Connect now for a free trial to AnatomyTV’s 3D Real Time Body. Available until Nov. 16, 2011
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The First World War: Personal Experiences
The Dalhousie Libraries are offering free trial access to this primary source database until November 11, 2011.
This digital resource brings to life the reality of the First World War for the men and women who experienced it firsthand.
Containing digital images of a wide range of original documents, including diaries, letters, personal narratives, trench journals, scrapbooks, objects, and a wealth of visual sources, this resource provides a rich seam of information on personal experiences of war. It is designed for both teaching and study, from undergraduate to research students and beyond.
Supplementing the primary sources is a wealth of secondary resources including interactive maps, 360° panoramas and walk-throughs of the Sanctuary Wood Trench System, the Memory Wall, In Their Own Words feature, scholarly essays, a slideshow gallery, chronology and glossaries.
This database is available on campus only. Explore it now, and let us know what you think!
Scopus Database Trial
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed scientific literature and quality web sources, with smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. It currently offers nearly 19,500 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers, a total of 38 million records of
which millions date back as far as 1823! Scopus also provides 100% Medline coverage.
Beginning today the Dal Libraries are offering a one-month trial of Scopus to our on and off-campus users. Access this amazing database here, and let us know what you think by posting your comments to the blog!
New Stat!Ref Interface
Stat!Ref has released a new interface with the following enhancements:
• Updated search functions to quickly access our 300+ healthcare resources, 500,000 images, and 1,000 videos with ease and efficiency.
• Enhanced access to tools needed to make your research easier – such as Stedman’s Medical Dictionary and our medical calculator, “MedCalc 3000.”
• Dynamic ability to quickly download tables, figures and images for presentations and lectures.
• A powerful search engine that keeps historical track of your research, enabling you to automatically retrieve your “favorites”.
• Redesigned layout making it easier to locate resources and find relevant, authoritative, evidence-based information.
• Enhanced ease of access to bibliographic citations including Refworks and Endnote.
• More user preference options that enable enhanced customization.
• New aesthetic design – clean, crisp and easily navigable.
You can access Stat!Ref through the databases search box on our website, via our Health Sciences Research webpage or directly through the link below.
Connect to Stat!Ref
Literary Manuscripts: The Berg Collection
This newly acquired database features Victorian manuscripts from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of the New York Public Library, one of the finest literary research collections in the world. Most of these unique manuscripts are unavailable in any medium elsewhere. They are supplemented by some rare printed materials, including early editions annotated by the authors.
Authors represented in this collection include: Matthew Arnold, the Brontës, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Wilkie Collins, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, George Gissing, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Ruskin, Alfred Tennyson, and William Makepeace Thackeray. Unpublished poems, working notebooks, holograph manuscripts and drawings trace the inspiration and genesis behind the period’s greatest works.
This resource is of immense importance to those researching the business of Victorian publishing, documenting the relationship between writers and their publishers through correspondence and financial and legal documents.
OregonPDF in Health & Performance Acquired
OregonPDF in Health & Performance makes available graduate dissertations and theses in areas related to health and performance. The intellectual focus of the collection is physical activity.
Academic areas of interest include biochemistry, biomechanics, dance, exercise physiology, history or philosophy of physical education, kinesiology, motor control, obesity, recreation, sports marketing, sports medicine, sports pedagogy, sports psychology, and tests and measurements. The collection has been developed continuously since 1948 by the University of Oregon. There are almost 11,000 dissertations and theses, with a goal of adding between 100 and 150 each year. Through this website you can access, search, and instantly download the material.
You can find this resource through Novanet or our databases search on our website or you can connect now!
Dictionary of Old English Web Corpus
The DOE Web Corpus is a database consisting of at least one copy of each text surviving in Old English. It represents over three million words of Old English and just under a million words of Latin, or almost five times the collected works of Shakespeare!
The body of surviving Old English texts encompasses a rich diversity of records written on parchment, carved in stone and inscribed in jewelry. These texts include prose, poetry, glosses to Latin texts and inscriptions. In the prose in particular, there is a wide range of texts: saints’ lives, sermons, biblical translations, penitential writings, laws, charters and wills, records (of manumissions, land grants, land sales, land surveys), chronicles, a set of tables for computing the moveable feasts of the Church calendar and for astrological calculations, medical texts, prognostics (the Anglo-Saxon equivalent of the horoscope), charms (such as those for a toothache or an easy labour), and even cryptograms.
The DOE Web Corpus is an essential reference tool for scholars of Old and Middle English. Enjoy exploring it at your leisure!
Oxford Bibliographies Online Trial
The Dal Libraries are running a 30-day free trial of Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO). Trial ends July 27, 2011.
Oxford Bibliographies Online is a new research tool for the social sciences and humanities. A scholar-curated library of discipline-based subject modules, OBO is designed to help busy researchers find reliable sources of information quickly by directing you to exactly the right chapter, book, website, archive, or data set you need.
Each entry is a selective guided tour through the key literature on topics ranging from Atlantic History through Public Health to Victorian Literature. All citations are linked through to our 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.
Off campus access is available using the following:
Username: dal-trial
Password: dal-trial
Give Oxford Bibliographies Online a try, and let us know what you think!
Bibliography of Asian Studies Online
This online version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains over 787,000 records on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present.
BAS Online provides references to books, journal articles, individually authored monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, Festschriften etc. It encompasses the full content of the annual printed volumes of the BAS from 1971 to 1991, the last volume available in print form. There are also many references to post-1991 publications, including citations to all articles from the 100 most-used journals in Asian studies (up to the present in many cases), and a substantial number of additional citations from earlier years in South Asian studies.
The Bibliography of Asian Studies Online is accessible both on and off campus. Explore it now!
INSPEC: Engineering Village Database
Just in time for Canada Day–the Libraries have purchased a subscription to the INSPEC database. INSPEC replaces the Killam Library’s subscription to the print version of Physics Abstracts.
INSPEC is a leading bibliographic database providing access to the world’s scientific literature in electrical engineering, electronics, physics (including Physics Abstracts), biomedical technology, control engineering, information technology, communications, computers, computing, and manufacturing and production engineering. The database contains over 11.2 million bibliographic records from scientific and technical journals and conference proceedings.
Online coverage is from 1969 to the present, and records are updated weekly. INSPEC is produced by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).