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UNB Libraries would like to extend sincere congratulations to Dr. C. Mary Young on having been awarded an honorary D.Sc. from the University of New Brunswick at the 187th Encaenia on May 18th, 2016.

Watch the video below to see the honorary degree conferred on Dr. C. Mary Young and to hear her address to the 2016 graduating classes of Biology and Nursing.

Dr. Young has a bachelor of science degree in zoology and botany from Bristol University with honours and a PhD from London University. She also studied at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where she researched the resistance of insects to insecticides, supported by the Medical Research Council. In 1953, she received a Fulbright travel fellowship to visit laboratories involved in insect resistance studies in the eastern United States.

In 1975, Dr. Young began volunteering in the Connell Memorial Herbarium at UNB, a museum that houses over 60,000 scientific specimens of plants, mostly collected in New Brunswick. She is the herbarium’s most longstanding volunteer and has volunteered countless hours in helping to curate, map and catalogue the collections. In 1987, Dr. Young became one of the founders and guiding figures of the Nature Trust of New Brunswick.

Last year, UNB Libraries published Dr. Young’s study Nature’s Bounty: Four Centuries of Plant Exploration in New Brunswick. The publication is significant in its contribution both to the history of plants in New Brunswick and to the history of UNB.

“Just like the scholars and scientists that she highlights in her book, Mary exemplifies the time-honoured tradition of a scientist and scholar with a broad range of expertise that extends well beyond the discipline that she devoted her career to. Mary’s academic training and career focused on entomology, but she has become a very knowledgeable botanist, both in the field and in the laboratory. Her scientific expertise and her love of botany are clearly evident in her botanical illustrations that accompany this book; these are not only accurate but beautiful.”
~Dr. James Goltz, from the Foreword

Don’t panic! You still have access to the online journals that you may have found using the database Web of Science. You can still get to your destination (online content), but you now need to take a different route to get there.

Let us explain. It may have seemed as if your online journal articles were provided by Web of Science because you could easily click on the “Check for Fulltext” link to get to your final destination (the fulltext of the article). However, that “Check for Fulltext” link has been added by UNB Libraries to move users seamlessly from the database in which the citation for an article has been found to the database in which the fulltext of the article is held. The important distinction is between databases that index bibliographical records and enable you to discover relevant citations on the one hand and databases that provide content (e.g. the fulltext of articles) on the other.

UNB Libraries never purchased journal content from Web of Science—rest assured, the online journal content is still available. What’s changed is the finding process—instead of “discovering” citations in Web of Science and then proceeding to the fulltext held in other databases, you will now need to “discover” relevant citations in other indexing databases that are identified under the “Find Articles” TAB of the Subject Guide for your discipline.

If you would like some help identifying other indexing databases that you can use to discover citations to relevant articles before linking to the fulltext, do not hesitate to contact your Liaison Librarian or Ask Us for help (by instant message, text message, email, or phone) or in person at our Research Help Desks.

The HIL has 6 group study rooms equipped with Wireless Presentation Systems (AirMedia). These systems function with personal or library-loaned laptops, allowing students to wirelessly access the LCD system in the room.

Media set-up instructions are also available at the HIL Commons Service Desk.

Please be aware that, on Thursday, May 5th, 2016, the Harriet Irving, Science & Forestry, and Engineering & Computer Science Libraries will open at 11:30am in order for staff to attend a system-wide meeting.

UNBF Libraries will close at regular times respectively, as per our summer hours of operation.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

A new addition to the copyright webpage covers the use of images in the classroom. For the purposes of class instruction, faculty can rely on the public domain, licenced resources, fair dealing, and educational exceptions to deliver images to students.

The video tutorial on Images in the Classroom further explains how to utilize images within the limits of copyright legislation and licences.

For more information about copyright at UNB, see UNB Libraries’ Copyright Links:

• Teaching
• Images
• Music and Sound
• Audiovisual Works
• D2L
• Licenses
• Author’s Rights
• Student Info
• Video Tutorials
• Administrative Copying
• Glossary
• More Information

Alternately, contact the Copyright Office by email copyright@unb.ca or by phone (506-447-3378).

If you are an English language learner or an ESL instructor, we encourage you to check out our new UNB Libraries’ Guide to ESL Library Resources which features print, electronic, and audiovisual resources that will improve your grammar, reading, writing, and listening comprehension.

This guide can be accessed from UNB Libraries’ home page; choose English under “Research by Subject” and select ESL Library Resources.