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Library News September 2008

Economists comment on the proposed U.S. Treasury bailout plan

Posted: September 26th, 2008

The Economist’s Voice Journal is featuring ongoing commentary on the current financial crisis and proposed bailout.

“Congress meets on Friday September 26th to evaluate the Treasury’s proposed bailout plan. More expert economists weigh in, at the 11th hour, with incisive critiques and proposals.”

Special Issue: Financial Regulation, Financial Crisis, and Bailouts

New E-Resources in Chemistry

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.

Erudit

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).

Past Masters (humanities & social science full-text collection)

Posted: September 25th, 2008

Past Masters

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).

Web access to SciFinder temporarily unavailable off campus

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.

Knovel University Challenge for Engineering & Science Students.

Posted: September 25th, 2008

The Knovel University Challenge is back! To enter the contest:

  1. Go to http://www.info.knovel.com/challenge/
  2. 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.

InformaWorld (Taylor & Francis) E-Journals Unavailable Intermittently on Sat, 27 Sept 2008

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.”

Queen’s Learning Commons Technology Showcase, Sept 26, 2008

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

Scholars Portal Search Databases Unavailable Sat, Sept 20, 8-9 am

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.

Off-Campus (Proxy) Access to E-Resources Unavailable Thurs Sept 18, 7-7:30 am

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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