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.