Oxford Handbooks

We have a new, handy collection of Oxford Handbooks dealing with nursing and public health.

Access comes courtesy of Books@Ovid.

Credo new additions

Here are some of the new additions from Credo this month. You’ll find them all on our OPAC.

  • The A-Z of Social Research,
  • The Cambridge Handbook of Age and Ageing
  • Dictionary of Race, Ethnicity & Culture
  • A Dictionary of Sociolinguistics
  • Feminist Philosophies A-Z
  • Guide to Economic Indicators
  • Key Concepts in Medical Sociology
  • Key Concepts in Urban Studies
  • Key Concepts in Work
  • The Sage Dictionary of Cultural Studies
  • The Social Science Jargon-Buster
  • EBSCOhost Mobile

    If you’ve got an internet-enabled mobile you can now access any of our EBSCOhost services away from your PC.

    Many of the existing EBSCOhost features such as  limiting to full text, date ranges, peer-reviewed content or by publication are available. Users will also be able to search images, and email results.

    “It looks great”, says Helen Curtis, the School of Computing librarian. The interface has  a lower resolution, simplifying the interface, but all the vital bits are still there.

    EBSCOhost on an iphone

    TechJournalContents

    TechJournalContents is a new free service which lets you  search across the current issues of more than 4,500 scholarly technology journals.

    It covers a  wide range of scientific, technical, and social science disciplines.
    About  400 of the journals are freely available on Open Access. Full text access to the other journals depends on whether we have a subscription or not.

    Publishers covered include: Springer, Emerald, Inderscience, Wiley Interscience, Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, IEEE, Sage, AIP, and IMechE.

    Ebooks – read all about them

    The UK Serials Group (UKSG)  has published a handy supplement on e-books to accompany the November issue of its journal Serials.

    It includes items about e-book reading devices, multi-product platforms, pay-per-view models for e-books, and the COUNTER code of practice.

    Statesman’s Yearbook

    We have access to the online version of the The Statesman’s Yearbook .

    It includes reliable information on every country in the world, from historical events to  energy and naturual resources to trade and culture.  Everything you’d need to be the next Kofi Annan.

    JISC’s online conference

    Innovating e-learning 2009 is JISC’s fourth completely online conference about using technology for teaching and learning.

    It takes place online between the 24th and 27th November and uses “asynchronous discussion group software” – which means that  you can drop in and out of the conference over the 4 days and not miss anything.

    Cost is £50.

     

    New catalogue at BL

    The British Library are beta testing a new online catalogue.

    It features a simple seach box, book covers, RSS feeds, bookmarking, personal workspace, and links out to Google Books.

    BL are asking for feedback.

    MindGenius mind mapping

    The mind mapping software MindGenius Education is being offered as a perpetual site licence through a Chest Agreement.

    The application allows a user to navigate through large amounts of information, analyse and categorise data, and see visual links between ideas.

    The software can provide an way to support students and teachers in joint projects, writing essays, preparing presentations, studying, mind mapping, and lesson planning.

    Prices start at £2,000 for Higher Education. www.eduserv.org.uk/mindgenius

    Electronic resources page

    We’ve made a few small changes to the Electronic Resources page – tidying it up and making it less cluttered.

    If you have any suggestions, let us know.

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    Maintenance Update

    • Wiley InterScience access may be interrupted on Monday December 21st from 9:00 for up to one hour due to essential site maintenance. #fb 1 week ago
    • Wordbanks Online will be unavailable between 09:00 - 12.00 on Saturday 12th December. #fb 2 weeks ago
    • On Tuesday 15th December (10:00am approx.) the Zetoc service should be considered "at risk" for a short period of time. #fb 2 weeks ago
    • Enquiry desk problem resolved 2 weeks ago
    • There's a problem accessing Athens resources with enquiry desk logins at Harrison and possibly Walsall. CITS team are working on it 2 weeks ago

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