February 09, 2010

The Canadian Encyclopedia expands its content

The Canadian Encyclopedia Including the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada Current -- Multimedia encyclopedia of Canadian history available in English and French. It is home to more than 40,000 articles, 6,000 interactive maps, graphs, photographs and animations.

Includes the following content:

  • The Canadian Encyclopedia -- Contains more than 8 million words in English and French in some 20 000 articles written by expert contributors from every part of Canada. SEE Subjects and Subtopics
  • The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada -- The most wide-ranging and scholarly resource on Canadian music. Available in both English and French. SEE Subjects and Subtopics
  • Feature Articles -- Historical and biographical themes written in a narrative style intended to engage readers and to introduce them to a broad range of related content in the encyclopedias. SEE Subjects and Subtopics
  • Maclean's Magazine -- Selection of articles since 1995 from Maclean’s - Canada's Weekly Newsmagazine. Browse articles by year
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SpringerProtocols

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February 08, 2010

New translation functionality in Oxford Language Dictionaries Online: get quick translations of over 7,500 words in 13 languages

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online (OLDO) [details has launched a new translation feature: Oxford Language Web (click on tab in upper left of screen):
  • " See at-a-glance translations in up to 13 languages for thousands of dictionary entries in OLDO
  • .Explore multiple languages simultaneously by searching and browsing the Oxford Language Web in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Portugese, Polish, Japanese, Korean, Thai, and Arabic
  • Discover surprising similarities and differences between languages as you compare them side by side
  • Link directly between languages in OLDO
  • Learn key vocabulary easily—get quick translations of over 7,500 words in 13 languages
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February 05, 2010

The Cochrane Library is temporarily unavailable

RESOLVED The Cochrane Library [details] is temporarily unavailable. The vendor has been advised and is working to correct the access. Hopefully access will be restored shortly.

February 04, 2010

Access to the Classical Music Library is temporarily unavailable

RESOLVED Access to the Classical Music Library [details] is temporarily unavailable. The vendor has been contacted and we will hopefully have access restored shortly.

February 03, 2010

THE MEDICI ARCHIVE PROJECT: DOCUMENTARY SOURCES FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES IN THE MEDICI GRANDUCAL ARCHIVE: 1537-1743

The Medici Archive Project: Documentary Sources for the Arts and Humanities in the Medici Granducal Archive: 1537-1743 MAP: Documentary Sources 1537-1743 -- A beta version of The Medici Archive Project's Documentary Sources database currently describes "200 volumes of documents in the Medici Granducal Archive (Archivio Mediceo del Principato), with document records for approximately 10,000 letters and biographical records for approximately 11,000 people." [details] This beta database currently comes with the library's Iter [details] license.

February 02, 2010

LIPPINCOTT, WILLIAMS & WILKINS NURSING BOOK COLLECTION

The Library has added Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) Nursing Book Collection -- More than 300 ebooks covering a wide range of sub-specialties, including surgery, administration, pediatrics, diagnosis, palliative care, and more. [Product information page] to its Books@OVID [details] platform.

January 29, 2010

New release of Reaxys will launch on Sunday, January 30, 2010

The vendor is pleased to announce that a new release of Reaxys [details] will be launched on Sunday January 30, 2010. The feature highlights include:
  • Query Page
    • Auto-Search Feature: if an "As Drawn" search has no hits, Reaxys will perform a "substructure on heteroatoms" search, and if no hits are found at this stage, Reaxys will then search for "substructure on all atoms". Note: if a structure/reaction query is combined with a factual query then this feature is turned off.
    • Substances and Properties Query Page, Form-based Search: additional parameter fields have been added and the operator PROXIMITY has been implemented where suitable (Physical Data and Spectroscopic Data sections).
    • Structure Query box: if you use an external Structure Editor (i.e. not ChemAxon Marvin Sketch), a message "Waiting for external structure editor..." will be displayed in the Reaxys Structure Query box once you try to start it
  • Results Page
    • Hit Only: the implementation of Hit Only views has been implemented for reactions as well
    • New Navigation tool: if a user starts scrolling in a hitset, then a tool will appear in the upper right corner allowing him to go to top/bottom/next hit or previous hit, thus making hitset browsing more effective
    • Cited-By information from Scopus: the previously empty 'Times cited' column in Citation tab now shows the cited-by counts from Scopus
  • Miscellaneous:
    • On Macintosh PCs the browser is no longer frozen when changing structures in Marvin or switching between editor and query window
The About Reaxys link at the bottom of the Query page includes this and further information about the Reaxys system and the tested environments. Register for free weekly Reaxys training webinars provided by the vendor, www.info.reaxys.com/webinars.

January 26, 2010

Index to Printed Music (IPM)

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January 25, 2010

ProQuest 12-hour maintenance window Jan. 30-31, 2010.

ProQuest® will be performing infrastructure maintenance on January 30, 2010. A twelve (12) hour maintenance window will be required for this maintenance. The window will take place from Saturday, January 30, 2010, at 22:00 EST to Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 10:00 EST. All ProQuest databases will be unavailable during this time.

CANADIAN WHO'S WHO

Canadian Who's Who v. 44, 2009 - present [CD-ROM} A comprehensive reference tool providing brief biographical details about leading and influential Canadians. Provides details on degrees, honours, names of immediate family, business and/or professional history, and more. There are over 13,000 entries in the 2009 edition. The entries are authored by the eminent Canadian listed.
Access Note: Accessible from any of the Murray Library and branch library Learning Commons workstations and from designated workstations in the Law Library. Launch from the Windows Start button. Select All Programs and then Canadian Who's Who from the drop down list. Click Search in the navigation bar along the top of the screen to begin. [details]

SOCINDEX

SocINDEX with Full Text Indexing & Abstracts: 1895 - present; Full text: 1908 - present -- A comprehensive scholarly sociology studies database including the full text of 777 journals, 820 books, and monographs, and 13,947 conference papers back to 1908, as well as abstracts for more than 1,200 "core" coverage journals, and indexing for 510 "priority" coverage journals, and 2,920 "selective" coverage journals. [details]

January 21, 2010

Available Supplementary Content for Springer eBooks Accessible via Secondary Website

Available supplementary content for most Springer ebooks is not accessible via a link within the SpringerLink eBooks [details] citation. Extra content for older titles is only available at this time via a separate website: Extra Materials. Copy and paste the ISBN from the citation in SpringerLink into the search box, or browse the titles by publication year. If the database does not include expected content, please advise the Library. Springer is concentrating on adding supplementary content links to current citations and will integrate links in older ebooks in the future. Note that once in the Extra Materials site, IFyou are having a problem linking back to the Springer ebook, you may have to access it via the Library website to extablish authentication.

Informaworld (Taylor&Francis) is experiencing technical difficulties

Informaworld , the portal to Taylor & Francis journals, books, and reference titles is currently experiencing some technical difficulties, which the vendor isworking to fix. The vendor apologise for this downtime and hope to restore access to the site as soon as possible.