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Oxford Bibliographies Online Trial Extended

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The Dal Libraries’ trial access to Oxford Bibliographies Online has been extended to January 31, 2011. Please note this resource is available on campus only.

Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) is an entirely new module-based research tool for the social sciences and humanities. It’s designed to help busy researchers find reliable sources of information in half the time by directing you to exactly the right chapter, book, website, archive, or data set you need.

OBO a great starting point for organizing your research plan, or for preparing a writing assignment or syllabus. The style and approach is accessible to students, but the depth of coverage makes it of great use to faculty as well. All citations are linked through to the Dal Libraries’ collection via OpenURL, full-text via DOIs, or to the web via links to OCLC, WorldCat, and Google Books, allowing you to locate quickly full-text content directly from OBO.

Explore Oxford Bibliographies Online while this trial lasts, and let us know what you think of it!

Read a Call Number in 90 Seconds Flat

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Don’t know how to read a call number?  That’s okay – we can show you in no time at all.  You can read a call number faster than you can tie up your shoe lace, and this video shows you how.  Watch as we guide you through its parts below.  If you’ve got more questions, then come visit us at a Reference Desk or look for us on LiveHelp – we’re here to help.

Victorian Popular Culture (trial database)

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This innovative portal for Victorian Popular Culture welcomes readers into the darkened halls, small backrooms and travelling venues that hosted everything from spectacular shows and bawdy burlesque, to the world of magic and spiritualist séances. It describes popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe in the period from 1779 to 1930 and shows how interconnected these worlds were.

Trial ends March 13/09. Access from on-campus locations only.

CBCA Complete

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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.

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