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Political science

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Staff

daniel [dot] boyer [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Daniel Boyer) 514-398-4715 ext. #00156
Associate Dean, User Services, McGill University Library
Head Librarian, Nahum Gelber Law Library
maryvon [dot] cote [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Maryvon Côté) 514-398-4715 ext. #0354
Assistant Head, Nahum Gelber Law Library
Liaison Librarian (Public Law)
anne [dot] avery [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Anne Avery) 514-398-4715 ext. #0353
Senior Circulation Clerk
lisa [dot] barrett [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Lisa Barrett) 514-398-4715 ext.

Library and information studies

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McGill University Archives

McLennan-Redpath Library Complex (map), 4th floor
3459 McTavish Street
Montreal, Quebec H3A 0C9

Information: 514-398-4711| refdesk [dot] archives [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)
Fax: 514-398-8456


 

History of medicine - Databases, catalogues, and website indexes

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  • Christopher Lyons 514-398-4475 ext. 09847# Osler Library of the History of Medicine
  • Anna Dysert 514 398-4475 ext 09861 Osler Library of the History of Medicine

Core databases for secondary sources

Some useful databases for the history of medicine are listed below. For a complete listing of article indexes and databases available through McGill, go to all article indexes & databases.

Healthcare management

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  • jessica [dot] lange [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Management Staff)

MUAR 392 - Popular Music after 1945

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HIST 565 - British Urban History During the Long Nineteenth Century

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  • Eamon Duffy 514-398-4697 Humanities and Social Sciences Library

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EAST 304 Topics in Chinese Studies - Chinese Medical Tradition

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  • Anna Dysert 514 398-4475 ext 09861 Osler Library of the History of Medicine

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Starting your research

Have a topic that you might be interested in exploring? Need more background information about a particular reading?

Creating and editing hyperlinks in a Word document

In order to create persistent links, you may need to know how to create a link in a Word document. To avoid displaying lengthy URLs when creating links, embed your links into the document title. For example,

Alias Grace

NOT

Alias Grace
http://catalogue.mcgill.ca/F/?func=find-acc&acc_sequence=019678691

Creating persistent, permanent or stable links

When connected to a database, e-book, e-journal or online article, the URL that appears in the browser address bar may only be a temporary address that might not function several days or even a few hours later.

Fortunately however, many subscription databases and publishers now offer persistent URLs that can be used in myCourses, Web pages or email messages.

See the Accessing online resources page for instructions on how to access persistent links.

 

Bioinformatics

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Library and information studies

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  • Maya Kucij 514-398-4687 Education Curriculum Resources Centre

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Course guides

Note: Course guides are only available for some courses.

Disaster & emergency management

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  • Julie Jones 514-398-5727 Humanities and Social Sciences Library

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Emergency Response Tools

Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders (WISER) from the National Library of Medicine (NLM)

A system to help emergency responders identify and respond to hazardous materials incidents. Contains information on information on hazardous substances, including substance identification support, physical characteristics, human health information, and containment and suppression advice.

Spanish Language and Translation

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Student movements

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Study Skills (Continuing Studies)

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  • Jessica Lange 514-398-4690 ext. 00871 Humanities and Social Sciences Library
  • Julie Jones 514-398-5727 Humanities and Social Sciences Library

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Study Skills for Success

Presentation slides

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Library tips and tricks

Time and stress management

Earth and planetary sciences

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  • Giovanna Badia 514-398-7340 Schulich Library of Science and Engineering

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Where to Find Background Information

If you are not sure what your topic is all about, look it up in a dictionary or encyclopedia. Start with:

CHEE 591 - Environmental bioremediation

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  • Giovanna Badia 514-398-7340 Schulich Library of Science and Engineering

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Where to Find References to Journal Articles

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CHEE 456 - Design 1

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  • Giovanna Badia 514-398-7340 Schulich Library of Science and Engineering

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Physical & Life Sciences
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Arts & Humanities

HIST 347 - History and Sexuality 2

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  • Eamon Duffy 514-398-4697 Humanities and Social Sciences Library

HIST 433 - British Queer History

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  • Eamon Duffy 514-398-4697 Humanities and Social Sciences Library

French History and Literature

The collection contains a variety of materials documenting French history and literature. There are a number of fragments of early French literary texts including two leaves from a copy of the "Chevalier du Cygne" dated c. 1300. There is a copy dated c. 1660 of the "Receul [sic] des actes de tous les Sinodes Nationnaux...au Royaume de France", 1559-1660.

Joe Fishstein Yiddish Poetry Collection

The collection was donated to the library in 1981 by the family of the collector, the late Joe Fishstein of New York City. It is composed primarily of twentieth century Yiddish belles-lettres, poetry and criticism. While there are many standard works in the collection, there are, as well, many rare pre-World War II East European imprints. There are also scrapbooks of photographs and postcards. The collection includes some 2500 monographs and 200 serials. Most of the volumes have mac-tac bindings made by Fishstein.

Guidebooks

The Division has some 1100 guidebooks. One of the earliest Canadian guidebooks is Gideon Miner Davison, The Fashionable Tour: A Guide to Travellers Visiting the Middle and Northern States, and the Provinces of Canada 4th edition (Saratoga Springs: 1830). There are many nineteenth century guidebooks for Great Britain, such as: Oxford University and City Guide (Oxford: Munday and Slatter, 1818); Ludlow Guide, 4th edition. (Ludlow: H. Procter, 1831); Black's Picturesque Tourist of Scotland, 8th ed. (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1850).

Incunabula

Rare Books holds some 140 incunabula, the earliest being Paulus de Sancta Maria Scrutinium scripturarum (Strasbourg: Johann Mentelin, not after 1470). The first incunabulum acquired by the McGill library was a copy of Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea (Basel: [Michael Wenssler], 1490). It came with the bequest of the library of John Robson, M.D. of Warrington, England in 1877. Italian and German printing is particularly well represented as are theology, the classics and Italian literature.

Sir E.K. Chambers Shakespeare Collection

The collection was purchased in 1954 and includes over four hundred books on Shakespeare, his plays and the Elizabethan theatre; and some two hundred pamphlets, reviews, transcripts of lectures, magazine articles and brochures, for the years between 1850 and 1950 from Chamber's library. There is the Jahrbuch der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft (1865-1929) and the fifteen facsimiles of the Shakespeare Association. (1931-1938).

Indic Manuscripts

The Indic manuscripts cover a variety of languages and traditions of India and Southeast Asia. There are approximately two hundred texts in Sanskrit, Pali and other languages. Both Hindu and Buddhist religious texts are represented as well as some secular texts. Almost half of the collection is composed of palm leaf manuscripts (olas).

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