Scientific American Archive Online (On trial until Jan. 31/09

A comprehensive, searchable science and technology resource containing the full text and graphics of every Scientific American issue from January 1993 to the present. This archive features the writings and colorful graphics that readers of Scientific American have come to depend upon and enjoy. Each of the more than 5,300 articles in the archive is available to view online or to download in full-color PDF, and presented exactly as originally printed in the magazine. In addition to the regular monthly issues, users will find all of the Scientific American special issues as well as Scientific American Mind, a new supplementary issue. Among the topics covered are: health and medicine, cosmology and astronomy, chemistry, life sciences, physics, oceanography, medicine, mathematics, archaeology, and much more.

Access on campus is automatic. Off campus, please use this login information:

UserID: s8921610
Password: password

Explore Scientific American Archive Online now!

SCI-TECHnetBASE (On trial until Jan. 17/09)

A database of 4555 online books published by CRC/Taylor & Francis in the areas of Engineering, Information Technology, Chemistry, Biomedical Science, Business Management and much more.

This database trial is available via campus access only. Please send your comments to Ian Colford

American Heart Association Journals

In 2008 the American Heart Association (AHA) launched its first new journals in nearly three decades. Extensions of Circulation, the new Circulation portfolio of journals will deliver tightly focused information on areas at the cutting edge of cardiology, as well as clinical information designed to help practitioners in their daily practice. These six new journals are now available via Novanet or the Electronic journals search page. Titles:

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology
Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics
Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging
Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions
Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes
Circulation: Heart Failure

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History captures the experiences of women throughout history in this far-reaching work. Although there has been extensive research on women in history by region, no other text or reference work has comprehensively covered the role women have played throughout world history. With over 650 biographies of influential women and over 600 topical articles covering topics such as geography and history, culture and society, organizations, movements, and gender studies, Women in World History is the definitive reference work in the field. Explore it now!

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History

The Encyclopedia covers the entire history of seafaring, from ancient Egyptian shipbuilders to Viking sea-raiders, to the nuclear submarines and supertankers of today. Placing maritime affairs in their larger historical context, the Encyclopedia shows how seafaring has both reflected and influenced the major economic, cultural, military, and political developments in world history. Explore it now!

Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America

From "apple pie" to "Zombie"! A collaboration of nearly 200 contributors from academia, industry, and the culinary world, the 700 original articles in this encyclopedia cover the significant events, inventions, and social movements in American history that have affected the way Americans view, prepare, and consume food and drink. This resource is just one of many recently acquired items from the Oxford Digital Reference Shelf series. Explore it now!

Past Masters Humanities Series

The Dalhousie Libraries now subscribe to the full suite of the Intelex Past Masters series of full-text humanities databases. InteLex assembles and publishes cohesive collections of excellent editions of the greatest authors from Abelard to Yeats, in both original language and English translation. The series includes published and unpublished works, articles and essays, and correspondence. Combined with powerful CD-ROM and web-based search and reference tools, Past Masters provides scholars with significantly-enhanced and highly-flexible access to the classic texts. Explore them now!

ebrary Library Center

This site is intended to provide librarians and students with research materials, industry news and information related to librarianship and related fields. ebrary’s Library Center currently includes more than 75 full-text books spanning topics such as digital library development, general collection development, and the history of libraries and librarianship, as well as illustrated guides from the Library of Congress. Check it out now!

Nature Research Journals

The Dalhousie Libraries have offered our users free access to 10 Nature Research journals for several years. Now thanks to a new subscription, users can read five more Nature journals online: Nature Geoscience (new for 2008), Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Photonics, Nature Physics, and Nature Protocols. Access all these titles via our "Find Journals" page.

Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Databases

For those with an interest in occupational health and safety, the Kellogg Library has purchased an unlimited access license for Dalhousie for all of the databases from the Academic Support Program (ASP) of the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS). Note that access is for the databases in the "Web Collections" portion of the website; it does not include access to the supplements.

Our license offers access to the following databases and collections: MSDS Material Safety Data Sheets from manufacturers and suppliers, RTECS® Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances, CHEMINFO Comprehensive health and safety information on pure chemicals, and OSH References: OSHLINE, NIOSHTIC, NIOSHTIC-2, HSELINE, CISILO, and Canadiana.

Connect to CCOHS now through our databases search page or directly!

Canadian Electronic Library

Three collections within the "Canadian Electronic Library" from Gibson Library Connections have been purchased for Dalhousie users on the "ebrary"™ platform. Individual titles will be accessible through the Novanet Catalogue.

• Canadian Publishers Collection
  This collection provides online access to non-fiction and reference books from Canadian commercial publishers as well as from non-profit and public-sector organizations. More information can be found on the Gibson Library Connections website.
• Canadian Public Policy Collection
  This is a collection of monograph publications from Canadian public policy institutes, government agencies, advocacy groups, think-tanks, university research centres and other public interest groups. The organizations included in this collection represent the leading edge of primary research and opinion in all areas of Canadian public policy. Their publications are vital to the understanding of developing issues in every arena of Canadian public life. Over 8000 titles with new titles added every year.
• Canadian Health Research Collection
  This is a collection of monograph publications from Canadian research institutes, government agencies and university centres working in the area of health and medical research. The organizations included in this collection are very active publishers of primary research in the field. The publications included are both general policy documents as well as those of a specialized technical nature. Over 3000 titles with new titles added every year.

Connect to ebrary now!

Medieval Travel Writing

This project provides an extensive collection of manuscript materials for the study of medieval travel writing in fact and in fantasy. The core of the material is a magnificent collection of medieval manuscripts from libraries around the world and 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 of maps and images, a bibliography and chronology, and a slideshow.
Explore it now!

Environment Complete (trial ends November 25)

Offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Environment Complete contains more than 1,957,000 records from more than 1,700 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s (including 1,125 active core titles) as well as more than 120 monographs. The database also contains full text for more than 680 journals.

Remote Access using User ID and Password:

Go to: search.ebscohost.com
User Id: s8921610
Password: password

Ebsco Religion Databases (trial ends October 24)

This is a trial of seven religion databases on the Ebscohost platform (click on links for database descriptions):

• Catholic Periodical and Literature Index Online
  
• Christian Periodical Index
  
• Index Islamicus
  
• Index to Jewish Periodicals
  
• Old Testament Abstracts Online
  
• New Testament Abstracts Online
  
• Religion & Philosophy Collection

Empire Online

Offers 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. There is both manuscript and printed material and a broad range of document types, written from both the European and the non-European perspective and covering all continents. A number of documents relate the story of Empire from French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese and German points of view, as well as from indigenous peoples from Africa, India and North America. The focus of the project is on original documents and thus a number of these texts are not in English.

This database is available to Dalhousie users both on and off campus. Explore Empire Online now!

Eighteenth Century Journals I & II

This digital project brings together rare journals printed between c1685 and 1815, illuminating all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life. Topics covered are extremely wide-ranging and include: the writings of Sir Isaac Newton; the French Revolution; reviews of literature and fashion throughout Europe; political debates; and coffee house gossip and discussion. Eighteenth Century Journals I contains material from the Hope Collection at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center holds one of the finest collections of 17th and 18th century newspapers and periodicals in the world, and it was from here that items for Eighteenth Century Journals II were selected.

This database is available both on and off campus. Explore it now!

Lexi-Comp Online

Lexi-Comp Online with AHFS has been acquired for on and off-campus access for the Dalhousie community. Lexi-Comp Online is a comprehensive drug information source and clinical, point-of-care tool.

Lexi-Comp ONLINE offers access to the following clinical databases: Lexi-Drugs®, Lexi-Drugs®International, Pediatric Lexi-Drugs®, Geriatric Lexi-Drugs®, Lexi-Natural Products, Lexi-Pharmacogenomics, Lexi-Infectious Diseases, Lexi-Poisoning & Toxicology Lexi-NBCA Exposures, Lab Tests & Diagnostic Procedures, Clinician’s Guide to Diagnosis Clinician’s Guide to Internal Medicine, Clinician’s Guide to Laboratory Medicine and Clinical Modules: Interactions (Lexi-Interact), Patient Care Module: Printable Patient Leaflets, (Lexi-PALS ) providing Drug, Disease, Condition and Procedure information for your patients, Drug Identification (Lexi-Drug ID), I.V. Compatibility (Lexi-I.V. Compatibility), Calculations (Lexi-CALC) and Web Search (Health Search Portal)

Please logout when finished.

Online Portal to Library Resources for Undergrad Medicine

The Kellogg Library is pleased to announce a new online portal to library resources for undergraduate medicine. This portal is designed and maintained by librarians at the Kellogg to assist students in beginning their research on a variety of learning issues.

Intended as a jumping-off point for library resources, the guide provides quick, easy, one-stop access to a variety of resources such as databases and electronic books. It is arranged by year, then by unit and subject-specific resources are featured for each. The guide also features instant messaging access to a librarian who can assist you.

We hope the guide will provide more user-friendly access to the multitude of resources available from the library, as well as a direct link to our staff. In order to make it a success, we need your input. Each page of the guide features a user feedback box which is completely anonymous and goes directly to a librarian. Contact options including instant messaging, email and Facebook are also listed on the guide.

Please visit the Undergraduate Medicine LibGuide now!

Defining Gender, 1459-1910

A full-text primary source digital collection, this database of material from British and European archives will enrich the teaching and research experience of those studying history, literature, sociology, education and cultural studies from a gendered perspective. Documents include ephemera, pamphlets, college records and exam papers, commonplace books, diaries, periodicals, letters, ledgers, account books, educational practice and pedagogy, government papers from the Home Office and Metropolitan police, illustrated writings on anatomy, midwifery, art and fashion, manuscript journals, poetry, novels, ballads, drama, receipt books, literary manuscripts, travel writing, and conduct and advice literature.

This collection is accessible both on and off campus. Explore Defining Gender 1459-1910 now!

China: Trade, Politics & Culture 1793-1980

One of seven full-text retrospective databases from Adam Matthew Digital, this digital collection answers a need for clear, intelligible and informative English-language sources relating to China and the West, 1793-1980, which can be accessed online and used in the classroom or in course packs. The database offers primary source materials including manuscripts, letters, documents and over 400 colour paintings, interactive historical maps, and drawings by English and Chinese artists, as well as countless photographs, sketches and ephemeral items, depicting Chinese people, places, customs and events. Materials are sourced from the School of Oriental and African Studies and the British Library, London.

Explore China: Trade, Politics & Culture 1793-1980 now!

InfoSci-Journals (on trial until Oct. 9/08)

IGI Global's InfoSci-Journals database is a rapidly expanding, full-text collection of peer-reviewed journals focused on specialized topics in advanced technology research as well as the organizational, managerial, behavioral, and social implications of technology. The InfoSci-Journals collection currently consists of 60+ titles, and soon will be expanding to 100+ journals.
Trial access is available from campus locations only.

• Topics include Data Warehousing & Mining, Healthcare Information Systems, E-Commerce, E-Government & M-Commerce, IT Engineering, Modeling & Evaluation, and Knowledge Management
  
• 400,000+ pages of downloadable full-text in PDF
  
• 65,000+ reference citations to further research
  
• Authoritative Content-IGI Global journals are widely covered in over 40 of the world's leading STM and academic indexes, including Thompson Scientific, SCOPUS, CSA Illumina, PsycINFO, ABI Inform
  
• Precise searching with abstracts and indexing for each article
  
• Updated continuously
  
• Electronic version of documents available before print release
  

Expert Opinion (on trial until Sept. 19/08)

Expert Opinion comprises eleven phase-specific, peer-reviewed journals for pharmaceutical R&D, from drug discovery to pharmacotherapy. Each journal is tailored to the specific phase of the R&D pipeline it focuses on. Typically, you will find in each issue:

• targeted reviews that assess the current primary research, drawing out the key findings and their applications to clinical practice
  
• in-depth drug evaluations that provide neutral assessments of the pharmacological and clinical properties of new compounds
  
• detailed diagnostic and technology evaluations that provide analysis of individual diagnostics and/or technologies revolutionising the field
  
• thought-provoking editorials that survey developments across the discipline and flag up potentially interesting areas for further research
  
• patent evaluations that analyse the aims, chemistry and biological claims of individual patents
  
• original research articles reporting the original results of clinical investigations on agents that are in Phase III and IV clinical trials
  

Periodicals Archive Online

Periodicals Archive Online, a ProQuest product, is a major full-text archive of over 500 of the most historically respected journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. It provides researchers with unprecedented access to backfiles from 1802 to 1995 in thirty-seven key subject areas, including History, Literature, Philosophy & Religion/Theology, and Spanish Language.

Film and Television Literature Index

This full-text database is the definitive online tool for film and television research. Subject coverage includes film and TV theory, preservation and restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. Film and Television Literature Index provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications, as well as full text for more than 90 journals. The Dalhousie Libraries subscribe to this resource via EBSCOhost.

Explore Film and Television Literature Index now!

Canadian Directory to Foundations & Grants

The Canadian Directory to Foundations & Grants 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. The directory includes over 150 American foundations with a history of granting in Canada as well. This database is now accessible via Novanet.

ACP Journal Club merged with Annals of Internal Medicine

Medical researchers and clinicians take note! As of May 2008, ACP Journal Club ceased being published as a separate journal. Instead of being a bimonthly stand-alone journal, ACP Journal Club is now a monthly feature of Annals of Internal Medicine.

This arrangement will benefit readers of both publications. First, the ACP Journal Club summaries will now be available to readers once a month rather than bi-monthly. Second, busy clinicians will now have easy access to both publications in a single access point. Third, co-publication will facilitate links between topically related material in the two publications.

The ACP has also launched a new alerting service to members called ACP Journal Club PLUS. Sign up to receive e-mail alerts from ACP when articles of interest to you are identified by the McMaster program. You can customize this service for your own clinical interests and receive alerts about new articles that your peers with similar interests have found relevant and noteworthy.

For more information visit the ACP Journal Club website.

American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900 (on trial until July 31/08)

This unique and valuable collection contains digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals that originated between 1741, when Andrew Bradford's American Magazine and Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine were launched, and 1900. Deriving from the acclaimed American Periodicals Series microform collection, APS Online features over 1,100 periodicals spanning nearly 200 years--from colonial times to the advent of American involvement in World War II. Titles range from America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository, to popular magazines like Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal. Because the database contains digitized images of periodical pages, researchers can see all of the original typography, drawings, graphic elements, and article layouts exactly as they were originally published.

Check out the American Periodicals Series Online, while the trial lasts!

Cambridge Histories Online (on trial until Aug.8/08)

Cambridge Histories Online (login required, see below) is a unique online historical reference compendium. The Cambridge Histories, long established in the collections of academic research libraries around the world, are now available online for the first time. This diverse, up to date and authoritative collection brings the texts to life and offers improved access to the content of the print editions, which have been published since the 1960s. CHO contains over 250 volumes, equal to approximately 196,000 pages of text, and covers more than 15 different academic subjects.

User name: coppul
Password: access

Community of Scholars Research Support Suite (Trial ends July 31/08)

The COS Research Support Suite includes three databases which are available on the CSA Illumina search platform, for which access is automatic, and another on the COS platform, which requires a login. The Research Support Suite is comprised of a collation of resources related to the research process, namely:

COS Funding Opportunities with Alerts: A compiled database of available opportunities for grants, fellowships, prizes and other type of funding. It is an extensive database with opportunities for recipients anywhere in the world, working in any discipline.

COS Scholar Universe: Provides authoritative information about more than 1.5 million scholars and organizations around the world, together with verified affiliation and publication information. The database includes information on international faculty at 4-year universities and their departments. Scholar Universe is a unique tool for identifying researchers by specific area of study, providing keyword access to the community behind the content.

PapersInvited: Provides a perspective on non-periodic publication opportunities. The database consists of detailed information and deadlines about calls for papers for forthcoming conferences and special issues of scholarly journals. These calls for papers are issued by professional bodies, journal editors and other conference organizers in all disciplines and from all over the world. Thus, the database serves as an alerting service for researchers, scholars and students that are seeking opportunities to present and publish their research.

COS Expertise: Works in conjunction with Scholar Universe to enable researchers to enhance the profiles by adding first-person information such as language skills, photos, honors/awards, associations, patents held, and grants received. Login using the following:

Userid: coppul
Password: coppul01

Once you've logged in, you'll be taken to your COS Workbench. Click the Search COS Funding Opportunities tab at the top of the page to search the database. You can also bookmark fundingopps.cos.com to go directly to the Funding Opportunities database. If you choose this option, you will be required to enter the username and password before getting your first set of results.

Additional information is available from CSA.

Canadian Historical Review (on trial until June 25/08)

Published by University of Toronto Press since 1920 as a continuation of the Review of Historical Publications Relating to Canada, the Canadian Historical Review (CHR) 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. Trial access is to all current and archival issues of CHR, as well as issues published under the earlier title dating back to 1897.

Gale Databases on Trial

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (Ends May 16, 2008)
Updated daily. Provides full text access to differing points of view on current social issues. Brings together viewpoint articles, contextual topic overviews, government and organizational statistics, biographies of social activists, court cases, profiles of government agencies and special interest groups, newspaper and magazine articles, as well as links to more than 1,800 reviewed and subject-indexed web sites. 1980 - present. Password for off-campus access: udalhousie

Economist Historical Archive (Ends June 10, 2008)
Over 160 years of The Economist online are accessible through The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003. A joint project between Gale Publishing and The Economist, this complete digitization of the global weekly newspaper offers a unique and non-partisan perspective on world events. Trial access is from campus locations only.

Download Fulltext Dissertations & Theses

For some time, Dalhousie faculty, students and staff have been able to download the full-text of all post-1996 Dalhousie (including DalTech) dissertations and many theses from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Now, thanks to the Dalhousie Libraries, they can download the full text of ALL post-1996 theses and dissertations available from this source.

With more than 2.4 million entries, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses is the most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses in the world. UMI offers over 2 million titles for purchase in microfilm or paper formats. More than 930,000 are available in PDF format for immediate free download, and an average of 2,000 new PDFs are added to the database each week. The Dalhousie Libraries subscribe to ProQuest Dissertations and Theses which is available via Novanet or the Databases search on our website.

Islamic Studies Resources (Brill Online)

The Dalhousie Libraries have just acquired subscriptions to the following resources, which are available both on and off campus in Novanet and via the Databases search page on our website:

• Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
  
• Encyclopaedia of Islam
  
• Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān
  
• Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures
  
• Index Islamicus
  

New SpringerLink eBooks and eJournals

Dalhouse University Libraries, as a member of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN), has acquired for the Dalhousie community substantial holdings in SpringerLink, Springer's online content. Springer is one of the world's leading publishers of books and journals in science, technology and medicine.

Dalhousie's holdings in SpringerLink include the complete archive of and ongoing subscriptions to more than 1300 journals (i.e. the journal content goes back to vol. 1). We have also just acquired the complete catalogue of Springer ebooks (over 13,000 titles) from 2005 on. This catalogue includes imprints other than Springer, as well as many "books in series" and reference works.

To view or search this collection, visit the SpringerLink website at springerlink.com/ Materials accessible by Dalhousie users are marked with a small green box.

You may also access individual Springer ejournals through our ejournals webpage at www.library.dal.ca/Find/Journals/ as well as through the Novanet catalogue.

Springer books may also be accessed directly through MyiLibrary.

Please note that most Springer ebooks are not yet available in Novanet. Records for these books will be added over time.

To find out more about SpringerLink, see their brochure.

GreenFILE

EBSCO Publishing announces the release of GreenFILE, a bibliographic database of information about environmental concerns. This database is being made freely available at www.greeninfoonline.com

GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well.

Electronic Health Sciences Encyclopedias

Find a world of reference information at your finger tips with one of our new electronic encyclopedias. Many of these handy tools have been in our paper Reference Collection for years but now we can deliver them to you wherever you are.

You can access each title separately through Novanet or you can search them all at once through a product called Gale Virtual Reference Center.

Here is a list of some of the more notable titles:

Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 3rd ed.,  5v, 2004
Encyclopedia of Public Health, 4v, 2002
Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, 2nd ed.,  4v, 2005
Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer, 2nd ed.,  2v, 2006
Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health: Infancy through Adolescence, 4v, 2006
The Gale Encyclopedia of Diets: A Guide to Health and Nutrition, 2v, 2008
Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders, 2nd ed.,  2v,  2006
Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed.,  5v,  2006
The Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Health, 2nd ed., 2v,  2008
Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders, 2v,  2005
Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health, 2nd ed.,  5v,  2007
Infectious Diseases: In Context, 2v,  2008
Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying, 2v,  2002
World of Forensic Science, 2v,  2005

Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database

The Kellogg Library has just acquired the Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database. This core database contains almost 1,100 detailed, evidence-based monographs on individual natural ingredients (e.g., glucosamine, echinacea, etc). Since our license is limited to only a few users at one time, please click the LOGOUT link when you are finished.

You can connect to this database through the Novanet Catalogue, our databases search engine, or on the Kellogg Library website under "Drug Information".

Alternative Press Index (Trial)

Trial access to Alternative Press Index is available on the Dal Libraries' trial resources site. Access is by authorization number and password which are provided on the trial resources page. The trial will end April 19, 2008.

Alternative Press Index indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical, and left periodicals, newspapers, and magazines, covering cultural, economic, political, and social change from 1991 to the present. Subjects covered include anarchism, indigenous peoples, democracy, labor, ecology, national liberation, feminism, theory and practice of socialism, gay and lesbian issues.

Brill Online (Trial)

Brill Online is a collection of digital resources that focuses primarily upon areas such as History, Classics, and Religious Studies, but content is not limited to these subjects. The trial provides access to the entire suite of Brill Online products, but these are also available as individual subscriptions. For the duration of the trial, which ends on March 13, 2008, access is available from on-campus locations only.

The products included in Brill Online are:

Africa Yearbook
Dictionary of Gnosis & Western Esotericism
The Brill Dictionary of Religion
Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition and THREE
The Encyclopaedia of Judaism (2nd edition)
Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān
Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures (Volumes 1 to 5)
Index Islamicus
International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's Who 2008
Jacoby Online (consisting of Brill's New Jacoby and Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker)
New Pauly Online (consisting of Der Neue Pauly and Brill's New Pauly)
World Christian Database

ISI Web of Knowledge Introduces New Interface

As of February 3, 2008, ISI databases available through the "Web of Knowledge" portal are available on a new upgraded interface. Some of the new features are:

• Whether searching all databases or an individual collection, users can now use the search boxes to perform general searches. They can also add more search boxes to add more search fields for complex searches.


• Results pages display more detail, including bibliographic information for records, as well as full-text links and OpenURL linking.


• Results can be analyzed and refined directly from the Results pages


• Analyze and refine searches from Results pages


• Citation results and related records searching are clearly highlighted in individual full records, enabling users quickly and easily find a wider variety of relevant articles.

Search Web of Science, Journal Citation Reports or Biological Abstracts using the new interface.

More information is available on the ISI News Page

Blackwell Reference Online (Trial)

Until March 1, 2008, the Dalhousie Libraries are hosting a trial of Blackwell Reference Online, the new online reference collection from Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Nearly 300 reference volumes are currently available in BRO, making it the largest academic reference collection of its kind available online. Subject coverage includes Business & Economics, History, Language & Linguistics, Literature & Cultural Studies, Philosophy & Religion, Sociology & Psychology, and Classics. The interface incorporates sophisticated functionalities such as: search options and innovative classification – by subject, person, period, key topic and place; 'quick search' on every page allows searching of individual titles or the whole database; numerous illustrations enhance and illuminate the content.

Access during the trial period is available on campus only.

Ebsco offers trial of SAGE databases

EBSCO Publishing has purchased the rights to ten renowned print indexes from SAGE, processed the content for each index back to Volume 1 Issue 1, and made them available electronically via EBSCOhost. These are highly-refined, specialized collections in their subject areas. Trial access will continue until February 22.
The eleven indexes are:

Abstracts in Social Gerontology
Educational Administration Abstracts
Family Studies Abstracts
Human Resources Abstracts
Peace Research Abstracts
Public Administration Abstracts
Race Relations Abstracts
Shock & Vibration Digest
Urban Studies Abstracts
Violence & Abuse Abstracts

images.MD: The Online Encyclopedia of Medical Images

images.MD compiles over 70,000 high-quality images spanning all of internal medicine, all derived from Current Medicine Group LLC’s renowned series of illustrated atlases. images.MD has over 50,000 medical images from more than 90 collections and 2,000 contributors.

As a member of Dalhousie University, you have free access to full-sized, high quality images in step with the latest developments in medicine. By filling out a simple registration form, you can also start your own image library, create PowerPoint® presentations of images in your library, and order customized CD-ROMs of your favorite slides. Explore images.MD now!

Early English Books Online and the Text Creation Partnership

Users of Early English Books Online (EEBO) know that the database contains the full text of more than 100,000 English-language books printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. However, because much of this full-text material is presented in image file formats such as GIF, PDF, or TIFF, it is not fully keyword searchable. This is where the Text Creation Partnership (TCP) comes in. Dalhousie is a member of the TCP and has been contributing to a project that will eventually see 25,000 EEBO documents made available as completely searchable ASCII text. Users will be able to view both the transcribed text and the corresponding original page images. 11,500 documents have so far been "SGML encoded" by the TCP. The University of Michigan hosts a search interface where users can search this full-text segment of EEBO.

Try searching Early English Books Online at the Text Creation Partnership website.

Biological Abstracts changes search platform

In January 2008, the Dalhousie Libraries' subscription to Biological Abstracts was moved to the search interface provided by ISI, the Institute for Scientific Information. This gives Biological Abstracts the same look and feel as Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports. Database content remains the same (coverage from 1926 onward).

Try the new interface for searching Biological Abstracts from ISI.

Oxford Islamic Studies Online (Trial)

Oxford Islamic Studies Online (OISO) offers unique and comprehensive online access to the history and culture of Islam and provides full-text access to great Oxford reference and scholarly works, including The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, The Oxford History of Islam, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, two classic interpretations of the Qur'an, a Concordance of the Qur'an, What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam, and the forthcoming Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World (due to publish in 2008). For the period of this trial, which ends on February 23, 2008, access to this database will be restricted to on-campus locations only. For information on other trials that we are hosting, please visit the Library's Trial Resources page.

Milton Bibliography Available Online

The online edition of the Milton Bibliography is a revision and a continuation of Milton: A Bibliography For the Years 1624-1700, published by Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (MRTS), Binghamton, New York, in 1984. The bibliography attempts to bring together all manuscripts and editions of John Milton’s works and all studies and critical statements concerning his life and works, all allusions and quotations, and all significant imitations during the years 1624-1799. No print counterpart for the entire database exists. This online tool is published by University of Toronto and made available as part of their Iter project, a not-for-profit partnership that aims to promote the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700) through the development of online resources.

Ergonomics Abstracts

Ergonomics Abstracts is an international abstracting service, covering the world of ergonomics and human factors. Topics include Anthropometric Measurements, Design for the Elderly, Graphics Interfaces, Human Error, Manual Materials Handling, Mobile Computing, Posture Analysis, Public-Computer Interaction, Task Analysis, VDT Workstation Design, Virtual Reality, and Warning Label Effectiveness.

Ergonomics Abstracts can be searched for the period 1986-present but includes some pre-1986 material. There are currently 121,500 records in the database.

Project MUSE Adds Back Issues as part of Pilot Program

Project MUSE recently added the full range of back issues of two of its long-held journals, "Journal of the History of Philosophy" and "Journal of Democracy."

The addition of the back issues of these two journals is part of a pilot program to determine the feasibility of expanding coverage to include back issues. The pilot program is in the early stages and MUSE developers anticipate adding additional back issues for selected journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

For the "Journal of the History of Philosophy," the back issues added are Volume 1, 1963, through Volume 37, 1999. For the "Journal of Democracy," the back issues added are Volume 1, 1990, through Volume 5, 1994.

CBCA Complete

As of January 1, 2008, the Dalhousie Libraries have replaced the separate subscriptions to three CBCA databases (CBCA Business, CBCA Current Events, and CBCA Reference) with a single database: CBCA Complete.

CBCA Complete combines content from all four CBCA database subsets (the 4th is CBCA Education) and provides full-text coverage of current events, business, education, science and medicine, arts, law, and lifestyles, all with a Canadian focus. Subject coverage is comprehensive and the information comes from the broadest range of Canadian sources available anywhere. With over 4.5 million records and indexing more than 1,600 periodical titles, CBCA Complete is the first stop for anyone interested in current events, business, science, the arts, and academic information as produced in Canada.

Oxford Digital Reference Shelf Series

Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History
Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature
Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance