ProQuest is offering online training opportunities during the month of April for the following eResources. These resources are currently subscribed to by York University Libraries.

INTERNATIONAL INDEX TO FILM PERIODICALS – FIAF

Created by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) in Paris in 1938, FIAF is a collaborative association of film archives whose purpose is to ensure the proper preservation and showing of motion pictures. FIAF is a tool for film studies, indexing more than 500,000 articles from 340 academic and popular film journals, dating from 1972 onward. The database also incorporates the International Index to TV Periodicals; Treasures from the Film Archives, which identifies silent film holdings in archives around the world, and the International Directory of Film/TV Documentation Collections. CLICK HERE to register for a webinar on April 8 at 3pm.

AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE CATALOG – AFI Catalog

The American Film Institute Catalog covers the history of American cinema from 1893 to 1974. Newly incorporated into AFI are their 100 Year Lists including the top 100 movies, 25 Greatest Movie Musicals, top 25 film scores, top 50 actors and top 10 movies of 2008. CLICK HERE to register for a webinar on April 21 at 3pm.

FILM INDEX INTERNATIONAL – FII

Film Index International is a companion to the AFI Catalog, covering international films from over 170 countries from 1900 to the present. FII is created in conjunction with the British Film Institute and provides indexing to movies from the very first silent movies to the latest blockbusters, including coverage of international film awards. CLICK HERE to register for a webinar on April 7 at 3pm

SAFARI BOOKS ONLINE

In July 2001, two technology publishers, O’Reilly Media, Inc. and The Pearson Technology Group, joined forces to create Safari Books Online.  CLICK HERE to register for a webinar on April 29 at 12pm and learn about the new enhancements Safari has introduced over the past few months.

PROQUEST NURSING AND ALLIED HEALTH SOURCE

From May 10 to May 16, National Nurses Week is celebrated to recognize a profession of dedicated human beings. ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source serves this large profession of varied and broad interests by providing access to not only full-text journals but other non-bibliographic content as well, to include the Joanna Briggs Institute Evidence-based Nursing information, dissertations, Study Paths, MedCom Videos, and more. CLICK HERE to register for a webinar on April 14 at 2pm or April 16 at 12pm and catch up on all of this and celebrate the profession that Florence Nightingale began.

York University Libraries has arranged a trial for Ethnographic Video Online

Access the trial here: http://anth.alexanderstreet.com/

The trial will run until May 3, 2010

Ethnographic Video Online is a resource for the study of human culture and behavior – more than 750 hours and 1,000 films at completion. The collection covers every region of the world and features the work of several documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more. This first release includes 226 videos totaling roughly 152 hours.

York University Libraries has recently acquired another title to its popular Adam Matthew Digital collection of e-resources.

The Confidential Print series originated out of a need for the British Government to preserve all of the most important papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices. Some of these were one page letters or telegrams – others were large volumes or texts of treaties. All items marked ‘Confidential Print’ were printed and circulated immediately to leading officials in the Foreign Office, to the Cabinet, and to Heads of British missions abroad.

Over the next few years Adam Matthew will be offering complete series of Confidential Print relating to different regions including the Middle East, Africa and South America. All documents are full text searchable.

Canadian Book Review Annual online allows librarians access to this collection of authoritative reviews of English-language, Canadian-authored scholarly, reference, trade, children’s, and youth books published in Canada.

CBRA is now fully digitized and available online for library patrons and librarians. This resource offers over 30,000 reviews and over 100 new titles added every month.

The online search capability lets you find titles to help build your Canadian collection and provide you with depth of coverage. The reviewers in their fields provide evaluations.