Are your MS Office skills a little rusty? or perhaps you don’t feel entirely comfortable navigating your way around the new 2007 version of MS Word?
The Queen’s Learning Commons (QLC) is here to help!
Several workshops are being offered during October on Word, Excel and PowerPoint: read more and sign up today!
China: Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980 is a new, online collection of digitized facsimile copies of unique manuscript materials held at the library of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and the British Library in London, “supplemented by additional sources from Cambridge University Library, the Church Missionary Society Archive, the Council for World Missions Library, Duke University, the National Archives at Kew, the Alexander Turnbull Library at the National Library of New Zealand and Yale Divinity Library.”
Also included are interactive maps and rare, printed materials such as missionary periodicals, atlases and books “which help to contextualize the other sources”. cf. http://www.china.amdigital.co.uk/Introduction/nature.aspx
The collection “provides multiple perspectives – from politicians, diplomats, missionaries, business people and tourists, and documents many of the key events that happened in this period, including:
For more information, consult the vendor’s product overview.
China Data Online provides the Queen’s community with new and unprecedented access to data from yearly China macro-economic statistics (1949-), monthly macro-economic statistics, monthly economic reports, city statistics (1996-), county statistics (1997-), industrial statistics, and various statistical yearbooks.
China Data Online is produced by the China Data Center at the University of Michigan - ”a national Center designed to advance the study and understanding of China. A primary goal of the Center is the integration of historical, social and natural science data in a geographic information system, where spatial and temporal references are maintained through a relational database. This will facilitate comparative and interdisciplinary uses of the data, enable both non-specialists and China scholars to understand and utilize these data, and enhance knowledge of China. Its missions include: to support research in the human and natural components of local, regional and global change; to promote quantitative research on China studies; to promote collaborative research in spatial studies; and to promote the use and sharing of China data in teaching and research.”
Now available at Queen’s is Academic Search Complete on EBSCOHost.
This large, interdisciplinary database indexes and abstracts more 10,000 journals, conference proceedings, monographs and reports on all major topics. Full-text is included for approximately 50% of the journal titles in the database.
More information about the database is available in the vendor’s product guide.
The September 2007 issue is now posted. News items include:
… and more!
DiscoveryGate will be unavailable on Sunday, September 23, 2007 from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM Pacific Time for routine system maintenance and upgrades. We do apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Access Science includes:
Log in to Access Science
Username: queensu
Password; science
Access Science is on trial until September 29th. Your feedback is important to helping the Library make the best acquisitions decisions. Please send comments to engsci@queensu.ca
The Left Index contains citations with abstracts (and some full-text content) to “the diverse literature of the left, with an emphasis on political, economic, social and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside academia”. Until now, the database has been available only on the BiblioLine interface but it is now searchable on the more familiar EBSCOhost platform: connect to The Left Index on EBSCOhost
More information about this database:
“Other topics covered include the labor movement, ecology & environment, race & ethnicity, social & cultural theory, sociology, art & aesthetics, philosophy, history, education, law and globalization. Coverage includes more than 247,500 citations and abstracts (with some full text) and spans from 1982 and earlier to present. Historically significant early Left publications such as The People (est. NY 1891) and The Class Struggle (1931 – 1937) along with classic texts by Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and others, written in the formative years of the Left are also covered. “ — cf. vendor’s product guide
The Library now has online access to databases prepared by the German Archaeological Institute in Rome, through the Projekt DYABOLA website. Included are:
For more information, and to connect: http://library.queensu.ca/db_access/dyabola.htm
Trial access to Morgan & Claypool’s Synthesis Digital Library will be available from September 10 – October 15. This database is of particular interest to people in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Your feedback is important to helping the Library make the best acquisitions decisions. Please send comments to engsci@queensu.ca
For more information about this database please go to the vendor’s overview.
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