Our subscription to Collins Wordbanks Online, the corpus service, has been cancelled due to a lack of use.
There are changes a foot at Global Books in Print.
A new interface is being tested, called Books in Print 2.0, and will incorporate Global Books in Print. As the name implies, it offers Web 2.0 features, like tagging, user reviews and ratings.
The ‘classic’ search interface will be maintained during 2010.
You can try it (on campus only) by going to GlobalBooksInPrint.com and then clicking on theBooks in Print 2.0 logo on the left hand side.
Here are the latest additions to Credo:
- Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Men and Women in the World’s Cultures
- Encyclopedia of Special Education: A Reference for the Education of the Handicapped and Other Exceptional Children and Adults
- Encyclopedia of Women’s Autobiography
- Encyclopedia of Women’s Health
- Gender and Education: An Encyclopedia
- National Gallery Collection (more below)
- Power and Succession in Arab Monarchies
- The Praeger Handbook of Latino Education in the U.S.
And updated:
A series of history ebooks are freely available from Gutenberg-e at Columbia University Press.
The prizewinning books represent distinguished and innovative scholarship and have undergone a
rigorous academic review process by the American Historical Association.
They offer extensive documentation, hyperlinks to supplementary literature, images, music, video, and links to related web sites.
The Gutenberg-e prize is a collaborative effort between Columbia University Press and the American Historical Association, committed to exploring and promoting the electronic publication of scholarly writing.
We have a trial for Hart Publishing’s e-book service. This will run till 28 February. The trial gives direct access to Hart’s Law collection, but there are other areas that we can buy, if this service looks useful. Please have a look, whatever your subject, and give us your views.
The Surprise by Claude-Marie DUBUFE
Credo now has images from the National Gallery, London. (Click on Credo’s ”Find a book” then “National Gallery Collection”).
Each entry includes a description of the work along with its artist, medium, dimensions, aquisition credit, and date made.
A-Z E-Journal finder now includes E-Books also – Trial
Published 20 January 2010 Uncategorized 5 CommentsWe are having a trial (20/1/10 – 27/1/10) of a new ER finder, in which e-journals, and also e-books, can be searched (singly, or both together). The screen searches for the titles of books/journals, not their content, and also it does not search the e-book resource of Dawsonsera. The tab “All Resources” does not refer to all the resources we make available (such as databases, hence, a search for such as Business Source Premier will draw a blank). Please give us your views on the new search facility.
We have access now to Global Health, an indexing and abstracting database dealing with human health and communicable diseases.
It covers foreign language journals, books, research reports, patents and standards, dissertations, conference proceedings, annual reports, public health, developing country information, and other difficult to obtain material.
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.
