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CCNC Launches Petition for National License to Cochrane Library

Many countries provide free access to The Cochrane Library for their citizens; however, Canada still lacks a national license to this rich resource. A patchwork of subscriptions across the country leaves most professional and lay people excluded from full access to this internationally recognized library. We believe any Canadian should have access to the full contents of The Cochrane Library.

Please join our request for funding by signing our petition at http://nlccl.epetitions.net by May 8, 2008.

Ergonomic Abstracts Acquired

The Kellogg Library has acquired Ergonomic Abstracts for use on and off campus. This database includes 125,000 records going back to 1985 and will be of particular interest to ergonomists, health and safety specialists, human factors engineers, human computer interaction specialists, designers, systems analysts, industrial engineers, occupational psychologists and occupational and physical therapists.

Research subject areas covered are:

  • General Ergonomics
  • Human Characteristics
  • Performance Related Factors
  • Methods and Techniques
  • Information Presentation and Communication
  • Display and Control Design
  • Workplace and Equipment Design
  • Environment
  • System Characteristics
  • Work Design and Organisation
  • Health and Safety
  • Social and Economic Impact of the System
  • Methods and Techniques

Access Ergonomic Abstracts through our databases pages or directly through the link below:
http://www.library.dal.ca/dmsearch/dmsearch.php?keyword=ergonomic+abstracts&q=1&t=0&r=2&type=databases&field=bool

Clinics of North America

The Kellogg Library has broadened its subscription to the full set of the “Clinics of North America”. We have added the remaining 24 titles to the original 31 title subscription. All titles are available electronically via Novanet and our website.

The Clinics series are practitioner-focused review journals. Each issue presents the latest information on a specific topic with that takes an in-depth look at a specific topic. New titles include:

  • Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America
  • Atlas of Oral and Maxillofacial Clinics
  • Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America

View the complete list of Clinics (New titles highlighted in green)

New Hours for Writing Centre Satellite Office at Kellogg

The hours of the Writing Centre Satellite Office at the Kellogg Health Sciences Library will be changing for the winter term. Starting Thursday 10 January 2008 1:00-5:00, a tutor from the Writing Centre will be in residence at the Kellogg Library. Students are encouraged to drop in for writing assistance or make an appointment by emailing writingk@dal.ca

The Writing Centre provides writing support services to students at Dalhousie and Kings. This includes help with intellectual property issues (avoiding plagiarism), evaluating and citing sources, creating bibliographies, writing assignments, and much much more.

Minimal Circulation Services Available

Due to renovations in the Kellogg Circulation Dept., the Kellogg Library will be on reduced hours from January 2-6, 2008. During this time, there will be minimal circulation services, i.e. the Reserve collection, Dalcard deposits and Dalcard printing will not be available. We are sorry for any convenience this may cause.

Photo Exhibit of Old Halifax Infirmary

A photo exhibition on display at the Kellogg Library shows the last days of the old Halifax Infirmary. Just prior to demolition in 2005, photographer Angela Carlsen was allowed access to the building for just two hours. Donning a hard hat, she was able to capture remnants of the once-thriving hospital in a series of colour photos that illustrate its last dying days. She loaned the framed photos to the Kellogg Library for the exhibition.

Read the story in the Dal News.

Changes to the Communication Sciences and Disorders Dome

The Communication Sciences and Disorders Dome, which covers the communications disorders literature with focus on speech-language pathology and audiology, has changed platforms and is now available through the CSA Illumina interface. This interface offers more advanced searching options, a functioning thesaurus, linking to RefWorks, etc.

Other CSA Illumina Databases at Dalhousie include several full text journal collections including:

Communication Studies: A SAGE Full-Text Collection

Education: A SAGE Full-Text Collection

It also includes a suite of bibliographic citation databases including:

<a href=”http://www.library.dal.ca/dmsearch/click.php?product=ERIC%20%28Educational%20Resources%20Information%20Center%29&site=http://ezproxy.library.dal.ca/login?url=http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=dalh2&access=dalh22&db=eric-set-c&adv=1″>ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)

Linguistics and Language Behavior abstracts

MLA International Bibliography

New Linking Features for PubMed

Starting Monday 17 December 2007 a new and more complete linking service will be replacing our current full text links in PubMed. The new service will display the “GetIt@Dal button” (seen below) on every citation and will take users to all full text options as well as a range of other services like: direct searching in Novanet, direct links to Document Delivery forms, links to Refworks and more.
To activate this new service we will be replacing our current PubMed URL on our website with a new address. For users who prefer to access the Dalhousie customized version of PubMed by bookmark rather than coming to our web site, remember to add this new URL to you list of Bookmark Favourites:

Library Renovations

The Kellogg Library will be undergoing some renovations in the Learning Commons and Circulation areas starting Wednesday 12 December 2007. Part of the Learning Commons will have to be closed for the period leading up to Christmas. Painting, electrical and carpentry work may cause some interruption in our normal service and some noise.
Our apologies for the inconvenience during this period.
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