Date: Wednesday, March 24
Time: 5 to 7
Location: Webster Library, Room LB-340

Members of Concordia's Book Arts Club present their recent works currently on display in the Webster Library (2nd floor, south atrium) and host a public conversation about the role of the book in today's culture. What does it mean to be making books today? Is there a place for newspapers and mass market books in our future? Can the book die? Come and discuss the future, past, and present of the book.

Refreshments will be served.

Between January 21 and February 19, randomly selected participants were asked by e-mail to respond to a series of questions about Concordia Libraries' spaces, collections and services. The questions are standardized to allow comparisons over time and across different libraries. A report on the results of the 2010 survey has already been produced by the LibQUAL+ team and you are invited to consult it here.

This kind of feedback is a very rich source of inspiration and guidance for us. It will take a few weeks for us to analyze the data found in the report, along with the free text comments that many participants chose to add. We will also be comparing the results to similar surveys conducted in 2006 and 2007. At the end of our analysis we will publish a brief summary. The summary will identify some of the more important issues and trends, and what actions we plan to address them. In the meantime, thank you again to all who took part in this important survey.

Gerald Beasley, University Librarian

P.S. Still have something to say? Why not contact us at libqual@concordia.ca or use the Suggestions Box on the Libraries' home page?

• Thursday, March 18, 2010
• 1pm to 2:30pm
• Webster Library, room LB-203
• Facilitator: Danielle Dennie

• Thursday, March 22, 2010
• 1pm to 2:30pm
• Vanier Library, room VL-122
• Facilitator: Danielle Dennie

Concordia Book Arts Club
The book as an art form is still very much alive as seen through the recent works of six Concordia students.

Books. Danielle Sims.

Date: March 11 to April 16, 2010
Location: Webster Library, 2nd floor – south side of the atrium

• MyConcordia portal
• Moodle
• MyFiles (Xythos)
• Student Information System (SIS), including SIMS
• Faculty Course Management System (FCMS)
• Connect2Concordia

For questions, contact the IITS Helpline at 514.848.2424 ext. 7613 or help@concordia.ca.

1. Create an account
2. Download the app

Questions? Contact Jared Wiercinski.

Do Tell Me More   Curated by: Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte

Artists:

Anne-Marie Proulx

Lisa Hoffman

Date:February 8 to February 28, 2010
Location:Webster Library, 2nd floor – south side of the atrium

The ASFASA Festival is an interdisciplinary initiative that aims at creating links between students from the Fine Arts and Arts & Science faculties while encouraging communication and the cross-pollination of ideas between departments of Concordia University.

Concordia Libraries have recently made a few changes to borrowing privileges for students, faculty and staff. The changes are a result of comments we received from you and reflect the needs of different categories of users. The summary of changes for each user group is below.

Concordia undergraduate students & support staff as well as faculty & graduate students of other Canadian universities

• Maximum number of items on hold has been increased from 5 to 10 items.
• Loan period for books and media items such as audio recordings and CD/DVD-ROMs has been changed from two weeks (14 days) to three weeks (21 days) unless requested by another user.
• If another user requests an item checked out by a student or staff, the person who has the item will receive an email informing them that someone else has requested the item, and of the new due date. They will always be guaranteed 14 days with the item, and will have at least 4 days to return it.
• Users who do not return recalled items by the due date will not be able to renew, request or borrow any item.
• Because the loan period was increased, the number of renewals allowed was changed from 5 to 3. The total number of days a student can potentially keep a borrowed item did not change.

Concordia graduate students

• Maximum number of items that can be borrowed at any one time has been increased from 30 to 60.
• Maximum number of items on hold has been increased from 5 to 10 items.
• Loan period for audio recordings, has been increased from two to three weeks.

Concordia faculty and administrative staff

• Maximum number of items that can be borrowed at any one time has been increased from 30 to 100.
• Maximum number of items on hold has been increased from 5 to 10 items.
• Loan period for audio recordings, has been increased from two to three weeks.

Following Open Access Week (Oct. 19-23), Concordia University Libraries demonstrate their commitment to supporting innovations that provide wider dissemination and facilitate easier research access to scholarly publishing, by becoming an institutional member of the Public Library of Science (PLoS).

PLoS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. PLoS publishes peer-reviewed, open access scientific and medical journals that include original research as well as timely feature articles.

All material published by the Public Library of Science, whether submitted to or created by PLoS, is published under an open access license that allows unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

With Concordia University now being a member of PLoS, Concordia authors obtain a 10% discount on any publication fee for all their journals. However, PLoS does provide a partial or complete publication-charge waiver for any author who requests it, no questions asked, regardless of whether the author is affiliated with an institution that is a PLoS member. Any such request is shielded from all PLoS editors and reviewers. See the PLoS publication fees Web page for more information.

There are 8 PLoS journals:

• PLoS Biology: features works of exceptional significance in all areas of biological science, from molecules to ecosystems, including works at the interface with other disciplines, such as chemistry, medicine, and mathematics. 2006 Journal Impact Factor = 14.101 (JCR)
• PLoS Medicine: aims to promote translation of basic research into clinical investigation, and of clinical evidence into practice. 2006 Journal Impact Factor = 13.75 (JCR)
• PLoS Computational Biology: features works that further our understanding of living systems at all scales through the application of computational methods. It is ranked as the most highly cited journal in the Mathematical and Computational Biology category by ISI. 2006 Journal Impact Factor = 4.914
• PLoS Genetics: reflects the full breadth and interdisciplinary nature of genetics and genomics research by publishing outstanding original contributions in all areas of biology - human studies as well as research on model organisms - from mice and flies, to plants and bacteria. 2006 Journal Impact Factor = 7.671
• PLoS Pathogens: publishes on bacteria, fungi, parasites, prions, and viruses that contribute to our understanding of the biology of pathogens and pathogen-host interactions. 2006 Journal Impact Factor = 6.056
• PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases: launched in November 2007, it is the first open-access journal devoted to the world's most neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), such as elephantiasis, river blindness, leprosy, hookworm, schistosomiasis, and African sleeping sickness.
• PLoS Hub for Clinical Trials: features articles originally published in PLoS Clinical Trials, along with articles from all the PLoS titles that publish clinical trials. The Hub is a site for researchers to share their views and build a dynamic, interactive community.
• PLoS ONE: features reports of primary research from all disciplines within science and medicine. Published papers are made available for community-based open peer review involving online annotation, discussion, and rating.

See also Concordia’s web page on Open Access.

Concordia Libraries are happy to announce that we were recently selected as a recipient of the Nippon Foundation's 100 Books for Understanding Contemporary Japan international grant program. According to the Foundation, the project aims to provide a "clearer and more comprehensive understanding of contemporary Japan that transcends stereotypes and out-dated ideas." Subject areas covered by the books include culture, politics, history, literature, cinema, art, economics and business.

The Libraries already owned half of the 100 books; acquiring the remaining titles has enabled us to better support the growing interest in Japan studies at the university. All 100 titles are catalogued in CLUES and available for borrowing. For more information contact: Susie.Breier@concordia.ca

Being There is an examination of how private needs and engagement deserve demonstration in public space, and also how public space might invade the private sphere in a meaningful way

Date: October 28 to December 4, 2009
Location: Webster Library, 2nd floor – south side of the atrium

Spectrum currently contains the full text of over 6000 theses and dissertations produced at the university from 1967 to 2003. It also offers Concordia faculty and researchers an additional venue for sharing their research using a simple process of self-submission. The name Spectrum reflects the variety of original research and creative activity that characterizes the scholarly output of Concordia University. The database, in development since 2007, is an initiative of the Concordia University Libraries supported by the Office of the Vice-President, Research & Graduate Studies.

"I am delighted to see the launch of this significant new resource," said Louise Dandurand, Vice-President, Research and Graduate Studies. "The creation of a Research Repository speaks to Concordia's commitment to increase its contribution to world knowledge and promote public access to the results of publicly funded research."

"Research deposited in Spectrum is highly visible, because the site will be searchable using popular search engines such as Google and Google Scholar," added Jocelyn Godolphin, Associate University Librarian for Collection Services. "Concordia University now joins some 1200 other repositories round the world in providing a university-wide open access repository which will increase accessibility and preserve the scholarship produced by Concordia University researchers."

Explore Spectrum at: http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/.

Spectrum workshop: Increase the Visibility of your Research on October 22 in Webster Library and on October 26 in Vanier Library will review the submission process and kinds of scholarly publications that can be added at this time to Spectrum. For more information, contact: Spectrum@alcor.concordia.ca.

The Vanier Library portion of the project will get under way in the next few weeks.

Webster media items can still be borrowed from the Media Desk on the third floor.

For more information about placing requests/holds in CLUES, please see: http://library.concordia.ca/services/circulation/selfholds.php

All Library notices (reminders of due dates, recalls, fines, etc.) will be sent to the email address students have registered in the portal. Students who wish to change their email address must do so in the portal.

Concordia faculty and staff as well as non-Concordia users (CREPUQ, Alumni, etc.) will continue to update their email using MyCLUES.

The Office of the Vice-President of Research and Graduate Studies recently commissioned a discussion paper on Open Access at Concordia. The Library is pleased to make this paper available on its Open Access webpage.

This service is limited to Concordia students and Faculty. For more information consult our page on Study Spaces.

An exhibition entitled Haiti: Dictatorship, Resistance and Exile under Duvalier will be held in the Webster Library (display cases, 2nd floor - south side of the atrium) from April 27 to May 10 2009.

This exhibition is organized by the CURA (Community-University Research Alliances) Oral History Research Project "Life Stories of Montrealers Displaced by War, Genocide and Other Human Rights Violations", the Haiti Working Group, and the Centre International de Documentation et d’information Haitienne, Caribeen et Afro-Canadienne.

MEET NINO RICCI in Webster Library

Nino Ricci, award-winning author and Concordia alumnus, will be available in Webster Library to sign copies of his books Thursday April 23, 2009 from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Ricci's most recent novel, The Origin of Species, winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, and his latest book, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, can be purchased and signed by the author.

Sponsored by the Concordia University Alumni Association.

An exhibition of student posters from the Department of Design & Computation Arts

Organized by Professor Christopher Moore (DART 331: Words in Space)

Featuring works by:

• Tania Alvarez
• Valeriia Baranovitch
• Chris Berthe
• Derek Broad
• Julie Lamothe
• Zacherie Lavertu-Rondel
• Kyosuke Nishida
• Jena Roker
• Denise Santillan
• Mélodie Vachon Boucher

March 16-April 16, 2009
Second floor Webster Library (south stairwell)
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West

We have received a new estimated time of completion from the contractors. All work around Webster Library's third floor Media Services desk should be completed by February 27th. Work on the second floor, where office spaces have been reconfigured to house more staff, will be completed one week later. Library staff thank all Webster Library users for their continued patience.

Update for week beginning January 12, 2009.

The contractor will be back on site on Monday January 12th to continue with the preparation of the space. A temporary wall around the 3rd Floor counter will begin on January 19th. The construction of the walls for the 2nd Floor offices and the 3rd Floor counter will begin January 26th. Most work will happen between January 26th and February 20th.

Update for Week Beginning December 8th.

This week, the 3rd floor Media Services Desk will be moved forward a few feet prior to a reorganization of the staff spaces behind it, and in preparation for the subsequent relocation of Webster Library’s Interlibrary Loans operation.

Also, all electrical work is expected to be completed in preparation for the relocation of the 3rd floor’s graphic work stations and carrels. When the new configuration is complete, these work stations will be in the 3rd floor’s atrium area, i.e. directly in front of the desk.

Construction in the Webster Library

Contractors and electricians will be working on the 2nd and 3rd floors of Webster Library for several weeks as of November 24th. They will be on site Monday-Friday 8 hours/day starting at 5:00 a.m. Much of the work will take place away from public areas. All noisy work (e.g. drilling) should be completed by 8:00 a.m. each morning, after which we anticipate only minimal disturbance for library users. Access to our services and collections should not be restricted at any time during this busy period.

We sincerely apologize to all our Webster Library users and staff for any inconvenience they may experience.

When completed, this work will provide some 120 square metres of additional study space for students, while also allowing some important adjustments to library operations. Our Government Information Services unit has already been relocated in preparation. The most visible change over the next few weeks will be the relocation of Interlibrary Loans to the 3rd-floor Media Services area.

We intend to provide regular updates and a more detailed timetable for the work as and when these become available. In the meantime, desk staff will be pleased to answer or refer your immediate questions. Please direct more general comments and suggestions to our e-mail feedback service.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

As part of Live-in for Literacy 2009, a DREAM (Discover the Reality of Educating All Minds) project, two Concordia students are pitching tents in the Webster Library where they will be living from January 16th until January 26th. This is the first year that Concordia University participates in this event. Six other Universities across Canada will also be participating.

DREAM aims to raise $40,000 in donations coast to coast to construct nine school libraries in India through the internationally renowned charity Room to Read.

"India’s children desperately need our help. The seeds for Room to Read were planted when I visited a library in Nepal for 450 children that contained no books" said John Wood, CEO and Founder of Room to Read. "What these students in Canada are doing is going to have a direct impact on the lives of thousands of children and I support their energy, enthusiasm and 'Go Big' spirit!"

The students must remain in the library 24 hours a day, with only five minutes of every hour permitted for bathroom or other necessary breaks. "It's not easy missing classes and living in a roped-off area for 10 days” said John MacDonald, DREAM Co-Chair and a past camper of the event, “but it's a lot easier than the lives of the children we're helping. They don’t have a library to read in, let alone live in – so with the help of Room to Read and all of Canada, we’re building them nine."

In the past four years the event raised $50,000 to help build a computer lab in Cambodia and nine school libraries in Nepal. This year’s event will be broadcast live via webcam 24 hours a day at the Live-In for Literacy website.

For more information, or to send a donation, visit: www.liveinforliteracy.com.

Concordia University has signed a public performance license agreement with Criterion which allows films covered by the agreement to be shown at the University for educational purposes. Films covered by the agreement may be shown at the University whether they are obtained from the Library, video/DVD store, or your own personal collection.

The license agreement includes all films produced by studios listed in Appendix A of the license agreement. To determine if a film you wish to show is included in the agreement, check if the producer/studio is represented in the list.

In addition Criterion maintains a list of film titles which may be searched to determine the producer/studio of a film. Please note that the list of film titles does not include all films covered in the agreement.

For more information on public performance rights and classroom viewing see the Copyright Guide.

For information on booking a film for classroom viewing see Video Booking Service.

The objective with this pilot project is to identify technical and service issues that may arise.

The pilot is limited to the printers on the 2nd and 3rd floors of the Webster Library. As of December 10, print jobs sent from Library workstations at Webster will be printed double-sided by default.

All Vanier workstations, the Libraries’ laptops as well as our patrons’ personal laptops will not be part of the pilot and will continue to print single sided jobs for the present.

If you wish to print single-sided to a Webster Library black and white printer, you will have to change the print setting to Single-sided.

While double-sided printing will be saving paper, other costs associated with printing (e.g. toner and equipment) will remain the same or slightly increase as printers may require more maintenance. However, once double-sided printing is fully implemented in the Library and we can account for any savings, we will look at the possibility of price reduction. It is not our intention to make money as a result of this initiative.

Full implementation of double-sided printing on all library printers will depend on success of the pilot. If all goes well, our target date for converting all Library printers is early January. However, Library laptops may not be properly configured to print double-sided until late January. We are also exploring options for double-sided printing from personal laptops owned by Library users.

Thank you for your cooperation with implementing this new environmentally friendly service.

• Date: November 7 to December 15, 2008
• Location: Webster Library, 2nd floor – south side of the atrium

The event will open with a live musical performance featuring Concordia music students:

• Lydia Lieffer, voice (song and poetry)
• Gregory Burton, keyboard
• Tristan Boucher, percussion

• When: Tuesday, October 28 at 7pm
• Where: Vanier Library VL-126 (7141 Sherbrooke Steet West)

Christine Beckett is an Associate Professor in Concordia's Department of Music and Faculty Member of the International Laboratory for Brain, Music & Sound Research The event is jointly sponsored by Concordia Libraries and the Department of Music.

Audio and video files of both the live performance and the lecture are available on the Events page.

Links to Blackwell Synergy journals in CLUES and in the E-Journals list are automatically redirecting to the Wiley Interscience website. See Wiley-Blackwell Online Content Transition News for more information.

• Wilson Art FullText
• Art Index Retrospective
• Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
• Art Museum Image Gallery
• Cinema Image Gallery

• Balance of payments statistics (BOP) online: Composed of international economic transactions data, BOP delivers vital statistical information that covers: total goods, services, factor income, and current transfers an economy receives from or provides to the rest of the world; capital transfers and changes in each economy’s external financial claims and liabilities; tables featuring area and world totals of balance of payments components and aggregates.
• Direction of trade statistics (DTS) online provides data on the value of merchandise exports and imports between each country and all its trading partners. The database includes: total bilateral and multilateral exports and imports aggregated at national or regional group level; data for the most recent six quarters and the latest year for 169 countries, and ten quarters and five years for the world and area tables.
• Government Finance Statistics (GFS) online contains statistical data on government financial operations for 145 IMF member countries. Where reported, the database contains time series from 1990 onwards using the Government Finance Statistics Manual, 2001 (GFSM 2001) framework. Time series present combined statistics on revenue, expenses, transactions in nonfinancial assets and financial assets and liabilities as well as for stocks of assets and liabilities of general government and its subsectors.

• CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts builds on the merged backfiles of Political Science Abstracts, 1975-2000, and ABC POL SCI, 1984-2000. The database provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, sociology, economics, and public administration/policy. The references cited in the bibliographies of the source articles are included for all journals added since 2004, and for key journals in political science since 2001. The thesaurus is available within the database.
  
  

• International Political Science Abstracts (IPSA) on EBSCO is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Covers political science method and theory; political thinkers and ideas; governmental & administrative institutions; political process including public opinion; international relations; and national and area studies. The abstracts summarize the source articles. Articles in English are abstracted in English; those in other languages are abstracted in French, with all titles translated into English.
  
  
• Political Science Complete (PSC) contains full text for over 400 journals, and cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 800 journals, (including top-ranked scholarly journals), such as "British Politics", "Ethnopolitics and the Journal of Women", "Politics & Policy". PSC has a worldwide focus, reflecting the globalization of contemporary political discourse. The database also features more than 180 full-text reference books and monographs, and over 27,000 full-text conference papers, including those of the International Political Science Association.

Art & Architecture Index provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 630 periodicals and over 150 books, as well as selective coverage for over 50 publications. Subjects include art, antiques, archaeology, architecture and architectural history, art history, decorative arts, painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, costume design, interior and landscape design, graphic arts.

Art & Architecture Complete provides full-text coverage of more than 250 periodicals and 150 books, as well as cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 630 academic journals, magazines and trade publications as well as for over 150 books. The database also provides selective coverage for more than 50 additional publications. Subject coverage includes: Antiques, Archaeology, Architecture and architectural history, Costume design, Decorative arts, Graphic arts, Interior and landscape design, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture.

• British Periodicals I consists of 166 periodicals published between 1681 and 1921.
• British Periodicals II consists of 341 periodicals, published mainly during the 18th and 19th centuries, and includes the collection British Periodicals in the Creative Arts.

• Shakespearean Criticism
• Poetry Criticism
• Short Story Criticism
• Drama Criticism

• Associations Canada
• Canadian Almanac & Directory
• Canadian Environmental Directory
• Canadian Parliamentary Guide
• Directory of Libraries in Canada
• Governments Canada
• Financial Services Canada

• China: Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793-1980
• Defining Gender, 1450-1910, Online
• Eighteenth Century Journals I & II
• Empire Online
• Mass Observation Online
• Medieval Travel Writing
• Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007

• Arts & Sciences VI Collection title list
• Life Sciences Collection title list

• Biochemistry and Cell Biology (Biochimie et biologie cellulaire): (1954-1996)
• Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences (Revue canadienne des sciences de la Terre): (1964-1997)
• Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (Journal canadien des sciences halieutiques et aquatiques): (1980-1995)
• Canadian Journal of Microbiology (Revue canadienne de microbiologie): (1955-1997)
• Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology (Revue canadienne de physiologie et pharmacologie): (1954-1995)
• Canadian Journal of Zoology (Revue canadienne de zoologie): (1951-1997)
• Genome (Génome): (1959-1997)

• Environmental Reviews (Dossiers environnement): (1993-1996)
• Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism (Physiologie appliquée, nutrition et métabolisme): (1993-2005)

The current issues (1996 to present) of all sixteen National Research Council Research Press Journals are made available to all Canadians thanks to funding from the Depository Services Program of Public Works and Government Services Canada.

• Garland Encyclopedia of World Music (Alexander Street Press)
• Encyclopedia of Social Psychology (Sage)
• Encyclopedia of Semiotics (Oxford)
• Encyclopedia of Rhetoric (Oxford)

• Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts
• Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation

• Oxford Scholarsphip Online (OSO) includes OUP's core scholarly books in four disciplines (Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science and Religion and Theology).
  
  
• Oxford Islamic Studies Online (OISO) covers the history and culture of Islam and provides full-text access to Oxford reference and scholarly works such as The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, The Oxford History of Islam and The Oxford Dictionary of Islam.

• Encyclopedia of Diasporas
• Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology
• Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender

Ottawa, February 8, 2007 – The Canada Foundation for Innovation today announced a $19.1 million investment to support the development of a new infrastructure for social sciences and humanities research. The funds were awarded to the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) — a consortium of Canadian universities that provides its members with desktop access to a wide range of research content through licensing and purchase agreements with Canadian and international publishers. The University of Ottawa will be the host institution for this new national infrastructure.

The acquisition of digital content from international sources will enable over 800,000 researchers and graduate students to draw upon a wealth of digital journals, databases and other scholarly content from social sciences and humanities disciplines. With 67 participating universities across the country, this initiative will significantly enhance the capacity of Canadian researchers to advance knowledge and remain at the forefront in rapidly changing areas of research.

“The new digital content infrastructure will profoundly change the way Canadians conduct research in the fields of social sciences and humanities, said Dr. Ronald Bond, Provost Emeritus, University of Calgary, and Chair of the CRKN Advisory Board. The expanded access to global knowledge will create new opportunities for Canadian researchers and serve as a catalyst for the development of interactive and networked approaches for learning and discovery.” Over 50% of academic researchers and students in Canada are engaged in the social sciences and humanities. Research in areas such as aboriginal studies, communications, multiculturalism, economics, sustainable development, law, business, and education has an enormous impact on all aspects of Canadian society.

At present, only the largest institutions in the world are able to supply their researchers with a comprehensive array of international content resources in the social sciences and humanities, and the rate of digital publication is increasing beyond the capacity of even the best-equipped universities. “It is absolutely essential for Canada to engage in this sort of initiative to be at the forefront of social sciences and humanities research, said Dr. Michael Geist, Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa. The new digital infrastructure will not only promote collaboration between Canadian and international researchers, but it will also help create the type of online communities needed to address complex, interdisciplinary issues facing modern society.”

The initiative is an expansion of an already successful CRKN program that provides Canadian researchers with access to international content in the natural and health sciences.

The Canadian Research Knowledge Network is a partnership of Canadian universities, dedicated to expanding digital content for the academic research enterprise in Canada. Through the coordinated leadership of librarians, researchers and administrators, CRKN undertakes large-scale content acquisition and licensing initiatives in order to build knowledge infrastructure and research capacity in Canada’s universities.

For information, please contact:
Mr. William M. Curran
Director of Libraries

ABOUT CRKN

CRKN began in 1999 as the Canadian National Site Licensing Project (CNSLP), a 3‐year demonstration project made possible through a $20 million award from the Canada Foundation for Innovation and a $30 million contribution from 64 Canadian universities, 9 provincial governments and the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency.

In April 2004, following five years of successful national operations in licensing digital content in science, engineering, health and environmental disciplines, CNSLP was incorporated as a not‐forprofit organization and renamed the Canadian Research Knowledge Network. The CRKN now delivers over 2,200 electronic journals and research databases to Canadian researchers, and manages contracts valued at over $50 million annually.

CRKN currently holds agreements with the following scholarly publishers. The Social Sciences and Humanities Digital Content Infrastructure Initiative will enable CRKN to expand its partnerships with additional publishers and content providers to deliver international, high‐value content in social sciences and humanities disciplines to Canadian researchers and students.

Alexander Street Press
American Chemical Society
American Mathematical Society
ARTstor
Canadiana.org
CSA‐SAGE
Economist Intelligence Unit
Elsevier
Institute of Physics Publishing
Micromedia ProQuest
Royal Society of Chemistry
Springer
Thomson Gale
Thomson Scientific
Wiley Subscription Services, Inc.

Participating Universities in the Social Sciences and Humanities Digital Content Infrastructure

• Collins English-French / Français-Anglais dictionary
• Collins English-German / Deutsch-Englisch dictionary
• Collins English-Italian / Italiano-Inglese dictionary
• Collins English-Spanish / Español-Inglès dictionary
• Collins Français-Allemand / Deutsch-Französisch dictionary
• Collins Français-Espagnol / Español-Francés dictionary
• Collins Français-Italien / Italiano-Francese dictionary
• Collins English Dictionary & Thesaurus

• ScienceDirect Business, Management & Accounting Subject Backfile
• ScienceDirect Engineering & Technology Subject Backfile
• ScienceDirect Economics, Econometrics & Finance Subject Supplement
• Methods in Enzymology Backfiles (1955-1999)

• Canadian Journal of Chemistry (Revue canadienne de chimie) : (1951-1997, v. 29-75) (Please note that this journal used to be called Section B: of Can Journal of Research and became the Canadian Journal of Chemistry starting with v. 29. )
• Canadian Journal of Forest Research (Revue canadienne de recherche forestière) : (1971-1996, v. 1-26)
• Canadian Geotechnical journal (Revue canadienne de géotechnique) : (1963-1995, v. 1-43)

• January 2007: Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering (Revue canadienne de génie civil)
• March 2007: Canadian Journal of Botany (Revue canadienne de botanique)
• May 2007: Canadian Journal of physics (Revue canadienne de physique)

The current issues (1996 to present) of all sixteen National Research Council Research Press Journals are made available to all Canadians thanks to funding from the Depository Services Program of Public Works and Government Services Canada.

• Guide to Canadian Financial Reporting
• Financial Reporting in Canada
• Accountant's Manual
• Canadian Business Financing Handbook
• Canadian Accounting & Assurance Resources

In addition to the featured discussions of developments in various branches of the statistical sciences, the encyclopedia contains a series of shorter entries ranging from the lives of pioneers in statistics, updates of popular methodologies, and reviews of statistical agencies and journals. Fully searchable by keyword, author, and title, articles in the Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences can also be browsed by title.