Trial of Company Information Database

For this month, July, we have a trial of Hemscott Company Guru, an online research service that offers “the data you need in order to research a listed company or its directors, or review the corporate governance structure of corporate boards in the U.K. You can quickly find vital information covering:

• 2,500 U.K. and 500 non-U.K. registered companies plus 400,000 private companies
• In-depth facts on 42,000+ directors
• Financial data from annual reports etc.
• Regulatory news
• Company key dates and ratios”

Try the Hemscott service from our Current Trials page.

No, not another art image database

Yup, another art image database.  But perhaps the daddy of them all.

The Bridgeman Art Library presents the visual culture of every civilization from Mesopotamia to Mesoamerica and every period from prehistoric times to the present.

It has excellent quality images and good metadata (captions and keywords), as well as the legal right to use the images within the university.

Access is via username and password.  Get them from the Database A-Z.

Oxford Art and Music online

Julien Vallou de Villeneuve: Female nude © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Grove Art Online and Grove Music Online have been incorporated into two new gateways from Oxford University Press.

Oxford Art Online includes:

Grove Art Online

The Oxford Companion to Western Art

Encyclopedia of Aesthetics

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms

and  Oxford Music Online includes:

The Oxford Dictionary of Music

Grove Music Online

The Oxford Companion to Music

Make your own search engine

Here’s a nifty thing.

Make your own search engine with Google Custom Search – choose which resources you want it to search and then paste a bit of code into your web page.

Here’s one we made earlier. It searches 20 art image sites. Try searching for ice or water.

Swetswise links not connecting to Wiley

There is a current problem with Blackwell Journal links from SwetsWise not connecting correctly to articles at the Wiley site, arriving at a ‘session cookie’ error page or the homepage. 

We are told the SwetsWise and Wiley service teams are liaising to correct this as soon as possible.  

 

In the meantime you can use our Electronic Journals A-Z search to look for alternative providers, or search directly within the Wiley InterScience site.

Digimap downtime

 EDINA will be making use of an advertised “at risk” period on Tuesday 1st July 2008, between 17:30 and 18:30hrs. All Digimap Collections will be unavailable between these times.