Saleem Ali from the University of Vermont will be giving a talk entitled “Minerals and Society: Need, Greed and a Sustainable Future” on November 23, 2011, 9:30 a.m. to 11:20, in Kingston Hall room 101.

Saleem H. Ali is Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont’s Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources and the Director of the Institute for Environmental Diplomacy and Security at UVM’s James Jeffords Center for Policy Research. He is also on the adjunct faculty of Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies and the visiting faculty for the United Nations mandated University for Peace (Costa Rica).

Dr. Ali’s research focuses on the causes and consequences of environmental conflicts and how ecological factors can promote peace. Much of his empirical research has focused on environmental conflicts in the mineral sector. His most recent book is titled Treasures of the Earth: Need, Greed and a Sustainable Future. He is also the author of Mining, the Environment and Indigenous Development Conflicts.

Everyone is invited to attend.

What if every scientist could share their data as easily as they tweet about their lunch? Michael Nielsen calls for scientists to embrace new tools for collaboration that will enable discoveries to happen at the speed of Twitter. http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_nielsen_open_science_now.html

The New England Journal of Medicine is celebrating its 200th anniversary with an essay & video contest for students!

The context is open to nursing students, rehabilitation therapy students, medical students, medical and health sciences postgrads as well as undergraduates interested in a career in the health professions.

To enter, simply submit a 500 word essay or 2-minute video on the following topic:

In the last twenty years, the internet and social networking have brought profound changes in how information is communicated.  How can we harness this technology to improve health?

120 entrants will receive invitations to the NEJM 200th anniversary symposium [in Boston] Friday June 22, 2012. 30 entrants will receive a travel award in the amount of $500 to attend the symposium and 3 entrants will receive a travel award in the amount of $1,000.

For full contest details, visit http://www.nejm.org/page/nejm-anniversary-essay-contest

The Fall 2011 issue of Focus on Global Resources explores, from a number of perspectives, the variety of source materials for scholarly research on the Middle East available from the Center for Research Libraries.

Queen’s subscribes to hundreds of databases that include millions of journal articles, newspaper articles and ebooks. For each of these databases, Queen’s signs a license that allows students, faculty and staff to use the materials in these databases for different purposes. Most databases allow you to link to material, but some also allow you to include material in coursepacks and/or post materials in Learning Management Systems like Moodle.

In the past, it has been very difficult to find out what rights were included in each license, but we have now put in place a database that allows you to find out exactly what is permitted under the terms of the licensing agreements that we have with each database provider. This information is now integrated into services like Summon and the Get It! @ Queen’s links that appear when searching in Google Scholar – meaning that you will not need to search a stand-alone database to find out what you can do with specific articles.

Watch a quick video of how this new service works here:
Licensing Database 2-Minute Demo.

If you have any questions about the terms of use for these databases, please send an email to Mark Swartz at copy.right@queensu.ca.

Note: This menu will only appear for some of the databases in our collection. This is just a start – over the coming months, we will be adding Terms of Use information for all of the databases in the library electronic collection.

Queen’s University is participating in International Open Access Week (Oct. 24-29). The aim of this event is to engage the research community in discussion about the issues and trends related to open access and promote awareness and understanding of open access – access to material publicly available online. Read more.

The Open Access exhibit will be displayed in the Douglas Library, October 27th-29th.

You can also register to attend several free webinars on open access. For details please see the Queen’s Library website.

Queen’s subscribes to hundreds of databases that include millions of journal articles, newspaper articles and ebooks. For each of these databases, Queen’s signs a license that allows students, faculty and staff to use the materials in these databases for different purposes. Most databases allow you to link to material, but some also allow you to include material in coursepacks and/or post materials in Learning Management Systems like Moodle.

In the past, it has been very difficult to find out what rights were included in each license, but we have now put in place a database that allows you to find out exactly what is permitted under the terms of the licensing agreements that we have with each database provider. This information is now integrated into services like Summon and the Get It! @ Queen’s links that appear when searching in Google Scholar – meaning that you will not need to search a stand-alone database to find out what you can do with specific articles.

More information, including a link to the database and video demonstrating how the database works, is available here.

In the Globe & Mail Canadian University Report 2012 (available in today’s paper and online at www.globeandmail.com/education), undergraduates have given Queen’s Library an A grade — the only library in the large, medium and small categories to receive such a high mark. University Librarian Martha Whitehead attributes this undergraduate student satisfaction to the people engaged in library services. “Librarians and staff work very closely with faculty and students to ensure we’re enhancing learning and research and supporting a spirit of inquiry,” says Whitehead, “Libraries are often referred to as the soul of the university, and we’re fortunate that ours is highly valued by students, faculty and administrators across Queen’s.”  With its strong role in the Queen’s community, the library has ranked top in its category in the Globe & Mail Canadian University Report survey for several years.

The Library views the Globe & Mail survey as one important measure of its services and resources. A variety of assessment methodologies have been used in past years, and the library administration is in the process of reviewing those and building upon them.”Academic programs and the information realm are continually evolving, so we’re continually checking and evolving as well,” says Whitehead.

Queen’s received the most A grades, and the only one for most satisfied students, in the large, medium or small universities, and an A+ for reputation with employers. For further information, see the the Queen’s News Centre.

Queen’s University is participating in International Open Access Week (Oct. 24-30). The aim of this event is to engage the research community in discussion about the issues and trends related to open access and promote awareness and understanding of open access – access to material publicly available online. More info

An open access exhibit will be displayed at Bracken on October 31 and November 1.

You can also register to attend several free webinars on open access that have been posted on the Queen’s Library website.

The Library now subscribes to Thomson ONE Research database.

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