June 24, 2008
Databases: America History & Life and Historical Abstracts on EBSCO
As a result of the agreement reached last year between ABC-CLIO and EBSCO, America History & Life and Historical Abstracts will complete their transition to the EBSCOhost platform this month. On June 30th America History & Life and Historical Abstracts will no longer be available through the ABC-CLIO platform. No service disruptions are planned to occur as a result of this transition and both databases are currently available through EBSCOhost.
Databases: Scheduled Downtime
Blackwell Synergy and Wiley InterScience will be unavailable from Saturday June 28th through Monday June 30th 2008 while the publishers transition data to the Wiley InterScience platform.
As of June 30th Blackwell titles will no longer be accessed through the Blackwell Synergy platform but will instead be redirected to their new home on Wiley InterScience. This downtime will also effect access to some content on EBSCO's Electronic Journal Service.
June 20, 2008
Library Fines and Online Registration
STUDENTS: Please note that Library fines can prevent you from being able to register for your courses online!
If you have over $5 in Library fines, a hold will have been placed on your account that will prevent you from using the online registration process. Please check your Library Account to see if you have fines. Only if you have fines, your library account will indicate an amount. Be sure to pay your fines in advance of your registration date to avoid delays.
Call 204.786.9808 for questions about your fines.
June 12, 2008
New Database: Periodicals Archive Online
Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) is the first of many new databases obtained by the University of Winnipeg Library through its participation in Canadian Research Knowledge Networks Digital Content Infrastructure (DCI) initiative. This major online archive provides access to an extensive collection of full-text periodical backfiles in the humanities and social sciences and contains over 500 full-run titles spanning 200 years. PAO brings together numerous high-quality and largely peer-reviewed scholarly journals in its six accessible collections.
June 11, 2008
A Clean and Quiet Library
Beginning in Mid-July campus cleaning services Bee-Clean will be adjusting their cleaning schedule to ensure that vacuuming within the library takes place at night after the library has closed. Once the new schedule takes effect students will benefit from fewer interruptions in a clean and quiet study environment.
June 5, 2008
New content will be available soon!
$47 million for digital scholarly content to transform social sciences and humanities research at Canadian universities
Thanks to a joint $47 million investment by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), eight provinces and 67 universities (including the University of Winnipeg), nearly 900,000 researchers,scholars and students in Canadian universities will gain desktop access to an extensive body of national and international material.
With the click of a button, researchers and students in Canada will be able to access, search, sort and consult a rich digital collection of scholarly content, ranging from books, letters and historical documents to music scores, maps, artworks and visual materials. Many of these were not previously accessible to Canadians, or were only offered with limited access in print version.
This investment is the work of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN), a consortium of universities dedicated to expanding digital content in support of the academic research enterprise in Canada.
Digital Content Infrastructure for the Human and Social Sciences
Newly-Licensed Content
Descriptions of the products can be found below.
These products offer seamless and equitable access Canada-wide to a critical mass of digital sources in diverse manifestations/formats (full-text, e-books, image files, audio resources, etc.) from both domestic and international publishing sources. In addition, the products increase exposure to high quality Canadian content in both official languages. The anticipated outcome of the project is that this critical mass of content will expand the knowledge infrastructure and research capacity in the social sciences and humanities, and ultimately enhance multi- and interdisciplinary research in Canada.
Product: China: Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793-1980; Defining Gender, 1450-1910 Online; Eighteenth Century Journals I; Eighteenth Century Journals II; Empire Online; Mass Observation Online; Medieval Travel Writing; and Slavery Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007
Publisher: Adam Matthew Digital (www.amdigital.co.uk)
Adam Matthew Digital is committed to making niche research and teaching collections available for online access. Since beginning to work with Canadian libraries in 1992, Adam Matthew Digital has established itself as a leading provider of digital content for the social sciences and humanities.
Product/Publisher: CAIRN (www.cairn.info)
CAIRN was formed in 1995 by four European publishing houses (Belin, De Boeck, La Découverte and Erès) and offers access to the most comprehensive collection of French language periodicals in the social sciences and humanities disciplines.
The collection is currently comprised of 143 titles from more than 40 publishers, teaching institutions and learned societies and is growing rapidly. Journals range in date from 2001 to the present, gathering more than 40,000 articles. The collection will include 182 journals by 2009 and 230 journals by 2010. These front list titles
will be available to DCI participants through the CRKN license agreement.
Product/Publisher: Érudit (www.erudit.org)
Érudit is a multi-institutional publishing consortium comprised of the Université de Montréal, the Université Laval and the Université du Québec à Montréal. It is a non-profit society that offers an innovative model for the promotion and dissemination of Canadian research. It is also one of the five editorial production nodes of Synergies, a national project whose objective is to digitize Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities research.
Product: Classical Scores Library
Publisher: Alexander Street Press (www.alexanderstreet.com)
Publisher’s representative: Gibson Library Connections (www.gibsonlibraryconnections.ca)
Classical Scores Library contains 400,000 pages of the most important classical music scores, manuscripts, and previously unpublished material, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 8,000 musical scores. This collection allows users to access multiple types of scores across various composers, genres, and time periods. It
contains full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, as well as piano reductions. Within seconds, users can explore Beethoven’s entire compositional output, or music experts can compare different musical settings of the Magnificat from the 15th century to the 21st century—without the need to find and carry heavy scores and multiple CDs.
Product: Theatre in Video
Publisher: Alexander Street Press (www.alexanderstreet.com)
Publisher’s representative: Gibson Library Connections (www.gibsonlibraryconnections.ca)
Theatre in Video contains more than 250 of the world’s most important plays, together with more than 100 video documentaries and online streaming video.
The collection also includes interviews with directors, designers, writers, and actors that span a wide range of periods and nationalities. Specially developed controlled vocabularies, used with multiple and combinable search fields, enable users to browse by genre, artist, time period, place, and other fields.
Product/Publisher: InteLex Past Masters (www.nlx.com)
Publisher’s representative: Gibson Library Connections (www.gibsonlibraryconnections.ca)
InteLex Past Masters offers 117 full-text humanities databases that are focused on the needs of the scholarly community in the human sciences. InteLex assembles and publishes cohesive collections of excellent editions, in both original language and in English translation, using meticulous text conversion processes. The collection
uses web-based search and reference tools to provide scholars with significantly enhanced and highly flexible access to the classic texts.
Product/Publisher: Canadian Publishers Collection
Publisher’s representative: Gibson Library Connections (www.gibsonlibraryconnections.ca)
The Canadian Publishers Collection (CPC) is a collection of approximately 8,100 English and French e-book titles from 44 Canadian publishers. Included in these are the major Canadian university presses, among them the University of Toronto Press, the UBC Press, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Les Presses de l’Université du Québec and McGill-Queen’s University Press. Virtually all the books are authored, edited and produced by Canadians. Many of the titles in the collection are from Canada’s leading scholarly publishers, most being offered for the first time in online e-book form. Relative to print, e-books offer immense additional value for researchers (search functionality, integration with collections, linking opportunities, multiple-user access, etc.)
Products/Publishers: Oxford University Press e-books (www.oup.co.uk)
Cambridge University Press e-books (www.cambridge.org)
Taylor and Francis e-books (www.taylorandfrancis.com)
Publisher’s representative: Ingram Digital Group (www.ingramdigital.com)
The Ingram content companies are market leaders in enabling publishers, retailers, libraries and readers in the transition from the world of print to the integrated future of digital delivery of books and information. Ingram Digital Group (IDG) companies now operate the world’s largest repository of commercial English-language content outside of Google.
IDG has partnered with MyiLibrary LLC, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and Taylor and Francis to offer a critical mass of high quality e-book content from leading publishers of humanities and social sciences publishers.
Oxford University Press (OUP) is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Through this project, CRKN has licensed a collection of 5,038 digitized e-book titles published by OUP between 1948 and 2007.
Cambridge University Press (CUP) publishes the finest academic and educational writing from around the world. As a department of the University of Cambridge, its purpose is to further the University’s objective of advancing knowledge, education, learning and research. CRKN has licensed a collection of 2,431 CUP e-book titles published between 1995 and 2007 to Canadian institutions through this project.
Product: Arts & Sciences I; Arts & Sciences II; Arts & Sciences III; Arts & Sciences IV; Arts & Sciences V; Arts & Sciences VI; Arts & Sciences Complement; and Life Sciences
Publisher: JSTOR (www.jstor.org)
JSTOR is a not–for–profit organization dedicated to helping the scholarly community discover, use, and build upon a wide range of intellectual content in a trusted digital archive.
JSTOR offers an interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. It includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work.
Product: Periodicals Archive Online
Publisher: Micromedia / ProQuest (www.micromedia.ca) (www.proquest.com)
Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) is a major online periodical archive that makes the backfiles of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the full text of a growing number of digitized periodicals that have been indexed in its sister database, Periodicals Index Online.
Product: ALPSP Learned Journals Collection
Publisher: Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
Publisher’s representative: Swets (www.swets.com)
Swets is the world's leading subscription services company with clients in more than 160 countries. CRKN is licensing a unique collection of journals—the ALPSP Learned Journals Collection—published by members of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) through Swets. Founded in 1972, ALPSP is the international trade association for the not-for-profit publishers and represents more than 300 members in 31 countries worldwide. The collection is comprised of 696 journal titles by 52 publishers.