The first issue of the new journal Energy & Environmental Science has been published online at www.rsc.org/ees

Free for all to read online, this inaugural issue contains articles on
solar cells, hybrid fuel cells, hydrogen storage, thermochemical biofuel
production, sustainable energy and much more. Articles come from an
impressive list of international authors. Among them are Jefferson
Tester et al (MIT), looking at thermochemical biofuel production, while
Joseph Hupp’s team at Northwestern investigate the next generation of
dye-sensitized solar cells. Rattan Lal (Ohio State University) reviews
sequestration of atmospheric CO2, while Wolfgang Lubitz and colleagues
at Max Planck Institute present their work relating to solar fuel
production.

RSC is granting free access to current institutional subscribers to the end of 2009.

Due to an extensive power shut-down planned for the University’s main computing centre on Saturday, 26 July 2008 (to repair key power supplies in the building), the QCAT Library Catalogue & the ‘Connect from Off-Campus’ service will not be available that day between 5 am and 4 pm.

We apologize for this inconvenience.

Congratulations to Caitlyn Danard (Classics), the winner of a $20 Queen’s Food Services card in the library web banner survey draw.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey.  We received 136 responses from students, faculty, staff, alumni and visiting researchers.  Your helpful responses and comments made a difference to the look and feel of the new site! 

The much-accessed drug reference book “United States Pharmacopiea, Volume 1, Drug Information for the Health Care Professional” (or USP DI) has been renamed “DrugPoints” and is available exclusively online. It is an invaluable guide, in addition to the Canadian equivalent, the “Compendium of Pharmaceutical Specialties” (or CPS, also available online), for those requiring pharmaceutical substance information such as dosing & indications, contraindications/warnings, drug interactions, adverse effects, and more.

Please visit DrugPoints to look in this new format of an old favourite.

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.

Queen’s faculty, staff and students now have online access to the full-text of approximately 150 French-language journals in the social sciences and humanities published by four European publishing houses (Belin, De Boek, La Découverte and Erès) at a website called Cairn. The full-text coverage begins with 2001 and carries through to the  most recent issue.

The primary subject areas covered by this collection are history, psychology, economics, political science and sociology.  Over the next two years, titles will be added to the collection focussing on management, arts, literature, philosophy and religious studies.

To view the journals contained in the collection, go the Cairn homepage at http://www.cairn.info/ and explore the links under the heading Accès par discipline.

Queen’s Library has been able to purchase this new subscription thanks to the 2008 Digital Content Infrastructure for the Human and Social Sciences (DCI) Project, led by the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN).

Links from the Library Catalogue and the Library website to e-journals “at Blackwell Synergy” are now operational once again. Clicking on these links will automatically redirect you to the e-journal’s new homepage on the Wiley InterScience search interface.

For the next few weeks, there may be some Blackwell content which is not yet available on the new site. Please email us (library.serials@queensu.ca) if you encounter any of these instances so that we can follow up with the new publisher.

Keep current with your favourite journals, your areas of interest, or even with what publications are citing your research! Table of Contents, Search, or Citation Alerts can be set up using either RSS feeds or e-mail notification. See our current awareness guides or ask a librarian for help. Classes can be arranged for groups of five or more.

NOTE: On July 14, the Library Website (library.queensu.ca) may experience temporary display problems due to a design upgrade. Your patience during time is appreciated!

Queen’s University Library is making some changes to the library website this Summer:

1. We’re making the website easier to navigate
2. We’re giving the website a visual makeover

Below is a preview of our redesigned library homepage (going live in July 14, 2008):

The new design is the result of listening to you, our library users. We’ve interviewed lots of library patrons (undergrads, grads, faculty, staff…) and have taken a close look at our web usage statistics. We’ve eliminated some library jargon and put our most popular links in more prominent places. For example, you can search for journal articles right from the homepage.

Have any feedback on the new design? Feel free to send a quick email to Wendy Huot, Web Development Librarian (wendy.huot@queenus.ca).

Wiley InterScience, the new owners of Blackwell Synergy e-journals, are still in the process of merging all Blackwell content into the Wiley InterScience interface. As a result, as of 2 July 2008 Queen’s still does not have access to the full-text of articles in e-journal titles which are listed in QCAT, on the Library website and on the Get It! menu as being “at Blackwell Synergy”. The publisher expects to restore access soon.

E-journal titles listed in QCAT etc. as being “at Wiley InterScience” are now available once again.