This product is available from our databases page or directly:
http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/loggedin/colourbox.html

It requires each user to create an account, and it limits to 30 free downloads per user per month.

Resources Recently Added - BuildingGreen, WildPro, ENVIROnetBase

These have also been added to the appropriate Online Resources lists:

ENVIROnetBASE
http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=http://www.environetbase.com

- Essentially a collection of e-books
- Techniques and know-how to reduce pollution, emissions, work-related exposures, and environmental contamination
- Methods for site assessment, remediation, soil and water quality monitoring, and statistical tools for analyzing the results
- Tools, techniques, and technologies for remote sensing, GIS, and photogrammetry for environmental monitoring

BuildingGreen.com
http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=http://www.buildinggreen.com

From composting toilets to porous asphalt, BuildingGreen covers everything environment friendly and sustainable in construction integrating GreenSpec product listings, high-quality articles about green buildings, peer-to-peer comments, and more than 200 project case studies. This information is searchable and cross-referenced by CSI MasterFormat division, LEED credit, or green topic. Each article, product listing, and case study also lists related content and information sources.

Wildpro : the electronic encyclopaedia and library for wildlife
http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=http://institution.wildlifeinformation.org/
Click "I wish to enter Wildpro"

Everything from Foot and Mouth Disease to the Health and Management of Bears.
A one-stop source of information on the health and management of captive and free-living wild animals, and emerging infectious diseases.

Basement of the Library Tower Flooded, and Fallout

If you've tried to access the current periodicals recently, you know that the Basement of our Library Tower is flooded (burst pressure valve.)

No one is allowed down there and some of the current periodicals have been moved to 11LT:
HD 9560.1 .S73
to
JA1 .C65

We hope to have it back open on Wednesday some time, once the carpet has dried out.

The other thing resulting from this was that last night, our connection to IT was severed, which cut off our access to just about all things library (Web pages, catalogue, research databases...)

So, our Public Services & Systems Librarian and crew have created this Web page, which sits on an entirely different server than the Library's other resources. It lists access to our catalogue, the e-journal list, and all of our research databases:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/lib-old/all.html
In the unlikely event that this ever happens again, you can use it to access the library's research tools.

Find tables, figures, graphs, charts etc. from scholarly research and technical literature - CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences

The library has just subscribed to a neat new product, CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences.

It searches for tables, graphs, maps, images, etc. in the scholarly literature. For example, if you are looking for maps of the grizzly bear's range in Kananaskis (or a picture of the grizzly itself), you can use Illustrata.

The database is not in our Research Databases list yet, so use this link in the meantime:
http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=
http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?
username=ucab&access=ucab282&db=objectsclust-nats-set-c

From CSA:
CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences is interdisciplinary, covering a wide variety of journals from all major areas such as: biology, earth sciences, environmental studies, medical sciences, agriculture, fish and fisheries, education, geography, veterinary science, food and food industries, pharmacy and pharmacology, meteorology, public health and safety, water resources, conservation and forests and forestry. CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences is the first in a series of CSA Illustrata databases of searchable tables, figures, graphs, charts and other illustrations from the scholarly research and technical literature. Coverage includes 1977 to current.

Art Full Text - New Resource

This database is similar to Art Abstracts, with the addition of FULL-TEXT coverage for selected periodicals.

Art full text
http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=
http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?prod=ARTFT

This database offers full text plus abstracts and indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications—now with expanded coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.

Subjects Covered
Advertising Art, Antiques, Archaeology, Architecture and Architectural History, Art History, Computers in Art, Crafts, Decorative Arts, Fashion Design, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures, Museology, Non-Western Art, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, Textiles, Video

Feel free to contact Marilyn Nasserden if you have any questions, comments, or would like to set up an appointment for a demo of this product.

New Product: Scopus (Elsevier)

Scopus is Elsevier's uber-indexing tool, covering science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and a smattering of other general topics.

It also has citation tracking, much like Web of Science and Google Scholar

It will soon be on our Research Databases list, but in the meantime, access it via:http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=http://www.scopus.com

Two New Research Databases - Environment Index & Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index

The Library has subscribed to 2 new indexes relevant to EVDS. Environment Index includes urban planning, law and policy and Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index, despite its name, has relevant information on ecology and conservation.
Both databases should appear in the Libary's Research Databases list soon-ish, and I will rank them in the EVDS Research Databases Lists.

Environment Index
http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=
ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=egh
Formerly known as Environmental Knowledgebase OnLine (created by the International Academy at Santa Barbara) and Environmental Issues and Policy Index, Environment Index offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more.
Environment Index contains more than 1,590,000 records from 1,500 domestic and international titles going back to the 1950s (including 960 active core titles) as well as 100 monographs. Environment Index also features an in-depth thesaurus, and author profiles will be provided for 3,000 authors in the discipline.

Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index
http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=puh
Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index is the premier resource for access to articles about gardens and plants. Topics include horticulture, botany, garden and landscape design & history, ecology, plant and garden conservation, garden management, and horticultural therapy. A highlight of the database is its focus on environmentally sustainable horticultural and design practices. This index and abstract product is designed for gardening enthusiasts, professionals, and students of horticulture and of garden and landscape design & history. Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index covers a wide range of serial titles including general gardening titles of national, international, and regional interest, and titles devoted to specialty gardens and plant groups. Indexed and abstracted are more than 300 core titles, the majority of which are published in English.
Coverage for many titles extends back further than a decade. Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index is a unique resource that brings together articles about plants and gardens into a single source, and it includes titles that are not available in any other index.