Commons Knowledge

We have a vocabulary all our own and you've only seen the tip of the iceberg, so here comes some more. . .

Current Periodicals - These are the most recent editions of magazines or journals (i.e. periodicals), usually published within the past year, that have not been bound into volumes yet. They are filed alphabetically by title on the shelves across from the Circulation Desk.

Monograph - Typically refers to a scholarly book, or a limited set of volumes that cover one subject or a group of related subjects.

Reference Collection - This is the collection of books such as encyclopedias, dictionaries and handbooks that you can consult for bibliographic or factual information. These reference works do not circulate from the library so that they are readily available.

Hold - The request for a book that is currently checked out to another user. Placing a hold on a book places you next in line for the item when it is returned. You can request that a hold be placed on a book at the circulation desk.

Microforms - These are materials that have been photographed or filmed to a reduced size and require a special reader to use them. The microforms and microform readers are located on the second floor of the library.

Every profession has their own jargon, suitably confusing to “outsiders”. The library is no exception. For this reason we are pleased to invite you into our world by defining a few of the more common terms you may hear in the library on a regular basis:

Reserves: These are high-demand materials, selected and often provided, by instructors to be used in a specific class. Reserves may be books, assignment solutions, lecture notes, videos, etc. that are available from the circulation desk for short-term loans from 2-hours to 3 days.

Citation: In your writing you must always acknowledge the ideas and works of others. A citation is the indicator that you place in the body of your text to “cite” another’s work. It points toward the corresponding reference (see below) and can be formatted in a variety of styles such as (Name, Year).

Reference: All of the information (author, title, journal, date, volume, publisher, etc.) that you would require in order to find the item yourself. Often expressed in a specific format such as APA (American Psychological Association) or MLA (Modern Language Association).

Serial: The general name given to publications that are issued at intervals and expected to continue indefinitely. Examples include newspapers, journals and conference proceedings.

Periodical: A specific type of serial publication that is produced at regular intervals (weekly, monthly, quarterly, annually) with a comprehensive numbering system such as volumes or issues that contain separate articles.

Index: A “guide” published either in-print or electronically, that lists the location of topics that can be found in a specific work or collection of works. Prior to the extensive on-line “searchable” indexes available today, most research began with long hours raking through periodical indexes.

Stacks: The bookshelves that hold the core collection of books within the library.

If you’re traveling this summer, make sure you stop first at the WCL circulation desk to obtain an ASIN (Atlantic Scholarly Information Network) card. Students, faculty and staff are all eligible for this ID card, that confirms your standing as a member of the Ward Chipman Library. With your ASIN card in hand, you can borrow circulating materials from any one of the many participating university libraries across Canada. The host library determines the policies, including loan periods and privileges of the visiting student, staff or faculty member. For additional details, see: http://www.lib.unb.ca/wcl/policies/asin_policy.html or ask at the circulation desk.

How about Persian, Ibo or Urdu? If so, we are pleased to be offering library tours in your native language!

The tours will begin this Thursday at 5:00 p.m. with Ibo, Bangla, Hindi and Urdu.

On Friday, Sept 26 we’ll have a tour in Persian at 12:30 p.m. and another in Mandarin at 2:00 p.m.

You can let us know you’re coming by pre-registering by e-mail to reference@unbsj.ca (or just meet near the reference desk at the scheduled time) Hope you can join us!

Remember seeing “final paper” (and groaning inwardly) on your syllabus way back in early September? Well, the paper hasn’t gone anywhere . . . There it is, due just before or maybe after your exams. (Making your life miserable) Don’t procrastinate and let it hang over your head like a sword. Take control!

Start with a little research - We have the perfect tool - SingleSearch. This interface allows you to quickly search a number of relevant databases for your topic. You can do a “quick search” by keyword, subject, title or author and come up with all kinds of information to get you started. No less than 23 disciplines are offered: Biology, Business, History, Classics, Psychology (You get the idea, I won’t list them all).

Still flummoxed? Book an appointment with the Information Desk for some personalized help. Just starting that paper will feel like you’ve accomplished a lot!

RefWorks is a powerful bibliographic database manager available free of charge to all instructors, students and staff courtesy of a site-wide license that UNB holds. Create your personal account and let RefWorks organize, search and automatically format your references.

RefWorks is accessible on and off campus at your convenience. To get started, simply visit:
//http://www.lib.unb.ca/instruction/RefWorks/
or call the reference desk at 648-5888 to arrange an appointment to get assistance.

You can receive help with your research through instant messaging (this is in addition to the in-person, telephone and e-mail). Access the link from the Ask a Librarian option on the library home page or by linking to http://www.lib.unb.ca/wcl/reference/ask.html

The service is available Monday to Thursday from 10:00am-5:00pm, and 6:00pm-9:00pm, and Friday from 10:00am to 5:00pm.

There are a couple of hundred students taking some kind of economics course on campus. With all of the papers and projects coming up, I just know that at least a few of you are going to need Econlit. It’s the self-proclaimed, “world's foremost source of references to economic literature. . . ” Topics as diverse as labor, marketing, health economics and technological change are covered in its 350,000+ records. As an added bonus, it's accessible through a platform that should be familiar to most of you, EbscoHost.

So now you can really enjoy those economics assignments and papers, Right?

Are you looking for help with your research but are more comfortable learning on your own than coming in to speak to a librarian? If so we have on-line tools that can really help. Just go to: http://www.lib.unb.ca/wcl/subject_guides/ and have a look around. Here you will find Subject Guides that provide research tips and list recommended library resources for most subject areas taught at UNB and STU. Subject guides include SingleSearch, which allows you to search across several databases at once.
You will also find our Research Tutorials which are a series of web videos that have been created to show you everything from basic library services to how to interpret bibliographic citations. Take a look and tell us what you think. You can contact us through email at wcl@unb.ca.

Have you seen the above symbol when searching e-journals and wondered just what that was? It is the UNB Resolver, designed to save you time and effort when searching for electronic journal articles. The resolver will search UNB’s large collection of licensed full text e-resources at the same time you search the on-line indexes and abstracts. It works behind the scenes to see if UNB holds the article in our licensed software. With the UNB Resolver you don’t have limit yourself to the articles with a direct link to a full-text PDF file; the resolver will look at all our databases for you and let you know where else you can find it. When you click on the UNB Resolver logo you will either be given a link to the article or receive a notice letting you know that it is not in UNB Library holdings. You can still ordered the article through Document Delivery, and if you choose to, the resolver will fill out the form for you (though you might want to check Quest first to see if we have the article in our periodical holdings). For even more information on the UNB Resolver talk to the Research Help Desk Staff.

Are you familiar with our Enhanced Subject Guides? You can find them on the Library’s home page and they can make your research more efficient and effective. Our Librarians and Reference staff have compiled key resources for many fields of research at UNB; there is everything from Anthropology to Writing, and lots in between. Just choose your topic from the list provided and you will be given lists of Key Resources, Related Resources, Academic Journals, Terms to use when searching Quest, Related Internet Sites and much more, all specifically for your area of study. They are a great place to start any of your research projects.

Did you know that you can search two or more library databases at the same time? A tool called SingleSearch (no, it isn’t a dating service), lets you send keywords or author names or titles to different databases, and then view a single, combined list of records from all the databases that match your words. This can save a lot of time, since you don’t have to repeat searches in one database after another to get a list of the best and latest articles and books on your topic. SingleSearch allows users to search multiple electronic resources in two ways: through the Subject Guides which provide access to pre- determined subject-related databases,or through the "SingleSearch Interface" which offers the opportunity to make individual selections from more than 100 options. The choice is yours.

Did you know that you can access your network home directory/folder from home? It’s as easy as pointing your web browser to
http://sjnetstore.unbsj.ca/NetStorage/
When prompted, use your Novell Login and password to find your drives and folders readily available. So put away that flash drive, you may not need it anymore.

Business Source Premier provides full text for more that 8,800 scholarly business journals. If your area of study is related to business you will find something about it here. Full text articles, in a PDF format, are available for more than 350 top scholarly journals, some dating back as far as 1922. Business Source Premier can be accessed at: http://www.lib.unb.ca/eresources/index.php?doSearch=1&id=2 Some of the full text journals available in Business Source Premier have embargo periods on them. An embargo is a publication ban placed on the journal title for a specific period of time, the length of which varies from twelve months to one month depending on the journal. Please note that not all titles supplied in Business Source Premier have embargo periods.

Governments hold hearings, conduct inquiries, debate issues of local, regional, national and international interest, gather statistics which inform public policy, and publish material on a wide variety of topics. To find all this useful information go to the library’s home page at http://www.lib.unb.ca/wcl/ and look for this link:

Here you will learn what government documents are available and where to find them. UNB has access to Canadian federal government documents and publications, an Index of downloadable Statistics Canada publications, links to currently available electronic publications through the DSP-Ecollection, the statistical databases CANSIM and E-Stat, and lots more. If you can’t find what you are looking for, or need help fine tuning your search speak to a staff member at the Research Help Desk.

Historical Abstracts is an exceptional e-resource that covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women’s history, history of education and much more.
Here you can access and index more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955. You can find Historical Abstracts at:
http://www.lib.unb.ca/eresources/index.php?doSearch=1&id=566
If you are interested in the history of North America take a look at America: History and Life . It is the definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. It has indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present, and includes citations and links to book and media reviews. You can find it at:
http://www.lib.unb.ca/eresources/index.php?doSearch=1&id=565

Business Source Premier provides full text for more than 8,800 scholarly business journals and other sources. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. BSP provides full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922.

You will find full text articles from about 3,705 journals; and abstracts and indexing for nearly 4,633 journals. A number of full text journals available in Business Source Premier have embargo periods on them. An embargo is a publication ban placed on the journal title for a specific period of time, the length of which varies from twelve months to one month depending on the journal. Please note that not all titles supplied in BSP have embargo periods.

Find Business Source Premier at: http://www.lib.unb.ca/eresources/index.php?doSearch=1&sub=all&searchtype=every_word&title=business+source+premier

When you’re starting a class paper, do you immediately dash right to the full-text databases? If so, you might be missing out on a goldmine of material right here at home. Our collection of scholarly books and journals have been specifically chosen to support the topics that you're currently studying in the classroom.

If you have a citation for a book or journal you could really use and we don’t have it here, simply request the item through our document delivery service by completing an on-line form found at www.lib.unb.ca/wcl/requests/docdel.html. The Document Delivery staff will search to find a supplying library who will ship books or other material often within days. Journal articles are always free for students and faculty, and can either be delivered to your desktop as an e-mail link or picked up at the library. There is rarely a cost for book loans these days; but, when there is, the library subsidizes the cost for student requests up to $10.00 and will check with you before ordering something for which you will need to pay to borrow. If you’d like more information on finding relevant research material, please take a moment and drop by our reference desk or call 648-5888. We’re here to help you.

The MLA Directory of Periodicals, produced by the Modern Language Association of America, lists over 3,700 periodicals in the areas of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore that are covered regularly in the MLA International Bibliography. The directory provides addresses, advertising rates, and information about submissions for publication. Access the directory at:
http://collections.chadwyck.com/initCritRefSearch.do?listType=dop&searchType=dop

If you have been busy all year with your course work and missed out on a few headlines you can catch up with the Canadian Newspapers Index. This database offers fulltext access to a variety of Canadian newspapers, (coverage dates vary by title). New Brunswick newspapers, The Daily Gleaner, The Telegraph Journal, and The Moncton Times Transcript have coverage from 1998-date. For more information on this index or for any of your reference questions you can contact the Reference Helpdesk by phone at 648-5888, or through our through our Ask a Librarian service.

With just 10 minutes of your time, we can help you score better marks* on your term papers and essays! Find the all information you need quickly and easily as you become an accomplished library “pro”. . . (*Individual results will vary depending on different factors: attendance, study habits, etc)

To make the most of your education, you need all the right tools. And a quintessential skill for academic success is the ability to use your library effectively. To that end, the Ward Chipman Library is proud to present two new video tutorials, developed and produced by David Ross, our Academic Services Librarian. “An Introduction to Journal Articles” explains what journal articles are and why they're so important. The second video, “Using Databases to Find Articles” walks you through the process of selecting and accessing the library’s databases to find articles on your topic. David’s (video) credits include the acclaimed, Anna Prentice goes to the Library and AACR2: The Movie. Note: The videos contain audio tracks, so you’ll need to adjust the volume on your computer or use headphones to truly enjoy! Do it for your GPA!

Summer break is just around the corner and we will all be spending a lot more time outdoors. Be prepared, and check out the Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide. Produced by NISC, it indexes published literature (journals, monographs, proceedings of conferences and symposia, government reports, grey literature, books, theses, and dissertations) on wild mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians. Major topic areas include studies of individual species, habitat types, hunting, economics, wildlife behavior, management techniques, diseases, ecotourism, and zoology.

Leisure, Recreation and Tourism from CAB Direct (formerly Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Abstracts) provides access to the international literature on research and strategic development of leisure, recreation, sport, tourism and hospitality activities, facilities, products and services. For more information on this resource or any of your reference questions you can contact the Reference Helpdesk by phone at (506)648-5888 or use our Ask a Librarian Service.

The Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985, is an online historical archive, delivering every page as published from 200 years of The Times (London) to your desktop. The Times is the "world's newspaper of record" and covers all major international historical events from the French Revolution to the Falkland War. Users are able to search the full-text of the entire newspaper, including articles, editorials, and advertising. This powerful electronic tool let's you search one of the world's oldest continuous published newspapers.

Computer Science Index (formerly Computer Literature Index) offers abstracting and indexing of academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources at the highest scholarly and technical levels of computer science. The database contains over 290,000 records from more than 500 periodicals and books, with coverage going back to the mid 1950s.

AgeLine indexes the literature of social gerontology as well as aging-related research from psychology, sociology, social work, economics, public policy, and the health sciences. It covers aging-related issues for professionals in aging services, health, business, law, and mental health. AgeLine also includes selected consumer content. AgeLine summarizes journal articles, books and chapters, research reports, dissertations, gray literature, and educational videos from many publishers and organizations, including AARP [American Association of Retired Persons, AgeLine producer]. AgeLine searches can be limited to materials in any of four broad categories: research/academic, public policy, professional/provider, or general/consumer.

All of the library’s subject guides have been redesigned, to help you more easily identify and access the key research materials in your subject area.

The guides now have tabs across the top so you can jump directly to the type of research materials you want, simply by clicking on the appropriate tab. The tabs include:

Find Articles, to help you identify and quickly access the key article and research databases for your subject area

Reference Sources, which lists specialized encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, etc., most of which are accessible online

Find Books, which contains a Quest Catalogue search box for searching for books and other materials at UNB libraries

Citing Your Sources, which directs you to citation style rules and examples to help you format your bibliography correctly in APA, MLA, Chicago, and other citations styles

Some of the guides also have additional tabs directing you to helpful Internet sites or to other types of research materials.

Select the guide you want from the pull-down menu near the bottom of the library’s homepage.

WorldCat Local combines many of the functions of Quest and WorldCat First Search into one catalogue search for books, DVDs, maps, etc. and even some journal articles, with more to be added soon. The search results will be sorted to show those in UNB Libraries first, then those in the Atlantic Research Libraries, and finally results from libraries around the world. If something isn’t available in our library, the results page will include a link to order it through Document Delivery.

The link for WorldCat Local is on the library website in the catalogue search box. When you’ve tried it, email Merle Steeves and let him know what you think of it.

Now, before anyone takes offence with the title, please check out the "For Dummies" story.

For this exercise, think of the library as it's own little world . . . The first line you encounter is the "Country" that you're looking for (or the location within the library). We have may countries here: Stacks, Reference, Periodicals, Education Room, Circ Desk, Reserves, even Storage (aka Siberia). So make sure that you're in the right country before looking further.

The next line could be considered the "Province", and it's made of one or two letters that indicate the general subject. Books are organized by subject matter. The Library of Congress (LC) list of letters that have been assigned to the various subjects (classifications) can be found here. They are, of course all arranged in alphabetical order.

Next we find the "City", don't worry they're all numerical and arranged in order. Sometimes you'll see decimal points . . . don't be intimidated, just read them the way you were taught in junior high. (Remember? 6457, 6457.2, 6457.261, 6457.3).

The "Street" is the next level down and it requires a bit more attention to detail. . . Notice that there is a decimal point in front of the whole line and this is a clue. You read this line first alphabetically and then as a decimal, here it's 0.65. Follow your basic rules for decimals, for instance 0.7 goes after 0.65 and 0.4 goes after 0.3998.

Chances are you'll have your book in hand by now, but you may need the "House Number" to determine the specific edition. The fifth (and final) line in our example gives the year of publication.

Now some variation can be found in call numbers . . . the old cliche, "an exception to every rule" really applies. But for the most part, you can't go wrong imagining the call number as an address.

Desperately in need of a book or journal and the Ward Chipman Libraries copy is not available. Have no fear for Document Delivery Requests are here. The requests are free of charge for students and faculty members. If you go to our Document Delivery page you will be able to submit a request for the material that you are searching for. Then in about 3 to 4 business days you will receive a phone call or email letting you know that your material is available at the Circulation Desk. If it is a journal article they will automatically send it to your email address, but make sure you either save or print it because once you click on the link one time then you will not be able to access it again. If it does not say that Fredericton carries it make sure that you still fill out a request as they will get the material through Interlibrary Loan. You can find the forms online at: http://www.lib.unb.ca/requests/docdel/

Writing an essay for your class and want to make sure that you are on the right track. Then the people at the Writing Centre are the ones to talk to. The Writing Centre is situated in the Ward Chipman Library.

Writing Centre consultants aim to help students improve their own writing abilities through individual tutoring sessions that focus on academic assignments. Students can get help to understand the particular demands of formal, academic writing in English, including such topics as clarifying ideas, making an outline, developing a thesis statement, thinking critically, structuring an argument, proofreading, editing, and revising. The goal is to help students improve the clarity of their own thought and expression.

To book an appointment with the Writing Centre on the Saint John campus, drop by the Circulation Desk of the Ward Chipman Library, call 648-5710, or call Student Services 648-5501.

Every profession has their own jargon, suitably confusing to “outsiders”. The library is no exception. For this reason we are pleased to invite you into our world by defining a few of the more common terms you may hear in the library on a regular basis:

Reserves: These are high-demand materials, selected and often provided, by instructors to be used in a specific class. Reserves may be books, assignment solutions, lecture notes, videos, etc. that are available from the circulation desk for short-term loans from 2-hours to 3 days.

Citation: In your writing you must always acknowledge the ideas and works of others. A citation is the indicator that you place in the body of your text to “cite” another’s work. It points toward the corresponding reference (see below) and can be formatted in a variety of styles such as (Name, Year).

Reference: All of the information (author, title, journal, date, volume, publisher, etc.) that you would require in order to find the item yourself. Often expressed in a specific format such as APA (American Psychological Association) or MLA (Modern Language Association).

Serial: The general name given to publications that are issued at intervals and expected to continue indefinitely. Examples include newspapers, journals and conference proceedings.

Periodical: A specific type of serial publication that is produced at regular intervals (weekly, monthly, quarterly, annually) with a comprehensive numbering system such as volumes or issues that contain separate articles.

Index: A “guide” published either in-print or electronically, that lists the location of topics that can be found in a specific work or collection of works. Prior to the extensive on-line “searchable” indexes available today, most research began with long hours raking through periodical indexes.

Stacks: The bookshelves that hold the core collection of books within the library.

Quest is our online library catalogue. You can search for books, journals and reference materials. It will tell you if the material is available and where you can find it in the Library. If it is not available then it will tell you the date that the item is due back. You can put a hold on the item if you want to make sure that you will be the next person to receive it.

Quest consists of slightly more than 1,000,000 bibliographic records, which refer to the holdings of the Harriet Irving Library, the Engineering Library, the Science and Forestry Library and the Gerard V. La Forest Law Library on the Fredericton campus and the Ward Chipman Library on the Saint John campus. Look in the "Holdings" section of the records in Quest to find the specific location and circulation status of each item.

You can access Quest through the library homepage:
http://www.lib.unb.ca/

We have a vocabulary all our own and you've only seen the tip of the iceberg, so here comes some more. . .

Current Periodicals - These are the most recent editions of magazines or journals (i.e. periodicals), usually published within the past year, that have not been bound into volumes yet. They are filed alphabetically by title on the shelves across from the Circulation Desk.

Monograph - Typically refers to a scholarly book, or a limited set of volumes that cover one subject or a group of related subjects.

Reference Collection - This is the collection of books such as encyclopedias, dictionaries and handbooks that you can consult for bibliographic or factual information. These reference works do not circulate from the library so that they are readily available.

Hold - The request for a book that is currently checked out to another user. Placing a hold on a book places you next in line for the item when it is returned. You can request that a hold be placed on a book at the circulation desk.

Microforms - These are materials that have been photographed or filmed to a reduced size and require a special reader to use them. The microforms and microform readers are located on the second floor of the library.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy (WCL-SFF and WCL-SFF-SP) circulating monograph collection at the Ward Chipman Library contains approximately 15,000 items. The collection is available primarily to members of the UNB community for teaching and research purposes and secondarily to the public through extracurricular library cards and interlibrary loans. The library initially decided to house and maintain a donation of a small general collection of SFF books in 1966. Since that time, the collection has expanded to support and supplement UNB teaching and research, and where possible, extracurricular interests.

Criteria for the SFF collection are based primarily on the collection’s use for teaching and research. Standard book lists and other authoritative selection aids are consulted in the selection process. Areas of interest include SFF and SFF-related works in the fields of literature, film, gender studies, culture studies, psychology, sociology, history, art, philosophy, and other areas of user interest.

Modern Language Association (MLA) Bibliography
MLA International Bibliography is a "fundamental research tool for the humanities, covers international scholarly materials on language, literature, linguistics, and folklore."
You can access the website here:
http://collections.chadwyck.com/home/home_mla.jsp

The Dissertations & Theses Database (formerly known as Digital Dissertations) is the world's most comprehensive collection of graduate theses. In addition to providing access to the work of authors from over one thousand institutions, it offers the option of limiting search results to UNB authors only.

All PhD dissertations and Master's theses from depositing universities are available in full text from 1997 onwards, except in cases where the author has requested that the document not be made available.

Coverage: 1861 - present. Indexing dates back to 1861; dissertation abstracts are available from 1980-present; and theses abstracts are available from 1988-present

To access the Dissertations & Theses Database go to this link:
http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPUcyODcrNTQ5NyszYjBmJklOVD0wJlZFUj0y&clientId=10774

Some ways of knowing if you are plagiarizing or not are:

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, to plagiarize is "to take and use as one's own the thoughts, writings, or inventions of another."¹ The UNB Undergraduate Calendar defines it as including the following:

1.Quoting verbatim or almost verbatim from a source (such as copyrighted material, notes, letters, business entries, computer materials, etc.) without acknowledgment;
2.Adopting someone else's line of thought, argument, arrangement, or supporting evidence (such as, for example, statistics, bibliographies, etc.) without indicating such dependence;
3.Submitting someone else's work, in whatever form (film, workbook, artwork, computer materials, etc.) without acknowledgment;
4.Knowingly representing as one's own work any idea of another.²

Some goods ways to avoid plagiarizing are:

1.Start your research early. Expect the library research process for most research papers to take much longer than the writing process. Consult the library's Info Search booklet for general research help.
2.Get full citations. Be sure you have all the bibliographic details (title, author, journal title, volume, issue, pages, etc.) when printing or emailing source documents, or when taking notes during your research. In your paper you will need to fully identify sources of direct quotes, paraphrases, and ideas.
3.Use a standard citation style. Each discipline typically uses its own accepted standard citation method, and has a detailed style manual which explains how to format citations. Ask your instructor whether one of these standard styles should be used:
•Social Sciences: APA (Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association)
•Humanities: MLA (MLA Style Manual) or Chicago (Chicago Manual of Style)
•Sciences: CSE (Scientific Style and Format)

Academic Search Premier is just one of the many databases that students can use to find journal articles. Academic Search Premier is a multidisciplinary resource that "provides journal coverage for most academic areas of study." It is one of our more popular databases.

You can access the website here:
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/search?vid=1&hid=107&sid=ce551cab-18b1-4e30-9bde-b800c001bf36%40sessionmgr111

At this point in the term, I hope you all know which of your classes have items "on reserve". But do you know how to check Quest to find them? Can you tell if they are folders, books, or electronic reserves ~ or currently checked out? Do you know how to find and access your e-reserves from home?

If you answered no to any of these questions . . . we have a 2 minute (and 16 second) solution for you! Simply click here to watch our video tutorial called (what else?) “Accessing course reserves.” And, that’s not the only research tutorial we’ve produced for your viewing pleasure – There are other video clips on helpful topics such as: understanding citations, using electronic databases and RSS feeds. For the full list, go to “subject guides & tutorials” under the “e-resources” tab from our library home page. . . Or you could just click here. (I might add that they are all in-house productions, so you’ll probably see some familiar places and faces!)

Literature Online
Literature Online offers full text access to rare and inacessible works, up-to-date, reference resources, in addition to the full text of poetry, drama, and prose fiction from the seventh century to the present day. Materials are included from almost every period and genre of English literature as well as many works by 20th century authors. Contemporary criticism is available through the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL) and the MLA International Bibliography.

You can access the website here:
http://lion.chadwyck.com/

"Formerly known as Environmental Knowledgebase OnLine (created by the International Academy at Santa Barbara), Environment Index offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy resources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Environment Index contains more than 1,772,000 records from more than 1,660 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s (including 1,094 active core titles) as well as more than 100 monographs. Environment Index also features an in-depth thesaurus, and author profiles will be provided for 5,000 authors in the discipline. Please note that this product recently changed names from Environmental Issues and Policy Index."--Database help page.

The website is here:
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/search?vid=1&hid=3&sid=a05fb214-639a-4f9d-8229-53d4880c16a4%40sessionmgr11

Your books are due but you really need them longer and there is no way for you to get into the Library. Do not worry, you can renew your books online. You just have to go to the library website and look on the left hand side of the page under Connect to and it will say Book Renewal. You can also access it through our online catalogue Quest. If you look at the top line it will say My Account. If you click on that it will show Renew Materials. Another way that you can renew your materials is by telephone. If you call the Ward Chipman Library Circulation Desk they can renew your materials with your library card number.

You can reach the Circulation Desk at: 648-5710

Literature Criticism Online provides online access to the content of the following reference works on literature: Twentieth-century literary criticism, Nineteenth-century literature criticism, Literature criticism 1400-1800, Shakespeare criticism, Contemporary literary criticism, and Children's literature review.

You can access the website here:
http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/LitCrit?locID=fred46430&srchtp=a&ste=2<

The Philosopher's Index "is a bibliographic database with informative author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in the fifteen fields of philosophy, published in journals and books since 1940.

This website can be accessed at:
http://csaweb116v.csa.com/ids70/advanced_search.php?SID=3b8a5n9iots152hkk4rosf5pb0

North American Women's Letters and Diaries indexes American and Canadian women's diaries and correspondence over centuries. Researchers will have access to immediate experiences of 1,325 women.

It can be accessed here:
http://solomon.nwld.alexanderstreet.com/index.html

Latino Literature contains approximately 400 plays and 67,500 pages of prose and poetry by Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican and other Latin writers working in the United States. It reflects distinct immigration experiences, themes of social protest and exploitation; the migratory experience; self-exploration or self-definition, and the exploration of myths and legends. Approximately 25% of the collection is presented in Spanish.

It can be accessed here:
http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/lali/lali.index.map.aspx

The Cochrane Library contains high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. This database includes the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, the Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews, the The Cochrane Methodology Register, the Health Technology Assessment Database, and the NHS Economic Evaluation Database.

This website can be accessed here:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/mrwhome/106568753/HOME?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

Did you know that you can access your network home directory/folder from home? It’s as easy as pointing your web browser to:
http://sjnetstore.unbsj.ca/NetStorage/
When prompted, use your Novell Login and password and you will find your drives and folders readily available. So put away that flash drive, cause you just don't need it!

Justis is a collection of legal databases containing cases and legislation from the United Kingdom, treaties and legislation from the European Community, and cases and related documents from the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights.

Access the website here:
http://www.justis.com/

Did you know that the Ward Chipman Library has a cupboard full of Audio/Visual equipment available for Students, Staff and Faculty to borrow? We have digital cameras, VCR’s, DVD players, tripods, microphones and more. Stop by the Circulation Desk where the staff will be happy to provide you with a through inventory list and information on loan periods.

The Black Drama database contains the full-text of more than 1200 plays by over 200 playwrights. The plays, which were written from the mid-1800's to the present in the United States, Caribbean, and several African nations, explore many different topics including civil rights activism, interracial unity, desegregation, and apartheid. Also included are significant plays of the Harlem Renaissance and Black Arts movement of the sixties and seventies.

The website can be accessed here:
http://solomon.bldr.alexanderstreet.com/index.html