Everyone, you may be interested in familiarizing yourself with the UC/Elsevier situation. It’s being discussed widely, and was referenced in the Library Council meeting this morning. The University of California recently announced that it will not renew its subscriptions with Elsevier. One of the central reasons (I’m paraphrasing) was that Elsevier wanted to […]
We’re delighted to let you know that we’ve purchased five subject collections in Oxford Handbooks Online: History, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology. The platform is in the databases A-Z list, and the Handbooks appear in the catalogue. Please spend some time with this exciting new resource and consider incorporating it into your […]
ProQuest has integrated Altmetric visualizations into ebook listings within the Academic Complete subscription ebook package. Click through to the following ebook to view the Altmetrics on the right-hand side of the screen alongside the book’s table of contents: The ambivalent internet: mischief, oddity, and antagonism online ProQuest’s platform (called Ebook Central) will […]
As an interesting FYI, here are the 5 films most watched on Kanopy in 2018 by the members of the University of Alberta community: People Say I’m Crazy: Schizophrenia from the Inside Out — “the only film about schizophrenia ever made by someone with schizophrenia” Requiem for the American Dream: Discourse with Noam Chomsky — “The […]
If you use any support or training materials from EBSCO, you may be interested to know that in January 2019, EBSCO will begin replacing its current support site, EBSCO Help, with a new site called EBSCO Connect. This new site promises product documentation and training options, including on-demand training. If you […]