Shock & vibration digest
This will come in handy when they start the pile driving for the new building.
Shock & Vibration Digest includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to shock and vibration, including noise, vibration technologies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. Records are selected from many of the top titles within the discipline, including Shock & Vibration and Noise Control Engineering Journal.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
New Product Announcement-->Race Relations Abstracts
Race relations abstracts
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.
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.
New Product Announcement-->Public Administration Abstracts
Public administration abstracts
Public Administration Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to public administration, including public administration research, public administration theory, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. Records are selected from many of the top titles within the discipline, including Public Administration Review, Public Administration Quarterly, and International Journal of Public Administration.
Public Administration Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to public administration, including public administration research, public administration theory, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. Records are selected from many of the top titles within the discipline, including Public Administration Review, Public Administration Quarterly, and International Journal of Public Administration.
New Product Announcement-->Peace Research Abstracts
Peace research abstracts
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. Records are selected from many of the top titles within the discipline, including International Journal of Peace Studies, International Journal on World Peace, and Conflict Management & Peace Science.
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. Records are selected from many of the top titles within the discipline, including International Journal of Peace Studies, International Journal on World Peace, and Conflict Management & Peace Science.
New Product Announcement-->Human Resources Abstracts
Human resources abstracts
Human Resources Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to human resources, including human resource management, employee assistance, organizational behavior, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. Records are selected from many of the top titles within the discipline, including Journal of Human Resources, Human Resource Management, and Human Resource Development International.
Human Resources Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to human resources, including human resource management, employee assistance, organizational behavior, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. Records are selected from many of the top titles within the discipline, including Journal of Human Resources, Human Resource Management, and Human Resource Development International.
New Product Announcement-->Family Studies Abstracts
Family studies abstracts
Family Studies Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to family studies, including marriage, divorce, family therapy, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. Records are selected from many of the top titles within the discipline, including Journal of Family Studies, Journal of Marriage & Family, and Family Relations.
Family Studies Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to family studies, including marriage, divorce, family therapy, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. Records are selected from many of the top titles within the discipline, including Journal of Family Studies, Journal of Marriage & Family, and Family Relations.
New Product Announcement-->Educational Administration Abstracts
Educational administration abstracts
Educational Administration Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. Records are selected from many of the top titles within the discipline, including Journal of Educational Administration & History, American Journal of Education, and Cambridge Journal of Education.
Educational Administration Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. Records are selected from many of the top titles within the discipline, including Journal of Educational Administration & History, American Journal of Education, and Cambridge Journal of Education.
New Product Announcement-->Abstracts in Social Gerontology
Abstracts in social gerontology
Abstracts in Social Gerontology includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to social gerontology, including the psychology of aging, elder abuse, society and the elderly, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
Abstracts in Social Gerontology includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to social gerontology, including the psychology of aging, elder abuse, society and the elderly, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
Thursday, April 03, 2008
New JSTOR Platform to launch April 4th
We are excited to announce that the new JSTOR platform will be launched on Friday,
April 4. The behind-the-scenes process for switching from the existing JSTOR to the new platform will begin around 7:00 a.m. EST. We will be making changes throughout the day, but the vast majority of users should experience no interruption or downtime. If you do have any difficulties, though, please contact support@jstor.org.
A document describing features of the new platform is included in the JSTOR Sandbox
(sandbox.jstor.org). The Sandbox also has links to tutorials and training materials focused on the new JSTOR interface. In addition, a list of newly scheduled webinars appears at the end of this announcement, with links to online registration.
We would like to thank all of you for your comments over the past few months and your patience more recently as we performed additional testing. As always, your comments have proven to be invaluable. We look forward to your ongoing feedback as we continue adding enhancements and new content.
Sincerely,
JSTOR User Services
support@jstor.org
Webinars
The following training webinars are led by JSTOR User Services staff. A phone and a computer with online access are required. To register, follow a link in the list below.
Highlights of the New JSTOR Interface
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/507861435
Using the JSTOR Interface
Thursday, April 17, 2008 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/780793020
Highlights of the New JSTOR Interface
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/469266764
Highlights of the New JSTOR Interface
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/401053120
Using the JSTOR Interface
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/680252260
Highlights of the New JSTOR Interface
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/958097487
April 4. The behind-the-scenes process for switching from the existing JSTOR to the new platform will begin around 7:00 a.m. EST. We will be making changes throughout the day, but the vast majority of users should experience no interruption or downtime. If you do have any difficulties, though, please contact support@jstor.org.
A document describing features of the new platform is included in the JSTOR Sandbox
(sandbox.jstor.org). The Sandbox also has links to tutorials and training materials focused on the new JSTOR interface. In addition, a list of newly scheduled webinars appears at the end of this announcement, with links to online registration.
We would like to thank all of you for your comments over the past few months and your patience more recently as we performed additional testing. As always, your comments have proven to be invaluable. We look forward to your ongoing feedback as we continue adding enhancements and new content.
Sincerely,
JSTOR User Services
support@jstor.org
Webinars
The following training webinars are led by JSTOR User Services staff. A phone and a computer with online access are required. To register, follow a link in the list below.
Highlights of the New JSTOR Interface
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/507861435
Using the JSTOR Interface
Thursday, April 17, 2008 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/780793020
Highlights of the New JSTOR Interface
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/469266764
Highlights of the New JSTOR Interface
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/401053120
Using the JSTOR Interface
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/680252260
Highlights of the New JSTOR Interface
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/958097487
Hints for Searching Polling the Nation
Hints aren't much, but a reminder of the product.
Search Hints for Polling the Nations
To conduct a successful search, it will be helpful for users to spend some time thinking about the goal of the search.
It is best to avoid putting too many words in the search. For example, to search for comparison of the Iraq war and the Vietnam war, it will be counter productive to enter “comparison of the Iraq war and the Vietnam war.” Simply enter Iraq and Vietnam in the question field. By keeping the search terms simple many questions will be displayed. Additional criteria can always be added to better focus the search.
To follow trends and compare attitudinal changes on an issue, users can find questions with identical wording for review. To find questions with identical wording, copy the question without the question mark and paste it in the search field. If the question is especially long, it may be necessary to select just a portion, containing key words of the question.
Combine a topic and one or two words in the text of the question to focus a search. The examples below demonstrate how to explore several different issues related to gun control.
Issue Would you support or oppose a law requiring a nationwide ban on semi automatic handguns?
Search Topic – Gun Control
Keyword - ban
Issue Do you favor or oppose stricter gun control laws in this country?
Search Topic – Gun Control
Keyword - Stricter gun control laws
Issue Do you think stricter gun control laws would reduce the amount of violent crime in this country or not?
Search terms Topic – Gun Control
Keyword - crime
Search Hints for Polling the Nations
To conduct a successful search, it will be helpful for users to spend some time thinking about the goal of the search.
It is best to avoid putting too many words in the search. For example, to search for comparison of the Iraq war and the Vietnam war, it will be counter productive to enter “comparison of the Iraq war and the Vietnam war.” Simply enter Iraq and Vietnam in the question field. By keeping the search terms simple many questions will be displayed. Additional criteria can always be added to better focus the search.
To follow trends and compare attitudinal changes on an issue, users can find questions with identical wording for review. To find questions with identical wording, copy the question without the question mark and paste it in the search field. If the question is especially long, it may be necessary to select just a portion, containing key words of the question.
Combine a topic and one or two words in the text of the question to focus a search. The examples below demonstrate how to explore several different issues related to gun control.
Issue Would you support or oppose a law requiring a nationwide ban on semi automatic handguns?
Search Topic – Gun Control
Keyword - ban
Issue Do you favor or oppose stricter gun control laws in this country?
Search Topic – Gun Control
Keyword - Stricter gun control laws
Issue Do you think stricter gun control laws would reduce the amount of violent crime in this country or not?
Search terms Topic – Gun Control
Keyword - crime
Backfiles added->Current Digest to the Post Soviet Press (1949 to present)
Current digest of the Soviet Press
The Current Digest of the (Post)Soviet Press was founded in 1949. Each week it presents a selection of Russian-language press materials, carefully translated into English. The translations are intended for use in teaching and research. They are therefore presented as documentary materials without elaboration or comment, and state the opinions and views of the original authors, not of the publisher of the journal.
The Current Digest carried translations of all important documents of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Soviet government, providing an impressive documentary record of:
The Current Digest of the (Post)Soviet Press was founded in 1949. Each week it presents a selection of Russian-language press materials, carefully translated into English. The translations are intended for use in teaching and research. They are therefore presented as documentary materials without elaboration or comment, and state the opinions and views of the original authors, not of the publisher of the journal.
The Current Digest carried translations of all important documents of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Soviet government, providing an impressive documentary record of:
- all significant speeches by Soviet leaders;
- meetings of all Party congresses, including the 1956 20th Party Congress and Nikita Khrushchev’s “secret speech” denouncing the Stalinist “cult of personality”;
- all five-year plans and reports on plan fulfillment;
- all important Soviet laws, including initial drafts, official public discussion of the drafts, and final versions as adopted by the USSR Supreme Soviet;
- Soviet diplomacy, Soviet-US summits and other meetings of Soviet leaders with their foreign counterparts; and
- all Soviet treaties, including arms-control treaties, and all major foreign-policy developments, from the Cuban missile crisis through the Soviet war in Afghanistan and withdrawal from that country.
OED abandons the alphabet!
MAJOR CHANGE IN CHOICE OF REVISED WORDS PUBLISHED ONLINE!
The sequence of revised entries published online since March 2000 has proceeded from the letter M, to quit shilling (representing between a fifth and a quarter of the dictionary). According to that model, the present publication batch would include words from quits to somewhere early in the letter R.
But after several years of steady alphabetical publication, editors of the OED have decided a change was necessary. The latest update departs radically from the former model, in that its 2,116 entries consist for the most part of key English words from across the alphabet, along with the other words which make up the alphabetical cluster surrounding them. From now on, the editors will alternate between these two models each quarter, with the next publication range (in June 2008) continuing from quits, and the subsequent one (September 2008) presenting a further range of major words and their associated alphabetical clusters.
The main purpose of this change is to revise, much earlier than would otherwise have been the case, important English words whose meanings or application have developed most over the past century. Some of these key words are, as one might expect, among those often looked up by readers of the OED.
For more information about the new update program, click here.
NEW AND REVISED WORDS AND SENSES
For your convenience, click here to see a list of the full range of newly revised words. Some words included in this update are: computer, gay, free, heaven, and hell, and the controversial expletive the f-word.
You know what a boycott is, but what about a girlcott? For a list of new words and their meanings, click here.
LATEST NEWS FROM OXFORD ONLINE
This spring we welcome the online versions of two more of our celebrated Oxford reference works, The Encyclopedia of the Modern World and Encyclopedia of Semiotics, which are now available for purchase via the Oxford Digital Reference Shelf.
Also, I'm delighted to announce the launch of Oxford Art Online and Oxford Music Online, as well as the redesigned Grove Art Online and Grove Music Online. Oxford Art Online and Oxford Music Online are the new gateways for online art and music information, respectively, and will be the home for forthcoming art reference products and subscriptions.
Free trials are available to our new online resources -- simply send an e-mail to oxfordonline@oup.com and let us know which product(s) you'd like to try!
Oxford offers a variety of materials to help your patrons get the most from the Oxford English Dictionary Online: help guides, a guided tour, and a search box which will enable your users to search the Dictionary directly from your website.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Back File Added --> Current Digest to the Post Soviet Press (1949 - present)
Current digest of the (Post) Soviet Press
http://dlib.eastview.com.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/sources/publications.jsp?uid=350
The Current Digest of the (Post-)Soviet Press was founded in 1949. Each week it presents a selection of Russian-language press materials, carefully translated into English. The translations are intended for use in teaching and research. They are therefore presented as documentary materials without elaboration or comment, and state the opinions and views of the original authors, not of the publisher of the journal.
The Current Digest carried translations of all important documents of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Soviet government, providing an impressive documentary record of:
http://dlib.eastview.com.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/sources/publications.jsp?uid=350
The Current Digest of the (Post-)Soviet Press was founded in 1949. Each week it presents a selection of Russian-language press materials, carefully translated into English. The translations are intended for use in teaching and research. They are therefore presented as documentary materials without elaboration or comment, and state the opinions and views of the original authors, not of the publisher of the journal.
The Current Digest carried translations of all important documents of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Soviet government, providing an impressive documentary record of:
- all significant speeches by Soviet leaders;
- meetings of all Party congresses, including the 1956 20th Party Congress and Nikita Khrushchev’s “secret speech” denouncing the Stalinist “cult of personality”;
- all five-year plans and reports on plan fulfillment;
- all important Soviet laws, including initial drafts, official public discussion of the drafts, and final versions as adopted by the USSR Supreme Soviet;
- Soviet diplomacy, Soviet-US summits and other meetings of Soviet leaders with their foreign counterparts; and
- all Soviet treaties, including arms-control treaties, and all major foreign-policy developments, from the Cuban missile crisis through the Soviet war in Afghanistan and withdrawal from that country.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Upcoming changes to Credo--training on offer
Credo will be launching a new platform in June.
To prepare for these changes, Credo is offering online training sessions.
The training takes about 45 minutes and will highlight some of the
searching capabilities and key resources, suggest how to promote and
customize your site using your admin tools, and finally offer a sneak peak
of the new platform that will be launching in June.
Thursday, March 20th at 1pm (EST) 3pm (MST)
Or
Wednesday, March 26th at 10am (EST) 12pm (MST)
Or
Wednesday, March 26th at 3pm (EST) 5pm (MST)
Or
Monday, March 31 at 1pm (EST) 3pm (MST)
To view the most recent training schedule and to sign up, please visit:
http://corp.credoreference.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=560&Itemid=106
When you sign up, you will be sent connection information.
Please check the Credo website later for more updates and training
sessions.
News in Canadian Digitization--Canadiana. org Bulletin
Highlights in this issue
* Upcoming Alouette Canada Portal with 1,000,000 metadata records
* Work will continue on Canadian Directories
*
* Upcoming Alouette Canada Portal with 1,000,000 metadata records
* Work will continue on Canadian Directories
*
Safari Tech Training Sessions
Hi. Karen Hinton from ProQuest will be conducting two training sessions on Safari Books Online on Thursday, March 20 in IC B. The sessions, which will feature the same content repeated, will take place from 1-2 pm and 2-3 pm. Please invite any interested colleagues both inside and outside LCR.
Note that these sessions are in addition to the session dealing with the ProQuest and CSA databases that will be held in the morning of the same day (9:30 - 11:00 am)
Let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks.
Andrew
Note that these sessions are in addition to the session dealing with the ProQuest and CSA databases that will be held in the morning of the same day (9:30 - 11:00 am)
Let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks.
Andrew
New Product Announcement-->Erudit
Erudit
This database has been activated on Serials Solutions and SFX.
We are investigating marc records for the books etc.
This database has been activated on Serials Solutions and SFX.
We are investigating marc records for the books etc.
Érudit welcomes any Academic journal, regardless of its publisher and country of origin. It is also the site of dissemination of Quebec journals supported by the Fonds québécois de recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC). The collection covers a wide range of disciplines in the human, social and natural sciences. The search tool allows to look into a corpus comprised of recently published articles and retroactively digitalized articles from past issues. Two publishing centres handle e-journal production: one located at Université de Montréal and the other at Université Laval.
Through its activities, Érudit has developed expertise in the production and dissemination of E-books. It adheres to the most stable digital text-processing norms pertaining both to e-Books and Web content. Beyond e-book production, this site is experimental in two respects. First, it enables publishers to develop a graphic design and the means to e-books availability for readers. Second, offering e-books in one form or another constitutes a form of experimentation concerning uses and new services for readerships.
Érudit is a dissemination platform for Theses by various universities. As a starting point, this site, which is based on an interuniversity-network architecture, provides free access to online theses from Université de Montréal, Université Laval and other universities in North America and Europe.
The Other documents and data section contributes to scientific communication expansion through the submission and dissemination of texts such as research reports and notes, conference presentations and other documents that authors-researchers wish to post online. The documents under this section are not the ones awaiting approval for publication in the journals disseminated by Érudit; this section is independent of the journal publishers. It relies upon the cooperation of numerous research structures while providing an individual online deposit service. This free-access section presents an interuniversity-network architecture and provides compatibility with the Open Archives initiative protocol.
New Product Announcement-->Armed Conflict Database
Armed conflict database
http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=http://acd.iiss.org/
Welcome to the IISS Armed Conflict Database, a frequently updated source of information on armed conflicts worldwide. You can generate reports and download data as well as browse through the yearly analyses and fact sheets online.
http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=http://acd.iiss.org/
Welcome to the IISS Armed Conflict Database, a frequently updated source of information on armed conflicts worldwide. You can generate reports and download data as well as browse through the yearly analyses and fact sheets online.
Refworks Webinars
We are pleased to announce the RefWorks Webinar schedule for April 2008. In addition to our Fundamentals and Advanced Feature sessions, we're also offering a session specifically on RefShare. And this month we're offering sessions in German and Spanish, and sessions in English by our U.K.-based trainer. Please feel free to share the links below with your users or simply direct them to the RefWorks website (www.refworks.com) to enroll. Registration is limited to 50 people per class and enrollment is required:
RefWorks Fundamentals
This 75 minute session covers all the basics - creating a RefWorks account, importing data, organizing your database and generating a bibliography. Great for new users or even existing users who would like a refresher.
Tuesday, April 01, 2008 10:00 am Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -05:00, New
York) Enroll Now!
https://refworks.webex.com/refworks/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=718580033
Wednesday, April 09, 2008 1:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -05:00, New
York)
Enroll Now!
https://refworks.webex.com/refworks/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=712177973
Thursday, April 17, 2008 1:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -05:00, New
York)
Enroll Now!
https://refworks.webex.com/refworks/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=710020681
RefWorks Fundamentals
This 75 minute session covers all the basics - creating a RefWorks account, importing data, organizing your database and generating a bibliography. Great for new users or even existing users who would like a refresher.
Tuesday, April 01, 2008 10:00 am Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -05:00, New
York) Enroll Now!
https://refworks.webex.com/refworks/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=718580033
Wednesday, April 09, 2008 1:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -05:00, New
York)
Enroll Now!
https://refworks.webex.com/refworks/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=712177973
Thursday, April 17, 2008 1:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -05:00, New
York)
Enroll Now!
https://refworks.webex.com/refworks/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=710020681
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