New online journals from Taylor & Francis

The UFV Library has a new database of online, full-text journals from Taylor & Francis that includes more than 1,300 titles in all disciplines, including a number of important journals in social work, education, criminology, media/cultural/communication studies, business, political science, sociology, geography, sports, anthropology, behavioral science, arts and humanities. It also has titles in chemistry, engineering, environment and agriculture, math and stats, and physics. In many cases, coverage starts in 1997.

Access the journal database via our Research Databases gateway: http://cufts2.lib.sfu.ca/CRDB/BCLF/resource/10824

New database: Social Work Abstracts

Social Work Abstracts is the definitive source for journals and other sources in all aspects of social work literature, including therapy, education, human services, addictions, child and family welfare, mental health, civil and legal rights. The database offers extensive coverage of more than 900 social work and human services journals dating back to 1965 and provides a complement to Social Services Abstracts.

Access the database through our Research Databases gateway: http://cufts2.lib.sfu.ca/CRDB/BCLF/resource/10823

Discontinued research databases

Since 2008, the UFV library has benefited from government funding for a database collection, known as the Undergraduate Foundation Collection (UFC). The UFC databases were shared by K-12, public and postsecondary libraries. This funding has now ended and the UFC has moved to a library-sustained model.

We alerted you earlier to several databases that we were no longer able to continue with the end of this funding; the final two databases from this collection have now been discontinued:

• World Book Encyclopedia: view the hardcopy edition in the UFV Library, or use Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia online. You can also try Oxford Reference Online or Gale Virtual Reference Library for more subject-oriented encyclopedias and dictionaries
• Professional Development Collection: just one of several databases related to literature in Teacher Education.

"Guess the Giller" Contest 2010

Vote for your favourite Giller book - win a Giller book!

In celebration of the upcoming awarding of Canada's premier literary prize, UFV Library and the Chilliwack Scotiabank branch are giving away copies of the Scotiabank Giller short-listed books.

Students, faculty and staff can enter their guess for the 2010 Giller prize winner in the ballot boxes at the circulation desks at all three UFV libraries and the online survey.

Entrants are encouraged to guess the Giller but everyone who enters can win. We'll announce the UFV results and award prizes on November 12th, 3 days after the Giller prize is announced.

Complete details on the Giller Prize and other Giller events are available on the ScotiaBank Giller Prize website.

Short-listed Titles

The Matter With Morris David Pergen	Light Lifting Alexander MacLeod	This Cake is for the Party Sarah Selecky	The Sentimentalists Johanna Skibsrud	Annabel Kathleen Winter

UFV Library's Lisa Morry featured in Chilliwack Progress

The launch of the Residential Schools exhibit was well-attended by members of the UFV community and beyond, with a formal welcome ceremony, complete with drumming and singing, offered by members of the Sto:lo community. UFV Library's Lisa Morry, who worked with UFV's Aboriginal Access Services to design the poster and exhibit, was recognized in this story in the Chilliwack Progress. Way to go, Lisa!

Research database news

CPI-Q, or Canadian Periodical Index
The electronic version of Canadian Periodical Index, CPI-Q indexes 1,200 Canadian periodicals (English and French) and provides full text of over 550 titles. It provides full text of regional newspapers, including the Chilliwack Progress and Abbotsford News.

e-CPS
The e-CPS is Canada’s most authoritative source for prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) drug information, providing information on drug pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, indications, warnings, precautions, interactions, and more.

JSTOR Plant Science
JSTOR Plant Science provides the world’s largest database of plant specimens, with over 600,000 available today. Foundational reference works in plant science are also included, as well as over 20,000 paintings, photographs, drawings and other images.

Interface Changes
Database vendors have been busy this summer launching new interfaces and branding. Wiley Interscience is now Wiley Online Library. ScienceDirect (from Elsevier) has been integrated into a larger product known as SciVerse. Ebscohost, JSTOR and SpringerLink have also updated their platforms.

New research databases gateway

A new Electronic Resources Management (ERM) system has been launched as a gateway to UFV’s Research Databases. This new system provides many new features, such as enhanced subject tagging for databases, an integration of licensed and open access databases, the ranking of databases as “Best Bets”, and the ability to choose databases based on content type (journal articles, book reviews, etc.) and resource type (streaming video, full text database, etc.)

Find the perfect research databases for your topic...

1. Use the pull-down list to retrieve a list of relevant databases for the subject area, including a ranked list of "Best Bets"
2. Browse an alphabetical list by clicking on the first letter of a database name ... or click on "All" to see the whole list
3. Type in part of the database title, or a keyword describing the database