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UCT students and staff now enjoy free access to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP). From its inception, the SEP was designed so that each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and substantive updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished Editorial Board before they are made public. Access is available via the Databases as well as the Electronic Books link.

Here is a list of citation style guides and resources. which you may find useful.

UCT Libraries now has a subscription to the online package of Annual Reviews journals. Check the list of titles.

These were previously available through other databases like Proquest, EBSCOhost and Thomson Gale.

Check out the lists of New Books in the first two weeks of January.

2nd January 2007 list of titles just in Humanities and from the Commerce List.

9th January 2007 list excludes the books from Commerce and Science.

16th January 2007 list has also just been posted to the new Books blog.

The latest New Books list has been posted to the New Books Blog.

There is a nifty feature in the "advanced search" on Ulrich's Periodical Directory which makes it possible to identify whether a journal or periodical provides headlines, recent issues or other content via RSS (Really Simple Syndication). The URL of the RSS feed(s) for the periodical is displayed and can be copied into one's preferred RSS reader.

The latest Library Update is now available from the Libraries' homepage.

This database gathers much of the French-speaking literature from sub-Saharan Africa it was possible to collect: oral and written literatures from the origins to Independence.

We have a trial access until 15th February 2007.

For regular users of ISI Web of Knowledge, there is now free access to EndNote Web . This will allow you to add , organise and format references in a variety of publishing styles, in folders for access and use at any time from any of the ISI Web of Knowledge products. Registration on My EndNote Web is required.

There is also another new feature called My Cited Articles List which alerts you

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The library will be closing on Friday 22nd December 2006 at 12h30 and reopening on Tuesday 2nd January 2007 at 08h30.

The new opening hours for the Current Journals Reading Room are :

Term Hours: Mon-Fri: 08:00 - 18:00 / Sat: Closed
Vacation Hours: Mon-Fri: 08:30 - 17:00 / Sat: Closed

The purpose of this blog is to give a human face to the Humanities Library Reference section in the Chancellor Oppenheimer Library -- To alert our community to library news, new resources, staff news, upcoming training and so on. It is also an opportunity for other colleagues in the department to explore some of the new technologies like blogging, before bravely setting up blogs of their own.

If you can read this post, it means that the registration process was successful and that you can start blogging