Archive for March, 2009



Mintel Global Market Navigator

We have a two week trial of Mintel Global Market Navigator – until the 28th March.

It’s a   database  of market  data for consumer industries across the world.

It will tell you the market size, segmentation and market share along with 5 years’ historical and 5 years’ forecast data.

For login details, please contact Mark, John or Toby.

Taylor & Francis ejournals offer

There’s an offer on  the Taylor & Francis Library of 1,160-plus journals until the 6th April.

The offer – the “T&F 1-2-3 deal” –  covers journals from Taylor & Francis, Routledge and Psychology Press, and caps price increases for the next three years.  

If you’re interested, please contact Mark.

Palgrave Ebooks

 

Palgrave have a new ebook platform, called Palgrave Connect, and are offering us a 2 week free trial to evaluate it.

It has 8 collections:

  • economics & finance
  • political & international studies
  • history
  • literature & performing arts
  • business & management
  • social & cultural studies
  • language & linguistics
  • religion & philosophy

We can try out 2 collections. Please let us know if you’d like us to organise the trial. 

New Ebrary titles

Here are lists of  new titles recently added to the Ebrary ebook service.

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SwetsWise Maintenance

SwetsWise will be unavailable on Sunday 15th March between the hours of 3pm and 5pm due to technical maintenance.

ScienceDirect Maintenance

ScienceDirect  will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 12.5 hours from 13:00 Saturday, 7th to 01:30 Sunday, 8th March.

British Periodicals Collections I & II

We have access now to British Periodicals Collections I & II from Proquest.

British Periodicals traces the development of the periodical press in Britain from its origins in the seventeenth century through to the Victorian ‘age of periodicals’ and beyond.

British Periodicals consists of two separate collections, British Periodicals Collection I and British Periodicals Collection II.

British Periodicals Collection I consists of more than 160 journals that comprise the UMI microfilm collection Early British Periodicals, the equivalent of 5,238 printed volumes containing approximately 3.1 million pages. Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts and the social sciences.

British Periodicals Collection II consists of more than 300 journals from the UMI microfilm collections English Literary Periodicalsand British Periodicals in the Creative Arts together with additional titles, amounting to almost 3 million pages. Topics covered include literature, music, art, drama, archaeology and architecture.

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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 2 weeks ago
  • Wordbanks Online will be unavailable between 09:00 - 12.00 on Saturday 12th December. #fb 3 weeks ago
  • On Tuesday 15th December (10:00am approx.) the Zetoc service should be considered "at risk" for a short period of time. #fb 4 weeks ago
  • Enquiry desk problem resolved 1 month ago
  • There's a problem accessing Athens resources with enquiry desk logins at Harrison and possibly Walsall. CITS team are working on it 1 month ago

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