Additionally, RefWorks for Graduate Students will be offered on February 22nd at 10:00am, Burnaby Campus Library, and on Friday, February 24th at 1:00pm, at the Harbour Centre building.

RefWorks is a web-based citation management program that SFU students, faculty, and staff can use to store, manage and export citations from. Use RefWorks to keep track of your references/citations from the library’s catalogue and online article indexes and databases.

You can also use RefWorks to help you format your citations and bibliographies instantly with MS Word in a variety of styles (APA, MLA, Chicago…plus many more).

The entries in Wiley Encyclopedia of Chemical Biology are designed to

• illuminate the crucial role of chemistry and chemical techniques in the life sciences
• support the information needs of researchers in the field of chemical biology
• provide relevant and readily accessible information to upper-level students and to scientists in adjacent disciplines

The topics covered include the following:

• Applications of Chemical Biology
• Biomolecules within the Cell
• Chemical Biology of Cellular Compartments
• Chemical Views of Biology
• Chemistry of Biological Processes and Systems
• Synthetic Molecules as Tools for Chemical Biology
• Technologies and Techniques in Chemical Biology

- Health Profile. The October 2011 Health Profile includes new indicators (e.g. mental illness hospitalization rates) and updates to existing indicators (including those from the Canadian Community Health Survey such as sense of community belonging).

- Health Trends. The October 2011 Health Trends has updates to indicators, such as cancer incidence, life expectancy and infant mortality.

Why include your work in Summit, you ask? There is a plethora of benefits. Summit:

• Provides a long-term home for your material, and centralized web-based access to SFU scholarly output.
• Accommodates many genres (documents, datasets, images, etc.) and formats (text, audio, video, etc.).
• Ensures copyright retention.
• Makes your material available to all the world. (Google’s harvesters love Summit.)
• Ensures your materials are maintained over time.

…and, perhaps best of all, the Library will do almost all the work for you!

To find out more about Summit, including how to have your material added to Summit and to register for adding material to Summit, please email summit@sfu.ca.

It includes:

• 7100+ industry profiles, many of which include Porter’s 5 Forces analysis
• Over 31,000 company reports, including SWOT analyses for about 10% of the companies.
• 110 Country Reports, many with PESTLE analyses
• Hundreds of case studies
• Country Statistics Database
• Market Data Analytics Database

…and much more.

Health Sciences researchers may find the Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare and Healthcare and Life Sciences sections of particular interest. (To access these, click on the Industries and Subjects entry points respectively on the 360 homepage).

Here is an example report on The Cardiovascular Market Outlook to 2016.

If you have any feedback or questions about this resource, please contact me or my colleague Mark Bodnar, Liaison Librarian for Business at SFU Burnaby.

Please note that this database will replace Business Monitor Online when it expires in August 2011.

Please test out the new search tool and let us know what you think about it.

The search tool is located here.

A short survey asking for your thoughts is here.  In lieu of the survey, you are welcome to contact the library’s Web Libriaran Nina Saklikar (nsaklika@sfu.ca) directly.

A number of other universities have summer reading programs but they are often targeted programs such as assigned readings for incoming students, or recommended readings from faculty for alumni.  “We wanted this to be lighthearted and really inclusive,” says Elaine Fairey, Director of the Student Learning Commons.  “We know people are reading academic materials, but this is about celebrating reading for pure enjoyment.”

To share your favourite ‘beach read,’ visit the Great Reads — Summertime Reading blog.

Health Trends presents comparable time-series data (from 2003 to 2009 where available/applicable) for a range of health indicators from a number of sources including the Canadian Community Health Survey, Vital Statistics, and Canadian Cancer Registry.  It’s designed to give quick access to recent trends that can be customized by indicator or by geography [from StatCan website].

Please feel free to contact me with your questions about Health Trends and other health-related resources.

If you haven’t stumbled across this great resource on your own, SRMO is a tool designed to help create research projects and understand the methods behind them.   Since SRMO focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, it can be used across the social sciences, health sciences, and more [from publisher's website].

SRMO’s new taxonomy of over 1,400 unique methods terms links to authoritative content, including:

• Over 600 books
• Dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks
• The entire “Little Green Book” and “Little Blue Book” series
• Two major works collating a selection of journal articles
• Newly commissioned videos

The folks at Sage have also created some short, informative YouTube videos that tell you more about SMRO.  Further questions? Please feel free to contact me.

PsychiatryOnline is a resource which provides online access to the DSM-IV-TR® Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. It also it provides access to previous, superseded editions of the DSM for research purposes.

Other features include:

• Remote access for authorized users
• No concurrent usage restrictions
• PDA downloads
• Ability to email full text of individual sections to colleagues
• Mobile access

To access PsychiatryOnline, visit the Library homepage or click here. Please send your feedback to Yolanda Koscielski at ysk6@sfu.ca

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Good news! Based on feedback, the SFU Library has decided to subscribe to PsychiatryOnline (June 27, 2011).