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Bracken Library CLOSED Sunday Dec. 22

Posted: December 22nd, 2013

Due to extreme weather conditions, the Bracken Health Sciences Library is closed on Sunday Dec. 22nd.  Stauffer Library is the only campus library open today, from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Stress Relief Week Activities – December 9 – 13, 2103

Posted: December 10th, 2013

Need a break? Here are some activities to consider- work on a jigsaw puzzle, write and take encouraging thoughts, read the stress relief pamphlets, create a holiday ornament for yourself or the library’s bookmas tree at the craft station, eat candy canes and there will be more food surprises on Wednesday, December 11.  Good luck with your exams! These activities are sponsored by the Queen’s Learning Commons and Bracken Library staff.

Exambank – past exams from your courses

Posted: November 28th, 2013

Access the Exambank to see past exam questions from your courses. Exambank! Exambank is the official database of past exam questions from courses offered at Queen’s University.

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Bracken Library extended hours begin Nov. 30

Posted: November 26th, 2013

The Bracken Health Sciences Library has extended hours from Saturday, November 30th until Wednesday, December 18th:

Monday – Thursday: 8:30 a.m. to midnight
Friday: 8:30 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.
Saturday & Sunday: 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.

See all Queen’s University Library hours.

You are Invited to Dr. Jacalyn Duffin’s Book Launch Nov. 25

Posted: November 11th, 2013

The Bracken Library is hosting a book launch for Dr. Duffin’s latest and 8th book: Medical Saints: Cosmas and Damian in a Postmodern World.  This book, as well as others by Dr. Duffin, will be available for purchase and signing.

Monday, 25 November 2013
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Bracken Library – Botterell Hall
18 Stuart Street

Reception to Follow

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Cranial Nonmetric Trait Database on the Internet

Posted: November 11th, 2013

A Brief Communication about Dr. Nancy Ossenberg’s Cranial Nonmetric Trait Database has been published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. This database represents Dr. Ossenberg’s life’s work from 1963-2003, in which she took skull measurements at museums around the world. The database is available at the Cranial Nonmetric Trait Database website, Scholars Portal Dataverse, and in QSpace.

New in PubMed!

Posted: October 29th, 2013

QULFullTextIconPubMedWhen clicking on an article title from within PubMed, a NEW Gold Queen’s University Library icon will appear in the top right-hand corner of the screen when a full text journal article is available online via Queen’s.  Just click on the gold icon to access the article and follow any required links.

Call for Nominations for the Steve Cutway Accessibility Award

Posted: October 28th, 2013

Do you know someone who has gone above and beyond?

The Equity and Human Rights offices are calling for nominations for the Steve Cutway Accessibility Award.

The award, established in 2008, recognizes and celebrates the efforts of faculty, staff and students who demonstrate creativity, enthusiasm, innovation and commitment to creating a learning and work environment in which persons with disabilities enjoy full participation.

Here are just a few examples of efforts in advancing employment equity:

  • developing and delivering interesting and effective awareness training about disability and accessibility issues
  • demonstrating flexibility, respectfulness and creativity in responding to requests for accommodations in the classroom or in the workplace
  • conveying a welcoming and inclusive attitude towards students and employees with disabilities in one’s department
  • utilizing elements of universal instructional design in one’s curriculum that at the same time enhance accessibility
  • paying particular attention to accessibility when planning projects or events at the University

If you know someone who has made such efforts, they may be eligible for an award!  More information about the award, and access the online application form, can be found on the Equity Office website.

Nomination Deadline: January 17, 2014

Open Access Week – Day 5 (Part 2): “Altmetrics”

Posted: October 25th, 2013

“Altmetrics”, or alternative citation metrics, provide researchers and scholars with new ways to track influence across evolving modes of scholarly communication. In “The Altmetrics Collection,” Jason Priem, Paul Groth, and Dario Taraborelli define altmetrics as follows:

Altmetrics is the study and use of scholarly impact measures based on activity in online tools and environments. The term has also been used to describe the metrics themselves—one could propose in plural a “set of new altmetrics.” Altmetrics is in most cases a subset of both scientometrics and webometrics; it is a subset of the latter in that it focuses more narrowly on scholarly influence as measured in online tools and environments, rather than on the Web more generally.

One example of an altmetrics provider is ImpactStory:

ImpactStory

http://www.impactstory.org/

ImpactStory is an open-source, web-based tool that helps researchers explore and share the diverse impacts of all their research products—from traditional ones like journal articles, to emerging products like blog posts, datasets, and software. Supported by a grant from the Sloan Foundation.

Further Reading:

Bailey, C. (2013). The Altmetrics Bibliography. Digital Scholarship. October 14, 2013.
Accessed October 25, 2013 from http://digital-scholarship.org/alt/altmetrics.htm.

Howard, J. (2013). Rise of ‘Altmetrics’ Revives Questions About How to Measure Impact of Research. The Chronicle of Higher Education. June 3, 2013.
Accessed October 25, 2013 from http://chronicle.com/article/Rise-of-Altmetrics-Revives/139557/

Piwowar, H. (2013). Altmetrics: What, Why and Where?. ASIS&T Bulletin. April/May 2013.
Accessed October 25, 2013 from http://asis.org/Bulletin/Apr-13/AprMay13_Piwowar.html.

Priem, J., Groth, P., Taraborelli, D. (2012), The Altmetrics Collection, PLOS One 7(11): e48753. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0048753.
Accessed October 25, 2013 from http://www.ploscollections.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0048753.

Open Access Week: Day 5 – Open Journal Systems and Open-Access Journals at Queen’s

Posted: October 25th, 2013

Every day this week, the Scholarly Communications Working Group in the library will highlight one piece of recent Open Access related news in order to celebrate Open Access week. Don’t forget to visit our Open Access week page for information about events: http://library.queensu.ca/services/scholcomm/OpenAccess2013

One service that the Queen’s University Library provides in order to support Open Access publishing is free access and hosting of Open Journal Systems (OJS) software.  Using OJS, faculty and staff can publish online open-access or subscription-based journals. OJS supports all aspects of scholarly journal publishing including peer review, tracking subscriptions, copy editing, etc.

Some of the journals published through this service at Queen’s include Surveillance and Society, Gender, Education, Music, and Society, and the Queen’s Science Undergraduate Research Journal.

Browse all journals at Queen’s published using OJS:  http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/index/index

Find out more about hosting your own journal with OJS: http://library.queensu.ca/services/ojs

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