Sustaining Canada's Marine Biodiversity

From The Royal Society of Canada: Sustaining Canada’s Marine Biodiversity: Responding to the Challenges Posed by Climate Change, Fisheries, and Aquaculture

"This report’s descriptions of the impact of climate change, the fisheries and aquaculture on biodiversity, and our projections of their future impact, do not present a positive vision of the future. Climate change and its consequences will take hundreds of years, possibly much longer, to reverse. We believe, on the other hand, that the consequences of mistakes in the fisheries and in aquaculture can be fixed more readily — if the effort is made." (From Report in Brief)

New Cansim!

Statistics Canada has released a new research tool for Cansim data:

http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/cansim/home-accueil?lang=eng

Alternative metrics for measuring research impact

From The Chronicle of Higher Education: Scholars Seek Better Ways to Track Impact Online

"the current system of measuring scholarly influence doesn't reflect the way many researchers work in an environment driven more and more by the social Web. Research that used to take months or years to reach readers can now find them almost instantly via blogs and Twitter."

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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/ 

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.

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.