CRKN Digital Content Infrastructure for the Human and Social Sciences (DCI) : SFU Library Content Fall 2008
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The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) is a partnership of Canadian universities, dedicated to expanding digital content for the academic research enterprise in Canada. Through the coordinated leadership of librarians, researchers, and administrators, CRKN undertakes large-scale content acquisition and licensing initiatives in order to build knowledge infrastructure and research capacity in Canada's universities. |
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Journals | Books | Documents & Primary Materials | Music & Video
ALPSP Learned Journals Collection
Founded in 1972, ALPSP is the international trade association for the not-for-profit publishers and represents more than 300 members in 31 countries worldwide. The collection is comprised of 696 journal titles by 52 publishers through Swets Information Services.
Periodicals Archive Online (POA)
(Formerly Periodicals Content Index)
POA was formerly known as Periodicals Content Index – Full Text (PCI) provides an online archive of digitized, full-image journal articles and offers unprecedented access to international, scholarly literature in the humanities and social sciences disciplines from 1802 to 1995.
CAIRN
CAIRN was formed in 1995 by four European publishing houses (Belin, De Boeck, La Découverte and Erès) andoffers access to the most comprehensive collection of French language periodicals in the social sciences and humanities disciplines. The collection is currently comprised of 162 titles from more than 40 publishers, teaching institutions and learned societies and is growing rapidly. French journals such as Les Actes de la Rechercheen Sciences Sociales, Etudes and Economie Internationale. The primary subject areas covered by the collection are history, psychology (including some clinical psychology and psychiatry), economics, political science, sociology, sport and education. Titles added to the collection during the term of the 3-year agreement will focus on management, arts, literature, philosophy and religious science.
JSTOR
JSTOR's multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections including the newest Arts & Sciences VI collection. JSTOR is a searchable, online, full-text archival collection of core scholarly journals mainly in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Subject coverage includes: African American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Botany & Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, General Science, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology and Statistics. While SFU already had a subscription to most JSTOR content, additional collections have been made available through the CRKN package.
Oxford University Press e-books (5038 e-books up to 2007)
Cambridge University Press e-books (2431 e-books up to 2007)
Taylor & Francis HSS e-books (11,697 e-books up to 2008)
1000 e-books over the next 3 years (from Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Taylor & Francis)
provided by Ingram Digital Group.
The Ingram content companies are market leaders in enabling publishers, retailers, libraries and readers in the transition from the world of print to the integrated future of digital delivery of books and information. Ingram Digital Group (IDG) companies now operate the world's largest repository of commercial English-language content outside of Google. IDG has partnered with MyiLibrary LLC, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and Taylor and Francis to offer a critical mass of high quality e-book content from leading publishers of humanities and social sciences publishers.
Oxford University Press (Full title list)
Oxford University Press (OUP) is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Through this project, CRKN has licensed a collection of 5,038 digitized e-book titles published by OUP between 1948 and 2007. Titles can be found in the catalogue.
Cambridge University Press (Full title list)
Cambridge University Press (CUP) publishes the finest academic and educational writing from around the world. As a department of the University of Cambridge, its purpose is to further the Universitys objective of advancing knowledge, education, learning and research. CRKN has licensed a collection of 2,431 CUP e-book titles published between 1995 and 2007 to Canadian institutions through this project. Titles can be found in the catalogue.
Taylor and Francis (Full title list)
Taylor and Francis Group (T&F), the Academic Division of informa, plc, is a leading international academic publisher. Building on two centuries of experience, T&F has grown rapidly both organically and through acquisition, and today publishers around 1,800 new books each year, with a books backlist in excess of 20,000 specialist titles. CRKN has licensed 11,697 T&F e-book titles published between 1933 and 2008 through this project. Titles can be found in the catalogue.
In addition to the 19,166 backlist OUP, CUP and T&F e-book titles described above, the CRKN license agreement includes an additional 1000 frontlist titles that will be published over the next three years. Provisions in the agreement ensure an equally distributed number of new titles from each of the three publishers over the term of the agreement. This critical mass of backlist and frontlist e-book titles will expand the breadth and quality of content available to Canadian researchers.
Canadian Publishers Collection
This collection includes over 8,000 current titles from over 50 leading Canadian publishers. Many volumes and series critical for the pursuit of Canadian studies are available here. While SFU already had a subscription to more than half these ebooks, this enhanced collection greatly increases the quantity of Canadian content ebooks available to researchers at SFU. Some titles are forthcoming, due to be delivered in November 2008. (Full title list)
InteLex Past Masters
Past Masters provides online access to the complete works of 117 significant authors including the largest collection of full-text electronic editions in philosophy in the world. It encompasses significant works in the history of political thought and theory, education, religious studies, economics, classics, history and philosophy of science, germanic studies and sociology.
Documents & Primary Materials
These new collections of primary materials from Adam Matthew have been added to our existing resources from this publisher.
• China: Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793-1980
• Eighteenth Century Journals I & II
• Mass Observation Online
• Medieval Travel Writing
• Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007
Classical Scores Library from Gibson/Alexander Street Press
Classical Scores Library contains 400,000 pages of the most important classical music scores, manuscripts, and previously unpublished material, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 8,000 musical scores. This collection allows users to access multiple types of scores across various composers, genres, and time periods. It contains full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, as well as piano reductions. Within seconds, users can explore Beethoven’s entire compositional output, or music experts can compare different musical settings of the Magnificat from the 15th century to the 21st century—without the need to find and carry heavy scores and multiple CDs. This collection is the first classical scores database that allows for a truly integrated musical experience. All opera, vocal, and choral texts are rekeyed to allow for deep searching and textual analysis. Many items have associated audio tracks in Classical Music Library, so that SFU readers can listen to a recording online while following along with the full score.
Theatre in Video from Gibson/Alexander Street Press
Theatre in Video contains more than 250 of the world’s most important plays, together with more than 100 video documentaries, online in streaming video—more than 500 hours in all. These definitive performances, by leading actors and directors, have been painstakingly licensed from a wide range of copyright holders. They are now delivered to you over the Internet, in a revolutionary new format developed specifically for drama.
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