October 13, 2009 – 7:00 am
12 October 2009
RMIT Publishing is delighted to be extending its provision of authoritative engineering research to include New Zealand full text content. Thanks to a new collaboration with peak professional body, The Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand (IPENZ) Informit will unlock a wealth of influential research from engineers, for engineers.
With almost 100 years of [...]
October 9, 2009 – 7:18 am
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While Vincent van Gogh has become almost as famed for his troubled mind as for his paintings, a new exhibition in the Van Gogh Museum seeks to remind us there was more method than madness to his style.
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Seeing the letters next to the paintings underlines Van Gogh’s professionalism, which is sometimes overlooked amid spectacular biographical [...]
October 5, 2009 – 12:50 pm
nbsp;http://data.australia.gov.au/
data.australia.gov.au is the home of Australian government public information datasets. We encourage you to make government information even more useful by mashing-up the data to create something new and exciting! Make sure you pay attention to the licence attached to the datasets you are interested in using. Each licence should make clear what you can [...]
October 5, 2009 – 7:20 am
nbsp;http://www.proquest.com/en-US/catalogs/d…
ProQuest Public Health is a new and unique database; designed to be the ideal starting point for public health information and research. It delivers core public health literature with centralized access to over 800 publications with over 500 in full-text.
With journals, news, trade publications, reports and more, ProQuest Public Health covers a wide variety of [...]
September 16, 2009 – 10:01 am
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Thomson Reuters has expanded the coverage of The Web of Science by launching an archive covering groundbreaking research in the social sciences dating back to the 1900s
By IWR News Desk, Information World Review 15 Sep 2009
Called Century of Social Sciences, the set of research delivers comprehensive backfile and cited reference data from 1900 to 1955. [...]
September 11, 2009 – 10:39 am
nbsp;http://www.aanro.net/HOME.html
AANRO is an on-line service developed in 1996 by integrating three databases, Australian Agricultural Research in Progress (AARIP), Australian Bibliography of Agriculture (ABOA) and Streamline (the national water research database). AANRO is funded through the Primary Industries Standing Committee (PISC), the NRM Standing Committee (NRMSC) and the Rural Research and Development Corporations (RDCs). [...]
September 10, 2009 – 7:26 am
Collection news
Now available: Images from Gazette du Bon Ton (Minneapolis College of Art and Design)
The Minneapolis College of Art and Design has contributed images of early 20th-century French fashion plates from La Gazette du Bon Ton to the ARTstor Digital Library.
Learn more
Wilfried Wang: Modern Architecture (University of Texas at Austin) collection now [...]
September 2, 2009 – 2:59 pm
Press Release: Melbourne, Vic, Australia (September 1, 2009)
Read more at www.informit.com.au/health
RMIT Publishing, the leading source of authoritative content from the Australasian region is pleased to present the forthcoming Informit Health Collection. This new full text online resource will deliver instant, cover-to-cover access to core allied health content from the Australasian region. Many of the peer reviewed [...]
ERIC Users Forum
ALA Annual 2009
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Intercontinental Hotel, Renaissance Room
Chicago, Illinois
Introduction
Wil Frost, Chair of the ERIC Users Committee, welcomed the audience and introduced the panel of speakers: Dr. Lesley Farmer (Professor, California State University, Long Beach), Christina Dunn (Director, National Library of Education), Larry Henry (Project Director, ERIC Project, CSC) and Pete Dagutis [...]
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Reviewed By: Lutishoor Salisbury
Librarian/University Professor
Head, Chemistry and Biochemistry Library
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
The Charleston Advisor / July 2009