We have a new, handy collection of Oxford Handbooks dealing with nursing and public health.
Access comes courtesy of Books@Ovid.
Here are some of the new additions from Credo this month. You’ll find them all on our OPAC.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
