Library gains access to $47 million worth of online resources
[img_inline align=”right” src=”http://padnws01.mcmaster.ca/images/books1.jpg” caption=”McMaster faculty, students and staff will have online access to a wide variety of scholarly materials, including digitzied books, journals and letters thanks to a $47 million investment by the Canada Foundation for Innovation. Photo by Susan Bubak.”]As a member of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN), McMaster faculty, students and staff will soon have online access to a large collection of social sciences and humanities resources thanks to an unprecedented $47 million investment by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), eight provinces and 67 universities, including McMaster.
The rich digital collection of scholarly materials will include digitized books, journals, letters, historical documents, music scores, maps, artwork and even streaming video of theatrical plays.
“This is a major advancement for Canada's academic community in the digital age,” said Deb deBruijn, CRKN executive director. “The partnership of the CFI, the provinces and the universities has helped reshape the very marketplace for digital scholarly materials. As a result, Canadian researchers and students will now be able to access materials that would otherwise not have become widely available in digital form.”
Some highlights of resources soon to be available include:
Adam Matthew Digital: eight collections that offer rare printed sources, including
Periodicals Archives Online features six separate collections that offer a total of 500 full-run titles spanning 200 years, from 1802 to 1995, in 37 key subject areas
InteLex Past Masters offers 117 full-text humanities databases with content licensed by Oxford University Press, Harvard University Press, Indiana University Press, Pickering & Chatto and many other major scholarly publishers.
“These additions to our collections will significantly enhance our ability to provide support for teaching, learning and research in the humanities and social sciences,” says University librarian Jeff Trzeciak. “I would like to thank the provost and the budget committee for finding the financial resources necessary for us to participate in this program.”
View the list of items we will have complete access to by fall 2008, read the original press release issued by CRKN or for more information, contact Anne Pottier at pottier@mcmaster.ca.
