Monday, January 30, 2012

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In the meantime use the Journals by Title tab above the main search box on the RRU Library homepage http://library.royalroads.ca/ to look up the journal name. You will then be given a link to the journal homepage in one of our databases, at which point you can browse to the specific volume and issue number for your article.  You can also search by DOI via the box at the bottom of this page: http://wp6eu6tz5x.search.serialssolutions.com/ 

Monday, January 16, 2012

New ebooks and databases

RRU Library now has access to over 1000 new ebooks from a large number of university presses via Project Muse.  They are part of the Global Cultural Studies and Political Science and Policy Studies collections.

The LGBT Life database is part of the EBSCOHOST platform and includes 130 fulltext journals and 170 fulltext ebooks in the area of queer and gender studies.

Also new to RRU Library is Gale Business Insights, which has lots of comparative company and industry information, market research report and business case studies.

All RRU Library databases are accessed via the Article Databases tab on our webpage.

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

New database: Films on Demand

Films on Demand includes streaming videos for business and economics topics.  Access Films on Demand via the Article Databases tab on the RRU Library webpage.