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Our subscription to Expanded Academic ASAP will be renewed again this year, thanks to positive feedback from librarians and healthy usage figures.
The database contains over 3,500 full text journals, including key titles for several Schools. All the journals appear on OPAC and the E-Journals A-Z.
New links added to the Art & Design resources pages:
The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
And collections of images from the London Transport Museum.
We have access now to CareKnowledge which offers a wide range of materials across social care.
The site gives access to key journals and ebooks and produces its own special reports. It gives separate views for England and Scotland, has overviews of adult and child services, and provides details of national organisations.
Thanks to everyone who joined in the discussion about renewing Ebrary’s Academic Complete collection of ebooks. We’ve decided to renew it for another year.
It was generally thought that the collection is worth continuing: it provides core texts for a number of Schools, and it’s a valuable source of background reading across subjects.
Usage figures show that Business and Economics titles have been most used, followed by Social Science, Education, and Medical titles.
Are you disappointed when a new Electronic Resources update turns out to be just a maintenance/downtime notification?
Our dynamic SCIT Librarian Helen Curtis suggested we could use the new WordPress Twitter widget for up-to-the-second maintenance updates, leaving the main page free for the real juicy stuff.
You’ll see it at the top of the sidebar to your right…when Twitter is responding (keep refreshing)… let us know what you think.
SwetsWise have a range of management reports available. They include: e-journal availability, usage per title reports, usage per article, and price analysis.
Please contact us if you want to order a report.
American History in Video is openly accessible until April 30th. Access it now at http://ahivfree.alexanderstreet.com
The site povides a large collection of video of newsreels, archival films, and documentaries.
Dawsonera are offering ebooks from the publisher Intellect Books at £5 each.
There’s a list of titles here.
Contact Mark or John for more details, or contact Dawsonera direct on 01933 417500 or email them at enquiries@dawsonera.com.
UNESCO and 32 partner institutions will launch the World Digital Library, a web site that features unique cultural materials from libraries and archives from around the world, at UNESCO Headquarters on 21 April.
The site will include manuscripts, maps, rare books, films, sound recordings, and prints and photographs. It will provide unrestricted public access, free of charge, to this material.
(Pinched from Peter Scott’s Library Blog)
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