Posted: September 26th, 2008
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Posted: September 26th, 2008
Science of Synthesis (Thieme Chemistry)
Science of Synthesis (SoS) is an online database that contains more than 150,000 product specific experimental procedures, 580,000 structures and 700,000 references in all fields of synthetic organic chemistry from the early 1800s forward. SoS is organized in an hierarchical manner based on the product to be synthesized. Researchers may search SoS by structure and reaction, full text, name reactions, CAS number, catalyst, solvent, reaction temp. and reaction yield. SoS is based on the print series Houben-Weyl Methods of Organic Chemistry, which was published from 1913-2003.
Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry III (Elsevier)
Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry III (COCM-III) covers major developments in the field of organometallic chemistry since 1993. COCM is organized by compound and application. Researchers may search or browse by volume, author and subject. Each article is extensively cross-referenced and individual references are linked to full-text articles.
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Posted: September 25th, 2008
With this new subscription to the Érudit journal collection, the Queen’s community gains online access to the full-text of approximately 65 Canadian scholarly journals primarily in the humanities and social sciences. Most of the journals are in French but the collection includes a few bilingual and English titles. View the complete collection title list.
Queen’s Library has been able to acquire access to this collection thanks to the 2008 Digital Content Infrastructure for the Human and Social Sciences (DCI) Project, led by the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN).
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Posted: September 25th, 2008
Past Masters provides access to 117 full-text collections of writings, in both original language and English translation, by seminal figures in the humanities and social sciences. Much of the content is licensed from Oxford University Press, with significant collections from other major scholarly publishers including Harvard University Press, Indiana University Press and Pickering & Chatto. Major university initiatives included in the series are the Connaught Descartes Project from the University of Toronto, John Dewey’s works and correspondence from the Center for Dewey Studies at Southern Illinois University, and Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Gesamtbriefwechsel from the Brenner Archive at the University of Innsbruck. Consult the complete list of authors included in the collection.
Queen’s Library has been able to acquire 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).
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Posted: September 25th, 2008
Web access to SciFinder Scholar is temporarily unavailable off campus but is still available on campus. We hope to have the problem resolved by the end of next week, and apologize for any inconvenience.
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Posted: September 25th, 2008
The Knovel University Challenge is back! To enter the contest:
- Go to http://www.info.knovel.com/challenge/
- Search Knovel to correctly answer 3 engineering questions. (For tips of searching Knovel check out their online videos.)
The contest begins September 29th.
All entries with a total of at least 3 correct answers will be placed into a random drawing for one of (2) Nintendo Wiis, (3) iPod Nanos and (6) iTunes Gift Cards. The drawing will take place on December 1st, 2008.
For entries to be valid, and to qualify for prizes, students must use Knovel to answer the questions. The correct answers and winners of the contest will also be announced and featured in K-News and on www.knovel.com.
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Posted: September 23rd, 2008
Notification received from Taylor & Francis Publishers:
“Customers may experience intermittent access to informaworld on Saturday 27th September 2008 to allow us to complete some essential maintenance. We are expecting two short periods of downtime throughout the day which will last a maximum of thirty minutes.
“The informaworld team would like to apologise to our customers for any inconvenience this might cause.”
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Posted: September 22nd, 2008
The Emerging Technology Centre is hosting an Open House to showcase emerging technologies in teaching and learning. Students, faculty, and staff are all welcome. No registration required – please feel free to drop in.
Friday, September 26, 2008, 12 noon to 1:00 pm in Stauffer Library, Room 121
Featured Technologies: Digital Video Cameras, Ultra Mobile Devices, Portaable Recording Devices, Analog-Digital Audio/Video Converters, Whiteboarding Technologies
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Posted: September 19th, 2008
There will be an outage on the Scholars Portal Search server on Saturday morning, 20 September 2008 from 8 am to 9 am, to enable necessary server maintenance.
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Posted: September 17th, 2008
There will be a 30-minute interruption in off-campus access to “Queen’s-only” databases, e-journals, e-books and other electronic resources on Thursday, 18 September 2008 between 7-7:30 am to enable work on the Queen’s Proxy Server.
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