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ARBA Online – American Reference Books Annual

Posted: June 30th, 2009

Queen’s Library now has a subscription to ARBA Online — the online version of the print publication known as American Reference Books Annual.

Coverage is from 1997 to present and content is updated monthly.

The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online

Posted: June 2nd, 2009

Queen’s Library now subscribes to the online version of the The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition (2008), edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume. To connect to the database, visit: http://library.queensu.ca/research/databases/record/6287.

“While some classic articles from the 1987 were retained, around 80% of the text was either entirely new or substantially rewritten to reflect the depth of change within the discipline between the editions. This new edition retains the inspiring tradition of bringing together the world’s most influential economists writing in their own voice on their areas of expertise, but in its online incarnation it has married this tradition with the benefits of a dynamic, updated resource serving the information needs of a new generation of economists.” (cf. Publisher’s product description)

Lyell Collection – Publications of the Geological Society of London

Posted: April 28th, 2009

With this new subscription to the Geological Society of London’s Lyell Collection, Queen’s Library is pleased to provide faculty, staff and students with full-text access to the Society’s key publications issued since 1845.  The following titles, among others, are included in the collection:

Lyell Collection, Geological Society of London

New Online Databases Available Thanks to Knowledge Ontario

Posted: April 28th, 2009

Members of the Queen’s community recently gained access to several new online resources of wide general interest, thanks to generous funding from the Government of Ontario and province-wide negotiation with commercial database vendors by Knowledge Ontario’s Resource Ontario team (read more about Knowledge Ontario/Resource Ontario).

Among these new acquisitions are:

American Geophysical Union Publications (AGU Digital Library)

Posted: January 7th, 2009

Queen’s Library now has a subscription to the AGU Digital Library, a full-text collection of journals, books and lectures/interviews published by the American Geophysical Union.  More information.

Online access to the Merck Index

Posted: January 7th, 2009

The Merck Index (14th ed.) is now available online to the Queen’s community.

This database constitutes an encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs, and biologicals with information derived from more than 10,000 monographs.  Search/browse access is by:

  • compound (basic or structure)
  • organic name reaction

The site also includes supplemental tables (abbreviations, acronyms, atomic weights, etc.).

Classical Scores Library

Posted: November 13th, 2008

Classical Scores Library contains 400,000 pages of classical music scores, manuscripts and previously unpublished material, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 8,000 musical scores.   The database provides access to multiple types of scores across various composers, genres and time periods.  Included are:

  • full scores
  • study scores
  • piano and vocal scores
  • piano reductions
  • opera, vocal and choral texts which allow for deep searching and textual analysis

Queen’s Library has been able to acquire this new subscription thanks to the 2008 Digital Content Infrastructure for the Human and Social Sciences (DCI) Project, led by the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN).

Classical Scores Library

Erudit

Posted: September 25th, 2008

With this new subscription to the Érudit journal collection, the Queen’s community gains online access to the full-text of approximately 65 Canadian scholarly journals primarily in the humanities and social sciences.  Most of the journals are in French but the collection includes a few bilingual and English titles.  View the complete collection title list.

Queen’s Library has been able to acquire access to this collection thanks to the 2008 Digital Content Infrastructure for the Human and Social Sciences (DCI) Project, led by the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN).

Past Masters (humanities & social science full-text collection)

Posted: September 25th, 2008

Past Masters

Past Masters provides access to 117 full-text collections of writings, in both original language and English translation, by seminal figures in the humanities and social sciences.  Much of the content is licensed from Oxford University Press, with significant collections from other major scholarly publishers including Harvard University Press, Indiana University Press and Pickering & Chatto. Major university initiatives included in the series are the Connaught Descartes Project from the University of Toronto, John Dewey’s works and correspondence from the Center for Dewey Studies at Southern Illinois University, and Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Gesamtbriefwechsel from the Brenner Archive at the University of Innsbruck.   Consult the complete list of authors included in the collection.

Queen’s Library has been able to acquire this new subscription thanks to the 2008 Digital Content Infrastructure for the Human and Social Sciences (DCI) Project, led by the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN).

Science of Synthesis

Posted: September 15th, 2008

Science of Synthesis: Houben-Weyl Methods of Molecular Transformations  (Version 3.6, Release date: August 2008)

Originally issued as a 38-volume print publication, this comprehensive encyclopedia on synthetic organic chemistry is now available online thanks to a new Library subscription to the electronic version.  Read more information about this e-publication (including system requirements).

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