Calculating Geozones

From Statistics Canada's Health Reports: Geozones: An area-based method for analysis of health outcomes

"Geozones is based on population proportions and the comparison of different populations within specified areas, the results of which are used to create a typology of population concentration for a given level of geographic aggregation."

Innovation in Canada's natural resource industries

From Public Policy Forum: Towards a More Innovative Future: Insights from Canada's Natural Resources Sector
"In all of our roundtable discussions, participants stressed the need for greater collaboration across industries and regions. This was seen as a key first step in generating ideas and strategies to fuel innovation across the whole of the sector and build the capacity it requires. Effective collaboration on a wide range of non-competitive areas offers significant opportunities to address challenges all industries face..."

A Blended Learning Toolkit!

From EDUCAUSE Quarterly: The Blended Learning Toolkit: Improving Student Performance and Retention, by Thomas B. Cavanagh

"... the Blended Learning Toolkit, a comprehensive resource for individuals and institutions to draw upon to develop and deploy blended learning initiatives."

Social networking and politics - new Pew report

From the Pew Internet & American Life Project: Social networking sites and politics

"Some 38% of SNS users have discovered through a friend’s posts that his/her political beliefs were different than the user thought they were."

New database: Simply Map

Simply Map is a great addition to the RRU Library online collection! With Simply Map users can create professional quality thematic maps using various data sources such as NAICS codes or demographic information. 

 

Simply Map can be accessed via the Article Databases tab on our webpage.

Oxford University Press Journals database

The Oxford University Press Journals technical issues have been resolved.

SRMO is fixed!

The Sage Research Methods Online database technical issue has been resolved.

Database technical issues

We are experiencing technical platform problems with the Sage Research Methods Online and Oxford University Press Journals databases.  Hopefully they will be resolved soon!