Bracken Library has subscribed to 50 different Clinics titles, each one covering a distinct area of surgery, medicine and nursing. Titles include: Anesthesiology clinics, Clinics in perinatology, Hand clinics, Neurologic clinics, Nursing clinics of North America, Physical medicine and rehabilitation clinics of North America, and Sleep medicine clinics. Hosted on the ScienceDirect platform, these titles are accessible from both QCAT and the E-Journals list.

With this new Library subscription to all sections of the Social Science Research Network, Queen’s researchers now have access to a source of early dissemination of research results in the social sciences as well as the humanities.  The collection provides abstracts as well as full-text (where available) of articles and working papers.

Subject areas included in the Network are:

• Accounting
• Economics
• Entrepreneurship
• Health economics
• Information systems and ebusiness
• Legal scholarship
• Management research
• Political science
• Social and environmental impact
• Humanities – Classics
• Humanities – English and American Literature
• Humanities – Partners in publishing
• Humanities – Philosophy

 abstracts, articles and working papers.  

A specialized electronic reference database, Referex Engineering draws on hundreds of premium engineering books to serve as a pool of answers to your reference questions.

Referex Engineering is comprised of six editorially crafted collections of professionally focussed e-books which bring together key sources of reference material. Referex is fully searchable and instantly delivers full-text content of over 1,600 e-book titles across the following collections:

• Chemical, Petrochemical and Process Engineering
• Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Computing; Electronics and Electrical Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering and Materials
• Networking and Security

Referex Engineering allows you to:

• Easily locate answers from among hundreds of fully searchable reference sources, saving valuable time
• Powerfully search over 1,600 titles simultaneously
• Complement the information you glean from bibliographic databases, including Compendex and Inspec, with essential reference content to simplify the research process

Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) is a collection of backfiles of approximately 500 scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences published between 1802 and 1995.  The collection scope is international and includes more than 60 foreign-language titles with approximately 20% of the database containing non-English language content.  Read more information.

This database is complementary to, rather than overlapping with, JSTOR – another large collection of backfiles of scholarly journals, to which Queen’s Library also subscribes.

Access to PAO has been acquired as part of the 2008 Digital Content Infrastructure for the Human and Social Sciences (DCI) Project, led by the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN).

Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007

This online “portal” for slavery and abolition studies, published by Adam Matthew Digital, provides access to relevant documents and collections from libraries and archives in the “Atlantic world”.  Focus is on the varieties and legacy of slavery, the social justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today.

More information.

Queen’s subscription to this full-text database published by Adam Matthew Digital has been acquired as part of the 2008 Digital Content Infrastructure for the Human and Social Sciences (DCI) Project, led by the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN).

“Mass Observation was a pioneering social research organisation whose papers provide insights into the cultural and social history of Britain from 1937 to 1965. The material at the Mass Observation Archive, and now on Mass Observation Online, offers an unparalled insight into everyday life in the 1930s and 1940s.”   More information.

Queen’s subscription to this full-text database published by Adam Matthew Digital has been acquired as part of the 2008 Digital Content Infrastructure for the Human and Social Sciences (DCI) Project, led by the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN).

A full-text database published by Adam Matthew Digital, Defining Gender, 1450-1910 is described by the vendor as an “exciting collection of original source material from British and European archives [which] will enrich the teaching and research experience of those studying history, literature, sociology, education and cultural studies from a gendered perspective”.  Read complete product description.

Queen’s subscription to this new electronic resource has been acquired as part of the 2008 Digital Content Infrastructure for the Human and Social Sciences (DCI) Project, led by the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN).

The Bibliography of Asian Studies indexes journal articles and book chapters on all subjects pertaining to East, Southeast and South Asia.  Emphasis is on topics related to humanities and the social sciences and content indexed is primarily Western-language publications. 

Read more information about the database.

A new collection from Chadwyck Healey, British Periodicals provides access to facsimile page images and searchable full-text for nearly 500 British periodicals published from the 1680 through to the 1930s.  Records for the individual titles in the collection will be added to QCAT in the next couple of months.

For more information, see the vendor’s product description.

Queen’s Library now subscribes to the following full-text collections of Chinese-language academic journals from the China National Knowledge Infrastructure:

• Economics and Management series (802 titles)
• Politics, Military and Law series  (499 titles)
• Education and Social Sciences series (1,572 titles)

The coverage for each series is from 1994 to present.  Records for each of the journal titles will be added to the library catalogue over the coming months.