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This innovative portal for Victorian Popular Culture welcomes readers into the darkened halls, small backrooms and travelling venues that hosted everything from spectacular shows and bawdy burlesque, to the world of magic and spiritualist séances. It describes popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe in the period from 1779 to 1930 and shows how interconnected these worlds were.Access

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Provides full text for more than 385 publications, and cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 800 journals, including top-ranked scholarly journals, many of which are unique to the product. PSC has a worldwide focus, reflecting the globalization of contemporary political discourse.The database also features more than 165 full-text reference books and monographs, and over 27,000

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Offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique "perspectives"

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The story of the American West has exerted a powerful influence over the psyche of the modern world, helping to fashion senses of national identity as well as permeating literary and cinematic culture. 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

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Social Work Abstracts offers extensive coverage of more than 450 social work and human services journals dating back to 1965. Produced by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), the database provides indexing and abstracts dealing with all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of service and social issues and problems. Researchers seeking scholarly and

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The new Informa Healthcare eBooks Collection gives Dal users access to pharmaceutical and medical information from some of the leading researchers and clinicians in the field. Containing approximately 800 recent titles, this eBook collection is structured into comprehensive subject packages including the following areas:Pharmaceutical ScienceToxicologyPharmaceutical ManufacturingDrug Design &

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Springer Protocols is a database of nearly 18,000 reproducible laboratory protocols in the Life and Biomedical Sciences. Protocols are compiled from Humana’s book series Methods in Molecular Biology, Methods in Molecular Medicine, Methods in Biotechnology, Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Neuromethods, as well as from a vast number of laboratory handbooks such as The Biomethods

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In celebration of Black History Month, the National Library of Medicine is pleased to announce an important addition to PubMed Central (PMC), its free digital archive of full-text journal articles: the complete archive of the Journal of the National Medical Association (JNMA), which observes its centennial this year.Established in 1895, the National Medical Association is the largest and oldest

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JAMAevidence helps clinical decision-makers identify the best available evidence by providing guides to the systematic consideration of the validity, importance, and applicability of claims about the assessment of health problems and the outcomes of health care. JAMAevidence features: full text access to The User's Guides to the Medical Literature and The Rational Clinical Examination

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We have now subscribed to this online resource, which features full text as well as indexing and abstracting for all weekly issues of the New Scientist magazine from 1997 to present. For more details see our January 7/09 posting. Explore the New Scientist Archive now!

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The Dal Libraries have now subscribed to this EBSCOHost resource, which provides full text access dating from January 1995 to the current issue, with abstracts from 1984. For more details see our December 19/08 posting. Enjoy Scientific American Online now!

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The Libraries have acquired 19,338 titles from this popular e-book platform. MyiLibrary offers desktop access to electronic books from some of the world's major publishers, including Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Taylor and Francis. All subject areas are covered and features include: full text searching by keyword, author, ISBN, publisher, publication date, subject or

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The Kellogg Health Sciences Library has acquired the Life Sciences Electronic Book Series Package from Elsevier ScienceDirect. Titles include Advances in Applied Microbiology; Advances in Cancer Research; Advances in Genetics; Advances in Immunology; Methods in Cell Biology; Progress in Brain Research; and Progress in Nucleic Acid Research and Molecular Biology. View a complete list of the titles

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The Kellogg Library has just added this electronic version, which is available from vol. 32(1994), to their print journal holdings. DTB's aim is to provide informed and unbiased information on medical conditions, medicines and other treatments to enable people to make informed choices.True to this objective, DTB is wholly independent of pharmaceutical industry, government and regulatory

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Dalhousie Libraries have committed to renew our Sage Online Journals collection through CRKN for the period 2009-2011. Beginning in 2009, we will have access to all 514 titles that Sage offers. We will also gain access to deep backfiles for 380 titles. "Deep backfile" covers the first issue of the journal to the last issue of 1998."Sage Premier" covers from the first issue of 1999 to the current

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The New Scientist keeps its readers up to date with the latest science and technology news from around the world. With a network of correspondents and editorial offices worldwide, the publication has a global reach with in-depth reports on the biggest scientific events of the week. Regular sections include interviews with high-profile personalities, essays, book reviews and bestseller lists. The

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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,

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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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.comGreenFILE 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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,

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Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime HistoryOxford Encyclopedia of American LiteratureOxford Encyclopedia of British LiteratureOxford Encyclopedia of Economic HistoryEncyclopedia of the Middle AgesOxford Dictionary of the Renaissance

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