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De Gruyter – upgraded e-Journal package

We have signed up for the new 2021-2023 De Gruyter Journal and Open Access Transformational Agreement via JISC.  This agreement provides for a 100% conversion of subscription fees into open access article processing fees and considerably expands our read access to e-journal content.

We now have access to 342 journals in the following subject areas; Architecture & Design, Arts, Asian & Pacific Studies, Business & Economics, Chemistry, Classical & Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Computer Sciences, Cultural Studies, Engineering, German Studies, Geosciences, History, Industrial Chemistry, Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies, Jewish Studies, Law, Library & Information Science, Life Sciences, Linguistics & Semiotics, Literary Studies, Materials Sciences, Mathematics, Medicine, Philosophy, Physics, Social Sciences, Sports & Recreation and Theology & Religion. A title list can be found at http://www.docs.is.ed.ac.uk/docs/Libraries/Main/E-Resources/E-Journals/2021_DEGRUYTER_TitleList.xlsx

De Gruyter publish separately over 100 fully Open Access journals.

All new titles have been added to DiscoverEd, our agreement with De Gruyter allows future access to any new titles published over the next 3 years.

Academic Search Complete now available

We have upgraded our Academic Search Premier subscription to Academic Search Complete.

The Academic Search Complete multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 8,500 journals, including full text for more than  7,300 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.  Academic Search Complete offers access to video content from the Associated Press, the world’s leading news agency. Videos relevant to the search terms will appear in a carousel in the result list. With footage from 1930 to the present and updated monthly, this collection of more than 60,000 videos covers a wide variety of topics.

Further info

Title lists can be downloaded from https://www.ebscohost.com/academic/academic-search-complete

In addition to the database entry added to several database lists, individual journals and e-books are listed in DiscoverEd.

Trial access to Science of Synthesis

CaptureWe have trial access to Science of Synthesis from Thieme until 30th January 2016.

Science of Synthesis provides a critical review of the synthetic methodology developed from the early 1800s to-date for the entire field of organic and organometallic chemistry.
As the only resource providing full-text descriptions of organic transformations and synthetic methods as well as experimental procedures, Science of Synthesis is a unique chemical information tool.

Feedback and further info

We are interested to know what you think of this e-resource 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 Books Online – More E-Books Added

CBO-logo-600x63 (new)For this academic year we have expanded our holdings to include coursebooks – we have now loaded 8000+ e-books across most subject disciplines to DiscoverEd.  A list of the additions can be found here.

A full list of our Cambridge Books Online can be found here.  We will provide monthly updates on new titles added.

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.