Link: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/mitx-education-initiative-1219.html

'MITx' will offer courses online and make online learning tools freely available.

Link: http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/subscriptions/prod/standards_addon.html

UVic's subscription to IEEE Xplore now includes the Draft Standards add on package.
This means the University of Victoria faculty, researchers & students can see a standard before it is published to help facilitate early compliance and implementation - and gain an early understanding of standards under development and get advanced insight into solutions and practices being proposed.

This add on package makes IEEE Xplore include:
Unapproved Drafts—a combination of revisions of previous standards and brand new ideas that are still in the standards development process
Approved Drafts—awaiting standard publication (it usually takes 3 to 6 months for approved standards to be published)
Approved and Archived Standards — that have been superseded by a published standard provide the complete history of a standard’s evolution

See http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/accessinfo.jsp for more information.

Link: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/toronto-philanthropist-schulich-unveils-100-million-scholarship/article2201382/

"Seymour Schulich has made his latest eye-catching contribution to Canadian universities, announcing a $100-million scholarship program to encourage students in Canada and Israel to study" STEM subjects. Schulich's "name is already on schools at several Canadian universities thanks to generous donations, but he will now directly fund promising students entering the 'STEM' subjects in an effort to help mould them into 'pioneers' of global research and innovation. Once fully implemented in 2014, the program will provide 75 students annually with Schulich Leader Scholarships, worth $60,000 over four years and open to any high school or CEGEP graduate in Canada or Israel entering a STEM subject."

Link: http://www.info.sciverse.com/sciencedirect/content/backfiles/collections

Elsevier Journal Backfiles Purchased!

These Elsevier journal back file subject collections have been purchased:

• Clinical Neurology
• Computer Science
• Decision Sciences
• Immunology and Microbiology
• Organic Chemistry
• Orthopedics, Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation
• Physical and Analytical Chemistry
• Physics General
• Psychiatry and Mental Health

This means that we now have back to volume 1, issue 1 for almost all of the Elsevier journals on the Science Direct platform. This provides you with more coverage back to the first date of publication for many more journals. Find these titles in a Journal Search, via our databases 'Get This' links, or in the main library catalogue.

For complete title lists please visit the Elsevier web site: http://www.info.sciverse.com/sciencedirect/content/backfiles/collections

Link: http://apps.isiknowledge.com/WOS_GeneralSearch_input.do?product=WOS&search_mode=GeneralSearch&SID=1EFDoFbBNk43PLMc7GI&preferencesSaved=

UVic now has access to the complete back file for Web of Science back to 1900, and BIOSIS Citation index back to 1926.

With these backfiles now complete, you can conduct deeper more complete research.

Both of these databases are found on the Libraries Website under the Databases Tab/Other Options/All Databases A-Z.