for University of Wolverhampton Learning and Information Services
A new resource called Dance in Video is now available from the Databases A-Z.
It features videos of dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century.
Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance.
Proquest are able to offer us training sessions for any of their services. The sessions can be delivered on-campus or online.
The Proquest services include: UK Newsstand, Nursing and Allied Health Source, The Economist, Literature Online, Art Bibliographies Modern, ASSIA, British Humanities Index, Design & Applied Arts Index, and Design Abstracts Retrospective.
Contact John, Toby or Mark for more information.
NESLI2 are offering a number of deals for e-journals from small and medium sized publishers for 2010. The deals are for:
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.
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