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New Database: Canadian Points of View Reference Centre

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Should books be banned? What about bottled water? Ebsco's Canadian Points of View Reference Centre provides point-counterpoint overviews of controversial topics along with a selection of fulltext articles drawn from Canadian and international magazines and newspapers.


EBL Pilot Concludes

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After running for two years, our pilot of the Ebook Library short-term loan program has concluded. The results are now being reviewed by the e-book Working Group. The Group is made up of representatives from all four McMaster libraries and will investigate how the libraries can best use EBL to complement our other e-book packages. We would like to thank everyone who used these e-books and provided feedback.
 


New: Chicago Manual of Style Online

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The Chicago Manual of Style - the classic guide to writing, formatting, and citing is now online for the McMaster community.

The Chicago Manual of Style - the classic guide to writing, formatting, and citing is now online for the McMaster community.


Informaworld down intermittently Sat. Sept. 27th

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Customers may experience intermittent access to informaworld on Saturday 27th September 2008 as the company completes some essential maintenance. We are expecting two short periods of downtime throughout the day which will last a maximum of thirty minutes.


Scholars Portal Search Unavailable on Saturday Sept 20

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Due to site maintenance, Scholars Portal Search will be unavailable on Saturday, September 20th, 2008 from 8:00am to 9:00am.

If you are doing early morning research on Saturday please be aware you will not be able to search databases such as:  Communication & Mass Media Index, SAGE Full-Text Collections, PsycInfo through CSA, etc. between 8 and 9 am.

See the full list of Scholars Portal databases here: http://search.scholarsportal.info

 

 


LibAccess Unavailable From Off-Campus

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UPDATE @ 11:50 AM: LibAccess is up & running again. Thanks for your patience!

LibAccess is currently unavailable from off-campus. Will update this news story once it is back up. We apologize for the inconvenience.


New Database: Past Masters

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The Library now has online access to scholarly editions of the writings of selected literary authors, major philosophers, theologians, and political theorists -- in their original language and English translation -- via the Past Masters database. Works can be searched by author or collection (e.g. Greek Philosophy, Continental Thought, Women Writers), and range from Abelard: Opera to Yeats: Collected Letters.


Digitized Books Now Available to McMaster Users

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The first books to be scanned as part of the Library's mass digitization program are now available to McMaster students, faculty, and staff.

These titles, which date from the 16th- to 18th-centuries and include works in English, French, Spanish, and Latin, were drawn from the holdings of the Library's William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections. Many more titles, representing the broad scope of the Library's holdings, are planned for digitization.


Access to e-Resources using MACID logon - Update: now available

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Patrons have reported that their MACID is not being authenticated when trying to logon to LibAccess from off campus. The problem is being investigated, and we are working to get it resolved as quickly as possible.

Update: Logging on to LibAccess is now available. We apologize for the inconvenience.


Temporary disruptions to catalogue on Thursday at 4pm until Friday.

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There is to be a mass reindexing of the catalogue starting at 4pm on Thursday, continuing to completion on Friday. During this time, links from Endeca into Horizon MORRIS and searching in MORRIS may produce incomplete results. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. [2008-08-15, Friday] Indexing has successfully completed and service returned to normal.


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