2011 Inquiry @ Queen’s Undergraduate Research Conference – Call for Presenters
Posted: December 21st, 2010Please submit your proposal by 4:00 pm, Friday, February 11, 2011.
Please submit your proposal by 4:00 pm, Friday, February 11, 2011.
The Library is now providing access to Westlaw Canada LawSource.
From the publisher’s site:
Westlaw Canada’s mandate is to provide coverage of unreported court decisions from 1986 forward and reported court decisions from 1977, as well as decisions published in Carswell law reports from their inception. You will also find that Westlaw Canada includes an extensive collection of decisions predating 1977 from key courts and law report series.
More detailed information about what’s in LawSource is also available on the publisher’s website. Or access the full database directly now.
Winter term sessions include RefWorks, PubMed vs. Medline, and Current Awareness using RSS Feeds. The workshops are intended for graduate students, but anyone is welcome to attend. More info and registration.
Due to a scheduled power outage at Dupuis Hall, the QCAT Library Catalogue will not be available between December 28-30. The following online services will be unavailable:
During the power outage, the library website, Connect from Off-Campus, and our Summon search tool will still be available, providing access to most electronic resources (online databases and journals) subscribed to by the library.
We regret any inconvenience this will cause, and look forward to full library web service resuming on December 31.
Explore this trial database until 31 December, 2010.
A research methods tool linking SAGE’s research methods content with search tools. Contains 504 book titles, including the entire QASS (aka Little Green Book) series, 6 dictionaries, 4 encyclopedias and a Major Work containing journal articles.
Queen’s has been named Canada’s second most vegan-friendly university by a major international animal rights group in an on-line contest that looks at the food served on campuses.
More information.
The December issue of the Engineering & Science Library newsletter is now available at http://library.queensu.ca/webeng/newsletter/newsletter.htm
Submit your Course Reserve items using the online form.
Course Reserve is for both print and electronic readings. If a reading is only available in print format, QCAT will indicate that it’s placed on Course Reserve at Bracken and, if the item is signed out, when it is due back. For readings in electronic format, a durable link to the journal article is provided.
To see an example, in QCAT, the Queen’s Library Catalogue, click on the Course Reserves tab and select the course OT 843.
If you have any questions, please contact Bracken Health Sciences Library Access Services in person, by phone at x32510, or by e-mail at bracken.circdesk@queensu.ca
Stauffer Library hours are extended to 24 hours a day through the exam period, from December 5 to 21. See extended Bracken Library hours and hours for other campus libraries.
The Education Library and the Teacher Resource Centre are closed from Friday December 3 through Sunday December 5, and plan to re-open on Monday, December 6, 2010. Please check back for updates. Information about the tragic event of December 2 in Duncan McArthur Hall is available through Queen’s News Centre: http://www.queensu.ca/news/.