Tue., Apr. 5, 10:00-11:30am
Wed., Apr. 6, 1:00-2:30pm
Location: E-classroom, Engineering & Science Library (Douglas Library)

Patents are an important source of scientific and technical information, much of which is not published in journals. This workshop will introduce you to patent documents and how to find patents related to a specific technology or product. Register online at http://library.queensu.ca/node/8464.

Celebrate World IP Day, April 26!

IGI Global’s InfoSci-Books is an e-book collection/searchable database that covers scholarly research on advanced computer science and information technology research with a strong focus on the role, impact, and effective use of technology across a variety of settings, including business, education,health care, government, and more.
Accessible through April 29, 2011.

The New York Times is now charging for unlimited access to their articles on www.nytimes.com.
Visitors will be allowed to view 20 articles for free each month. To read more, you will need a subscription.

The Queen’s community has access to the current New York Times articles through the library’s subscription to Factiva and has access to articles all the way back to 1851 via the New York Times database. As well the current print edition is available to read in the library.

The Library now subscribes to the Library of Latin Texts Online.

From the publisher’s website:

CLCLT is the world’s leading database for Latin texts. It contains texts from the beginning of Latin literature (Livius Andronicus, 240 BC) through to the texts of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). It covers all the works from the classical period, the most important patristic works, a very extensive corpus of Medieval Latin literature as well as works of recentior latinitas. The complete works of writers such as Cicero, Virgil, Augustine, Jerome, Gregory the Great, Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux and Thomas a Kempis can thus be consulted. The texts have been taken from the Corpus Christianorum series and from many other leading editions

In the March issue of BrackenNEWS, you can:

• Find information about copyright and online course materials
• Learn more about electronic resources like AccessMedicine and Anatomy.TV
• Check out some upcoming publications and presentations by Bracken librarians
• and more!

(Missed the last one?  Click here for the archive page.)

The Library now subscribes to the database Sage Research Methods Online.

From the publisher’s website:

SAGE Research Methods Online (SRMO) is a research tool supported by a newly devised taxonomy that links content and methods terms. It provides the most comprehensive picture available today of research methods (quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods)across the social and behavioural sciences. It includes more than 100,000 pages of SAGE book and reference material on research methods as well as editorially selected material from SAGE journals. In addition, SRMO contains content from more than 600 books, including the complete Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences “Little Green Books” series from SAGE

Explore this trial database until 7 April, 2011.

Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980, Section I: Independence, Partition and the Nehru Era, 1947-1964 outlines the political, military, economic and social history of the Indian subcontinent from the independence of India and Pakistan in 1947 until 1964.

Keeping Current with Personalized Awareness Tools

March 29, 2011  4:00-5:00 p.m.
Bracken Health Sciences Library e-lab
Presented by: Michelle Swab, BA, MA, MLIS candidate 
Register online at: http://library.queensu.ca/health/grads/workshops

Current awareness services are tools that allow you to keep up to date with the professional literature in your field of interest.  You will create TOC (Table of Contents) alerts using TicTOCs and Search Result alerts using PubMed.  It is also possible to create a Citation alert, which will notify you whenever an article (perhaps your own publication!) is cited. You will learn the pros and cons of browser-based feed readers vs. web-based feed readers.  You will create a Google Reader account and start to populate it with your own feeds (i.e. subscriptions).

The Academic Planning Task Force has drafted a document listing four pillars for the student learning experience.

Comments can be made on the Senate Academic Planning website: http://www.queensu.ca/saptf/

This document and your comments will shape the Academic Plan for our university.

On March 9th, QCARD is being replaced by the SOLUS Student Centre, and this will bring about changes to how student library fees can be paid.  After March 9th, any library fees or fines owed by students will automatically be transferred to student SOLUS accounts, and counted alongside tuition and other university fees.

As of March 9th, Students will need to start paying their library fines directly through the University Registrar (using the same methods used to pay tuition).

• Payment Methods for Tuition & Fees – students: pay your library fines using one of these methods

Library circulation desks can no longer accept payments.  Login to My Library Account to view any fines you may owe.

Non-student borrowers (faculty, staff, community borrowers, etc.) can still pay library fines via the circulation desk.  More information about paying library fines and fees.

If you have any questions about your fines, please contact the circulation desk at the appropriate library.