TechJournalContents

TechJournalContents is a new free service which lets you  search across the current issues of more than 4,500 scholarly technology journals.

It covers a  wide range of scientific, technical, and social science disciplines.
About  400 of the journals are freely available on Open Access. Full text access to the other journals depends on whether we have a subscription or not.

Publishers covered include: Springer, Emerald, Inderscience, Wiley Interscience, Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, IEEE, Sage, AIP, and IMechE.

Ebooks – read all about them

The UK Serials Group (UKSG)  has published a handy supplement on e-books to accompany the November issue of its journal Serials.

It includes items about e-book reading devices, multi-product platforms, pay-per-view models for e-books, and the COUNTER code of practice.

Statesman’s Yearbook

We have access to the online version of the The Statesman’s Yearbook .

It includes reliable information on every country in the world, from historical events to  energy and naturual resources to trade and culture.  Everything you’d need to be the next Kofi Annan.

JISC’s online conference

Innovating e-learning 2009 is JISC’s fourth completely online conference about using technology for teaching and learning.

It takes place online between the 24th and 27th November and uses “asynchronous discussion group software” – which means that  you can drop in and out of the conference over the 4 days and not miss anything.

Cost is £50.

 

New catalogue at BL

The British Library are beta testing a new online catalogue.

It features a simple seach box, book covers, RSS feeds, bookmarking, personal workspace, and links out to Google Books.

BL are asking for feedback.

MindGenius mind mapping

The mind mapping software MindGenius Education is being offered as a perpetual site licence through a Chest Agreement.

The application allows a user to navigate through large amounts of information, analyse and categorise data, and see visual links between ideas.

The software can provide an way to support students and teachers in joint projects, writing essays, preparing presentations, studying, mind mapping, and lesson planning.

Prices start at £2,000 for Higher Education. www.eduserv.org.uk/mindgenius

Electronic resources page

We’ve made a few small changes to the Electronic Resources page – tidying it up and making it less cluttered.

If you have any suggestions, let us know.

Audio archive

A new audio archive of  commercial radio news stories is available.

The the LBC / Independent Radio News   Audio Archive has 5,000 recordings, including coverage of five general elections.

The archive is open to researchers, lecturers and students – just click on the  login link on the home page.

If the archive is useful, please contact us and we’ll add it to the Databases A-Z.

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Oxford Handbooks Online

JISC Collections are offering a new agreement from Oxford University Press for Oxford Handbooks Online.

It features the complete texts of the  Oxford Handbooks in Business & Management, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion.

More details available here.