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NESLI2 are offering a number of deals for e-journals from small and medium sized publishers for 2010. The deals are for:
- American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
- Australian Academic Press
- Berg Publishers
- Berkeley Electronic Press (BePress)
- Brill
- Duke University Press
- Earthscan
- Edinburgh University Press
- Expert Reviews (formerly FutureDrugs)
- Future Medicine
- Geological Society of America
- IOS Press
- Karger
- Maney
- MIT Press
- Multi-Science Publishing
- Now Publishers
- Professional Engineering Publishing
- Royal Society of Medicine
- SPIE
- University of California Press
- Walter de Gruyter
The health and social care database HMIC (Health Management Information Consortium) is available now. It’s listed on the Databases A-Z.
HMIC brings together two important health resources – the Department of Health’s Library and Information Services (DH Data) and King’s Fund Information and Library Service.
The Royal Marsden Manual Online is up and running now.
The Manual brings together all the latest clinical evidence which nurses need.
It includes evidence-based clinical procedures related to every aspect of care, from handwashing to cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Our access to the British Nursing Index is now available via EBSCO, which will replace access via Dialog.
For the remaining part of July we have trial access, running up to subscribed access from 1st August.
We now have access to Design Abstracts Retrospective (DAR) - an online index which forms a retrospective complement to Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI).
It covers design journals and yearbooks published between 1900 and 1987, the year in which DAAI began.
The School of Applied Sciences is cancelling its subscription to CAB Abstracts – the database of research into natural resources.
Access will stop at the end of this month.
Two new online bibliographies from CSA Illumina have been added to the School of Art’s resources.
The Bibliography of the History of Art covers European and American visual arts from late antiquity to the present.
The Avery Index is a bibliography of articles on architecture and design, surveying over seven hundred American and international journals.
From 26 June until 23 July, we have a trial of Scopus, which is scientific publisher Elsevier’s abstract and citation database of research literature and web sources. It claims to contain over 16,500 peer-reviewed journals from more than 4,000 publishers.
| http://www.scopus.com/home.url |
The new MyiLibrary platform is launched tomorrow – with better searching and different branding.
A new administrative site is being launched too, where we can view usage statistics.
Our OPAC links should be redirected to the new site, but please contact us if you have any problems.
