GMID (Global Market Information Database) has a new name

GMID is now Passport GMID.  To access it begin at the RRU Library webpage and select the Article Databases tab, then the letter "P" and the link to Passport GMID (Global Market Information Database). 

Please contact us if you need assistance.

Interactive digital books?

From TED: Mike Matas demonstrates the next generation interactive book.

New Juristat article: Violent victimization of Aboriginal women

From Juristat (May 2011):
Violent victimization of Aboriginal women in the Canadian provinces, 2009
by Shannon Brennan

New database: IBISWorld

Our latest database is IBISWorld.

IBISWorld’s Industry Research Reports provide strategic insight and analysis on over 700 global industries.

To find IBISWorld just select the Article Databases tab on the RRU Library webpage, then the letter I.  From there you can select IBISWorld.

Strategies to avoid presentation overload

From The Chronicle of Higher Education - ProfHacker: Challenging the Presentation Paradigm with the 1/1/5 Rule

Is the 1/1/5 rule for you?

Books are dead and other myths of the 'information age'

From The Chronicle of Higher Education: 5 Myths About the 'Information Age'
"Confusion about the nature of the so-called information age has led to a state of collective false consciousness. It's no one's fault but everyone's problem, because in trying to get our bearings in cyberspace, we often get things wrong..."

New paper from the Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute

Can Canada Have a Grand Strategy?
By J.L. Granatstein
""...leaders of every smaller nation know from hard experience that at base their interests may be sacrificed or overridden by superpowers following their own Grand Strategy or, sometimes, selfishly or in a fit of absence of mind advancing their own national interests."

We have J.L. Granatstein's new book in the Library.

Canada's army : waging war and keeping the peace (call #: UA600 .G6597 2011)