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Welcome to the March issue of news @ your library! In this issue you will read about a new guide created to help you determine your research impact with respect to citation metrics, a display in the Dana Porter Library, and new resource STAT!Ref. We also introduce our new Public Opinion Polls: Polls and Surveys guide and remind you that extended hours for the exam period will start on March 31 and run until April 25.
Interested in tracking citation counts for your publications? Librarian Kathy MacDonald recently transformed her popular "Calculating your Academic Footprint" workshop into an online guide to provide faculty and graduate students with information on how to determine their research impact with respect to citation metrics. [full article - Calculate Your Academic Footprint] 28 Mar 2013
If you haven't seen it yet, there's a new display on the main floor of the Dana Porter Library exhibiting from March 24-April 4 that features the history of the Six Nations treaties. [full article - Display] 28 Mar 2013
If you regularly use the Library's electronic resources, chances are you're familiar with Scholars Portal, a platform that provides access to countless articles, e-books, and data. The Library is happy to announce that Scholars Portal recently received designation as Canada's first certified Trustworthy Digital Repository (TDR). [full article - Scholars Portal] 28 Mar 2013
Interested in evidence based medicine? If so, you'll be happy to hear that the Library now subscribes to select resources from STAT!Ref, a prominent healthcare e-resource. [full article - STAT!Ref] 28 Mar 2013
The Library has been steadily increasing its public opinion resources in recent years. To help you navigate and access all of these new resources, Liaison Librarian Jane Forgay has created a Public Opinion: Polls and Survey Sources guide. [full article - Public Opinion Guide] 28 Mar 2013
To accommodate students preparing for exams, the Library will be extending its hours from March 31 to April 25 for the exam period. [full article - Extended Hours] 28 Mar 2013
When you hear "micro desk" do you picture a tiny little desk? If so, you're probably not alone. The Library's "micro desk" is actually a public service desk on the 1st floor of the Dana Porter Library where staff sign out "controlled access" materials and provide support to students and researchers using the microfilm and fiche. In response to a significant decline in the need to support researchers (due in large part to the Library's amazing new micro scanners), the Library will be permanently closing this desk at the end of this term. [full article - Micro Desk] 28 Mar 2013
Give an e-book to the world! Unglue It is a website dedicated entirely to freeing those not-yet-free books, so that e-book editions can be made available for everyone to read and enjoy. [full article - Unglue It] 28 Mar 2013
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