Wednesday, May 14, 2008

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.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

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.

Monday, May 12, 2008

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: