Come to Botterell Hall for the first annual “Celebration of Teaching: A Showcase of Innovation” on June 8 from 8:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. There will be a presentation by Dr. Karen Mann entitled, “Beyond Dr. Fox: What Makes Teaching Effective?” and a chance to check out some new tools, methods, and resources, along with the people behind them.
To register and get more information visit: meds.queensu.ca/celebrateteaching.
Science Commons and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) announced the release of “the Scholar’s Copyright Addendum Engine, an online tool created by Science Commons to simplify the process of choosing and implementing an addendum to retain scholarly rights. By selecting from among four addenda offered, any author can fill in a form to generate and print a completed amendment that can be attached to a publisher’s copyright assignment agreement to retain critical rights to reuse and offer their works online.”
http://scholars.sciencecommons.org/
A new collection in streaming video, Theatre in Video provides access to more than 250 performances of the world’s leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries. The productions are primarily in English, although the collection includes a few French-language performances as well. Users can create personal playlists of clips and share those clips with other users on the site. The collection’s editors also have prepared ”themed playlists” for users to browse.
“The collection aims to begin in the 1930s and will progress through the 20th century … When complete, Theatre in Video will contain more than 350 full-length plays and documentaries.” Read more about the collection.
Social Theory is a new online, full-text resource for students and scholars in the humanities and social sciences. “Originally conceived in 2005, the database brings together an extensive range of influential writings representing the most important trends of sociological thought from the eighteenth century to the present day. Included in the more than 150,000 pages of searchable content are seminal works by such theorists as Harriet Martineau, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Max Weber, Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Jürgen Habermas, Talcott Parsons, Michel Foucault and Jean Baudrillard.”
For more information, consult the vendor’s Product Description.
Film and Television Literature Index (on EBSCOHost)
This citation database indexes international film and television literature, both scholarly and popular. Coverage includes film and television theory, preservation and restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.
Read more information in the vendor’s product guide.
The following CSA databases are available on trial until June 15, 2007.
For more information please go to: http://library.queensu.ca/db_access/dbtrials.htm
Through the Library’s new subscription to Naxos Music Library, the Queen’s community now has online audio access to sound recordings from the complete catalogues of BIS, Chandos, CPO, Hänssler, Hungaroton, Marco Polo, Naxos and selected titles of other leading independent labels, with more labels being added from time to time. The collection covers all genres of music, from classical to jazz/folk/blues to world/folk to Chinese music to pop and rock.
Also included are:
Note: Queen’s subscription allows for 100 simultaneous connections. Extensive user instructions and user guides are linked to the Naxos Music Library main page.
A collection of searchable, digital facsimiles of English newspapers and journals published between 1699 and 1812, Eighteenth Century Journals II Online is derived from the holdings of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre (at the University of Texas at Austin). The material reproduced in this new digital project covers many rare items not held by The British Library.
“Topics covered are extremely wide-ranging and include: the writings of Sir Isaac Newton; the French Revolution; reviews of literature and fashion throughout Europe; political debates; and coffee house gossip and discussion. For any library supporting studies of the Eighteenth Century – including Literature, the Theatre, the origins and rise of Romanticism, Politics, Revolution and Rebellion, Social issues, Gender, Society Life, Religion and the influence of the Press – these periodicals and newspapers will prove to be an important and multi-faceted resource. We feature many short run items and very rare materials which will be an excellent complement to other resources already available in this area.” — http://www.18thcjournals2.amdigital.co.uk/introduction/index.aspx
Read more information about the nature and scope of Eighteenth Century Journals II.
Produced by the Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main, the Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft is the most comprehensive bibliography and index of publications on German language and literary studies. This online version covers the period from 1985 to present.
The May issue of the Engineering and Science Newsletter is now on the web at http://library.queensu.ca/webeng/newsletter/newsletter.htm
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