tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72371512011-10-19T07:04:01.147-06:00Current information regarding the UofC Library Collection, as well as general resource and industry updates.Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.comBlogger8511100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-29701179712848462002011-05-06T08:58:00.003-06:002011-05-06T09:00:09.478-06:00

The second installment of the largest and richest online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. The collection's wealth of video and multiplicity of perspectives allow students and scholars to see, experience, and study counseling in ways never before possible.

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-57928163508429504982011-04-28T10:36:00.001-06:002011-04-28T10:36:51.389-06:00

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

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-63947541094449955792011-04-28T10:35:00.001-06:002011-04-28T10:35:53.719-06:00

17th and 18th century poetry from the Brotherton Library, University of LeedsThis path-breaking project offers literary scholars the opportunity to examine complete facsimile images of 190 manuscripts of 17th and 18th century verse held in the celebrated Brotherton Collection at the University of Leeds. These manuscripts can be read and explored in conjunction with the powerful BCMSV database,

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-52799241442349561902011-04-05T14:54:00.002-06:002011-04-05T14:56:58.130-06:00

The Moving Picture World, an early trade publication covering American cinema set a standard for the broadest possible coverage, reviewed current releases and published news, features, and interviews relating to all aspects of the industry. It featured the most detailed news items, the best reviews and feature articles, particularly by Louis Reeves Harrison, W. Stephen Bush and George Blaisdell.

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-46257267831743948472011-01-19T08:11:00.001-07:002011-01-19T08:20:43.759-07:00

With 58,555 letters and documents and 7,113 correspondents as of October 2010, EE is the most wide-ranging online collection of edited correspondence of the early modern period, linking people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-1546930341705944872011-01-14T15:56:00.000-07:002011-01-14T15:57:41.964-07:00

The complete version in its latest edition: 86 000 articles, 100 000 words, 350 000 meanings, 410 000 use examples# All the conjugations of all the verbs, feminine and plural forms: 800 000 inflected forms# 325 000 quotations: a veritable anthology# 2 000 notes from Le Petit Robert regarding names of authors of quotations# An index for easily finding 25 000 expressions, idioms and proverbs# 5

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-21876473697052860602011-01-14T12:29:00.001-07:002011-01-14T12:30:50.413-07:00

The video content offered here is truly global in scope, covering Africa and the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania. Upon completion, the collection will contain 1,000 hours of streaming video that offers access to more than 1,750 important, critically acclaimed documentaries from filmmakers worldwide

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-85947923189668637512010-10-04T12:25:00.001-06:002010-10-04T12:27:33.993-06:00

Tell Me More (registration required) Online learning for English (ESL), Spanish, French, German, Dutch and Italian. Includes reading, writing, speaking and listening activities. It incorporates speech recognition with playback and a spoken error tracking system.Resources include grammar, vocabulary, conjugation as well as culture specific content.Tell Me More serves as a supplement for serious

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-16382448799150118232010-10-04T11:54:00.002-06:002010-10-04T11:57:41.264-06:00

Learn how to correctly perform nursing procedures with these interactive, engaging videos. Clear, step-by-step demonstrations of over 125 key nursing procedures present the skills you need for confident performance in labs and clinicals. For each skill, you can also test your understanding with NCLEX examination-style review questions with rationales.Mosby's nursing video skills. Basic

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-86469177679811974582010-09-02T10:49:00.003-06:002010-09-02T12:44:25.813-06:00

Comprehensive summaries of education specific topics help students grasp the broad outlines of a subject, realize its real world applications, critically engage it, and locate sources for advanced research. Articles average 3,000 words, providing concise yet more in-depth content than most textbook or encyclopedia entries.To find these summary articles I did a keyword search "reading", and the

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-46270404523055712922010-08-30T15:05:00.003-06:002010-08-30T15:13:21.203-06:00

Free audiobooks. Books in the public domain recorded by volunteers into digital audio (eg. mp3), making audio files available to the world, for free.Some titles Persuasion, From the Earth to the Moon, Hamlet...

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-75145819901341488242010-07-23T09:04:00.004-06:002010-07-23T09:08:08.780-06:00

In addition to the Advanced version, we now have links to editions for high-school, kids, Spanish and French readers.

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-68703443412566372892010-06-25T10:22:00.001-06:002010-06-25T10:23:26.252-06:00

Included are many rare and fragile manuscripts containing eyewitness accounts and court records of the trials of witches, including harrowing original manuscript depositions taken from the victims in the torture chamber. These documents, in both original manuscript and in print, reveal the harsh outcome of the more remote doctrinal disputes. Perhaps the most significant of all manuscripts in the

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-33003784188855867892010-06-25T10:20:00.002-06:002010-06-25T10:22:03.087-06:00

This collection covers c. 1839 to 1969, taking in the countries of the Arabian peninsula, the Levant, Iraq, Turkey and many of the former Ottoman lands in Europe, Iran, Afghanistan, Egypt and SudanCovering such events as the Egyptian reforms of Muhammad Ali Pasha in the nineteenth century, the Middle East Conference of 1921, the Mandates for Palestine and Mesopotamia and the Suez Crisis in 1956,

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-82409616931349374242010-06-25T07:51:00.001-06:002010-06-25T07:54:16.228-06:00

Canada’s foremost strategic fraud prevention and management guide, designed to help manage the risk of fraud, deal with suspected fraud, and protect against liability exposure.

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-83778652703764161792010-06-23T08:06:00.002-06:002010-06-23T08:15:53.807-06:00

Adult comic books and graphic novels. At completion, this collection will include more than 100,000 pages of materials, including 75,000 pages of primary materials (the comics themselves), and more than 25,000 pages of materials about comics—interviews, commentary, theory, and criticism—from The Comics Journal and other secondary sources. You are currently viewing the first release of the

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-76627741383690749412010-06-23T08:03:00.002-06:002010-06-23T08:06:37.491-06:00

Formerly known as North American Indian biographical database, at: http://alexanderstreet6.com/ibio/ and is now known asNorth American Indian Thought and Culture at: http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/ibio/? To learn more go tohttp://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/ibio/ibio.about.html

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-80248969533565329542010-06-23T07:59:00.001-06:002010-06-23T08:02:15.339-06:00

Important decorative and fine arts journals published in Europe and the USA during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.The initial offering consists of The Studio, Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration and Art et Decoration

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-71419874834074036432010-06-07T11:17:00.001-06:002010-06-07T11:18:25.088-06:00

This publication provides a wealth of unique correspondence, reports and analyses, memos of conversations, and personal interviews exploring such themes U.S.-Vatican relations, Vatican’s role in World War II, Jewish refugees, Italian anti-Jewish laws during the papacy of Pius XII, and the pope’s personal knowledge of the treatment of European Jews.

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-70905997851689498012010-05-11T07:51:00.002-06:002010-05-11T07:53:48.289-06:00

...hundreds of the most frequently assigned films in anthropology, ethnography, and social psychology courses. Targeted for inclusion are works by world-famous pioneers in the field, including Edward Curtis (In the Land of the War Canoes); Robert Flaherty (Nanook of the North together with his article, “How I Filmed Nanook of the North”); John Marshall (The Hunters, the entire !Kung Bushman

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-7019616803117806972010-05-04T08:44:00.001-06:002010-05-04T10:54:31.779-06:00

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.

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-65064873155354112642010-05-04T08:40:00.002-06:002010-05-04T08:43:29.715-06:00

Weekly newspaper covering Canadian foreign policy and international issues.

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-82981824653877164532010-05-04T08:38:00.001-06:002010-05-04T08:39:58.741-06:00

A Canadian weekly newspaper that covers the federal government and politics.

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-45146030761477657882010-04-22T12:50:00.000-06:002010-04-22T12:51:17.776-06:00

In-depth content covering conditions and diseases, patient education resources, drug information, continuing education, lab & diagnosis detail, best practice guidelines, and much more.(paid for by Calgary Campus and Qatar Faculties of Nursing)

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-25026010712554818142010-04-05T09:23:00.002-06:002010-04-05T09:34:22.968-06:00

Reproduces the original historical manuscripts in facsimile linking each manuscript to its corresponding fully-searchable Calendar entry.By overcoming the challenge of matching an individual Calendar entry to the original Paper, State Papers Online 1509-1714 marks an enormous advance in historical research.

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-33107059177160810762010-04-05T09:19:00.002-06:002010-04-05T09:22:51.872-06:00

Periodicals illustrating the topic of Empire including travel, anthropology, economics, missionary work and colonialism. Content from the British Library, the National Library of Scotland,the National Library of Australia, and many other sources.For the over 180 periodicals currently available, every front page, editorial, article, poem, recipe, advertisement and classified ad that appeared

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-75225251896566825042010-03-31T08:39:00.000-06:002010-03-31T08:40:32.811-06:00

The series originated out of a need for the British Government to preserve all of the most important papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices. Some of these were one page letters or telegrams – others were large volumes or texts of treaties. All items marked ‘Confidential Print’ were printed and circulated immediately to leading officials in the Foreign Office, to the Cabinet, and to

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-56728389798655096472010-03-31T08:38:00.001-06:002010-03-31T08:39:41.427-06:00

Manuscripts written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.“Perdita” means “lost woman” and the quest of the Perdita Project has been to find early modern women authors who were “lost” because their writing exists only in manuscript form. One of the key attractions of Perdita Manuscripts is that it brings together little known material from widely

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-4847787252539316052010-03-31T08:37:00.000-06:002010-03-31T08:38:24.882-06:00

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

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-86452922631683189802010-03-23T09:22:00.001-06:002010-03-23T09:23:19.871-06:00

More than 2,000 transcripts of actual therapy sessions, together with almost 40,000 pages of client narratives and 25,000 pages of major reference works. There are diaries, letters, autobiographies, oral histories, and personal memoirs along with the full text of therapy and counseling sessions themselves. All accounts are non-fiction, delivered in the first person and, where possible,

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-56623990424038614802010-03-23T09:13:00.001-06:002010-03-23T09:21:45.653-06:00

Collection of video for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling—400 hours and more than 330 videos on completion. The collection's wealth of video and multiplicity of perspectives allow students and scholars to see, experience, and study counseling in ways never before possible. .

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-50719443180133052922010-03-23T09:04:00.002-06:002010-03-23T09:11:24.812-06:00

Coverage ranges from the early history of Native Americans, to the lost colony of Roanoke, to the 1988 Vicennes Affair in the Persian Gulf. Biographical coverage ranges from eighteenth century figures such as Benedict Arnold and Daniel Boone to modern day figures such as Thurgood Marshall and Helen Thomas. Includes documentaries, newsreels, public affairs video, and archival footage.

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-87083917965895301982010-03-19T09:19:00.001-06:002010-03-19T09:20:48.868-06:00

Official statistical source providing rare, detailed data on the German economic situation during the Third Reich up to and throughout World War II. Consisting of Monatliche Nachweise-ber den Auswartigen Handel Deutschlands (January 1933-June 1939); Der Aussenhandel Deutschlands Monatliche Nachweise (July 1939); and Sondernachweis der Aussenhandel Deutschlands (August 1939-1944)Date Range: 1933-

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-64198641613792291512010-03-19T08:34:00.001-06:002010-03-19T08:36:51.447-06:00

Archives of the British-run municipal police force based in Shanghai’s former International Settlement.Date Range: 1894-1945Content: 92,160 imagesSource Library: U.S. National ArchivesDetailed DescriptionThis collection provides researchers with the opportunity to explore a unique period in China’s struggle toward a modern existence through the International Settlement in Shanghai.These files

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-9489082261394128372010-03-08T08:19:00.003-07:002010-03-08T08:20:58.993-07:00

(Only available on campus) Streaming video on a wide range of educational topics in the social sciences, humanities.science, mathematics, health, and career counselling. As well, it indexes the contents of the films so that you can put together a series of excerpts from several films. Right now the films can only be delivered on campus, but we are working on remote access options.As well, our

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-60627984021520046852010-03-05T07:50:00.002-07:002010-03-05T08:44:31.979-07:00

Transcripts of broadcasts and news from the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Eastern Europe translated into English.

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-24284135591227062792010-03-04T08:23:00.001-07:002010-03-04T08:24:59.466-07:00

Features a wide range of titles in multiple nursing sub-specialties, including surgery, administration, pediatrics, diagnosis, palliative care, and more.

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-73814625881646519462009-11-16T08:04:00.001-07:002009-11-16T08:06:52.430-07:00

Costume and scene design are two essential components of performance art. Operas, operettas, stage plays, ballets, and films rely on design to create worlds that inspire the imagination. The Theatrical Scene and Costume Design collection features a selection of such designs dating back to the mid-nineteenth century

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-57659552417162376702009-10-27T11:33:00.001-06:002009-10-27T11:41:04.762-06:00

Module Four features Russia as a highlight (over 2000 images photographed in summer 2005 including the major palaces and gardens around St Petersburg and coverage in Moscow.) The module also holds more material from Paris, including several important hôtels, and London--extensive coverage of Chiswick House and grounds, plus many of Wren's churches. For Classics we offer all of our ancient Roman

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-24944074927325757642009-10-27T11:28:00.001-06:002009-10-27T11:30:17.318-06:00

My favorite picture is the one of children playing on a see-saw board. The Philip Sidney Smith Collection presents over 2300 photographs of geology, camp life, and scenery in turn of the century Alaska.

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-67715091969554953492009-10-16T08:17:00.002-06:002009-10-16T08:21:51.927-06:00

This portal brings together a number of digital collections with strong emphasis on the aboriginal people of Canada. View clips from four films from the ANCS (Alberta Native Communication Society) film collection, find out which traditional medicinal plant may be used for headaches, read about the Blackfoot Ghost dance under folklore or even learn how to write in Dene Suline (Chipewyan) using

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-89415910946741324802009-10-16T08:15:00.001-06:002009-10-16T08:16:54.523-06:00

Legal issues are presented in a succinct and readable style and in a manner that is probing and thoughtful. All manuscript submissions are subject to peer review and authors include leading law practitioners and professors in Canada and the world."

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-21158943041594631912009-10-14T08:04:00.001-06:002009-10-14T08:06:18.040-06:00

The most comprehensive German-language encyclopedia of world literature. The new edition covers 13,000 important works of world literature in 18 volumes, from the earliest writings of mankind to the present, all of which is now available online

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-75629916634895447122009-08-20T15:24:00.001-06:002009-08-20T16:00:58.373-06:00

A multi-society library that provides a simple way to search for and access a broad range of technical literature related to the oil and gas exploration and production industry.Participating organizations include: API, ARMA, ASSE, NACE, STC, SPWLA, SPE, SUT, and the WPC.

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-54663137209108001032009-07-17T15:20:00.005-06:002009-07-17T15:39:29.760-06:00

Check out CRL's revamped website at http://www-beta.crl.edu/CRL holds over five million newspapers, journals, dissertations, archives, government publications and other traditional and digital resources for research and teaching. Current acquisitions emphasize materials produced outside the United States, especially publications and archives from many developing nations.As members of this

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-14969601174227330022009-07-16T13:24:00.001-06:002009-07-16T13:27:06.026-06:00

The third Addition Module spans contemporary (Millennium Park in Chicago; works by Gehry, Pelli, Calatrava and Libeskind) to the ancient world (the mosaics from Villa Romana del Casale in Piazza Armerina, Sicily; Ephesus and other monuments of the Roman empire) and in between (French chateaux and gardens; Byzantine architecture in Mystras; Venice). Other highlights include the rest of our

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-73980907405195786922009-07-15T12:37:00.001-06:002009-07-15T12:40:39.095-06:00

Cairn was formed in 1995 by four European publishing houses (Belin, De Boeck, La Découverte and Eres) and offers access to French language periodicals in the social sciences and humanities. 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

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-77922628625397301312009-06-04T12:46:00.001-06:002009-06-04T12:46:49.661-06:00

A comprehensive international database of listed companies, banks and insurance companies. Both standardised and “as reported" accounts are provided and specific templates are provided for banks, insurance companies and "industrial" companies to reflect the different configurations of their accounts. In the reports, financial items can be "drilled" into to reveal their more detailed components,

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-61142435100923198192009-06-04T12:45:00.000-06:002009-06-04T12:46:09.035-06:00

Deep indexing for tables, figures, graphs, charts and other illustrations from the scholarly research and technical literature. “Deep indexing” categorizes data, variables and other content in tables, maps, photographs and other figures.Usually, indexing of research articles is done at a rather high, general level where only the key concepts of the work are represented by a dozen or so index

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-21319332679086188452009-06-04T12:44:00.000-06:002009-06-04T12:45:11.039-06:00

Full text of all active standards of the ASTM

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-29859310951935411412009-06-04T12:43:00.001-06:002009-06-04T13:27:33.178-06:00

Complete access to nearly every ASTM book and paper spanning 140+ industries and 70+ years. The ASTM addresses the issue of safety and standards for everything from nuclear power plants to playground equipment.

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-57177864550963026252009-05-08T08:32:00.000-06:002009-05-08T08:33:02.861-06:00

Moved from Biblioline to Ebscohost platform.

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-7136044687408444282009-05-08T08:31:00.002-06:002009-05-08T08:32:17.317-06:00

Moved from Biblioline to Ebscohost platform.

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-10113714289037121152009-04-30T08:25:00.001-06:002009-04-30T08:27:04.968-06:00

A clinical reference tool for use primarily at the 'point-of-care'.Updated daily and monitors the content of over 500 medical journals and systematic evidence review databases by using many journal review services. Each publication is reviewed cover-to-cover, and each article is evaluated for clinical relevance and scientific validity. The new evidence is then integrated with existing content

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-38449926328879660082009-04-17T07:49:00.002-06:002009-04-17T07:52:16.341-06:00

On completion will include over 400,000 pages spanning time periods from the Renaissance to the 21st century. 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.Further releases will include the

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-15999134038655541852009-04-14T08:30:00.001-06:002009-04-14T08:32:23.563-06:00

Images, diaries, journals, books...all english language. The project provides a wide variety of original source material detailing China’s interaction with the West from Macartney’s first Embassy to China in 1793, through to the Nixon/Heath visits to China in 1972-74.Very much set up as a learning tool as well as a research source. The project includescustomizable slide shows, an interactive

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-73289731780969309782009-04-14T08:29:00.000-06:002009-04-14T08:30:33.512-06:00

This resource is designed as portal for slavery and abolition studies, bringing together documents and collections covering 1490-2007, from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world. Close attention is being given to the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today.It is designed for both teaching and research use.

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-18174043155586641112009-04-14T08:28:00.000-06:002009-04-14T08:29:55.297-06:00

The core of the collection is medieval manuscripts dating from the 13th to the 16th centuries. The main focus is accounts of journeys to the Holy Land, India and China.The original documents are in a range of languages including French, Latin, German, Spanish, Dutch and English. Supporting the manuscripts are relevant secondary texts of translations and editions. In addition there is a gallery

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-57189198769203146212009-04-03T08:37:00.000-06:002009-04-03T08:38:42.642-06:00

Social attitudes to smoking? birth control? Reaction to historic events? Clothing styles? Anything you want to know about British life and opinion during key decades of the 20th century is presented in this collection.From 1937 to 1972 researchers in Britain studied the everyday life and opinions of people, using personal journals, observations by researchers (submitted as file reports),

Helen Clarkenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-83905816678302215212009-04-03T08:03:00.001-06:002009-04-03T08:04:47.852-06:00

From composting toilets to porous asphalt, BuildingGreen covers everything environmentally friendly and sustainable in construction, integrating GreenSpec product listings, high-quality articles about green buildings, peer-to-peer comments, and more than 200 project case studies. This information is searchable and cross-referenced by CSI MasterFormat division, LEED credit, or green topic. Each

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After many years of stellar service CISTI Source is being retired by the federal government. Use has declined over the years as other sources became more popular. Still, many folks, especially in the sciences, will have fond memories of using this document delivery tool to obtain articles from the Canadian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information.Tomorrow by 9AM, users will see the

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Now via Thomson Research. Research reports written by analysts at over 1,000 investment banks, brokerage houses, and consulting firms worldwide. Nearly 4,000 new reports are added each business day.

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Deep (200+ years) archive of over 400 journals focusing on the humanities and social sciences. Includes more than 60 foreign-language titles.Hours of harmless fun brought to you by the Canadian Research Knowledge Network.

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Featuring cases from 1919 onwards and devoted to the regular and systematic reporting in English of decisions of international courts and arbitrators as well as judgments of national courts. Cases are drawn from every relevant jurisdiction. Because of the standing and scope of its coverage, the series is widely cited in judgments of international and national tribunals.Access to ILR is

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Part 1 includes International Yearbooks and Serials, Part 2 contains U.S. Law Digests, Part 3 consists of International Tribunals and Judicial Decisions and Part 4 includes other significant works relating to foreign and international law.Very up to date...4 citations to the term zombie, vampire gets 5.

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Reproductions of major United Nations legal publications, including the complete collection of the United Nations Treaty Series.Don't fall asleep! This is a great product with some cool features. Search the term "slave" and you find the 1904 protocols on the suppression of the white slave traffic. Even better, click on the link on the bottom of the record display to find 17 journal articles

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In addition to trial transcripts and other critical court documents, this collection includes trial-related resources such as monographs which analyze and debate the decisions of famous trials as well as biographies of many great trial lawyers in history

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Dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance. Included are classic performances from top ballet companies; experimental works from up-and-coming dance troupes;

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Important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. The collection presents an overview of the most commonly studied operas in music history, opera literature, and performance classes. Multiple performances and stagings worldwide of the major operas allow for analysis of stage design, vocal techniques, roles, and musical interpretation across

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Provides relevant information on sources of foreign law, including bibliographic citations to legislation, the existence of English translations, indications of currentness of the legal materials listed, and, finally, selected references to secondary sources in English.

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RMMLF is an educational organization dedicated to providing scholarly research of the laws and issues affecting domestic and international mineral and water resources.The goals of the Foundation are to foster and encourage a scholarly and yet practical study of the law and applicable regulations relating to oil and gas, mining, water, public land management, land use, conservation, environmental

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Everything from Foot and Mouth Disease to the Health and Management of Bears. A one-stop source of information on the health and management of captive and free-living wild animals, and emerging infectious diseases.

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A feature in EBSCO that provides the ability to view thumbnails of the images in an article.Image Quick View allows a patron to view full details of images found within a record. Image Quick View also helps patrons search for a specific image – whether it be a chart or a photograph – when performing searches.

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An electronic database of reproducible laboratory protocols in the Life and Biomedical Sciences.Springer Protocols offers access to 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

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On Thursday 29th January the Justis and JustCite website Interfaces will change.Visit http://www.justis.com/newsites/ for a summary of improvements and sample screenshots

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For the next week, you may encounter two types of electronic journal records in the catalogue.The old type will have database names and coverage in the link (next to 'Internet Access':Internet Access: Full text available from Institute of Physics: 03/01/2000 to present Internet Access: Full text available from ScienceDirect Journals: 03/01/2000 to 11/30/2007The new records will have links

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Larry Qualls Archive- documenting three decades of contemporary art exhibitions at galleries and other exhibition spaces throughout New York City and elsewhere.Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archive- focuses on Ancient Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman art, as well as Early Christian and Byzantine art.Canyonlights World Art Image Bank- focus on Classical architecture and archeological

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The Birds of North America OnlineBNA Online provides comprehensive life histories for each of the 716+ species of birds breeding in the USA (including Hawaii) and Canada.Account contents are updated frequently, with contributions from researchers, citizen scientists, and designated reviewers and editors. In addition, BNA Online contains image and video galleries showing plumages, behaviors,

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New features include* Browse by Album allows users to browse all classical works by album and find associated recordings of those works*Users can now search for complete recordings of classical works through our Advanced Search. This way, users can limit their search results to only recordings where the complete work is available instead of highlights/snippets.*A number of tools that let users

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A snapshot of the new interface and the changes can be found at http://poolesplus.odyssi.com/NCM2009.pdf

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Ferguson-Royce: Pre-Columbian PhotographyApproximately 4,200 images of Pre-Columbian archaeological sites from the department's Ferguson/Royce Archive.Architectural photography of Philadelphia by Ralph LiebermanARTstor has sponsored an extended photographic campaign in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Ralph Lieberman focusing on the city's historic and contemporary architecture, as well as its

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Animals and Science: A Guide to the DebatesA Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting EconomistsConsciousness: A Guide to the DebatesElgar Companion to Feminist EconomicsAn Encyclopedia of MacroeconomicsThe Evolution Wars: A Guide to the DebatesHomosexuality and Science: A Guide to the DebatesIberia and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and HistoryPhilosophy of Education: An EncyclopediaPop Culture

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http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=http://quod.lib.umich.edu/o/oec/The Dictionary of Old English Electronic Corpus is a complete record of surviving Old English except for some variant manuscripts of individual texts. There are 3047 texts in the corpus.http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=http://tapor.library.utoronto.ca/doe/The Dictionary of Old English (DOE) A-G defines the

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http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=http://www.environetbase.com- Techniques and know-how to reduce pollution, emissions, work-related exposures, and environmental contamination- Methods for site assessment, remediation, soil and water quality monitoring, and statistical tools for analyzing the results- Tools, techniques, and technologies for remote sensing, GIS, and photogrammetry for

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Vault's Online Career Library is the union of our in-depth printed and online content. It includes essential industry information synthesized with specific, insider company reports which are of particular interest to students and professionals, normally available only by individual subscription.* Downloadable Vault Career Guides - PDF Versions of Vault's full-length best-selling books presented

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Seattle Art Museum- more than 2,500 high-quality images of works from the museum's permanent collection, including representations of non-Western art from a wide range of cultures and time periods.Contemporary Photographs of Mali and Yemen from James Conlon- approximately 800 contemporary photographs depicting architecture and cultural sites and objects in Mali and Yemen. The collection will

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This database contains over 262,700 records from over 1,000 journals published from 1951 to the present. Approximately 8,000 new records are added to the database each year.We are pleased to announce that all of the bibliographic records in IPSA are now available online back to Volume One, exclusively on EBSCOhost, making an additional 24 years available. This marks the first time that

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Bulletin Volume 8 No. 4 - September 2008 Inside this issue:Early Canadian Periodicals project – ambitiously successful!Facsimile to end 22 year history of publicationCopyright Research: a successful summer projectLetter to Canadian Heritage Minister Josée VernerHarvard University Leadership Institute for Academic LibrariansClaude Bonnelly receives CARL 2008 Award of MeritIFLA 2008: the

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Such an interesting project. Adam Matthew has worked with the holding libraries to create entirely new digitized versions, unlike the normal practice of digitizing from microfilm. Just added to the collection areThe Bombay CourierThe British Military Library, or JournalCalcutta Gazette, or Oriental AdviserCalcutta GazetteThe Farmer’s MagazineJamaica Mercury and Kingston WeeklyThe MirrorRoyal

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Eventually we will have the entire collection, but this first installment covers The Tudors, 1509-1603.Tons of fun, including the usual Henry VIII hi-jinks. See if you can find the"Petition of Tho. Pope, Richard Burbage, John Hemings, Augustine Phillips, William Shakespeare, Wm. Kempe, Wm. Siye, Nicholas Tooley, and other owners and players of the Blackfriars' Theatre, to the Council, for

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"Bates is a teaching resource consisting of 18 anatomy and system specific videos. Each video shows a step-by-step examination. Each module of the Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination shows step-by-step examinations with rationales for the clinician's actions and contains expanded discussions of health history taking, interviewing, and describing findings. Graphics throughout the series

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Alexander Street Press' Social Theory collection."Social Theory offers an extensive selection of documents that explore the complexities and interpret the nature of social behavior and organization. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before. The current release features more than 90,000 pages of content by such major

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Bibliographies from 1997 to present Bibliographies prior to 1997 "The aim of the bibliography is to list philosophical literature as such; the adjective is understood rather strictly, with the result that scientific disciplines which are more or less related to philosophy, and even the auxiliary sciences of philosophy and of the history of philosophy, are not treated of in their own right.

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A flexible resource, AccessPharmacy allows students to select a core curriculum topic, browse by organ system, review textbooks, or search across leading pharmacy online references.

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Searching "loophole" yields 135 results!"Carswell's TaxnetPRO™ is an Internet-based research service offering full coverage of all Canadian taxes including Income Tax, GST and the provincially administered taxes. Along with all the primary legislation and government documents, TaxnetRPO™ also offers the most comprehensive database of case law related to Canadian tax. It also offers authoritative

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"The critical edition of all medieval Greek-Latin translations of Aristotle (Aristoteles Latinus) is one of the main projects supervised and supported by the International Union of Academies. The most important objective of the project is to bring to evidence the various forms in which Aristotle’s texts came to be read in the West. The Latin versions of these texts constituted the main tools for

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Encyclopedia of popular music It has an entry for Bachman-Turner-Overdrive, but no Stompin' Tom. sigh"Containing 27,000 entries and over 6,000 new entries, the online edition of the Encyclopedia of Popular Music includes 50% more material than the ThirdEdition. Featuring a broad musical scope covering popular music of all genres and periods from 1900 to the present day, including jazz, country,

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WRDS (Wharton Research Data Service)IP access is only available from Scurfield Hall. To access WRDS from other locations University of Calgary Faculty and Ph.d. students may apply for individual accounts by contacting the Business Library or the Maps, Academic Data, Geographic Information Centre.Wharton Research Data Services, or WRDS, is a comprehensive web-based data management system that

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Gale is pleased to announce a new release of Literature Criticism Online, which brings a variety of new features to this digitized collection of Gale's major criticism. The ten individual, award-winning Gale series that comprise Literature Criticism Online present a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. Imagine centuries of analysis - the

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The Fall 2008 issue of FOCUS on Global Resources highlights CRL resources that support research and teaching on early atomic science, in particular the Manhattan Project and development of the first atomic bomb. The issue features a Claremont Graduate University historian’s perspective on some newly digitized CRL collections, with links to those collections. To view this and past issues of FOCUS

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