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Sustainability Watch: Database Trial

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The Dalhousie Libraries are offering you access on a trial basis to Sustainability Watch, a new EBSCO database. The trial runs until April 14, 2011.

Sustainability Watch provides information on over 200 sustainability related topics. Monitoring thousands of journals and periodicals, this product presents best practices in a variety of areas, including environmental impacts and pollution prevention initiatives, corporate citizenship, and long-term sustainable business practices.

Sustainability Watch provides a wide range of search and browse options, allows you to save your searches, set up alerts, and create bibliographies, and even offers an article translation service. Explore Sustainability Watch now and let us know what you think!

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!

Trial Access to Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage

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The Libraries are now offering trial access to Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage, a comprehensive, professional source of proprietary analysis on industry trends, corporate activities, and investments. It is a core service used at many of the leading investment firms, corporations, government agencies, and law offices. For non-business students, the service includes a Financial Education section with tools for understanding personal finance.

S & P’s NetAdvantage will provide you with:

  • web-based access to each new Industry Survey as soon as it is released
  • downloadable company data on the companies that comprise a given industry
  • survey links to key industry websites (trade associations etc.)
  • an on-line archive of Surveys from 1999 onward

The service also enables you to:

  • gather company information (search by ticker or name from the site’s homepage, or by using the “Companies” tab)
  • understand the basics of personal finance by exploring the Financial Literacy Now module under the “Financial Education” tab

Trial access ends April 2011 and is available both on and off campus. Plenty of time to explore Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage and let us know what you think about it!

Pharmacist’s Letter Trial

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Pharmacist’s Letter is a subscription service for pharmacists covering new developments in drug therapy, and trends in pharmacy practice. Pharmacist’s Letter started in 1985 and currently serves most pharmacists in the United States and Canada.

For a limited time, a free trial has been set up.

Connect now to Pharmacist’s Letter

Please send your comments to Patrick.Ellis@dal.ca

Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works

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Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works is a searchable collection containing real transcripts of therapy and counseling sessions and first-person narratives illuminating the experience of mental illness and its treatment, as well as reference works to contextualize the primary material.

This resource is available now on a trial basis. Take a look through it and send your comments to Patrick Ellis at pellis@dal.ca

Social Work Abstracts Trial

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Trial ends November 29. 2010

Social Work Abstracts offers extensive coverage of more than 900 social work and human services journals dating back to 1965. The database provides indexing and abstracts dealing with all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of service and social issues and problems. Researchers seeking scholarly and professional perspectives on subjects such as therapy, education, human services, addictions, child and family welfare, mental health, civil and legal rights, and more will find Social Work Abstracts to be an indispensable resource.

Take a look at this trial resource and post your comments about it here!

Political Science Complete: Trial Database

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* Trial ends October 31, 2010 *

Political Science Complete contains full text for over 480 journals, and indexing and abstracts for nearly 2,100 titles (including top-ranked scholarly journals), such as British Politics, Ethnopolitics and the Journal of Women, Politics & Policy. PSC has a worldwide focus, reflecting the globalization of contemporary political discourse.

The database also features 330 full-text reference books and monographs, and over 36,000 full-text conference papers, including those of the International Political Science Association. PSC includes a subject-specific thesaurus with over 17,500 terms.

Take a look now and let us know what you think of this product!

Confraternitas: Ejournal Trial Access

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The Dalhousie Libraries are offering our users a full year of free trial access to the electronic journal Confraternitas. This is a refereed journal about Medieval and Early Modern confraternities (pre-1700) published twice yearly. It contains brief articles, news and notes of interest to colleagues, notices of forthcoming conferences or papers, and general queries. It is published for The Society for Confraternity Studies by the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, and is made available on the Iter platform.

Access the new journal at the main Iter resources page, or link directly to to Confraternitas.

Let us know what you think about this resource!

Taylor & Francis Ebooks: Trial Access

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Trial ends October 2, 2010

The Libraries have been granted trial access to the entire Taylor & Francis Electronic Book (eBook) Catalogue. Please note this trial is available via on-campus access only.

Taylor & Francis publishes broadly in the social sciences, sciences, and humanities. Imprints include Routledge, Taylor & Francis, Europa, Garland Science, RoutledgeFalmer, Gordon & Breach, Harwood Academic, CRC Press, Frank Cass and BIOS Scientific Publishers. Subjects include Economics, Finance, Business and Industry, with new e-collections in Development Studies, Studies in European Political Science, China, and Globalization.

Explore the Taylor & Francis Electronic Book catalogue now, and send us your comments–we welcome your feedback!

CRCnetBASE Ebooks: Trial Access

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Dalhousie Libraries have arranged trial access to CRCnetBASE. CRCnetBASE is made up of over 6000 online books (full text handbooks, references, and monographs) that span more than 40 disciplines. CRC Press has traditionally been associated with the Sciences, specifically Chemistry and Engineering. However, the subject collections in CRCnetBASE cover a wide range of disciplines, including Information Security, Public Administration, Occupational Health & Safety, and Project Management.

In addition to e-books published under the imprint CRC Press, CRCnetBASE also includes online offerings from Auerbach and Chapman & Hall. The powerful search platform has been adopted throughout the world at academic and corporate institutions.

Visit the CRCnetBASE trial now, and let us know what you think by posting comments here!

This trial ends October 2, 2010.

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