QCAT Outage on Tues, July 24, 7-10 am
Posted: July 19th, 2007QCAT, the Queen’s Library catalogue, will be unavailable on Tuesday, 24 July 2007 from 7 – 10 am, to enable installation of system software patches.
Library News July 2007
Health Sciences Article Citations
Posted: July 18th, 2007Provided from a science and engineering perspective, this portion of the July 2007 Engineering and Science Library Newsletter includes links to information relevant and of interest to health science students, faculty and professionals as well.
- The Web of Science is of course a great resource when looking for how many times and by whom an article has been cited, in the health sciences as well as in other disciplines.
- The link to the Top 10 Researchers In… of 2007 page includes health science categories such as Clinical Medicine, Immunology, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Neuroscience & Behavior, Pharmacology & Toxicology, and Psychiatry/Psychology.
- And 6 of Canada’s Top Ten Hot Papers are from the health science related categories mentioned above, many of which are from Queen’s University authors.
July issue of the Eng/Sci library newsletter
Posted: July 13th, 2007The July issue of the Engineering and Science Newsletter is now available.
Improved interface for InfoRetreiver on PDA
Posted: July 13th, 2007According to a recent announcement from Wiley InterScience, there is now a “new and improved interface easier to use and more intuitive than ever before.” They have improved the overall navigation, made it possible to change the font size, reduced the amount of scrolling necessary, provided functions to refine search results further, and more.
To take advantage of these enhancements, you’ll need to download the latest version. (The InfoRetriever Updater will continue to keep your content up to date.)
For more information, visit www.infopoems.com.
SPIE Digital Library
Posted: July 11th, 2007Queen’s Library now has a subscription to SPIE Digital Library.
“SPIE Digital Library is the most extensive resource available on optics and photonics, providing unprecedented access to more than 230,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1990 to the present. More than 17,000 new research papers are added annually.”
For more information about this database, consult the vendor’s guide.
For help with using SPIE Digital Library, consult the vendor’s Quick Start Guide.
Keesings World News Archive
Posted: July 9th, 2007Queen’s Library now has a subscription to Keesing’s World News Archive.
This database contains a 76-year archive of news reports which have been collected daily by the Keesing’s editors from sources around the world. Read more about the database.
QCAT has Changed! New Features, New Look
Posted: July 9th, 2007QCAT has undergone minor surgery and has received a few enhancements!
- My Bookbag – Save records to your own virtual ‘bookbag’ for future reference.
- Saved Searches – Save your perfectly-constructed search queries for future use.
- Menu Options - The menu options at the top of QCAT have been reorganized to facilitate easier navigation:
- A Quick Links menu with convenience links outside of QCAT (text links at the very top of the screen)
- A QCAT Menu listing QCAT sections and features (blue tab images)
- Search Options – Some of our search options have been reordered and renamed.
- New Graphics – The QCAT banner and menu graphics have been redesigned to achieve a cleaner, fresher appearance.
Our hope is that these modest changes make QCAT a little easier to learn and use. Queen’s University Library is planning to make more significant improvements to QCAT in Summer 2008. If you have any comments or feedback on QCAT, send them to us — library@post.queensu.ca.
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Illustrata Database (trial extended)
Posted: July 9th, 2007“The first in a series of CSA Illustrata databases of searchable tables, figures, graphs, charts and other illustrations from the scholarly research and technical literature.”
Please check out this database and let us know what you think. Comments can be sent to engsci@post.queensu.ca . Trial extended until the end of July.
New database of journal user information.
Posted: July 9th, 2007Journal Info, developed by Lund University Libraries with support from the National Library of Sweden, provides useful user information on about 18,000 journals from a variety of academic fields. Although there are other databases of journal information providing exact titles, ISSNs, and subject descriptors, Journal Info brings together this information with data on reader accessibility (such as whether it is Open Access or not), cost (e.g. price per article), and quality (listing impact factors and databases each are indexed in). Although already easy to use and an important tool, the system is still very new so the developers are open to suggestions for improvement.
Brief QCAT Outage Sunday Morning (July 8)
Posted: July 5th, 2007QCAT, the Library Catalogue, will be unavailable briefly around 8:30 am on Sunday morning, 8 July 2007, to enable installation of server software patches.
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