- New Primary Source Collections
We now have access to two new titles from Adam Matthew:
- Mexico in History: Colonialism to Revolution
- The Olympic Movement: Sport, Global Politics and Identity
These were announced in April as forthcoming titles on our list of fiscal year-end, one-time purchases.
- Database name change
Effective October 24th, the SpringerLink ejournal/ebook platform, which hosts journals from Springer, Palgrave and Adis, will be renamed Springer Nature Link. According to our Springer Nature rep, this is primarily a branding change for the immediate future. Scientific American, as well as our Nature and BMC journals, will continue to be hosted on their own platforms, but there will be links to these from the new Springer Nature Link platform as well.
- New Gale Digital Humanities Fellowships
Please share with your subject areas (or consider for your own work). Gale has announced its support for short research fellowships at the Centre for Digital Scholarship, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford. Fellows can also focus on the Bodleian’s special collections.
The deadline for applications is 29 November 2024. For full details, begin with this page.
There is also an information session on 23 October for those considering applying. Here’s the link to register for this session.
- Removals from NFB Education (National Film Board streaming service)
Unfortunately the National Film Board has removed some films from our NFB Education streaming service (formerly known as NFB Campus). They haven’t provided a list of the films they’ve removed. This issue is affecting many universities across Canada, and multiple consortia are pressing the NFB to reverse, and at least communicate clearly, these changes.
This means you might hear from instructors who are finding new paywalls for films they’ve already assigned in their courses. If this happens, please notify us right away because we may be able to get access restored, or find a workaround. Please use a helpdesk ticket, to help us keep track.
We just received a new NFB MARC record set that will update our holdings, so the main concern in the near future will be syllabus links that haven’t been tested recently.
- Database name change
The National Film Board of Canada’s NFB Campus has been rebranded as NFB Education.