For Better Research Assignments, Ask a Librarian
Posted on October 19th, 2011 by Leeanne
For Better Research Assignments, Ask a Librarian is an interesting little article in Faculty Focus.
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For Better Research Assignments, Ask a Librarian is an interesting little article in Faculty Focus.
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Great news! The Library will be participating in Open Access Week this year which runs from October 24-30.
If you’re wondering what “Open Access” is, you’re in luck. Just in time for the week’s celebrations, we are launching an Open Access FAQ to answer this question and many more. We encourage you to check out the FAQ here: http://subjectguides.uwaterloo.ca/openaccess. This FAQ is accessible via our “Subject Guides” page (under “Interdisciplinary”) and is also linked to from the Copyright FAQ.
In addition to launching the Open Access FAQ, we’re planning to celebrate Open Access Week in a variety of other ways. Activities will include:
* Information booths at the Dana Porter and Davis Centre Libraries. These information booths will showcase the “Five Benefits of Open Access” (more on this later) as well as other information on Open Access. There will be plenty of giveaways at these tables, including Open Access buttons (!!) and a draw to win 1 of 10 Open Access t-shirts (which are nice, although shockingly orange – see attached!). For those of you at other locations, the Open Access FAQ page includes a form for entering the t-shirt draw.
* An Open Access Week display board in the Student Life Centre created in collaboration with WPIRG. The content on this display board will be similar to the information booths at the Dana Porter and Davis Centre Libraries. WPIRG will also be sending information on Open Access Week out to their email list.
* We’ve created the “Five Benefits of Open Access” as an easily-accessible information piece to introduce people to Open Access. I encourage you to read over the “Five Benefits” information on the Open Access FAQ.
If you’re interested in learning more about Open Access and the Library’s plans for the week… or just want to see what the Open Access buttons look like… see our Open Access Week 2011 page: http://subjectguides.uwaterloo.ca/aecontent.php?pid=257992&sid=2129606
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Latest news includes the trial of a new search tool for library resources, more library workshops to help with research, and much more.
Click here to read all about it.
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I’ve just added a link on the English Subject Guide to the electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary. The University of Michigan has provided free access to the searchable version of their 15,000 page print dictionary.
The print copy of the Middle English Dictionary can be found in the Porter Library Reference Collection: PE 679 .m54 (non circulating). Access to the electronic version is through this site: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/med/
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The library has a new database…..Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present.
Orlando provides entries on authors’ lives and writing careers, contextual material, timelines, sets of internal links, and bibliographies. Interacting with these materials creates a dynamic inquiry from any number of perspectives into centuries of women’s writing.
Enjoy, and don’t forget to “Connect from Home” if you want to access this database from off campus.
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Thank you to Dr. Harris for suggesting the specific topics of Literary Studies and Rhetoric. I’ve created a page called Areas of Study, which includes Experimental Digital Media, and this is where you can access posts specific to each topic.
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The New York Review of Books archive (from 1963) is now available online to the UW community.
This is a searchable archive of the reviews written by preeminent writers on selected published works in the following areas: Biography & Memoir; Food & Wine; Essays & Criticism; History; Literature in English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish; All Literature in Translation; Poets & Poetry; Politics & Current Affairs; Science & Philosophy; Suspense & Crime; Visual & Performing Arts.
Access this through Primo/Trellis or the Research Databases page.
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Here are the new books that have been purchased in December. Let Me know if you have any comments or suggestions.
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Here are the new books that have been purchased in November. Let Me know if you have any comments or suggestions.
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Check out the New Resources page for info on the Dictionary of Irish Biography!
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