The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures is now available online. (We also have the three-volume print set in KR Ref at F1218.6 .O95 2001.)

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures chronicles Pre-Hispanic, colonial, and modern Mesoamerica in over 600 articles. Encompassing the great civilizations of the pre-Columbian era (including the Olmec, Aztec, and Maya peoples) up through the colonial and postcolonial periods, the Encyclopedia covers art, archaeology, religious studies, anthropology, history, and historiography of the region.
This book will be useful for students in ANTH 232 (Ancient Latin America) and ANTH 323 (Archaeological Foundations of Mesoamerican Civilizations).
There are two ways to find this ebook:
1) Search for the title in the library catalogue and follow the link in the catalogue record, or
2) Look for the eBook in the listing of Indexes and Databases

PsycINFO has a very powerful set of limits — many more than in Academic Search Premier, so don’t let the EBSCO software fool you: scroll down to have a look.
The type I use most often is Methodology: students are often required to find examples of particular methodologies, especially qualitative and quantitative. The Methodology limit also includes “Literature Review” and if you’re looking for an overview of a topic, this is a great way to find it.
Because Psych students are like most people and never look “below the fold”, they have no idea that this feature exists and will be very appreciative when you demonstrate it.
(Note that there’s also a Review under Document Type which limits results to book reviews.)
And of course, for a gentle introduction to a topic, appropriate for beginners you can’t go wrong with an encyclopedia or handbook.

UBC Library is currently trialling the database Lexicons of Early Modern English.
Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME) is a historical database of monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries, lexical encyclopedias, hard-word glossaries, spelling lists, and lexically-valuable treatises surviving in print or manuscript from the Tudor, Stuart, Caroline, Commonwealth, and Restoration periods (1480-1702).

The trial ends January 10, 2007.

We now have electronic access to the International Encyclopedia of Linguistics*, part of the Oxford Reference Online collection.
The Encyclopedia encompasses the full range of topics in linguistics, including such areas as historical, comparative, formal, mathematical, functional, philosophical, and sociolinguistics.
There are a couple of neat tools in the Oxford Reference Online collection worth pointing out to patrons:

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* If patrons prefer the print book version of the International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, we also have the four-volume set in the Reference section at call number P29 .I58 2003.

Access to CineRoute is temporarily limited to the following:
• Browsing of NFB film database
• Viewing film information (plot, production details, stills)
• Viewing some film trailers
** full videos cannot be viewed **
Note: CineRoute is only located on the station behind the Journals/Microforms desk.

Great image of how Google searches for information from the Chicago Tribune, courtesy of ACRLog…

Picked up some good tips at Lynn’s Lexis-Nexis session. My favorite: segment searching in Lexis-Nexis Academic.
One of my frustrations with this db was the limited range of search fields: full text; caption; author; headline.
However, you actually can use “segments” or field searching to search common journalistic segments such as bylines, company, person, sections of the paper (ie, news). All documents are divided into searchable fields, which you can see in bold at the top of documents, like this:

To search a particular field, use the format below (remembering to select “fulltext” in the pulldown menu:

The field codes are given in this Advanced User Guide, p.7, along with other tips.

Good news! Globe and Mail on Canadian Newsstand is now available back to November 1977 full text. The backfiles all seem to be there. Newspaper website has been updated to reflect this.

New from Google – the Google News Archive Search available at http://news.google.com/archivesearch/advanced_search (advanced search option).
More information, from the ACRL weblog…
“…it aggregates content from both mainstream media sources and traditional library database aggregators. Some of the participants in the venture include The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Guardian Unlimited, Factiva, Lexis-Nexis, HighBeam Research and Thomson Gale (AccessMyLibrary.com). Most of these providers were already offering access to their archives as fee-based search engines, but this new twist allows them to be searched in a consolidated fashion through a familiar Google interface. ”

Tuesday am, first day of school. Canadian Newsstand is not appearing on the list of databases accessible from ProQuest. I have contacted lib-ejhelp to have our access restored.