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Data Day 2016: Maximize the Impact of Your Data

Posted: April 26th, 2016

Please join us for Queen’s University’s third annual Data Day. You will learn about evolving Queen’s data services, national guidelines (e.g. Tri-Council), and national and international initiatives for managing, linking and promoting your research data. You will hear from Queen’s researchers about their experiences in data management and learn more about digital scholarship across disciplines.

Registration and the program for Data Day 2016 are available here.

New lab boosts support for international students

Posted: April 16th, 2015

The Queen’s Learning Commons (QLC) Academic Skills Lab in Stauffer Library is a welcoming and flexible space that can accommodate small group discussions and one-on-one meetings with professional staff and trained peer assistants.

More about this story here.

Min Xing Zhu uses the new Queen's Learning Commons Academic Skills Lab to practice her presentation skills with Donna Katinas, ESL co-ordinator in the Writing Centre

Min Xing Zhu uses the new Queen's Learning Commons Academic Skills Lab to practice her presentation skills with Donna Katinas, ESL co-ordinator in the Writing Centre

It’s time for RECESS!

Posted: April 11th, 2014

Recess: Improve your productivity and reduce your stress.

There will be stress -relief activities in the libraries on campus starting Monday, April 7.  Activities such as drawing, puzzles and crafts will be provided.  These activities are sponsored by the QLC (www.queensu.ca/qlc)

It’s important to take a break from studying to give your brain and body a break. If you need help with studying, consult with Learning Strategies : http://www.queensu.ca/learningstrategies

Now available Euromonitor International’s Passport database

Posted: February 26th, 2014

From Euromonitor International, Passport is a database of market research on countries, markets and companies. It provides country demographics and economic conditions; consumer lifestyle profiles; sales volume, value and forecasts for retail products; major brands and companies. It covers consumer products and services in 80 national markets, demographics and economic data for 206 countries and has over 100 million exportable statistics and 18,000 regularly updated qualitative reports on industries, companies, countries, and consumers. Data spans 40 years with 15 year forecasts. Formerly known as GMID, Global Market Information Database.

Access: Passport or via http://library.queensu.ca/research/databases/record/10964

New Microfilm Readers

Posted: July 31st, 2013

The Library has purchased a number of new microfilm readers that are now available for use on the Lower Level of Stauffer Library.

The new readers are fast, easy to use and work with all of our film types (35mm, 16mm and fiche). They feature large screen displays, intuitive controls and the ability to capture high resolution images of film, process them with optical character recognition (OCR) software and save them to word searchable PDFs.

If you do any research using microfilm, we think you’ll be pleased with our new microfilm readers. To learn more about our microfilm services, come see us at Stauffer Library or visit our Microform Printing and Scanning Facilities page.

Worth Checking Out: RefWorks 2.0

Posted: July 27th, 2011

RefWorks Color logo

RefWorks 2.0—RefWorks’ new interface—is now the default for Queen’s users! The new, easy-to-navigate interface will make managing and sharing your research even easier. Your favourite features, including Write-N-Cite, are still available. In fact, additions such as the “My List” folder option and the ability to create subfolders enhance already-popular features like RefShare and Create Bibliography.

The traditional interface—RefWorks Classic—will be available until the end of December, 2011. Until then, you may return to Classic by clicking the “Login using RefWorks Classic” link on the RefWorks login center page. Alternately, once you have logged in to RefWorks 2.0, you can click on the “RefWorks Classic” link at the top right of the page to set your default to RefWorks Classic. You will be able to switch between Classic and 2.0 until RefWorks Classic is completely phased out.

RefWorks Classic

RefWorks 2.0

For more detailed information, please see the RefWorks 2.0BETA Quick Start Guide, the RefWorks 2.0 demo, or the RefWorks 2.0 FAQs. For more information about RefWorks in general, or to sign up for an account, please go to http://library.queensu.ca/help/refworks.

Please do not hesitate to contact Jennifer Szwec, Academic Public Services Intern at Bracken Health Sciences Library, with any questions you may have about RefWorks Classic or 2.0: bracken.library@queensu.ca.

Attach Articles in RefWorks

Posted: March 17th, 2009

RefWorks has implemented a feature which allows you to attach journal article PDFs to citations in your personal RefWorks database.  This will allow you to keep a copy of the full-text article with your citation.  Select a reference in your database.  Next to Attachments, click on Browse.  Select a file to attach. Select Open. Click on Add attachment.

Write-N-Cite, MS Office 2007 and Windows Vista

Posted: September 6th, 2007

Refworks Write-N-Cite is a downloadable utility that allows you to easily access the citations you have stored in your Refworks account, and use them as references in your paper, written in Microsoft Word.

With the radically new version of Microsoft Office 2007 including Word 2007 comes the introduction of the .docx file, which unfortunately cannot be handled by the current version of Refworks Write-N-Cite. Just remember to save your MS Word files in the “Word 97-2003 (*.doc)” format instead of the “Word 2007 (*.docx)” format to avoid any problems.

Also, there may be issues with using Refworks Write-N-Cite in a Windows Vista environment. You can search Google to find several workarounds, including this page from the University of Warwick that provides step-by-step instructions.