Wordbanks abbreviated, severely

Our subscription to Collins Wordbanks Online, the corpus service, has been cancelled due to a lack of use.

Books in Print 2.0 – Home

There are changes a foot at Global Books in Print.

Books in Print logo

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.

This month’s Credo additions

Gutenberg-e ebooks

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.

Trial for Hart Publishing e-Books

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.

National Gallery images on Credo

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

We 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.

Global Health starts

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.

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
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    Maintenance Update

    • Ebrary will be performing site maintenance for two hours from 18:00 on Saturday February 6th and may be unavailable during this time. #fb 4 days ago
    • Credo Reference is planning maintenance on Friday 5th February from 13.00-14.00. Their servers will be offline during this hour. #fb 5 days ago
    • ScienceDirect will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 12 hours beginning 13:00 Saturday 23rd January. #fb 2 weeks ago
    • Ebrary may become unavailable between 01:00 & 07:00 on Friday January 22nd for site maintenance. #fb 2 weeks ago
    • 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 month ago

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