We’ve added two major collections to our current holdings of Periodicals Archive Online, a major archive that makes the fulltext backfiles of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences available electronically. PAO currently contains over 600 journals, providing access to over 3 million articles.
View a list of most recently added journals
Use Periodicals Archive Online on or off campus
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.
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The complete Karger journal package has been acquired.
The journals are available through our e-journals page on our website and through the Novanet catalogue and WorldCat.
Nature Publishing has enhanced, redesigned and rebranded the “Nature Clinical Practice Journals” into “Nature Reviews”, extending the quality and impact of the Nature Reviews brand into eight clinical specialties. Dalhousie Libraries now subscribes to these clinical specialty journals, listed below:
Nature Reviews Cardiology
Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology
Nature Reviews Endocrinology
Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Nature Reviews Nephrology
Nature Reviews Neurology
Nature Reviews Rheumatology
Nature Reviews Urology
Access these journals through our online catalogue or through the e-journals search page on our website.
Due to renovations at the Kellogg Health Sciences Library, Tupper Building, the journals stacks on the second floor will be unavailable for the month of June. During this time bound journal runs from 1970 to 1984 will be boxed and placed in storage, joining earlier journal runs.
Circulation staff will be happy to retrieve any items needed from the stacks during this time.
Please forward any questions and concerns to:
Patrick Ellis, Health Sciences Librarian
Phone: 494-1669
Email: Patrick.Ellis@dal.ca
In 2008 the American Heart Association (AHA) launched its first new journals in nearly three decades. Extensions of Circulation, the new Circulation portfolio of journals will deliver tightly focused information on areas at the cutting edge of cardiology, as well as clinical information designed to help practitioners in their daily practice. These six new journals are now available via Novanet or the Electronic journals search page. Titles:
Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology
Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics
Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging
Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions
Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes
Circulation: Heart Failure
Dalhouse University Libraries, as a member of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN), has acquired for the Dalhousie community substantial holdings in SpringerLink, Springer’s online content. Springer is one of the world’s leading publishers of books and journals in science, technology and medicine.
Dalhousie’s holdings in SpringerLink include the complete archive of and ongoing subscriptions to more than 1300 journals (i.e. the journal content goes back to vol. 1). We have also just acquired the complete catalogue of Springer ebooks (over 13,000 titles) from 2005 on. This catalogue includes imprints other than Springer, as well as many “books in series” and reference works.
To view or search this collection, visit the SpringerLink website at springerlink.com/ Materials accessible by Dalhousie users are marked with a small green box.
You may also access individual Springer ejournals through our ejournals webpage at www.library.dal.ca/Find/Journals/ as well as through the Novanet catalogue.
Springer books may also be accessed directly through MyiLibrary.
Please note that most Springer ebooks are not yet available in Novanet. Records for these books will be added over time.
To find out more about SpringerLink, see their brochure.
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.
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:
View the complete list of Clinics (New titles highlighted in green)
Richard Smith, former editor of the British Medical Journal, talks to Peter Mansbridge about medical journals in this half hour interview broadcast on CBC’s Mansbridge One-on-One.
Listen to the interview at http://www.cbc.ca/mansbridge/2007/11/richard_smith.html