Victorian Popular Culture (Trial ends March 13/09 )

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.

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Political Science Complete (Trial ends March 31/09)

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 full-text conference papers, including those of the International Political Science Association. PSC includes a subject-specific thesaurus with 10,453 terms (4,041 preferred and 6,352 non-preferred terms), to provide subject searching guidance to researchers. Explore it now!

Global Issues in Context (Trial ends March 11/09)

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" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information.
Rich multimedia including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs enhance each portal. Use "Browse Issues and Topics," "Country Finder," "Basic Search" or "Advanced Search" to explore this database.

The American West (on trial until March 13)

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 of westward expansion and of life in the borderlands.

This database is a unique resource which allows scholars to explore all of these areas and more through a dynamic mixture of original manuscripts, maps, ephemeral material and rare printed sources.
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Social Work Abstracts (Trial ends March 31/09)

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 professional perspectives on subjects such as therapy, education, human services, addictions, child and family welfare, mental health, civil and legal rights, and more will find Social Work Abstracts to be a useful resource.
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Informa Healthcare eBook Collection

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 Science
  
• Toxicology
  
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
  
• Drug Design & Development
  
• Oncology
  
• Cardiology
  
• Dermatology
  
• Neurology
  
• Endocrinology
  

This collection is available on the ebrary™ platform. To access it search "Informa Healthcare" on the Dal Libraries database search page, or find it on the Kellogg Library's ebooks web page. Eventually, individual titles will be available through Novanet.

On the ebrary platform, one has the option of "Quick View" for fast reading of books, or one can launch the ebrary reader to enable other features such as printing, highlighting, copying and adding notes.

Springer Lab Protocols

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 Handbook, The Proteomics Handbook, and the Springer Laboratory Manuals. Springer Protocols offers researchers access to nearly thirty years worth of step-by-step protocols for use in their lab.

Used primarily in the life sciences, protocols provide individual sets of instructions that allow scientists to recreate experiments in their own laboratory. These documents provide instructions for the design and implementation of experiments that include the safety bias, procedural equipment, statistical methods, reporting and troubleshooting standards for the experiment.

The Springer Protocols are organized into 15 subject collections:
Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Cancer Research, Cell Biology, Genetics/Genomics, Imaging/Radiology, Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Microbiology, Molecular Medicine, Neuroscience, Pharmacology/Toxicology, Plant Sciences and Protein Science.

Keep up-to-date with new protocols by subscribing to RSS feeds or by signing up for email alerts.

You can search for protocols or browse by subject area. Methods in Molecular Biology and Methods in Molecular Medicine are also indexed in PubMed. Access to Springer Protocols is available through the Dal Libraries databases page and the Kellogg Library's e-book page, or you can link directly to Springer Protocols