Summer 2008 update: CRKN Expands Access to Humanities and Social Sciences Resources
CRKN recently announced license agreements for several new products. Please see below for a list and description of new and current resources licensed through CRKN and available via the Mount Allison University Libraries and Archives.
What is the Canadian Research Knowledge Network?
In short, CRKN negotiates access to scholarly journal articles, e-books, music scores and videos for universities across the country.
In their own words:
"The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) is a collaborative program of Canada's universities. Incorporated on April 1, 2004 as a not-for-profit organization, CRKN continues the work of the Canadian National Site Licensing Project (CNSLP). Widely recognized in Canada and abroad for playing a significant role in the development of Canada's infrastructure for research excellence, CRKN’s most important initiative is its content licensing program. Through its innovative licensing agreements, CRKN provides desktop access to electronic versions of scholarly journals and research databases for 72 participating universities across Canada. Currently, more than 2,200 scholarly journals are available online to over 650,000 university researchers and students."
For more information, please visit the CRKN website at: http://researchknowledge.ca/en/index.jsp
How to Access CRKN-licensed Resources:
Many CRKN databases and collections are already accessible from our Journal
Indexes and Electronic Databases pages. These pages are currently being updated with links to newly acquired databases and collections. Please note that certain new resources may not yet be fully accessible and certain links may not yet be operational.
CRKN Research Databases and Collections
Canadian faculty, staff and students will have access to the following CRKN products and collections. Please note that indexing periods and full-text coverage vary by and within products.
| *Adam Matthew Digital* |
Includes: China: Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793-1980; Defining
Gender, 1450-1910 Online; Eighteenth Century
Journals I; Eighteenth Century Journals II; Empire Online; Mass
Observation Online; Medieval Travel Writing;
and Slavery Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007
Publisher: Adam Matthew Digital (www.amdigital.co.uk)
About the collections: CRKN has licensed eight collections that offer rare printed sources
that are both detailed enough for scholarly
research and accessible enough for undergraduate use. These collections,
which are sourced from leading libraries
and archives around the world, include original manuscripts, pamphlets,
books, paintings, maps and images.
Adam Matthew products offer scholarly guidance with introductory
essays that have interactive functionality to give
users an enriched experience when exploring the primary source material. |
| *ALPSP Learned
Journals Collection* |
About the collection: The ALPSP Learned Journals Collection
is a unique
collection of journals published by members of the Association of Learned and
Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP). Access is delivered through Swets, the world's leading subscription services company. Founded
in 1972, ALPSP is the international trade association for the
not-for-profit publishers and represents more than 300 members
in 31 countries worldwide. The collection is comprised of 696
journal titles by 52 publishers. |
| *Alexander Street
Press* |
About the collection: The collection of Alexander Street Press electronic databases
provides access to primary texts in the humanities and social sciences,
and cover seven broad areas: North American history; Drama,
theatre, and film; Women’s history and literature; Music;
Black History and Literature; Religion and Social Thought, and
Latin American studies. Alexander Street databases are built
around research content that is largely in-copyright, hard to
find, rare, and ephemeral – not merely digitization of collections
that already exist in print or microform, and content that cannot
be found on the free Web.
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| American Chemical Society
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About the collection: ACS is the world's largest scientific society, whose peer-reviewed
journals are the most cited and heavily used in chemistry. The
agreement with CRKN provides online access to ACS’ 35 scientific
journals as well as to the ACS Archives of more than 464,233
articles of original chemistry, full text searching of all titles
and all years—from 1879 to 1995.
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| American Mathematical Society
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About the collection: AMS provides professional services to the mathematical community
and is a major publisher of mathematics research and reviews.
The agreement with CRKN provides access to MathSciNet, a database
of more than 1.8 million items for mathematics research, with
more than 703,000 links to original articles, 12,145 active reviewers;
and 450,266 authors indexed.
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| *CAIRN*
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About CAIRN: CAIRN was formed in 1995 by four European publishing houses (Belin,
De Boeck, La Découverte and Erès) and
offers access to the most comprehensive collection of French language
periodicals in the social sciences and
humanities disciplines.
The collection is currently comprised of 143 titles from more
than 40 publishers, teaching institutions and
learned societies and is growing rapidly. Journals range in date
from 2001 to the present, gathering more than
40,000 articles. The collection will include 182 journals by 2009
and 230 journals by 2010.
The primary subject areas covered by the collection are history,
psychology, economics, political science and
sociology. Titles added to the collection in the near future will
be focused in management, arts, literature,
philosophy and religious science. For a complete list of the titles see Cairn
Journals
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| Cambridge University
Press Journals |
About the collection: Includes over 220 peer-reviewed journals published by Cambridge University
Press and covering all subjects in the Humanities and Social Sciences. |
| *Canadian Electronic Library Publishers Collection* |
About the collection: A collection of approximately
8,100 English and French e-book
titles from 47 Canadian publishers. Included in these are the
major Canadian university presses, among them
the University of Toronto Press, the UBC Press, Wilfrid Laurier
University Press, Les Presses de l’Université du
Québec and McGill-Queen’s University Press. Virtually
all the books are authored, edited and produced by
Canadians. Many of the titles in the collection are from Canada’s
leading scholarly publishers, most being
offered for the first time in online e-book form.
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| *Classical Scores
Library* |
About the collection: Contains 400,000 pages of the most important
classical music scores, manuscripts, and
previously unpublished material, allowing for the study and analysis
of more than 8,000 musical scores. This
collection allows users to access multiple types of scores across
various composers, genres, and time periods. It
contains full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, as well
as piano reductions. All
opera, vocal, and choral texts are rekeyed to allow for deep searching
and textual analysis. |
| CSA -
SAGE
|
About the collection: Full-text research databases
in 10 specific disciplines (Communication Studies, Criminology,
Education, Health Sciences, Management & Organization Studies,
Materials Science, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and
Urban Studies & Planning) distinguished by up to
57 years of backfiles and linking capabilities with related abstract
databases on the CSA Illumina platform. SAGE Journals Online
offers full-text access to individual (+400) SAGE journal titles,
with backfiles to 1999. Approximately 70% of the total SAGE
content is available in the SAGE Collections via CSA, and approximately
30% in SAGE Journals Online.
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| Elsevier - Science
Direct (Academic Press - Ideal Library)
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About the collection: Elsevier Science is one of the world's largest providers of scientific,
technical and medical (STM) literature as ScienceDirect contains
over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full
text and bibliographic information with a journal collection of
over 2,000 titles. Subject areas in ScienceDirect
are:
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences
- Arts and Humanities
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
- Business, Management and Accounting
- Chemical Engineering
- Chemistry
- Computer Science
- Decision Sciences
- Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance
- Energy
- Engineering
- Environmental Science
- Immunology and Microbiology
- Materials Science
- Mathematics
- Medicine and Dentistry
- Neuroscience
- Nursing and Health Professions
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science
- Physics and Astronomy
- Psychology
- Social Sciences
- Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine
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| *Érudit* |
About the collection: Érudit is a multi-institutional publishing consortium comprised
of the Université de Montréal, the Université
Laval and the Université du Québec à Montréal.
It is a non-profit society that offers an innovative model for the
promotion and dissemination of Canadian research. It is also one
of the five editorial production nodes of
Synergies, a national project whose objective is to digitize Canadian
Social Sciences and Humanities research.
Érudit provides access to several types of documents
in the humanities and social sciences and
natural science disciplines: academic journals, e-books, proceedings,
theses and other documents and data.
Most of the content has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council and/or by the
Fonds Québécois de recherche sur la société
et la culture. More than half of the authors in the collection are
from outside Quebec. |
| Institute of Physics
Publishing |
About the collection: Access to thirty-five of IOPP's electronic journals
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| *InteLex Past
Masters* |
About the collection: InteLex Past Masters offers 117 full-text humanities databases.
Much of the content is licensed from Oxford University
Press, with significant collections from
other major scholarly publishers including Harvard University
Press, Indiana University Press and Pickering &
Chatto. Major university initiatives included in the series are
the Connaught Descartes Project from the
University of Toronto, John Dewey’s works and correspondence
from the Center for Dewey Studies at Southern
Illinois University, and Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Gesamtbriefwechsel
from the Brenner Archive at the University
of Innsbruck.
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| *JSTOR (additional content)*
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About the collection: JSTOR coverage has been expanded;
CRKN has licensed the following eight multidisciplinary and discipline-specific
collections: Arts &
Sciences I; Arts & Sciences II; Arts & Sciences III; Arts
& Sciences IV; Arts & Sciences V; Arts & Sciences
VI
(includes Business II); Arts & Sciences Complement; and Life
Sciences (Biological Sciences/Health and General
Sciences combined to create a new collection).
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Oxford University Press e-books
Cambridge University Press e-books Taylor and Francis e-books |
About the collections: The CRKN license agreement provides access to almost 20,000 backlist books published by Oxford University Press (OUP), Cambridge University Press (CUP), and Taylor and Francis (T&F):
- 5,038 OUP e-book titles published between 1948 and 2007
- 2,431 CUP e-book titles published between 1995 and 2007
- 11,697 T&F e-book titles published between 1933 and 2008.
An additional 1000 frontlist titles to be published over the next three years are also included in the license agreement.
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| Oxford
University Press Journals |
About the collection: Fulltext access to 170+ scholarly journals published by Oxford
University Press. |
| Periodicals Archive Online
(PAO) |
About the collection: Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) provides access to the full text
of digitized periodicals in the humanities and social sciences that
have been indexed in its sister database, Periodicals Index Online. Includes access to international, scholarly literature in the
humanities and social sciences disciplines from 1802 to 1995 in
thirty-seven key subject areas. The database combines six separate
collections that offer a total of 500 full-run titles spanning
200 years, and contains over 1.7 million articles. Collection
7 is not included in this agreement. Each collection is a closed
set with no new journal content being added. PAO content includes more than 60 foreign-language titles. Approximately
20% of each collection is non-English language content. |
| Royal Society of Chemistry |
About the collection: The RSC is the largest organisation in Europe for advancing the
chemical sciences. The agreement with CRKN provides access to
31 electronic journals covering all branches of chemistry.
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| Springer Verlag
Link
|
About the collection: In the Science / Technology / Medicine (STM) sector, Springer
is the world’s second-largest specialist publisher.
Its main publishing fields are science, medicine, engineering,
economics, architecture, construction and transport. Springer
publishes 1,450 journals and 5,000 new book titles every year,
plus databases, online services, conferences and seminars.
The agreement with CRKN provides online access to SpringerLink
containing full-text articles from 450+ electronic journals. E-books
are not included.
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| Taylor & Francis
Journals - Informaworld |
About the collection: Includes all Taylor & Francis Social Sciences and Humanities
journals. Covers Arts and Humanities, Business and Management,
Economics, Education and Social Sciences. |
| *Theatre
in Video* |
About the collection:
Includes more than 250 of the world’s most
important plays, together with more than 100
video documentaries and online streaming video.
Researchers and students can bookmark
specific scenes, monologues, and
staging examples and then include those online links in their papers
and course reserves, and make the links
public and share them with other users.
The collection also includes interviews with directors, designers,
writers, and actors that span a wide range of
periods and nationalities. Specially developed controlled vocabularies,
used with multiple and combinable
search fields, enable users to browse by genre, artist, time period,
place, and other fields. |
| Thomson
Scientific - Web of Knowledge
|
About the collection: A multidisciplinary
database that indexes 8,500 journals cover-to-cover, and provides
citation indexing and linking features. The three databases
available are:
- Science Citation Index Expanded®
- Social Sciences Citation Index®
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index®
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| Wiley - Blackwell Synergy
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About the collection: Wiley offers access to the electronic edition of the journals
subscribed to by participating CRKN members via Wiley InterScience,
an online service. The licensed electronic journals include
retrospective (back to 1997, where available, but not including
content from the Journal Backfile Collections) and current electronic
files of such journals as well as tables of content, abstracts,
full text and illustrations and any additional electronic journal
content not included in the print versions of the journals. Subject areas covered by the Wiley InterScience journal
titles include business; chemistry; computer science; earth and
environmental science; education; engineering; law; life sciences;
mathematics and statistics; medicine and healthcare; physics and
astronomy; polymers and materials science; psychology; and social
sciences.
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Accessing CRKN Products:
Many CRKN databases and collections are already accessible from our Journal Indexes and Electronic Databases pages. These pages are currently being updated with links to newly acquired databases and collections. Please note that certain new resources may not yet be fully accessible and certain links may not yet be operational. CRKN products may be accessed from any computer on campus and authorized Mount Allison users can access them remotely by using their Mt.A username and password.
Entries for the fulltext journals have also been added to the Mt. A Journal Finder and are in the process of being added to the Library Catalogue. Access Journal Finder and the Library Catalogue here.
Occasionally, there may be instances when a particular article
is not available in fulltext format. Most often this is because
an author has not transferred copyright ownership to the publisher.
If the article you want is not available in fulltext format and is not available in print in the library, you may request it via Interlibrary Loan. ACS advises that their articles are best viewed using Adobe Acrobat
Reader 4.0 or higher. Please check to see which version of Adobe
you are using to access ACS articles.
Need to Know More?
For additional information about the Canadian Research Knowledge Network or any of its products or services please contact the Library
at: 2564 / 2572 / 2237 / 2567 or send an e-mail to infodesk@mta.ca.
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