Wiley InterScience, which recently purchased Backwell Publishing, will be merging all Blackwell Synergy e-journals into the Wiley InterScience site.  In order to complete this merger, all e-journals housed at both Blackwell Synergy and Wiley InterScience will be completely unavailable from June 27 to June 30 inclusive.

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

We now have access to Encyclopedia of Applied Plant Science and Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry

The Encyclopedia of Applied Plant Sciences is a comprehensive yet succinct publication that covers the application of current advances in the biological sciences, through which scientists can now better produce sustainable, safe food, feed and food ingredients, and renewable raw materials for industry and society. This encyclopedia also covers the concerns over continuing advances in the application of knowledge in the areas of ecology and plant pathology, genetics, physiology, biochemistry and biotechnology, as well as the ethical issues involved in the use of the powerful techniques available to modern plant science.The Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry addresses the fundamental discipline of biological chemistry underlying virtually all of the life sciences. This compilation of more than 500 different entries encompasses all aspects of biochemistry, as well as the extensions of this subject into the related fields of molecular biology, cell biology, genetics and biophysics. This comprehensive encyclopedia covers all areas of biological chemistry written by more than 500 selected international experts. Articles are generously illustrated including more than 800 images in four-color. Each entry contains a clear, concise review of the topic along with illustrations, a glossary of technical terms and a section for additional reading. Each entry further contains general background and term definitions as well as a comprehensive review of the current research in the field.

The June Newsletter is now posted.

The Library Catalogue (QCAT) will be inaccessible on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at approximately 8 am, to enable routine maintenance.  The server should be back up again by 8:30 am.

The following CSA databases will be on trial until July 8/08:

1. Illustrata Natural Sciences – Searchable tables, figures, graphs, charts and other illustrations from the scholarly research and technical literature.

2. Illustrata Technology – Deep indexing for more than 500 publishers including: Wiley-Blackwell; Cambridge University Press; Emerald; Oxford University Press; and Springer. Core subject areas include materials science, engineering, aerospace, and high technology

3. CINDAS TPMD: The Thermophysical Properties of Matter Database (TPMD) contains thermophysical properties of over 5,000 materials with approximately 50,000 data curves that illustrate how various properties of materials behave under different test conditions. The database is searchable by material group, material name, property group, property name and independent variable. For all data curves, the material composition, experimental conditions, raw or smoothed data, and references are given. These references may be to published literature, theses, or technical and laboratory reports. Dynamic graphing capabilities allow users to compare the same property of multiple materials or the same material under different conditions, as well as change the ranges on the graph axes.

4. CINDAS MPMD:The Microelectronics Packaging Materials Database (MPMD) contains data on thermal, mechanical, electrical and physical properties of electronics packaging materials. This database which contains properties of over 750 materials and contains over 15,000 data curves was developed under the sponsorship of the Semiconductor Research Corporation. The database is searchable by material group, material name, property group, property name and independent variable. For all data curves, the material composition, experimental conditions, raw or smoothed data, and references are given. These references may be to published literature, theses, or technical and laboratory reports. Dynamic graphing capabilities allow users to compare the same property of multiple materials or the same material under different conditions, as well as change the ranges on the graph axes.

We welcome your feedback. Comments may be sent to engsci@queensu.ca

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).