Print to Electronic Journal Migration 2011

The library is proposing to migrate a number of print journal subscriptions to online versions. Full Details.

Patti Wilson, Collections Librarian

Take the Undergraduate Loan Period Survey

If you are an undergraduate student at UFV, please take our survey regarding loan periods for books. From the library page or the link below, you can access the survey and let us know what you think regarding a proposed change to the loan period for undergraduate students only.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CM6NHK7

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Library Hours Survey Prizes

Thanks to everyone who took part in the recent Library Hours Survey! The prizes have been drawn and the winners have been notified. Thanks to the UFV Bookstore, ARTstor, and Springer for providing some of our prizes.

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Elections Canada display in your library

Check out the cool Elections Canada displays in the Abbotsford and Chilliwack campus libraries! Take a pin and push yourself in. Check out the display webpage and review facts about the parties, their platforms as well as see what resources the UFV Library has on the topic.

Display website: http://www.ufv.ca/library/exhibits/canadaelection2011.htm

Early English Books Online (EEBO) now at UFV

Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the English Civil War.

EEBO contains works by such authors as Malory, Shakespeare, Spenser, Bacon, More, Erasmus, Boyle, Newton, and Galileo. In addition to the great literature of the time, the collection includes historical materials such as royal statutes and proclamations; military, religious, and other public documents; almanacs; musical exercises; calendars; broadsides; prayer books; pamphlets, proclamations; and many other primary resources.

This collection will be of tremendous value for researchers in English literature, history, religious studies, philosophy, political science, art history, history of printing and the book, and more.

Try SAGE Reference Online for your social sciences research

Looking for authoritative background information in the social sciences, such as criminology, sociology, psychology, geography, business and economics, political science, education, and social work?

Try the new Sage Reference Online database - a collection of hundreds of highly respected encyclopedias and handbooks.

Reference Universe

Are you struggling with where to begin your research or looking for that spark of inspiration to focus your essay topic? UFV Library has subscribed to Reference Universe (RU), a discovery tool that will unlock the wealth of information in our print and electronic reference collection. Using RU, you will be able to search our specialized subject encyclopedias and handbooks simultaneously. You will not have to go out on to the Web looking for information and find sources that may be unreliable and therefore unusable. You can use RU and find authoritative, current and scholarly reference information quickly and effectively. Click right through to online articles in our major reference databases, while also peering into our vast print encyclopedia and handbook collection at the back-of-the-book index level!

Check out our Electronic Reference Collection web page to access Reference Universe. You can also access RU from our various LibGuides under the "background" tab.