Monthly Archives: October 2015

Trial access to BrowZine

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The Library is running a trial of BrowZine until 18th January.  BrowZine is a new application that allows you to browse, read and follow thousands of the library’s scholarly journals (see list of publishers at http://support.thirdiron.com/knowledgebase/articles/132654-what-publishers-do-you-support) either from your desktop/laptop or via an app for your Android and iOS mobile devices.

Articles found in BrowZine can easily be synced up with Zotero, Mendeley, Endnote, Evernote, Dropbox or other services to help keep all of your information together in one place.

To learn more, please take a look at this short “BrowZine on Campus” video below:

With BrowZine, you can:
Browse and read journals: Browse journals by subject, easily review tables of contents, and download full articles
Create your own bookshelf: Add journals to your personal bookshelf and be notified when new articles are published
Save and export articles: Save articles for off-line reading or export to services such as DropBox, Mendeley, Endnote, Zotero, Papers and more

To learn more and start using BrowZine on your mobile device, visit http://thirdiron.com/download/.  Getting started is easy! From your Android or iOS device, find BrowZine in the Apple App, Google Play or Amazon App store and download it for free. When initially launching BrowZine, select University of Edinburgh from the drop down list. Enter your EASE login.  Start exploring BrowZine!

If you would like to access the Desktop/Laptop option on or off campus, please go to http://www.ezproxy.is.ed.ac.uk/login?url=http://browzine.com/libraries/665/  and sign in with your EASE login (please note MyBookshelf and Reading List option is not available yet for the Desktop version).

BrowZineLogo-FINAL COLORFor further info on Browzine, there is an FAQ/Help page at http://support.thirdiron.com/knowledgebase/topics/22734-help-for-browzine-users

 

Feedback and further info

We are interested to know what you think of BrowZine as an alternative way of accessing our e-journal A-Z list as your comments influence purchase decisions so please do fill out our feedback form.

A list of all trials currently available to University of Edinburgh staff and students can be found on our trials webpage.

Gale Cengage E-Resources on Trial

We are trialling the following 3 databases until the 31st October.  Access the databases via DiscoverEd or the trials webpage.

 

logoChatham House Online Archive contains the research, publications, speeches and archives of the leading international affairs think tank, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London. High level analysis and research on almost 100 years of global events and issues. Includes ‘behind the doors’ insight into the real movers and shakers, influencers and deal brokers. For researchers of international affairs, economics, law, and business, diplomacy, security and terrorism, environment, development, war and peace studies.

 

logoCrime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920 presents a broad history of crime in the long 19th century derived from French, German, Spanish, Australian, British and U.S. sources. The collection includes trial transcripts, court proceedings, police and forensic documents, photographs, true crime literature and detective novels, and newspaper accounts. This archive appeals to scholars in the fields of history, literature, law and criminal justice, as well as other fields.

 

CaptureState Papers Online is an on-going programme digitising State Papers or government documents. By linking the original manuscripts to their calendar or catalogue entries, SPO is essential for all early modern research and teaching.

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A list of all trials currently available to University of Edinburgh staff and students can be found on our trials webpage.

Trial access to Pishu – China Economy, Public Policy, and Security Database

CaptureWe have trial access to Pishu – China Economy, Public Policy, and Security Database until 13th November.  This resource is listed on our trials webpage and DiscoverEd.

Pishu refers to official white paper, blue paper or green paper policy documents in China. They offer candid, in-depth policy recommendations on topics including climate change, social responsibility, the economy, energy conservation, food/drug safety, health care, human rights, international development, and rule of law, regional security, and women’s rights. The database contains the full text of over 1,000 such books in Chinese and are full-text searchable.

A title list of volumes included in PISHU is also available here: http://www.eastview.com/online/ebooktitles

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A list of all trials currently available to University of Edinburgh staff and students can be found on our trials webpage.

Trial Access to Oxford Bibliographies

We have trial access to all Oxford Bibliographies until 7th November.

Oxford Bibliographies provides access to exclusive, authoritative research guides. Combining the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, this cutting-edge resource guides researchers to the best available scholarship across a wide variety of subjects. We have purchased several modules already. The trial provides access to all the rest.

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Trial – Nineteenth Century Collections Online

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We are currently trialling all sections of Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) until 30th November.  Access NCCO via the trials webpage or DiscoverEd.

 

British Politics and Society

Including papers of British statesmen, Home Office records, ordnance surveys, working class autobiographies, and other unique collections, British Politics and Society is a remarkable resource for scholars looking to explore the political and social history of Britain. Source libraries are the British Library, Oxford University, and The National Archives, Kew.

A small selection of collections included in the archive include:

  • Civil Disturbance, Chartism and Riots in Nineteenth-Century England
  • Discontent and Authority,1820-1840
  • Home Office Papers and Records, 1783-1894
  • People’s History: Working Class Autobiographies
  • Public Order, Discontent, and Protest in Nineteenth Century England, 1820-1850
  • Rare Radical and Labour Periodicals of Great Britain
  • Radicalism, Anti-Radicalism and Reform in England, 1769-1861, Original Papers and Minute Books
  • Selected Papers of the Prime Ministers of Great Britain

British Politics and Society enables researchers to explore such topics as British domestic and foreign policy, trade unions, Chartism, utopian socialism, public protest, radical movements, the cartographic record, political reform, education, family relationships, religion, leisure and many others. With this archive scholars have instant access to a range of never-before-available primary sources, including manuscripts, maps, drawings, newspapers, periodicals, government correspondence, letters, diaries, photographs, poster, pamphlets and more.

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Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange features primary source collections related to international relations between Asian countries and the West during the 19th century. These invaluable documents—many never before available—include government reports, diplomatic correspondences, periodicals, newspapers, treaties, trade agreements, NGO papers, and more. Documents are sourced from The National Archives, Kew; The National Archives, United States; and other collections.

The collections in this archive include:

  • British Foreign Office: Japan Correspondence, 1856-1905
  • Dispatches from U.S. Consuls in Osaka and Hiogo (Kobe), Japan, 1868-1906
  • Dispatches from U.S. Consuls in Seoul, Korea, 1886-1906
  • Chinese Missionary Gleaner (1853-1859)
  • History of the Philippine Insurrection Against the United States, 1899-1903, and Documents Relating to the War Department Project for Publishing of History, 1899-1903
  • Missionary Files: Methodist, Episcopal Church Missionary Correspondence, 1846-1912 (China, Japan, Korea)
  • Notes from the Korean Legation in the United States to the Department of State, 1883-1906
  • Philippine Insurgent Records, 1896-1901, with Associated Records of the U.S. War Department, 1900-1906, 1896-1906

This unmatched resource allows scholars to explore in great detail the history of British and U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy; Asian political, economic, and social affairs; the Philippine Insurrection; the Opium Wars; the Boxer Rebellion; missionary activity in Asia; and many other topics. Asia and the West also includes personal letters and diaries, offering first-hand accounts and revealing the human side of international politics, as well as nautical charts, maps, shipping ledgers, company records, and expedition and survey reports for more than a century of world history.

Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest

Through a variety of official government documents, political papers of prominent individuals, and newspaper accounts, researchers can trace the development of British strategic imperatives, French and Belgian desire for the expansion of trade and raw materials, and Germany and Italy’s late entrance onto the imperial stage. Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest covers exploration, military and missionary activities, and economic and political imperialism in the ninetenth century. Documents are sourced from The National Archives, Kew; the U.S. National Archives; the Library of Congress; the National Library of Scotland; and Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.

A small selection of collections included in the archive include:

  • Personal Narratives and Reminiscences of the Exploration of Africa
  • Despatches from U.S. Consuls in Sierra Leone, British Africa, 1858-1906
  • Methodist Episcopal Church Missionary Correspondence, 1846-1912: Africa
  • The East African Standard; Mombasa Times; and Uganda Argus
  • The Bartholomew Archive: Maps on Africa
  • Annual Reports of French Colonial Governments
  • Selected India Office Records on Colonial Africa
  • Joseph Chamberlain Papers Relating to Africa

European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection

European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection includes the full-text of more than 9,500 English, French and German titles. The collection is sourced from the remarkable library of Victor Amadeus, whose Castle Corvey collection was one of the most spectacular discoveries of the late 1970s. The Corvey Collection comprises one of the most important archives of Romantic era writing in existence anywhere—including fiction, short prose, dramatic works, poetry and more—with a focus on especially difficult-to-find works by lesser-known, historically neglected writers.

The archive includes:

  • Novels and Gothic Novels
  • Short Stories
  • Belles-Lettres
  • Short Prose Forms
  • Dramatic Works
  • Poetry
  • Anthologies

As a resource for Romantic literature and historical studies, the Corvey Collection is unmatched. It provides a wealth of fully searchable content with digital research tools that enable scholars to uncover new relationships among authors and works. The inclusion of texts from neglected writers further provides scholars with new topics for exploration. With the European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection, scholars can research a range of topics, including Romantic literary genres; the mutual influences of British, French and German Romanticism; literary culture; women writers; the canon; Romantic aesthetics; and many other subjects.

 

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British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture features a wide range of primary sources related to the arts in the long nineteenth century, from playbills and scripts to operas and complete scores. These rare documents, many of them never before available, are sourced from the British Library and other institutions. Curation is by experts in British arts history. Covering more than a century, and encompassing both the Georgian and Victorian theatre, British Theatre, Music, and Literature is without equal as a resource.

Collections include:

  • Archives of the Royal Literary Fund
  • Archives of the Royal Philharmonic Society
  • Crystal Palace Saturday Concerts
  • Crystal Palace Triennial Handel Festival
  • Drury Lane Theatre Archive
  • J.W. Davison Papers
  • King’s Theatre, Haymarket Archive
  • Konzert-Programm-Austausch
  • London Theatre Archives: Programmes, Receipts
  • Lord Chamberlain’s Plays
  • Manuscript Music from the Library of the Royal Philharmonic Society
  • Royal Albert Hall Archives
  • Sir George Smart Papers
  • St. James Hall Monday/Saturday Popular Concerts
  • Wandering Minstrels

The collection provides a detailed look at the state of the British art world and includes manuscripts and musical compositions as well as documents such as personal letters, annotated programs, meeting minutes, and financial records. It offers scholars an unmatched glimpse into the inner workings of the world of the arts in Britain.

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Photography: The World through the Lens Includes images from Britain, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, Photography: The World through the Lens assembles collections of photographs, photograph albums, photographically illustrated books and texts on the early history of photography from libraries and archives from across the globe.

A small selection of collections included in the archive include:

  • Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the Royal Archives, Windsor
  • Early Rare Photographs from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
  • British Journal of Photography and Annual, 1854-1914
  • The Photographic News, 1859-1908
  • Photographs from the Wellcome Library for the History of Medicine
  • Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period
  • Photographs from the National Media Museum
  • Photographs from the Science Museum

Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925

Science, Technology, and Medicine, 1780-1925 features more than 3.5 million pages of journals, books, reports, and personal documents that explore the rapid acceleration of scientific, technical, and medical knowledge during the nineteenth century. Source libraries include the Huntington Library, the Burndy Library, the Library of Congress, and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University.

A small selection of collections included in the archive include:

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Mathematics
  • Electricity and Electromagnetism
  • Civil Engineering
  • Evolution and the Origin of Species
  • Color Theory and Practice
  • Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: Minutes and Correspondence
  • American Medical Periodicals

Women: Transnational Networks

Including a wide array of primary source documents—serials, books, manuscripts, diaries, reports, and visuals—Women: Transnational Networks focuses on issues at the intersection of gender and class from the late-eighteenth century to the era of suffrage in the early-twentieth century, all through a transnational perspective. Source libraries include the Library of Congress, the London School of Economics and Political Science Library, and the Library of the Society of Friends.

A small selection of collections included in the archive include:

  • The Journal of the American National Women’s Trade Union League
  • Papers of Carrie Chapman Catt
  • Action Sociale De La Femme Et Le Livre Francaise
  • Britannia: Official Organ of the Women’s Party
  • Suffragist
  • Quaker Women’s Diaries: 18th-19th Centuries
  • British Birth Control Material at the British Library of Political and Economic Sciences: 1800-1947
  • The Diaries of Elizabeth Fry, 1797-1845

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We are interested to know what you think of these e-resources as your comments influence purchase decisions so please do fill out our feedback form.

A list of all trials currently available to University of Edinburgh staff and students can be found on our trials webpage.

Cambridge University Press E-Book Additions – October

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A further 118 e-books published by Cambridge University Press have been added to DiscoverEd.  Subject areas cover most disciplines.  See the list here – tab 1 contains the monographs and tab 2 contains the course books.

Further info

Further information about our e-books is available from http://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/ebooks

If a book you require is not held by the library, please visit our Library Resources Plus webpage.

Trial Access to Duke University Press Scholarly E-Journals Collection

We have trial access to Duke University’s Expanded Collection of 44 e-journals (listed below) until 7th January 2016.  Subject area Humanities & Social Sciences.  These titles have been added to DiscoverEd and a listing is also available on the Trials webpage.

Journal ISSN eISSN HighWire Availability HighWire URL
American Literary Scholarship 0065-9142 1527-2125 2000-2014 http://als.dukejournals.org
American Literature 0002-9831 1527-2117 2000-Current http://americanliterature.dukejournals.org
American Speech 0003-1283 1527-2133 2000-Current http://americanspeech.dukejournals.org
boundary 2 0190-3659 1527-2141 2000-Current http://boundary2.dukejournals.org
Camera Obscura 0270-5346 1529-1510 1976-Current http://cameraobscura.dukejournals.org
Common Knowledge 0961-754X 1538-4578 2002-Current http://commonknowledge.dukejournals.org
Comparative Literature 0010-4124 1945-8517 2000-Current http://complit.dukejournals.org
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 1089-201X 1548-226X 1981-Current http://cssaame.dukejournals.org
Cultural Politics 1743-2197 1751-7435 2005-Current http://culturalpolitics.dukejournals.org
differences 1040-7391 1527-1986 1999-Current http://differences.dukejournals.org
East Asian Science, Technology and Society 1875-2160 1875-2152 2007-Current http://easts.dukejournals.org
Eighteenth-Century Life 0098-2601 1086-3192 2000-Current http://ecl.dukejournals.org
Environmental Humanities (new for 2016) 2201-1919 TBD TBD
Ethnohistory 0014-1801 1527-5477 2000-Current http://ethnohistory.dukejournals.org
French Historical Studies 0016-1071 1527-5493 2000-Current http://fhs.dukejournals.org
Genre 0016-6928 2160-0228 2000-Current http://genre.dukejournals.org
GLQ 1064-2684 1527-9375 1993-Current http://glq.dukejournals.org/
Hispanic American Historical Review 0018-2168 1527-1900 2000-Current http://hahr.dukejournals.org
History of Political Economy 0018-2702 1527-1919 1969-Current http://hope.dukejournals.org
Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture 2329-0048 2329-0056 2014 http://jclc.dukejournals.org
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 0361-6878 1527-1927 1976-Current http://jhppl.dukejournals.org
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 1082-9636 1527-8263 2000-Current http://jmems.dukejournals.org
Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 1552-5864 1558-9579 2005-Current http://jmews.dukejournals.org
Journal of Music Theory 0022-2909 1941-7497 1999-Current http://jmt.dukejournals.org
Labor 1547-6715 1558-1454 2004-Current http://labor.dukejournals.org
Mediterranean Quarterly 1047-4552 1527-1935 2000-Current http://mq.dukejournals.org
Modern Language Quarterly 0026-7929 1527-1943 1940-Current http://mlq.dukejournals.org
New German Critique 0094-033X 1558-1462 2006-Current http://ngc.dukejournals.org
Nka 1075-7163 2152-7792 1994-Current http://nka.dukejournals.org
Novel 0029-5132 1945-8509 1999-Current http://novel.dukejournals.org
Pedagogy 1531-4200 1533-6255 2001-Current http://pedagogy.dukejournals.org
Poetics Today 0333-5372 1527-5507 2000-Current http://poeticstoday.dukejournals.org
positions 1067-9847 1527-8271 1993-Current http://positions.dukejournals.org
Public Culture 0899-2363 1527-8018 1988-Current http://publicculture.dukejournals.org
Radical History Review 0163-6545 1534-1453 1975-Current http://rhr.dukejournals.org
Small Axe 0799-0537 1534-6714 2001-Current http://smallaxe.dukejournals.org
Social Text 0164-2472 1527-1951 2000-Current http://socialtext.dukejournals.org
South Atlantic Quarterly 0038-2876 1527-8026 2000-Current http://saq.dukejournals.org
the minnesota review 0026-5667 2157-4189 2005-Current http://minnesotareview.dukejournals.org/
The Philosophical Review 0031-8108 1558-1470 2000-Current http://philreview.dukejournals.org
Theater 0161-0775 1527-196X 1968-Current http://theater.dukejournals.org
Tikkun 0887-9982 2164-0041 2000-Current http://tikkun.dukejournals.org
TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 2328-9252 2328-9260 2014-Current http://tsq.dukejournals.org
Twentieth-Century Literature 0041-462X 2325-8101 2009-Current http://tcl.dukejournals.org

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A list of all trials currently available to University of Edinburgh staff and students can be found on our trials webpage.

Trial access to Informit E-Resource Packages

CaptureWe now have trial access to the following collections from Informit until 12th December.  These can be accessed via the links below, the Trials webpage and DiscoverEd (individual titles)

Informit Humanities & Social Sciences Collection

The Informit Humanities & Social Sciences Collection is Informit’s core academic research collection. This multi-disciplinary Collection provides access to fresh perspectives in the arts, communication, education, history, linguistics, politics and more. Dedicated to content from and about Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific and South East Asia, with articles by scholars worldwide, this full text database is an essential resource for students, teachers and researchers seeking a critical resource for comparative regional studies.  Over 103,000 records from 667 resources, starting from 1940.  Subjects include business, education, humanities, Indigenous studies, law and social sciences.  See also https://www.informit.org/informit-humanities-social-sciences-collection for title lists.

Informit Indigenous Collection

The Informit Indigenous Collection covers both topical and historical issues within Indigenous studies. The multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary framework provides access to emergent and groundbreaking research within the global community, and offers scope for critical international engagement and debate. With material from Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, North America and The Pacific, the Informit Indigenous Collection is a platform for Indigenous world views.   Over 15,700 full text records from 111 resources, starting from 1977.  A fuller picture with access to specialist journals, conference papers, reports, magazines, eBooks and grey literature unavailable elsewhere online.  See also https://www.informit.org/informit-indigenous-collection for title lists.

Feedback and further info

We are interested to know what you think of these e-resources as your comments influence purchase decisions so please do fill out our feedback form.

A list of all trials currently available to University of Edinburgh staff and students can be found on our trials webpage.

Jstor access issues

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The Jstor website is experiencing intermittent technical issues with authentication.

See first screenshot below – you will be asked to login.  Please try again later as the authentication issues are intermittent.Jstor faulty

The screenshot below is how Jstor should appear on campus – note the University logo.

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Currently, Jstor are unable to provide a timescale on resolution although their technical staff are currently working on the issue.  Updates will appear on their twitter feed – https://twitter.com/JSTORSupport and at http://about.jstor.org/jstor-help-support/jstor-updates?cid=dsp_platform_updates_ad

Apologies for any inconvenience.

 

ProQuest E-Resources on Trial

We are trialling the following 3 collections until the 30th November.  Access the trials via DiscoverEd or our trials webpage.

CaptureCapture2The Cecil Papers is a collection of documents, principally from the reigns of Elizabethan I and James I/VI, privately held by the Gascoyne-Cecil family at Hatfield House in Hertfordshire. The Cecil Papers contains nearly 30,000 documents gathered by William Cecil (1521-98), Lord Burghley and his son Robert Cecil (1563-1612), First Earl of Salisbury. Occupying some of the highest offices of state in the land (both men were Secretary of State to Elizabeth I and Robert Cecil also served her successor, James), these two men were at the heart of events during one of the most dynamic periods in Western history.  Further details can be found at http://media2.proquest.com/documents/cecil_papers.pdf.

 

CaptureCapture2Colonial State Papers offers insight into the colonial history of North America and the West Indies. It includes the National Archives collection CO 1– papers that were presented to the Privy Council and the Board of Trade during 1574-1757. More than 7,000 hand-written documents and more than 45,000 bibliographic records give fascinating insight into British trade, history and overseas expansion between the 16th and 18th centuries.  Further details can be found at http://media2.proquest.com/documents/csp.pdf.

 

CaptureCapture2Trench Journals and Unit Magazines of the First World War is an archival research resource containing a vast collection of rare magazines by and for servicemen and women of all nations during the First World War. Over 1,500 periodicals written and illustrated by serving members of the armed forces and associated welfare organisations published between 1914 and the end of 1919 are included. Magazines have been scanned cover-to-cover, in full colour or greyscale, and with granular indexing of all articles and specialist indexing of Publications.  Further details can be found at http://media2.proquest.com/documents/trench.pdf.

 

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