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Category: Arts, Social Sciences & Sciences

Oxford Islamic Studies Online (Trial)

Oxford Islamic Studies Online (OISO) offers unique and comprehensive online access to the history and culture of Islam and provides full-text access to great Oxford reference and scholarly works, including The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, The Oxford History of Islam, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, two classic interpretations of the Qur’an, a Concordance of the Qur’an, What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam, and the forthcoming Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World (due to publish in 2008).

For the period of this trial, which ends on February 23, 2008, access to this database will be restricted to on-campus locations only. For information on other trials that we are hosting, please visit the Library’s Trial Resources page.

Milton Bibliography Available Online

The online edition of the Milton Bibliography is a revision and a continuation of Milton: A Bibliography For the Years 1624-1700, published in 1984 by Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (MRTS), Binghamton, New York.

The bibliography brings together all manuscripts and editions of John Milton’s works and all studies and critical statements concerning his life and works, all allusions and quotations, and all significant imitations during the years 1624-1799. No print counterpart for the entire database exists. This online tool is published by University of Toronto and made available as part of their Iter project, a not-for-profit partnership that aims to promote the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700) through the development of online resources.

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

Project MUSE Adds Back Issues

Project MUSE recently added the full range of back issues of two of its long-held journals, “Journal of the History of Philosophy” and “Journal of Democracy.”

The addition of the back issues of these two journals is part of a pilot program to determine the feasibility of expanding coverage to include back issues. The pilot program is in the early stages and MUSE developers anticipate adding additional back issues for selected journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

For the “Journal of the History of Philosophy,” the back issues added are Volume 1, 1963, through Volume 37, 1999. For the “Journal of Democracy,” the back issues added are Volume 1, 1990, through Volume 5, 1994.

CBCA Complete

As of January 1, 2008, the Dalhousie Libraries have replaced the separate subscriptions to three CBCA databases (CBCA Business, CBCA Current Events, and CBCA Reference) with a single database: CBCA Complete.

CBCA Complete combines content from all four CBCA database subsets (the 4th is CBCA Education) and provides full-text coverage of current events, business, education, science and medicine, arts, law, and lifestyles, all with a Canadian focus. Subject coverage is comprehensive and the information comes from the broadest range of Canadian sources available anywhere. With over 4.5 million records and indexing more than 1,600 periodical titles, CBCA Complete is the first stop for anyone interested in current events, business, science, the arts, and academic information as produced in Canada.

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.

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