Changes to E-Resources Display

We've made some changes in the way e-resources are displayed on the Concordia Library website.

Staff members at the Concordia Library manage online access to over 100 licensed electronic resources, including full-text article databases, e-book collections, streaming audio/video collections and much more. To manage access to this increasingly complex digital collection in an efficient manner, the library will be implementing a new e-resource management system later this week.

You will notice some visual changes to the way the library’s e-resources are browsed and displayed. To get a sneak peak at the new e-resource finding interface, visit this page. Every effort has been made to replicate current finding functionality (and add new functionality as well), but we must also work within the new system’s parameters.

We welcome any feedback you may have on this change, please email or call if you have questions or comments:

Dan Mirau Library Director Concordia University College of Alberta
Phone: 780.479.9334 Fax: 780.471.6796 http://library.concordia.ab.ca

Wikipedia Good for Scholarship?

The folks at Oxford University Press have released a new online journal for information professionals. The inaugural issue features several interesting articles, one on Wikipedia's contribution to scholarship.

The journal has an innovative reading interface and great content. Well worth a visit and possibly a bookmark/share/tweet/subscribe click.

Cheers,

Dan

Find Articles on your Smartphone

Cambridge Journals Online is the latest of Concordia Library's collections to introduce a mobile-device optimized option. Search and view CJO articles on your smartphone or other mobile devices by visiting:

m.journals.cambridge.org

RefWorks 2.0

RefWorks 2.0 is coming! RefWorks is getting a facelift this summer that will make it easier to use and look better. Check out a preview today!

Enhanced PDF Viewer in EBSCO Databases

Check out the enhanced PDF Viewer now available in all EBSCO databases (including Academic Search Premier, MLA International Bibliography, PsycINFO, and ATLA).

This will now allow you to browse an entire journal issue, or all available volumes and issues, from one screen. Other features include:
• Table of Contents column with title, author and subject detail
• Hyperlinked access to full text issue contents
• List of hyperlinked thumbnails to illustrations
• Expand/collapse arrow to control PDF view

To view a short demonstration of this new feature, click here.

ScienceDirect Unavailable Saturday night

Due to maintenance, ScienceDirect will be unavailable from 7 pm Saturday, October 31 to 3 am Sunday, November 1. We apologize for any inconvenience.

RefWorks can be your lifesaver!

RefWorks is a web-based bibliography manager that allows you to create your own personal bibliographic database.  Concordia students can use RefWorks to organize references, use references in writing papers and automatically format a bibliography in seconds.

There will be drop-in information sessions available to all Concordia students in October 2009 on the following dates:

October 13^th 2:30 – 3:30 pm

October 14^th 9 – 10 am

October 15^th 10 -11 am

October 16^th 2 -3 pm

Plan to attend in HA 107 and let RefWorks be your lifesaver!

Any questions?  Email Erica Hebert, Information Services Librarian (erica.hebert@concordia.ab.ca)

SCOPUS and ScienceDirect Unavailable on Saturday

Due to maintenance, both SCOPUS and ScienceDirect will be unavailable from 6 am to 7 pm on Saturday, September 17.  We apologize for any inconvenience.

Use RefWorks to help with your research!

RefWorks is an amazing online tool that will help organize references for your papers and then format those references in APA, MLA or citation styles.  RefWorks drop-in workshops will be held later in the semester, but for now please check out Concordia Library's RefWorks site.

New Interface for Literature Resource Center

Literature Resource Center offers searching on literary topics, authors and genres.  Improvements to this e-resource include a better layout, more intuitive searching, and exporting to RefWorks.  You can even listen to a scholarly article being read out loud!

Sage Journals Collection

The Concordia Library has recently acquired access to over 500 journals through the Sage Premier collection. These journals cover a variety of topics including education, psychology, and management.  Access these resources via the Sage website or be redirected to their content via other e-resources.