News @ UNB Libraries

Check out 3 new databases!

• CINAHL® with Full Text
• CultureVision™
• Natural Standard

CINAHL® with Full Text
(Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) provides access to the fulltext of articles for more than 610 nursing & allied health journals back to 1981 and indexes more than 3,000 journals. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses’ Association, CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative and complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. Searchable cited references for more than 1,290 journals are also included.

CultureVision™ is a comprehensive searchable database providing information on over 50 different ethnic, cultural, religious, and ability groups on such topics as communication, family patterns, nutrition, treatment protocols, and mental health issues. CultureVision™ is the first comprehensive, user-friendly database that gives healthcare professionals access to culturally competent patient care.

Natural Standard was founded by healthcare providers and researchers to provide high-quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies, including nutritional supplements. Contributors from more than 50 academic institutions systematically gather scientific data, expert opinions, and use validated rating scales to evaluate the quality of available evidence.

For more information about CINAHL® with Full Text, CultureVision™, or Natural Standard, please contact Frances Giberson, Nursing Librarian, (453-4602); for more resources relevant to studies in nursing, please consult UNB Libraries’ Nursing Guides.

For help with any of UNB Libraries’ resources, contact the HIL Research Help Desk in person, by telephone (453-3546), by email, or by Ask Us.

The new version of Write-N-Cite for Macs is now available for download. The new version is compatible with MS Word 2008 and 2011, and runs on Mac operating systems Leopard, Snow Leopard, and Lion. To get WNC4, log into your RefWorks account and choose Tools from the menu bar at the top of the screen.

WNC 4 has a very different look and feel from WNC 2.5. Downloading WNC4 installs a toolbar in Word, allowing you to quickly cite, change styles or generate a bibliography without having to navigate to another window. Citations are fully formatted as soon as you cite them.

After installing the toolbar, you will log into WNC using a unique code provided to you at the RefWorks WNC download page. Once logged in, the contents of your RefWorks account will be accessible via the toolbar unless you log out of WNC, whether or not you are connected to the internet. Unless you need to access more than one RefWorks account, you need only log in through the WNC toolbar once.

This short guide at the Ontario Scholars Portal provides screen shots and instructions for downloading, logging in, and using WNC4 for Macs.

A three-page pdf document from Scholars Portal shows in more detail how to add and edit references and create a bibliography using WNC4.

Please note, a new version of Write-N-Cite for Windows is coming soon.

If you have any questions or comments about Write-N-Cite 4 for Macs, please contact Frances Giberson (453-4602).

A NEW research database in UNB Libraries’ collection, MERGENT Online provides access to the most detailed financial data available for over 25,000 public U.S. and global companies.

• Searching by company name or ticker symbol enables our university community to seamlessly access reports, including company histories, executives, ownership, key financials, equity pricing, reports, filings, news, competitors, plus a customized Report Builder.
• Company financial reports for up to 15 years can be downloaded via Excel spreadsheet software.
• MERGENT also offers access to real-time government company filings via the SEC (U.S.) and SEDAR (Canada).
• Additional attributes include a Global Private Company database for over 20 million private companies, reports (industry or equity), economic indicators, and country profiles.

For more information about MERGENT Online, please contact Leanne Wells, Business Librarian, (447-3075); for more resources relevant to studies in Business, please consult UNB Libraries’ Business Administration Guides.

For help with any of UNB Libraries’ resources, contact the HIL Research Help Desk in person, by telephone (453-3546), by email, or by Ask Us.

A NEW research database in UNB Libraries’ collection, SocINDEX with Full Text offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. These include abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse & other addictions, violence and many others.

SocINDEX provides access to:

• 890 full-text journals dating back to 1908
• 850 full-text books
• 16,800 conference papers
• abstracts for more than 1,300 core journals dating back to 1985

View a list of fulltext journal included in SocINDEX that includes coverage dates.

For more information about SocINDEX with Full Text, please contact Barry Cull, Sociology Librarian, (458-7057); for more resources relevant to studies in Sociology, please consult UNB Libraries’ Sociology Guides.

For help with any of UNB Libraries’ resources, visit or call the HIL Research Help Desk (453-3546), email, or Ask Us.

The Multicultural Association of Fredericton (MCAF) is pleased to collaborate with the New Brunswick African Association (NBAA) to present Black History Month celebrations honouring the achievements and contributions of Canadians of African descent as leaders in the struggle for inclusion and equality.  The public is encouraged to take part in the series of Black History Month activities organized throughout the month of February to create a collective voice to eliminate racial discrimination, embrace diversity and build an inclusive community.  Among the diverse activities organized in celebration of Black history month, a series of short and feature length documentary films, that can only scratch the surface of such a rich and multi-layered culture, will be held on Thursday evenings at the Harriet Irving Library (HIL), UNBF. The film series, co-sponsored by UNB Libraries, begins February 2nd and ends February 23rd.  Showings are free to the public and start at 7:00pm nightly in Room 100 (Milham room) of the HIL.

Schedule:
February 2: The little black school house
February 9: Remember Africville
February 16: Black Mother Black Daughter
February 23: Black Hands: Trial of the Arsonist Slave

Please feel free to drop by and browse the diverse selection of books on display in front of the Research Help Desk.

RefWorks is a tool for tracking the sources used in your research and assignments. This session, intended for new users, is a practical tutorial to learn how to use the product. We’ll show you how to create and manage an account, import citations from research databases, and add references to your paper in the citation style of your choice.

For undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff.

There are no fees associated with this course; however, you must pre-register for one of the following sessions:

Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 2:00pm (session runs until 3:30pm)

Monday, February 13, 2012 at 10:00am (session runs until 11:30am)

Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 6:00pm (session runs until 7:30pm)

 Location: Harriet Irving Library, Learning Lab (Room 112), UNB Fredericton Campus

If you have any questions, please contact Alicia McLaughlin (amclaugh@unb.ca or 453-4749).