AccessScience - NEW

AccessScience is a multi-media scholarly reference in the area of science and technology. It includes:

• Over 9,000 online articles from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology 10th edition
• Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology
• 110,000+ definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms
• 16,000 illustrations and graphics, and bibliographies containing more than 28,000 literature citations
• Content contributed by more than 5000 researchers, including 36 Nobel Prize winners
• Biographies of more than 2,000 well-known scientists from the Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography®
• Science and technology newsfeed from Science News®
• Media-rich content, such as Flash® animations, image galleries, podcasts, charts, and videos
• A study center with Q&As, AP Study Guides, and essay topics

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Blackwell Reference Online - NEW

New Online Reference Database Provides Strong Coverage in the Humanities

Blackwell Reference Online provides authorative, scholarly reference sources (dictionaries, handbooks and companions) in the social sciences and humanities.
Subject areas represented include:

• Anthropology
• Classics
• Communication and Media Studies
• Geography
• History
• Language and Linguistics
• Literature
• Philosophy
• Psychology
• Religion & Theology
• Sociology 

UFV Library has purchased the 2010 and 2011 collections.

Wilson Databases Coverage to Change

Starting in August, 2012 the content in Humanities Full Text and Social Sciences Full Text will revert to indexing only. Art Full Text will be retained as a full text database. The majority of full text content is available in other full text databases, such as Academic Search Premier or Project Muse.  Articles may also be requested on interlibrary loan.  Faculty are advised to contact the library with any questions or concerns.

Chilliwack LIbrary re-opening on July 3rd, 2012!

Welcome to the new UFV Chilliwack Library now located at the Canada Education Park! 

We have moved nearly 80,000 items across town to our new location, 45190 Caen Avenue, at the new Canada Education Park.

Under construction for the past two years, the new library replaces an old facility, which was straining at the seams to keep up with student and faculty demand, changing technology and an ever-growing collection.  

Library staff are looking forward to serving you in the new library, which has floor-ceiling-windows, 38 study table seats, two group study rooms, casual study space, a classroom-sized, 30-seat computer lab, and student and faculty services including Educational Technology Services, Information Technology, the Writing and Math centres and the Teaching and Learning department.

The library opens Tuesday, but please bear with us as we continue to get our systems up and running. Student computers and printing are not yet available.

Our new address is: 45190 Caen Avenue, Chilliwack, BC, Canada V2R 0N3

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NEW: Library Connections (March/April, 2012)

Check out the latest edition of Library Connections!  

Chilliwack Library is on the move! 

Read story of library closure and move and see photos of the new Chilliwack Library at CEP and much more here: http://www.ufv.ca/library/newsletter.htm

Electronic Reading Lists

Attention UFV Faculty!

Did you know that many of your course readings, particularly for scholarly journal articles, are available in UFV’s electronic journals collection?

The UFV Library is offering a service to create electronic reading lists for your courses.

We can create persistent links to our licensed or open access journal, magazine and newspaper content, to e-books, or to freely available web documents, such as government reports. Students can click on the link to access the course reading. These links will work from off-campus.

Process

• Instructors can email their course readings lists to the UFV library. We will add persistent links to all readings available electronically, if possible.
• The list will be emailed back to the instructor.
• You may then use the document in Blackboard, myUFV, as an email handout to students, or on a course web page.
• A second option is to have us prepare an electronic course reserves page within the UFV Library catalogue.


Advantages

• UFV has already paid licensing fees for access to this content. Students do not have to duplicate this payment in the form of royalty fees.
• Additional readings can be added at any time throughout the semester.
• Students can access the readings from any computer, both on and off campus

Limitations

• We are not arranging to digitize and link to print book chapters.
• Not all journals are available in UFV’s licensed collection.
• Please allow adequate processing time.

The Electronic Reading List request form is available at:
http://www.ufv.ca/library/faculty/reserves/ereadings.htm

For more information, contact Patti Wilson at loc. 4277

A reminder: don't leave personal property unattended.

Library patrons should keep all valuables including purses, backpacks, textbooks, laptops, or cell phones with them at all times. No personal items should be left unattended in the Library, even for a brief period of time. UFV Libraries are not responsible for the theft of personal property in the Library.