clinical knowledge management, medical informatics, mobile health and service delivery, and gene expression.

IGI Global's InfoSci-Books: a fully searchable database providing access to chapters from every book and reference work IGI Global has published since the year 2000. IGI Global is an industry-leading publisher of scholarly research on advanced computer science and information technology research with an especially strong focus on the role, impact, and effective use of technology across a variety of settings, including business, education, health care, government, and more. Currently there are over 15,000 full-text chapters in PDF from 800+ scholarly books and reference works.

Trial Dates: December 1-31, 2008

New JSTOR Collection purchased

We now have access to the JSTOR Ireland Collection

The Ireland Collection is an interdisciplinary resource of materials from and about Ireland. At its expected completion in 2009, it will contain a minimum of 2,500 manuscripts, 200 monographs, and 75 ceased and currently publishing journals with moving walls between 1 and 5 years. Complementing JSTOR's existing collections, the Ireland Collection adds resources across the arts, humanities, and sciences in disciplines such as music, art, history, literature, archaeology, mathematics, and biology. Materials span from the 1780s to the present. With funding from the JISC Digitisation Programme, the Ireland Collection was created in collaboration with Queen's University Belfast.

Click to view the title list for this collection.

Access is available via our JSTOR collection

New Trial - Electronic Enlightenment

Electronic Enlightenment offers unrivalled access to the web of correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the long 18th century and their families and friends, bankers and booksellers, patrons and publishers. Innovative functionality and linking allows you to research letters and documents, annotations and supporting materials, follow links to online portraits, trace the lives of Enlightenment figures, follow links to other scholarly resources, and much more.
• Unprecedented online access to over 53,000 letters from the critical editions from leading scholarly and university presses
• Letters from over 6,000 writers, scientists, philosophers, politicians, political thinkers and others, including Addison, Bentham, Boswell, Catherine the Great, Defoe, Descartes, Hobbes, Hume, Locke, Muratori, Newton, Pope, Richardson, Rousseau, Smith, Swift, Mrs.. Thrale, Voltaire, and others
• Cross-search over a quarter of a million scholarly annotations
• Original languages - includes letters in French, German, and Italian as well as English (many in translation)
• Expanding network of links to other online resources, from Chambers' Cyclopedia to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• Updated twice a year with further critical editions, including previously unpublished correspondences
• Static URLs at the level of individual letter writers make it easy to link to Electronic Enlightenment directly from other resources

NOTE: to access the trial click on the link SUBSCRIBERS ENTER HERE

Publisher: Oxford

Trial expires: November 20, 2008

New Trial - Japan Knowledge

JapanKnowledge is a large online collection of language dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other Japanese reference works that can be searched simultaneously. The database provides access to 30 volumes of the Nihon daihyakka zensho (Encyclopedia Nipponica) in Japanese and the Kōdansha Encyclopedia of Japan in English; full-text coverage of the Tōyō Bunko and Shūkan Ekonomisuto (Weekly Economist); and to other resources including scientific and biographical dictionaries, the JK Who's Who, and a new interactive map of Edo and Tokyo. It also includes chronologies (world history, Japan by period, Japan by prefecture, science, culture, society, daily life, social movements, economics and for individuals); a database of video (TV, news) recordings from 1908 to 2005; a database of dissertations from the humanities departments of six universities in Japan; books in print database; sound library; music library.

Trial expires: November 14, 2008

EndNote Update

I've reworked the EndNote support pages.

EndNote is now offering webinars as well - links to the webinars are listed on the EndNote pages rather than using Events Calendar:
http://library.uvic.ca/site/lib/instruction/endnote/endnote_workshops.html

EndNote has been installed in Classroom 209. Let me know if you are planning to teach a session because there is a small setup initiation you will have to do with WORD before your session.

Let me know if you have any questions.

RefWorks Update

Just wanted to let you know that I've updated the Wrorkshops list for November.

Please let me know if you are getting requests for in-person sessions at the desk.

New Resource: Canada Info Desk

Canada Info Desk integrates the content of 6 directories into a single online Canadian resource – making it the most comprehensive directory database in Canada. Canada Info Desk provides users with access to over 100,000 Canadian organizations, contacts, facts and figures in one easy-to-use online resource.
The 6 directories include
Associations Canada
Canadian Almanac & Directory
Canadian Environmental Directory
Financial Services Canada
Governments Canada
Directory of Libraries in Canada

Access is for one user

Archive of American Trial

Please note:

We will have access to the Archive of American products (Readex) for the remainder of this term, thanks to Dr. Ray Siemens.

Dr. Siemens partnered with Readex on a recent project and as a thank you they have offered him trial access for the campus to Archive of Americana and another product called Crossroads which I will announce in a separate email message.

Thank you Ray!

Please take this oppotunity to look at the products and send your comments.

New Trial - Business and Company Resource Center (BCRC) Demographics Now

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:

Business & Company Resource Center meets core curriculum requirements in undergraduate and graduate case study work in finance, economics and marketing. This innovative database includes millions of records covering:
 Company profiles, including corporate parent/sibling relationships
 Industry rankings
 Products and brands
 Company performance ratings
 Investment reports
 Industry statistics
 Current investment ratings
 Comprehensive financial overviews
 Pricing momentum and key ratio measures
 Financial ratios
 Coverage of major business events and trends from 1980 to the present
 Industry newsletter news and analysis

DemographicsNow is an easy-to-use resource providing complete access to U.S. Census data, including current year and five-year projections.
Features include the ability to:
 Analyze the demographic and market potential of any geography in the U.S
 Create custom reports for any geography in seconds
 Perform quick and accurate market analysis
 Create fully interactive maps
 Create radius based maps and reports
 Create summary and comparison reports for any U.S. geography
 Get full access to current year estimates and five year projections
 Get complete access to 1980, 1990 and 2000 Census data as well as AGS current year estimates and 5 year projections

Trial expires November 14th, 2008

Publisher: Gale Cengage

This is a COPPUL offer for review.

New Trial - Shakespeare Survey

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism.

Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies, and of the year's major British performances. The virtues of accessible scholarship and a keen interest in performance, from Shakespeare's time to our own, have characterised the journal from the start.

The books are illustrated with a variety of Shakespearean images and production photographs.

Shakespeare Survey Online makes all issues of the Survey, including over 90% of the original images, available online for the first time. The latest volume, Theatres for Shakespeare (Volume 60), has been added to the collection as part of the November update to Cambridge Collections Online.

Trial dates: October 1-31, 2008

New Trial: Archive of Americana

We now have trial access to the collection of products from Readex known as Archive of Americana which includes:

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans 1639-1800
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker 1801-1819
America's Historical Newspapers
U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980
U.S. Congressional Serial Set Maps
American State Papers, 1789-1838
American Broadsides and Ephemera

The suite of products has been added to our Global Newsbank account and IP authentication has been set up.

You can also cross search all products on the Archive of Americana interface which is accessible by going to any of the products and you will find a link to Archive of Americana.

Please provide your feedback as some of these products have been on our EResouces wishlist in the past.

New Trial: Springer Protocols

Description:
Springer Protocols is the largest subscription-based electronic database of reproducible laboratory protocols in the Life and Biomedical Sciences. Compiling protocols from Humana’s successful book series Methods in Molecular Biology, Methods in Molecular Medicine, Methods in Biotechnology, Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Neuromethods, as well as from a vast number of Laboratory Handbooks, such as The Biomethods Handbook and The Proteomics Handbook, Springer Protocols offers researchers access to nearly thirty years worth of time tested, easily reproducible, step-by-step protocols for immediate use in their lab. Written by renowned experts in the field with an emphasis on both comprehensiveness and ease of use, each protocol is organized in an easily reproducible recipe style, and offering helpful tricks of the trade in an invaluable “notes” section, Springer Protocols is an invaluable resource for the modern research laboratory. All Springer Protocols are written by experts in the field identified and reviewed by distinguished editors in their specific subject areas. Prior to publication each protocol is reviewed for clarity, accuracy, and consistency by the subject editor, a member of our prestigious editorial board, and Springer’s in-house editorial staff.

Trial expires October 31, 2008

Access under Metalib subcategory: New Databases on Trial

BestCase - new online database

The Priestly Law Library has purchased a site license for the product Best Case.

BestCase is a comprehensive online resource for access to Canada Law Books law reports and summary series, with cases dating back to 1898 and summaries back to 1971. Includes the Dominion Law Reports, Canadian Criminal Cases, Labour Arbitration Cases, All Canada Weekly Summaries, and BC Civil Decisions. Full text searching with print, download, and email options. Contact the Law Library Reference desk for assistance.

Simultaneous users: Unlimited

Publisher: Canada Law Book

NOTE: Dominion Law Reports Plus will now be inlcuded in BestCase

New Online Encyclopedias from Elsevier

We now have access to five new Science Direct Major Reference Works Encyclopedias.

Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition
Audience:Audience: Nutritionists, clinical nutritionists, dietitians and allied health workers, university/medical school libraries and public libraries, managers and lawyers within the food industry, and government sectors dealing with nutritional policies

Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics
Audience: Students, researchers and professionals who are seeking an authoritative source of information about any particular aspect of linguistics or its applications.

Encyclopedia of Social Measurement
Audience:University, research, corporate, and government libraries worldwide; all levels of government interested in public policy analysis; industries concerned with data in the the areas of benchmarking, competitive intelligence, data warehousing & data mining, directories, dictionaries/glossaries, discussion groups, information services companies, internet, insurance, marketing, news sources, product development/product management, publications/publishers, rating agencies, regulatory & legal, research, risk managment, technology & automation, trade & profesional associations.

Encyclopedia of Stress.
Audience:Graduate and medical libraries, academic clinicians, neuroendocrinologists, neuropharmacologists, immunologists, molecular biologists, geneticists, professional psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, health workers, and researchers from graduate to senior scientific levels.

Learning and Memory
Audience :
Medical and academic libraries, servicing basic and clinical researchers in neuroscience, psychology, and related fields of science.

Platform: Science Direct

Unlimited simultaneuos users

RefWorks - 30 minute workshops

I've posted more Refworks 30 minute workshops for the last 2 weeks of September. So please advertise to your students and faculty.
Thanks

Zoological Record now available on the ISI platform

Note:

Zoological Record will be migrated to the ISI platform (Web of Knowledge). It is available now to use and search.

The OVID/SP platform will no longer be available after December 31, 2008.

Coverage: 1978-
Platform: ISI
Simultaneous Users: Unlimited

Classical Scores Library now active

Classical Scores Library:
Classical Scores Library will contain 400,000 pages of classical scores from both in-copyright and public domain editions. The major composers output is represented, as well as many lesser known composers and works. Content in the database includes in-copyright material from Boosey and Hawkes and selected material from the University Music Editions microfilm series. The collection includes works spanning time periods from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Coverage of score types is comprehensive, with full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and piano reductions. The database has been indexed to enable users to search on musically relevant fields, such as composer, work/opus number, key, genre, instrument, time period; as well as score-specific fields, such as score type, duration, editor, arranger, publisher. We hope that this will enable users to search, analyze, and research scores in a simple but powerful manner. Further releases will include the entire catalog of UME, as well as manuscript material from the Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research, and many new editions from other in-copyright publishers.

Publisher/Platform: Alexander Street Press
Simultaneous Users: Unlimited

Classical Scores Library is new content now available as part of the recent CRKN DCI Agreement.

SFX Menu offers ILL form for Distance Students

John Durno and Carol Gordon have been working to develop an ILL form for use by registered Distance Students. This form is now available as an option on the SFX Menu under the More Options section of the SFX menu, as follows:

More Options
Item not @ UVic?
Request from another library (UVic Borrowers)
Request via Law Interlibrary Loan (Law borrowers)
Request from Infoline (registered distance education students only)

Thank you John and Carol.

New CRKN content: Periodicals Archive Online

Periodicals Archive Online is the new name for PCI Full Text - an archive of hundreds of digitised journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, providing access to the full text of a growing number of digitized periodicals that have been indexed in its sister database, Periodicals Index Online.

Currently, Periodicals Archive Online contains over 500 journals, providing access to over 12.9 million article pages - representing over 1.9 million articles. Periodicals Archive Online continues to add new titles, to give undergraduate and graduate students, university faculty and libraries access to a growing collection of the most historically respected journals in the humanities and social sciences.

We have access to Collections 1-6

Platform: Chadwyck Healey

Unlimited simultaneous users

New CRKN - DCI Content: Adam Matthew Digital Products

As part of the recent CRKN - DCI Agreement we now have access to additional collections from Adam Matthew Digital.

Our exisiting Adam Matthew Digital content includes:
Eighteenth Century Journals I and II
Empire Online
Literary Manuscripts
Medieval Travel Writing

We now have access to the following additional collections:

China: Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793-1980:
Unique manuscript material relating to the activities and observations of British and American diplomats, missionaries, business people and tourists in China from 1793 to 1980, together with rare periodicals, colour paintings, maps, photographs and drawings. All of the printed materials (including the typescript records of Chinese Maritime Customs officials) have been double-keyed and are full-text searchable. All of the manuscript material has been indexed to provide ready accessibility for students by person, place and subject. An interactive map encourages searches by city and region. There is no overlap with material published in ‘China and the West: The Maritime Customs Service Archive: From the Second Historical Archives, Nanjing, China’.

Defining Gender, 1450-1910:
Defining Gender is structured in five sections, each containing a substantial body of original source material, together with thematic essays by leading scholars in the field.
Section I: Conduct and Politeness
Section II: Domesticity and the Family
Section III: Consumption and Leisure
Section IV: Education and Sensibility
Section V: The Body
The study and analysis of gender, leisure and consumer culture has now become one of the most vibrant areas of social, cultural and intellectual research, transcending the disciplinary boundaries of history, literature, sociology, education and gender studies. This publication will provide resources for many new projects and conference papers, as well as for graduate seminars and undergraduate teaching.

Mass Observation Online:
Mass Observation Online offers revolutionary access to one of the most important archives for the study of Social History in the modern era. The material covers:
 The end of the ‘Hungry Thirties’ when the impact of the Depression was still being felt;
 The onset of war, the Blitz and war on the home front;
 The post war world, with the rise of consumerism and television.
The archive has always been immensely popular with students because it offers immediate and engaging evidence of major trends such as the increasing role of women in work, the birth of the welfare state, anti-Semitism and anti-communism, the growth of secularism and the increasing importance of radio, television and cinema in people’s lives. Through interviews, overheard conversations, directive responses and diary entries it offers brilliant cameos describing life in the jazz halls, what people thought of the movies they saw, how people survived the random terror of the Blitz, and where they lived and worked.

Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice 1490-2007:
This extraordinary resource on trans-Atlantic slavery and abolition brings together original manuscript and rare printed material from dozens of libraries and archives across the Atlantic world. Published in three sections between 2007 and 2009, this collection will prove invaluable for postgraduate and scholarly research and will also provide a user-friendly classroom tool for undergraduates.
This project provides access to many thousands of original manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, maps and images. Most are reproduced as high quality greyscale images, but there are also a significant number of colour images. All printed items are full text searchable and manuscripts have document level indexing. All documents have distinct URLs and can be embedded in course notes and reading lists or downloaded as PDFs.

Canadian Historical Review

We have recently joined an offer from COPPUL which will give us access to the current issues alon with the complete archive (1920-) of the:

Canadian Historical Review plus a current subscription.

Description:

The Canadian Historical Review was launched in 1920 as a continuation of the Review of Historical Publications Relating to Canada, whose first volume appeared in 1897 and covered books published in 1896 and 1895.
The Canadian Historical Review offers an analysis of the ideas, people, and events that have molded Canadian society and institutions into their present state. Canada's past is examined from a vast and multicultural perspective to provide a thorough assessment of all influences.
As a source for penetrating, authoritative scholarship, giving the sort of in-depth background necessary for understanding the course of daily events both for Canadians themselves and for those with an interest in the nation’s affairs, the CHR is without rival. Indeed, there are good reasons for everyone to read the CHR -- everyone from business executives to bankers, from theorists to policy makers, scholars and laypeople, too.
The Canadian Historical Review provides comprehensive reviews of books to interest all levels of Canadian historians. Each issue also offers an extensive bibliography of recently published historical writings (including CD and video media) in all areas of Canadian history, conveniently arranged by subject.

The CHR is published with the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Department of Canadian Heritage through the Publications Assistance Program and the Canadian Magazine Fund.

Vol. 85 (2004) through current issue of the CHR is also a part of Project MUSE.

Cairn EJournal Collection

Cairn, an online collection of full text French language periodicals is now available as part of the recent CRKN DCI Agreement

Description:
Cairn was formed in 1995 by four European publishing houses (Belin, De Boeck, La Découverte and Erès) and offers access to a comprehensive collection of French language periodicals in the social sciences and humanities disciplines. The collection is currently comprised of 149 titles from more than 40 publishers, teaching institutions and learned societies and is growing rapidly. The earliest full text coverage begins with 2001 issues to the present, in both html and pdf. The collection is projected to include 182 journals by 2009 and 230 journals by 2010. These titles will be added incrementally over the course of the agreement. All 230 titles will be available to DCI participants through the CRKN license agreement. Participants will be kept informed of title additions as the information is made available. The primary subject areas covered by the collection are history, psychology, economics, political science and sociology. Titles added to the collection during the term of the agreement will be focused in management, arts, literature, philosophy and religious science.

Online access and coverage for most journal titles begins with the year 2001.

Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

Background:
For the most part, the biographies that appear in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online reproduce those that were originally commissioned by the Dictionary of Canadian Biography for its print version and were republished, some with minor corrections, in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volumes I-XIV, CD-ROM (2000) and Volume XV in print (2006). A selection of biographies from unpublished volumes is also included. The Dictionary of Canadian Biography, whose first volume appeared in 1966, is a joint project of the University of Toronto and the Université Laval and presents the work of researchers and writers in many fields from across Canada and around the world.

In 2003, a licensing agreement was reached between the Department of Canadian Heritage and the two universities to make the Dictionary of Canadian Biography available on the Internet. Library and Archives Canada then became responsible for putting the Dictionary of Canadian Biography into its online form.

Updates:
The Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online will be continually expanded and enhanced.
Geographic and identity/professional search terms will be extended to include the unindexed volumes of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
Identity/professional index terms will be expanded to provide more powerful search functionality.
Portraits from the collections of Library and Archives Canada will be added to select biographies.
Hyperlinks between biographies will be supplied to allow quick access to related stories and people.
Links to Virtual Exhibitions and Search Tools of Library and Archives Canada will be added to provide ties to primary source material and supplementary information related to the biographies.

Now available online: Who's Who and Who Was Who

Who’s Who & Who Was Who Online:
offers unrivaled access to up-to-date autobiographies of over 33,000 influential people in British Life today, and 90,000 entries from all of Who Was Who. Detailed information gives users fascinating insight into the private lives of public figures, and direct reciprocal links with Dictionary of National Biography allows users to compare how persons classified their own lives versus how history views them. Internal cross-referencing allows users to find family members and similar people to expand research.

Published by: Oxford University Press

Simultaneous Users: One

Now available online: American National Biography

American National Biography:
The landmark American National Biography offers portraits of more than 17,400 men & women — from all eras and walks of life — whose lives have shaped the nation. The American National Biography is the first biographical resource of this scope to be published in more than sixty years.

Published in 24 volumes in 1999, the American National Biography won instant acclaim as the new authority in American biographies. Winner of the American Library Association's Dartmouth Medal as the best reference work of the year, the ANB now serves readers in thousands of school, public, and academic libraries around the world.

The publication of the online edition makes the ANB even more useful as a dynamic source of information -- updated semi-annually, with hundreds of new entries each year and revisions of previously published entries to enhance their accuracy and currency. The ANB Online features thousands of illustrations, more than 80,000 hyperlinked cross-references, links to select web sites, and powerful search capabilities.

Updated quarterly

Published by: Oxford University Press

Simultaneous Users: One

New Open Access Collections added to Databases A-Z list

Bioline International: Bioline International is a not-for-profit electronic publishing service committed to providing open access to quality research journals published in developing countries. BI's goal of reducing the South to North knowledge gap is crucial to a global understanding of health (tropical medicine, infectious diseases, epidemiology, emerging new diseases), biodiversity, the environment, conservation and international development. With peer-reviewed journals from Brazil, Cuba, India, Indonesia, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe and more to come, BI provides a unique service by making bioscience information generated in these countries available to the international research community world-wide.

SciELO.org - Scientific Electronic Library: SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online is a model for cooperative electronic publishing of scientific journals on the Internet. Especially conceived to meet the scientific communication needs of developing countries, particularly Latin America and the Caribbean countries, it provides an efficient way to assure universal visibility and accessibility to their scientific literature, contributing to overcome the phenomena known as 'lost science'. In addition, the SciELO model comprises integrated procedures for the measurement of usage and impact of scientific journals.

Migne's Patrologiæ Græcæ now available online

The electronic version of Migne's Patrologiae Graecae contains more than 160 volumes of Greek material (with Latin translations) relevant to the study of the history of the Christian Church from its beginnings through the Council of Florence in 1439.

Long a classic, this series of more than 160 volumes remains the most comprehensive record of Greek patristic material in existence. Though many of the works covered in the series have been published more recently in various critical editions, Patrologiæ Græcæ remains the only published source for much of the material, and the completeness of coverage is unsurpassed by other modern editions of similar material.

The electronic form of Patrologiæ Græcæ (Electronic PG) has been digitized in image format, thus greatly reducing the cost while preserving the appearance of the original pages. The tables of contents of Patrologiæ Græcæ are notoriously vague and unhelpful, so we have created completely new and comprehensive electronic tables of contents in our version. A true, full-text (XML) version of Patrologiæ Græcæ is planned for the future.

Stateman's Yearbook Online and Palgrave Dictionary of Economics now available online

Descriptions:

Statesman's Yearbook Online was conceived of by Robert Carlyle and brought into being with the help of William Gladstone. Their vision for the book was an authoritative and accessible volume containing information essential for diplomats, politicians and all statesmen involved with international affairs. It quickly gained recognition as an indispensable reference tool and has been published continuously since 1864, through two world wars, without missing an edition. It was ranked by Library Journal as one of the top 20 best reference resources of the millennium. Today, international affairs concern almost every one of us and the scope of the book has become correspondingly broader, with expanded coverage of history, politics, economics, trade and infrastructure for each country, all thoroughly researched and verified by a dedicated editorial team. It also provides extensive further reading lists and web links for further research.

The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, contains over 1,850 articles by more than 1,500 of the world's leading economists.

While some classic articles from the 1987 were retained, around 80% of the text was either entirely new or substantially rewritten to reflect the depth of change within the discipline between the editions. This new edition retains the inspiring tradition of bringing together the world's most influential economists writing in their own voice on their areas of expertise, but in its online incarnation it has married this tradition with the benefits of a dynamic, updated resource serving the information needs of a new generation of economists

New Trial: Harper's Weekly Online (1857-1912)

Description:
HarpWeek is a web site that provides electronic access to Harper’s Weekly, the illustrated 19th century "Journal of Civilization," for a 56-year period: 1857-1912. HarpWeek's electronic database makes it possible for you to discover the lively news stories, illustrations, cartoons, editorials, biographies, literature and even advertisements that shaped and reflected public opinion in this era. Using HarpWeek’s powerful features, you can browse through 56 years of Harper’s Weekly page by page, locate specific articles based on search terms or phrases you specify, or use sophisticated indexing and synopsis tools to comb through thousands of Harper’s Weekly articles.

Trial expires: July 3, 2008

New Trial: Shakespeare Survey

Details:
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies, and of the year's major British performances. The virtues of accessible scholarship and a keen interest in performance, from Shakespeare's time to our own, have characterised the journal from the start. The books are illustrated with a variety of Shakespearean images and production photographs. Shakespeare Survey Online makes all issues of the Survey, including over 90% of the original images, available online for the first time. The latest volume, Theatres for Shakespeare (Volume 60), has been added to the collection as part of the November update to Cambridge Collections Online.

Trial dates: May 28-June 26, 2008.

Platform change -- America: History & Life AND Historical Abstracts

Please note:
As of July 1, 2008 both America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts will cease to be available on the ABC-CLIO interface but will now be offered on the EBSCOHost platform. Redirect links will be put in place.

The URL has been constructed so that when you click on either product from the db A-Z listing you will be searching both simultaneously.

For a preview: America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts

New Trial to: Canadian Points of View Reference Centre

Description:
Canadian Points of View Reference Centre™ is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides information on 100 key topics of interest to Canadian researchers, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide. Topics covered include: environment, health, human rights, crime, race, technology, substance abuse, and many more. Canadian Points of View Reference Centre contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including 400 main essays, leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents, and reference books. The database also offers guides to debate, developing arguments and writing position papers. Additionally, this database contains the Video Encyclopedia of the 20th Century, providing students with a searchable collection of some of the most important social, political, and cultural moments of the 20th century. Canadian Points of View Reference Centre provides the basis from which students can realize and develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues and develop analytical thinking skills. Critical Thinking Guides for every topic covered helps the student judge Fact vs. Opinion and enhances the student's ability to read and think critically.

Platform: EBSCOhost
Trial expires: June 19, 2008

RefWorks Update

1. Webinars to introduce you to RefWorks are now available at:
Library Workshops. Please refer students to these workshops.

The online workshops are divided into 4 modules:
a) RefWorks Fundaments
b) RefWorks Advanced Features
c) RefShare Feature
d) Write-N-Cite for Windows

New Trial: Knovel

Knovel: is an online technical resource used by applied scientists and practicing engineers around the world to quickly locate relevant and reliable technical information.

For more information on the trial please go to: Knovel Trial Information

Trial Dates: April 15-June 16, 2008

People's Daily Online

Note: We have recently upgraded our subscription to the newspaper: People's Daily. It is now available online with daily updates rather than monthly.

Description (from website): With publication started in June 1946 and a current circulation of 3 million, People's Daily is the most influential and authoritative newspaper in China. It is the official voice of the central government of the People's Republic of China For the last over 60 years, the People's Daily has published daily issues that provide the single location where the central government and the Communist Party of China announce their respective policies and disseminate governmental, political, and economic messages to the public and the world. Most importantly, since its inception the newspaper has been the true barometer of the political climate of Chinese society on a daily basis.

Coverage:1946-present
Simultaneous Users: unlimited

Clinical Pharmacology database discontinued

Note:
EBSCO's Clinical Pharmacology Databasehas been discontinued and drug-related database content will now be provided by Lexi-PALS. Lexi-PALS data will be available through the Health Source: Consumer Edition and Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition; there will be no separate URL for this content, as there has been for the Clinical Pharmacology database.

The link has been removed from the databases page but the title will be available in the list for a few months. The title won't be hyperlinked so if people go to the description they will see that they can access drug related content via Health Source on the EBSCOhost platform.

Redirect links for Grove Music and Grove Art Online

Note:
Grove Art and Grove Music Online will continue to display in the Databases A-Z listing and in the Music and Fine Arts database list with a redirect link to their new names of: Oxford Art Online and Oxford Music Online. Users clicking on the link for either Grove title will be taked directly to the new content.
This will hopefully help those people looking for the databases under the Grove name.

GreenFILE from EBSCO now available

Description:
GreenFILE offers well-researched but accessible information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles include content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done on each level to minimize negative impact. Topics covered include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. GreenFILE is multidisciplinary by nature and draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 295,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,600 records.
Note: This resource is being offered free to existing EBSCO customers.

New Research Guide

I've made a Health Statistics Research Guide. I hope you find it useful.

SFX Menu and ILL Linking Changes

Hi everyone:

I expect you will pleased to know that the ILL links will now always display on the SFX Menu, even when SFX indicates that online content is presumably available. Click on the More Options link to access these links. See image below, as an example. Thanks to John Durno for implementing this change.

2 new Research Guides

I've made 2 new research guides: Bioethics & Medical Ethics; and Complementary & Alternative Health (CAM). I hope you find them useful.

Grove Music and Grove Art -- New Name

Please note:

Grove Music Online is now called Oxford Music Online

Grove Art Online is now called Oxford Art Online

PubMed SFX Linking Problem

SFX Users around the world are reporting that the PubMed SFX Button/ICON has disappeared and been replaced with a Click here to read link that is not working too well.

I checked, and, sure enough, UVic's SFX link on PubMed has also been changed to this new link.

As it turns out, the SFX link does not work unless you find the exact '"sweet spot" in the link, so you may need to move your cursor around a bit to activate this new SFX link.

In Firefox the "sweet spot" appears to be very small and occurs just above the 'blank space' between the words click and here.

Ex Libris is aware of this problem and is working with the NLM to address this change.

JPEG IMAGE OF NEW SFX LINK ON PUBMED (APRIL 2, 2008)

Google Scholar and SFX Linking Now Implemented.

Google Scholar is now presenting UVic's SFX Get this @ UVic links in it's result lists. Based on some preliminary searches, this is not a "bed of roses", but it is interesting.

For example, when you do a search in Google Scholar, you will note that the Get this @ UVic link does not always appear at the same place in the Google Scholar record, or the link may not appear at all.

The Brown University Library has developed a Google Scholar @ Brown web page that explains this phenomena. It seems to have something to do with how sure Google Scholar is about the availability of online content at UVic.

Here are some examples from a Google Scholar search at UVic, when searching with the search words aging isolation females psychology:

Example 1: Google Scholar seems to be quite sure we have the full text at UVic, so puts the Get this@UVic link prominently at the end of the title. But, I can also connect directly to the online content just by clicking on the title, without invoking the SFX link.

Spousal Concordance in Health Behavior Change - Get this@UVic
TA Falba, JL Sindelar - Health Services Research, 2008 - ingentaconnect.com
... Respondents who smoke make up 18 percent of the full sample, leaving a topic-specific sample of 1,061 individuals (579 males and 482 females). ...
Cited by 1 - Web Search

Example 2: Google Scholar is perhaps not sure whether we have the full text available at UVic, so puts the Get this@UVic link at the end of the citation. If we activate the link, SFX indicates we do have online content, and, this is true, but we have to guess at the issue number and browse our way into the full text, as Google Scholar does not give SFX the issue number and page number. BUT, if I link on the title, while still in Google Scholar, I am taken directly to the article.

Marital status, feeling depressed and self-rated health in rural female primary care patients
JE Rohrer, ME Bernard, Y Zhang, NH Rasmussen, H … - Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 2008 - Blackwell Synergy
... Aging is seen as a common factor that ... to ameliorate the effects of social isolation and financial ... and identified risk factors among rural female primary care ...
Web Search - Get this@UVic

Example 3: Google Scholar is, once again, not sure if we have the full text at UVic, so puts the Get this@UVic link at the end of the citation. Problem: the SFX menu says we DO NOT have this article online, but if I click on the title, while still in Goggle Scholar, (and ignore the Get this @ UVic link) I am taken, by Google Scholar, to full text. So we do have access, but SFX is unable to determine this from the info that Goggle Scholar passes to SFX.

Collective self-esteem and the onset of chronic conditions and reduced activity in a longitudinal study of aging
DS Bailis, JG Chipperfield, TR Helgason - Social Science & Medicine, 2008 - Elsevier
... burgeoning topic of research in social psychology for many ... others) were not included in the Aging in Manitoba ... Females had higher scores than males on CSE, and ...
Web Search - Get this@UVic

Example 4: Goggle Scholar does not present a Get this @ UVic link for this citation, possibly because this is a FREE CONTENT item at the publishers web site?

The great opportunity: Evolutionary applications to medicine and public health
RM Nesse, SC Stearns - Evolutionary Applications, 2008 - Blackwell Synergy
... Some of the isolation results from academic structures that ... of infectious disease and aging have been ... through males versus those transmitted through females. ...
Cited by 1 - Web Search

Comments posted from home:
In the four examples provided above, clicking directly on the title of the Google Scholar citation gets you to the full text, presumably by virtue of IP address recognition? In two cases, the SFX link does not resolve directly to the full text.

If we really do not have the full text available at UVic, the Get this @UVic link does provide a path to the ILL form on the SFX menu.

When you are off campus, the Get this @ UVic links ONLY appear in the Goggle Scholar result list if you happen to connect to Google Scholar using the ezproxy-ed version of Google Scholar, namely the Google Scholar link listed on the Gateway's Search Engine page.

Music Online -- New Resource

New from Alexander Street Press -- Music Online:Listening package is now available and is comprised of five products; three of which are brand new to UVic Libraries. We previously had access to Classical Music Library and Smithsonian Global Sound with limited simultaneous users.

With the purchase of Music Online we now have unlimited access for simultaneous users to all five products.

Classical Music Library:
the world's largest multi-label database of Classical music recordings for listening and learning in libraries. Coverage of repertoire is increasing as new labels are added (currently over 32 labels-- Territory restrictions apply outside the US and Europe), with a particular focus on content that meets the needs of educators and students. Classical Music Library includes recordings of music written from the earliest times (eg Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera.

Smithsonian Global Sound:
includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. It also includes music recorded around the African continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University as well as material collected by recordists on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), sponsored by the American Institute for Indian Studies.

African American Music:
The collection contains recordings by the top names in the history of black American music. Premier artists such as Ma Rainey, Lead Belly, Mahalia Jackson, Alberta Hunter, Tampa Red, and William “Bunk” Johnson are showcased. At least 5,000 of the tracks are rare or never-before-published, and the other 45,000 are in-copyright and included through arrangement with distinguished labels.

American Song:
American Song is a history database of 50,000 songs that users listen to over the Internet. It will allow people to hear and feel the music from the past. Much more than a repository of well known classics like Yankee Doodle and The Star Spangled Banner, this new resource includes music that relates to almost every walk of American life, every ethnic group, and every time period. You’ll find songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys.

Contemporary World Music:
Through music we understand the history, customs, politics, personalities, celebrations, struggles, and joys of diverse peoples and cultures. Alexander Street’s Contemporary World Music delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent, for scholarship and pure enjoyment, online through speakers or headsets. Scholars and students will enjoy a rich and deeply indexed source for research in musicology, ethnomusicology, anthropology, folklore, and performance studies.

Theatre in Video -- New Online Resouce

Theatre in Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all. This release contains 242 titles, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors. Included are landmark performances such as The Iceman Cometh, King Lear, Awake and Sing, Dom Juan, Bérénice, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Playboy of the Western World, Krapp's Last Tape and Othello, among many others. Notable actors include Claire Bloom, Laurence Olivier, Colleen Dewhurst, Richard Dreyfuss, Walter Matthau, Meryl Streep, Eli Wallach, Zoe Caldwell, Sam Waterston and more. For the first time, students, instructors and researchers can bookmark specific scenes, monologues and staging, and these landmark performances can become a permanent part of the curriculum.

Platform: Alexander Street Press

Simultaneous Users: Three

SFX-Live Update

The SFX Implementation Function Group (SFX-IFG) had it's last meeting on March 6, 2008. At that meeting a number of decisions were made that will be rolled out in the next month or so. Please see below for a Heads-Up on some of the forthcoming changes. We will let you know when each of these items is actually implemented.

1) SFX and ILL Service: Given the volume of SFX Problem Reports requiring patrons to use the "ILL Work-around", it has been decided to have the ILL service always offered, on the SFX Menu, under the Other Options section of the SFX Menu. This means that when SFX reports that Online Content is available, when in fact it is not, the ILL forms can be accessed by opening up the Other Options section of the SFX Menu. The ILL Office will continue to monitor all ILL requests to ensure the ILL request is indeed necessary.

2) Google Scholar as an SFX Source: We are in the process of registering with Goggle Scholar which means that, when students search Goggle Scholar, they will see a Get This @ UVic link. John Durno reports that he expects SFX links will appear, and be active, in Google Scholar within the next couple of weeks.

3) New SFX Buttons: Given the general agreement that the letters "S.F.X" do not mean anything to students, the Systems Office has designed a new SFX button that features the red SFX Swirly along with the words Get This? . This new SFX button will become the default for all SFX Sources that permit an image to display as the SFX link. For those Sources that permit only text, the words, "Where can I get this?" will continue to be used as the SFX link. Lisa will let you when the new button is in place.

4) SFX-A-Z list: The SFX A-Z List is ready to be made available on the Libraries Gateway. Until the links are set up on the Gateway, this new SFX powered Find e-Journal Service (Beta) can be accessed at http://sfx.uvic.ca:3210/sfxlcl3/az/. This new Find e-Journal Service (beta) does not replace the current e-Journal list, but rather provides an alternative list that we wish to beta test.

5) Ongoing SFX monitoring and enhancement: A new SFX Standing Committee will be set up to facilitate ongoing monitoring and enhancement of SFX.

If you have any questions about SFX, please contact Kathleen Matthews at kmatthew@uvic.ca.

Latin American Database (LADB) now available

Latin American Database (LADB)
is an on-line publisher and information resource. LADB produces three weekly electronic publications (Sourcemex, NotiCen and NotiSur) and maintains an on-line searchable data base of over 24,000 articles (from back issues of LADB publications) as well as Latin American journals.

Simultaneous Users: Unlimited

Psychiatry Online now available

PsychiatryOnline offers unlimited accessto a collection of books, journals, and self-assessment tools from American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. (APPI):

DSM-IV-TR®
The American Journal of Psychiatry and four other highly respected, peer-reviewed journals in psychiatry
DSM-IV-TR® Casebook and its Treatment Companion
DSM-IV-TR® Handbook of Differential Diagnosis
APA Practice Guidelines in both comprehensive and quick-reference formats
The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry, 4th Edition, with an interactive study guide
Gabbard's Treatments of Psychiatric Disorders, 4th Edition
Essentials of Clinical Psychopharmacology, 2nd Edition, with an interactive study guide
Manual of Clinical Psychopharmacology, 6th Edition
What Your Patients Need to Know About Psychiatric Medications

Making of the Modern World Digital Archive - now available

Making of the Modern World Digital Archive follows the development of the modern western world through the lens of trade and wealth — the driving force behind many of the major events during the period (1450-1850). It can be used to support research in slavery, colonization, the Atlantic world, Latin American/Caribbean studies, social history, gender and more. This exclusive resource combines the strengths of two pre-eminent collections: the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London and the Kress Library of Business and Economics at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration. Supplementary materials are included from the Seligman Collection in the Butler Library at Columbia University and the libraries of Yale University.

Simultaneous Users: Unlimited

Middle East Series Online 2: Iraq 1914-1974 -- New Digital Archive

Middle East Series Online 2: Iraq 1914-1974 offers a broad range of original source material from the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office and Cabinet Papers covering the period from the Anglo-Indian landing in Basra in 1914 through the British Mandate in Iraq of 1920-32 to the rise of Saddam Hussein in 1974. Here major policy statements and other working documents are set out in context, the minor documents and marginalia revealing the workings of the mandate administration, diplomacy, treaties, oil and arms dealing. Photographs and colour maps, as well as contemporary film, help bring this vital strand of modern history to life.

Simultaneous Users: Unlimited

Economist Historical Archive Online now available

The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003 ('EHA') is the fully searchable complete facsimile edition of The Economist, the weekly paper which is essential reading for anyone engaged in politics, current affairs and all aspects of business and trade worldwide. In 8,000 issues and more than 600,0000 pages, EHA offers full-colour images, multiple search indexes, topic and area supplements and surveys, together with a gallery of front covers and a selection of exportable financial tables. Altogether this is a unrivalled multidisciplinary primary source for researching and teaching the 19th and 20th centuries

Simultaneous Users: Unlimited

Updated annually

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports now available online

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports has been the United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence for nearly 75 years. The original mission of the FBIS was to monitor, record, transcribe and translate intercepted radio broadcasts from foreign governments, official news services, and clandestine broadcasts from occupied territories. Many of these materials are first-hand reports of events as they occurred. As such, the FBIS Daily Reports constitutes a one-of-a-kind archive of transcripts of foreign broadcasts and news that provides fascinating insight into the second half of the 20th century.

Simultaneous users: Unlimited

Middle East Series Online 1: Arab-Israeli Relations, 1917-1970 -- New Digital Archive

Middle East Series Online 1: Arab-Israeli Relations, 1917-1970

With over 200,000 pages of primary source documents that chronicle the politics, wars, administration and diplomacy surrounding the Palestine Mandate and the Arab-Israeli conflict, this product is an essential research tool for Middle East scholars. The fully searchable database has been sourced from the British Foreign Office, Prime Minister's Office and the War Office amongst others. These critically important government documents from the British government files, now housed at the British National Archives, are now available online in this fully searchable, image-based product.

Simultaneous Users: Unlimited

GMID - Global Market Information Database now available

Euromonitor International’s Global Market Information Database (GMID) is an award-winning online information resource providing business intelligence on industries, countries and consumers. It offers integrated access to internationally comparable statistics, full-text market reports, insightful comment from expert industry and country analysts as well as thousands of sources of further information.

205 countries are researched, with extended coverage of 52.

GMID offers a unique range of international market research:

4 million+ statistics on industries, countries and consumers
15,000 industry, company, country and consumer reports
Daily articles offering topical reaction to news events
25,000 sources of further research information
Market share and brand share rankings
205 countries

Simultaneous Users: Unlimited

BioOne.2 Collection purchased

UVic now has access to the complete BioOne Collection which is comprised of BioOne.1 and BioOne.2.

BioOne is the product of innovative collaboration between scientific societies, libraries, academe, and the private sector, who sought a mission- and content-driven alternative to commercial publishing. BioOne brings to the Web a uniquely valuable aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals. Most of BioOne's titles are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers, and, until now, have been available only in printed form. BioOne provides integrated, cost-effective access to a thoroughly linked information resource of interrelated journals focused on the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.

About BioOne.1
BioOne launched their original aggregation, now retroactively dubbed "BioOne.1", with forty titles in 2001. Now at maturity, the collection includes over eighty high-impact publications. BioOne.1 provides the scholarly community with a must-have collection of critical, high quality titles across the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. Most of BioOne.1's titles are ISI ranked and many have backfile content available via separate subscription to JSTOR's Biological Sciences collection.

BioOne.1 Title List

About BioOne.2
BioOne.2 is BioOne's new collection, is a response to the immense success of BioOne.1 and offers a new, diverse group of journals a fully-linked and highly functional home on the Web. BioOne.2 currently includes forty high-impact titles, with additional journals to be added through 2008. The majority of BioOne.2 titles, many of which are internationally based, have not been available online until now. A subscription to the BioOne.2 collection includes access to six titles from Japan's UniBio Press.

BioOne.2 Title List

eHRAF Collection of Ethnography -- now called eHRAF World Cultures

eHRAF World Cultures (formerlly eHRAF Collection of Ethonography) has a new site.
A cross-cultural database that contains information on all aspects of cultural and social life. The annually-growing eHRAF database is unique in that the information is organized into cultures and ethnic groups and the full-text sources are subject-indexed at the paragraph level.

eHRAF is produced by the Human Relations Area Files, Inc. (HRAF) at Yale University. The mission of HRAF, a non-profit consortium of universities and colleges, is to encourage and facilitate worldwide and other comparative studies of human behavior, society, and culture

GEOG 329 GIS Assignment

The Geography 329 students have been instructed to come into the Map Library to pick up the DMTI CanStreet files that they need for their GIS assignment.

Lori Sugden is home sick and has asked me to make these files available via the Libraries Data Acquisition Service (DAS) server. Lori has arranged with the Loan Desk that the students be directed to me (Kathleen), and/or, to the Reference Desk for help in obtaining these files.

If the GEOG 329 students come to the Reference Desk, please let them know they can download the DMTI CanStreet files (for BC) by connecting to the Libraries Data Acquisition Service web page at http://gateway.uvic.ca/data/default.html.

The students will see a link at the top of the page that reads: For GEOG 329 students. They are to select the link that reads DMTI CanStreet Files.

The students will then see a prompt that asks them to authenticate with their NetLink ID and pswd and will then be taken to the DAS server where they can download the files they need.

If the students need help downloading these DMTI GIS files, please ask them to contact Kathleen at kmatthew@uvic.ca, or, 721-8271.

Thank you.
Kathleen Matthews,
Research, Development & Data Services Librarian

Another new EBSCOhost feature activated -- Image QuickView

Image QuickView has been activated for our EBSCOhost databases.
Now images from inside the articles can be viewed as thumbnails on the results page. Gain quick context and easier access before opening the full text PDF. Over one million additional images are now available, including charts, photos, maps and illustrations.

Try It to see images in your Citation, and set your Preferences to view them directly from the Result List.

EBSCOhost databases new features...

Persistent links have been exproxied. This means that when you email article citations or save a search and click on the persistent link users will now be able to use these from off campus. Email with links in the email message will now also work without the to manually add the EZProxy prefix to the persistent link.

ALSO
Dennis Staples with EBSCO was on site to preview what's new at EBSCO and what's planned for the future -- EBSCO will launch EBSCOhost 2.0 this summer with some very exciting new features.

Dennis supplied links to his powerpoint presentation for those unable to attend his session.
Powerpoint of EBSCOhost 2.0
Flash demonstration of the new interface

PubMed now configured with SFX

Note:
When searching PubMed you will now see the option to search for full text access using our instance of SFX and the "Get This?" button. PubMed calls this an Outside Tool linking service which required a registration process prior to the link becoming available. The "Get This" button/icon will appear on the Abstract dispay and can be found near the top right hand side of the page.

Check it out when you have a chance.

Tests in Print now available online

Tests in Print:
Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, Tests in Print serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s). A score index permits users to identify what is being measured by each test. Tests in Print is directly linked to the critical, candid test reviews published in the Mental Measurements Yearbook series. Users can research current test information from the TIP series and continue their search to all available test reviews published in the MMY series.

Unlimited simultaneous users
Platform: EBSCOhost

Patrologia Latina Database - Now available online

The Patrologia Latina Database is an electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855, and the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and 1865. The Patrologia Latina comprises the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216. The Patrologia Latina Database contains the complete Patrologia Latina, including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indexes. Migne's column numbers, essential references for scholars, are also included.

Unlimited simultaneous users
Platform: Chadwyck Healey

New Trial - NTIS on EV2 Platform

NTIS (The National Technical Information Service) is the premier database for accessing unclassified reports from influential U.S. and international government agencies. The database contains access to millions of critical citations from government departments such as NASA, the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of Defense.

Trial dates: Feb.14-March 25, 2008
Platform: Engineering Village 2

New online databases from Brepols

We now have access to Brepols Publishing's suite of online databases:

A-Z Databases of Latin Dictionaries
Bibiographie de civilization medievale online
Europa Sacra
In Principo
Lexicon des Mittelalters Online
Library of Latin Texts
Monumenta Germaniae Historica
Ut Per Litteras Apostolicas… Papal Letters
Vetus Latina Database
International Directory of Medievalists
International Encyclopedia for the Middle Ages
International Medieval Bibliography

All can be accessed via the BREPOLiS Online Landing page -- direct links to each database cannot be configured at this time. The vendor reports that the best method to access the databases is from the landing page where you must select the database(s) you wish to search. Some are cross-searchable.

Note: We have access for 3 simultaneous users

U of T CHASS Services will be unavailable during afternoon of Friday, Feb 8, 2008.

Please note the following email from the U of Toronto CHASS facility announcing some downtime that is scheduled for Friday, February 8th, from 6:00-7:00pm (Eastern Standard Time). During this time period, all CHASS servers and services will be unavailable.

The U of T CHASS Data Services and Products that we have access to at UVic include:

UT/DLS: Microdata Analysis and Subsetting SDA @CHASS(UofT)
CANSIM II @CHASS(UofT)
Canadian Census Analyzer @CHASS(UofT)
Trade Analyzer @CHASS(UofT)

From Kathleen.

=============================================
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:24:22 -0500
From: Laine Ruus
To: dlilist@statcan.ca
Subject: [IMPORTANT] System Availability Notice

The University's Electrical Engineers [University of Toronto] have scheduled a power outage for
the Bissell Building on Friday February 8th, from 6:00-7:00pm. During this
electrical outage, all CHASS servers and services will be unavailable.

CHASS systems administrators will take advantage of this electrical
outage by effecting operating systems upgrades/patches (that require
server reboots) during a maintenance window running from 4:00-6:00pm on
Friday. This maintenance work will see some servers/services
unavailable prior to the planned electrical outage.

We apologize for any inconvenience this causes you and thank you
for your patience during this time.

-CHASS Staff

Online access to: Encyclopaedia of Islam and Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an

Descriptions:
Encyclopaedia of Isalm:
The Encyclopaedia of Islam (New Edition) sets out the present state of our knowledge of the Islamic World. It is a unique and invaluable reference tool, an essential key to understanding the world of Islam, and the authoritative source not only on the religion, but also on the believers and the countries in which they live. It embraces articles on distinguished Muslims of every era and origin, on tribes and dynasties, on crafts and sciences, on political and religious institutions, on the geography, ethnography, flora and fauna of the various countries and on the history, topography and monuments of the major towns and cities. In its geographical and historical scope it encompasses the old Arabo-Islamic empire, the Islamic countries of Iran, Central Asia, the Indian sub-continent and Indonesia, as well as the Ottoman Empire and all other Islamic countries.

Encyclopaedia of Qur'an:
Drawing upon a rich scholarly heritage, and with nearly 1000 entries in 5 volumes, Brill’s EQ it is an encyclopaedic dictionary of qurʾānic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis, extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within qurʾānic studies.

Platform: Brill Online

Simultaneous Users: 3

New Trial - RMA Online - e-Statement Studies

The Risk Management Association is a not-for-profit, member-driven professional association whose sole purpose is to advance the use of sound risk principles in the financial services industry. RMA promotes an enterprise approach to risk management that focuses on credit risk, market risk, and operational risk.

The e-Statement Studies service combines both Statement Studies books – Financial Ratio Benchmarks and Industry Default Probabilities and Cash Flow Measures - plus regional breakouts, all via the Web.

Note: If the link does not work at first please wait a few minutes and try again, the IP validation may take a few minutes on the RMA side.
Remote access is not available during the trial.

Trial expires: February 13th

Columbia Granger's World of Poetry Online -- now available

Description:
Columbia Granger's World of Poetry Online contains 250,000 poems in full text and 450,000 citations, numbers that will continually expand with each update. The poems in full text are the most widely-read in the English language, as well as in Spanish, French, German, and Italian. Included also is poetry in Portuguese, Polish, Yiddish, Welsh, Gaelic, and other Celtic languages, as well as poems in the ancient languages: Anglo-Saxon, Provencal and Latin. Scholars in each of these languages have reviewed and guided the selection of poems, so that the poetry on Granger’s is also the poetry encountered in the classroom.
The Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry offers complete coverage of the works of several individual great poets, including the complete poems of Shelley, Blake, Burns, Keats, Marvell, Poe, Unamuno, Heine, Baudelaire, and other major poets. In addition users will find a wealth of current poetry from some of the best poetry periodicals, such as Poetry Magazine, The Southern Review, and Poetry Northwest.
Also featured is a listening room with the audio of selected poems being read.

Trial Access - Education databases

Trial access is available for two Education databases.
Trial Dates: January 24-February 14th, 2008

Education Research Complete (EBSCO):
Education Research Complete is a bibliographic and full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,820 journals, as well as full text for more than 900 journals. This database also includes full text for 71 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers.

Educator's Reference Complete
Educator's Reference Complete covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college and includes every educational specialty, such as bilingual studies, health, technology and testing. Also included are resources on issues related to administration, funding and policy in education. With more than 1,100 periodicals that cover a wide variety of subjects and 200 reports from the United States Department of Education, the Educator’s Reference Complete is an important tool for today’s educator. In addition, Educator’s Reference Complete is the perfect complement for any library that utilizes the ERIC database,because it provides full-text results for nearlyhalf of the journal titles found in ERIC

New Trial: Oxford Language Dictionaries Online

Welcome to your free 30-day trial of Oxford Language Dictionaries Online (OLDO), a complete toolkit for language users, from learners to professionals, providing unparalleled language coverage and learning support via instant access to Oxford's top-of-the-range, unabridged bilingual dictionaries.

Initially offering millions of words, phrases, and translations, in French, German, Spanish and Italian, the site will expand to include many other languages such as Russian, Chinese, Japanese and Polish. Included are usage examples and illustrative phrases, grammar guidance, click-through verb tables and pronunciation charts, explanations of grammatical terms, and help with spelling and punctuation. Also included are hundreds of correspondence templates including sample letters, CVs and resumes to provide practical help with writing in each language. Contextualized language reference help includes notes on life and culture, guidance on grammar and idiomatic usage, and Words of the Day. Updates every six months ensure that the most current meanings and the latest new words are just a click away. Advanced search options allow users to search the full text of each dictionary, or restrict a search to specific parts of speech or language register. Extensive links to language lea!
rning and usage supplements provide a 'learn as you go' gateway to further language study. Citation information is available for all entries. Coming soon: revolutionary pronunciation software allowing users to hear how words sound.

Trial Period -- January 24, 2008-February 23, 2008
Remote Acces - Not during the trial period
Access via the New Trial Databases Page on the Gateway

UK search engine of human-vetted OA content

Universities' alternative to Google launched, a press release from the University of Manchester, January 16, 2008. Excerpt:

An internet search engine rivalling the multimillion pound Google is to be launched at the end of January by The University of Manchester's national data centre Mimas. The free service will add thousands of documents to the 'Intute' service which already allows academics, teachers, researchers and students to search for information relating specifically to their subject area....

At the end of January, researchers will be able to automatically access papers from research databases within universities and other institutions.

The £1.5 million per year collaboration between seven UK Universities and partners - enlists a team of full-time specialists who are scouring the internet. They are backed by an army of PhD students and a range of organisations - including the massive Wellcome Trust- who have added their own information to the Intute database....

[Intute's Executive Director Caroline Williams] added: "This chimes with calls for open access across the UK....So this database is really a showcase of what the UK academic community has achieved...."

From Peter Subjer's blog

Atlantic Monthly

Free online access to 12 years of The Atlantic
The Atlantic has provided free online access to its backfile from 1995 to the present. The rest of its backfile (from 1857 onwards) is still behind a price barrier.

I've sent Lisa P and Lynne C a message about cataloguing this title.

New online resource: Treatise on Geochemisty

The Treatise on Geochemistry is the first work providing a comprehensive, integrated summary of the present state of geochemistry. It deals with all the major subjects in the field, ranging from the chemistry of the solar system to environmental geochemistry. The Treatise on Geochemistry has drawn on the expertise of outstanding scientists throughout the world, creating the reference work in geochemistry for the next decade.

Platform: Science Direct Reference Work
Simultaneous Users: Unlimited

New Trial - Psychiatry Online

Psychiatry Online includes full text access to the APPI journals along with the full text of ten reference books.
Journals:
. American Journal of Psychiatry
. Academic Psychiatry
. Psychiatric services
. Psychosomatics
. and Psychiatric news
Reference Books:
. DSM-IV-TR®
· DSM-IV-TR® Handbook of Differential Diagnosis
· DSM-IV-TR® Casebook and its Treatment Companion
· American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines in both comprehensive and quick-reference formats
· The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry, Fourth Edition, with its companion study guide, Self-Assessment in Clinical Psychiatry
· What Your Patients Need to Know About Psychiatric Medications
· Essentials of Clinical Psychopharmacology, Second Edition, with its companion study guide, Self-Assessment in Clinical Psychopharmacology
· Manual of Clinical Psychopharmacology, Sixth Edition
· Gabbard's Treatments of Psychiatric Disorders, Fourth Edition

Trial runs through until February 12th, 2008
Accessed via the New Trials page on the Gateway

Handbook of Psychology Online

Handbook of Psychology
This 12-volume reference covers every aspect of the ever-burgeoning discipline of psychology. Leading national and international scholars have collaborated under the guidance of recognized expert volume editors to produce each volume, which include chapters covering virtually every core as well as contemporary topic in the subject area, from the established theories to the most modern research and developments.

Unlimited simultaneous users
Platform: Wiley InterScience

Now available: Chicago Manual of Style Online

Description:
The Chicago Manual of Style Online incorporates the popular Chicago Style Q&A, a resource that thousands have found as entertaining as it is informative. The Q&A content is fully searchable along with the content of The Chicago Manual of Style. Your queries will return results—clearly distinguishable—from both the Manual and the Chicago Style Q&A.

Simulataneous Users: 25

New database: History of Science, Technology and Medicine

Description:
International bibliography of history of science, technology, and medicine.

Why select this database?

Includes international material selected from periodicals since 1975.
integrates four bibliographies to create the definitive international database for the history of science, technology, and medicine. It reflects the influences of these fields on society and culture from prehistory to the present and offers outstanding value for interdisciplinary research.
Includes records of journal articles, conference proceedings, books, dissertations, serials, maps and other materials.

Simultaneous Users: 2

Book Review Index Online with Full Text now available

Book Review Index Online Plus (full text)
Book Review Index Online Plus, like Book Review Index Online , includes more than 5 million review citations; it also includes more than 634,000 full-text reviews from InfoTrac OneFile and InfoTrac Expanded Academic, as well as full text via links to library holdings. Access to full-text reviews allows users to conduct research in numerous disciplines, including literature, history, education, psychology, and more.

Coverage: 1965-present

Simultaneous users: 2
Remote access: Yes

New Digital Archive Collections purchased -- Historical British Library Newspapers and 19th Century UK Periodicals

19th Century British Library Newspapers:
Part of the British Library Newspapers collection, 19th Century British Library Newspapers provides researchers with the most comprehensive collection of national and regional newspapers of Victorian Britain available. This full-text, fully searchable digital archive includes 50 papers originating in England, Scotland and Ireland, carefully selected by an editorial board from the British Library and providing a broad yet detailed view of British life in the 19th century. The collection is made up of daily and weekly publications and reflects Britain's growing role as a superpower in the 19th century world.

Multidisciplinary in scope, 19th Century British Library Newspapers includes:

Birmingham Daily Post
The Chartist
Freeman's Journal
Glasgow Herald
Goleuad
Illustrated Police News
Liverpool Mercury
Pall Mall Gazette
And many others

17th and 19th Century Burney Collection Newspapers:
Part of the British Library Newspapers collection, 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers is a full-text, fully searchable digital archive of nearly 1,270 newspapers and news pamphlets from the United Kingdom. Collected by the Reverend Charles Burney, this unique collection represents the largest single archive of 17th and 18th century news media available from the British Library.

The original Burney volumes are now in a fragile condition and have been restricted from ordinary reading room use. Until now, the only access to this unprecedented collection has been through microfilm. This digital collection, made possible by a partnership between Gale and the British Library, puts these early newspapers into the hands of scholars and researchers and is an invaluable research tool for all disciplines.

17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers totals nearly one million pages and includes:

British Journal
Daily Courant
Daily Gazetteer
Daily Post
Evening Post
General Advertiser
Lloyd's Evening Post and British Chronicle
London Chronicle
London Evening Post
London Gazette
Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser
St. James' Chronicle or, British Evening Post
Whitehall Evening Post, or London Intelligencer
And hundreds of others

19th Century UK Periodicals Digital Archive
Consisting of more than 600 titles selected by leading academics in 23 subject areas, 19th Century U.K. Periodicals is an invaluable resource for the study of English life in the 19th century – from art to business, and from children to politics. Most of the materials in this extensive online collection have never been reissued, in any format, since their original publication. The collection consists of five series comprising 1.2 million pages each:.

New Resource now available -- Literature Criticism Online

Publisher information:Gale takes literature, history and culture to the next level with its most extensive curated compilation of literary commentary available: Literature Criticism Online. The 10 individual, award-winning Gale series that comprise Literature Criticism Online represent a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. Imagine centuries of analysis — the scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals — delivered in an easy format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals. Gale literary references reach back 20 to 30 years and taken together as print, they could easily fill 230 feet of shelf space! Now, hundreds of volumes are digitized and ready to read 24/7 online. The net result is tens of thousands of hard-to-find essays at your fingertips. It's all designed to raise the level of research while providing around-the-clock remote access that today's researchers demand. With its complete and cross-referenced essay content, researchers will need to look no further. Only Literature Criticism Online brings together the most acclaimed literary series from Gale:

Contemporary Literary Criticism®
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism®
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism®
Shakespearean Criticism
Literature Criticism from 1400–1800
Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism
Poetry Criticism
Short Story Criticism
Drama Criticism
Children's Literature Review

Remote access: Yes
Unlimited simultaneous users

RefWorks - Update

1. I've added the American Anthro. Association style guide to the quick list in Refworks so that students can find it.

2. Also added 7 RefWorks webinar's for Feb. One of the webinar is for RefShare.

SFX-Live Update (January 14, 2008)

Dear Reference Librarians: We are approaching the 2nd month anniversary for the launch of SFX-Live. As you continue to experience and explore SFX, in more depth, and in different situations, you may have questions? If it would be helpful, I am happy to meet with you, one on one, to examine how SFX is performing with the databases and resources specific to your subject areas, and/or, in the context of your experience in providing Reference, and/or, Instruction Services. Please let me know and we can book some time, to work together, to look at SFX in more detail.
Kathleen.

Four, new Wilson databases now available

Recently added to the collection:
Biography Index Past and Present:
For over 60 years, researchers have depended on Biography Index to find reliable information about people. Biography Index: Past and Present is a new version of the database, containing retrospective coverage from Biography Index back to when it was first published in 1946, combined with coverage right up to the present. This database offers information about people from all all time periods throughout history and right up to the present in a single, easy to use database. Biography Index: Past and Present cites biographical articles appearing in any of more than 3,000 periodicals indexed in other Wilson databases, plus select other titles. What’s more, some 2,000 current books of individual and collective biography are cited each year, as well as biographical material in otherwise non-biographical books. In addition to biographies and autobiographies, you’ll find citations to interviews, obituaries, collections of letters, diaries, memoirs, juvenile literature, book reviews, bibliographies and exhibition reviews.

Current Biography Illustrated:
Reflects the entire contents of the printed monthly Current Biography—a trusted resource in library collections since 1940. This is where you will find reliable information about the people making tomorrow’s headlines plus historical figures back to World War II. With more than 15,000 full text biographies, more than 9,400 obituaries and more than 19,500 lively images, this database is sure to please any researcher. Profiles give users the information they want on celebrities, politicians, business people, writers, actors, sports figures, artists, scientists, and many others.

Essay and General Literature Index:
Unlocking the wealth of literature, this unique reference database offers precise access to nearly 65,000 essays contained in some 5,300 anthologies and collections—a wealth of information that might be otherwise hidden away in your library. Some 300 single and multi-author collections are indexed annually, plus more than 20 selected annuals and serials. Coverage spans the entire range of the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, art history, drama, and film.

Short Story Index:
A convenient digital guide to thousands of short stories! Locate more than 84,000 stories—plus the full text of more than 1,600 stories—with the pinpoint accuracy of electronic searching! For the reader seeking short fiction by a favorite author, the teacher looking for the quintessential example of a particular genre, or the student researching the body of work of a literary figure, Short Story Index is a practical resource. The periodicals included are those indexed in Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature and Humanities Index.
Selected full text available from 1994-

Simultaneous Users: 2-4
Remote Acces: Yes

Three New Alexander Street Press Collections Purchased

Three new Alexander Street Press Collections now available:

Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation:
Emerging from the crises of schism, war, and plague, the Catholic Church entered the sixteenth century with an intensified awareness of the need for renewal. At all levels of the Catholic hierarchy, the call for reform in capite et in membris was being issued. And like their Protestant counterparts, Catholic authors took advantage of print technology to create a vast treasury of published documents. The Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation makes the documentary riches of this era more accessible than ever, offering powerful functionalities that maximize the flexibility with which researchers can explore this historically important source material.

Alexander Street Press has worked with scholarly editors to develop a bibliography that includes hundreds of seminal but often hard-to-find works, including papal documents, synodal decrees, catechisms, confessors’ manuals, biblical commentaries, theological treatises, liturgical works, inquisitorial manuals, preaching guides, saints’ lives, and devotional literature. Offering extensive selections from authors as diverse as Robert Bellarmine, Antoine Arnauld, Johannes Cochlaeus, Michael Bajus, Thomas Stapleton, Cesare Baronio, Luis de Granada, and dozens more, the database represents the full range of ideas and opinions that sparked and sustained Catholic reform in the heady years before, during, and after the landmark decrees of the Council of Trent. As a companion collection to Alexander Street’s Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts, The Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation completes the picture of an era when religious debates irrevocably altered the course of Western history.

The Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts includes not only the principal works of the most eminent writers of the Reformation and post-Reformation eras, but also those of lesser-known authors of the period. Developed in consultation with an editorial board of the most eminent Reformation-period scholars in both North America and Europe, its comprehensive bibliography of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Protestant writings has been revised and refined under expert guidance. Many of the books on it can only be found in the rare book rooms of the world's oldest libraries, such as the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library.

British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries is the largest collection of British and Irish women's diaries and correspondence ever assembled. Spanning more than 300 years, it brings the personal experiences of nearly 500 women to researchers, students, and general readers. This edition of the collection includes approximately 100,000 pages of published letters and diaries from individuals writing from 1500 to 1900, including several thousand pages of previously unpublished materials. Drawn from 290 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings, much of the material is in copyright. Represented are all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous and the not so famous. The collection has been developed alongside North American Women's Letters and Diaries, which uses the same software and indexing to provide access to more than 150,000 pages of American material from Colonial times to 1950.

New resource: National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)

The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) is the US Federal Government's lead agency for scientific research on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).
CAM is a group of diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not presently considered to be part of conventional medicine. Conventional medicine is medicine as practiced by holders of M.D. (medical doctor) or D.O. (doctor of osteopathy) degrees and by their allied health professionals, such as physical therapists, psychologists, and registered nurses. Some health care providers practice both CAM and conventional medicine. While some scientific evidence exists regarding some CAM therapies, for most there are key questions that are yet to be answered through well-designed scientific studies--questions such as whether these therapies are safe and whether they work for the diseases or medical conditions for which they are used.

New Trial -- Airiti Databases

Three databases available for trial:
Trial Dates: November 23 - December 23, 2007

Available on the NetLibrary platform; when any authenticated user logs into NetLibary account, the access to the following databases:
National Palace Museum of Taiwan (NPM) Online -- image database,
Chinese Electronic Periodical Services (CEPS) and
Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services (TEPS).

Youwill see them available from the right hand navigation frame.

New Trial: Japan Knowlegde Online

Trial available until December 27th...
TRIAL ACCESS PASSWORD CONTROLLED
In November:
Username: jk_jpt Password: norway
In December:
Username: jk_jpt Password: denmark
JapanKnowledge is a large online collection of language dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other Japanese reference works that can be searched simultaneously. The database provides access to 30 volumes of the Nihon daihyakka zensho (Encyclopedia Nipponica) in Japanese and the Kōdansha Encyclopedia of Japan in English; full-text coverage of the Tōyō Bunko and Shūkan Ekonomisuto (Weekly Economist); and to other resources including scientific and biographical dictionaries, the JK Who's Who, and a new interactive map of Edo and Tokyo. It also includes chronologies (world history, Japan by period, Japan by prefecture, science, culture, society, daily life, social movements, economics and for individuals); a database of video (TV, news) recordings from 1908 to 2005; a database of dissertations from the humanities departments of six universities in Japan; books in print database; sound library; music library.

Trial - SAGE Indexes from EBSCO

The following indexes are now owned by EBSCO and will be available electronically via EBSCOhost:
· Abstracts in Social Gerontology™
· Educational Administration Abstracts™
· Human Resources Abstracts™
· Peace Research Abstracts Journal™ (Now called Peace Research Abstracts™)
· Sage Family Studies Abstracts™ (Now called Family Studies Abstracts™)
· Sage Public Administration Abstracts™ (Now called Public Administration Abstracts™)
· Sage Race Relations Abstracts™ (Now called Race Relations Abstracts™)
· Sage Urban Studies Abstracts™ (Now called Urban Studies Abstracts™)
· The Shock & Vibration Digest™
· Violence & Abuse Abstracts™

Trial Access: SAGE Print Indexes Online
Available: November 9th - December 10th
Remote access: No

Ageline - now available on the EBSCOhost platform

Ageline will now be available on the EBSCOhost platform. The Webspirs platform will no longer be available after the end of next week.

Description:
AgeLine, produced by AARP, focuses exclusively on the population aged 50+ and issues of aging. AgeLine is the premier source for the literature of social gerontology and includes aging-related content from the health sciences, psychology, sociology, social work, economics, and public policy. AgeLine also includes information for professionals working in aging-related fields and for consumers. AARP generates original abstracts for every citation, with index terms drawn from AgeLine's Thesaurus of Aging Terminology. AgeLine indexes over 600 journals, books, book chapters, reports, dissertations, consumer guides, and educational videos. Designed for researchers, professionals, students, and general consumers, this database addresses aging issues from individual, national, and global perspectives.

Simultaneous users: now unlimited

English Short Title Catalogue - onine version now available

The English Short Title Cataloge (ESTC) previously accessed via CDRom on workstation 5in Reference has been replaced by the onine version, freely available from the British Library. The Databases A-Z listing has been updated. The CD Rom will be removed and links in the catalogue will be updated to reflect the online version.

Please note: If you had links to the ESTC on any Research Guides you will need to update the pages with the new information.

Academic Search Premier now available

Academic Search Premier(ASP) is now available. The recent upgrade from Academic Search Elite (ASE) will give full text access access to nearly 2100 new journal titles. (This more than doubles what we had access to with ASE. We also gain deeper backfile full text (PDF) coverage for certain titles (1975 instead of 1985).

Full 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 Premieris an enormous collection of the most valuable peer-reviewed full text journals, offering critical information from many sources unique to this database.

Please note:

You can find this database in several places on the Gateway including "Frequently Used Databases" drop down menu on the homepage as well as Databases A-Z and Journals/Articles on a topic.

New Online Resource - Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science

Sythesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science from Morgan & Claypool Publishers is compilation of 50- to 100-page "Lectures"; a self-contained electronic book that synthesizes an important research or development topic, authored by an expert contributor to the field. We believe that they offer unique value to the reader by providing more analysis and depth than the typical research journal article. They are also more dynamic and convenient than traditional print or digital handbooks, contributed volumes, and monographs.

The library and its lectures are organized by series. Each series is managed by a prominent consulting editor. The series editor guides lecture topic and author selection as well as peer review. New series and lectures will be added continuously and existing lectures will be revised as needed. This will make the collection dynamic in a way that has not been achieved with traditional reference or educational products.

The Synthesis platform provides the user with access to content in PDF with live links to references and sophisticated search and personalization functions.

Remote access: Yes
Simultaneous Users: Unlimited
Purchased: Collection 1 and 2 -- Collection 2 will be complete and available December 2007.
Marc records are available and will be loaded in the near future.

New Online Resource - TumbleBook Library

Details:
TumbleBook Library is an online collection of TumbleBooks , animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. TumbleBooks are created by taking existing picture books, adding animation, sound, music and narration to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you.
The TumbleBook Library is a collection of licensed titles from children's book publishers such as Scholastic, Chronicle Books, Candlewick Press, Charlesbridge Press, Harcourt, Little Brown, Walker and Company and others.

Remote access: Yes
Simultaneous Users: Unlimited

Trial access - 19th Century British Newspapers

Details:
Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, partners with the British Library to create one of the richest collections of primary source material in the world. Unparalleled in depth and scope, British Library Newspapers consists of two major collections from the British Library which span three hundred years of newspaper publishing in the U.K.—17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers and 19th Century Newspapers. The two collections combined contain nearly 3 million pages and 40 million articles, and can be purchased separately or together depending upon your institution’s needs and requirements.

Trial Access: November 1-25, 2007
Unlimited simultaneous users
Note: Remote access is not possible -- on campus use on for duration of the trial

New online resource available: Medieval Travel Writing

Description:
Medieval Travel Writing one of the Adam Matthew Digital Collections provides direct access to a widely scattered collection of original medieval manuscripts that describe travel - real and imaginary - in the Middle Ages.

These sources tell us much about the attitudes and preconceptions of people across Europe in the medieval period, shedding light on issues of race, economics, trade, militarism, politics, literature and science. They will be welcomed by scholars in both literature and history as well as by French and German studies departments.

Coverage: 13th-16th centuries
Simultaneous Users: Unlimited

BC Business Directory

I've weeded the BC Business Directory from the Reference Collection as we now have the same information online with InfoCanada's Reference Canada Online database. This database includes 1.5 million business in all of Canada.

RefWorks Update

Importing from Databases
There are problems importing from Anthropology Plus (OCLC) at the moment. The Source information is not parsing into the RefWorks database properly. I noticed that the Source information in the database includes both source and notes information and this may be the problem. Lisa and I are contacting both RefWorks and OCLC to see if the problem can be fixed. Will keep you posted.

The AnthroSource database, on the other hand, doesn't seem to be parsing & in the source information properly. The citation appears fine until you go to Send to Citation Mgr. Again Lisa and I are trying to get this problem fixed as well.

Please let us know if you find any other issues like this.

Safari Tech Books Online -- account changes

Please note:

Our SAFARI books online account has been changed to now only display search results for content to which users will be able to access the full text. Preview copies will no longer be available. Please let me know if you have any questions or complaints. I think this will be much easier especially when trying to explain our access to the "rolling 3 year file".
Thanks to everyone who responded so quickly and agreed that we should change the account. It's easy enough to change back if needed.

Now available: Ulrich's Periodical Directory Online -- Ulrichsweb.com

Description:
Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory™ is a bibliographic database providing detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative information on serials published throughout the world. It covers all subjects, and includes publications that are published regularly or irregularly and are circulated free of charge or by paid subscription.

Our access is for UlrichsWeb.com and does not include the Serials Analysis System portion.

For more information see the FAQs page
Simultaneous Users: Unlimited

New database purchased -- FRANCIS

We now have access to FRANCIS via the OCLC FirstSearch platform

Description: International, multilingual, multidisciplinary humanities and social sciences

Why select this database?
Indexes multilingual information published in over 4,300 journals
Provides abstracts for 80 percent of its records
Provides in-depth coverage of humanities and social sciences

Subject areas covered:

archaeology linguistics
art history management
ethnology philosophy
French literature prehistory
geography psychology
history of science and technology religion
information science sociology

Simultaneous users: one

Research guide links not working today

Neither the A-Z nor 'by discipline' research guide lists are accessible today. I've submitted a help desk call but don't expect action until tomorrow morning....

Anthropology Plus migrates to a new platform

Please note:

Anthropology Plus is now available on OCLC's First Search platform. For a look at the new interface click on the link below:
Anthropology Plus

RefWorks-Update

There is a Basic tutorial and an Advanced tutorial available in RefWorks. Click on the title of each module to listen to an audio version!

Also, check out the REFGRAB IT tool that will allow you to grab website information to import into Refworks. The plug in works with IE and Firefox.

You can download RSS feed information into RefWorks as well.

Write n Cite
The current plug can be download to be used with WORD 2007, but will not creat the bibliography in the same way that you did with WORD 2003. I will write up some instructions and have it on the website over the weekend.

On-Campus Labs
The labs now have Microsoft Office 2007.

RefWorks

Hi Everyone,

In case you haven't noticed, I've set up 2 workshops for RefWorks for the month of October.

Please let me know if you get suggestions at the reference desk for more time slots.

Thanks

New Trial: TumbleBook Library -- "EBooks for Ekids"

Please note: Trial is password controlled
Username: uvic
Password: trial
TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of TumbleBooks , animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. TumbleBooks are created by taking existing picture books, adding animation, sound, music and narration to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you. The TumbleBook Library is a collection of licensed titles from children's book publishers such as Scholastic, Chronicle Books, Candlewick Press, Charlesbridge Press, Harcourt, Little Brown, Walker and Company and others.
Trial Dates: August 29-September 30, 2007
Available from the Trial Databases page on the Gateway

New Interlibrary Loan Form

Here is the link to the information about the new interlibrary loan form. Take a look at it before it's implemented on September 4th.

Download file

Forest Science Database -- Platform Change

Forest Science Database is now purchased via CABI on the CAB Direct platform. The WebSpirs platform is no longer available for searching.

The number of simultaneous users has also been upgraded from one to two.

Virtual News Library -- access restored

The link for Virtual News Library; which provides access to a number of French language newspapers is now working. Users will now see the new platform and search features from the site Newscan. Over the next few days the name will be changed to reflect the recent upgrade and I will put a redirect on the Virtual News Library link alerting people to the new name of Newscan.com.

Access unavailable -- Virtual News Library

The vendor is in the process of upgrading and migrating customers to a new paltform for the French Language newspapers that we subscribe to under Virtual News Library. We have temporarily lost access however I am working with the vendor to have access restored as quickly as possible -- Lisa

Library Literature and Information Science Full text

Access is now available to:
Library Literature and Information Science Full Text
Description:
Reflecting the latest trends in a rapidly evolving field, this database indexes English and foreign-language periodicals, selected state journals, conference proceedings, pamphlets, books, and library school theses, plus over 300 books per year. This invaluable resource delivers full text articles cover to cover from over a hundred select publications. PDF page images of the full text articles bring researchers charts, graphs, photos, and other valuable graphical information. Providing enhanced access to your periodical collection, this database also steers users to valuable information on the Web with hotlinks to sites mentioned in articles
Coverage:
Indexing 1984+, Abstracting 1984+, “select” Full Text 1994+
Platform: WilsonWeb
Simultaneous Users: One

New Resource: UpToDate

Description:
UpToDate is a comprehensive evidence-based clinical information resource available to clinicians on the Web, desktop, and PDA. UpToDate is designed to get clinicians the concise, practical answers they need when they need them the most - at the point-of-care.

Access:
This product has been purchased with funds donated by the Freigang family. The subscription is for a CDROM on a standalone workstation.
Simultaneous users: One
Location: IC Station #160 (near Reference desk)

Applied Science and Technology Index Retrospective -- access now available

Description:
Applied Science & Technology Index is a bibliographic database that indexes articles of at least one column in length. English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere are covered; non-English language articles are included if English abstracts are provided. Contains the complete content of Industrial Arts Index (1913-1957) and Applied Science & Technology Index (1958-1983), offering unique coverage of business and industry up through 1957.
Periodical coverage includes trade and industrial publications, journals issued by professional and technical societies, and specialized subject periodicals, as well as special issues such as buyers' guides, directories, and conference proceedings.
Subjects Covered:
Acoustics, Aeronautics, Applied Mathematics, Atmospheric Science, Automatic Control, Automotive Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Communication & Information Technology, Construction, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Engineering & Biomedical Materials, Energy Resources & Research, Environmental Engineering, Fire & Fire Prevention, Food & Food Industry, Geology, Industrial Engineering, Machine Learning, Machinery, Marine Technology, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Metallurgy, Meteorology, Mineralogy, Mining Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, Oceanography, Petroleum & Gas, Physics, Plastics, Solid State Technology, Space Science, Textile Industry & Fabrics, Transportation, Waste Management.
Coverage: 1913-1983
Remote access: yes
Platform: WilsonWeb
Simultaneous Users: 1

Natural Standard - access now available

Access to the online product: Natural Standard is available. This product was on trial earlier this year.
Description:
The Natural Standard© database is a clinical decision support tool that is designed to help clinicians and consumers on the safety and efficacy of herbs, supplements, vitamins, diets, nutrition, exercise, and complementary practices (yoga, chiropractic). Natural Standard© consists of over 500 internationally world-renowned clinicians and researchers. More than 45 translators translate all foreign language articles for accurate literature capture. The content is first person authored and undergoes blinded multidisciplinary peer review by academics and scientists across the world.
Remote access will be possible.
Simultaneous Users: Unlimited.

Business Source Premiere - Technical problems reported

Note:

Users may report an error message when searching Business Search Premiere;
the message reads:
System Problem has Occurred.
We're sorry, your request could not be processed due an internal server
error.To continue with your session, please click here

EBSCO has been notified and they are working on the problem. They have suggested having users use the EBSCOHost interface (green and white colours) instead of the Business Searching Interface (blue and white colours).

To swtich interfaces you can access BSP from any other EBSCOHost product (ie Academic Search Elite) and then select BSP from the drop down menu as if you were switching databases.

Johns Hopkins Gudie to Literary Theory and Criticism Online

Access is now available to the Johns Hopkins Online Gudie to Literary Theory and Criticism.
Description:
The Johns Hopkins Online Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism is an indispensable resource for scholars and students of literary theory and discourse. Revised extensively to reflect a decade of rapidly changing scholarship, the Online Guide features 48 new entries and subentries. Compiled by 275 specialists from around the world, the Online Guide presents a comprehensive historical survey of the field's most important figures, schools, and movements. It includes more than 240 alphabetically arranged entries on critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods

InfoCanada's Reference Canada Online now available

InfoCanada's Reference Canada Online:
Find accurate phone-verified information on every company in Canada in this database of 1.5 million businesses. Additionally our files are processed monthly against the National Change of Address Program. Selection criteria include: Employee size --Sales volume --Primary SIC & Secondary SIC Codes --Executive title --Ticker symbol --Yellow page classification/Ad size --Location type (Headquarters/Branch)

Note:
Simulataneous Users: 3
Remote Access: NO
15 downloads/printouts/emails are permitted per search

Purchased: Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue (NSTC) Online

Chadwyck-Healey's Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue (NSTC) defines the printed record of the English-speaking world from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the end of the First World War. The project aims to index all printed works published in Britain, its colonies and the United States of America, all printed works in English wherever published, and all translations from English. In addition to providing an exhaustive survey of the complete spectrum of monograph publications in the period, the catalogue indexes thousands of periodicals, directories and other ephemeral publications.

NSTC brings together as one cross-searchable database NSTC Series I (1801-1815), Series II (1816-1870) and Series III (1871-1919), first published by Avero Publications between 1983 and 2002 in print and on two CD-ROMs. It comprises more than 1,200,000 cross-searchable records drawn from the catalogues of the Bodleian Library, the British Library, Harvard University Library, the Library of Congress, the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, the National Library of Scotland and the University Libraries of Cambridge and Newcastle.

Adam Matthew Digital Resources purchased

We now have access to a number of digital resources from Adam Matthew Publications which include:
Empire Online:
By the end of 2007 Adam Matthew Publications will have brought together over 70,000 images of original documents relating to Empire Studies. The images are sourced from libraries and archives around the world, including a strong core of document images from the British Library.
This project has been developed to encourage undergraduate work with rare primary documents. By using images of the texts rather than transcriptions, Empire Online enables students to connect with the past with greater immediacy. By retaining the look and feel of the original sources, we engender greater interaction with the material as students can understand better the circumstances in which sources were created and the ways in which the authors chose to present their arguments.

Eighteenth Centure Journals II (1699-1812): Eighteenth Century Journals II provides a wide-ranging view of topical issues that concerned readers of the period. In the eighteenth century, as today, the content of newspapers was dictated by the editor’s sense of what was desired by the general readership. This desire can be summed up in a single word: variety. Themes covered by the periodicals featured in this digital collection are highly diverse, including literature, the theatre; fashion; politics, revolution; agriculture; social issues and society life. Moreover, such range of topics is often discussed within the pages of a single volume, leaping from discussions of the latest ladies’ fashions, to the study of natural philosophy, to gardening methods, within a matter of pages. The sheer breadth of subject matter is astonishing. This essay will attempt to provide the user with a flavour of such subjects and how they were approached by eighteenth-century publishers. It concludes with a list of some relevant journals which users may find a helpful starting-point in their research on specific subject disciplines.

Literary Manuscripts:
17th and 18th Century poetry from the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds. The focus of this collection is to provide direct access to facsimile images of verses as catalogued in the Brotherton Library’s BCMSV database. The search engine and browse lists provide easy access to research enquiries and the original images are just a click away in a variety of formats.This collection also allows access to the complete manuscripts and their searchable catalogue data, including the available lt and ltq literary manuscripts in the Brotherton Collection that are not indexed in the BCMSV database. Please note that Lt q 46 does not exist and Ltq 36, 67 and 68 are currently unavailable for filming. The manuscripts range from contemporary copies of poems by writers like Colvil, Dryden, Fairfax and Pope to popular tags and epitaphs. Many of the manuscripts are miscellanies and commonplace books which have never previously been indexed. One example is Lady Hester Pulter's Poems breathed forth by the nobel Hadassas - a collection of poetry, c.1645-1665, comprising a single volume and several loose sheets, predominantly in a scribal hand with insertions and revisions in two other hands, one perhaps autograph. It also includes part of a novel, The Unfortunate Florinda. Another example is a poetical commonplace book, in several hands, c.1740-1804, partly compiled by Eliza Marriott.

Please note:
Two more collections will follow later this year;

Eighteenth Century Journals I -- 1714-1799 (due late Summer 2007)
Eighteenth Century Journals I is drawn from the Hope Collection at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It brings together 76 rare journals printed between 1714 and 1799. The collection combines well-known publications with more minor works, offering users a wide-ranging view of eighteenth century publishing culture.

Medieval Travel Writing (due Autumn 2007)
This project provides direct access to a widely scattered collection of original medieval manuscripts that describe travel - real and imaginary - in the Middle Ages.

See Adam Matthew Digital Collections for more information.

Oxford Journals Online with Digital Archive

Access is now available to Oxford Journals Online including the Digital Archive.

Oxford Journals Online contains the searchable,full-text of 180 journals in the areas of medicine, life sciences, mathematics and physical sciences, law, humanities, and social sciences.
The Oxford Journals Digital Archive provides access to all content from volume one, issue one, for nearly 140 journals and includes content dating back to 1849.

Unlimited and remote access is provided

This is a CRKN purchase.

There are 10 titles excluded from the collection (Society decision). They include: Capital Markets Law Journal; DNA Research( open access); Epidemiologic Reviews; ESHRE Monographs; European Heart Journal Supplements; Evidence-based Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (open access); JNCI Cancer Spectrum; Journal of the National Cancer Institute Monographs; Nucleic Acids Research; Nucleic Acids Symposium Series.

New Trial - Tests in Print

User Name - coppul
Password - ebscotrial
Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s). A score index permits users to identify what is being measured by each test. Tests in Print is directly linked to the critical, candid test reviews published in the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) series. Users can research current test information from the TIP series and continue their search to all available test reviews published in the MMY series. Tests in Print is an indispensable reference for professionals in areas such as education, psychology, business, as well as those interested in the critical issues of tests and testing.

Trial - Keesing's World News Archive Online

Keesing's Record of World Events was designated for discard last month as part of the current Reference shelf-clearing project however we have online access until the end of 2007 to Keesing's World News Archive.
Description:Among the events covered are elections and changes of government; wars, treaties, appointments, and diplomacy; terrorism and issues of internal security; legislation, budgets, economic developments and international agreements; actions by the UN and other international organisations; natural disasters, environmental issues, and scientific discoveries.

Simulataneous Users: 3

Access from the Trial Page on the Gateway

ProQuest Historical Newspapers online access now available

ProQuest's Historical Newspapers include:

The New York Times (1851-2003) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

The Wall Street Journal (1889-1989) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

The Washington Post (1877 - 1990)offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

Please note: ProQuest's Historical databases cannot be searched in conjunction with ProQuet Classic databases (ie Canadian Newstand). The three Historical Newspapers themselves however, are cross-searchable. From the drop down menu of databases to select from, they can be found at the very end of the list.

Cambridge Journals Online

Cambridge Journalls Online; the second journal publisher package offer from CRKN has been activated and is now available from the Databases A-Z page.

Journals for which we hold an exisiting subscription will be updated (approximately 127 titles) and Serials is in the process of cataloguing the new titles (90 titles).

New database: House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP)

Description:
ProQuest's House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) provides access to over 200 years of day-to-day history through documents of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries up to 2004. The database consists of the digitized full image adn full text archive of over 180,000 British parliamentary papers or almost 10,000,000 pages. This comprehensive colleciton includes all sessional papers issues by the House of Commons including Bills, Reports of Royal Commissions, Reports of Select Committees, Accounts and Papers, and Command Papers. The Papers influence public opinion and philosophy, and provide a forum for the ideas of hundreds of thinkers, among them Jenner, Arnold, Trollope, Mill, Faraday, babbage, Telford and Brunel.

Users can browse papers by date, or search the database by keyword(s) or phrase. Each document type is zoned searchable: text,maps/plans, tables, graphs, illustrations, and photographs. Keyword hits are highlighted within the full text. Boolean search is enabled. The database contains enhanced digital reproductions of every page in downloadable PDF file format, accompanied by the bibliographic data and Subject Catalogue of the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers.

Simultaneous Users: Unlimited
Platform: Chadwyck-Healey
Consortium: CRKN
Note: An annual subscription fee provides access to all new content to be added from 2005 forwards.

New online dictionary: Middle English Dictionary

Description:
The print MED, completed in 2001, has been described as "the greatest achievement in medieval scholarship in America." Its 15,000 pages offer a comprehensive analysis of lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500, based on the analysis of a collection of over three million citation slips, the largest collection of this kind available. This electronic version of the MED preserves all the details of the print MED, but goes far beyond this, by converting its contents into an enormous database, searchable in ways impossible within any print dictionary.

This is a free resource from the University of Michigan. In 1997 - The University of Michigan was awarded $250,000 by the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop an electronic Middle English Compendium (MEC), a powerful new resource which promises to break new ground in Middle English studies. The development of the MEC is a joint effort on the part of Michigan's Digital Library Production Service, the University of Michigan Press, the English Department, and the Office of the Vice President for Research.
For more information on the project view the MEC webiste.

Law databases added to the Databases A-Z listing

Four new Law databases are now available from the Databases A-Z Page.
They are:

Canadian Labour Law Library:
Canadian Labour Law Library features the latest commentary from Brown and Beatty's Canadian Labour Arbitration, 4th Edition , the Labour Arbitration Cases (L.A.C.) and Canadian Labour Arbitration Summaries (C.L.A.S.) , all linked by a comprehensive Master Table of Cases . Other features include: New This Week. Custom Serach forms and an Advanced Search Feature are available. * Labour Arbitration Cases (L.A.C.), current to Volume 155 Part 3, 4th Series (March 21, 2007) * Canadian Labour Arbitration Summaries (C.L.A.S.), current to Volume 88, Part 4 (March 14, 2007) * Canadian Labour Arbitration (Brown & Beatty 4th Edition), current to December 2006

Criminal Spectrum:
Criminal Law Spectrum provides access to Canadian criminal cases published in the Canadian Criminal Cases from 1898 to the present, articles and published in the Criminal Law Quarterly journal from 1958, and current Federal and provincial criminal legislation including the Criminal Code. Other commentary includes case annotations and the full text of the following looseleaf publications: Canadian Criminal Procedure, Sentencing: The Practitioner's Guide, Youth Criminal Justice Act Manual, Drug Offences in Canada, Canadian Criminal Evidence, and Criminal Pleadings & Practice in Canada.

English Reports:
The Priestly Law Library now subscribes to a full text, online edition of the English Reports, hosted by HeinOnline. The “English Reports, Full Reprint Library” provides access to over 100, 000 full text English cases from the period of 1220-1865, page-images of the original bound reprint edition, all Indexes and the Book of Charts. Multiple navigation tools such as a Case Locator, Chart Tool, and an Advanced Search feature to enhance the ease of access to specific cases. * browsing by volumes, Indexes and by the Book of Charts. This allows to you view the collection as if you were holding the actual books in your hands.

Martin's Online Crimial Code:
Martin's Online Criminal Code is an online legal research tool that provides users with access to the Criminal Code at a particular point in time, along with the corresponding commentary. Includes the full text of all versions of the Criminal Code dating back to 1955, with synopses and cases referred to in Martin's case law annotations. Users can browse through previous versions of Martin's Annual Criminal Code, or search for a particular section or subsection at a specific date. Table of concordance for cross-referencing provisions from the 1953-54, 1970 and 1985 versions of the Code.

New Trial - Synthesis: Digital Library of Engineering and Conputer Science

Description:
The basic component of the Synthesis library is a 50- to 100-page electronic book that synthesizes an important research or development topic, authored by a prominent contributor to the field. These are called Lectures and they offer unique value to the reader by providing more synthesis, analysis, and depth than typical research journal articles. They are also more modular and dynamic than traditional print or digital handbooks, such as collected volumes and monographs. They are ideal entry points to new areas for researchers, advanced developers, and students.
SYNTHESIS is organized by series, each managed by a prominent consulting editor
Subject area: Engineering and Computer Science
Trial Dates: April 10, 2007- May 15, 2007

Online Retrospective Wilson Indexes purchased

We now have online access to the retropsective Wilson Indexes which includes:
Readers' Guide (1890-1982)
Humanities and Social Science Index Retrospective (1907-1984)
Applied Science and Technology Index Retropsective (1913-1983) - available June 2007.

Godot enabled: YES
Simultaneous Users: one

Dissertations & Theses - update

You will now see two links for users:

Dissertation and Theses (PQDT)
Dissertation and Theses @UVIC (formerlly Current Research at UVic)

The URL for Dissertation and Theses has been reconstructed so that it will now across search the following products simultaneously:

Dissertations & Theses
The massive body of work available through ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) represents the most comprehensive source of academic research in the world.
Coverage: varies

Dissertations & Theses @ University of Victoria
A service provided to universities that actively publish their graduate students' dissertations and theses with ProQuest's UMI® Dissertation Publishing. Dissertations & Theses @ enables individual universities to access the citations and abstracts of all their student's dissertations and theses, as well as the full text in PDF format, when available. more info...
Coverage: varies

Dissertations & Theses: A&I
With more than 2 million entries, PQD&T is the single, central, authoritative resource for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350- word abstracts written by the author. Master's theses published from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Titles available as native or image PDF formats include free twenty-four page previews. UMI offers over 1.8 million titles for purchase in microform, paper or electronic formats.
Coverage: 1861 - Current

Dissertation Abstracts International -- LINK Removed

ProQuest has largely completed migrating the original ProQuest Digital Dissertations (PQDD) database to the ProQuest platform, where the database has been renamed ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT).

You will now find only the one link under Dissertations & Theses on the Databases Page.

Full details of the migration and enhancements to searching options can be found on the PQDT Migration Support page

People's Daily Online (Archive) Purchased

Description:The People's Daily is the official voice of the central government of the People's Republic of China. This database provides complete official records of the Chinese government from 1946-2004.

Access: 1 SU

BHI Online: access now available

BHI: British Humanities Index Onlinereplacing the print equivalent is an international abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities, BHI indexes over 320 internationally respected humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as quality newspapers published in the UK.

Coverage: 1962-current
Platform: CSA Illumina
Access: Unlimited

New database added: Literature, Arts and Medicine Database

Literature, Arts and Medicine Database is an annotated multimedia listing of prose, poetry, film, video and art that was developed to be a dynamic, accessible, comprehensive resource for teaching and research in MEDICAL HUMANITIES, and for use in health/pre-health, graduate and undergraduate liberal arts and social science settings. It is a multi-institutional project (see Editorial Board) that was initiated by faculty of the New York University School of Medicine.

Taylor & Francis Journals Online -- Access now available

Purchased through CRKN Phase 2, we now have access to Taylor and Francis Journals online.
Description:
Full text access to +1,100 journals in the sciences (STM) and social sciences and humanities (SSH).
Coverage: January 1997 forwards.
Platform: Access to the journals is on the Informaworld platform.

RefWorks

Last week when I was helping a student with a RefWorks problem, I realized that he was exporting references using the link available on the GODOT page - i.e. the "Where Can I Get this" link. When he used the downloaded citation in REfWorks to create his bibliography the citations where created with lots of errors! For instance, the title was appearing in caps and the authors names were appearing first name and then last name.

When we redid the export according to the instructions in our handouts, the citations appeared correctly.

Has anyone had this problem reported before? I am going to test this function with the other databases. But I am leaning towards asking Nancy to remove the Export to RefWorks button in the GODOT page.

Comments welcome!

Times Digital Archive -- purchased

Description:
The Times Digital Archive is a full-image online archive of every page published by The Times [London] from 1785-1985. The text within the images is fully searchable at the article level. Users can easily search news articles, obituaries, advertising and classifieds — virtually everything that appeared in the newspaper. Results are displayed at the article level and users may view the article — or the full page upon which it appeared.

Platform: InfoTrac (GALE)

For more information including a guided tour and PDF navigation help sheets see: http://www.gale.com/Times/

GLBT Life database renamed

Recently, EBSCO has made the decision to rename the GLBT Life database to LGBT Life. This name change is in response to customer feedback. The acronym ‘LGBT’ has become the more widely used and accepted descriptor for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

There is a redirect to LGBT for people looking for the database under the GLBT heading.

New Trial: Natural Standard: The Authority on Integrative Medicine

Description:
The Natural Standard© database is a clinical decision support tool that is designed to help clinicians and consumers on the safety and efficacy of herbs, supplements, vitamins, diets, nutrition, exercise, and complementary practices (yoga, chiropractic). Natural Standard© consists of over 500 internationally world-renowned clinicians and researchers. More than 45 translators translate all foreign language articles for accurate literature capture. The content is first person authored and undergoes blinded multidisciplinary peer review by academics and scientists across the world.

Trial Dates: January 30-February 28, 2007

New Trial: RGE Monitor

Description:
RGE Montior is the leading on-line aggregator of ahead-of-the-curve information on economic and geostrategic issues. Our client base of business strategist, investors, researchers, academics, policy makers and regulators depend on our unbiased editorial perspective, state of the art technology and personalized service. RGE features the most relevant news, commentary, research, analysis, and blogs for over 100 topics and 50 countries.
NOTE :The first time accessing the trial users will be prompted with a screen to create a personal account. Access will be available via IP authentication on campus.

Trial Dates: Jan.29-Feb.28, 2007

Canada's Heritage URL corrected -- access restored

Access to Canada's Heritage has been restored. Just today ProQuest was able to supply a direct URL so the work around we have been using will no longer be required.

Please let me know if you discover that it is not working properly.

New Database purchased: DRAM Database of Recorded American Music

DRAM is a not-for-profit resource providing CD quality audio, complete and original liner notes and essays from New World Records, Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI) and other important labels. DRAM offers the educational community on-demand, high-quality (192kbps/MP4) streaming access to complete works. DRAM is accessible to anyone at a participating institution. At this time, individual subscriptions are not available. Learn more about participating in DRAM Currently, there are over 1,200 CDs (7,500 compositions) in DRAM. The basis for the current collection is the diverse catalogue of American music recordings by New World Records. From folk to opera, Native American to jazz, 19th century classical to early rock, musical theater, contemporary, electronic and beyond, New World has served composers, artists, students and the general public since its inception in 1975 with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. DRAM also includes music from other contributing sources, including the CRI, Albany, innova, Cedille, XI, Pogus, Deep Listening and Mutable Music labels. In the future, alliances with other major and independent labels and archival sources will be crucial to enhancing DRAM's role of serving the needs of serious music scholars.

Unlimited simultaneous users

Please note:
Users will need to select "Log In", then click the gray button at the top of a "Where Are You From" page to access DRAM. They may then need to click through several screens (or the screens may pass by) - this has to do with the authentication system at NYU. After the first visit, users should not have to perform this extra step, but they may occasionally see some Shibboleth screens at times.

RefWorks Update

I've updated the RefWorks Login page so that it has a quick welcome and links to guides. This is in preparation for the data move we will have to do later in the term. It will also allow us to post important messages when needed.

I've also added a BLUE Information Icon once you've logged on. Look at the top right hand corner. It will link to the Workshops page. If you think this should go somewhere else let me know.

LWW Total Access Collection - update

The Databases A-Z listing for LWW Total Access Collection has been changed to Journals@OVID -- LWW to better reflect how users will be looking for the collection. Individual journal titles included in the collection have been catalogued.

New Database purchased: CHANT

The CHinese ANcient Texts (CHANT) database is a long-term project which began in 1988 to build up a comprehensive database of all ancient Chinese texts up to the sixth century AD.

The CHinese ANcient Texts (CHANT) database project was initiated by the Institute of Chinese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1988, with the generous support of a grant by the University Grants Committee (UGC) of the Hong Kong Government. Its original scope was confined to the building of an electronic database of all pre-220 AD traditional Chinese texts. It has since grown into a long-term project covering all Chinese ancient texts spanning the two millennia from 1500 BC to about 600 AD into one single, vast and comprehensive database which will become a major tool for the study of the entire field of ancient China.

The database includes five components:
1. pre-220 AD (the Pre-Han and Han period) traditional texts;
2. 220-581 AD (the Weijin period) traditional texts;
3. excavated texts on wood/bamboo strips and silk (Jianbo);
4. excavated oracular inscriptions on tortoise shells and bones (Jiaguwen);
5. traditional as well as excavated bronze inscriptions (Jinwen).

Environmental Issues and Policy Index - Change of title

Please note the database: Environmental Issues and Policy Index has changed its title and is now called Environment Index.
It is still on the EBSCO platform.

Film and Television Literature Index - Online

As subscribers to the print edition of Film Literature Index which ceased publication, EBSCO is offering online access to their product; Film and Television Literature Index
Abstract:
Film & Television Literature Index is a comprehensive bibliographic database covering the entire spectrum of television and film writing. It has been designed for use by a diverse audience that includes film scholars, college students, and general viewers. Publications include Film Journal International, Journal of British Cinema & Television, Film Criticism, Post Script, Variety, and more as well as technical publications such as SMPTE. Mirroring the international film & television industries and cultures, FTLI also includes publications such as Cahiers du Cinema, Filmihullu, SegnoCinema, and Kinetoscopio. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.

Platform: EBSCOHost
Simultaneous Users: Unlimited

Scirus added to the Databases A-Z listing

Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Driven by the latest search engine technology, Scirus searches over 300 million science-specific Web pages, enabling you to quickly:

• Pinpoint scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data on the Web.
• Find the latest reports, peer-reviewed articles, patents, pre prints and journals that other search engines miss.
• Offer unique functionalities designed for scientists and researchers.

Developed by Elsevier; for more information see About Scirus link.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries purchased

North American Women's Letters and Diaries from Alexander Street Press has been purchased.

Description:
North American Women's Letters and Diaries includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before.

The materials have been carefully chosen using leading bibliographies, supplemented by customer requests and more than 7,000 pages of previously unpublished material. The collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.

Coverage: Colonial - 1950

Platform: Alexander Street Press

Simultaneous Users: Unlimited

Highlights from the Collection

International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance - online access now available

International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance:
The International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance™ represents the most comprehensive multicultural and inter-disciplinary research tool available to theater students, educators and professionals. Since 1984, the Theatre Research Data Center (TRDC) at Brooklyn College has published 14 volumes of the IBTD. These volumes comprise a fully indexed, cross-referenced and annotated databank of over 60,000 journal articles, books, book articles and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance in 126 countries.
Platform:EBSCOHost
Simultaneous Users: Unlimited
Selected full text available.

Cochrane Collection -- records for individual databases now in the databases list

Records for the three databases making up the Cochrane Colleciton can now be found in the Databases A-Z listing. They include:

DARE: Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects

Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Geobase access

ScienceDirect has discontinued access to A&I databases - see news announcement at http://info.sciencedirect.com/news/archive/2006/News_AI.asp

Geobase has been made available via EI Engineering Village - the same platform we search Compendex and Inspec on. I'm sure our links on the Gateway will be updated shortly but until they are you can click on Compendex or Inspec and get to Geobase.
cheers, Katy

Play Index Online purchased

Description:
Play Index is an aid to finding plays published in anthologies and collections as well as individually. The online version contains all 10 volumes of the print index and offers citations to 30,000 plays published from 1949 to the present.

Platform: WilsonWeb

Simultaneous Users: 1 (one)

Animal Behavior Abstracts cancelled

Animal Behavior Abstracts from CSA has been cancelled and the link no longer appears on the Databases page.

The content is covered by Zoological Record and BIOSIS.

Canada's Heritage -- update

Please note:
To access Canada's Heritage you will need to go to the following URL:
http://proquest.umi.com/login

From the drop down menu click or select Multiple Databases

You will then see a link for Canada's Heritage and can click on it to begin searching.

I recognize this is not ideal for the end user. ProQuest has migrated the product from the CIRC platform to the ProQuest platform and has not yet been able to supply a direct link to the search page for Canada's Heritage.

CRKN Purchase -- Times Digital Archive

The Times Digital Archive has been purchased through CRKN and access has been activated. Links in the catalogue are still being made but I thought people may want to take a look at the product.

Details:
The Times Digital Archive 1785 - 1985
Search through the complete digital edition of The Times (London), using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.
Platform: Infotrac (Thomson Gale)

Service interruption: Canada's Heritage from 1844-

Important News Regarding Your Canada’s Heritage from 1844- Globe and Mail

Because the Canadian Information Resource Center will no longer be owned by ProQuest after December 2006, ProQuest is currently transitioning access to Canada’s Heritage from 1844-Globe and Mail and to the Toronto Star –Pages of the Past to the ProQuest platform. As part of this transition, ProQuest will be providing a new URL to access our account.

I am working with Tech Support to resolve this issue as quickly as possible. Access to Canadian Research Index was lost for the same reasons however it is now working.

New online resource purchased: Conference Board of Canada's e-Library

All Conference Board research documents dating back to 1998 are available exclusively on this web site. Our subscription to the University e-Library Service entitles everyone at University of Victoria access to the following research documents at no charge.

The topics on the e-Library include:

• Human Resource Management
• Organizational Excellence
• Risk Management
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Governance
• Indices Trends
• Executive Insights
• International Economic Trends
• Canadian Economic Trends (short-term and long-term forecasts)
• Provincial Economic Trends (short-term and long-term forecasts)
• Canadian Industrial Outlook – All 10 Industries
• Metropolitan Economic Trends – All 27 CMA’s
• Canada & US At A Glance (monthly economic update)
• Public Policy Research

In order to access these reports on-line please use this link:
Conference Board of Canada e-Library

The e-Library makes access to our research easier than ever:
• authorized users can access research 24/7 from home, office or on the road
• receive email notifications the day reports are released, weeks in advance of hard copy

You can also keep current with latest research offerings through quarterly newsletter InsideEdge.

Springer Online Journal Archive and eBooks Purchased

Springer eBooks:
Access is now available to Springer eBooks published from 2005-2007, with
approximately 3,000 new Springer titles to be added each
year. Springer allows unlimited simultaneous access to
eBooks. Once a library purchases Springer's eBook
Collection, they own the book content of the purchased
copyright year for their use in perpetuity. The eBooks' PDF
and HTML documents are fully searchable and can be
downloaded and printed. Springer's online platform,
SpringerLink, now integrates Springer eBooks with millions
of articles from Springer's peer-reviewed journals. This
integration gives researchers easy access to book chapters
which should lead to more academic citations of Springer's
books.

Online Journal Archive:
Through CRKN UVic has also purchased the Springer's Online Journal Archive providing deeper online journal coverage back to volume 1 for titles where possible. This was a one time purchase of the historic backfiles.

Canadian Research Index - change in platform

Canadian Research Index can now be found on the ProqUest platform and has been moved off the CIRC patform. We were without access temporarily but access has been restored.

Please report any issues you may discover with the new look of the product.

Database cancelled

The database Contemporary Women's Issues has been cancelled and been replaced with Women's Studies International.

Description:
Women’s Studies International™, produced by NISC, covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Coverage includes more than 489,600 records and spans from 1972 and earlier to present. Women’s Studies International includes the following database files: Women Studies Abstracts, Women’s Studies Bibliography Database, Women’s Studies Database, Women Studies Librarian, Women of Color and Southern Women: A Bibliography of Social Science Research, and Women’s Health and Development: An Annotated Bibliography.

Platform:
EBSCOHost

Music databases - platform changes

For your infomation there have been some recent platform changes to two of the exisiting Music Database and a new purchase.
Details:

New purchase: Music Index on the EbscoHost platform
RILM - migrated from OCLC platform to the EbscoHost platform
RIPM - migrated from OCLC platform to the EbscoHost platform

RISM - remains on the NISC platform (no other platform is available at this time)

The move allowed for better pricing by joining the exisiting COPPUL agreement and users will now be able to search the three Music databases simultaneously.

Ask A Librarian Link activated in EBSCO and Medline

EBSCO databases and Medline are now set up with a live Ask A Librarian Link.

The EBSCO link displays in the top right of the screen, nect to the Help link. We have set up the link so that if anyone uses this link their question will be sent to askref@uvic.ca. When the patron click on the link a box pops up for them to enter their name, email address along with their question.

The Medline (OVID) link works the same way however the link will send email to Rebecca Raworth.

RefGrabIt

Hi All,

Just found out that RefWorks has a new add-on call RefGrab-It!
This feature works with your web browser and can grab Bib information from websites and import it into RefWorks.

For the details, login to your Refworks account --> go to help menu and search for RefGrab IT. All the instructions are there. It works with IE and Firefox but not Netscape.

Ebsco & Refworks - Follow up

To follow up on the November 17th blog entries about Refworks and Ebsco...

The IC machines were doing the pop up blocking thing so I submitted a help desk request to see if the ebsco address could be unblocked. It turns out that all is working fine with IE, but you will still get blocked using Firefox. To remedy this permanently requires a re-imaging which will happen sometime - systems was not sure when.

EBSCO databases and exporting citations to RefWorks

Update:
This may be an issue of pop-ups being blocked. I have set the computers on the Ref Desk to always allow popups from EBSCO and when I did this the RefWorks window would open. I did check some of the IC machines and they will all need to allow pop-ups from EBSCO as well.

You can right click on the GOOGLE toolbar and the option to Always allow popups from this site should be one of the options.

Please let me know if I am missing something else here and I will continue to work with EBSCO to resolve the issue.

EBSCO Refworks workaround

Inba tells me that EBSCO databases are not opening up a new window for Refworks when you try to save your references. The workaround is to hold down the control key when you press "Save" while in Bibliographic Manager.

New database added - Military & Government Collection

Description:Military & Government Collection is designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of these sites. The Military & Government Collection™ provides full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals. The database also includes full text for 245 pamphlets and offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles. Publications covered in this database include Air Force Comptroller, Army Reserve Magazine, Defence Studies, JFQ: Joint Force Quarterly, Military Technology, National Review, Combat Edge, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Foreign Affairs, Naval Forces, and many more. Additionally, many full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color.

Platform: EBSCOHost
Available freely to existing subscribers of EBSCOHost databases

Literature Online and other Chadwyck-Healey databases- update

Please note we have lost access to all Chadwyck-Healey databases, this includes:

LION
ABELL
Periodicals Index Online
EEBO

We are working closely with the technical team at ProQuest to correct this as quickly as possible.

At this point we are waiting to hear from them as to when we can expect access to be restored.

Worldcat.org added to list of databases

Worldcat.org: Offering a simplified interface to Worldcat.

WorldCat.org is a destination Web site released in August 2006 that allows Web users to search the complete WorldCat database and link to online catalog records and services using the same core interface as Open WorldCat. The site also provides a variety of free tools that further promote use of library resources and "virally" spread WorldCat searching among Web users. These include a modular version of the WorldCat search box that any user, library or other organization can place on their Web site; browser toolbars and plug-ins; and a variety of "Affiliate" open-source software and Web services that draw on WorldCat data.

For more information about Worldcat.org see their list of FAQs

Trial Access: Book Index with Reviews

Book Index with Reviews is an offer currently available to COPPUL libraries.
Platform: EBSCOHost
Trial Dates: October 2006-June 2007
Pricing will be determined by number of libraries joining the agreement.

Description:
Book Index with Reviews (BIR) is a comprehensive database that provides information on over 3.8 million book titles in a wide range of formats, including large print, books on tape, etc. Fiction and non-fiction titles for juvenile and adult audiences are included in the database, in all genres. The product contains over 800,000 full-text searchable reviews from the sources that you trust: Library Journal, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, CHOICE, and others.
The full-text reviews, combined with the product's subject headings and flexible search engine, connect users to popular titles that are currently available, along with those that will soon be published.

Literature Online (LION) and ABELL temporarily unavailable

Please note:
Access to Literature Online and ABELL is temporarily unavailable. I am working with the vendors to correct this situation as soon as possible.

Given that it is now the weekend and that they were unable to restore our access by closing Friday I am hopeful that access will be restored by Monday at the latest.

Lisa

New Trial: Orlando Women's Writings in the British Isles

Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is a highly dynamic textbase. It is a rich resource for researchers, for students, and for readers with an interest in literature, women's writing, or cultural history more generally. With about five and a half million words of text, it is full of interpretive information on women, writing, and culture. It includes documents on the lives and writing careers of about a thousand writers, together with a great deal of contextual historical material on relevant subjects, such as the law, economics, science, writing by men, education, medicine, politics.

Trial Dates: October 17- November 15, 2006

New Trial: Asia Studies Full Text Online

Asia-Studies Full-text Online is the premier database for the study of modern Asia-Pacific. As the exclusive licensee for the region’s most prestigious research institutions, Asia-Studies.com brings together thousands of full-text reports covering 53 countries* on a multitude of business, government, economic, and social issues.

Examples of specific subject coverage include finance, trade, environment, human resources development, best practices in government, fisheries, tourism, education and women's studies to name a few. The average study is 50 pages long, and contains statistics, research, analysis, and forecasts. Most contain statistical tables, charts, and/or graphs.

Country coverage includes all of Asia, Australia/New Zealand, the Americas Pacific Rim countries, and Pacific islands. Users can browse by country to find country specific annual statistical overviews. Multi-country and Asia-wide comparisons are also available.

Trial Dates: October 16-November 15, 2006

Refworks instructions

I've had questions about downloading citations from databases into RefWorks.
So I selectively photocopied the Ebsco, CSA and Library catalogue instructions sets and left them at the desk for your use. It seemed easier than to get students to copy the instructions!

Royal Historical Society Bibliography

Now catalogued and availabe from Databases listing:
The Royal Historical Society's online bibliography provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, and with the British empire and commonwealth, during all periods for which written documentation is available - from 55BC to the present.

As well as providing details of publications, the bibliography provides links to online catalogues to help you find the items that it lists in research libraries in Britain, Ireland and the USA, and it provides links to online text where available (you or your institution may need an appropriate subscription to take advantage of some of these links).

The bibliography is a guide to the work of historians - it does not contain original sources, unless they have been edited and republished by historians (except for a selection of key sources published before 1901 derived from the printed bibliographies published for the Royal Historical Society and the American Historical Association by Oxford University Press).

The bibliography aims to be as comprehensive as is practical for publications since 1900. The database is being enriched by cooperation with other projects; data from the London's Past Online project were added to the database in January 2003 and the first batch of data from Irish History Online was added in August 2004, with further batches from both projects being added since - the complete database now contains just over 407,000 records.

The bibliography lists books, articles in books and articles in journals

Canadian University Indicators - 2005 data available

The 2005 data for the Canadian University Indicators has been purchased and it now accessible from the Database page.

Description:
Canadian University Indicators (CUI) is a database of summary publication and citation statistics that reflect research performance by 44 universities during the years 1981-2005. The publications and citation counts are taken from the peer-reviewed journals indexed by Thomson Scientific. The data in the Canadian University Indicators reflects the collective judgment of the scientific community on the strength or weakness of a university's efforts in a specific field, as indicated by aggregate publication and, especially, citation counts.

TRIP database added to Gateway

TRIP (Turning Research into Practice), a free, evidence-based medicine database has been added to the list of databases.

Brief Description:The TRIP Database began in 1997 as a result of the work of the founders (Jon Brassey and Dr Chris Price) in answering clinical questions. One of the remits of answering the clinical questions was to return them in a clinically relevant time frame. As well as being quick the clinical questions needed to be answered using the best available evidence. Therefore, to identify the best evidence involved moving from website to website in order to identify relevant material. Provides leading resources for Evidence-Based Medicine. Allowing users to easily and rapidly identify the highest quality evidence from a wide range of sources.

For more information see: TRIP

New Trial - Design & Applied Art Index

Description:
Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) is the leading source of abstracts and bibliographic records for articles, news items, and reviews published in design and applied arts periodicals from 1973 onwards. An indispensable tool for students, researchers, and practitioners worldwide, DAAI covers both new designers and the development of design and the applied arts since the mid-19th century, surveying disciplines including ceramics, glass, jewellery, wood, metalsmithing, graphic design, fashion and clothing, textiles, furniture, interior design, architecture, computer aided design, Web design, computer-generated graphics, animation, product design, industrial design, garden design, and landscape architecture. As of March 2006, DAAI contains more than 150,000 records, with around 1200 new records added each month in twice-monthly updates.

Trial dates: August 17-September 22
Platform: CSA Illumina
Access via the New Trial Databases Page

New Trial: International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance

Description:The International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance™ represents the most comprehensive multicultural and inter-disciplinary research tool available to theater students, educators and professionals. Since 1984, the Theatre Research Data Center (TRDC) at Brooklyn College has published 14 volumes of the IBTD. These volumes comprise a fully indexed, cross-referenced and annotated databank of over 60,000 journal articles, books, book articles and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance in 126 countries
Platform: EbscoHost
Selected FT available
Subject area: Music & Fine Arts
Trial Dates: August 8-September 7, 2006

Trial access to Alexander Street Press Music Databases

We have trial access to the following products from Alexander Street Press:
1. African American Song
2. Classical Music Library
3.Smithsonian Global Sound

All three are username and password protected. To access the products please visit the New Trial Databases page.

Trial access runs through until the end of August.

Trial access to Naxos Music products

Trial access is now available to two Naxos Music Databases.
1. Naxos Music Library: offers the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It offers the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues, equivalent to over 10,200 CDs.
2. Naxos Spoken Word Library : offers listen on-demand access to all recordings from the Naxos Educational and Naxos Audiobooks catalogues.
Trial access: available until the end of August
Access available to 3 simultaneous users

New database purchased -- Termium Plus

Published by Public Works and Government Services Canada TERMIUM Plus® is an English-French-Spanish electronic dictionary consisting of terms, synonyms, acronyms, definitions, phraseology units, examples of usage and observations in a wide variety of fields such as administration, science and informatics.
Access - 5 silumtanoeus users
Can be found under the Databases by Subject headings: Law, Humanities and Multidisciplinary. If anyone would like to have this added to additional subject headings please let me know. I will also ask that it be added under Reference -- Dictionaires.

New Research Guide

I've created a new research guide called Medicine. Enjoy!

New Trial: Conference Board of Canada Reports

Details:
Conference Board of Canada
Research reports from the following services are included:
Risk Management -- Corporate Social Responsibility -- Governance --Human Resource Management -- Organizational Excellence -- Canadian Economic Trends -- Provincial Economic Trends -- Indices Trends -- International Economic Trends -- Canadian Long-Term Economic Trends -- Provincial Long-Term Economic Trends -- Metropolitan Economic Trends—All 25 CMAs --Canadian Industrial Trends—All 10 Industry -- Travel and Tourism Sector Trends -- Public Policy -- Executive Insights
Trial dates: we have a 60 day trial to the online content produced by the Conference Board of Canada. July 7 - September 6, 2006
Access: staff and students of UVic (unlimited)
About The Conference Board of Canada (from their website)

We are a not-for-profit Canadian organization that takes a business-like approach to its operations.
Objective and non-partisan. We do not lobby for specific interests.
Funded exclusively through the fees we charge for services to the private and public sectors.
Experts in running conferences but also at conducting, publishing and disseminating research, helping people network, developing individual leadership skills and building organizational capacity.
Specialists in economic trends, as well as organizational performance and public policy issues.
Not a government department or agency, although we are often hired to provide services for all levels of government.
Independent from, but affiliated with, The Conference Board, Inc. of New York, which serves some 2,500 companies in 60 nations and has offices in Brussels and Hong Kong.

New Entries in the Databases A-Z Listing

Please Note:
Two new entries now appear on the Databases A-Z listing for Art Index Retrospective 1929-1984 and Book Review Digest Retrospective 1905-1982. The new entries will allow users to search only the retrospective portion and the url will take you to the list of WilsonWeb products that we have access to with the retrospective portion pre-selected. You can still select one or more additional products to search simultaneously

Art Index Retrospective: Access is for 2-4 users
Book Review Digest Retrospective: Access is for 1 user

Platform: WilsonWeb

Both products were purchased at the end of the 2005/06 fiscal year as part of the one time purchases project.

EBSCOhost domain name change

I received notice about this and forwarded it to Sharon Jarymy who sent me the following message last Friday (June 23) "Hi Katy, we will be running a batch job to change the domain name in the
3700+ serial records already in our catalog. I would like to hold off
until the new domain name starts showing up in the journal pages
themselves to avoid confusing people. For now the links are still
working. I will keep monitoring this and will send out a message on the
blog when we have converted all of our records with the new domain name.

Thanks for the message. Feel free to let the rest of the Ref staff know
if you wish."

Current Index to Statistics - service interruption

Please Note:
The Current Index to Statistics (CIS) database server will be down for about 12 hours on June 27-28 (evening and night, EDT) for a power shutdown for building maintenance.

Database platform change -- Geobase

Geobase is now available on the Elsevier platform and will also contain the subset of Geography.

Description:
GEOBASE provides bibliographic information and abstracts for development studies, the Earth sciences, ecology, geomechanics, human geography, and oceanography. Material covered includes refereed scientific papers; trade journal and magazine articles; product reviews, directories and more. GEOBASE includes the subset database GEOGRAPHY.
Coverage will now date back as far as 1980.
Access is no longer limited to 4 simultaneous users and will be unlimited.
This is a COPPUL agreement that we have recently joined.

Wilson Index archives purchased

At the end of the 2005/06 fiscal year we were able to purchase:

Art Index Retrospective 1929-1984
and
Book Review Digest Retrospective 1905-1982

Both are Wilson products.

New database: Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME)

Description:
Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME) is a historical database of monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries, lexical encyclopedias, hard-word glossaries, spelling lists, and lexically-valuable treatises surviving in print or manuscript from the Tudor, Stuart, Caroline, Commonwealth, and Restoration periods. Texts of word-entries whose headword (source) or explanation (target) language is English tell us what speakers of English thought about their tongue in the period served by the Short-title and Wing catalogues, from the advent of printing to about 1700. Their lexical insights, which may at times seem misguided to us, shaped the history of our living tongue. Any contemporary's testimony about the meaning of his own words has an undeniable authority.

Access details:
UVic has recently been given access to the Lexicon of Early Modern English (LEME) from the University of Toronto, as part of the TAPoR initiative, through the Humanities Computing and Media Centre.

Unlmited access
Remote access permitted

Database name change - Financial Post.informat now FPinfomart.ca

Financial Post Infomart can now be found under FPinfomart.ca on the Databases A-Z page. This is the same product, we wanted to have the name on the actual site match the description and display title.

Trial access to Physical Education Index now available

Description:
CSA'sPhysical Education Index allows all researchers and professionals in the field to acquire accurate and scholarly information in this comprehensive database. These abstracts feature a wide variety of content, ranging from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance. Other coverage includes sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, and sport sociology/psychology. Health education and physical therapy are also covered as they continue to become more prevalent in our society.

Trial Dates: May 8,2006 - June 6th, 2006
Coverage: 1970-
Updated: Monthly
Platform: CSA Illumina

New Database Purchased: FAITS Faulkner Advisory for Information Technology Studies

Description:
FAITS contains hundreds of reports designed to help students, educators,and administrators learn about and keep up with the critical issues, trends, market conditions, products, services, and vendors driving the information technology industry. Topics included are IT infrastructure, telecommunications, wireless communications, data networking, convergence, information security, enterprise systems, Internet and Web, and technology vendors.

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) Online purchased

Access is now available to Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG).

Description:
The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG®) is a research center at the University of California, Irvine. Founded in 1972 the TLG has already collected and digitized most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. Its goal is to create a comprehensive digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present era.

New databases available

Please note two new databases have been added to the Gateway Databases A-Z lisiting.
The first, Transnational Dispute Management (TDM) has been purchased by the Law Library.
Description:
TDM focuses on recent developments in the area of arbitration and dispute management. TDM is a combination of newsletter, review-journal, internet service and primary materials database which goes across disciplines - law, psychology-psychoanalysis, international business management, economics, arbitration, WTO, international investment law, and across the various areas of "dispute management" Emphasis on mediation/ADR, conflict avoidance and commercial conflict management by bilateral negotiation or by third-party facilitated negotiation.

The second: Eurostat is a freely available database.
Description:
Eurostat, from the Statistical Office of the European Communities, provides the European Union with statistics at European level.
Eurostat databases and electronic publications (pdf files) are available free of charge via the website.

e-HLbc Goes Live Today

Background information:

Effective January 2006 a consortium called The Electronic Health Library of BC ("e-HLbc") was formed to purchase province-wide access to selected resources (databases, indexes, abstracts and full-text) . Membership in the consortium is comprised of 6 health authorities, 24 post-secondary institutions, 3 provincial ministries, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and other health professional organizations.

Vision: To provide the entire British Columbia academic and health care community with province-wide, consistent, high quality, cost-effective, equitable, and easily accessible health library resources that will support and improve practice, education, and research.

Mission: To build a consortium for collaboration, support, training, and for the sharing of information resources that will foster cross-sectoral collaboration in the selection, acquisition, and management of B.C.’s e-library health information resources.

UVic will now have access to the following:

EBSCO databases
Biomedical Reference Collection: Comprehensive
CINAHL with Full Text
PsycINFO
PsycARTICLES
MEDLINE

OVID Databases:
Medline
EBMR (Evidence Based Medicine Reviews)
LWW Total Access Journal Collection (240 full text nursing and life science journals)

All resources are accessible from the Databases A-Z listing as well as under the Subjects: Life Sciences and Health Sciences. A banner announcement on the Gateway will follow later this week.

New Trial: World Competitiveness Yearbook

Description:
World Competitiveness Online includes all data of the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook 2005 (314 criteria, updated in November 2005) for 60 countries/regions and for five year time series.
The information can be easily and rapidly customized and viewed for specific countries or regions, in tables and charts, and downloaded in Excel or PDF.
For an optimal use of the software your browser should be on a medium level of security, allowing Java Script and pop up windows.

Trial access available for the next 30 days (expires April 30, 2006)

New database available - Halsbury's Laws Direct

Description:

Halsbury's Laws Direct (purchased by the Law Library) is the electronic version of Halsbury's Laws of England, a legal encyclopedia providing narrative statements on the whole of English law, including statute, case law, and European Community law (as applies to England). The narrative is divided into 160 browseable subject titles, or searchable by keyword. Based on the 4th print edition, updated monthly and unlimited access.

New database available -- ARTstor

Please note:
We now have access to ARTstor, through the recently negotiated CRKN agreement.
Description:
ARTstor is a non-profit organization created by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. As part of its ongoing effort to become a community resource, ARTstor is developing a rich digital library that will offer coherent collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections. The ARTstor Library's initial content will include approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's initial software tools will support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline. This community resource will be made available solely for educational and scholarly uses that noncommercial in nature.
Unlmited access is available as well as remote access.

New Database purchased - Waterloo Directory of Periodicals 1800-1900

Description:
The Waterloo Directory of Periodicals 1800-1900 is a directory to the largest single body of historical documents arising out of nineteenth century England at the height of the British Empire. The Directory provides a more comprehensive, detailed and useful bibliographical record (including Locations and facsimile Title Pages) than we yet have for printed books, government publications or manuscripts of the century. It is subject-comprehensive, intending to include every periodical and newspaper published on a regular basis, from daily to annually, in every language, within England.

The current online edition, appearing in 2001 and since then greatly corrected and improved, contains all the data in both the Series 1 and Series 2 print editions.

Access: Unlimited access. Remote access is permitted.

New Product available: TableBase

Description:
TableBase specializes exclusively in tabular data on companies, industries, products and demographics. Precise indexing and unique table titles make it easy to find and select the information you need. Find market share, company and brand rankings, industry and product forecasts, production and consumption statistics, imports and exports, usage and capacity, number of users/outlets, trends and much more. TableBase data is culled from the more than 1,000 publications included in Business and Industry, privately published statistical annuals, trade associations, government agencies, non-profit research groups, and industry reports prepared by investment research groups.

Please note:We have access for 2 simultaneous users

Canadian University Indicators - now available

Brief Description:
Thomson Scientifics' Canadian University Indicators (CUI) is a database of summary publication and citation statistics that reflect research performance by 44 universities during the years 1981-2004. The publications and citation counts are taken from the peer-reviewed journals indexed by Thomson Scientific. The data in the Canadian University Indicators reflects the collective judgment of the scientific community on the strength or weakness of a university's efforts in a specific field, as indicated by aggregate publication and, especially, citation counts.
Fields covered (broad ranges) or for a more detailed list of fields covered

For each university, you will receive:
Total number of papers
Total citations to papers
Citation impact statistics
World and university baselines for publication, citation, and citation impact statistics
Papers are divided into 106 fields in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities corresponding to Thomson Scientifics? Current Contents® (CC®) categories.
Format:
The data reside in a Microsoft Access® database that is accessible through the Indicators graphical user interface or, for more detailed analyses, directly with the Access program.
What you can do:
You can rank, evaluate and compare the output and impact of institutions across time and subject areas. For example, you can analyze data for each year from 1981 through 2004, for the entire 24-year period, for the most recent 5-year period, or in 5-year moving windows. The interface also allows you to make and print tables, graphs, and time-series charts and to import into Excel or word-processing programs.

Access to new collection of E-Books - Digital Engineering Library

Description:

Digital Engineering Library features content from world renowned McGraw-Hill publications, including classics such as Marks’ Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers (10th ed.), Perry’s Chemical Engineers Handbook (7th ed.), Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers (14th ed.), Roark’s Formulas for Stress and Strain (7th ed.), and many more.

Digital Engineering Library is uniquely structured around 12 major areas of engineering:
Aerospace Engineering, Bio Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Communications Engineering, Construction and Architectural Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Engineering Mathematics and Science, Environmental Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Please note:We have access for up to 5 simultaneous users

New database available - Cold Regions Bibliography Project

Abstract:

Includes access to both the Antarctic Bibliography and the Bibilography on Cold Regions Science and Technology. Users will search both bibliographies by default. To search only one of the bibliographies at a time click on the links below.

The Antarctic Bibliography covers all disciplines related to the region including biological and geological sciences, medical sciences, meteorology, oceanography, atmospheric and terrestrial physics, expeditions, logistics equipment and supplies, and tourism. The Antarctic Bibliography is produced with support from the National Science Foundation with contributions from the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge.

The Bibilography on Cold Regions Science and Technology includes references to scientific and engineering research related to material and operations in a winter battlefield, the nature and impact of cold on facilities and activities, cold-related environmental problems, and the impact of human activity on cold environments. The Bibliography on Cold Regions Science and Technology is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the U. S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory.

Research Guide update

The Government Publications (Canada) research guide has been edited. The Statistics section has been shortened to three links. The links are:

1. a link to the NEW Statistics (Canada and BC) Research Guide
2. a link to the Databases by subject "Statistics" page
3. a link to the Data Library page.

Caron

Contemporary Women's Issues -- Access restored

Access has been restored for Contemporary Women's Issues, please report any problems you may encounter.

JSTOR links added to Web of Science and BIOSIS Previews

Full-text links for the journals covered in JSTOR have been added to the links-enabled Web of Knowledge product(s) to which we currently subscribe:

Web of Science
BIOSIS Previews

To test the links try seraching for the journal title Biometrika in Web of Science, limit to a year that you know is covered by JSTOR (try 1980-1985) and type in a keyword. Your search results will display . You should see the GODOT Where can I get this link? and then next to that link you will see a Full Text Link. When you click on this link it should take you directly to the article level within JSTOR.

New Database available - Economist Intelligence Unit

Economist Intelligence Unit

Description:

Access to the Economist's Country Reports and ViewsWire providing comprehensive economic, political, and business analysis on over 200 countires.

Country Reports: Covers nearly 200 countries and help you keep pace with how national, regional and global events will affect your business in the short-to medium term. Each report examines and explains in depth the issues shaping the countries in which you operate: the political scene, economic policy, domestic economy, sectoral trends, and foreign trade and payments. Detailed two-year forecasts complement the analysis and pinpoint political and economic developments and trends. Update frequency: Monthly

ViewsWire:Delivers daily decision support for doing business in fast-changing world markets. Every day the ViewsWire highlights up to 250 key economic, political and market developments around the world and provides concise analytical briefings on the implications for business. Includes selected portions of two other EIU products; Country Finance and Country Commerce. Covers 201 countries Update frequency: Daily

RefWorks - Write N Cite from off campus

Hi Everyone,

We finally found a way to conifgure the Write N Cite utility for RefWorks so that users don't have to use the group code from off campus.

The instructions are on the RefWorks pages --> RefWorks Tips
http://gateway.uvic.ca/lib/instruction/refworks/refworks_tips.html#wnc_config

The instructions are also available on the RefWorks workshop page --> scroll right to the bottom
http://gateway.uvic.ca/lib/instruction/refworks/refworks_workshops.html

Please let me know if you run into any problems.

Cheers

GODOT slow response time

Please note:
SFU is working on the problem wuth GODOT that many of you have been experiencing particularly within Web of Science. They hope to have the issue resolved shortly and will keep us updated. You may notice a very slow response time or receive a message stating:
Not enough information was extracted from citation to continue.

New Research Guide

I've created a Research Guide called "Consumer Health." I hope you find it useful. Please send any comments you may have about it to me. Thanks!

New Trial - Columbia Granger's World of Poetry Online

Columbia Granger's World of Poetry Online

Trial Period: February 1, 2006- March 1, 2006

Description:
Contains works of poetry found in anthologies, and volumes of collected works and selected works for individual poets. More than 400,000 poem citations and more than 50,000 full text poems that have stood the test of time from only the most renowned and respected poets are included in the database. Also included is bibliographic information for more than 1,800 anthologies, more than 1,100 commentaries and approximately 500 comprehensive biographies. A glossary is also provided in the Granger's database, giving users detailed definitions for almost 200 poetry specific terms.

CUFTS on Gateway?

Did we ever link the CUFTS journal--databases search page to the Gateway (I saw the posts from last year)? Seems like it might be useful (e.g. see Kwantlen "Which database indexes your journal title?" link under "Using our Article Indexes" heading).

New CRKN Products

Please Note:

Over the next few weeks we will be adding records to the Database page(s) and to the catalogue for the recently negotiated Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) products. NEW products are listed first; the remaining titles we were already subscribers but by joining the CRKN license we were able to achieve a substantial cost savings. The 3-year agreement will provide UVic with access to the following collections:

NEW The entire suite of SAGE Full-Text Collections. We currently subscribe to the Education and Sociology collections and will now have access to the 8 other subject areas which inlcude; Communication Stuides, Criminology, Management & Organization Studies, Materials Science, Nursing and Health Sciences, Political Science, Pyschology, and Urban Studies & Planning.
The SAGE Full-Text Collections will be available via the CSA Illumina Platform.
Backfiles offer 57 years of coverage where available.

NEW Sage Journals Online which includes those journal titles not part of a SAGE Full-Text Collection. These are made avaiable via the HighWire Press platform. Coverage will be from 1999-

NEW ARTStor Digital Library
Offering a repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data. Note: we are awaiting access activation from ARTStor

NEW Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)
Access to the Economist's Country Reports and ViewsWire providing comprehensive economic, political, and business analysis on over 200 countires.

ECCO - Eighteenth Century Collections Online (currently a subscriber)

ECO - Early Canadiana Online (currently a subscriber)

Canada’s Heritage- Globe and Mail (currently a subscriber; we will be purchasing the backfile)

Wiley Interscience Journals Online (currently a subscriber)

Access to Index of Downloadable Statistics Canada Publications

Please Note:

A link has been added to the Databases A-Z listing and to the Statistics page for the Index of Downloadable Statistics Canada Publications

This index provides links to publications available for download for free to depository and data libraries. Use this index to locate to Statistics Canada publications listed in the Daily where users are prompted for payment. The links provided by the Index do not prompt Uvic users for payment.

New Trial - Music Index

We now have a trial to the Music Index Online (via the EBSCOHost platform).

We currently have access to Music Index Online via the Harmonie Park Press interface so this trial has been set up to compare the two platforms.

Description:
The Music Index ..PP.The The Music Index, by Harmonie Park Press, is the single most comprehensive annual subject-author guide to music literature. Published since 1949, The Music Index contains surveyed data from more than 725 international music periodicals from over 40 countries in 23 languages. Topics concerned with every aspect of the classical and popular world of music are thoroughly categorized and organized according to the framework of an internal Subject List, which includes both Subject and Geographic headings. Covering all styles and genres of music, The Music Index duly cites book reviews, obituaries, new periodicals, and news and articles about music, musicians, and the music industry.

Mental Measurements Yearbook - now available online

Please note:

We now have online access to Mental Measurements Yearbook via the EbscoHost platform.

Description:
Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska , the Mental Measurements Yearbook™ (MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. All MMY entries contain descriptive information (e.g., test purpose, publisher, pricing) and edited review(s) written by leading content area experts. To be included in the MMY, a test must be commercially available, be published in the English language, and be new or revised since it last appeared in the series. First published by Oscar K. Buros

New Trial Databases

Please note several new trials currently available:

Libros en Venta en America Latina y Espana (LEV) (1964-) trial until January 27, 2006
Password required Libros en Venta en America Latina y Espana, produced by NISC, has been the reference source of record and acquisition tool of choice for Spanish-language books-in-print since 1964. LEV includes in-print titles from over 26,000 Latin American and Spanish publishers and contains over 864,530 records. LEV covers all types of books including: adult fiction, non-fiction, juvenile, scholarly subjects, textbooks, reprints, legal, medical, business, science & technology, religious, and more. LEV's publisher information includes the following when available: publisher street addresses, phone & fax numbers, e-mail addresses, Website URLs, and the names of any distributors and sales outlets.

Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies (MECAS) (1900 and earlier to present) trial until January 27, 2006
Password required Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies, produced by NISC, is a systematic and non-evaluative bibliographic index of research, policy and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa. This database contains more than 332,790 records and coverage spans from 1900 and earlier to present. Over 12,000 records of recently published and grey literature are added annually. Subject coverage includes: political affairs & law, international relations, economic affairs - business & industry, cultural heritage, arts & humanities, society & social welfare, ethnic diversity & anthropology, significant religious events & movements and recent history (1900 - present) & archaeology. MECAS includes the following: Middle East Bibliography (1946 - 2001), Middle East Book Bibliographies, Theses & Dissertations, MECAS Citations Database and School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS) Library Catalogue (1900 - present).

Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science trial until February 22, 2006
The second edition of the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science (ELIS) updates the first edition, which achieved status as an outstanding reference work. This edition is a compilation of diverse topics representing the digital world in which we live. Topics include database design, intellectual property, user services, and the Internet. Entries also cover the activities of selected national and academic libraries, as well as library and information professional associations. The online version of ELIS is a dynamic database of full-text articles that include numerous new topics as well as updates of critical articles from the first edition. Through quarterly updates, future online coverage will address all types of libraries and information organizations, as well as content documenting the further evolution of digital libraries and learning resources. In addition, articles will describe exciting practices and applications of information technology.

Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide (WESW) (1935 and earlier - present) trial until January 27, 2006
Password required Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide (1935 & earlier to present), produced by NISC, is the world's largest index to literature on wild mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians. Coverage includes more than 670,388 bibliographic records many of which include abstracts. Most of the records in this database are from Wildlife Review Abstracts, formerly Wildlife Review, which until 1996 was a print publication produced by the U.S. National Biological Service. Wildlife Review Abstracts plus the 7 other related databases in this exclusive collection offer a global perspective and together form the most comprehensive resource on wildlife information. Major topic areas include studies of individual species, habitat types, hunting, economics, wildlife behavior, management techniques, diseases, ecotourism, zoology, taxonomy and much more. Approximately 18,000 records are added per year. As one of NISC's best selling databases, many researchers turn to this file when they can't find what they want anywhere else.

PsycBOOKS (1806 - present) trial until February 05, 2006
PsycBOOKS is a full-text database of books and chapters in the American Psychological Association’s array of quality electronic databases. Each month books published by APA and classic books from other publishers are added to the database. In 2005, the database offering includes about 750 titles, including 100 out-of-print books from 1950-2002, approximately 120 archival resources in psychology, and the exclusive electronic release of the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology with over 1,500 authored entries. Select browse>browse books to view all titles in the PsycBOOKS collection.

TableBase trial until February 17, 2006
Password required TableBase specializes exclusively in tabular data on companies, industries, products and demographics. Precise indexing and unique table titles make it easy to find and select the information you need. Find market share, company and brand rankings, industry and product forecasts, production and consumption statistics, imports and exports, usage and capacity, number of users/outlets, trends and much more. TableBase data is culled from the more than 1,000 publications included in Business and Industry, privately published statistical annuals, trade associations, government agencies, non-profit research groups, and industry reports prepared by investment research groups.

Your feedback on any of these trials is appreciated.

Change to drop-down menu for Frequently Used Databases

Please note:

We have mad a change to the Frequently Used Databases drop-down menu on the Gateway.

ABI Inform has been replaced by Business Source Premiere. ABI Inform has been cancelled and access will cease at the end of March.

Godot Linking with Chadwyck-Healey databases now working

Please Note:

The Chadwyck-Healey databases have now been reconfigured to correct the GODOT linking problem we were experiencing. You should now be able to run the "Where can I get this?" request at both the journal title level and the article level. Please let me know if you experience any difficulites.

The databases include:
Periodicals Index Online (formerly Periodicals Contents Index)
ABELL Annual Bibiliograph of English Language and Literature
LION Literature Online

Maps Research Guide

I've just placed a Map Library research guide on the gateway. I'd appreciate feedback, from whoever has time to look at it. Thanks! --Lori
P.S. One change I would like to make in the next version, is to refer to myself as Maps Specialist; the term 'subject librarian' is hardcoded into this version, so can't be changed.

New database added to the Gateway

United Nations Official Document System (ODS)
ODS covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993. Older UN documents are added to the system on a daily basis. ODS also provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards. The system does not contain press releases, UN sales publications the United Nations Treaty Series or information brochures issued by the Department of Public Information.

New Database Purchased at LAW - Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)

We now have campus wide access to Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO). This database was recently purchased by the Law Library.

Description:

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.

CIAO is also widely-recognized source for teaching materials including original case studies written by leading international affairs experts, course packs of background readings for history and political science classes, and special features like the analysis of a bin Laden recruitment tape with video.

New Database available: The Native Health Databases

Please Note: This is a freely available database that has been added to our A-Z list of databases.

Description:
The Native Health Databases, from the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, contain bibliographic information and abstracts of health-related articles, reports, surveys, and other resource documents pertaining to the health and health care of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Nations. The databases provide information for the benefit, use, and education of organizations and individuals with an interest in health-related issues, programs, and initiatives regarding North American indigenous peoples.

NOTE: Please use the UVic catalogue to locate items available at UVic or "Items not@UVic" link to request from another library.

Godot Linking configured for Periodicals Index Online

Please note:

Periodicals Index Online now has full text linking from within the database to JSTOR and Project Muse collections in addition to the Godot Where can I get this? link.

Change of Title notification: Periodicals Contents Index (PCI)

Please note:
As you are all probably well aware of by now Periodicals Contents Index (PCI) has changed its name to Periodicals Index Online. The Databases A-Z page has been updated to reflect this change.

New database now available: Index of Christian Art

Please note:

We now have access to The Idex of Christian Art.

The Index records works of art produced without geographical limitations from early apostolic times up to A.D. 1400 (extended in the case of the Morgan and Princeton Library projects to include this manuscript holdings up to the end of the sixteenth century). As is to be expected, there is a particular emphasis and focus on art of the western world.

The database is both text and image although some works of art may not have an accompanying image. Approximately thirty percent of the images, due to copyright laws, are restricted for public use and cannot be accessed by the public subscriber. To compensate for this every effort is made to include, where possible, a bibliographic reference which will include a published image of the work and this can be consulted outside of the electronic resource.

The Index of Christian Art presently has over one-hundred-twenty thousand digital images in its database.

Value Line Investment Survey

Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to let you know that our access to Value Line Investment Survey is NOT AVAILABLE at the moment. I am not sure when it will be up again.

I've changed the information on the Gateway page to reflect this information.

Thanks
Inba

Library Survey

Hi All,

Just want to let you know that the Library Survey is now closed.

Unfortunately there is no way for us to change the banner that exists on the Gateway at the moment - because Adrian is not around.

I am currently working on getting student names together for the draw and will post that information as soon as we have it ready.

Cheers
Inba

Export to RefWorks added to GODOT

Nancy Stuart and I have added a link to export citations to RefWorks from within the Where Can I Get This? and Item Not @ UVic? pages. It shows up under "Search the web for related information" with the heading "Export citation/reference to:"

Let me or Nancy know if you have any questions.

Library Literacy Survey

Hi Everyone,

Just want to let you know that I have placed a pile of bookmarks (BLUE) at the Reference Desk advertising the Library Literacy Survey that the Instruction Working Group is working on.

PLEASE ADVERTISE DURING YOUR WORKSHOPS!

NOTE: Only first year students should complete the survey - this means students with a student number that starts with 05-..... NOT students in upper years who are taking a first year course.

Title: Library Research Skills: A study of first year undergraduates at UVic
Dates: September 19-October 17, 2005
Prizes: Students you complete the survey will be given the option to put the name in for a draw. They may win 1 of 5 prizes.

1 Sony laptop, 3 IPOD Minis or 1 IPOD shuffle.

The prizes were purchased through the WILU conference profits.

If you have any questions please let me know.

Cheers
Inba

Google Scholar Expands Library Linking Program

On May 10, Google Scholar announced that any library should be able to turn on a configuration option in their link resolver to allow users to get to the fulltext of our licensed journals. This would mean that a "Where can I get this?" link would appear beside each of the search results and then our link resolver (GODOT) could resolve to the fulltext if available. WOW!!
I have asked Adrian to investigate with Sandy Gordon about how to do this. I'll keep you informed.

New Xplore interface

From a recent email...
Dear IEEE online subscriber,

With the recent release of the all-new IEEE Xplore 2.0 online delivery
system, subscribers to IEEE online collections may now conduct full-text
searches of all content -- currently more than 1.1 million documents.

Other new features available to you as an IEEE subscriber include:

* Multiple new search functions

* Journal "homepages" with full information on scope, sponsoring IEEE
societies, and manuscript submissions

* Clearer identification of which documents users may access, based on
their subscriptions

* An improved single-article purchase process

* Consolidated title listings for many IEEE conferences

This upgrade does not affect any of your organization's OPAC links or
online authentication procedures. However, any bookmarks you may have made
to other pages within IEEE Xplore will need to be updated.

I actually think the new interface looks great and is easier and more intuitive to use. Katy

Feedback on new godot look

I've had great feedback on the new godot screens - students tell me that they can actually understand what's going on now, and they really appreciate it.

Is there any way that the call number could display at the point where it says the book is available at UVIC in print? It's not obvious that you have to click there to see the call number, and students were still confused about how to actually find the book in the library (bringing me ISBNs instead of call numbers, asking how they find the book once they know it's in the library, etc).

I do love how the journal call numbers pop right up where you need them - that will alleviate so much previous confusion! It's SO great!

Thanks!

Library Catalogue Changes - Recommendations

Recommendations for Library Catalogue changes

Hi Everyone,

Recently, the Instruction Working Group found some displays in the Library Catalogue that we thought should be brought to your attention for comment.

Based on your comments we would like to make recommendations to the WebOPAC subcommittee - Gateway Working Group and the Library Operations Group for comment.

Here's how it started.

1. There is a question in the library test that asks students to look up a journal title in the catalogue and to provide the call number for it.

2. The journal is "Sports Medicine."

3. When the search is conducted in the library catalogue 3 entries are displayed. The first 2 columns displayed for the title are:
a) Journal Title<
b) Title

The correct answer for the answer is the 3rd item listed. Unfortunately, the student sees Sports Medicine listed at the "Journal Title" for all 3 entries. The Title column lists the correct title heading.

This we found was very misleading for the students. They have obviously learnt to look for the phrase Journal title and what we are doing is presenting them with the wrong information.

I consulted Nancy Stuart about cataloguing practices. She mentioned that the Journal Title column is actually the search string - ie. it is our search strategy. This column does not have to appear.

Similarly, if you do a title search with the same phrase you will find 2 columns with the heading Title. The first column again picks up the search string and it is a column that could be discarded.

Now do a Keyword search and you will see that the display is very CLEAN and not complicated.

What we would like to recommend is that we remove the first column in the Journal Title and Title displays.

Nancy also mentions that if we removed this column there is space available to add a column to display a URL button for journals and books available online. This would be a great way to advertise our online products!

What do you think?

Please send your comments as soon as possible so that we can take to the committees mentioned above.

Thanks
Inba

RefWorks Workshops/Training

Hi,

FYI.

1.The Instruction Working Group has posted new workshop sessions for RefWorks from Feb - April 2005. Please advertise the sessions to your departments. The sessions have been opened to undergraduates as well.

2. IWG is in the process of organizing a training session for the IC Assistants. We will let you know when this is scheduled.

3. Computing User Services is offering workshops for Undergraduates at the Clerihue lab - for WORD, Excel and Powerpoint. Part of the WORD session they will be teaching the students how to use RefWorks as well. The courses will be taught by a student!...Brilliant! Peer teaching peer. The idea is teach fellow students things that they want to know how to do.

The first session is being offered on Feb 22 in the morning.

Here's the link to their sessions:

http://www.sfg.uvic.ca/

Inba

Pop up Blockers on Info Commons Machines

Hi Everyone,

Ophelia just mentioned that pop up blockers have been turned on for the Info Commons machines. This means that anytime a database tries to open up a smaller window (e.g. during a RefWorks export session) the pop up blocker will not allow the session to continue until the user changes the preferences that have been set. Some of our users don't know how to do this and they think that the database is not working properly.

I have put in a call to the Library IT help desk to let them know of this problem. I will post the response as soon as I hear from them.

Inba

Item not @ UVic

I'm finding it really each to teach the catalogue with the Not@UVic button in the catalogue - great suggestion!!

Godot changes - what if your dates aren't found?

Nancy Stuart asked me to post this for everyone's information:

I had a patron today asked for articles from a specific journal - we had the later dates only, and when we did document delivery for it, it showed up in 4 places but all only had the later dates, and all electronically.

I hunted down the ILL page, because there is no longer a link under 'online forms' and we did an ILL request for the dates she needed from that journal. But because the button wasn't provided there, I wasn't sure if we could still do this so I asked Nancy after the fact if I'd done the right thing.

She assured me that she was planning to put a link right to the ILL forms at the bottom of the DD results, with some kind of wording such as "if your request cannot be satisfied by the sources above..." or "if the institutions above do not hold the dates you need..."

For now, the easiest way to get to the ILL forms page is to go to the 'Item not at Uvic?' link on the 'online forms' drop down menu, and click on 'More information' - this takes you right to the ILL page, with links to all the forms on the right-hand menu bar.

Another discovery, clarified for me by Nancy: You may also see UVIC options on the DD results page, when the title did not show up in the catalogue search - these are the aggregator database results, and it means that that journal has some full text in that aggregator - not a guarantee that we'll have fulltext of that article, but a reminder to check that source before ordering via DD.

tina

New Database Trial

We now have trial access to Child Development and Adolescent Studies

Description:
Child Development & Adolescent Studies is today’s source for references to the current and historical literature related to the growth and development of children through the age of 21. Included are book reviews and abstracts from hundreds of journals, and a bibliography of thousands of technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations that cover the biomedical and social sciences worldwide. Over 10,000 new records added each year.

Coverage: 1927-present

Accessible from the New Trial Databases page on the Gateway.

To access click on the "Trial Users" link located next to the red BiblioLine logo and type in the following User ID and Password. User ID: UVIC Password: WELCOME

Trial access is available until January 1, 2005

New Trial Databases

We now have 3 new databases on trial:

American Periodicals Series Online, 1741-1900

For this trial use the following password: welcome
This unique and valuable collection includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals that first began publishing between 1741 and 1900, with content spanning 200 years. Trial available until December 28, 2004

ProQuest Historical Newspapers

For this trial use the following password: welcome
ProQuest Historical Newspapers is the exclusive digital archive for leading newspapers in North America that gives users ready access to the full content of each paper starting from their very first issues. Trial available until December 28, 2004

PsycCRITIQUES

For this trial use the following username: mcpherson password: apa PsycCRITIQUES is a database of full text book reviews in psychology. The database replaces the print journal Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books and provides reviews of current books and some films, as well as a 10 year backfile. Trial available until December 31, 2004

All trials are available on the New Trial Databases page on the Gateway

New Resource Purchased: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

We have now purchased the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Description:
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online) is "a ground-breaking and engaging reference work providing 50,000 specially-written signed biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of the British past, from the earliest times to the end of the year 2000. State-of-the-art search options, extensive internal cross-referencing, access to articles from the original DNB, and navigation by "themes" combine with rigorous research and scholarship to make the Oxford DNB one of the most innovative and important reference sites available online."

This new resource can be accessed on the Gateway via the alphabetical database listing or the New Databases page.

Google Scholar added to Internet searching page

I have added Google Scholar to the Internet Searching page on the Gateway..

New resources added to Reference Tools pages

Citation Guide for Business Students pdf (Univ. of Victoria) |Citation and writing guides|

Oxford Reference Online Nearly 200 fulltext dictionaries and reference works published by Oxford University Press. Coverage includes Languages, Science and Medicine, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Business. View a complete list of the titles. | Dictionaries |

Two new databases purchased: GDF Online and World Bank e-Library

We now have access to two new databaes, both titles are part of our complete suite of World Bank databases from Renouf publishing.

GDF Online: Global Development Finance

Description:
Global Development Finance (GDF) Online database provides access to statistical data for the 138 countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank Debtor Reporting System (before 1997 it was available for many years as World Debt Tables). The database covers external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates, and key debt ratios as well as average terms of new commitments, currency composition of long-term debt, debt restructuring, and scheduled debt service projections.These data run from 1970 to 2012, where available.

and

World Bank E-Library

Description:
The World Bank e-Library is an electronic portal to the World Bank's full-text collection of books, reports, and other documents. It brings together in a fully indexed and cross-searchable database, over 1,250 titles published by the World Bank during the past several years as well as over 1,800 research working papers- a total of over 3,000 documents.Each new title and working paper is added to the database as they become available

Accessible from the Databases A-Z page, Databases by Subject page and the catalogue.

New Database Purchased: Book Review Digest Plus

As part of the REFE 3 4 5 Project we now have access to Wilson's Book Review Digest Plus

Platform: WilsonWeb

Simulataneous Users: 1

Description:
Book Review Digest Plus brings together data of Book Review Digest, which includes descriptive summaries of books as well as excerpts of book reviews, with all the book review citations and full text of book reviews from eleven other H. W. Wilson indexes. Every book in Book Review Digest Plus appears with all its reviews together. A single book can have as little as one review citation and as much as a descriptive summary and many reviews with excerpts and full text, depending upon the coverage the book received in the reviewing literature. Books in all languages and from all countries qualify to be included if they are reviewed in one of the review sources indexed. The database includes children’s books as well as book for adults and young adults. The form of the authors’ and reviewers’ names is that found in the books or in the reviewing sources.

New Database: CBCA Business

Description: The CBCA Business database collection provides in depth access to a broad range of Canadian business periodicals. Over 400 journals make up the collection, with file depth back to the early 1980s. Trade journals, general business publications, academic journals, topical journals, and professional publications are all included.

Coverage: early 1980's -

Platform: ProQuest

Please Note: ELN advised institutions that for the upcoming year 2004/05 a subsidy from Ministry of Advanced Education would cover the costs of licensing CBCA Business. UVic will take advantage of this opportunity and will need to decide if they wish to permanently add this title to the exisiting CBCA suite of products currently subscribed to.

Accessible from the Databases A-Z page as well as the Databases by Subject page.

New Database Purchased: FIAF

We now have access to FIAF -- International Film Archive Database

Description:
FIAF International Film Archive database is an acclaimed international compendium of information on film and television from International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF). It covers film literature from 300 periodicals since 1972, and includes the FIAF thesaurus. Additionally, the database features print sources for 22,000 silent films, a bibliography of FIAF members' publications and a directory of film and TV documentation collections.

Platform: Webspirs 5.03

Simultaneous Users: 1

Print Equivalent: International Index to Film Periodicals.

Available from the Databases A-Z page and through the catalogue.

Plesae note: SFU and OVID are working on configuring this database with GODOT so for the time being the "Where can I get this link?" has been removed. They expect to have it working shortly.

New resource available:

A new resource has been added to the Databases A-Z page:

Title: CogPrints: Cognitive Sciences EPrint Archive

Description:
Browseable and keyword-searchable archive of full text articles in the
cognitive sciences, provided free online via voluntary participation by the
authors. Not meant to be an exhaustive database of published articles.

New database available: Curriculum Laboratory Picture Database

We have added an entry on the Databases Page for the Curriculum Laboratory Picture Database

This is an extensive database of pictures, charts, posters, maps, unit plans, Jackdaws and other topical information developed by the UVic Curriculum Laboratory.

New Database Purchased: WPSA - Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Please Note:

We now have access to WPSA - Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

CSA's Worldwide Political Science Abstracts is building on the merged backfiles of Political Science Abstracts, published by IFI / Plenum, 1975-2000, and ABC POL SCI, published by ABC-CLIO, 1984-2000.

WPSA provides citations, abstracts and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, public administration, and public policy. Coverage: 1975 - present

There are referring notes from the ABC Pol Sci CD and IPSA - International Political Science alerting users of the new database that is meant to replace both of these titles.

Available from the Datbases A-Z and by subject pages.

Two new trial datbases - RIPM and IPM

We have a 30 day trial to the following music databases:

RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals 1800-1950

The Répertoire international de la presse musicale (RIPM) is one of four international cooperative bibliographic undertakings in music, alongside Le Répertoire international des sources musicales (RISM), Le Répertoire international de littérature musicale (RILM), and Le Répertoire international d’iconographie musicale (RIdIM). These are current bibliographic documentation projects in the field of music research.

Of the four ‘Rs’ RIPM alone focuses on nineteenth-century music and musical life. RIPM was established to provide access to eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century periodical literature dealing with music. RIPM represents the first effort to undertake and to coordinate retrospective periodical indexing on an international scale.

and

IPM Index to Printed Music: Collections and Series

The Index to Printed Music: Collections & Series combines the Index Database, the Bibliography Database and the Names Database into the only electronic title for finding individual pieces of music printed in standard scholarly editions. Because it indexes each individual piece in a collection, it provides superior access for scholars, performers, teachers, and other researchers. Music for specific performing forces is easily retrievable, thus offering detailed repertory for performers, conductors, and directors of ensembles.

Both are postsed on the New Trial Databases page

Trial dates: October 15th-November 15th

Biological and Agricultural Index - Full Text Access

Please Note:

We have access to the full text within Wilson's Biological and Agricultural Index. You will see it displayed as Biological and Agricultural Plus. It only comes in the 'Plus" format and is included in our license agreement with ELN at no additional charge.

Two new free resources added to the Gateway

Please note:

There are now two new Engineering and Computer Science resources available from the Databases page. They are:

DBLP - Digital Bibliography & Library Project
DBLP provides bibliographic information on major computer science journals and proceedings.

CiteSeer Scientific Literature Digital Library
CiteSeer is a scientific literature digital library that aims to improve the dissemination and feedback of scientific literature, and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness.

CiteSeer provides algorithms, techniques, and software that can be used in other digital libraries. CiteSeer indexes Postscript and PDF research articles on the Web.

Oxford Reference Online titles

Please Note:

Nancy Stuart is working on cataloguing all of the titles in our Oxford Reference Online Collection. There are approximately 150 titles in total. You may discover that the link that is currently in the catalogue does not work or prompts you for a SFU barcode as was discovered by Tina today when trying to access The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature. Apparently this title is being used for an assignment at the moment. Nancy will change the link right away but if you notice other such instances you can let he know so she can move those titles to the top of her cataloguing list.

In the meantime you may want to show students how to access the title through the Oxford Reference Online Collection via the Databases A-Z page.

ATLA db

OK - so I'm really excited about the ATLA full text stuff. A man came to the desk this afternoon looking for 3 articles from 1971-1973 of the Eastern Buddhist journal. We only have it in print from 1976 or something so I showed him the doc del page and we looked it up there - it showed as being FT in ATLA. I tried searching the references in ATLA but only found one of the three. When I looked at the publications page on ATLA it seemed to indicate that Eastern Buddhist was there from 1967 on. I search for the title and year 1971 and only found one entry. When I looked at the full text it was the whole issue - over a hundred pages. I could go directly to the page number in the journal I needed and got very clear directions on how to print out one article. It is slow to print but works great! The patron was happy too!

New Trial: Combined Chemical Dictionary Online

Please Note:

We now have trial access to the online version of the Combined Chemical Dictionary. We currently have this title on CDRom with single user access at the Reference workstations.

Description:
Combined Chemical Dictionary is a structured database holding information on chemical substances. It includes descriptive and numerical data on chemical, physical and biological properties of compounds; systematic and common names of compounds; literature references; structure diagrams and their associated connection tables. The Combined Chemical Dictionary online version contains all those records published in:
Dictionary of Organic Compounds
Dictionary of Natural Products
Dictionary of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds
Dictionary of Drugs
Dictionary of Analytical Reagents

Trial Dates: September 15-October 15th, 2004

Access from the New Trials page on the Gateway or via
http://www.chemnetbase.com

New Trial Database: CIAO Columbia International Affairs Online

We have now have a trial subscription to CIAO - Columbia International Affairs Online

Description:
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.

CIAO is also widely-recognized source for teaching materials including original case studies written by leading international affairs experts, course packs of background readings for history and political science classes, and special features like the analysis of a bin Laden recruitment tape with video.

Coverage: 1991-

Trial Dates: Sept.10-Oct.10, 2004

Available at http://www.ciaonet.org as well as from the New Trials Databases Page on the Gateway

New Trial: CBCA Complete

New Trial:
CBCA Complete

Description:
CBCA Complete is being offered through ELN. We currently subscribe to CBCA Reference and CBCA Education.

CBCA Complete includes all the content present in the 4 Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) databases (CBCA Current Events, CBCA Education, CBCA Reference and CBCA Business). Subject coverage is comprehensive. Information is present from all areas including: current events, business, education, science and medicine, arts, law, academia, and lifestyles, all with a Canadian focus. Full text is available within these areas. CBCA Complete is ideal for anyone interested in Canada.

Coverage: 1982-

Trial Dates: August 31 - September 24

Please visit the New Trial Databases Page on the Gateway to test this product and the other trial subscriptions now available.

New Trial: Biography Index

Please Note:

We now have a trial subscription available to Wilson's Biography Index. The trial will remain active until September 19th. You can compare this index with Gale's Biography and Genealogy Master Index that is also currently on trial.

Some people have noted that the Wilson Databases do not funtion the same way on a MAC as they do on a PC so I am looking into this and will keep you all posted on what the vendor reccommends as a solution.

Description:
Biography Index is a bibliographic database that cites biographical material appearing in periodicals indexed in other Wilson Company databases and additional selected periodicals, current books of individual and collective biography, and incidental biographical material in otherwise non-biographical books. Periodicals indexed are selected from all subject areas represented by other Wilson Company databases. Biographical subjects indexed range from antiquity to the present and represent all fields and nationalities.

Coverage: 1984-

New Trial: Women Writers Online

Women Writers Online (WWO),presents all of the Women Writers Project(WWP)texts currently available online. The collection also includes the texts which appear in the Renaissance Women Online (RWO). The Brown University Women Writers Project has its intellectual roots in two communities whose synergy began to be evident at the end of the 1980s. The first of these was the growing field of early modern women's studies, whose project was to reclaim the cultural importance of early women's writing and bring it back into our modern field of vision. The other was the newly developing area of electronic text encoding, with its emphasis on improved access and longterm preservation of textual data.

Coverage Dates: 1400-1850

Trial Dates: August 30-September 20, 2004

New Trial: POIESIS

We now have trial subscription to POESIS until September 23.

POIESIS offers access to the full text of hundreds of current, recent, and back issues of philosophy journals. Every word in every available issue is fully searchable, including thousands of articles, book reviews, and dissertation listings, as well as all abstracts, footnotes, and bibliographic listings.

POIESIS includes dozens of journals published by philosophical societies, departments, university presses, and commercial publishers in several countries. Over 1000 issues and 100,000 pages of text from 53 journals are now in the POIESIS database

All currently available trials can be found on the Gateway on the New Trial Databases Page under the New Resources Tab.

New Trial: Biography & Genealogy Master Index

Please note:

We now have a trial subscription set up to the Biography and Genealogy Master Index from Gale.
Users will need to log into the trial at the following site:
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/
UserName: uvictoria
Password: uvictoria

Description:
This database is an index tool for learning where to look for biographical material on people from all time periods, geographical locations and fields of endeavor. Biography and Genealogy Master Index indexes any print product that includes biographical information on multiple persons. It also acts as an index to other indexes

New Trial: Book Review Digest Plus

Book Review Digest Plus will be on trial until September 19, 2004.

Because this is on the WilsonWeb platform the trial has been added to our exisiting account with the other Wilson Indexes that we currently subscribe to. You can find the link to the trial from the Gateway page under the New Resources tab and then clicking on New Trial Databases. You will need to check the box next to Book Review Digest Plus from the list in order to begin searching the database.

Description
Book Review Digest Plus brings together the rich data of Book Review Digest, which includes descriptive summaries of books as well as excerpts of book reviews, with all the book review citations and full text of book reviews from eleven other H. W. Wilson indexes. Those indexes are: Applied Science & Technology Index, Art Index, Biological & Agricultural Index, Education Index, General Science Index, Humanities Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, Library Literature & Information Science, Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature, Social Sciences Index, and Business Periodicals Index.

Every book in Book Review Digest Plus appears with all its reviews together. A single book can have as little as one review citation and as much as a descriptive summary and many reviews with excerpts and full text, depending upon the coverage the book received in the reviewing literature. Reviews must meet a length requirement to be cited, but no attempt is made to control the critical opinion they express. Books in all languages and from all countries qualify to be included if they are reviewed in one of the review sources indexed. The database includes children’s books as well as book for adults and young adults. The form of the authors’ and reviewers’ names is that found in the books or in the reviewing sources. The subject headings on the book records are those found on the available MARC records at the time the book was reviewed.

New resource purchased: AACE Digital Library

Description:
Association for the Advancement of Computing in Eductation (AACE) Digital Library is a valuable online resource of peer-reviewed and published international journal articles and proceedings papers on the latest research, developments, and applications related to all aspects of Educational Technology and E-Learning.

Wilson Indexes now available on WilsonWeb platform

Please Note:

The following Wilson Indexes are now available on the WilsonWeb platform and have been migrated from the SLRI platform, I think people will prefer the new look and searching features of WilsonWeb.

Art Index
Humanities Index
Reader's Guide Abstracts
Social Science Index
General Science Index
Applied Science Index (previously had merged with Biological & Agricultural Index to form Science Index)
Biological & Agricultural Index (see above note)

To view the new platform:
http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml

You will see that you can now search multiple indexes at one time.

There are a few customization features that sstill need to be updated.

I've had to change the links now on the Databases A-Z page because the SLRI platform is no longer working. You will also see that GODOT has not yet been enabled but ELN will be providing the instructions for this shortly. Links in the cataloguing record will be updated as well.

Thanks,
Lisa

North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries & Oral Histories

The link to North American Immigrant Letters is now working. The URL needed to be corrected but all is fine now.

Alexander Street Press Databases Purchased

Three new databases from Alexander Street Press have been purchased and are now available from the Databases A-Z page.

They are:

Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment

This release of Early Encounters in North America (EENA) contains 1,076 authors and approximately 83,000 pages of material
When complete the product will include more than 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters. Particular care has been taken to index the material so that it can be used in new ways. For example, you can identify all encounters between the French and the Huron between 1650 and 1700.

The collection is centered on present-day Canada and the United States with some limited coverage of Mexico.

Also included in EENA is the collection of The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents.

North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories

North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories (IMLD) provides a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada. Includes letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories. In selected cases, users can to hear the actual audio voices of the immigrants or view images of their scrapbooks

Women and Social Movements in the US: 1600-2000

Women and Social Movements in the United States brings together books, images, primary documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women's reform activities. The resource examines perspectives on women's social movements from Colonial times to the present.

New Research Guide on Psychological Tests

I have created a separate research guide entitled Psychological tests and testing found under Research a Topic/Research Guides. Hope you find it useful.

New Database Purchased: Children's Literature Comprehensive Database CLCD

CLCD contains more than 150,000 critical reviews of thousands of children's books, video and audio recordings, film strips, and other children-focused media ranging from the earliest baby board books to novels and nonfiction for young adults.

Includes media reviews, book jacket images, award winners, state and provincial reading lists, and reading level guides.

Access to L'Ile now through Virtual New Library

Please Note:
The only way to access L'Ile, le Centre de documentation virtuel sur la littérature québécoise content now is through the Virtual News Library interface. This was the only way to keep the L'Ile database going. The interface will not look like what students are used to however, Virtual News Library claims that all the content of L'île that UNEQ has the right for is available through their site. This includes the biographies, bibliographies and all documents that the users had under the "dossiers de presse" section.

Once users are within the Virtual News Library interface they will see L'Ile as Ecrivains quebecois dossiers (L'Ile)

"All the content of L'île that UNEQ has the right for" is specified because, UUNEQ is negotiating with each publication they have the right to distribute their content. Some of them said yes - these are the ones that are in Newscan.com Virtual News Library -, and some of them said no - they do not provide this content and even, UNEQ will erase these from its original content -.

New Trial: Wilson Indexes with full text including Wilson Omnifile

Please take a few moments to sign on and try the 30 day trial of the Wilson Indexes with full text.

ID: auy69
Password: pubc207321
The ELN site licence for the H.W. Wilson indexes will be up for renewal on June 30, 2004.

The existing seven Wilson indexes will be retained as a package within the license. What is under negotiation is the ability to upgrade particular databases to the full text option. The Wilson Onmifile Full Text Mega, including the additional four indexes, would be another option rather than licensing individual indexes.

Art - index or index plus full text
Humanities - index or index plus full text
Reader's Guide - index or index plus full text
Social Science - index or index plus full text
Applied Science - index or index plus full text
Biological and Agricultre - index or index plus full text
General Science - index or index plus full text

Wilson Ominfile Full Text Mega - includes all the above indexes plus
Business full text
Education full text
Index to Legal Periodicals full text
Library Literature full text

IEEE XPlore access difficulties

Please Note:

Access to IEEE Xplore is prompting users for a username and password which should not be the case. I have contacted Technical Support at IEEE to have the problem fixed as soon as possible. We don't know at this time how long it will take to have access restored.

Computer Science Index replaces Computer Literature Index

As mentioned earlier, EBSCO has purchased Computer Literature Index and changed the name to Computer Science Index. We now have access to the index through the EbscoHost platform and you will find the link now takes you directly to the search screen for Computer Science Index without the need to select the title from our suite of EBSCO databases.

Two new encyclopedias now online

We now have online access to two encyclopedias from Marcel Dekker:

Encyclopedia of Water Science and Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy. Both are accessible from the Databases A-Z listing, Databases by Subject listing, and will be added to the Encyclopedia page on the Gateway.

Computer Literature Index: Update

Please Note:
We now have access to the Computer Literature Index now known as Computer Science Index through EBSCO. I am waiting for technical support to supply the database short name so we can link directly to the database itself. For the time being however, if you have anyone wanting to use the database please direct them to the list of databases from EBSCO and if you scroll down, Computer Science Index will be the last one in the list.

Computer Literature Index - temporarily unavailable

Please Note:

Computer Literature Index is unavailable at the moment. The database has been migrated to the EBSCOHost platform and we have contacted the vendor to activate our access. The database will also undergo a name change and will be known as the Computer Science Index. Access will hopefully be restored by tomorrow at the latest.

Evaluative content now available in Books In Print and PAIS on FirstSearch

Users of Books In Print and PAIS International on FirstSearch are now able
to view the same evaluative content that is available from WorldCat, when
available.

This includes cover art, author notes, book summaries, table of contents,
and excerpts. The evaluative content will display automatically to users of
the FirstSearch web interface. Libraries that access FirstSearch via Z39.50
will see additional 856 fieldsthat link to evaluative content.

Books In Print and PAIS now join WorldCat in giving FirstSearch users more
information on which to judge the usefulness of the material. This enhancement
will increase the value of these databases on FirstSearch at no additional cost to users

Science Direct scheduled outage: May 15th

Received today from Science Direct:Important Notice Regarding a Scheduled Outage for ScienceDirect on May 15th

Please note that due to the release of new features and functionality, between 14:00 and 21:00 U.S. EST, on Saturday 15th May 2004 access to ScienceDirect will be temporarily interrupted. We apologize for any inconvenience, and will have full functionality back at your service after the scheduled outage.

You can view the most recent issue of the Science Direct Newsletter (May/June 2004) online with details of the enhancements at: http://www.info.sciencedirect.com/sd_updates/sd_connect/index.shtml

AsiaRom/AustRom Databases now available on new platform

Both AsiaROM and AustROM previously available via the WebSPIRS platform are now available on RMIT Publishing's Informit Platform.

AsiaROM/AustROM is a compilation of 12 databases, covering a wide range of subjects relevant to the social sciences in the Asia, Australia and South Pacific regions. Subject coverage includes economics, politics, history, demography, government, tourism, sports and culture. Users can select all or some of the 12 databases to search.

A help guide is available to familiarize yourself with the searching options of the new platform.

Google indexing PubMed

Since sometime in 2002, Google has indexed a significant portion of the PubMed database. Try the search with the words asthma children pubmed or better yet use the domain name in your search:

asthma children site:www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences - added

We have complimentary access to the Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences available through Science Direct's Reference Works. A record has been added to the Databases A-Z listing as well as Encyclopedias under Reference tools.

OED - Access Update

For some reason the link to OED from the public page
http://dictionary.oed.com is not recognizing IP authenticated sites.

However, there is a temporary fix to this. The URL http://dictionary.oed.com/entrance.dtl will open in the search screen directly.

ELN advises subscribers to use the temporary url to access OED as the problem may not be resolved until Monday.

Index to Canadian Legal Literature Update

Please Note:
If people are wanting to access the Index to Canadian Legal Literature please have them contact the Law Library for the time being. They can also submit an Ask Reference question from the Law Library's home page.

For the time being a note has also been added next to the title on the Databases page stating: "For access contact the Law Library"

New eBooks available on the Engineering Village 2 platform

As of April 13th, there is a new tab labeled "eBook Search" that appears at www.engineeringvillage2.org. The eBook Search tab provides a customized search form for searching ebook content on Engineering Village 2. Its introduction corresponds with the release of Engineering Information's new specialized electronic reference product, Referex Engineering.

For the month of May we will have access to the full text of premium engineering eBooks available through Referex through a trial. Ordinarily users will be able to search the eBook collection but without a subscription can only view the book description and not the full text. You can access the collection through our subscription to Compendex on the Engineering Village 2 platform. Click on the tab labelled "eBook Search." There will be an additional link made available to users from the Trials Page.

New Trial Database: Children's Literature Comprehensive Database

New Trial database available for the month of May:

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database

During the trial period the username is may and the password is flowers

Description:
The database contains more than 150,000 critical reviews of thousands of children's books, video and audio recordings, film strips, and other children-focused media ranging from the earliest baby board books to novels and nonfiction for young adults.

Includes media reviews, book jacket images, award winners, state and provincial reading lists, and reading level guides.

New Look to WebSpirs Databases

Please Note:

We have finished converting all but one of the existing WebSpirs databases from the CD to the Internet version. Take a look at the new platform, WebSpirs 4.3 has been repalced by version 5.03. The following databases have been converted to the new platform:

Ageline
Biological Abstracts
Biological Abstracts RRM
Geography
GeoRef
Medline
Social Work Abstracts
Sport Discus
Tree CD

Users can search multiple databases at once. With the new platform it isn't always entirely clear at first glance what database you are searching. You can easily determine this if from the drop down menu located near the right hand side of the search screen about 1/4 way down the page: View Databases Being Searched. For more information about the individual database you can click in the link located at the top right hand side of the screen called, Database Guide

To see all of the databases UVic subscribes to on the WebSpirs platform click on the Change button located next to the View Databases Being Searched drop down menu. This will retrieve the full list of titles now available on the WebSpirs 5.03 platform.

There is one remaining database awaiting conversion to the Internet platform, this is Zoological Record.

Please let me know if you experience any difficulties with access or searching. Sharon Jarymy in Serials will be updating the records in the catalogue. The links from the Databases Page on the Gateway have been updated.

Thanks
Lisa

New Research Guide on Psychological Tests and Testing

I have prepared a separate research guide entitled Psychological Tests and Testing


For the time being, it is linked from the Psychology Research Guide under the section "Find Information about Tests and Testing"

Access to NCJRS:National Criminal Justice Reference Services Abstracts

Please Note:
Following up from Kathryn's recent posting:
I've contacted the vendor to alert them we have lost access to NCJRS.
This database is included in our subscription to Sociological Abstracts.
The vendor hopes to have our access restored very soon. I would think tomorrow morning at the latest.

JSTOR Collections III and IV purchased

Good news!

Our JSTOR archives are growing. Effective immediately we will now have access to JSTOR's Arts & Sciences III and Arts & Sciences IV collections. Remaining Indirect Costs of Research Money enabled us to purchase the archives.

The two new collections are both works in progress. Serials will add links to existing print records and the remaining few titles will have a record added in the catalogue.

Arts & Sciences III (to be completed by the end of 2005) currently includes journals in the fields of language and literature, music and the history and study of art and architecture. The completed collection will include additional titles in these fields as well as cultural studies, film, folklore, performing arts, and religion.

Arts & Sciences IV( to be completed by the end of 2006) will include a minimum of 100 titles and will be released beginning in early 2004 and concluding in 2006. Law, psychology, and public policy and administration are the new areas introduced with this collection. The collection will also include business and education titles.

For detailed title lists please see:
About JSTOR

New Database Purchased: EEBO

Early English Books Online (EEBO) has been purchased and is now available on the Gateway.

Description:
From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this incomparable collection now contains about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement. Libraries possessing this collection find they are able to fulfill the most exhaustive research requirements of graduate scholars - from their desktop! - in many subject areas, including: English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science.

Please Note Training Dates:
A representative from ProQuest will be on campus April 22, 2004 to provide training.
For anyone interested in attending there will be two sessions on the Thursday.
Location: Room 130 McPherson Library
10AM
and
1:30PM
Please RSVP with your session preference: Lisa (721.8239) Hope to see you there!

CNSLP Extends Backfile Coverage of Web of Science

CNSLP has successfully negotiated additional backfile coverage for ISI Web of Science.
Effective Friday, March 26, CNSLP member institutions should have their present coverage extended by nine or ten years, at no cost.

Web of Science Citation Indexes coverage will now be as follows:
Science Citation Index: 1965-
Social Sciences Citation Index: 1965-
Arts & Humaniteis Citation Index: 1975-

Two new databases added to the Gateway

The following have been added to the Gateway list of databases.

The NASA Astrophysics Data System
Description:
The digital library for Physics, Astrophysics and Instrumentation.
Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project which maintains four bibliographic databases containing more than 3.6 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Physics and Geophysics, and preprints in Astronomy. The main body of data in the ADS consists of bibliographic records, which are searchable through the Abstract Service query forms, and full-text scans of much of the astronomical literature which can be browsed though the Browse interface.

SPIRES High Energy Physics Literature Database
Description:
SPIRES HEP Literature Database contains more than 500,000 high-energy physics related articles, including journal papers, preprints, e-prints, technical reports, conference papers and theses, comprehensively indexed by the SLAC and DESY libraries since 1974

New Database Purchased: ArtBibliographies Modern

ArtBibliographies Modern has been added to the list of databases on the Gateway.

Description:
Abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews. The scope of ARTbibliographies Modern extends from artists and movements beginning with Impressionism in the late 19th century, up to the most recent works and trends in the late 20th century. Photography is covered from its invention in 1839 to the present. A particular emphasis is placed upon adding new and lesser-known artists and on the coverage of foreign-language literature.

Canadian Research Index Migrating to New Platform

Please Note:
Canadian Research Index (formerly Microlog) will be migrating to the CIRC platform. The changes will occur later this morning, replacing the current SLRI platform with the CIRC interface.

Unfortunately the migration also means that the database will no longer be Godot enabled. The migration was brought about by Micromedia ProQuest.

Two New Titles Debut in Project Muse

Two University of Toronto Press journals are now available in Project Muse

The Canadian Historical Review
The Canadian Historical Review offers an analysis of the ideas, people,
and events that have molded Canadian society and institutions into
their present state. Canada's past is examined from a vast and
multicultural perspective to provide a thorough assessment of all
influences.
AND
The Canadian Journal of Sociology
The Canadian Journal of Sociology publishes rigorously peer-reviewed
research articles and innovative theoretical essays by social
scientists from around the world, providing insight into the issues
facing Canadian society as well as social and cultural systems in other
countries. In addition each issue of the Canadian Journal of Sociology
has a comprehensive book review section.

Theses Canada Portal

Theses Canada Portal has been added to the List of databases A-Z etc. on the Gateway.

Description
Includes the bibliographic records of all theses in the National Library of Canada theses collection established in 1965. Also includes access to over 46,000 fulltext electronic theses and dissertations from 1998-2002.

"The vision thing"

Related to our discussion of revamping the Gateway - I read an interesting article in this week's Economist titled "The vision thing: the most successful technologies develop in ways their inventors failed to foresee." Unfortunately this article is subscriber-only access online and the Gateway doesn't link to the e-journal, but here are sections of the article:

"After a recent surge in sales of robot vacuum cleaners, optimism has been growing that the long-awaited market for domestic robots might be about to take off. Yet domestic robots are in fact already widespread, from dishwashers to washing machines to coffee-makers. Such devices are not regarded as robots, however, since they fail to conform to the general-purpose humanoid format originally predicted by robot visionaries."

"Visionaries get things wrong because they concentrate too much on the technology, and fail to take into account the way it is shaped by social forces as it spreads. Indeed, it would seem that the more wrong the original vision, the more important the technology. Perhaps the ultimate example is the internet: its power derives from the fact that its original architects, Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn, made no assumptions at all about the ways in which it might be used, and so placed very few constraints on its development... the ultimate yardstick for a successful technology is how well it is accepted in the marketplace--not how well it conforms to the original version of its proponents."

Interesting to think of 'designing' the Gateway in the same way - that is, with less of a "this is what we think it should do" focus and more of a "this is how people are using it, so this is what it should do" focus...

Subject Guides - are they used by our students?

Students, Librarians, and Subject Guides:
Improving a Poor Rate of Return
Read the online article in Portal: Libraries and the Academy
Volume 4, Number 1, January 2004

"Librarians use subject guides to introduce students to library materials. Surveys, usability tests, and usage statistics demonstrate that students do not relate well to subject guides. We suggest that library resources organized or delivered at a course level are more in line with how undergraduate students approach library research. "