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Declassified Documents Reference System contains over 78,000 documents, constituting more than 450,000 pages of material originating from United States government official bodies and agencies, including:

Cabinet meeting minutes
National Security Council policy statements
CIA intelligence studies
Presidential conferences
State Department political analyses
Joint Chiefs papers

Covering major international events from the Cold War to the Vietnam War and beyond, this single source enables users to locate key information underpinning studies in international relations, American studies, United States Foreign and Domestic Policy Studies, journalism and more. Information relating to all major political and military events from every corner of the globe since World War II offers insight into government viewpoints, activities and decisions. Documents included in DDRS were inaccessible for review until after their release, therefore, the information they provide often offers completely new perspectives and understandings of important events.

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The Leddy Library has subscribed to these four new research tools:

Gerritsen Collection: Women’s History Online 1543-1945: In the late 1800s, Dutch physician Aletta Jacobs and her husband C.V. Gerritsen began collecting books and periodicals reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and women’s rights. By the time their successors finished their work in 1945, The Gerritsen Collection was the greatest single source for the study of women’s history in the world, with materials spanning four centuries and fifteen languages. This online resource delivers two million page images exactly as they appeared in the original printed works. Users can trace the evolution of feminism within a single country, as well as the impact of one country’s movement on those of the others. In many cases, it also provides easy access to primary sources otherwise available only in a few rare book rooms.

Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective 1907-1984: This database offers indexing for nearly 1,200 periodicals, as far back as 1907 and comprises the most important scholarly journals published throughout the 20th century in North America and Europe. It consists of citations to more than 1,300,000 articles, including over 240,000 book reviews and is the equivalent of 46 print cumulations. In addition to coverage of the entire range of the humanities and social sciences for nearly a century, the database covers many important scientific journals through the 1950′s.

Proquest Historical Newspapers, The New York Times: This full-image archive brings you the entire historical run of The New York Times, the definitive voice of American journalism since 1851. The database delivers every page of every issue from cover to cover, with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF. And the database just keeps growing, with a new year’s content added annually. Includes: Display and classified ads; Comics and cartoons; Photos, maps, graphics, etc.; Editorials and commentary; Unmatched journalistic breadth and depth; Fair, objective reporting; First-class literary criticism, and; In-depth coverage of science and politics.

Elsevier Decision Sciences Archive: The Decision Sciences backfiles collection comprises 35 journals dating as far back as 1963. Titles such as Journal of Operations Management, Information and Management, and Computers and Operations Research are included. The titles in this archive will be available through Elsevier Science @ Scholar’s Portal.

Sunday, December 4, please join Marty Gervais for the launch of his new chapbook of poetry, Taking My Blood. The launch party will be held in the Leddy Library, Williams Cafe, at 7pm.

December 4 will also be the last day to view Gervais’s exhibition of photography, “Light Verse”, which is installed in Williams Cafe.

The Digital National Security Archive contains the most comprehensive collection of primary documents available. The database includes more than 55,000 of the most important declassified documents regarding critical U.S. policy decisions. There are 24 complete collections, each offering specialized insights. Integrated, they allow you to explore policy across several different areas at once. Collections include: The Iran-Contra Affair; Iraqgate, 1980–1994; Terrorism and U.S. Policy, 1968-2002, and; U.S. Espionage and Intelligence.

Click here for a Powerpoint slide show with more information.

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iGoStats is an international online service that provides single source access and support for a wide range of statistics from inter-governmental organisations. iGoStats offers high quality international time series statistical databanks, in many cases covering more than 50 years of social and economic activity, from these key inter-governmental organisations:

OECD
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
World Bank
United Nations (UN)
International Labour Organisation (ILO)
United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO)
Eurostat (European Commission)
International Energy Agency (IEA)

Login to Service: http://www.igostats.com/
Choose the organization, then the database you wish to view from the selections in the left hand column.
Click on the yellow “Trial Access” button on the right.

The following restrictions apply to the trial:

(1) Only the last 5 years data is available for the World Bank
(subscribers will have access to the complete time series)
(2) The IEA has only two of their datasets available during the trial
(3) Only 9 of the 20 OECD databases are available for the trial
(4) Download of data is disabled.

This trial ended January 31st, 2006.

As told in the Daily News.

Leddy Library’s web design team is happy to announce the Leddy Library News weblog. We have replaced our static news pages with an easily updated, dynamic site built on the Word Press blogging software platform. In addition to making it easier for us to post news items, we are able to add new features to our news pages, including:

• categories and category archives (see sidebar)
• date-based archives (also see sidebar)
• comment support
• RSS syndication

In some ways, the most exciting of these is RSS syndication. RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication.” If you use Bloglines or another RSS reader, you can receive updates whenever we make a post to the News page. It’s like subscribing to our News! It’s also possible to subscribe only to the posts in a particular category, if you desire.

Please let us know what you think of this service by commenting on this post!

The International Security & Counter-Terrorism Reference Center (ISCTRC) offers information on virtually every dimension of security & counter-terrorism and is designed to inform the analysis process, as well as enhance the general understanding of security and terrorism-related issues. ISCTRC provides a comprehensive Open Source Intelligence Resource for analysts, risk management professionals, and students. Content includes hundreds of full text journals and periodicals, hundreds of thousands of selected articles, news feeds, reports, summaries, books, blogs, FAQs, and proprietary Background Information Summaries that pertain to terrorism and security. ISCTRC also combines deep background from scholarly writings with expert commentary from a variety of organizations, agencies and publisher and timely reviews of recent developments across the international political, military, economic, social and technical spectrum.

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The Department of English Language, Literature and Creative Writing presents a “Literary Quickie” featuring Lynn Davies at noon, Friday November 11, in the Leddy Library Reading Lounge (Behind William’s Coffee Pub, Main Floor)

Lynn Davies is one of Canada’s most accomplished young poets. Her first poetry collection was a finalist for both the Governor General’s Award and the Gerald Lampert Award. Here poetry has been widely published, anthologized, and frequently broadcast on CBC Radio. Lynn Davies’ anticipated second collection Where Sound Pools (Goose Lane) is a celebration of imagination, of the extraordinary in our everyday lives.

Career Services will be offering a drop-in resumé critique service in the Leddy Library on November 10, 1pm to 3pm. A table will be set up in the area of the Williams Café.