ScienceDirect eJournal Additions: New Titles Galore!
Several new ejournals have been added to our Elsevier / ScienceDirect collections. They are: Annals of Allergy Asthma & Immunology 1996+ AORN Journal 1995+ Healthcare Management Forum 1995+ Journal of Dairy Science 1995+ Mayo Clinic Proceedings 1995+ Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology 2003+ Seminars in Nephrology 2003+ Seminars in Oncology 2001+ Solid […]
Updated Resource: SAGE Reference Online 2012 Encyclopedia Collection
UBC Library has purchased updates to the SAGE Reference Online Encyclopedia collection: the 2012 collection (and the 2013 collection, coming soon). Some titles in the 2012 collection include: Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa: An Encyclopedia Encyclopedia of Transnational Crime and Justice Technology in Schools Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change, […]
ENDS Europe: Europe’s environmental news and information service
ENDS Europe is the EU’s leading source on eco-policy, business and markets –ENDS Europe website ENDS Europe covers the latest European environmental news, analyses, interviews, opinion pieces and updates on EU laws, as well as reports on topical issues. Access ENDS Europe here.
In Iran: Text and Photos by Adam Jones (ebook)
Here is a preview of In Iran, an ebook that Adam Jones, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia in Kelowna, has made available to the UBC community. In Iran is protected by copyright, but “All photos linked in the text are published under a Creative Commons 3.0 license.” We […]
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: New resource
“Nineteenth Century Collections Online is the most ambitious scholarly digitization and publication program ever undertaken, providing searchable content from a wide range of primary sources for the “long” 19th century. At all stages of development, Gale sought the guidance and feedback of professionals and end-users to ensure that we were selecting, digitizing and preserving unique, […]
JSTOR: Several New Resources Added!
Just a heads up about several new JSTOR resources we have added over the last little while: Aluka: African Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes — “African Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes includes spatial, visual, and contextual documentation of heritage and rock art sites throughout Africa.” –Aluka Aluka: Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa — “Struggles […]
Benezit Dictionary of Artists: New Resource
“Emmanuel Bénézit’s Paris was the unrivaled center of Western art, the home of Cézanne, Monet, Picasso, and Matisse, and the birthplace of Impressionism, post-Impressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism. In this thrilling context, Bénézit (b. 1854) undertook the monumental project of the Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs… Now comprising fourteen volumes with […]
Three New Online Resources Cover Bios, Video & Math
A few new online resources you might want to take a closer look at: American National Biography Online: “…offers portraits of more than 18,700 men & women — from all eras and walks of life — whose lives have shaped the nation.” That would be the nation just south of us. Films on Demand: “…Web-based […]
Rock and Roll, Counterculture, Peace and Protest: New Adam Matthew Resource
“Tatooing, now illegal in most states, is on the rise again, in the undergroud form of secret tatoo clubs…” —The East Village Other, Vol 1, no.3 (Dec 1965) Rock and Roll, Counterculture, Peace and Protest explores the dynamic period of social, political and cultural change between 1950 and 1975. The resource offers thousands of colour […]
Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape (New Adam Matthew Resource)
“Discover the working methods of Romantic poets and trace the evolution of celebrated verse in this powerful digital resource. Presenting the manuscript collections of the Wordsworth Trust, this digital collection offers students and researchers of the Romantic period unique access to the working notebooks, verse manuscripts and correspondence of William Wordsworth and his fellow writers, […]