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New Database Trial: InCites

Posted: May 26th, 2016

Available 26 May – 27 June, 2016, InCites is a customized, citation-based research evaluation tool on the Web that lets academic, government and research administrators and funders conduct analyses on their productivity and benchmark their research output against peers worldwide.

To learn more about InCites™ go to http://researchanalytics.thomsonreuters.com

Webinar on how to use InCites: Play recording

For more see: YouTube channel

Guides: InCites Handbook

New Database Trial: South Asian Newspapers, 1864-1922

Posted: May 6th, 2016

Available 6 May – 5 June, 2016, South Asian Newspapers, 1864-1922, is a one-of-a-kind collection providing online access to a select group of South Asian newspapers from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Featuring English-, Gujarati- and Bengali-language papers published in India, in the regions of the Subcontinent that now comprise Pakistan, and in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), South Asian Newspapers offers extensive coverage of the people, issues and events that shaped the Indian Subcontinent between 1864 and 1922.

New Database Trial: Statista

Posted: March 30th, 2015

Available March 30 – April 17th, Statista offers 1.5 million statistics from over 18,000 sources (including both national and international data) and over 60,000 topics in 21 multidisciplinary categories, ranging from agriculture to media & marketing and consumer & demographic data.   Including 10,000 studies and reports from third parties and 1,000 Statista dossiers and industry reports.  Up-to-date statistical data from around the globe (e.g., most played PC games, number of World of Warcraft subscribers, national tax revenues from commercial casinos in the U.S. in 2013, etc.) plus market reports on specific subject matters (social networking in China, e-commerce), popular industries, technology & telecommunication, retail & trade, etc. Check it out!

New database Trial: Bloomsbury Drama Online Library

Posted: March 23rd, 2015

Bloomsbury Drama Online Library: provides contextual and critical background through scholarly works and practical guides; play tools with character grids, words and speech graphs and part books offer a new way to engage with plays for close study or for performance; access to the finest drama texts from Aeschylus to the present day; student editions, scholarly works and first night programme texts; features the pre-eminent theatre lists of Methuen Drama, the Arden Shakespeare and Faber and Faber as well as production photos from the Victoria and Albert Museum and The American Shakespeare Center; forthcoming collections from L.A. Theatre Works (Audio Plays) and the Nick Hern Books Play Collection will be available this year.

Database trial from 17 March – 15 May 2015.

Drama Online Database trial

For more information, see: Bloomsbury Drama Online Library.

New Database: Criterion on Demand

Posted: January 12th, 2015

Queen’s University Library now subscribes to Criterion-on-Demand

http://library.queensu.ca/research/databases/record/11652

criterion on demand

Developed by Criterion Pictures, Criterion-on-Demand is an online digital delivery feature film system that allows members of the Queen’s University community to access films for teaching, research and personal use.  Users may stream or download from a selection of over 2900 films ranging from classic film, documentaries, international film, North American feature films, cult classics, and more. Criterion-on-Demand represents a large number of feature film producers, including, 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight, Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks SKG, Mongrel Media, Sony Pictures Classics, Alliance Films, Miramax Films, Warner Brothers, Lionsgate Films, The Weinstein Company, as well as a smaller number of independent producers.

Within the Criterion-on-Demand platform users can search for titles or browse by title or subject. Records for individual films will be loaded into QCAT when available and will then be discoverable via searching the library catalogue and Summon.

Queen’s University Library subscribes to a number of streaming video databases. A complete list can be found at http://library.queensu.ca/research/databases/t/852

New Subscriptions: Nature Chemistry, Nature Climate Change & Nature Communications

Posted: October 6th, 2014

Queen’s Library started a subscription to Nature Chemistry, Nature Climate Change, and Nature Communications.

These are the recent additions to other Nature Publications provided by Queen’s Library.

New Subscription: ASTM Standards & Digital Library (SEDL)

Posted: October 6th, 2014

Queen’s Library subscribes to ASTM Standards & Digital Library providing access to 1,400+ books, 60,000+ articles and chapters in addition to 12,000+ standards.

ASTM International, formerly known as the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), is a globally recognized leader in the development and delivery of international voluntary consensus standards

ASTM Journals

New Database: Library PressDisplay

Posted: May 21st, 2014

Get online access to today’s newspapers from around the world in full-color, full-page format. The service also provides up to a 60-day back-file and the ability to perform keyword searches across all titles and the entire back-file. Click here to access.

New Trial: Web of Knowledge:

Posted: September 25th, 2013

Web of Knowledge will be the new official name for Web of Science. Take some time to explore and assess the new resources available to Queen’s through this trial. The Book Citation Index and the Data Citation Index are also included in this trial. The trial ends October 4th. Since your feedback is important to helping the Library make the best acquisitions decisions, we encourage you to send us your comments about the value of the new features of Web of Knowledge.

New Subscription: The Vogue Archive

Posted: February 20th, 2013

vogue

The Library now has a subscription to the The Vogue Archive, a complete searchable archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out has been included. It is a unique record of American and international popular culture that extends beyond fashion.

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