Sue Andrews reports that new Microlog records that are downloaded from ProQuest now include a hyperlink to the online full-text when available. No more having to search Google for the title to find out if it’s available online for these latest records!
Look at “BC mining plan [microform] : report on progress” as an example.

Some amusing YouTube videos made by students or universities about RefWorks. RefWorks Citation Cop is just one that’s available for your viewing enjoyment!

After our session on LexisNexis I discovered there is a LexisNexis wiki.

The Oxford Scholarship Online collection of books in Poli Sci, Religion, Philosophy, and Econ are not yet listed in the library catalogue. If you see an Oxford University Press title in our collection, it is worth checking out this resource (from the Indexes and Databases) to see if we have the book online.
And I have just discovered that if you are using GoogleScholar and find a reference to a book in this collection, you can access it from GS this way:
1. Click on the hyperlinked title
2. In GoogleBooks, look for the link on the right hand side to the publisher, Oxford University Press
3. On the OUP site, there will be a link to OSO if the title is available in that collection. It is on the upper right-hand side.
4. And voila, you are reading the book online!

Thanks to the free one year subscription won by Theatre Faculty member, Jerry Wasserman, we have access to the wonderful database Theatre in Video until February 2008. The database features hundreds of definitive performances of the some of the world’s best known plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video. Browse by Production, Company, Theatre, Genre, or People.
T.S.

EuroDocs (http://eurodocs.lib.byu.edu) is a new portal to European primary source documents in facsimile, transcription, or English translation. This (gated) wiki links to freely available European primary historical documents on key historical happenings, sorted by country, and arranged chronologically.
If you’re interested in contributing, request a password through eurodocs@byu.edu.

Elim Wong over at the Law Library has created a wonderful new infopage for LexisNexis Academic – Legal Research at http://toby.library.ubc.ca/resources/infopage.cfm?id=1317. LexisNexis Academic Legal Research has a number of different search forms for each type of information (patents, regulations, legal news, directories, etc), and these have all been linked directly off the information page, along with a description of types of materials.
Some of the search screens we might use in HSS include:

FYI
Service for the NFB database CineRoute has been discontinued and the CineRoute station (located in front of the journals/microforms desk) is available for general use for the time being. The station has access to all library resources and the open web though Tracey Douglas has not yet had the opportunity to look at it and ensure that it has been properly updated. A new version of CineRoute is expected sometime this spring, at which point it may be reconsidered for acquisition.
Please let me know if you have any additional questions about CineRoute or the former CineRoute station.
Thanks,
Tara.

We now have access to two new humanities databases.
Empire Online is a full-text collection of original documents relating to Empire Studies, sourced from libraries and archives around the world.
Sections include:
– Section I: Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969
– Section II: Literature and Empire
– Section III: The Visible Empire
– Section IV: Religion and Empire
– Section V: Race, Class, Imperialism and Colonialism, c.1607-2007
Defining Gender, 1450-1910 is a full-text database of primary sources, covering 110 documents (books and periodicals) from the early modern period to the nineteenth century. Supporting material includes introductory essays, biographies, and chronologies.
Sections include:
– Section I: Conduct and Politeness
– Section II: Domesticity and the Family
– Section III: Consumption and Leisure
– Section IV: Education and Sensibility
– Section V: The Body

UBC Library now has access to the electronic versions of four titles from Idea Group:
1. Encyclopedia of Developing Regional Communities with Information and Communication Technology
2. Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction
3. Handbook of Research on Informatics in Healthcare and Biomedicine
4. Handbook of Research on Nature-Inspired Computing for Economics and Management
Our online access is in addition to our print holdings.
The URLs for the eBooks are located in the catalogue records for the print titles (not in the list of indexes and databases.)